The witch thought I am a Demon God-Chapter 580 - 331: Alien Flora! The Alien Flora in the Swamp!_3

The leader of the Lizardmen wanted to speak instinctively, but as he opened his mouth, he found himself speechless and fell into deep thought.

Indeed.

If someone killed his child, he would demand compensation and seek revenge. But what about when he himself had killed so many other people’s children and their parents? What compensation could he possibly make?

Seeing the Lizardmen leader lost for words, the Fire Bird controlled by Ivita, turned around and focused on the chief of the Longhair Tribe. "Statues? Were those statues built by you? What are they for?"

The chief of the Longhair Tribe, thinking that Ivita was on his side, quickly complained. "Those statues were built by the people of the swamp. The purpose... purpose of those statues... I don’t know what they’re for, but they’re very important and should not be knocked over."

Ivita was silent.

He initially thought the two sides were arguing about knocking each other’s statues because they held some importance, but it turns out that even one side’s leader had no clue about their purpose.

The golden Fire Bird controlled by Ivita turned its gaze towards the Lizardmen leader. "You must know the purpose of these statues, don’t you?"

Faced with the Fire of Law, the Lizardmen leader lowered his head in fear and admitted, "I... I also don’t know. I just know the statues are very important. What they’re for, I don’t know either. However, it hurts me every time I see the Longhair people knock them down."

"As for their function..."

A silence fell upon everyone.

Because not a single one present knew the purpose of these statues.

They all just didn’t want their tribe’s statues to be knocked over by the other side. Consequently, over time, both sides developed a shared understanding — if they wanted to seriously insult each other, all they needed to do was knock down the other’s tribe’s statues.

An old Lizardman, with gray scales all over him, came forward. "Lord, I might know how all this started. My grandfather told me that about sixty years ago, a group of humans led by a man with a duke’s crown suddenly barged into the swamp."

"They claimed to be the duke of Cross Island and his army, who were being chased by pirates."

"The Duke of Cross Island said that his army was destroyed by the pirates led by Marco Anson, Lord of the Seven Seas, in the highlands, and that all the castles in his other territories had been conquered."

"They had no place to go and their only option was to hide in the most complex section of Cross Island — Death Swamp. The Swamp Tribe’s leader at the time, Elder Thunder Lizard, agreed to the duke’s audacious request. Those humans seemed to want to fight the pirates in the swamp, but they lost, as they were unprepared for the pirates’ better adaptability to the terrain surrounding the swamp."

"The defeated duke and his followers retreated deeper into the swamp, but no Lizardman knew what happened to them."

"All that is known is that later, the duke and his close followers all died, and the few who survived were covered in long red hair, marking the birth of the Longhair Tribe."

Falling into thought, Ivita considered the conflicts in the Land of Swamp possibly being related to the invasion of the pirates from the Black Sea.

The old Lizardman continued, "In the beginning, the Longhair Tribe and we Lizardmen were allies, but then some minor disagreements arose between us. Somehow, one member of the Longhair Tribe knocked down one of our statues first, and we then retaliated by knocking down their statues, starting a vicious cycle."

"Actually, these statues are just ordinary rocks."

Upon hearing the old Lizardman’s words, both the Lizardmen and the Longhair Tribe grew angry.

A member of the Longhair Tribe pointed at the old Lizardman and said, "It was you who attacked us first, knocking down our statues. Besides, the statue is an important thing. How can it just be an ordinary rock? This person is one of you and he’s talking nonsense."

One of the Lizardmen also angrily retorted, "We even suspect he has been bought over by you. He’s blatantly lying. The statues are a very important matter."

"Since both of you also have doubts about him, why don’t we jointly kill him?"

This suggestion was agreed upon by all of the Lizardmen and the Longhair Tribe.

The old Lizardman looked terrified. "I knew you wouldn’t listen if I told the truth. In reality, all I said is true. Originally, these statues just represented our Lizardmen’s cultural tradition. We liked to make these large Lizardmen statues, they were simply art pieces and not particularly important. Even if knocked over, they could be simply re-erected. It wouldn’t cause the end of the world."

"But, due to our desire to insult each other mutually, our statues were endowed with all sorts of significance. To the point that most have now forgotten that in the beginning they were just ordinary statues."

By now, Ivita finally understood the true story behind these statues.

One could say that both the Lizardmen and the Longhair Tribe had given the statues the Power of Blind Stupidity.

The statues were genuinely just ordinary rocks. But due to their quarrels, the two tribes in the Land of Swamp endowed these ordinary rocks with many special meanings. They ended up getting entrapped in an endless cycle of knocking over and re-erecting these statues.

Most of the Lizardmen and the Longhair Tribe had no idea why they needed to do this. All they knew was that they had to do it.

They had put the significance of their lives into something that in reality had no significance, and made it a lifelong goal.