How to wear a goddess statue

Rhodes left the forest behind the golden-eyed woman, and saw a procession.

Looking at the neat attire of this group of people, it looks like an army, resting by the river.

Witnessing those costumes and accessories that could only appear on the only surviving murals and in the restoration pictures drawn by experts, Rhodes suppressed the turbulent waves in his heart, and still acted ignorantly. In a daze, I couldn't even understand the words of the people around me.

Until then, Luo Dasi was finally able to confirm what kind of place he came to.

It's certainly not anywhere near the museum, or even in the same era.

Unless the people here are filming a film and television program with the background of Gusoran, restoring the lost country thousands of years ago, and want to trick a few lucky passers-by at random.

——It was Gusoran.

It was the source of the scattered antiques she saw through the showcase not long ago.

Rhodes grabbed the satchel tightly.

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The woman who led Rhodes out of the woods seemed to be the leader of this army, and she seemed to keep a distance from the people around her naturally.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like she would casually bring along the character of the guy she ran into on the side of the road, but she just did it.

The gaze cast from those golden eyes was curious and cautious, with a hint of interest.

It makes people think of those cats standing at the top of the food chain, when they discover new species that they have never seen before in their territories, and they don't know whether they can eat them or whether they will be countered, they must have this kind of expression.

After that, Rhodes went on the road with the army.

This probably meant what the golden-eyed woman meant. The soldier didn't seem to have any objections, and was obviously used to obeying any decision made by the leader.

At first, Rhodes didn't know the destination of this march.

But after some difficult communication, she inexplicably began to learn the ancient Solan vocabulary from the leader.

God knows what expression Rhodes will have when the golden-eyed woman points to her chest and casually utters the syllable "Eleuil".

Eleuil.

Those who have a little knowledge of the history of Gusoran basically know this name. It is the princess who was poisoned by a contender for the throne. Her life is full of twists and turns and is legendary.

The era in which this princess lived was not far from the time when Solancia was destroyed according to historians' textual research.

Having said that, Aleuil was still very young when he was poisoned.

Rhodes looked at the golden-eyed woman opposite, a tall and vigorous adult woman... It seemed to be very suitable for the age that was poisoned in history.

Is this the time when wars are about to start?

Rhodes almost believed that the Eleuil in front of him was the princess in history, but not long after, this cognition was overturned in the stumbling communication.

Solancia has not been established at all. There are many city-states in this vast land. In recent years, they have annexed each other and fought endlessly. Eleuil is one of the lords of one of the city-states.

And the name of this city-state is Solan.

Good news: I haven't traveled to the era that is about to start a troubled world.

Bad news: right now in the midst of war.

Good news: It was picked up by the city-state army that finally ended the troubled times.

Bad news: As a relatively suspicious foreigner with strange clothes, poor language skills, she was followed by the army commander.

He also inexplicably has a remarkable ability, in a nutshell, it is playing with water.

With the cover of the satchel, Luodas quietly condensed a piece of ice on his fingertips, turning it into water, and then disappeared.

Rotating the bracelet that never left her body, Luotas couldn't understand it. She was sure that she had never possessed this skill before, and that she had followed the rules in the past 20 years without any "abnormality".

Recalling the moment when he faced the leopard, the coolness that came from the satchel, through the cloth, Luodus poked lightly on the frame of the bronze mirror.

Is it because of it?

Concentrating his thoughts, when he raised his eyes again, he met Eleuil's eyes again.

After these days of chicken and duck talking and language teaching, the relationship between the two has become closer, not to mention the establishment of friendship, at least they are familiar with each other.

This was before the establishment of Solancia, and the person in front of her couldn't possibly be the princess in the history of ancient Solancia, she just had the same name.

Although little is known about Solancia's naming rules, it should be the same as later generations, with a high rate of duplication.

Rhodes thought, at least this Eleuil has no malice towards her.

So he returned a polite smile.

It was obviously Eleuil who cast her gaze first, and waited for the person to be watched to find out, but when she saw the smile of Rhodes, she paused.

A few days later, the group returned to the Soran city-state.

At this time, Rotas was already able to guess and understand part of the Solan language. Except for the daily expressions, most of them were related to the military, because Eleuil always taught him wherever he pointed.

From this, Rhodes knew that the army he was in had just won a battle and was on its way back.

The reason why she met Eleuil by chance in the woods was because the other party wanted to hunt a small animal in the forest to improve food. As a result, the hare and mountain fowl were not hunted, but a "magical alien" was retrieved.

When he said this, Aleuil deliberately bit the syllable of "miracle", and the corners of his lips curled up slightly, not sure if he was implying something.

Rhodes: "..." So did you see it or didn't see it?

In short, Rhodes returned to the city-state with the triumphant Sauran army.

The city-states of this period have broken away from the more primitive tribal model. There are leaders called city lords, as well as nobles, warriors, commoners and slaves. They are already small countries.

In this period of development, it is the general trend to unify the land suitable for farming, so there will be wars everywhere.

The city-state of Solan is different from other city-states. Strictly speaking, there are two city lords who rule together.

This is a pair of siblings. Eleuil, the older sister, has shown a talent for fighting and planning battles since she was a girl, while the younger brother knows nothing about war tactics, but is good at mediating affairs in the city, and can hold back and look through piles of hills Tall lettering board.

This governance model has actually achieved quite good results. Before the death of the previous city-state, Solan was considered to be in the middle of many city-states, but now it has gradually developed to the upper-level position. No city-state dares to underestimate it.

Rodas saw another city lord, a kind-hearted young man, sitting on a stone bench to criticize the wooden board with inscriptions—obviously, no more authoritative chairs had been invented at this time—it was like struggling with homework middle school students.

Aleuil said bluntly to the young city owner: "This is mine."

The young city owner: "Huh?"

Aleuil repeated it, as if it should be taken for granted.

The young city owner: "Ah, oh oh."

I always feel that the eyes of the two maids behind the city lord are a little strange.

Rhodes herself didn’t think there was anything wrong. Ever since she realized that she traveled to the early slave society, she didn’t expect to find equality in this era from the beginning. “My people” equals “my subordinates/attendants”. Eleuil should That's what it means.

However, on the second day of staying here, Luo Dasi found that everyone looked at him wrongly.

It was a look mixed with curiosity, ambiguity and gossip.

Only then did Luotus know that she suddenly became the lover of the legendary female city lord.

In the age of city-states, what a leap in people's imagination.

But this also illustrates a problem. Eleuil's move to bring the alien, Lotus, back to the city-state of Soran, is so unreasonable in the eyes of others that he has to imagine such an explanation.

Others didn't know the inside story, but Luodas was aware of it.

So, after almost completely mastering the Solan language, Rhodes knocked on the door of Eleuil's room.

"I want to talk to you, Lord Eleuil," she said.

Eleuil chuckled lightly, "Okay."

After some probing, Rhodes finally mentioned her new ability in a vague way, and Eleuil was really prepared, and she watched the confrontation with the leopard in the forest from beginning to end.

"So, who are you?" Eleuil asked, guessing by way of example, "The giant fish from the Iru River?"

Rhodes took a deep breath indiscriminately.

Before, when she introduced herself, she only said that her name was Lorca. That was because she avoided "Rhodas", the river goddess of ancient Solan. In the eyes of Solan, it would be disrespectful to have the same name as a god. .

But after getting to know him slowly, Rotas discovered that there was no god named Rotas or river goddess in the city-state of Soran at that time.

At that time, the mythology system was still very fragmented. They believed in the god of the sky and the goddess of the earth, and regarded love, desire, life and death as part of the mysterious belief. The only big river in this piece of land also has mythological significance, but the Solan people regard it as a gift left on the land by the original water of chaos, and the huge giant fish is the elf of the river.

There is no river goddess.

Rhodes didn't know if this was an opportunity, she hesitated for a while, and decided to follow the words.

"That's right." Rhodes said blankly, "I'm a giant fish."

After thinking about it, I added: "The elves of the Yilu River."

If the river goddess was already in Solan's system, Rhodes could act as an envoy by virtue of his ability to control water, but he didn't.

As for fooling the other party and saying "I am the goddess of the river, I chose you", she never thought about it.

For one thing, the gods who can't even speak Solan are too unreliable.

Secondly, Rhodes's ability is actually not that strong. According to the secret experiments these days, she can at most condense a water mass the size of a football or an ice slug as long as a forearm. If you ask her for rain, pray that the river will be stable and not flood. What, it must be revealed.

The female city lord on the opposite side doesn't look like a fool.

Compared with aliens with supernatural abilities, the identity of the giant fish elves may be safer, especially in the current era of wars.

Rhodes looked at Eleuil.

Eleuil nodded: "Yeah."

... Isn't the reaction a little dull?

Aleuil said again: "Since there is you, then, do gods exist?"

Rhodes shook his head cautiously: "I don't know."

In the past, she firmly believed that gods did not exist, and the facts of traversal and water control were shaking the worldview, so it was safer not to answer.

"I don't really believe in gods." Aleuil thought deeply, "If they existed, they would have appeared long ago, but—Soran needs gods, gods who can perform miracles."

Rhodes realized something, raised his eyes and looked over steadily.

Eleuil smiled and said, "What do you think?"

Rhodes pursed his lips: "I need to think about it again."

At the end of this conversation, Eleuil sent Rhodes out, and said inexplicably: "The giant fish don't seem to like me very much."

Rhodes: "?"

Aleuil shrugged: "The only time I saw a giant fish was when I was a child, it floated up to the surface and flicked its tail, splashing half of my body."

Rhodes: "..."

The city lord will not take revenge for selfishness, will he?