Chapter 698: The Sacrifice of the Gods
"It's really troublesome! How can a blood sacrifice be so grinding, as an evil god, "a word of oracle to make a group of crazy believers commit suicide" such a simple thing can not be done and still be an evil god of ghosts! To carry out a blood sacrifice, you have to "trick a group of believers" into controlling their minds, and ask Uncle Ben to say such a ...... "grunt"...... Cults are simply a disgrace to the vast number of evil gods"!
Swallowing a piece of smooth rabbit meat in one gulp, Kane casually began to tease the "smiling" church out loud.
Perhaps in this guy's opinion, the so-called "church" to absolutely brainwash believers is a very simple basic skill, and fanatical believers should be mass-produced like canned pork on an assembly line.
As for Kane's cognition, Punk, who was indifferently standing under a big tree next to him, just shook his head silently and said that he was noncommittal.
The caster didn't bother to take the knight's complaining words, because in his opinion, Kane's ridicule was pointless speculation.
Without enough knowledge, the legendary knight obviously doesn't know enough about the gods, and even the "little girl" who has just become the "god of the red sand" for less than 10,000 years may only know a little about the group of "gods".
You know, for the gods, "believers" will always be a thing full of trouble and have to be managed well, and it is extremely difficult to reduce the number of believers and increase the number of believers, especially those fanatical believers with extreme ideas can only be cultivated from an early age, and after a group of fanatical believers are cultivated, it is not easy to deal with them.
This has nothing to do with the church's ability to "fool people", nor does it have much to do with whether the medieval peasants who could not read big words were good or not, because it was not the human mind or social factors that limited the number of believers, but the gods themselves as the core of the faith.
For a god, having too few believers will cause his divine power to make ends meet, or even meet his basic survival needs.
However, too many believers will cause the priesthood to erode their will at a much faster rate, and gods like the Lord of the Dawn who have believers all over the multiverse have long had no "self" to speak of.
Only keeping the number of believers in a state of "no more, no less" is a reasonable move that a god should make, but ...... Maintaining this balance is far more difficult than making a church thriving.
And now, after this blood festival, the large number of deaths of the believers of the "Red Sand God Cult" and the widespread "prestige of the Red Sand God" may break the balance that "Smile" has managed to create - if the festival is too well run, it will lead to a sharp increase in the number of believers, and if it is too poor, it will lead to a large number of believers declining in faith, in either case it will be a big trouble, so Smile must grasp the key measure.
This is why she made this kind of festival in a deep mountain and old forest, which "seems to be huge, but is actually hidden".
The believers who rushed to the altar probably didn't know that the purpose of the gods they believed in was not at all to "spread glory and faith", and that this festival was just a very ostentatious festival that had never been thought of being made public, and that all the people who came to the festival were a bunch of "lambs" to be slaughtered, except for the two legendary powers who were already impatient.
The "God of Red Sand" is just looking for a name to summon some shallow believers or even pseudo-believers to the altar, and then order his priest to use psychic magic to control these irrelevant shallow believers to be "voluntarily" sacrificed, anyway, as an evil god, it is normal to use magic to order believers to do something.
In this way, Punk and Kane watched from afar on the mountain peak as the group of more than 30,000 believers of the "Red Sand God Cult" were busy decorating their "graveyards" with all kinds of hideous animal skulls, gloomy reliefs and paintings, and at the same time, other believers from this small plane came over one after another to participate in this "grand event".
Watching the process of "Ant Moving" is not going to be interesting, at least in some small things, the "instant killing gun" that is always impatient is already very annoying at this time.
So, while watching the "lamb flock" that dragged their families into the sacrificial arena through the pass of a mountain peak, Kane tore off half of the rabbit leg and symbolically handed it to Punk, and asked vaguely with a frown:
"The number of these "living sacrifices" is in the tens of thousands, and it should be enough to pay that ridiculous price, does the smiling guy think that this adventure will last for years?"
"Who knows".
Punk replied perfunctorily.
"If the gods don't return to the kingdom of God after the "time out", the priesthood will continue to draw the divine power of the gods as a punishment, drain the divine power and drain the divinity, drain the divinity and drain the soul............ "smile" may be to be safe."
As he spoke, he glanced at the rabbit that was a little roasted, and the mage, who didn't like to eat barbecue, quietly released a mage's hand and pushed away the roasted rabbit leg that Kane handed over.
But after a slight pause, he also thought of another possibility:
"Hmm...... Our "Her Majesty" may also be cleaning up too many "lambs", after all, her mental state seems to be too influenced by faith".........
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The cold winter wind that suits the climate of the small plane gently blows through the densely vegetated mountain forest, and the early morning sun shines on the yellowing ground of the artemisia grass again. The shade of the trees that cast shadows beside the two legendary powerhouses swayed slowly in the silent cold wind, and the knight's armor stained the glow of the morning sun with a golden glow............
"Well~ Forget it, just wait patiently for this kind of teammate, believers or anything are "smiling" their own business, anyway, she is an evil god who has a way to deal with too many "lambs".
No longer bothering about the purpose of Smiling's actions, Kane ate the rabbit leg that he had intended to give to Punk in one bite, and his swift chewing proved that he didn't think about giving the roast rabbit to the mage in the first place.
However, the chattering knight had to find time to say a few words even in the process of eating, especially the comment on the god "smile", and the knight, who didn't know what he was thinking, seemed to have endless lines to complain about.
"It's just...... Grunt...... Uncle Ben has always been very strange, "smile" Can she really complete such a large-scale festival smoothly? It seems that the larger the scale of the festival of those gods, the easier it is to cause trouble, how to look at the festival of tens of thousands of people is too ~ eye-catching"!
Glancing at the fanatical "Red Sand Cult Believer" under the mountain with disdain again, the knight, who was obviously in a bad mood, questioned and helplessly looked at the punk with a clear look in his eyes.
Because in a certain direction that he had just glanced at, the sight of a legendary professional was enough to see a group of "little accidents" approaching the altar at a rapid pace.
"Festivals of the gods are usually held in the midst of all kinds of unpleasant accidents, and this is true for evil gods, and good gods are no exception."
This is the caster's emotionless answer.
Obviously, Punk also sensed the group of "surprises" that were clearly heading for the altar, but unlike Kane, he didn't feel it unexpected.
Blood sacrifices of evil gods at the cost of their lives will always attract many defenders to stop them with all their might, and the rituals of good gods often attract a steady stream of thieves because the sacrifices contain too much wealth.
Even if the brave "defenders" or "thieves" usually hold other secret secrets, in a sense, these "human" factors that can interfere with a particular church ritual are a balance between the gods of the "good camp" and the gods of the "evil camp".
But...... The current situation is that in such a small plane where there are not even a few master-level professionals, there is still a country that dares to oppose a church that is protected by the gods...... This makes the caster a little confused............
Is the influence of a "smiling" church ...... It's a little too general.