Chapter 1244 - The Jailor’s Columns (1/2)
The magnificent stone columns were so tall that the clouds were merely hovering around halfway up the columns. Their sheer size might have disturbed the weather in the surroundings. In the upper half of the columns, whirlpools of fog were forming into cyclones, while on the lower half, lightning was dancing between the columns occasionally. Each arc of lighting could be as long as a few kilometers to a dozen kilometers. As the airships approached gradually, Hao Ren heard the rumble of thunder coming from the direction of the columns.
At the same time, the energy of the goddess of creation was becoming stronger. He had experienced several illusions of the Goddess of Creation and personally touched her celestial objects and relics so he could tell whether it was related to the Goddess of Creation.
“What are those?”
Hao Ren looked at the stone columns in the distance. By now, he could not care less to conceal his lack of common knowledge.
“You don’t know they were the Jailor’s Columns?” Sir Morian looked at Hao Ren in amazement. “As the guardian of the temple, you know them?”
“The Jailor’s Columns?” Hao Ren frowned. “I indeed don’t know. I can’t explain why, but I don’t know many things in this world. You could think that some ancient power had hindered my cognitive function. But I need you to help to tell me.”
He improvised, coming up with a lame but barely usable excuse. He believed that something similar to curse or mind magic must exist in this world. Even if they did not exist, he could cite the loss of ancient secret power as a last resort. But he did not expect the old knight did not care about the real reason: Morian had reached a consensus with Veronica that as long as Hao Ren was still on her side, they would ignore the strange behaviors of the ancient guardian. “Legend has it that it was the goddess of creation who planted the Jailor’s Columns on the earth.”
“The goddess of creation planted them?” Hao Ren was instantly wide-eyed. “What for?”
“To suppress the first renegade—the evil giant, Lockmarton,” said the old knight. “There are many Jailor’s Columns over all Collow. Planting in the earth, mountains, and rivers at every energy node in this world, they were used to lock up Lockmarton firmly in the depths of the earth. The glow of the columns receded when Lockmarton broke the earth and escaped. But even so, the Jailor’s Columns are still the most powerful miracle in this world. They have unparalleled power of Order, and even if the tide of Chaos hits, these columns will never collapse.”
The old knight said, and they told a story. “It is said that the king of the Kingdom of Torch was leading the legendary Crimson Fist legion to rise in the western part of the mainland, in the middle of a battle, they suddenly encountered the tide of Chaos and climbed to the top of the Jailor’s Columns in the middle of the western desert. So they survived. The Lord of Flames stood at the top of a column and looked around, and then he came to an epiphany and found the secret to tame the desert. Later, he attained many achievements in his life.”
Hao Ren nodded, but he was not listening. The columns were attracting his attention.
Were the columns seals the goddess of creation had made?
He was a little excited at first, but he quickly calmed himself down, after realizing that the columns were somewhat different from those in the temples he had seen in Coldpath. Though they were large, they lacked the energy field and might not necessarily be the creation of the Goddess of Creation. But the divine power they carried was unquestionably coming from the goddess. So these things were positively related to the Goddess of Creation.
The Jailor’s Columns were something not found on planets like Holletta or Tannagost. These magnificent creations were made before the goddess of creation died. And at that time, the First Borns and the guardians had not fallen.
These things were not meant to suppress the mad First Borns or guardians.
Of course, the above conjectures were made on the premise that the ancient legends that Morian told must be accurate, and these columns were indeed some prison facilities.
While Hao Ren’s mind was wandering, the three airships were approaching the spectacular Jailor’s Columns.
The black stone columns stood on the ground like a tower to heaven. When coming close enough, their scale was even more astonishing. Close up, they did not look like columns but cliffs, as the distance from one end of the columns to the other end was just crazily long. When the airships flew past the columns, they looked birds flying over a cliff—how unremarkable small.