However, Yang Qianyu quickly understood why this was the case.

As night fell, the townspeople retreated to the periphery of the square, and the town's guards cleared the square of the remnants of the feast. Then several people dressed as priests appeared in the square, sprinkled the ground with gold and silver powder, and sketched a complicated magic pattern circle.

The area of the magic pattern circle is huge, covering almost the entire square. After the circle was drawn, nearly 100 young men and women, led by several priests dressed in the same costume, walked into the center of the circle and sat on the ground in turn.

"You're here?" A voice suddenly came from behind Yang Qianyu, and when he turned his head, he saw that Shi Jinxin had also climbed onto the roof at some point, and was standing beside Yang Qianyu at this moment.

"Why are you here?" Yang Qianyu waved his hand to signal Shi Jinxin to be casual - he didn't wonder how Shi Jinxin could find him, he was just hiding and not hiding his tracks. Besides, he also told his companions where he went, just in case someone had something to look for him, and he couldn't find anyone. "If you're looking for a drinking buddy, you're looking for the wrong person."

"If you don't come, you won't be chosen by drinking friends." Shi Jinxin joked as he took a piece of barbecue from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth. "I'm just looking for a place to see the excitement, and I just found this place."

"Lively? Is that the one? Yang Qianyu pointed to the square and asked.

Exactly. Shi Jinxin swallowed the barbecue with a grunt and said, "Listening to Meiling's words, this is the priests who believe in the 'God of Battle-Gangdarup' are preparing for the selection and baptism ceremony for the selection of new fighters. ”

"Priest of the God of Battle?" Yang Qianyu was puzzled: "As far as I know, although most of the gods believed in by the warriors have the god of battle, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding temple or church in the world of Iber, right?" So where did these priests come from? ”

"Not really." Shi Jinxin explained. Strictly speaking, no one knows where these priests came from. It is only known that on the night of the celebration of the new year, these priests appear in various cities and towns with a population of more than 10,000 people, and arrange for children who have reached the age of ten to be selected and baptized for war without any charge. Then the sun came out the next day, mysteriously disappearing, and no one could tell where they came from. It is said that Meiling also experienced such a baptism when she became a war officer. ”

Yang Qianyu looked up at the night sky - the moonlight tonight was not bright, but the starlight was very dazzling, especially in the northern sky starry sky a star shining red and blue was the brightest. Yang Qianyu knew that this was the kingdom of God established by the 'God of Battle-Gangdarup' described in the poems sung by the bards.

The Kingdom of God is the name of the abode of the gods in the world of Iber, and it is believed that every god will choose a star in the sky to build a dwelling of his own, and then look down on the earth from the sky, sheltering human beings from reproducing.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Yang Qianyu only felt that tonight, the stars of the Divine Kingdom representing the 'God of Battle-Gang Darupu' in the sky were becoming more and more dazzling.

"It's amazing." Yang Qianyu sighed: "Isn't there a liar who uses their name to deceive?" ”

"Absolutely." I don't know when, there are a few more figures on the roof, in addition to people such as Li Xiang and Fu Bin, even Luna Maria is among them. And it was Luna Maria who answered Yang Qianyu's question just now. "It is true that there were people who claimed to be priests of the god of war, but it was not long before these swindlers were discovered to have died inexplicably in the church they had founded. Moreover, the stomachs of these dead bodies were filled with the juice of the gold and silver coins they had swindled. Since then, no one has dared to pretend to be a priest of the god of war. Some say it was 'divine punishment,' a way for the god of war to punish sinners who blasphemed him. ”

Before the baptism began, Luna Maria told many interesting things about the baptism of the warlords. For example, on the night of the festival, an aristocratic faction sent troops to attack the town of the rival faction where the baptism ceremony was held, and the ceremony in that town was stopped halfway through. The attack was successful, but what happened next was unexpected. Since then, there have been no priests of the god of war in the towns of the aristocratic power, and this change has caused the power to completely cut off the source of warriors. And the strength of the fighters who took refuge in that force continued to fade, and eventually they all lost their strength and became ordinary people. For this reason, there was panic among the entire faction, and some say that it was because the head of the faction was "punished" for desecrating the ritual of the god of war's selection of followers (according to one theory, those who were chosen to serve as warlords were followers of the god of war). When the people of this force heard the news, the hearts of the people of this force were immediately dispersed. Coupled with the surrounding forces taking advantage of the situation to attack, the originally powerful aristocratic forces were wiped out almost overnight.

With this bloody history as a lesson from the past, the human forces on all sides naturally did not dare to send people to make trouble with the hostile forces during the baptism ceremony for the selection of fighters.

……

When Yang Qianyu and the others listened to Luna Maria tell interesting stories about the selection ceremony of the fighters, it was already ten midnight.

The 'Tsunadalup Star', which had been shining red and blue in the night sky, suddenly glowed with a golden light. At the same time, the magic pattern circle in the middle of the Prailly Town Square also glowed with golden light, and then I saw the gold and silver powder on the ground suddenly float up, and several pillars of light rose up in the magic array, covering several children in the magic circle.

At the same time as those pillars of light covered the children, the gold and silver powder that had been floating turned into a tornado composed of small golden powder beside those children, and the tornado turned and turned and stopped suddenly. Then the gold and silver powder shrank together frantically, and then they condensed into a light mask to cover the children who were hit by the golden light, and then slowly deformed and changed color. Until the shape of a sword shield that glows red or a wand with a pointed hat glows blue appears in front of everyone.

The crowd roared and the tsunami came, and Yang Qianyu suddenly understood that those children who were shrouded in the beam of light were favored by the gods and accepted the selection and baptism of the god of war to become new fighters.

The population of Prailly is about 50,000 or 60,000, and the number of children born every year reaches hundreds, and although children die every year, the number always remains at this number. Almost every year, two or three hundred school-age teenagers participate in this once-in-a-lifetime inheritance baptism.

However, the number of children who have become war officers is not large. Yang Qianyu quickly counted the nearly three hundred children, and only five were shrouded in starlight - in other words, almost one out of fifty or sixty people had been baptized by the god of war and became a war officer.

"It's been a miracle this year." Luna Maria said. "In previous years, there were only three or four at most, and there were only one or two at the time, and there were even years when no one was selected."

"So little?" Yang Qianyu was surprised. "Then Luna Maria, when you first became a Warlord, how many people became Warlords at the same time?"

Luna Maria shook her head, a hint of bitterness on her lips. "That year, counting me two."

Yang Qianyu and the others were silent when they heard this-everyone knew who the 'other' in LunaMaria's mouth was.

"It seems that even the god of war can only see the talent of the chosen believer, but cannot see through the character of the believer......" Yang Qianyu sighed in a low voice.