The Lightless Rite, also known as the Darkmoon Sacrifice or Darkmoon Prayer Meeting, is a monthly ritual of the Darkmoon Goddess Church, on the seventeenth day of the month, the day when the Darkmoon is closest to the star Pavatiga, after the sun sets, the devotees of the Darkmoon gather in the square outside the temple or worship hall with candles in hand. After the worshippers have gathered, the priests of the temple will lead the worshippers into the temple and pray together to the icon, offering their devotion to Lord Luna. Therefore, due to the existence of the Lightless Festival, the seventeenth day of the month is an important festival for the followers of the Dark Moon.

Of course, this is talking about a thousand years ago.

Since the fall of the Darkmoon Church, there have been fewer and fewer cities that spontaneously hold the Lightless Festival, and in the last two hundred years, even the Rose Capital, where the main hall is located, has never held a prayer meeting again, not only the believers have ignored the holding of the Lightless Festival, but even the ritual process of the festival has been mostly lost, these generations of priests, even only vaguely heard of the name of the Lightless Festival, it is estimated that if this is done for another hundred or two hundred years, the Darkmoon Prayer will be completely swallowed up by time, and no one will remember it anymore.

Fortunately, Shure appeared and helped Lisa pull the church back from the brink of danger, and the followers of the Darkmoon around the world are growing slowly but continuously, especially in the City of Roses, where the number of believers is growing at an alarming rate. Therefore, after the affairs of the temple are slowly on the right track, it is natural that the resumption of the Lightless Festival should be put on the agenda, which is an important event that can greatly strengthen the cohesion of the faithful, and must be resumed whenever possible.

So, digging through the history of the classics, speculating on the process of the Lightless Festival in the past, and using their creativity to make up for the missing parts, the brother and sister spent a few days to develop a complete process for the Lightless Festival, and after the discussion of all the Darkmoon priests (well, there are four in total), the reconstruction of the Lightless Festival was finally finalized, and it was officially held on the 17th.

It was for this reason that Shur would rather spend more than ten days cleaning up the screaming grass, and if a few screams suddenly appeared at the Lightless Festival, it was estimated that his head would be bitten off by Lisa.

"And the earth cracked, and the crops were lost, and the believers did not eat and water for nine days and nights, and on the tenth day they fell to the side of the road dying with hunger and thirst. When he was dying, the believers chanted the name of the Lord and prayed for mercy from the Lord, who could not bear to see his suffering, appeared in the mortal world, and gave the believers a sacrament with his own flesh and blood. The Lord said, "This is God's punishment and not to be disobeyed, but I remember your piety, and I give you a sacrament to help you through the calamity." This is my blood and my flesh, and I will be with you by eating this communion. ”

The faithful have been ushered into the temple and gathered in the prayer hall, where all the faithful pray devotionally around the Darkmoon icon, after which the priests will take out the sacrament and share it with the faithful. This is the most important step that people may take for granted in normal times, but when resources are scarce, the Church's sacrament is often an important reason for attracting large numbers of believers.

Whether there was such a step in the ritual a thousand years ago, in fact, no one knows, there is no record in the scriptures, there should be a high probability that there is no record at all, and the prayer during the sharing of the sacrament, let alone the record. But it doesn't matter, in Shuer's words, since there is no record, then as long as we say yes, who dares to say that what we said is wrong, besides, if you can eat free food, which believer will object.

The goddess dares, and the goddess will.

In fact, Luna secretly told Shur that after the prayer, the Lightless Sacrifice ended, and there were not so many rituals at all. However, Shul protested almost in tears, I just want to give those poor people at the bottom of the city a chance to eat free food every month, you are reluctant to eat that food, and would rather watch the poor starve to death?

It is unknown what kind of tragedy happened after that, and only he knows whether His Excellency the Great Battle Priest will return to the real world in the form of a face to the ground again, but the matter of the sacrament was thus decided, and as for the prayers when the sacrament was not distributed, how could it be, there was nothing that could be made up, even the holy words could be made up casually, and there were still a few prayers left?

Drought and famine punished by God? Who knows if there has been, maybe there has been, who are the believers? Can the rocks and dust on the Dark Moon be eaten? But it doesn't matter at all, even if none of the prayers are true, at least the devotion is true, and that's enough.

Although Talina and Meria dared to be angry and speak out about the behavior of the priest, the great Lisa-sa liked the prayers made up by her brother and memorized them more than anyone else, and even today in front of many believers, she was not timid at all, as if she had presided over the same ceremony countless times, and no one dared to doubt the authenticity of the ceremony based on her performance alone.

"Praise be to the Merciful Lord, and praise the Moon without Light. The maiden drew her fingers in circles on her chest and chanted in a deep voice, "Following the example of the sages, we are here today to share the sacrament, and the Lord will be with us." ”

"Praise the Lord, praise the moon without light, holy. The believers who participated in the lightless festival for the first time were already emotionally affected by the atmosphere, and they threw themselves into the ceremony, and their voices neatly matched Lisa's prayer.

The small door in the corner opened silently, and the two priests, Talina and Meria, each pushed the food cart into the prayer hall and lifted the white cloth that covered it, and the so-called sacrament was a round piece of bread.

The rye bread is brown when baked, and the dark brown pieces of bread symbolize the moon itself, which is called 'my flesh' in the prayer, and the thick bread is filled with syrup, and when cut with a knife, the syrup flows out of the bread, which is 'my blood'.

Brother can really make it up, Lisa forced a smile, cut a piece of bread with her own hands, and distributed it to the eldest among the believers, watching them eat the bread, the girl breathed a long sigh of relief.

Lisa and Shul are not playing, this step is the key reason why Shul insists on restarting the Lightless Festival as soon as possible, this seemingly joking step added is quite important, otherwise Lord Luna, who has always interfered with nothing, would not personally summon Shull to raise objections, and Shull would not rather disobey the oracle than stick to his own opinion.

In fact, only senior clergy know what this prayer and this sacrament means, because they are using similar practices to bind believers to the church.