Long ago, during the era of darkness, When Yama, the first king, unified the Glassia, he had built nine statues, one in each direction, and the ninth one was placed in Avida. The giant statues were the monuments of his herculean deed. His declaration of the boundaries of Glassia to the stone giants and Vriksha.
But there was one more purpose of these giant stone warriors, known to only the royal family and a few important officials.
The nine statues were part of a defence system devised by Arch-Druid Dwipayana. If someone destroyed any one of the statues or used any evil magic in the vicinity of the statues, they would break down and thus alert all the strongholds of the sacrifiers, the red-cloak druids.
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As soon as Nirvano stepped out in the open space, he saw the southern sky had turned scarlet red. The colour drained from his majestic face, for the dark colour was the blood that had already been spilled on the earth.
