Marvel With Zanpakuto Chapter 736: Awesome
Since talking to old John that day, the man has deliberately distanced himself from Yvette.
As old John said, he is a man without a past, and such a man often means trouble.
Even the most sluggish person can see the secrets in a man after spending months together.
It's just that the villagers are simple and kind, so they don't care and ask too much, but the man knows very well that his past must not be so simple. If he continues to stay in this town, it may bring the villagers great danger.
The only way he can repay the villagers is to leave silently, not to drag these simple people down.
So, he decided to leave after the Fire Festival.
Fire Festival is an ancient traditional festival in this town. When this day comes, villagers will gather in the nearby river and hold a torch to **** a Viking warship, full of gods and gods. offerings.
As the boats are about to leave the river, people throw torches on the boats to set them on fire.
The ancient Vikings believed that this way, the warriors in Asgard and Valhalla could enjoy the sacrifices and wine they offered, and bless them with a good harvest in the coming year, praying for peace and prosperity meaning.
The annual fire festival is the biggest event in this remote town.
Every family is preparing sacrifices, and there are many kinds of sacrifices. In addition to the slaughtered livestock and beasts, there are also sweet wines brewed, and the task of Old John is to carve idols, which he does every year. .
The man carried a huge tree trunk that was more than ten meters long and several meters wide, and walked slowly to the stone field.
Boom...
The tree fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Cough, cough...Damn, can't you just put it lightly?" Old John was choked and coughed again and again, and came out of the side with a gray face, and stared at him with a beard: " I asked you to cut down an ash tree at random, how did you cut such a big one?"
"Didn't you say bigger is better?"
The man gave him a strange look: "I've searched half the mountain, and this one is the largest. It should be enough for you to carve, right?"
"I..." The corners of Old John's mouth twitched, he wanted Luca to find a slightly bigger one, but he didn't expect to find such a big one, and suddenly said with a bit of tears and laughter: "Forget it. Forget it, just make it bigger, such a big ash tree is enough for me to carve out the gods."
The man sat on the side and asked curiously, "It's all carving anyway, why do you have to use the ash tree?"
"You know shit." Old John glanced at him angrily and said: "The legendary tree species of the world tree is the ash tree, and only the gods carved out of the ash tree can be passed on to Asgard. of the gods."
"Oh."
The man stopped talking.
Old John didn't continue talking, picked up the carving tools, and stared at the ash tree trunk with a focused expression: "I'm going to carve the image of the gods next, don't disturb me, or don't blame me for being rude. ."
"Oh, okay."
The man sat on the side boredly, intending to see how Old John sculpted: "I'll just take a look, I won't bother you."
But I saw Old John take a deep breath, his arms bulged up, his eyes showed a fierceness, the violent aura was completely different from before, not like an ordinary old man at all, but more like a... .. the general who fights on the battlefield!
The man was slightly startled, and there seemed to be some kind of throbbing in his heart.
That look... that kind of momentum... made him feel like he was deja vu.
Old John didn't notice the strangeness of the man. He focused on the ash tree in front of him. The iron chisel and the hammer fell almost at the same time. Immediately, the sawdust flew, and a large piece of withered skin peeled off, and a human face was embossed on the trunk. , the outline gradually becomes clearer.
Iron chiseled the way, and the knife was trimmed.
About two or three hours later, a lifelike relief of the statue appeared on the ash tree trunk.
Old John let out a long sigh, his eyes couldn't hide the tiredness, and the sweat pooled down his cheeks to his chin: "Old, old, I didn't expect to be so tired after only one carving."
The man stared at the statue with an indescribable throbbing in his heart.
"Come again!"
Old John took a deep breath and continued to carve other idols.
All the gods need to be carved on the ash tree, and then the whole tree stands in the center of the ship as a giant sculpture pillar, so Old John has a lot of work, and there are at least a dozen gods that he needs to carve.
And depending on the status of the gods, it's getting harder and harder to go from the bottom up.
Being so busy that it was getting dark, Old John was panting from exhaustion, slumped to the ground sweating profusely, and said weakly, "Okay, I've finished all the carvings, I'll trouble you next, resist the statue to Go to the warship."
The man walked to the carved sacred pillar and counted from the bottom to the top, and found that there were only twenty-two statues.
The **** statue at the top is a rough-looking bearded man with a golden belt around his waist, holding a hammer that summons thunder, just like Thor, the invincible **** of thunder in mythology.
But according to his understanding, there should be twenty-three gods in mythology, and the most important one is Odin, the king of the gods.
"Old John, why don't you sculpt the king of the gods?" The man turned his head and asked the doubts in his heart.
"You think I don't want to carve?" Old John glared at him and said angrily: "Odin, the king of the gods, is supreme, where have I seen him? Usually, a space is vacated, and it is regarded as a sacrifice. It was sacrificed to Odin."
This is... interesting to say.
The man raised his eyebrows and joked: "Listen to what you mean, could it be that you have seen other gods?"
Old John's complexion changed slightly, his eyes seemed to be flustered for a while, and then he quickly covered it up, shaking his head and said: "I am a mortal, how could I have seen the gods, these are all passed down before, I will Just follow the engraving."
Speaking, old John got up and urged: "Don't think about it, quickly carry the pillar back, tomorrow is the Fire Festival."
"Wait... Old John, I might have a way."
The man suddenly stopped Old John, his eyes involuntarily placed on the tool, his heart throbbing more and more intensely: "I... I seem to be able to carve Odin, can you let me try?"
"You? Luca, don't make fun of me." Old John's eyes showed a touch of shock: "That is Odin, the king of the gods, and the statues I carved have a hint of divine meaning. If you sculpt it wrong, you will be punished by the gods."
Sculpting the image of the gods is not something anyone can do.
If you change to other villages, you will have to carve one or two statues, and most of them are replaced by symbols. If you carve the appearance of the gods indiscriminately, you will lose the blessing of protection in the next year, and in the worst case, you will be punished by the gods on the spot.
Only Old John can completely carve the appearance of the gods. This kind of pillar has the best blessing effect. Therefore, the task of carving the statues every year has always been completed by only Old John.
Now this pillar has the appearance of the gods, and it can already be sensed by the gods of Asgard. If the engraving of Odin's appearance is wrong, I am afraid that it will attract the wrath of the gods.
"Let me try, okay?"
The man stared at the image of the gods, and the familiar feeling struck again: "I...seem to remember a little bit of the past."
"You..." Old John looked hesitant, but when he thought that it might remind Luca of the past, he gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, since you want to try, I will too. I won't stop you, but if you feel bad, don't force it, you know?"
"Well, don't worry."
The man took a deep breath and picked up a wooden carving knife.
Old John's eyebrows were twisted into a ball, and there was an indelible doubt in his eyes. He knew that there were dozens of wood carving tools. It would be too arrogant to want to carve the appearance of the gods with just a wood carving knife. Bar?
Just as he was about to speak, reminding Luca that he should not use a wood carving knife first, but use a chisel to carve out the manuscript, and then use a knife to modify it, but saw a faint blue light flashing in the bottom of the man's eyes, and the next moment the wood carving knife was almost turned into afterimages.
Shhhhh...
The blade flipped and moved, and the sawdust flew for a while.
I don't know if it was his delusion or not. Old John always felt that the man holding the knife seemed to have become the king of the gods. The hairs on the back stand upright.
"Done."
The man let out a long breath and threw the wooden carving knife in his hand aside.
"Oh...done..."
Old John didn't react yet. After half a second of sluggishness, he exclaimed: "What? You said it's done?"
"Well, done."
The man nodded again to confirm, "You can take a look, I think it should be fine."
The cold sweat broke down on Old John's head, thinking that the man was sculpting randomly, he hurriedly stepped forward and scolded: "I said that you won't be allowed to sculpt randomly, now it's good, I have to be busy again.... ..busy...what?!"
The original blame was swallowed back in the stomach.
A pair of cloudy eyes stared at the boss ~IndoMTL.com~ full of shock, and Old John was completely dumbfounded.
On the top of this sacred pillar, there is an image of a long-bearded old man, one eye is covered by golden iron, and the other eye is like a falcon, exuding endless domineering, as if contempt The world looks down on all life, and the majesty of the king of the gods is like a torrent of aura, and you can feel the majesty of the supreme god-king just by looking at it.
"Ah—!"
Old John was so frightened that he took a few steps backwards, his face pale and terrified and shouted: "Yes... it's the God King... God King Odin!!!"
Rumble--
Thundering thundered through the sky, and lead clouds rolled across the sky.
The fierce wind of the call sign came on the torrential rain, and the rumbling thunder echoed in the sky and the earth, and there seemed to be a ray of light hanging down in the hazy, staring at the man and the old John below through the barrier between the worlds.
The man slowly raised his head and looked at the light in the air.