Chapter 21: Cleaning up the Divine Pattern
The exclamations on the adventurer's side naturally couldn't be hidden from the mercenary team that was not far away. After hearing the exclamation, many of the mercenaries stopped talking and turned their attention away. Among the mercenaries, there were also well-informed people, and they roughly guessed John's origin, and they also spread it in their own circles. So, while John was still inexplicable, he was surrounded by a bunch of people around him with adoring eyes. After all, a paladin who can easily attract holy power is worshiped by everyone no matter where he is, not to mention that this paladin single-handedly eliminated an evil god believer just now, and there may also be a heroic spirit warrior summoned by the evil god believer.
Where had John seen this, and had taken care of this side, and that side had come over again, and as soon as he turned his head, someone else joined in. However, in this way, the discordant atmosphere that had originally permeated between the mercenaries and the adventurers also dissipated. Speaking of which, in addition to the original professional bias between the two professions, there is also a competition between the two professions in this task, but when I get here, I find that the goal here has been solved, where is there any competition?
John was still bustling around here, while the Templars were searching for the inconspicuous sign of blood while holding back the urge to vomit in their chests. At the same time, the military priest Laika needs to lift the miracle curse on the unconscious merchants and bring them back from their coma.
"Vice-Captain, come here, I seem to have found something!" At this moment, one of the knights of the Templar Order, as if he had found something in the pool of blood, quickly stood up and reported to the vice-captain who was leading their operation. The knights around them, who were still bent over to look for them, hurriedly stood up and leaned over.
The vice-captain walked over and crouched down to see that on the outer wall of the fountain, near the connection to the ground, there was a twisted symbol written by a man with his finger dipped in blood;
The divine pattern is the text of the law of the gods, but the divine patterns of each god are different, this is because the source of each divine pattern is the law of the gods. The laws of the gods are different, and the patterns that cause them are also different. And for any deity to accept the sacrifices of the believers, it must have an altar for the sacrifices, and the priests must preside over the ceremony. Although there is no limit to the appearance of the altar, it must be depicted by the divine pattern of the gods, as long as there is a divine pattern to communicate with the gods, whether it is a richly decorated altar or a wooden stake, it is okay.
At the same time, an area where the written existence of the laws of the gods is generally a place of concern for the gods. If the crest is left alone, the gods, especially the evil gods, may lure the surrounding people or creatures to approach through the crest, and then forcibly descend on the incarnation. Therefore, if these divine patterns are left unchecked, something very dangerous may happen.
Thinking of this, the vice-captain hurriedly gathered all the Templars and prepared to begin clearing the crest of the place - and at the same time prayed to the Eternal Sun, causing the Eternal Sun's divine power to fluctuate and expel the evil god crest here. Yes, only the gods can deal with the gods.
However, there was a problem when the Templars caused a wave of divine power to expel Gemiro's crest - due to the fact that the altar had already been sacrificed, and Jamiro had also sent down three Heroic Spirits through this altar - not a temporary phantom descending, but a living possession that descended the Heroic Spirits into the body of the living sacrifice. As such, this altar was also a place of greater concern to Jamero, and it was not something that a few Templars could banish.
This situation has also been encountered by the deputy captain in the past clean-up missions, so he will not be too alarmed. Historically, when faced with such a problem that cannot be solved at the moment but cannot be left unaddressed, it is necessary to ask for help from the nearest temple in the vicinity and ask for the support of the temple.
However, the vice-captain suddenly thought of the powerful knight he had just met who had single-handedly killed an evil god priest and three evil god spirits who could perform the Heroic Spirit Possession Ritual, and his heart suddenly moved: judging from the divine power fluctuations caused by the knight in the tavern that day, that knight was not much compared to the great knight in the Central Cathedral. With the addition of such a powerful pious knight who also believes in the sun, maybe he will be able to dispel the Jamiro Divine Pattern here? After all, the back and forth time for requesting support is not short, and there may be accidents, and it is of course best to be able to solve it as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, the deputy captain first asked everyone to take a break to recover the physical strength they had just consumed, and then stood up and walked out.
Walking outside the hall, the first thing you can see is John, surrounded by many adventurers. Looking at John's appearance, he seems to be very unaccustomed to communication.
The vice-captain walked over quickly and pushed the surrounding adventurers away: "You guys go and rest, don't disturb others." The adventurers saw that it was the Templar vice-captain, and grinned and moved out of the way, it seemed that they were already familiar with it during this time, and they were still joking while letting go: "Aren't you also bothering the knights, just talking about us." β
The vice-captain didn't care about them, and walked up to John: "Mr. Knight, there is a little unexpected situation over there, can you please do us a favor?"
John wasn't too surprised to hear this, and thought of it when he saw the Templars walking towards him, but he thought that the other party had asked adventurers and mercenaries to come and help, but he didn't expect to come to him. However, John did not mean to refuse, and agreed to the other party's request, and followed the Templar towards the hall. Along the way, the vice-captain was still introducing the situation inside to John: "That's right, on the edge of the blood pool inside, we found the divine pattern written by Jemiro's disciples, we don't have enough strength to remove it now, I hope you can come with us to expel these divine patterns." John nodded his head, and then, as if remembering something, asked, "That's right." What is that crest? Why do you think you're tricky about it? β
The vice-captain didn't expect John to ask such a question at all, and he didn't react at once. As far back as he could remember, any deity who wanted to become a priest had to go through a great deal of study, and the science of the crest was indispensable, and John, as a Templar who could easily invoke the power of the sun, knew the crest and its function. At this time, I was a little blindsided when I heard John's question: Are you kidding me?
Turning his head to look at John's inexplicable expression, the vice captain's face twitched, and he didn't know how he would answer next, so he only told John the common sense about the god pattern, and when he saw that John had already understood a little, he turned the topic back: "After a while, please join us to trigger the fluctuation of the sun divine power, expel the laws on the Jamiro God Pattern, and his God Pattern will naturally disappear." β
John thought for a moment, then said, "But I don't know how to induce divine power." β
The vice-captain's face was wonderful, and he looked at John in disbelief: "You don't know?!" John nodded. Vice Captain: "Then how did you become a knight?, isn't it the most basic thing to trigger the fluctuation of divine power?" John looked innocent: "I've always said ah, I'm not a knight, but you don't believe me, what can I do." β
The vice-captain's heart was almost broken at the moment: "And how did you do it in the Grey Forest?" John recalled: "I just learned from a friend of mine, he always did it before he drank. "The vice-captain really feels that this must be the funniest joke God has ever played with him. A person who is obviously not a believer can induce such a strong divine power just by imitating an action?
But now that the vice-captain doesn't care so much, he still decides to let John try. Anyway, it won't be a bother, what if the other party is a legendary god?
Thinking of this, the deputy captain didn't say much to John, and directly told him the method: "Wait a while, when you join us and see that the divine power in our body begins to cause fluctuations in the divine power, you can just praise the sun in the best way you can think of." β
When John heard this, he began to think about what was the best way to go. When he came back to his senses, he saw that the Templars had formed a circle, enclosing the pool of blood in the circle, all of them kneeling on the ground on their right knee, their left hand clenched into a fist and lightly touching their chest, their right hand fingers apart, and their right arm stretched straight forward, reciting the hymn of the eternal sun. In the teachings of the Eternal Sun Sect, the fist of the left hand on the chest means "the sun will live forever in my heart", while the right hand stretched forward means "willing to fight for the spread of the glory of the sun".
John didn't know what they meant, but he remembered what the Templar had said about praising the sun in the best way he could, so he stood up straight with his feet together, his hands flat upwards as if he were holding something, and waited.
After waiting for a while, John felt a strange feeling emerge from the knights around him, a warm aura. Thinking that they believed in the sun god, John thought: this is probably the fluctuation of their divine power.
Just as the aura of these knights surrounded the fountain, the divine patterns around the fountain suddenly erupted with another breath, an aura that would only make people feel cold and moist. John saw that the breath released by the knights seemed to be untenable, and thought: I don't know if it will work, don't blame me for being wrong when the time comes. Thinking about it, John recalled the statue of the Sun Warrior he had seen at the beginning, and said aloud, "Long_may_the_sunshine!"
Suddenly, as John's words of praise were pronounced, a wave that was even more violent than the divine power fluctuations emitted by the knights just now erupted from John's bodyβto be precise, from between John's arms, with John as the center, spreading. This fluctuation is different from the sun-like aura on the knights before, the breath released by John is more like a real sun, even the knights of the eternal sun, if there is no record of Il's incarnation as a youth in the teachings, when they feel this breath, they will think that Il's incarnation has come.
This sun-like wave spreads out, and the first one affected is Jamero's divine pattern. The divine pattern representing Jamero's law, which was originally attached to the fluctuations of Jamero's law, was cleared in an instant, and the body of the divine pattern, the words written by blood, began to fall off and drift away.
The fluctuation did not stop after clearing Jamero's Divine Pattern, but continued to spread in all directions until it swept all the space in the entire cave.
After the fluctuations disappeared, there was no longer a trace of the existence of evil gods in the cave, and even the merchants who had received Laika's healing miracle woke up from their coma