The sky collapsed. This is how people described the battle.
The mountains collapsed like deflated skins. The evil beasts ran away like crazy, completely forgetting about hunting. Since the collapse of the Extreme North Pillar, the Sea of Stars has also fallen apart, sinking into the deepest part of the ice ocean. From then on, regardless of day or night, the sky was always as red as blood. The vegetation is scorched and withered, and the birds and animals are in panic all day long. The pungent stench emitted from the rivers and seas caused the fish to die, and there was no clean water source on land. Every time a pillar of heaven is knocked down, the world is more and more destroyed.
She sat in the boat and listened to the howling wind.
——In the kingdom of the Usurper King, souls are led by spiders. The old man once said this. In that country, there are several large rivers that connect to the Sea of Nightmare. There are extradition ships floating on the rivers, and they are also specially made to look like spiders. People believe that the tentacles can deceive nightmares and allow living people to reach the other side safely. They would make flexible thin feet for the boat to glide on the water. The ingenious construction of such a boat requires the most skilled shipwrights to build it, and it also requires the best boatmen to operate such a boat. They come and go on the river and earn a lot of money, but things sneaking from the nightmare sea often bring them horrific disasters.
Only the best boatmen can ply those rivers for long periods of time. They have the richest experience, dexterous hands and keen judgment, but - the old man asked her - what is the most important thing?
The melting sky sank from all directions, a red iron pot holding the world in place. In the final battle, Mulekakun and Lisrelo fell one after another. Slumber sleeps beside the southern sky pillar - a body like a hill, the heads of three giant deep-sea insects, and thousands of thick arms like flying dragons. He was conceived by Wingolas who selected a dozen of the most ferocious evil beasts, and at the same time added the blood of the wise Aitulet, and was nurtured and raised in the belly of his mother Sky Whale.
This giant monster, neither a god nor a beast, has been howling and crying endlessly since it was born. The sound is enough to kill any mortal who hears it. He could have been granted wisdom, but the king asked him to remain foolish. That's because he was born to guard the Tianzhu. If he is smart and sensitive, he will be full of pain. So Wingoras locked him in a huge canyon beside a pillar, letting him sleep soundly for a long time, and only fed him with evil beasts every thousand years.
He slept from the beginning of the world until the end. When the spear-pointed diamond struck the pillar of heaven, the collapse of the canyon woke him up. Slambor's three giant insect heads howled, and thousands of boneless arms suddenly reached out from the ground to the clouds, hitting Mulakakun and crushing him to pieces. His sister, Lisrelo, stayed away warily. She exhaled poisonous smoke, corroding the long arm that killed Mulakakun, and then was stunned by Slambor's scream, and fell into the three huge mouths in the canyon. Slambor chewed her up and swallowed her. Only her brother Dongwag was left, the most agile of the quadruplets. He was hovering far away in the higher clouds, following his master to dodge.
——The best boatman cannot contend with the dangerous river. said the old man. The best boatman is the one who knows where not to go. Never be deceived by money and complacency, only go where they are sure. Their experience is rich, but they must maintain the sensitivity and caution of a novice.
The lotus leaf boat was bumping in the hot tide. The dark mountains on both sides of the river drifted down with the wind, and the water flow became more and more turbulent. But in her mind she was thinking about the dream she had just had. It was also a dream about boating: starting from the green mountains with my childhood friends, passing through canyons and mountain passes, and finally flowing into the lake under the sunset. Flying insects hovered like the thin smoke of dusk, and cold silver stars shone on my friend's fingertips. It was a very unusual thing - and the owner of the dream did not know it.
Her gaze dropped down to the front of the lotus boat. The boatman had fallen asleep in the middle of the journey, lying on his back and snoring loudly and softly. He rested his hands heavily on the side of the ship's pivot, letting the current carry the ship to the finish line. Fire fell from the sky and the mountains turned to ashes, but the boatman was completely unaware of it, grumbling and murmuring in his deep sleep.
"Eat!" she heard the boatman say viciously.
Her hair swayed slightly. A small piece of light green sticky mass crawled slowly in her hair, and finally landed on the shell of her ear. The little thing stretched many tough filaments inside, which produced the sound of speech.
"Well," it said, "he's so optimistic."
She still sat upright, looking straight ahead, secretly paying attention to every bit of news coming from the wind.
The life picked up from the volcano. Although it grows in the dark underground all year round and has a natural and cruel predator temperament, it is noisier than any other pet she has raised in the past. A small part of it lay in her ear, connected to the part on the back of the boatman's head by a thin thread, and sometimes it quietly told her the thoughts in the boatman's mind. But dreams were an impenetrable barrier for this thing, so it could no longer tell her stories.
"I'm curious about what he dreamed about." said the temporary pet she picked up. "He had an angry dream. How strange that now he can hear his last breath, but he is still angry about eating."
She didn't answer. The temporary pet is also used to it. Maybe it communicates with obsidian in this way in the volcanic cave. It rolled slowly and carefully between the shells of her ears, trying to attract attention without expressing disrespect for its owner. This kind of natural cunning seems to be ignorant of the world, so that people like the boatman can be fooled. She knew that this thing was very smart, could accurately judge the situation, and would not delay the hunt because of wandering thoughts. Its clumsy-looking slime body is actually quite agile. Not as fast as a storm like a flying dragon, but as sudden as a dragon-hunting lizard, from stillness to rage without even blinking. Even flying dragons can be easily bitten if they are careless.
She used the dragon lizard to train the young flying dragons to stay alert, and few of the flying dragons managed to escape the first attack. Tayechi was bitten, as were Mulekakun and Lisrelo. The violent Stoneburn only bit off a bit of the tip of his claws, then bit the entire nest of dragon-hunting lizards into pieces and trampled all the eggs in the nest. . She scolded him and beat him, but the effect was minimal.
Only Dongwag was not bitten once. His strength is not as good as Mulekakun, and his tameness is not as good as Lisrelo's, and his temperament has the rare timidity of flying dragons. But being timid made him always pay attention to his surroundings, and he was also the most agile among the quadruplets. When facing Slambo, he showed unprecedented tenacity in his life. He used his master's storm dive time and time again to get through the densely packed long arms and bite Slambo's fragile neck. He was only scratched once, and all the scales and flesh on his back disappeared. Before he bled to death, he scratched out Slambo's twelve eyes. The blind giant swung its arms in fury and beat Dongwag and one of his own heads into a pulp. This stupid thing didn't understand why he suffered such a bad luck. When his soul-rending howl drowned out the sound of the wind, the tip of the spear as hot as the sun plunged from his head. Slambo melted, and his flesh and blood and bones were forever integrated with the earth and rocks of the canyon. Many years later, this canyon will be filled with gem-like flowers, all of which grew with the help of his body.
That was the final battle. The surviving people spread rumors like this. There shouldn't have been so many survivors, but she spread mercy in the name of the king and guided all kinds of creatures to the sanctuary. The place of refuge is in Mulun'en, in the bottomless cave in the deepest part of the mountain, surrounded by layers of shadows of rocks. She didn't know where the cave would eventually lead, but the evil omen brought by the hellfire could not spread there. The old man told her about that place, and they met there after the willow forest was destroyed.
Before the "final battle" took place, the old man sat on the stone at the entrance of the cave and waited for her. With a smile on his face, he raised his left hand to her. He held a cotton rope at his fingertips, with a flask hanging from each end of the rope. Both bottles were half filled with water, with small sailboat models floating on the water. Both ships are black and look very similar. The left side of the ship is layered with patterns resembling dragon scales, while the right sail is decorated in the shape of feathers.
"I think these two boats are more suitable for you." The old man said, "The mount will have a similar temperament to the owner. The boat is not that sensitive, but of course the more similar it is, the better. Which one do you like more?"
She looked at it and lit the bottle on the left.
"You chose seclusion." The old man said. He handed her the bottle and watched the little sailboat rising and falling in the water with her. At that time, her thoughts were ups and downs, and she told the old man that she would go to the Mountain of Silambo to take back the last light of creation.
"Go." The old man said calmly.
So she set off. After killing Slambo, all the light of creation was focused on the tip of her spear, and the diamond on the tip of the spear was already indestructible. If she hadn't relied on the light she had collected previously, she would have had no hope of defeating Slumber. When the last light was collected, the diamond fell off the tip of the spear on its own as the king said. Her most powerful and only weapon had completed its mission and could no longer be used.
She took the Silmaril and headed to the Hall of Eternity alone.
