Chapter 87 - Miracles That Mortals Can Also Participate In (2/2)

On a cliff at the north of the mountain, they installed even more Rebecca Crystals.

In fact, most of the crystals accumulated in the camp had been transported to this place. It was to ensure that the explosion would be powerful enough to cause the cliff’s collapse. Gawain didn’t dare to be stingy on the ‘quantity’.

Previously, with the help of Heidi’s Sculpture Hand, Weight-Reduction, and other spells, the workers and the materials were all transported to this place. Using some simple rope and scaffolding, the stonemasons had already carved multiple craters into the cliff. They then poured in large quantities of crystals into the man-made craters as well as the crevices that already existed. But the carving of the explosive magic circles could only be completed by Heidi personally.

Heidi, who was only level three, was still unable to use the Flight spell, like other middle-rank mages. She couldn’t even maintain the low-rank Levitation spell for long periods of time. Hence, she could only stay on the ground and use the Sculpture Hand and Telekinesis spells to draw the explosive magic circles on the cliff. She then used the Eye of the Mage to observe before making adjustments. The precise control required exceeded most low-rank mages’ capabilities, but it was fortunate that Heidi wasn’t just a low-rank mage, but an official, converted believer of the ‘Magic Goddess’. She had prayed to the Magic Goddess before working and had obtained a short-term blessing, allowing this task to make progression.

In order to ensure that this extremely large explosive magic circle would work, Gawain had invested a lot this time… He took out a large quantity of powdered mithril and purple-crystal dust from the treasure vault in the mountain. After combining with Pittman’s alchemy chemical, the history’s most expensive ‘paint’ was produced. Heidi could use these magic-guiding materials to ‘draw’ on the cliff, and this would avoid the massive carving and tiling work, allowing the time required to be reduced.

Right now, time was the most precious.

When Heidi had drawn the giant lines and runes, Amber’s figure emerged from the nearby forest shadows. She had a nervous expression and leaned towards Gawain and whispered, “Those monsters are already very close. At most, half a day away.”

“I know. I reckon that it is almost time.” Gawain nodded. “Are they moving here using the predicted path?”

“Halfway here, they had nearly taken the other path.” When Amber spoke, her tone was obviously afraid, “Right then, I boldly emerged from the shadow state for an instant and attracted them back on this path… But in return, they are now more violent.”

Gawain looked at Amber in astonishment. “…Why are you so brave this time?”

Amber curled her lips and said, “Tsk, we are already at this stage. It is useless to be a coward at this point… Why not just take a risk with you and possibly survive.”

As she spoke, her vision couldn’t help but look at the cliff in front of her.

This tall cliff was above where they fought with the four aberrations. The path below the cliff was the path they had taken. After experiencing long years of wind and rain, the cliff was indeed rather fragile and could collapse at any moment. Furthermore, there was only one path underneath it. If the aberrations passed through this path, they would definitely form a long and congested formation. When the cliff collapsed, they wouldn’t be able to dodge. This was indeed a very ideal ambush point.

If there was a high-rank Master Mage here, he would certainly choose to blow up the cliff to kill those monsters. After all, an extreme Flame Burst spell or an earth element disintegration spell would be needed from a powerful Master Mage to make the cliff collapse.

But right now, the people that were about to do everything was a level-three, low-rank mage who couldn’t even use the Ice Arrow accurately and a large group of stonemasons, commoners, and serfs.

This had made Amber feel extremely strange.

The translucent Sculpture Hand was moving on the cliff and smearing the paint that was mixed with mithril powder, purple-crystal dust, and an alchemy chemical on the surface of the cliff. Many runes had already taken shape, and the entire cliff looked like some strange religious totem. On the top of the cliff, one could also see the rope ladders and the frames that were used by the stonemasons. Those were ‘traces of construction’ that they didn’t have time nor intended to dismantle.

This was the proof that ordinary people had participated in this unfathomable plan.

Not far away, the stonemasons and their apprentices were resting. They had used a lot of energy and bravery. It wasn’t an easy task to bind themselves to a few ropes in order to dig holes in the cliff, especially under the pressure of time. Even Gawain felt it was rather incredible; he originally thought that this task would use up a lot of time and that it might be impossible for the completion to catch up with his expected timeline.

But Gawain quickly understood that this wasn’t because the craftsmen and their apprentices were inspired by some honor, nor was it mainly due to the desire to survive. It was because this era’s poor individuals always lived like this.

Was it difficult to tie oneself up with a rope to carve craters in the cliff? It wasn’t any more difficult than tying themselves up with a rope to repair the spire of the lord’s castle. It wasn’t any more difficult than picking medicinal herbs at overhanging cliffs for the lord either.

It was said that 400 years ago, in the western mountainous parts of the kingdom, when serfs had to pick medicinal herbs, they didn’t even have ropes. Because back then, ropes were even more expensive than serfs.

But in this place, they were at least able to tie their bodies with ropes. Everything they were doing wasn’t just for the lord.