Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Altar of Sacrifice
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Now, Wu Ming's curiosity had been aroused, and he couldn't wait to know if the following things were related to legends.
After half an hour, there was no longer darkness in the depths, but a faint light.
Alchemy products in the shape of fireballs illuminated the space at the bottom, and vaguely, Wu Ming seemed to see a large altar.
"Altar!"
After seeing the outline of the altar, Wu Ming couldn't stand it anymore, the downward speed like a turtle.
In an instant, he leapt from the stone steps, and the power of the levitation technique enveloped his body, falling down like a goose feather.
One second, five seconds, ten seconds...
As the distance closes, the entire bottom space becomes more and more ambitious, at least the size of two football fields.
A minute later, Wu Ming, who used the levitation technique, finally landed at the bottom.
When he stood at the bottom and looked up at the altar, he was already impressed by the altar's demeanor.
It is an altar ten meters high and twenty meters wide, shaped like a pyramid, but with many more patterns.
Wu Ming stood at the foot of the altar, his fingers couldn't help but rub the base of the altar, and his hand was as cold as stroking steel.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" While Wu Ming was stroking the altar, Nicol Lemay and Hermione also arrived and stood behind Wu Ming.
Wu Ming wandered around the altar, touched here and there, and said, "What is it made of, it doesn't feel like a stone, but like some kind of metal, or some other unknown thing!" ”
Nicol Lemay shook his head slightly, followed Wu Ming's example, stroked the altar with his hand, and replied: "I don't know, I have pursued this question, but it can only prove that this is not any known material on the earth." ”
The pyramids of Egypt are some of the most incredible in the world, with magnificent ancient architecture.
But compared to this altar, the Egyptian pyramids are somewhat stretched and not worth mentioning. After all, although the pyramids were difficult to build, they were only relative to that era, and later generations could imitate them one by one.
But the altar in front of you is obviously not the craftsmanship of the earth, and the materials do not exist in the earth.
In this way, this altar seems even more mysterious, and if it is seen by those scientists in the outside world, I am afraid that they will shout that it is the product of aliens.
Of course, none of the three people present were ordinary people.
Whether it's Wu Ming or Hermione, or the well-informed Nicol Lemay, they are more inclined to this building, which comes from the sages of antiquity.
"The history of this altar is no longer verifiable, but in these hundreds of years of exploration, I have also learned some of its uses."
"What's the use? Does it help you get out of this world and go to other planes? ”
Wu Ming asked rhetorically, while Nicol Lemay shook his head and said with a smile: "Going to other planes is just my personal pursuit, not the core value of this altar. If you're interested, come with me to the altar and we'll go up and have a look. ”
"Of course!" Wu Ming shrugged his shoulders and took Hermione to the altar and headed towards the top.
At the very top of the altar, intricately inscribed, in the center is a raised stone platform.
Wu Ming stood here, looking at everything around him.
He found that this place looked like a sacrifice, but unfortunately there were no statues of gods, more like they were specially used to sacrifice to the heavens.
"Do you see the platform in the middle?"
"See..."
Wu Ming nodded, the top of this altar, the most conspicuous thing, was this half-human high platform. If anyone is standing here and can't see the platform, it's probably not blind either.
Glancing at the conspicuous platform, Wu Ming watched as Nicol Lemay stepped forward and placed an apple on it.
After putting the apple down, Nicol Lemay turned his head slightly and whispered, "Keep your eyes open and look carefully!" ”
"Look, you just take an apple as a sacrifice, it's too ......"
Wu Ming just wanted to say that the other party was stingy, and the next second later, the apple on the altar disappeared.
It's a very sudden disappearance, as if an invisible hand has stolen the apple in full view.
"What's going on, Apple?" Wu Ming's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but ask Nicol Lemay.
"I sacrificed it, I got this!"
Nicol Lemay raised his hand with a smile, and Wu Ming carefully identified it and found that the other party was holding a grape.
Sacrificing an apple, he ended up getting a grape, which made Wu Ming feel very interesting.
Although individually, an apple the size of a fist has become a grape the size of a fingertip, there is no doubt that this is a loss-making transaction.
However, Wu Ming was more curious about how this was done, so he asked, "What kind of law is this, an unknown transaction, or a conversion between substances, or something out of nothing?" ”
"Well, it's a bizarre and asymmetrical conversion. You can convert anything, such as water, bread, stones, gold, magic books, and even your socks! ”
Nicol Lemay said as he put the exchanged grapes in his mouth, and said as he ate: "But as you can see, the conversion here is not equivalent. Generally, you use ten kilograms of gold bars, and if you choose to trade gold bars here, you will only get one kilogram. The remaining nine kilograms of gold bars may have been used as a fee, or something else! ”
Sacrificing ten kilograms of gold bars yields one kilogram of gold bars, and the exchange ratio reaches ten to one.
Numerically, the amount of what is obtained from each sacrifice is only one-tenth of the value of the sacrifice, which seems to be a very disadvantaged conversion.
However, sometimes numbers are not the only truth.
For example, Nicol Lemay is going to use this altar to achieve his goal of leaving this world. In this way, how can the value of freedom be measured compared to the never-ending captivity?
It is impossible to measure, even if the price is great, Nicol Lemay is still happy to accept it.
So, from a certain point of view, the value of this sacrificial altar is also immeasurable, even if its exchange ratio is only ten to one.
"What's the name of this altar?" Wu Ming was silent for a moment and asked Nicol Lemay.
Nicol Lemay looked at the altar at his feet and hesitated, "When I first discovered it, there was a piece of parchment left here. It reads, remember to leave the last gift of life to the last friend, and the payment is the magic sacrifice altar! ”
"Magical Altar of Sacrifice!" Hearing this name, Wu Ming raised his eyebrows.
You must know that the reason why Wu Ming's mission this time was chosen in the Harry Potter world. In addition to his own yearning for magic, there is also the magic phoenix Fawkes given in the task reward, and the sacrificial altar in front of him.
Phoenix Fawkes, in Dumbledore's hands, Wu Ming had seen it before.
The only thing he didn't expect was that this magic altar would be here in Nicol Lemay, and he had touched it.
"Leave the last gift of life to your only friend!"
Wu Ming muttered these words, and thought of the murals he had seen before, and couldn't help but say to himself: "The legend of the three brothers, the magic sacrifice altar. Could it be that this is the legacy of the group of elemental mages codenamed Lao San? ”