Chapter 50: The Ceremony
In the evening of the next day, nearly two hundred people had gathered in the vestibule of the temple that was open in Orinedus. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
A quarter of the people gathered were spirits. The elven population of Orinedu has grown to nearly fifty people, which is not particularly rare. This ceremony attracted almost all the elves, even those would-be sword dancers who had been training in Lanstrour, and they rarely had a day off.
With the exception of the elves, most of the others were slave girls who had just been rescued by Dane. Originally, they were arranged to carry out the construction of the Ghost Knife Port in Tommy's hands, but they were all called over with a paper order.
Standing on the altar, Eslor's most important target is these slave girls. She still hopes to develop some followers in Komya, and so can the alien believers. After all, for Shiloh, the main god, he not only bears the name of the father of the elves, but also the name of the so-called god of nature and guardian of life and elements, and also needs to be worshipped by believers in related fields.
As the sun set over the horizon, Eslor began the ceremony. She stood in the center of the five or six meter-high bluestone altar, raised her hand slightly, and the holy power surged, and a circle of golden waves suddenly expanded around her body as the center.
This is the power of divine magic, this hand was exposed, and the female slaves who were still talking to each other under the sacrificial altar were quiet one by one. Their eyes widened as they looked at Eslor on the altar, most of them in shock. At first, when they were asked to observe a ritual, they were actually unwilling. The women who have just been freed are gearing up to use their own hands to work for a better life in the future, who has time to come to see what religious ceremonies? What's more, it is still necessary to come and observe the religious festival of a fairy god.
But under the light of Eslor's magic, at least half of the dissatisfaction in their hearts was dispelled. The priestess standing in the setting sun, shrouded in this circle of glory, is really noble and holy, and it is impossible for people to regenerate and blasphemy.
Dane, who was also standing in the audience, sighed, he was also a spellcaster, of course he recognized it, this circle of golden light spread out like a wave, it was obviously a large-scale magic to soothe the soul. With the magical ability of a high-level priest, it was obviously very difficult to set the target of casting spells to the scale of two hundred people at the same time, even with low-level spells. But she didn't need to achieve particularly good results, it was enough for these uninformed slave girls to have a little respect in their hearts.
This is the religion of the Orodics, who are very fond of using this method of spelling when dealing with civilians who are unable to resist spiritual spells. Eslor is a bit of a bottom line, but she uses harmless spells like mind pacification. Some radical religions may go even further.
However, Dane had no intention of getting up and breaking this. Breaking is tantamount to turning the face, and there is no need for this thing. It's just that by taking advantage of this incident, he must also think about the way in which religion will be managed in his own territory in the future. He has an inexplicable wariness of religion, a huge force capable of subverting royal power, even if the religion of Komya is still weak now, but who knows what the future holds?
The sacrifice continued, and Eslor stood on the stage, chanting prayers in Elven language aloud. In the blink of an eye, from her body, streams of golden light spread outward like waves, making her entire body seem to be shrouded in a sea of gold.
This is not a spiritual magic, it is purely a deformed lighting technique, using special techniques to cast spells to achieve a more shocking lighting effect. In addition to this seemingly bluffing, but in fact not very high-tech lighting method, what is more worth caring about is actually the prayer recited by Eslor.
There is no doubt that she uses Elven language, and it is the ancient upper elf language, and the people in the audience, let alone humans, even among the forty or fifty elves, there are not many people who can understand this language. But the miraculous thing is that in Eslor's chanting, the teachings of the gods are understood by everyone without any obstacles.
This is not the power of magic, but the influence of the belief of genuine gods on mortals. Shiloh was undoubtedly a true god, and the eldest of the elven gods, and in the temple of Orinedus, there was a statue of a god who had truly been blessed by him, and the incantation chanted by the priest he recognized, which naturally had extraordinary power.
The ancient elven words that came out of Eslor's mouth became more and more high-pitched, and the intonation became more and more fluid, full of a wonderful artistic meaning, and gradually, the people listening below began to become fascinated. The most obvious manifestation is undoubtedly the elves who themselves have a certain belief in Shiloh, but even those female slaves who may be shallow believers in other gods have to revel in this.
Dane sighed and thought to himself: "I'm afraid that this Shiloh's faith is going to spread in the territory, I really don't know if it's good or bad." ”
He thought so in his heart, but now that it had come to this, there was nothing he could do to stop it.
The sacrificial ceremony continued, and Eslor, after having had enough of the believers in the audience, was finally satisfied with the main business—the sacrificial ceremony.
Several elves stepped forward and lifted the blue cloth that had been placed in front of the altar over the triangular pile of things the size of a small knoll, revealing the true face of the sacrifice below: more than four hundred faceless heads, and about the same number of black-skinned hyena heads, and a dozen disgusting meat eggs.
Seeing such a scene, all the audience in the audience couldn't help but be shocked, and even some timid people screamed.
The heads of the four hundred monsters are still very terrifying when they are placed together, and no one is vomited out of disgust on the spot, which is already very good.
The prayer incantations that Eslor had chanted became even louder and louder after the sacrifices revealed their true faces!
As her voice flowed, on the pillars at the corners of the four corners of the altar, a brilliant golden-green light suddenly rose. The golden-green light that represented Shiloh's divine power danced as if it had gained life in a gust of wind, and the clouds wrapped around the four hundred faceless heads, slowly falling, completely covering those heads under the light.
A magical scene appeared, those heads were shrouded in golden-green light, directly in front of everyone, directly dissolved!
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