The choice of offerings led me to study all night, and although I didn't come up with a perfect solution, I was able to come up with a basic framework.

A flawless sacrifice should not only subjectively express reverence for the corrupt lady, but also objectively satisfy the corrupt lady with the value embodied in the sacrifice.

It's still very difficult for me to do both.

Awe? I'm sorry, but Lady Rotten has never directly favored or punished me, and what Aiola has done under her guidance is so bad in my eyes that it is obviously unrealistic for me to have a sense of awe for Lady Rotten. I could only convince myself to face her with respect—for the sake of her noble title of King Didra.

As for the value of the sacrifices...... How do I know what a Didra king likes? In my understanding, there are no more than three kinds of sacrifices: offerings, sacrifices, and sacrifices. Among them, the dedication can be decisively excluded, and I am just because I don't want to donate people will fall into a tangle.

Next, among all the available things around you, let's search and select according to the remaining two categories.

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Men love gold, women love diamonds, and the vast majority of intelligent beings have a fanatical penchant for glittering things. However, the results showed that the Rotten Lady did not eat this set at all.

In addition to gold and silver jewelry, there is also a custom of offering silk brocade in some places, so you can try it. It's just that...... I have very few supplies at hand, so is it really appropriate to pile a few rolls of very low linen shrouds on the altar?

After some thought, I gathered a pile of weapons from the tomb and piled them on the altar, but nothing came of it—it seems that the Corrupt Lady was not very keen on dancing with swords.

Not...... Maybe I've fallen into a misunderstanding, this is the territory of the Corrupt Lady, everything in the temple belongs to the Corrupt Lady, and my actions just now belong to borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, so naturally I won't get any response from the Corrupt Lady.

So I left the temple and went outside to explore further. Frustratingly, there is no possibility of finding a treasure in the wilderness where there are no people to follow.

After witnessing the indifference of the Decaying Lady to the fresh mountain flowers, I finally gave up my intention to make an offering.

A few hours later, a goat was tied up and placed on the altar.

Not to be deceived and threatened by the dragon's roar, but also to carry an extra Flotra on my back, it took me a lot of work to catch this athletic creature that can run, jump, and climb.

In some fantasy stories on Earth, goats are always given evil connotations. A similar statement may have been able to hold back on Nairn's feet, but the scene of the night of revelry is still vivid, and I still remember the hapless goat that was caught by Sangien and carried me half across the sky in one night. Perhaps the Didra kings had a special preference for goats.

In all parts of the earth, even in Nairn, there is a custom of sacrificing livestock, and it seems that this should be a "standard" sacrifice. But after I pressed the mechanism to let the dangling arrow fall and pierce the goat's neck, nothing happened, and the hall was still silent, so quiet that the ticking of the goat's blood down the altar could be heard.

The Lady of Decay does not look down on this sacrifice.

Of course, it's just a goat, and I didn't expect her to take a fancy to it. I removed the goat's carcass from the altar and dragged it to the waterways inside the temple to be cleaned—and if you don't eat it, I'll eat it."

Sweeping aside the preservative-infused "food" on the table, I sat on the chair of the ghoul lord and ate roast lamb while guessing the Rotten Lady's preferences.

Perhaps a dragon would impress the Corrupt Lady, but I can't find a more reliable animal than a goat here and now.

What other kinds of food can be offered? In the name of "Rotten Lady", will she have an inexplicable love for stinky tofu? Yuba is a food that sounds like her name...... Want to try durian again? The smell of durian comes from hydrogen sulfide, which is also produced when proteins are broken down by microorganisms.

Of course, all of this is premised on the existence of these things on the planet Nairn.

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Speaking of the name "Corrupt Lady", I suddenly thought of a feasible solution: since it doesn't work to offer physical objects, it is better to offer your own ideas.

I only gnawed half of the goat's legs, and I carried the rest of the body back onto the altar to sprinkle the "spices".

The condiment here does not refer to cumin pepper, but to "Namira's rot". This kind of fungus named after the Corrupt Lady has the effect of accelerating the decay and decomposition of the flesh, since the other party is called the "Corrupt Lady", will I do some "rotten" things on her altar to make her happy?

By the way, instead of using a goat, I might as well drag a ghoul over. Goats are precious ingredients that can't be wasted, and those ghouls who were followers of the Corrupt Lady during their lifetimes probably wouldn't mind how their corpses were disposed of.

Eventually, the corpse of a ghoul was moved to the altar and "Namira's Rot" was sown - unlike professionals like Aiola, I tentatively pulled some mushrooms from the side of the road and threw them on its body.

The night passed, and when I got up from the table the next day, I didn't smell the rotten smell that was supposed to be there. When I came to the altar to inspect it, I remembered an important piece of information, that these corpses had been disposed of in a special way by Akai's followers, and that "Namira's decay" could not be used as it should.

It's frustrating that I haven't been able to come up with any effective solutions after a busy day, but the experiment on sacrifices has to go on.

There were no other valuable objects left in the temple, and the nearby outdoor areas were also lacking suitable resources, so I needed to greatly increase my search area. On the way here, I saw some of the Oathbreaker's villages and abandoned Strongholds, where I might find a suitable sacrifice.

Before that, let's tidy up the contents of the temple. We had already made a mess of this place when we arrived, and yesterday's experiments on sacrifices were even more chaotic to restore this place to what Aila had envisioned...... Roughly calculated, it's a lot of work.

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