His subordinate opened the wooden box and revealed the "gift" inside.
It was a coffin.
A fine coffin.
Both the gold foil and the lacquer were exquisite. The pattern on the cover was a pitch-black short whip, which was the war pattern of the Iron Whip clan.
Rubaka Bloodwhip was startled at first, but then he could not help sneering.
"That's it? I thought they would put something more frightening. "He shook his head." Skulls, ears, human skin... That's what Iron Sand City does. Coffins? The Southernmost Region doesn't need such superfluous things! "
All the dead people here would be thrown into the desert and then turned into bones under the high temperature. No matter what their status was before, it would be the same after death.
Only northerners needed such a coy wooden box.
Even if they were dead, they still had to imprison themselves in it like an eternal cage.
"Osha bitches think they can frighten me like this?" He breathed heavily. She had been a slave in Graycastle for so long that she had probably forgotten the Sand Nation's way of threatening.
But this insult still made Rubaka's blood boil.
"Bring me my axe!" he shouted.
Immediately, a clansman came with a cast-iron axe. The handle was as tall as a man, and the dark axe head was as big as a head. Although he was the chief of the Iron Whip clan, his favorite weapon was this heavy battle-axe. Whether it was fighting with the wild beasts in the desert or beheading the challengers, it was very convenient to wield it.
In the face of absolute power, all resistance and resistance were meaningless. As long as the axe hit the target, even if he was wearing a northerner's armor, he would be killed in one blow.
Of course, it had also drunk the blood of Osha clansmen, including women and children.
He forgot to tell Drow Silvermoon that the exiles had not arrived at Endless Cape. Because he had taken a detour and arrived in front of the escort team, then hacked them to death one by one in the yellow sand.
He wasn't worried that they would come back for revenge one day. He simply enjoyed the pleasure of killing.
"Coffins?
Fuck them. "
Rubaka spat and shouted. He raised the battle-axe with both hands and swung it at the cover with the Iron Whip pattern.
"Crack!"
A large number of sparks appeared on both sides of the axe, as if it had struck some sort of iron or stone.
The coffin did not split into two as he thought. The feeling from the handle told him that this exquisite wooden box was not empty. It was stuffed full of things!
But it was too late.
After the sparks, an even more dazzling light bloomed from the inside of the coffin. Then, it instantly filled the entire hall and quickly expanded outwards.
However, Rubaka didn't see it.
When the light swept past his body, his eyeballs and tongue had already been crushed and torn apart by the rapidly expanding wave of air. After that, his head, limbs, and internal organs …
With an earth-shattering boom, all the residents of Iron Sand City saw this incredible scene!
Raging flames and thick smoke gushed out from the bottom of the Rising Sun Stone Castle like a raging underground fire. The garden wall was razed to the ground by an invisible giant hand. The entire stone castle seemed to shake violently and then fall apart in the thick smoke.
First, the walls fell down, then the pillars and the roof. The falling stones accelerated the eruption of the smoke. Finally, the collapsed stone castle sent a column of smoke into the sky, connecting with the gray sky.
It was as if a "Tower of Babel" had appeared in Iron Sand City.
...
Thuram, who was in the Oasis Tavern, also saw this scene. It was not until this moment that he realized what the story Iron Axe had told him was about.
The coffin filled with snow powder, the weight reduced by the Divine Lady, the flint stuck to the cover, and the fuse connected to the top of the cover... No matter if the coffin was destroyed by brute force or the cover was opened normally, it would lead to an unparalleled Thunder. Although he did not know what snow powder and the fuse were, he knew what Thunder was.
The muffled sound that could spread for miles and the column of smoke that could be seen in the Bloodstained Land showed how powerful the Unbridled Heavenly Thunder was.
If Iron Whip didn't lie to him and the scene in Iron Sand City was really caused by that coffin, the chief of the Iron Whip clan would probably die.
However, Thuram did not expect that Iron Whip would really attack the Iron Whip clan, which ranked the fourth, before the duel, and retaliate in such a blatant way.
"You..." Thuram looked at Iron Axe, whose expression remained unchanged, and could not utter a complete sentence for a long time.
"Years ago, Rubaka Bloodwhip sullied the holy duel and failed the Three Gods' expectations. How could I have a fair fight with a man who had lost the right to duel in the Land of Fire? " Iron Axe said calmly, "Rubaka and his clansmen were just a bunch of cowards. I never regarded them as my opponents from the very beginning."
"But... Iron Whip is a big clan after all..."
"Because of this, this kind of ending is more suitable for them, rather than a glorious death in the ring." Iron Axe shook his head. "Besides, the Osha clan will not violate the rules set by the Three Gods. Once the opponent surrenders, we'll put away our weapons and spare the duelists' lives." He paused for a moment. "Think about it. If you were the chief of the Iron Whip clan and you knew that the Osha clan had come back, what would you do?"
Thuram immediately understood what Iron Axe meant.
Indeed, if the rules were broken once, they could be broken again. A trespasser who did not abide by the rules set by the Three Gods would bring them endless trouble. Even if they wanted to reverse the "defeat" eight years ago through the holy duel, they would still be harassed and framed by their opponents before and after the duel began. Therefore, it was better to crush them completely from the very beginning than to be tired of guarding against them later.
"But... if Rubaka didn't open the coffin or destroy it, your plan wouldn't work, would it?" Thuram had only one question left in his mind.
"The chief of the Iron Whip clan is violent and likes to destroy and kill. It's not much harder to guess what he would do than to tease a monkey." Iron Axe slightly raised the corner of his mouth. "Besides, the snow powder coffin is just an appetizer. Even if Rubaka luckily escapes, there are still many gifts waiting for him... But now it seems that the Three Gods will not protect a traitor who has turned his back on them."
Hearing this, Thuram could not help shuddering.
When he swore loyalty to Drow Silvermoon and the new Osha clan, he had also sworn in the name of the Three Gods.
Iron Axe's last sentence was also a warning to him.
"Now we can talk about business." The half-breed patted Thuram's shoulder as if nothing had happened. "Another reason why I chose you is that you know Iron Sand City like the back of your hand. People in the oasis say that there's nothing in the desert that you don't know. "
"It's just that I've been here for a long time and heard more stories." After defeating the watchdog and easily killing the Iron Whip clan, Thuram became much more respectful to Iron Axe, the princess of Osha, and the Graycastle force behind them. "But if I know something, I'll definitely tell you in detail."
"Good. If you want to win the holy duel, you have to carefully understand your enemies... You can start with the warriors and Divine Ladies of each clan." Iron Axe nodded.
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