Chapter 942: Branch Lines and Main Lines (9)

Seeing the only remaining black tail-fingered priest and the four wanted young men returning, although somewhat stunned, these people quickly put everything behind them and respectfully welcomed the new priest into the formal ceremony of preparing for the succession.

It seems that they have long been accustomed to this cruel power struggle, only recognizing the sacrificial vessel and not the person, and whoever wears the sacrificial vessel recognized by the goddess is the object of their allegiance.

The male was stopped outside, but he was not embarrassed, and the men in several of the escorts even had some scolding on him, and one of the middle-aged men put his arms around his shoulders affectionately, as if it was his father.

However, I really didn't understand their language, and I had the idea of learning a little Dark Elf...... Speaking of which, I sometimes have the idea of learning a little Elvish from Trist, but I can't get over that hurdle in my heart, so I keep giving up.

The memorial was being prepared, and I didn't dare to go deep into the temple for fear of being detected by the spider god, so I had to watch from outside with elemental vision.

For the gods, I have lost my sense of awe, to be precise, "respect" has been completely lost, but there are still some "fear" left, after all, even if it is the old gods that have fallen like the true god of Carthusian and the true god of Aura, or the partial god like the spider god that represents evil and is not very strong, it is definitely not something that Leo and I can compete with today.

What we can do is to uphold the spirit of science, use bold assumptions and careful verification, and try and approach the essence of the gods little by little.

In Leo's words, the gods are a group of creatures that are powerful enough to a certain extent, and their standing at a height that mortals cannot understand does not mean that they are superior, just like mortals do not take the ants on the ground seriously, although the matter that makes up the body of the ants is not much different from that of humans, and even if the ants evolve into magical beasts, ordinary people can still destroy them with a little effort......

Therefore, this time it was just to solve some small problems left over from history, and it was regarded as cleaning up the small tails left by the previous side plots, but I didn't expect it to become part of the main line.

I seized the opportunity to observe the rituals of the dark elves, and Leo naturally did not miss any details.

Especially last time, we determined in the wood element plane that the reason why the Divine Realm Seal was so strong was because it was a four-dimensional membrane, and even if the gods mastered a more powerful "Divine Realm Power", it was essentially only infinitely close to the four-dimensional ether.

The divine realm can only send a small number of people to the mortal world by projection, just like demons can only send a part of their power to the main plane, and what they send over is the telekinetic power, not the ether particles.

This also shows that whether it is the divine power used by the gods to make Terraria and Elofien, or the curse on Zaha, the son of Chief Orla, they are all made from mortal ether particles, not from the divine realm.

Therefore, Leo took the risk of absorbing these divine powers to study, which is his main line, and it is also our main line.

The dark elves will definitely communicate with the spider god during the ceremony, and this is the moment we are waiting for.

It didn't take long for the people in the temple to be ready.

Outside, the men were also escorting slaves from several underground races.

These slaves are basically subhumans, all of them are thin and small guys, only one is a little stronger, looks a bit like a goblin, and is much shorter, covered with scars, I don't know if they are usually disobedient or just caught from outside.

The ceremony took place on a much smaller flat ground in front of the temple, which looked like a square, and the people of the temple were standing on one side of the outer wall of the temple, with a statue of a spider monster in the middle—the idol of the spider god, to be exact.

Different from the practice of the mother earth goddess who does not set up a specific idol but a totem, the spider evil god has two images, that is, two kinds of gods, this one is a dark elf female above the waist, and the spider form below the waist is the spider evil god deity, and there is another image, which is the standard dark elf female appearance, which is the drow elf deity, but it is standing in the temple, and I also noticed on the way that many dark elves have shrines dedicated to the second type of god in their homes.

The succession ceremony of the two new priests was a major event, and all the female "nobles" arrived and waited on the outskirts of the small square.

The male, his father, and a few other men of good strength escorted the slaves to the center of the square, saluted respectfully, withdrew, and stood behind the nobles, while the more "powerful" vassal races followed the males and stood outside in the streets.

At the beginning of the ceremony, the people of the temple held out two delicate plates with two daggers that resembled spider legs.

Without hesitation, the two new priests picked up the daggers and stabbed them into the side necks of the tightly bound slaves!

It was a bloody and brutal ritual.

Even if I had experienced the battle in the sea of corpses and blood, I never thought that killing people could be so cruel.

To be precise, they only killed a few slaves or captives and sacrificed them to their gods, but the methods were extremely cruel.

Killing people and cutting off heads, bringing the head to the statue is the easiest, and the operation behind it, even Leo can't stand it, I read half of it with the mentality of a real record, and I can't bear it, even the Tyrannosaurus rex is a little uneasy, but we are in a state of retreat, and it doesn't make a sound.

Ricardo was calm, but his soul fluctuated slightly, and he wondered if he was touched by the bloody sacrifice in front of him and remembered his past.

During the sacrifice, the goblin-like guy struggled to resist for a while, of course, to no avail, and was brutally murdered in the end.

Sacrifice of living creatures like this has become extinct among the intelligent creatures of the main plane, orc sacrifices are generally prey and livestock, and it is said that there is torture of burning heretics on the human side, and it is also aimed at people who are extremely evil or hated and spurned by people, and there is basically no phenomenon of "unprovoked" murder and sacrifice, if there is, it must be a fallen evil person, either a demon warlock or a necromancer or something like that.

And in the gloomy dungeons, creatures who believe in evil gods can do such things.

On Earth, the "open and legal" sacrifice of the living also stayed in primitive societies and slave societies, and although there were some later, they were all evil acts that caused panic in mainstream society.

And at this moment, we witnessed such a scene with our own eyes, and to be honest, my psychological quality has also been greatly improved...... Exercise.

Leo is actually a bit hypocritical, after all, with his character, such a bloody and curious picture, he has mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, just like what some adults do, he has seen a lot of it himself...... But the nature is different.

After the sacrifice, the slave captives were basically inhuman, except for the head sacrificed to the spider god, the rest were actually sent to the vassal races outside the field.

The poor subterranean sub-people were all so frightened that they fell to their knees and prostrate themselves on the ground, screaming and screaming, not knowing whether they were praying or begging for mercy.

The tsunami-like wails of these subhuman mountains became the background sound of the festival ceremony, and the follow-up of the ceremony began.

The Black Tail Finger Priest, as the predecessor and presiding officer, led the people in the other temples and began to pray in front of the idol, while the two new priests were covered in blood, like a butcher who had just finished his work, kneeling on one knee behind the Black Tail Finger Sacrifice.

Then, the crucial step came.

The souls of the slain and the captives flew out of the skull.

It's a bit cruel and funny—the subhuman with only one head left, and the soul phantom flying out of the skull actually has a complete body, and the torso and limbs are extremely clear.

Immediately after, the eyes of the statue of the spider evil god glowed with a faint purple light, and several souls suddenly struggled desperately like swimming fish sucked by the underwater whirlpool.

The struggle was undoubtedly futile, how could such a weak soul resist the suction from the statue of the god? In less than five seconds, several soul phantoms were all sucked into those faint purple eyes.

Then, the black tail finger priest recites the prayer, and the statue's purple eyes shine brightly.

A purple, blackened glow shot out of his eyes, and he turned a corner and caught the eyes of a temple member who bowed his head in prayer.

This is a very ordinary dark elf woman, after being invaded by the purple light, she suddenly raised her head and roared, followed by the lower half of her body began to swell, and her body gradually rose up.

Soon, she transforms into a female spider monster, not much different from the spider god.

This is the arrival of the gods!

Of course, this is just a doppelganger of the gods who are extremely small, or rather, just a shadow, only a projection of the strength of the gods themselves.

You must know that Terraria and Elofyn are just ordinary soldiers under the gods in the divine realm, and they have only retained a small part of their strength when they descend into the mortal world, and they are still unstoppable.

Now, I have seen the avatar of the gods descend with my own eyes.

"Oh yes......" Even Leo couldn't help but sigh, "This is a fraction of the strength, too, too, too amazing!" ”

The doppelganger of the spider evil god descended with the help of this believer's body, and in terms of momentum alone, it was much more powerful than the divine envoy.

And my heart was raised.

"My people, it's good that you eliminated your weak and stupid predecessors and got my recognition." The spider god clone opened his mouth and said this.

"All glory and power belong to my God!" The two women, who were half-kneeling, hurriedly replied with great seriousness.

It seems that this is a pre-set agenda, as if it has been rehearsed.

The spider god clone raised his hand and slowly leaned over, as if to touch the top of the two new priests' heads.

At this point, what I feared happened.

It's simply meant to happen!