Chapter 5 Self-interest
Directly in front of Ji Cha, there was a yellow-haired little ghost head with a huge scroll on his back, who was also eleven or twelve years old, wearing a thick windbreaker with orange and a little blue, and a windbreaker on his head, but what attracted Ji Cha's attention the most was the huge scroll on his back.
Under the tree on the other side, there was also a young man dressed in the same style as Ji Cha, with a scar on his face. However, he was leaning weakly against the base of a large tree, and the wounds on his body were still bleeding.
"If anyone tells me that I'm the worst one in this batch, it's a god's work, huh!"
While complaining, Ji Cha is also ready for battle, and the current situation is unknown, and he needs to deal with it carefully. This feeling of blackening one's eyes is very uncomfortable, but it is a necessary situation to open a new world.
Unlike mirrors, which can only connect two worlds except the altar, the altar can open countless portals to other worlds as long as the requirements are met. However, this may seem simple, but it is often difficult to achieve.
Ji Cha didn't know how many people had used this mirror before him, but as long as he looked at what the Earth in this parallel space had been made of, he could deduce the tragic battle situation before.
Based on the remnants of the inscription on the altar, he could confirm that this earth was once similar to Kicha's hometown in terms of culture and entertainment. Nowadays, this earth has become a world with a developed economy but a lack of entertainment, and there is not a single classic work in the previous life!
Do you think it's because Lord Azathoth once walked here in glory?
No, this is the result of the predecessors of the inspection of the wool too hard.
Just like he is doing now.
There is no need to contact the person being sacrificed, you don't need to know the details of the person being sacrificed, you just need to know a name, even a pen name, and know any work of the other person, you can start a sacrifice.
If the purple light is sufficient, once the sacrifice begins, the soul of the sacrificer will be pulled towards the altar and an attempt will be made to open a temporary soul portal that can only pass through consciousness. Only when the portion of the sacrifice is sufficient can the gate be successfully erected. The world on the other side of the door often has an inexplicable relationship with the work of the sacrificed, and even most of the time it will be a related world—that is, a certain work of the sacrificed person is about what happened in a certain world, and this world is the related world of this work.
In order for this temporary soul portal to be successfully established, the more works of the sacrificed person the better, the more famous the better, and the more people who see it, the better.
But this also brings a new problem, the world on the other side of the door is actually a random link for a mortal like Ji Cha.
The Galin Altar will prioritize the worlds with the highest success rate and the most stable links to open portals. The relative position between worlds and worlds is constantly changing, which is no different from randomness for mortals who do not have the ability to travel through time and space or cannot understand the laws of position changes.
As a result, the more works there are, the more famous the offerings, and the wider the audience, the lower the probability that the door will be opened to be the door that the sacrificer wants. The kind of sacrifice that only has one work, after being sacrificed, often does not provide enough energy, and will only waste the stock of purple light in vain and cannot open the door.
How to choose the right sacrifice requires the sacrifice to have a good balance in mind.
Once the door is successfully opened, the sacrificer can throw his consciousness into it and possess someone in the world. It can be entered once every twenty-four hours, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes at a time, before regaining consciousness. Because time between worlds is not synchronized, possession can actually last up to twenty-one days. And the number of times this door can be put into consciousness is related to the quality of the sacrifice.
This sacrificial ritual can devour the sacrificed person at the root. Once the ritual begins, the sacrificed person does not exist at all. It's not just his parents, brothers, relatives and friends, neighbors, etc., who don't remember that there is such a person and his works exist so simply, but they are completely erased from the timeline, and no such person has ever been born here.
In addition, the people who were piggybacking on it and turned it into sacrifices were also the audience of those works. Although the timeline is changed, the time and energy they spend on the works of the sacrificed will be rudely taken away by an inexplicable force, turned into a part of the ritual, opening the "door" of nourishment and providing them with energy. There is often additional time and mental loss at the time of collection. Such losses will often be much greater than what should have been plundered from them.
In order to protect the sacrificers from it. During the ritual, his memories are shielded from permanent damage to the soul of the sacrificer and a minute becomes more than fifty seconds.
And just like the contradiction in the choice of sacrifices, this memory shielding method is also a double-edged sword.
After possession, if it is not possible to kill the Child of Destiny/Chosen One/Child of the Plane/King James Protagonist within a limited amount of time and time—usually in this simple and crude way—to cause turmoil in the established timeline, this temporary soul portal that can only pass through consciousness cannot be transformed into a soul stone with the parameters and coordinates of that world before the end of the ritual, and then successfully complete the sacrifice ritual.
This task is another major problem that restricts the successful completion of the ceremony. Possession will lead to a 1+1<2 effect.,Outsiders who don't know the plot are even more headless flies.,This state to face a true protagonist.,The success rate can be imagined......
Just like now, the young man who collapsed at the root of the big tree had struggled to support himself, and shouted to the yellow hair in a weak but hated tone: "Stupid...... Fool! What are you doing out of here? Don't run yet! ”
The little ghost head did not respond to the young man's shout, but suddenly untied the scroll he was carrying behind him, slammed it on the ground, and yelled at Ji Cha: "Don't hurt Iruka-sensei, or I'll kill you!" ”
Ji Cha frowned slightly, feeling that he seemed to be inserting and no, and entering a very bad plot.
Before he could figure out what he should do, the yellow-haired little ghost had already put his hands on his chest in a very strange pose.
The white smoke spread, but it dissipated in the next second, and in the forest, where there were only three people, there were already many more figures exactly like the yellow-haired little ghost, their faces were blue, but they looked at Ji Cha with a smile.
Ji Cha looked at this group of people with a fierce look on their faces, looking at the rows of white sharp teeth, cold from head to heels, and suddenly some legs were weak.
"Wasn't you still arrogant?"
It was the last word he heard.