Chapter 676: Nanmu Mountain
Like the previous Beast God Festival, if there were orcs of various races who mastered the secret skills of the royal family, there was basically no need to think about getting the perfect skull gem from their hands, because the sacrifice in their family was their first choice.
The perfect skull gem is as important to a sacrifice as a human wizard needs a top-quality powerstone.
Large circles can't function at all without perfect skull gems.
And the perfect skull gem will only appear once every hundred years in the major dead places or man-made dead places in the entire orc empire, and only in the sacrifice of the beast god can it be harvested once every ten years.
The dead place needs to be maintained, and what is needed is a large number of corpses, and the good thing is that the Picks among the orcs are born to make corpses, as long as there is enough food, then there will be a steady stream of Pick orcs.
It's such an investment, and it can only make some ordinary quality death gas condensation skeletons be produced in the dead land, and sometimes better skeletons will appear if you are lucky, but there are too few perfect skeleton gems, which makes some large magic circles in the orc empire can only be vacant.
However, there is only one kind of skull gem in the beast god festival, which is the perfect skull gem, which is considered by the sacrifices to be a gift from the beast god, and this gift is once every ten years, which also makes the sacrifices have some expectations for the beast god festival.
In previous years, there would be many high-level sacrifices waiting outside for the beast god festival, in order to get the perfect skull gem from the orc space as soon as possible.
And this year, due to the impact of the war, everything has to be conceded to the preparation of the big war, so only the wolf cavalry captain level combat power participated in the beast god festival this time, which made all the high-level sacrifices lose interest in this beast god festival.
And the senior wizard of Dono was forcibly assigned, and due to the lack of middle and low-level sacrifices, he also had to preside over the selection, he thought that this was a wasted energy and no gain, who knew that he saw Abel with special secret skills.
A few days later, on the fifteenth day of October, the primary priest of Enli appeared in the square of the Temple of the Beast God, which was divided into two areas, with thirty orcs who had passed the selection on one side and orcs who had been eliminated on the other.
"The Beast God Festival is about to begin, and all the orcs who have passed the selection are here to assemble!" shouted the junior priest of Enli.
The thirty orcs who had already prepared for a long time had already bathed and cleaned their bodies at this time, and all the armor and equipment on their bodies were wiped clean, and everyone came to the body of Enli's primary sacrifice with solemn expressions.
Abel stands at the head of the team, this is the recommendation of everyone, the orc itself is respected by strength, he is the strongest, and he is naturally ranked first.
"All the wolves come with me!" Enli said with a wave of his hand as he looked at the thirty orcs with refreshed bodies, which was a sign of respect for the beast god.
The junior priest jumped on one wolf after another, and the group mounted their mounts and followed him towards the Nam Hills.
Nanmu Mountain looked ordinary, but Abel found countless death qi magic circles along the way, and these magic circles surrounded the entire Nanmu Mountain.
He was glad that the fortifications here were so tight, that if it weren't for the fact that he was the captain of the Beecher Wolf Cavalry, he would not have been able to enter the Nanmu Mountains without being detected.
After entering Nanmu Mountain, all the orcs dismounted from their mounts and led their mounts forward.
Under your feet is a stone road, each stone is carved with different patterns, there are various beasts, there are battle scenes, there are important historical moments of the orcs, there are landscapes of the orc empire, etc., almost everything related to the orcs is manifested on the stones on the stone road.
Although Abel is a human, he feels that from the moment he steps on this stone road, all the orcs seem to be walking like a pilgrimage, and every step under his feet is the history of the orcs, the glory of the orcs.
The procession moved forward silently, not walking fast, and Enli's primary priest had no intention of urging, and it was close to noon that the procession came to a huge stone wall.
At this time, the High Priest of Dono had already stood in front of the stone wall with his eight skeletons, the stone wall was very smooth and unpatterned, and in front of the stone wall was a concave stone platform.
"My lord, all the thirty orcs who participated in the Beast God Festival are here!" said the junior priest of Enli respectfully to the senior priest of Dono.
"Well, let's get started!" said the High Priestess of Dono, nodding.
He was not satisfied with this year's festival, because there were too few orcs to participate, and there were not even orcs to watch the ceremony this year, but what could be done, the orc empire was already facing a critical moment of life and death, even if it was such an important sacrificial event as the beast god festival, it had to give way.
"Carry the sacrifice!" cried out the junior priest of Enli.
With his voice, from the side of the mountain road, came a team of twenty picklemen, the picklemen did not ride on the pigs, the backs of the twenty pigs were all alive spirit beasts, there were twenty.
"Sacrifice!" called out the junior priest of Enli again.
A pickleman stepped forward and placed a spirit beast on the concave stone platform, and then took out a short knife and stabbed it into the neck of the spirit beast, the spirit beast struggled desperately, but how could the bound spirit beast resist.
Blood flowed down the neck of the spirit beast into the concave stone platform, and the spirit beast was also constantly struggling on the stone platform.
With the inflow of blood, the blood slowly seeped into the concave stone platform, and as the blood seeped in more and more, the concave stone platform emitted a burst of green light, and then the spirit beast that was still struggling was swallowed by the green light.
It was only a few seconds later, the green light vanished, and with it, the struggling spirit beast, and the concave stone platform was clean again, as if nothing had ever appeared on it.
Abel didn't perceive any mana fluctuations or death qi fluctuations, but only a strange energy that appeared and disappeared with the green light, which he couldn't understand.
The process of sacrifice proceeded unhurriedly, and a spirit animal was placed on a concave stone platform, and then disappeared.
The High Priest of Dono watched with some heartache as these spirit beasts were bled and sacrificed one by one, although he knew that this was a gift to the beast god, but if he could choose, he would rather stop this beast god sacrifice than waste these twenty spirit beasts.
You must know that these spirit beasts are not chosen randomly, each spirit beast is an intermediate-grade spirit beast, and they are all the most vigorous spirit beasts.
For the sake of these intermediate-grade spirit beasts, the temple dispatched countless combat forces and killed a lot of people before they could be considered to have captured all these twenty spirit beasts.
Because the Beast God Festival cannot be stopped, the main priest of the Beast God Temple has received the information of the Beast God, and the Beast God Festival must be carried out every ten years, and the Beast God will also give back the corresponding rewards.
And these sacrifices are an important energy to ensure the continued existence of the beast god, so even if you can't get enough feedback this year, you must also sacrifice the sacrifices.
Abel was also very surprised at this time, although he couldn't know all the spirit beasts in front of him, but the aura revealed by each one was so powerful that it was the top combat power among the middle-grade spirit beasts.
And it is not difficult to kill an intermediate-grade spirit beast, there are two difficult points, one is to find the spirit beast. Spirit beasts are not easy to find, because spirit beasts have a strong sense of territory, and the areas they choose are in uninhabited mountains, forests, lakes and other places, if you want to find them, you need enough people to find them.
The second is to catch the spirit beast alive, the spirit beast, especially the spirit beast with strong combat power, is easy to kill, but if you want to catch it alive, it is very difficult.
There are many spirit beasts that will directly explode the crystal nucleus when they know that they are going to be captured, so you can imagine how difficult it is to catch an intermediate grade spirit beast alive.
And these twenty intermediate-grade spirit beasts had to be captured alive, and the price to be spent on them was huge, which made Abel also deeply surprised.
After the twenty intermediate-grade spirit beasts were sacrificed, the concave stone platform slowly became crystalline, and the stone performance was like crystal, and then a green light emitted from the concave stone platform, shooting straight towards the huge mirror-like stone wall.
After the concave stone platform emitted this green light, it seemed that all the energy of the twenty intermediate-grade spirit beasts just now was stimulated, and the surface of the crystal returned to its original stone surface.