On the cliff of Cobos Bay, a muscular young man was wielding an ax and chopping dried dead wood. William felt that this guy looked familiar at first sight.
After thinking for a while, my heart moved, and I landed on the cliff and turned into an old man with white hair, wrinkles all over his face, leaning on a black autumn stick, and walking tremblingly.
He shouted to the young man chopping firewood, "Help me, young man, help me."
Theseus held the ax in his arms and turned around with vigilance. He saw an old man who felt weak even when walking. Then he lifted the ax with a sigh of relief.
Slowly walked three meters away from William and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"Water, give me some water."
Pretending to be powerless, William slowly squatted on the ground and said, "I haven't drank water or eaten for two days. Please help me, young man."
Theseus hesitated for a few seconds, and then carefully observed William for a moment to make sure that the old man in front of him had no weapons hidden on him. Then he held the ax in his right hand, stepped forward a few steps, and supported William with his left hand.
The ax in his right hand was looming, ready to attack at any time, and then he said, "I will take you to my house."
After saying this, Theseus hesitated for a while and said sheepishly, "Sorry, old man, if you want food, you have to wait for me for a while."
"Why?"
Theseus blushed and explained, "I have to finish cutting today's firewood and carry it to the temple in order to get today's food."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." A slight smile appeared on William's wrinkled face, "As long as you are willing to give me some food, let alone wait a few hours, even if you don't starve to death for a day, it will be fine."
When Theseus heard this, he saw William hunched over and stood firm. His left hand couldn't help but touch the bag with a black bread on his waist, with a struggling expression on his face.
Finally, he gritted his teeth, took out the only small piece of black bread and handed it to William, then quickly returned to the fallen dead tree and came over with a wooden kettle filled with water.
"I only have so much food. You fill your stomach first. When I change the firewood, I should be able to give you a small piece of black bread."
"Thank you." After taking the bread and kettle, William cursed secretly in his heart.
This kind of black bread, two thirds of which is made of wheat bran, is as hard as a stone. Even a beggar cannot eat it unless he is really starving to death.
There is also a sour smell coming from the kettle. Once you smell it, you know there may be a problem with the water quality.
Fortunately, Theseus probably didn't want to look at William eating his only food, lest he, who had been hungry for a long time, get hungrier. When William took the kettle, he turned around and returned to the dead wood, waving his ax and chopping.
trunk.
He casually threw the black bread several hundred meters away and threw it into the bushes. Listening to the sound of chopping down trees, William smiled and used his mental power to scan the surrounding trees for hundreds of meters. Soon he found that there was only one tree left.
Hare.
With his telekinesis, he broke the rabbit's neck and threw it on the path back to the village dug out of the rock mass between the cliff and the sea. Then William watched Theseus chopping firewood with a smile.
After watching it for a few minutes, he frowned and said, "You can't cut it like this."
Theseus, who was enduring hunger, stopped his axe, turned around and saw William sitting on a rock holding a wooden stick and saying, "It is better to chop diagonally than to chop straight."
"I know." Theseus originally thought that William, an old man, could give some good advice, but he didn't expect that it was something he had already understood in his teens.
He raised the ax in his hand, showed the ax blade to William, and then continued to chop the dead tree trunk.
While he was chopping, he asked tentatively, "From what you said, I know you must have never cut down a tree. You were a free citizen with property in the past?"
William was stunned, and then he thought that Theseus' ax seemed to be made of bronze, and you can't expect a bronze ax to be very sharp.
After making a mistake, William smiled and replied without any embarrassment, "That's right. People like you who make a living by chopping wood know how to save labor better than beggars like me."
Seeing that William claimed to be a beggar and took the initiative to admit his mistake, Theseus focused on chopping the dead tree.
More than three hours later, a firewood pile measuring one and a half meters high and one and two meters wide was tied up with a hemp rope and carried on his back by Theseus. "Let's go. I'll treat you to bread and wild vegetable soup tonight."
When passing by a hare, William was surprised that Theseus did not pick up the hare. Instead, he swallowed his saliva and continued to move forward despite his hunger and greed.
When William picked up the rabbit, Theseus said without looking back, "If you want to eat a hare, it's best to stay away.
Otherwise, if someone from the temple sees or smells you, they will whip you with a wooden stick for hunting temple property."
William curled his lips, let alone the priest of the temple, even if the god in the ocean, Sabine, came to Li, he would have to kneel in front of him when he met her.
After walking with Theseus for half an hour, we entered the village on the cliff along the rock path carved out of the cliff.
After walking into the village, when Theseus went to sell firewood at the Temple of Sebelin, William squatted on the edge of the cliff of the village and looked at the temple built a hundred meters away.
As soon as I saw the priest wearing a helmet-like headdress made of gold, I felt a feeling of delay in my heart for no reason.
The common people are so poor that they can't even afford food, but the temples are built as luxuriously as possible. No wonder there are fewer and fewer people who believe in the gods.
After waiting for half an hour, I saw Theseus happily walking back with a bag containing a piece of black bread, and took William to his home.
Probably because it was built inside the rock and there was no need to build walls. Although Theseus' house was small, it was well-lit and clean.
However, the furniture only consisted of two stone beds carved from rock, a pottery pot, and a few pottery bowls.
The only thing that surprised William was that there was a short to medium-sized spear with a wooden shaft and an iron head hanging on the wall. It was about 1.6 meters long.
When he saw a pile of wood ashes in the fire pit, he said to Theseus with a smile on his face, "Young man, help me get some water and push this rabbit to clean the fur and internal organs.
How about I teach you how to eat rabbit meat without even realizing it?"
Seeing William's rabbit exposed from his tattered clothes, Theseus swallowed again and thought for a while before saying, "Wait."
After saying that, he put the rabbit in a cloth bag and walked out of the house carrying a wooden kettle.
Theseus left, and William left behind a magical clone that looked like an old man. He went to the Temple of Sabine invisibly. After a moment of mental perception, he discovered that the temple dug out of the rock actually built a huge maze.
Damn it, how much manpower, material resources and time this costs.
In the deepest part of the temple, there is a rock placed next to the altar, which looks very inconsistent.
Needless to say, this rock must contain the Bow of Epirus.
A teleport appeared at the bottom of the temple, stroking the nearly two-meter-high rock with his hand, and the three of them hugged each other and turned around.
A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the earth magic was activated. The huge rock crunched and cracked in all directions. Dozens of broken pieces were held and suspended in the air by telekinesis, revealing a dark long bow.
He waved at the long bow, and the Bow of Epirus, embedded in the rock, automatically flew into his hand.