Chapter 823: Wood Elemental Plane (9)

The patrolmen wore not ordinary bark clothes, but a pale yellow fabric mixed with light gray, which at first glance looked like the fibers of some kind of plant, but this was not the point, the point was that they had mastered the weaving process.

It seems that the identity of these patrolmen is not simple, and they should be higher than the captured wizard shaman.

And they are responsible for patrolling this road, which means that this road is important.

The reason could be something important from the giant tree, or ......

"Totem worship," Leo said, "or the worship of sacred trees, or the worship of sacred mountains, or the worship of the sea, is very common among primitive peoples, and it is normal to worship wherever they live." ”

"Can these giant trees absorb the power of these beliefs, awaken their consciousness, and become primordial gods?" I realized a somewhat troublesome problem.

"It's not that simple," Leo said, "you see, it's not just such a giant tree here, if I'm not mistaken, this is the edge of a forest called the Caspar Giant Forest, so different ancient elf tribes may worship different giant trees, then the believers of the giant tree are only a few thousand subhuman races, and with this number of believers, giving him a million years is only the level of a dryad." ”

I said, "Don't talk about the legend of becoming a demon on your earth for a hundred years, if you look at the old demon on the plane of the Boulder Forest, it's only about a hundred years, right?" Besides, didn't the giant tree in front of us also send its men to intercept us? How do you know that this giant tree has no consciousness of its own? ”

"That's a special case," Leo said, "These Caspar giant trees have very slow brain development, this is the experience of other mercenary adventurers, in short, if you change to some other smaller creature, maybe you will awaken a long time ago, and you can become an evil god or something." ”

I looked at the canopy of the giant tree that covered the sky and the sun, and I felt a little emotional.

Ricardo's side didn't care about this, and saw the opportunity for the patrol to return to the entrance of the tribe, and sent all the wood spirit deer out.

Because the entrance here is more important, and the combat power of the guards is relatively strong, Ricardo did not let the Wood Spirit Deer rush out to provoke, but carefully blessed all the Wood Spirit Deer with a long-lasting aura effect to ensure that they could run fast for a long time before sending them out.

The effect this time was unexpected, too good to be true.

The number of ancient elves who rushed out reached about 500, and among them there were even more than 30 wizard shamans and 50 warriors with exclusive weapons.

To be honest, Ricardo alone is a bit difficult to capture these guys, and killing them is not a big problem, but that's not the goal.

So, Ricardo summoned ten earth elementals more than three meters tall to help.

The wood element originally restrained the wood element, which was also to ensure that these little rock giants more than three meters tall would not kill these ancient elves to the point of being frightened and afraid to come out again.

However, more than 500 ancient elves still stretched the battle line a little long, and the ancient elves who ran at the front desperately chased the deer of the wood spirit, trying to save the clansmen tied to the back of the deer, but this group of warriors who were good at speed, Ricardo's focus was on the backward wizard shamans, and let them run along the road all the way to the bottom of the giant tree.

He neatly subdued the wizard shamans one by one, and at the same time knocked down the warriors who guarded these wizard shamans one by one, tied them with vines and threw them into the grass, and continued to pursue.

Ten minutes later, the deer of the wood spirit had already run under the giant tree with the captives, and I followed and watched, but I saw that they did not dare to approach the part of the tree that protruded from the ground at the root, and did not dare to disobey Ricardo's order, so they could only start to circle around the giant tree.

I saw a platform set up under the root of a tree that jutted out of the ground to form an arch, and placed many bowl-like utensils, and knew that this was the altar where the ancient elves worshiped the giant tree, and then saw that Ricardo was cleaning up the warriors who were running a little slower behind, and saw that the deer of the wood spirit was about to be injured by the weapon thrown by the ancient elves in front, and regardless of Leo's objection or not, he walked directly to the altar.

When those ancient elves saw my move, they directly gave up chasing the Wood Spirit Deer and all pounced on me.

I didn't even move to avoid what they threw at me, and they smashed the altar to pieces.

When the Elder Elf in the lead saw the altar being smashed, he screamed "Wow" to stop the other companions.

I jumped lightly to the top of the arch, and seeing that they were so angry and too anxious to throw anything, that they began to climb up and fight me in close quarters.

"You're helping him cheat." Leo said.

"I am studying their sacrificial customs," I said, "you see, you have an excuse when you yourself can't help but help him, don't I?" ”

"Alas, we all have some blind spots in education that Chinese parents and relatives can't get rid of," Leo said, "and let him solve it independently, it's always ...... Okay, let's not talk about you! ”

The fastest Elder Elf had reached me, and with a slight stomp, the fellow and his companion fell down. Supposedly, these creatures, who are no less flexible than apes, are not so clumsy, but in fact, I have used a little trick to break their sense of balance.

This is a combination of illusion and hypnosis, and to be honest, with my level of illusion hypnosis, it can also have an effect on these sub-races, and it is difficult to achieve it when encountering normal level intelligent creatures, or middle and low-level magicians.

However, I'm not joking with Leo, I do have some interest in the sacrificial activities of these primitive subhuman races.

This also involves the Minotaur the Great and the way to godhood.

The gods worshiped by the race of the main plane today are all "sealed" in the god realm, the reason for which is not clear for the time being, not that there is no record, but there are too many records, and there are many sayings, such as fighting with the demons and losing both, and the "gods and demons war theory" that launched the seal on both sides at the same time, such as the "god and demon war theory" that the gods sealed the demons, and then their own energy was too weak, for fear of being taken advantage of by other evil gods, for example, the reverse version said that the gods were sealed by the demons, and the main plane race sealed the demons under the guidance of the gods......

In short, the gods and demons are sealed.

However, the ancient tradition of sacrifice has always existed in the innate energy of slightly intelligent creatures, as long as a settlement of a certain scale can be formed, there will always be a need for worship, whether it is to worship the totem of some natural phenomenon, or a specific powerful existence, or a god and demon sealed in a different plane, the essence is the same.

Creatures who perform sacrifices, regardless of the object of worship, will dedicate the power of their faith.

The power of faith is also a kind of mental power, but it is also the most special one. After all, other forms of telekinesis can only be used by biological individuals who are strong enough to a certain extent, whether it is the lowest-level warrior, or an intermediate profession such as guardian warriors, druids, and demon warriors, or a pure legal profession, telekinesis can directly act on energy, that is, ether particles, but the power of faith of mortals is almost incredibly weak, and the power of faith of subhuman races is even weaker than to measure, but this kind of telekinesis can be concentrated on a specific object, and, Prayers and sacrifices are performed at the same time, and the power of faith is better gathered.

To be honest, whether it is a warrior profession or a legal profession, although the power of the mind is far beyond that of mortals, but in the crowd are all one of the characters in a hundred, a thousand miles, and a thousand miles, it is said that any one is ten times stronger than a mortal, but often the more powerful the individual, it is easy to appear unreverent, in addition to the clergy who serve the gods, the more powerful the legal profession, the more lack of reverence for the gods, the weaker the person, the more insecure the sense of security, the more will hold together, and believe in something together.

Even in the time of "common faith", the power of faith among mortals resonates wonderfully, and this resonance strengthens the firmness of the faith.

Just like myself, when I presided over the sacrifice in the village, watching the whole village kneel and worship the altar together, I would inevitably feel a new feeling, and I could feel the power of this "resonance" when I saw the priests on a larger scale in Thunder City and Annimo City.

Under such resonance, the power of faith is amplified and amplified, penetrating the boundaries of time and space and merging into the energy field of the recipient, and an incomparably mysterious and powerful thing will sprout, which is the source of God's power, called "Godhead".

Correspondingly, intelligent beings have their own "personality", and having a personality means having wisdom, and connecting with the godhead of the gods through the invisible thin threads formed by the power of faith, which is the basic principle of becoming a god.

Correspondingly, the gods can also transmit their will and part of their power to the believers through the link of the power of faith, so that the believers have great power and get the opportunity to change the status quo or overcome the crisis, which will push the role of "resonance" to a peak!

Of course, this set of theories also works for demons and evil gods, but there are subtle differences, and as for the specifics, neither Leo nor I have studied them.

The priest under the Minotaur Emperor, that is, the "evil god" who was killed by the divine messenger more than seventy years ago, chose a group of underground creatures as the source of the power of faith, and saved for nearly two thousand years, and the strength is estimated to be inferior to the "Tianshan Tongma" high priest Zhuo Genger, who has lived for decades, and it is really weak enough.