The mountain god was furious, the earth shook and the mountains shook, the sky crumbled and the earth cracked.
It made everyone tremble with fear, and no matter how strong and brave people were, they were helpless and could only wait for the anger of the mountain god to dissipate and subside.
After Shulos climbed the crack, he and Gallan hid in a relatively safe place.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the shaking earth to gradually calm down.
Everything that was terrifying happened in an instant, which caught people off guard and was powerless to resist.
After the ground movement calmed down, the two tense nerves breathed a sigh of relief, and no longer cared about their image, they stretched their legs and sat on the ground, gasping for breath.
At this moment, the two of them were covered with dust, and even their hair was gray. Whether it was a beautiful boy or a handsome minstrel, they all looked extremely embarrassed at this moment.
Shulos sat on the ground with his hands on his folded knees, while taking a few breaths, he glanced at Garlan beside him.
The boy's hand rested on the ground, and there were still a few scars left on his bare forearm, which were scratched by stones, apparently scratched when he rushed over to grab him.
He glanced at it and lowered his eyes.
Not long ago, the robber was simply taken away by the 'beautiful' for a while, and he was careless. He was suddenly attacked by the other party and crushed under him. He couldn't break free, so he was beaten by the other party.
In fact, although he is very poor in close combat, he is very agile. As long as he is not caught, he can still dodge.
Therefore, even if Gal didn't come to help him, he could quickly turn up with his agile skills, which was why he rushed over to help Gallan.
If he didn't think he had the ability to dodge the crack, he wouldn't come forward.
After all, your own life is more important.
Human nature is like that.
It's just that Shulos didn't know.
When this aristocratic young master rushed over and grabbed him, he was just like him. He felt that he could get out of his body before helping him, or... did he not think about anything at all
Shulos thought so deeply, then shook his head, throwing the thought away.
Even if Gal decided to help him because he could get out of his body, that's not bad, he's already a very trustworthy companion.
He didn't know what Shulos was thinking at all. After experiencing the thrilling scene just now, Garlan, who was still a little empty, sat on the ground with his hands behind him, leaning his head back and gasping for breath.
The long hair was scattered on his shoulders in a mess, the dusty face looked dirty, and the whole person looked gray.
As he panted, he looked around at the calm surroundings. The place that had been beautiful just a moment ago was now covered with gravel and wood, streams stopped, rocks collapsed, and the ground was full of large and small cracks.
Especially the crack not far in front of them, which is more than ten meters wide. It is pitch-black and cannot be seen to the end. It is like an abyss. Once it falls, it will definitely be a dead end, and there will be no bones.
Garlan felt terrified just looking at it.
"Tsk, it's really bad luck. People like me, who are sheltered by Goddess Afdomir, used to have good luck. Why do I always encounter these unfortunate things these days?"
The bard, who had been relieved, sat cross-legged on the ground, patting the dust on his body, and grumbling in dismay.
For some reason, after hearing this, Garlan felt a little guilty for no apparent reason, so he didn't say a word.
"Hey, if you move like this, the mountains are cracked, the water is gone, and the scenery is nowhere to be seen. The most troublesome thing is that our horses don't know where to go."
Shulos, who was in a bad mood, kept complaining.
Garlan laughed dryly, but still didn't speak. He turned his head to look around, trying to find the horses that ran away. Maybe they were lucky and they ran back by themselves.
The ground movement had just subsided, but the ground was still a mess, with tree trunks breaking, rocks collapsing, and the dust splashing like a thick fog, making it impossible to see too far.
Garlan looked left and right, and suddenly saw the shadow of a horse in the dust mist that had not dissipated in the distance.
"Look, where our horses are—"
Garlan raised his finger to point in that direction, but just halfway through, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Uh, no, it looks like it's white, not ours... ah, gone... That horse seems a little weird."
"White horse? At night, except for us who can't enter the city, who else is bored enough to enter the mountains at night..."
Shulos was sitting on the ground lazily talking, but halfway through, he suddenly paused.
"White horse?"
He repeated it.
"The white... horse?"
He repeated it again, as if he suddenly thought of something, and his expression suddenly became excited.
"I said Gal, when you first went up the mountain, you saw a white shadow, isn't that the same?"
After Shulos said this, Garlan thought about it carefully, and said with some uncertainty: "It seems... it's a bit like..."
"That's right!"
Shulos stood up abruptly and looked at Garlan excitedly.
"It's a unicorn!"
"what?"
Alone... what
Garland was a little confused.
"White, like a horse, erratic... Yes, it must be a white unicorn! I told you not long ago, in the legend of Mount Tverul, the white unicorn will appear in the world's most beautiful girl before!"
Garland glared at him.
"I'm not a girl."
"Maybe that unicorn sees the same way as me, and treats you as a girl?"
"...It would be miserable if the legendary holy beast had the same level of eyes as you."
The excited Shulos no longer cared about Gallan's complaints about him.
"Anyway, it's like this now, let's catch up quickly, maybe we can really see the legendary unicorn!"
Thinking that he might be able to see the legendary holy beast with his own eyes, the bard rubbed his hands in excitement.
He urged Garlan in a chorus of voices: "Quick, quick, you can see it, we will catch up."
"But the ground movement just happened, aren't you afraid of doing it again?"
Shulos waved his hand nonchalantly.
"Anyway, we are halfway up the mountain. If we really move one after another, we won't have time to run. There is no difference between going up the mountain and going down."
The bard raised his hand, wiped the dust from his cheeks, and showed a handsome smile of incomparable confidence.
"I am the most loyal and handsome believer of the goddess Avtomir. The goddess is reluctant to let me die, and of course she will protect me."
"… "
Garland said he did not want to comment on Shulos' statement.
With such a narcissistic believer, the goddess must be very tired.
Although he was speechless at Shulos' words, Gallan was also very curious about the so-called unicorns. He hesitated a little, then he got up at Shulos' urging, and took Shulos to the one who saw the white shadow just now. The direction followed.
The white shadow appeared and disappeared from time to time, disappeared for a while, and another shadow passed by, but it was always far away from him and could not catch up.
Garland and the others stopped and walked, unknowingly chasing for a long time, and when they found out, the sun had risen from the horizon. And that white shadow has completely disappeared, and they did not know when they were about to climb to the top of the mountain.
"what happened?"
"I don't know, the white shadow is gone."
"Did you run away?"
"I don't know, I can't see it now anyway..."
"Tsk, I knew that unicorns are not so easy to see. Maybe they found out that you were a man, so they ran away."
Shu Luos tutted regretfully, and said a little bitterly.
He shook his head and looked around.
"Speaking of which, it seems that this place is close to the great waterfall in Tverul Mountain. Because the mountain road is rough and difficult to walk, and there are many beasts, few people can come up here to see the whole waterfall."
He stroked his forehead proudly.
"Of course, these are not obstacles to me. I came up last time and saw the waterfall with my own eyes. The scenery is really majestic and worth seeing."
Hearing him say that, Garlan was moved.
"Since you're all here, take me to see it?"
"It's okay, we're here anyway, but I don't know if the beauty is still there after the landslide."
Shulos shrugged, turned his head to look, judged the direction, and then took Garlan to the location of the waterfall in his memory.
There was almost no scenery to see along the way. I saw that countless big trees were uprooted, their roots were exposed outside the soil, and they were stacked horizontally. Dirt scattered, exposing rocks buried deep below. The rock cracked, and small rubble tumbled all over the place.
The mountain road was already rugged, and when the ground moved, there was no way at all. Even Garland and Shulos, who were good at it, had a very hard time walking.
After walking for a while and turning up a small slope, Shulos turned his head inadvertently.
"Huh?" he said in surprise, "I can see the city below from here."
The originally towering hillsides and huge trees blocked the line of sight. Even on the top of the mountain, you couldn't see the bottom. This time the ground moved, the tree fell, and the top of the mountain in this direction was just shaken to open a gap. And that gap is right in the direction of the city.
Shulos stood here, looking down, he could see Tverul City at the foot of the mountain through the huge gap.
Garlan followed and looked back, and he could indeed see the city at the foot of the mountain.
The ant-like figures came and went in the city, looking very busy.
"It seems that there must be a lot of casualties in Tverul City this earthquake."
Garland frowned.
"That village..."
He remembered the village he passed by not long ago. The village was also within the range of the earthquake, and it was suffering from disasters one after another. I am afraid that it will be even more difficult for those civilians.
"Don't think too much, that's something that the powerful officials should manage. We little people can't manage it, and we don't have the ability to manage it."
Shulos said, turning around and continuing to walk forward.
"You'd better remember that we must not be near Twilour City now, or we will be in trouble."
Garland nodded obediently and followed.
Probably in order to split Garlan's heart, Shulos started to meditate while walking.
"Look at the river that flows down. In fact, this is the river formed by the water of the waterfall. It flows down from the mountain and reaches the city of Tverul, which is also the most important source of water for the residents of the city."
This road is not very long, but it is too difficult, so it took a little time.
Turning a detour again, the eyes suddenly opened up, and at a glance, I saw a white waterfall falling from a cliff in the distance, and the sound of running water.
But what makes Garlan strange is that the waterfall looks quite big, but the sound of the water does not seem to be as big as expected.
When he was still trudging forward through the piles of tree trunks, branches and leaves, Shulos had already jumped up, climbed up the low hill in front, raised his hands, and sang aloud.
"Ah~~ That's the magic work between heaven and earth, the majestic Tverul Mountains, you are towering in the sky, in your body, the water of the Tianhe falls from the sky, you are so majestic, you are a miracle in the world... eh?"
Shu Luos's high-pitched chant suddenly stopped, and the cheerful look on his face disappeared. He stared ahead with a look of astonishment in his eyes.
"This..." He seemed to be in disbelief at what he saw. "How could it be like this?"
Shulos' words just fell, and Garlan, who was one step behind him, also climbed up.
Looking up, Garlan was also stunned.
In front of the open, there is a wide mountain, and the water rushes down from the top of the mountain.
The wide and huge waterfall slanted and fell along the top of the mountain from the sky, and a piece of white flowers made a huge splashing sound, which was deafening.
Below the falling water of the waterfall is a wide rock platform that is slightly sunken.
The platform goes further, and it is a cliff again.
And this cliff is much higher than the top of the mountain, almost vertical.
When the water falls from this cliff, it will form a very spectacular and majestic waterfall.
It should be so.
But at this moment, there is no spectacular waterfall, only sparsely seeping water, forming a thin water curtain on the cliff.
Because of the earthquake just now, the rocks on both sides were cracked, and countless rubble mixed with broken tree trunks and soil rolled down, just blocking the edge of the cliff, blocking it firmly, like a dam .
The rock platform was originally surrounded by three sides, and only one side of the cliff allowed the water to flow down to form a waterfall, but at this moment, that side was blocked by the falling rock trunks and turned into a bowl.
Therefore, all the water that came down from the mountain peak was contained in this suddenly formed 'bowl', and the water accumulated, the more it accumulated, the more it accumulated.
Shulos thought for a while.
"It's fine," he said. "As soon as there is a lot of water, the falling rocks and soil can't hold up, and they will be washed away by the water. If we wait a few days, we will be able to see the waterfall."
Garlan looked at the gravel trees blocking the cliff mouth.
Indeed, one side of this 'bowl' that holds water is not solid, it is made up of broken pieces. Now there is not much water, but when there is too much water, it will be washed down...
Do not.
and many more.
water... stones... wash down...
The city's water source…
A certain thought suddenly flashed in his mind, and Garlan's heart sank.
"Shiros!"
he shouted.
At the same time, he looked back suddenly.
At the foot of the mountain, in his sight, the seemingly small city was there.
"Wow, suddenly screaming so loudly startled me, what are you doing..."
"Twilur City sucks!"
"Huh? What's wrong with Twilour... uh, wait, this, this is—"
Shu Luos, who was originally casual, reacted instantly, and his face changed abruptly.
Once this large amount of water that has been blocked and accumulated soars to the point where it will wash down the rocks that blocked it, the terrifying amount of water will rush down, and it will inevitably cause flash floods.
The river formed by the waterfall originally flows along the mountain to the city of Tverul.
At that time, a large number of floods will wash down with countless rocks, and the entire city will be submerged in flash floods!