The East River Tribe did not have a shrine on Boat Island and worshipped an idol carved from a blue stone called [Prayer].
They seldom made wishes to the gods, it was more like a sacrificial tradition left behind by the Donghai Clan, mostly the Donghe Tribe sailed boats, fished and caught slaves.
Lu Yao was ready to do a test run.
He tapped [Miracle], spent 30 Faith, and chose [Hurricane].
The Hurricane quickly coalesced on the water surface and brought up a huge whirlpool in the water, charging all the way towards the East River Tribe’s boat island in an aggressive manner.
In the face of the hurricane, the East River Tribe actually didn’t panic at all, and they even talked and laughed.
“Look, it’s a storm.”
“The storm will roll up a lot of fish and probably crabs, it’s so good.”
“Praise the God of Prayer for sending us food.”
“The sky will look good after the storm.”
“Wow, the storm is huge.”
Right in the middle of Lu Yao’s doubts, the hurricane suddenly ran out of steam as it approached the ship island, turning into a breeze that whipped around. The dispersing hurricane instead brought them some fish that landed on the deck of the boat island.
The East River Tribe’s villain picked up his harpoon and started fishing around.
The screen showed.
[Because of the Divine Totem Blessing, your miracle cannot take effect.]
Lu Yao noticed that some slight cracks appeared on the surface of the god totem on the boat island.
The totem looked like it was not only a sign of faith, but also a defensive prop that blocked even natural disasters like miracles.
Lu Yao came energised.
I want to see how many times you can block it.
[Lightning]
Give me electricity!
A silver-coloured thunderbolt once again descended from the air, hitting the totem squarely. Like the previous hurricane, the lightning immediately dissipated after it landed, posing no threat to the ship island at all.
“The weather is really strange today.”
“Is it going to rain? Storms and lightning, it’s going to rain soon.”
“There was a severe drought last summer, but it looks like it’s going to rain quite a bit this spring.”
“With more rain, the river will be wider, which is good.”
The little people of the East River Tribe were still chatting away.
Lu Yao clicked on Miracle and once again, lightning fell.
[Lightning]!
[Lightning]!
[Lightning]!
Three consecutive rounds of lightning landed on the boat island one after another, and a crack had already appeared on the totem.
This time even the people from the East River Tribe could see that something was wrong.
“Wow, what the hell is going on?”
“Are these lightning bolts a crack in the air?”
“Gotta tell Grandma, something’s not right on the water today.”
“It’s a good thing there’s a Praying God’s Totem, or this would be a disaster.”
Lu Yao further increased his strength.
[Lightning] × 5!
Electricity flashed in the air, and a streak of lightning fell forward and back, bombarding the head of the ship island. The first four lightning bolts all dissipated into thin air, and the fifth one finally crashed down hard on the boat island, splitting two East River Tribe villains who couldn’t escape in time, as well as starting a fire on the boat island.
The blue totem that had been cracked and damaged before was finally completely destroyed and turned into a field of ashes.
The East River Tribe was in chaos at this time.
Tribal members ran everywhere to put out the fire, a part of the slaves took the opportunity to jump on the canoe to escape, the East River Tribe had to split people to chase the slaves.
But what hit them the hardest was the destruction of the totem.
“The Prayer God Totem is shattered! It’s over!”
“We’ve lost our shelter and can no longer fight the storms and whirlpools!”
“The God of Prayer has abandoned us!”
“Oh, my God! Oh, my God!”
“Why is this happening!”
Instead, five men from the Garlic Tribe spoke one by one at this point.
“Lightning! Lightning returns! The god Lightning has returned!”
“It’s the great Yao God, you attacked the Garlic Tribe and angered the Yao God!”
“God Yao is angry!”
“You’re going to be in bad luck!”
But no one from the East River Tribe paid any attention to them.
……
Lu Yao moved his fingers.
As expected, it was just as he had guessed, that Praying to the Gods totem was a consumable prop and should be a gift from the gods. The totem looked mediocre and only collapsed under the miraculous bombardment of 210 Faith Points, the intensity was high.
The East River Tribe only had a hundred people but managed to live on the East River for a long time, they attacked other tribes in their canoes and captured slaves with arrogance.
They relied on sea monsters for attack and praying god totems for defence.
Now that Lu Yao had broken an arm of the East River tribe, they immediately panicked.
Lu Yao observed again and found that the East River Tribe really couldn’t repair their totems. Seeing this, the tribe leader [Grandmother] issued a series of orders.
“You all set out immediately, take all the sea monster moults from this year and go back to the Clan Shrine to offer sacrifices and pray for a new totem boon.”
“Block off the river so that the other tribes do not know that the totem has been destroyed until the new one returns.”
“Feed all the female slaves to the sea monsters so they can moult sooner.”
……
Lu Yao watched for a while, and roughly mapped out the situation.
The East River Tribe’s Praying God Totem originated from the East Sea Clan’s pantheon. The Donghe Tribe, as an outer branch of the Clan, had always maintained contact with the Donghai Clan, and they raised sea monsters, firstly, to stock up on military strength, and secondly, because they needed the sea monsters to moult their skins and sacrifice them to the Praying God.
In other words.
Without the sea monster skins, the East River Tribe couldn’t get the totems. Without the totem, the East River Tribe would be unbeatable.
This would be fine.
A smile appeared on Lu Yao’s face.
The flotilla of boats that the East River Tribe had sent to the clans for help departed quickly. The five canoes were laden with sacrificial sea monster skins, escorted by three sea monsters, and travelled all the way east after leaving the boat island.
When the boats were far away from the tribe’s water settlement, Lu Yao clicked [Lightning] and directly enveloped all five boats.
The sudden appearance of falling lightning set the canoes ablaze at once.
The surviving Pixel Villainesses had to jump out of the boat to escape, and they struggled desperately on the surface of the water with terrified expressions floating above their heads. The sea monsters could do nothing but carry the pixel-people away from the burning boat.
The offerings on the canoe were then burned to the ground.
The surviving little people struggled to escape back to Ship Island with the help of the sea monsters.
Hearing that the offerings were also burned, the entire East River Tribe completely panicked.
“All the sea monster skins have been burnt, we can’t go back.”
“Lightning, there’s lightning everywhere, the lightning won’t let us leave.”
“We’ve angered the gods here, we must offer sacrifices or the tribe will still be attacked by lightning.”
“The tribe is finished, the tribe is finished.”
“Let’s escape, escape.”
The originally arrogant Donghe Tribe, faced with a natural disaster that could not be fought by manpower, many villains showed a tendency to surrender and flee.
[Grandmother] was in the end the tribal leader, she demonstrated the composure and determination of a leader at this time.
“Some slaves said that it was the Yao God of the Garlic Tribe that sent down the punishment.”
“Let’s make a trip to the Garlic Tribe and reconcile with them.”
……
The East River Tribe’s ship slowly docked at the shore.
The [grandmother] took two female captains and met with the prophet and the shaman.
The two sides chatted privately for a while.
An exclamation mark lit up above the Prophet’s head, “The East River Tribe has angered the Yao God, if you want to be forgiven, you must fear the gods and offer your faith.”
“You need to build a shrine to worship the Yao God.”
“God Yao is a merciful god who loves peace and life, and punished the Donghe Tribe because of your rudeness and offence.”
A few moments later, there was an additional prompt on the screen.
[The Donghe Tribe has offered you a sacrifice.]
