Riya Shrine is located directly east of Liangyue Castle and southeast of Kamijin Prefecture. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIf you ride alone, it will take two days to go to Liangyue City, and one day to Shangjin County.

The shrine was built on the top of Mt. Rimami, which is why it is called "Ryami Shrine". Before the cataclysm, Rimi Shrine was the largest shrine in Nagayama Province, but it was only a shrine. The Great Shrine Maiden of Satomi Shrine is the royal priest of King Nagayama, and the shrine is offered by King Nagayama.

After the cataclysm, half of the country disappeared, and the remaining territory was scattered throughout the new world. Lyya Shrine lost the offerings of King Eiyama and had to cultivate fields on the mountains to survive.

Later, some Ira people came to Mt. Rimi to seek refuge at the shrine. The Great Shrine Maiden gave them the land below the mountain and let them establish a village there. After that, more and more Ira people came to seek refuge in the shrine, and villages were established, all of which paid taxes to the shrine and the shrine provided them with protection.

Later, the shrine was completely separated from Nagayama Province and became an independent Ira faction. After that, the Great Shrine Maiden divided the shrine into two parts, the upper and the lower.

The "upper part" refers to the boundary above Mt. Satomi, and the Great Shrine Maiden designated Mt. Satomi as the property of the shrine and set up fences and checkpoints as the dividing line between the upper and lower parts. The upper area is an area reserved for shrine maidens, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter the upper area without permission.

The "lower part" refers to all the villages and land around Mt. Ryami that belong to Rima Shrine. The Great Shrine Maiden had a market set up between the upper and lower parts, at the western entrance to Mt. Rimi. Over time, the bazaar slowly grew into a city without walls.

The city does not belong to the upper region, nor to the lower region, it belongs to the middle ground between the upper and lower regions. Rimi Shrine has stationed war shrine maidens here to maintain public order. The security of the lower areas is mainly carried out by the militia of each village, and the shrine also sends patrols to assist. The Great Shrine Maiden has set up three fortresses in the lower area. She recruited a standing army from among the villagers, under the command of the chief witch and the war witch, and was responsible for the defense of the lower area.

One of the fortresses is located on the main road leading to the shrine of Ryogetsu Castle, just at the three forks of the road, and from the fork you can walk along the main road in the northwest direction to Kamijin Prefecture. Caravans and travelers were allowed to rest in the open space near the fortress, but they were not allowed to approach the fortress or they would be given a stern warning.

After crossing the fortress and riding solo for another two days, you will arrive at the "Great Market" of Satomi Shrine, the market that has evolved into a city. In the bazaar, maidens dressed in white and blue shrine maidens can be seen everywhere, which is the costume of the war witches, who are all armed with long knives or spears, and some carry longbows.

It's a heavily guarded place.

Maier glanced across the streets, pedestrians and vendors, all of them looking cautious. Wherever the war witches went, people would automatically get out of the way.

"Little brother, this is the first time you have come to the big market, right?"

At this time, He Yan Zhiheng came over nervously and whispered.

"You have to be careful here, don't offend any shrine maiden, not even a servant shrine maiden."

"Why?" Maier asked, puzzled.

"Because this is the 'mountain', as long as it is on the 'mountain', the shrine maidens can do whatever they want without violating the precepts."

He Yan Zhiheng paused and added.

"This seems to be the order of the previous Great Witch, and it hasn't been changed until now."

There are nine precepts for shrine maidens, namely, no betrayal, no murder, no theft, no fraud, no dereliction of duty, no overstepping of authority, no taking possession of other people's things, no touching unclean things, and no love between men and women during the period of employment. Ira's shrine maidens must regard the precepts above their lives, and those who break the precepts must cut themselves, and their bodies will be considered unclean, and the fire must be removed from the shrine's eternal flame and burned to ashes.

But outside of the precepts, the shrine maidens can do it. For example, the second rule of the precept is that murder is not allowed, and murder is defined as intentional murder, and you can kill someone as long as you do not intentionally murder another. If it weren't for that, the profession of War Witch would no longer exist.

In other words, if you make a shrine maiden unhappy and she kills you on impulse, it is not against the precepts. Maier had heard Gray say that the precepts of the Iraa shrine maiden were not made by the god of the apocalypse, but by the first shrine maiden appointed by the god of the world in her name.

"Well, you mean to say that as long as they don't break the precepts, they can do whatever they want, even if it's killing?"

"Exactly!"

He Yan Zhiheng nodded solemnly.

"Do they really kill people at will?"

"Of course!"

He Yan Zhiheng looked around, and after making sure that there were no witches nearby, he lowered his voice and said again.

"I was thirteen when I last came here, and I came with my eldest brother. I was playful, and as soon as the caravan arrived, I went out into the streets. I had only been walking for a long time when I saw someone arguing in front of me, but there were few people around to watch the excitement. I was curious, so I wanted to run over to take a look, but before I had even run a few steps, a team of warrior witches appeared there. ”

"The leader of the team said a few words to the two people who were arguing, but the distance was too far for me to hear. The two of them ignored the war witch and continued to argue, but the war witch who led the team pulled out a long knife and directly cut off the head of one of them, and then cut off the head of the other. ”

Speaking of this, he and Yan Zhiheng couldn't help but have a cold war.

The people on the street seemed to be so accustomed to this that they didn't even scream. I was so frightened that I ran away and returned to the hotel and never dared to go out again. ”

"Then how dare you follow me into the streets now?"

"Well, isn't that you?" He Yan Zhiheng scratched his hair embarrassedly, "You are so powerful, you can kill a team of war witches in the blink of an eye, what else do I have to be afraid of?" ”

"Huh...... I'm not that good. Maier smiled bitterly, "Even if it's a sneak attack, I'm not sure I'll win a team of witches." ”

"Are they that good?"

"So what do you think?"

Mel shrugged. Although he had never fought the War Witch, Gray told him about the War Witch. The so-called shrine maidens are women who give up themselves and devote themselves to serving the great god of the apocalypse, so all the witches will be blessed by the great god of the apocalypse, and their physical functions are different from ordinary people. And the war witch is a shrine maiden who specializes in combat work. These shrine maidens are specially trained, and their strength and reflexes are much stronger than ordinary people, and if Mel does not use magic, she will be beaten by any war witch in a one-on-one situation.

Even if Mair had used magic, these specially trained war witches would not have been able to deal with him now. Not only do they have good individual strength, but they are also very good at team fighting. They never think about their own lives when fighting, and they will not hesitate to sacrifice themselves when necessary, creating opportunities for their teammates to achieve victory.

"Now I'm going to find a buyer for my dyed pottery, do you want to come along?"

He Yan Zhiheng is twenty-two years old this year, several years older than Maier, but when the two are together, Maier is more like the older one. Since Maier admitted that he couldn't defeat the war witch, He Yan Zhiheng couldn't help but hesitate. But in the end, he decided to go with Maier, who had saved his life.

Maier took him to the pottery market, but he didn't find anyone selling dyed pottery. Maier found a pottery vendor, pretended to be someone who wanted to buy dyed pottery, and struck up a conversation with him.

"Uh, this dyed pottery is just dyed pottery, how can it be sold out?"

"I don't know."

The peddler spread his hands and smiled wryly.

"That thing was originally not high or low, and the sales were not good, but who knew that it would suddenly become a hot commodity. I've heard that there seems to be some kind of event going on at the shrine, and the merchants are buying up all the dyed pottery in the market at once. We are also working hard, but we can't sell it at all, so basically the stalls are bought. ”

"I see."

After Maier heard the news he wanted, he returned to the warehouse with Kazuyan Ruizhi. When they returned, there were many young girls dressed in white and brown witch costumes unloading from the wagons of the Kazuyan caravan. These maidens are the shrine maidens who take care of the daily affairs of the shrine.

Among these shrine maidens is also a woman who wears a shrine maiden costume with a white upper body and a lilac lower body. She is the eldest witch who rules over these servant witches.

Maier walked up to the long witch, saluted her, and introduced herself.

"Hello, Your Excellency the Witch. My name is Mel? Byron is a merchant from Liangyue City. ”

The long witch didn't expect someone to talk to her suddenly, so she was stunned for a moment, and then returned the salute to Maier.

"In the name of the great god of enlightenment, what do you want?"

"As you can see, I'm a merchant, and in that case, I'm here to sell you something."

"Oh?" The long witch raised her eyebrows, "I wonder what product you want to recommend to me?" ”

"It's not a sought-after commodity."

Maier looked at the long witch with a smile, and deliberately added an accent to the word "tight".

"It's just a cart of dyed pottery, mostly clay pots, and a small number of pottery bowls, I wonder if you want to buy them?"

When the long witch heard that Maier was selling dyed pottery, she was immediately refreshed.

"Of course!"

But then she realized that she didn't have the authority to negotiate with the merchants. So she immediately called a maiden and asked her to go and fetch the chief shrine maiden who was in charge of the matter.

After about ten minutes, the maiden led a young long-looking shrinemaiden back to the store. Maier led her to his carriage and opened the cloth for her to inspect. The long witch just picked up a clay bowl and looked at it, and asked him to wait here. Then she took out a wooden token, found another long witch, and asked her to find someone, take this token, and go to the "Supervision Division" to transfer a team of war witches.

After another fifteen minutes or so, about twenty war witches formed a long line and trotted to the warehouse.

"Please take your goods and follow me to the shrine to settle the bill."

The long witch who was in charge of the business with Mel made a gesture of invitation to him, and the war witches lined up on the left and right, as if to escort his wagon.

"Well, we haven't negotiated the price yet."

"The price can be negotiated later, if we are not satisfied with the price, we will send you and your goods back safely."

Maier frowned, turned his head to look at He Yan Zhiheng, and saw him looking at him with a worried face, and his heart was a little hairy. He thought that the shrine should not kill him and the maids for this cart of dyed pottery, so he smiled slightly, and motioned to Kiki with his eyes to let her drive with them.

Xiao Ye and Xiao Bird, who were sitting in the car, didn't know what was going on, and they talked and laughed along the way. Bird still wants to talk to the war witches, but the war witches ignore her.

Mel followed the long witch and followed the carriage. The shrine maiden didn't say a word, and the silence made Mel more and more uneasy. The words that Yan Zhiheng had said before came to his ears again and again, and he couldn't help but get nervous.