Chapter 289 Miracle of the Holy Mountain
At this time, the battle was still going on at Mount Ghazi, and General Aghason had been holding out there for more than half a month.
But the war was not intense, and a situation of confrontation between the two sides of the mountain had already formed.
Because the current situation is that both sides are helpless against the other side.
The Desha people at the foot of the mountain were already exhausted. In addition, they came from various tribes and had no unified command. Although they were numerous, the poorly equipped herdsmen had never been able to attack the mountain.
There are not many trees on Mount Ghazi, so even if the Desha people set fire to the mountain, it would not have any effect. Besides, they did not dare to set fire to the holy mountain.
However, the devout Desha herdsmen have been besieging their holy mountain and have not left.
Agathon's troops had already used up their javelins and crossbow arrows, but Sigismund moved a large number of wall stones from the burned temples on the mountain, using local materials to provide Agathon's troops with sufficient defensive weapons.
The advantage of defending in the mountains is indeed huge. In addition, Agasson's troops are well-armored, and the D'Shar people couldn't even cause any serious damage to them.
But Agathon had too few people and was unable to break out of the siege.
In fact, the Desha people once tried to negotiate with Agathon, but the problem was that the two sides could not communicate in the same language, so the negotiations naturally came to nothing.
At present, Agathon is discussing countermeasures with Sigismund.
"Sinclair, I don't think we can keep defending like this. If we continue like this, I'm worried that Bahadur Khan Kadan's army will come here."
Agathon said with some worry: "These herdsmen will definitely not be able to do anything to us, but if the Desha army comes, we can't deal with it with so few people..."
"Don't worry, General Agathon. We can hold out for at least another month. Lord Leon's troops will be here to rescue us soon!"
Sigismund was not in a hurry - Leon sent him to Mount Ghazi to delay Agathon and prevent the brave general from taking the risk of breaking out.
“Why do I feel like I’ve been tricked by Leon? Could it be that he deliberately let me here to attract these Desha people? I think I have become the devil in the hearts of the Desha people?”
Agathon looked at Sigismund who was calm and composed, and simply asked him about his doubts.
"Look at what you said... General Agathon, Lord Leon kindly provided you with a good way to quickly obtain a large number of good horses, and even specially asked Sinclair to bring people to pick you up. This is all free of charge! This is entirely for your friendship..."
Sarah next to him took over the conversation: "You know Lord Leon's character. The Desha herdsmen here are as poor as beggars. Lord Leon will not do business with poor people."
That is also true...
Agathon thought about it and felt that given Leon's character, he would not do any business with these ragged herdsmen. After all, he had already promised to provide the horses here to the Bacchus Empire - these herdsmen really did not have anything valuable except horses.
"But we can't kill those people down the mountain... I'm afraid we won't be able to get those horses."
Agathon was still thinking about the horses.
"Don't worry. There are so many of them surrounding us. They may have run out of food. We will have a chance sooner or later. Besides, we have infantrymen. If we really break out of the mountain, the consequences will be obvious..."
Sigismund found a stone and began to sharpen his great sword.
Agathon shook his head, sighed, and looked at the soldiers around him - they were indeed all infantry.
Sigismund brought all gladiators with him, but Agathon had come with a fleet, so naturally he didn't bring any mounts, and most of his men were imperial legion infantry and cuirass crossbowmen.
It is indeed impossible to break out by going down the mountain. Once out of the mountainous area, the massive nomadic cavalry can easily defeat this infantry force of only more than a thousand people in total.
So Agasson had no choice but to begin inspecting the defenses, just as he had been doing every day for more than half a month.
"Sarah, I think General Agathon is about to lose his patience - this is his third attempt to break out."
Seeing Agathon walking away, Sigismund said to Sarah.
"To be honest, I can't bear it any longer. I'm stuck in the mountains and can't take a shower. I think I've gone bad..."
Sarah's focus was obviously not on Agathon's mood. After all, if the situation at the foot of the mountain was not resolved, no one would dare to break through and go down the mountain. No matter how anxious Agathon was, he had to endure it.
"Ah? Let me see..."
Sigismund sniffed it with a playful smile: "It's not rotten, it still smells delicious... Otherwise, I'll go to the top of the mountain to get some snow so you can take a bath?"
"Get lost... The army is full of men, how can I wash?"
Sarah pushed Sigismund's head away and said, "Lord Leon once told me a legend... Sinclair, do you know that the goddess of order, Eunomia, also lives on a snowy mountain? It is said that a miracle of a goddess bathing occurred on the goddess mountain north of Qicha Fortress?"
"There is such a rumor. People in the Fierce Lion Realm and the Stern Raven Realm should all know about it. It is said that the Griffin Knights were established because of a miracle. Back then, the former King Kavala chased an animal that looked very much like a griffin to the Goddess Mountain, and saw the goddess bathing in snow water in the lake on the mountain, and received an oracle - but those are all legends. There are no griffins now, let alone bathing..."
Sigismund suddenly paused here, looked at Sarah, and his eyes widened suddenly: "Sarah, are you trying to pretend to be a goddess?"
"No, I just want to take a bath... As for what others think, that's their business. I'm not pretending to be a goddess. I'm just following Lord Leon's arrangement..."
Sarah looked back at the snow-capped mountain top and said, "We burned down the Wata Temple. If the temple was burned down and the goddess Eunomia appeared on the holy mountain, what do you think this means?"
"call……"
Sigismund let out a long breath and grinned, "This means that the D'Shar god Wata is a false god! And the true god Eunomia came in person to destroy Mount Ghazi! The D'Shar people will lose their greatest support... They will lose their faith!"
“Yes, perhaps, it was the gods who let me return to this place through Lord Leon… to save Desha.”
Sarah was still looking at the snow on the top of Mount Ghazi, which was shining silvery under the sunlight, like the holy light in the legend.
"Back to this place?"
Sigismund was a little confused: "Sarah, what does this mean?"
"I was born there, Sinclair. My mother gave birth to me there—while my father was away on the expedition with Cardin."
Sarah pointed to a temple above the snow line, which was the main temple of the Holy Mountain that was burned down by Sigismund himself.
Many children of tribal leaders are indeed born in the holy mountain temple. This is the tradition of Desha, in order to receive the blessing of the god Vata at birth - Vata, the strong male horse, symbolizes strength, military power, prosperity and reproduction.
In the era when Sarah was born, the Holy Mountain Temple had not fallen into as depravity as it is now. The ascetics in the temple still played the role of medical care, so the survival rate of births here was indeed higher.
But Sarah had never lived near the holy mountain. Shortly after she was born, her father Sharfan Sheikh had a conflict with Kadan.
"If I destroy your faith, then... under what name will you continue your holy war?"
Sarah muttered as she looked at the top of the mountain, her eyes as cold as a knife.
Sigismund looked at Sarah thoughtfully and put his arm around her shoulders: "Sarah, I don't want to ask you what you've been through... but I will fulfill your wish."
"This is not my wish. This is Lord Leon's idea. Counting the days, the Lord should be here soon... Sinclair, I remember you left a demon horse's head as a souvenir in Bacchus?"
Sarah turned around and put her charming smile back on her face.
…
When Li Ang led his army to the foot of Mount Ghazi, he happened to witness a wonderful show.
There is no fighting in Ghazi Mountain anymore.
But the crowd gathered at the foot of Mount Ghazi was still there, except that they were all kneeling on the ground, staring intently at the top of the mountain.
Even when Li Ang led his army to a position more than a hundred meters behind them, they still did not turn back.
Above the snow line at the top of the mountain, just above the burned-down temple, a black horse and a woman could be vaguely seen.
Looking from the foot of the mountain, they were too far away to be clear, and the people and horses looked as small as ants.
But with the white snow as the background, the afternoon sunshine also provided excellent visibility of the entire Mount Ghazi, at least the man and the horse could be seen clearly.
The woman on the top of the mountain seemed to be holding a spear and a shield in her hands. Because the shield and the spear were reflecting dazzling golden light from time to time, it looked like some divine weapon was shining.
The robe she was wearing seemed to be very thin, with the wind blowing out long flowing collars on the top of the snowy mountain, and her long hair was also flying in the wind - this was obviously not a normal woman, and most people would not dare to climb to the top of a snowy mountain wearing only a thin silk robe.
And most importantly, she seemed to be floating in the air?
The distance was too far to see clearly, but it definitely didn't look like it was stepping on the ground.
And the black horse also looked unusual, its eyes were glowing red all the time!
Against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, the red light in the black horse's eyes is particularly obvious, and you can tell at a glance that this is definitely not a normal horse.
A majestic black horse with glowing red eyes appeared on the top of Mount Ghazi, which is absolutely impossible for a horse to climb. What does this mean to the Desha people?
This is an obvious miracle...
Moreover, in the eyes of the Desha people, this must be the response of the god Wata to the burning of the temple on the holy mountain - the god himself came to deal with the enemies on the holy mountain!
So all the herdsmen at the foot of the holy mountain prostrated themselves on the ground, only raising their heads to stare at what was happening on the mountain.
The woman with the spear faced off against the black horse.
Soon after, the black horse seemed to move, and looked like it was going to attack the woman.
The woman thrust out the spear in her hand from a distance, as if pointing at something from a distance...
And at this moment, a shocking "magic" happened in full view of everyone!
After the woman thrust out the spear, a terrible flame suddenly erupted from the black horse, and along with the flame, a huge cloud of dust rose!
And the black horse was blown to pieces in an instant!
The herdsmen at the foot of the mountain fell silent at this moment. They were stunned - only gods could produce such an effect with just a wave of their fingers!
It was not until a few seconds later that the people at the foot of the mountain heard the rumbling sound of thunder...
Along with the thunder, the snow on the top of the mountain began to collapse...
That's an avalanche!
People living at the foot of Mount Ghazi have seen this scene before. In certain thunderstorms, the snow on the top of the mountain will indeed collapse!
That woman... what she used on that black horse was... a thunderstorm? !
The snow on the top of the mountain began to flow down, bringing up bursts of white mist, but the woman did not move. She just stood there with a spear and shield, not even looking back at the collapsing snow.
The muffled sound of avalanches continued. Even at the foot of the mountain, one could fully realize the power of nature. No one could compete with nature.
But the snow was completely unable to harm the woman - everyone was sure that she was indeed floating in the air!
Anyway, looking from the bottom of the mountain, the snow was flowing past her feet, burying the shattered remains of the black horse, but it had no effect on her at all.
She was still floating intact above the temple, without moving a step - this must be an ability that only a goddess could have, right?
The snow on Mount Ghazi was not thick, and the avalanche stopped soon.
At this moment, the woman raised her shield, and at the same time a puff of white smoke rose up, covering her figure.
When the smoke cleared, the woman - or the goddess - disappeared!
The Desha people at the foot of the mountain began to make a noise, and then the noise gradually turned into the same sound - a uniform cry.
Every Desha man cried bitterly. Some even dropped their weapons and collapsed to the ground, their faces ashen.
The 'miracle' on the top of the mountain was so obvious that everyone could realize that their god Vata had been beaten to pieces by another goddess!
There is only one goddess holding a spear and a shield in the continent of Pendor - Eunomia, the main god of the Realm of the Fierce Lion, the god of order and zeal.
"God of Iron...what is that...is it a miracle?"
At this moment, Klose couldn't close his mouth. He opened his eyes wide and asked the lord beside him nervously.
"Yes, it's a miracle... But don't worry, this 'goddess' is one of us. It seems we have arrived at the right time."
Li Ang raised his eyebrows and began to give orders: "Order the troops to march! Disperse these Dexia people and bring all the horses here..."
"ha!!"
After witnessing the miracle of 'the Goddess of Order slaying Wata', Leon's men were naturally very motivated, and even their shouts for orders were a hundred times more vigorous.
Agathon on the mountain could finally start to break out, but this was no longer a breakout, but a direct descent down the mountain to grab horses...
Because those Desha herdsmen had no will to fight at all, and many of them were even waiting to die. Most of them were still staring at the place where the 'Goddess' disappeared, which was also the place where the 'God Wata' was blown to pieces.
At this moment, behind the temple on the holy mountain, behind the high wall that people below the mountain could not see, Sigismund was wrapping the shivering Sarah in a thick quilt.
"You're not frostbitten?"
Sigismund brought a bowl of hot soup and fed it to Sarah to drive away the cold.
"No... but it's really cold... and my legs are cramping! You guys are holding that white pole and shaking it the whole time!"
Sarah complained, hugging her shoulders and shaking.
