Chapter XVII

Adam took the materials and first lit a fire, and arranged the corpses of various beasts around the fire in a circle, symbolizing the death of the beasts because of the light.

Then he took a portion of the holy water, called Adel, mixed the holy water with his tears, and let him hold it in his hand.

Adam glanced at the onlookers around him and began to chant some vague incantation with his head down.

In fact, it's just a matter of reversing a certain piece of the prophecy, and then reciting it in vague words and speaking at an excessively fast pace.

The Tears of God ritual is more inclined to divine arts, mainly borrowing the power of the gods, so the threshold is not too high, and it can even be said that there is no threshold, as long as the relevant materials and processes are mastered, most sound people with relevant theological literacy can perform this ritual.

But most of the heterogeneous avoidance churches don't have time and energy to learn about theology.

Even Adel, who was extremely skilled in worship, lacked much knowledge about it.

"For example, the corpses of the animals, which symbolize the herd, seem to be just around the fire, but even the direction of which beasts are placed is particular. Adam once again divided the holy water into two unequal parts, introducing the top dirt and the lowest dirt.

The surrounding xenos looked very seriously, and Adam was sure that after these xenos returned, they would definitely experiment on their own.

When they fail, they put their hopes entirely in Adam.

The highest clay symbolizes the most prosperous place in the Age of Apocalypse, when the church was not visible, so the holy water poured could not be poured over the earth.

The lowest dirt and holy water symbolize the lake of the Tears of God, so the holy water must be covered with dirt.

After handling the two bottles of dirt, Adam said to Adel, "Drink half of the water, pour the other half on you, and jump into the fire!"

Adel was stunned for a moment, but then he obeyed Adam's instructions, hesitated for a while, and drank it with the holy water mixed with his own tears, and his body could be seen twitching involuntarily.

It was more painful than going to worship, but Adel did the rest, pouring the rest of the water on himself and leaping into the fire.

The reason why the church loves burning at the stake is inseparable from the disasters that befell the beasts in the age of savage, and in most churches, it is believed that the gift alone is too strong, and it is a punishment that turns into fire.

Flames wrapped around Adel's body, scorching his skin, and he opened his mouth to spit out a large amount of black smoke.

Adam nodded, although Adel has a lot of shortcomings, but he can really endure it, as a xenomorph contact with holy water, if he hadn't drunk potions before, I'm afraid he would have been burned directly through his throat and stomach.

Amazingly, when the internal and external pains were mixed, Adel felt even more painful.

Yes, there is a wonderful reaction between the two pains, no longer superimposed but multiplied, the pain increases exponentially, and the pain seems to reach the soul, Adel obviously closes his eyes, but it seems to see hell and heaven.

Adam was not in a hurry, this pain was necessary, otherwise how could he cope with the temptation of the holy power of the monk.

He picked up the bottle with the dirt on the highest point, poured it out, and began to draw circles around the fire, which also contained a lot of knowledge.

Since the incarnation of the god in the first stage is the sun god, Adam needs to calculate the location of the ancient prosperous land and the position of the sun at this time, and then adjust the circle.

Therefore, it looks like a circle, but in fact it is very different, and those people may still be able to get the other ritual steps right, but this circle, breaking the brains of these people, they may not be able to draw it.

Looking at Adel in the fire, who was like a fish jumping ashore, and began to struggle frantically because he couldn't breathe, Adam said calmly: "Don't jump out of the circle, or all your pain will be in vain." ”

After Adam finished drawing a circle, he picked up another bottle of clay with one hand and aconitum with the other.

Whispering irrelevant words, Adam pinched the aconitum grass into a ball and held it in the palm of his hand, feeling the restlessness of the blood, and the whole person was slightly in a trance.

Fortunately, Adel woke up Adam in time by screaming, and Adam threw the aconitum grass in his hand into the fire, and suddenly the flames became different, and a large amount of black smoke came out.

Adam didn't hesitate and poured out another bottle of dirty water from the lowest place.

It wasn't a lot of water, but it weirdly extinguished the smoky fire.

After doing all this, Adam fell into a trance again, but this time he came to his senses.

"Apply the dirt inside to Adel and let him put on the coat. Adam tossed the bottle to a nearby xenomorph and walked slowly to the other side.

"I'll come back again tonight, I hope you don't make too much of a fuss, if Char's attention is drawn, it won't end well. "Adam drifted away.

The xenos looked at Adam's departing figure, swallowed their saliva, and looked at Adel in the midst of the fire, motionless as if dead.

"Who is Char?" asked one of the xenos.

"The chief monk of Nancheng District is named Char. The other xenomorph turned his head to look in the direction of Adam's departure, his heart filled with shocks.

As soon as the monk came out, several xenos shut up and said no more, and hurriedly followed Adam's instructions to smear the soil on Adel's body.

With the final cloak that humans wear, the alien aura on Adel's body completely disappeared.

At this time, several xenos helped Adel into the wooden house to rest, and gathered again to discuss.

"I've collected a few more copies, should we try it ourselves. ”

Several of the xenos were a little moved, but they didn't mention it anymore when they thought of the pain of Adel's ritual.

On the other hand, when he saw the flame being extinguished, Adam knew that the ritual had been successful, and that when he came again tonight, the five men would be his most loyal men.

Now what Adam cares about is that when he performs the Tears of God ritual, he is in a trance.

The first time he came into contact with Aconitum Grass, Adam felt his bloodline become more active.

"Aconitum is related to werewolf bloodline, and if I want to study bloodline in the future, maybe I can start from this aspect. Adam silently jotted down this message.

Then focusing on another thing, he went into a second trance after performing the Tears of God ritual.

And this time the trance was not because of the bloodline, but because he sensed the divine art.

At the moment of completion of the ritual, Adam entered a state of perception, noticed a certain existence in the dark, and then as long as he sincerely prayed and channeled the power of that being, Adam could obtain divine magic and become a monk.

"And then burn yourself?" Adam smiled silently, if it was Adam who had just escaped and sensed the existence of the divine arts, he might really choose to take the divine arts, and then try to go to other countries through Loa as a monk.

But it is estimated that the person who gave himself the Tears of God ritual at the beginning could not have imagined that he would sneak into the church again and make up for some of his missing knowledge from the church.

So Adam didn't step into this trap.

"Although the Tears of God Ritual can shelter xenos, this protection is only superficial, if you really die to obtain divine magic, then the power of divine magic will only explode from the inside, completely burning the xenomorph to death. ”

Adam completely gave up the idea of receiving the power of divine magic, and I have to say that if it weren't for knowing this, Adam might not really be able to refuse the temptation of divine magic.

After all, he is too familiar with theology, and the path of a monk is estimated to be a smooth one, and no one will doubt that a monk will be a different species.

It's a pity that this path was cut off from the beginning.

"Then some of the knowledge you learned at the beginning also needs to be used carefully, maybe at some point, you will be pitted. Adam took off his mask and rubbed the scars on his face with his hands.

"It's reminded of the past again. Adam quickly suppressed the thought that he was starting to deviate again, and hurriedly buried his outfit, and after making sure that he was not being followed, he returned to Boku's house.