Alex's luck was good, and before sunset, the two of them hurried to the temple near the Demon Sealing Tower to complete the registration for the awakening ceremony, and after paying the fee, the priest of the temple informed them that it would be their turn to complete the awakening ceremony after the previous registrant completed the awakening ceremony.

In the process of waiting, Chen An appeared to be calm on the surface, but in fact, he was more nervous than Alex, who was about to undergo the awakening ceremony, and it seemed that in order to relieve the tension in his heart, he began to shift his attention to the architectural pattern and decoration of the temple.

The architectural style of the Temple of the Osgard is almost the same as that of the ancient Greek temple, basically the structure belongs to the beam and pillar system, the whole temple is rectangular, the temple is divided into the front hall, the main hall, the apse, covering an area equivalent to most of the football field, the most striking of which is the dozens of thick and majestic round stone pillars that support the temple.

The interior of the temple is spacious and bright, decorated with reliefs, and each temple wall is carved with a lifelike mythological background, most of which depict the heroic images of the gods fighting against the demons of the abyss, through these murals and the huge statue of the gods standing in the center of the front hall, Chen An unexpectedly found that the gods and demons are very similar to the appearance of humans, and they are not at all the indescribable strange shapes in the Cthulhu mythos.

He believes that the gods and demons on these murals and stone statues are not the subjective imagination of the carver, unlike the ethereal gods in the earth's religious beliefs, the gods here are real, and the gods occasionally take the initiative to show miracles, so people are not unfamiliar with the appearance of the gods. The same goes for the abyss demons, although the demons have long been sealed in the abyss and disappeared, but the humans who witnessed the war of gods and demons in ancient times will definitely leave historical materials about the image of the demons, even if the humans of later generations distort it, they will not be able to distort it.

So why do the images of gods and demons resemble humans?

Assuming that there were really gods, Chen An would not have thought that the gods would be human, as the highest level of creatures, they should be more like a concept, an order, a rule, rather than a shell with supreme power.

Could it be that they deliberately incarnated as human beings, or was that what they were?

As he struggled to recover from his thoughts, Alex suddenly tapped him on the shoulder and brought him back to his senses.

"Ann, don't be in a daze! It's my turn to get ready for the wake-up ceremony. ”

Chen An woke up in shock, his eyes couldn't help but look at Alex who looked nervous, he smiled, temporarily put aside the messy thoughts in his mind, and calmed Alex's emotions by the way.

"Don't be nervous, I'll cheer you on later!"

"Come on?"

"Uh...... Encouragement!

Chen An changed his words in a sloppy manner, and for a while brought the earth's speaking habits with him.

"I'll definitely try!"

Alex clenched his fists, and his face suddenly gave himself a solemn breath.

After a while, the two of them entered the main hall under the guidance of the priest, and on the way they also saw the previous person who received the awakening ceremony, the other party was a middle-aged man about forty years old, followed by two women, who looked like his wife and daughter, judging from his dejected appearance, he seemed to have failed again.

The older woman had been comforting him, and although her voice was small, Chen An still heard a few words.

“...... The family has ...... No...... Daughter...... Dowry ......"

"It's him......"

Alex saw Chen An looking at the middle-aged man with interest and said in a disdainful tone.

"Do you know him?" Chen An looked at Alex with some surprise.

"Of course, after all, everyone is a believer in the God of Deception and Lies, and they all know a little bit about it, his name is Dorofen, he was born in a merchant family, and he has been participating in the awakening ceremony since he was young, but unfortunately he has never been able to pass the approval of God, he doesn't know how much money has been wasted over the years, originally he still had a father who could make money to support him, and when his father died, he who could not do business was about to lose all his family's property, and now he came to participate again, I am afraid that he embezzled all the dowry money prepared for his daughter...... ”

Chen An subconsciously thought of a sad and ridiculous story character.

"Those who are watching the ceremony are invited to watch the ceremony here, and those who have received the awakening ceremony are invited to come with me. ”

In what looked like an auditorium room in the main hall, the priest in charge of leading them gave a warning, and then left Chen An to continue walking forward with Alex.

There is no cover in the huge auditorium, the room layout is similar to that of a courtroom, the only difference is that there is no judgment seat here, at the front of the isolated viewing table stands a stone statue of Ricky, under the stone statue stands an old man wearing a different color robe, the other party is holding a cane, after the priest brought Alex to him, the priest and the old man said a few words and left directly through the side door.

The old man began to talk to Alex again, but the distance was too far and the voice was too small for Chen An in the viewing table to hear clearly, and after a while, Alex nodded his head several times in succession and turned around and walked towards the center of the front of the viewing seat, until he stopped under a chandelier lit with countless candles.

He waved to Chen An in the viewing seat, and then turned to face the old man.

What's the situation?

Chen An was a little confused and looked at the scene happening in front of him, this is the so-called awakening ritual?

Soon, Chen An saw the real awakening ritual.

When Alex stood still, the old man nodded, then raised the short brown staff in his hand, and said something indistinctly, and suddenly, a circle glowing red appeared under Alex's feet, and a white light cast from the chandelier above his head completely enveloped him.

Chen An's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the incredible picture in front of him, what is this?

Standing in the center of the circle, Alex began to tremble as time passed, and then screamed sharply as if he had suffered some kind of pain, and at the same time fell to the ground like a shrimp, convulsing his body.

Chen An's eyelids jumped and looked at Alex in front of him as if he was tortured, on the basis of not understanding the actual situation, it was difficult for him to judge the reason for the occurrence, let alone recklessly step forward to obstruct it, after all, this was Alex's choice, presumably he also knew what the consequences of the awakening ritual would be.

I don't know how long it took, Alex who fell to the ground and convulsed, gradually stopped moving, the chandelier above his head and the red light of the magic circle on the ground gradually dissipated and returned to his original appearance, the old man put down his cane and slowly walked to Alex, he squatted down and helped Alex up, due to the obstruction of vision, Chen An only saw the old man patting Alex's shoulder and then left directly, and only he and Alex were left in the entire huge auditorium.

Seeing this, Chen An immediately climbed over the half-person-high wooden fence of the viewing seat and rushed to Alex's side, only to see Alex looking at him with a pale face and sweating profusely and smiling stupidly.

"Alex, are you alright?" Chen An hurriedly asked.

"I... I...... I'm fine, it's just ...... Have you lost your strength......" Alex looked at Chen An and still smirked. "Ann! I succeeded!

"Success?!" Chen An looked at Alex in a daze, and then smiled with relief: "It's good to be successful, it's okay to be fine...... I'll help you go to rest first, and you can't walk now. ”

As he spoke, Chen An helped Alex to the corner of the wall and leaned against it, and after seeing that the other party was unhindered, his attention shifted to the chandelier where the red light circle and white beam of light had just surfaced.

With curiosity, he came to the place where Alex was standing just now, raised his head and looked at the chandelier overhead, after careful observation, he found that the center of the chandelier body was inlaid with a thumb-sized white crystal, presumably the white lamp just now was cast from this crystal, but what is the principle? Thinking of this, he lay on the ground again and began to observe the lines of the red light circle that appeared on the ground just now, but he found nothing.

"What are you doing?!"

Alex, who had recovered a little bit of strength, couldn't help but ask after seeing Chen An's strange behavior.

"I'm just a little curious about how the Awakening Ritual works, you know, what happened right now is amazing. Chen An replied casually, and then continued to explore the secrets of the magic circle on the surface.

"Haha! Anyone who watches the awakening ritual for the first time will do the same, I think you don't waste your efforts, the awakening ritual is a gift from the gods, no matter how much you rummag around, it's useless, so stop your behavior, in case it will be too bad if it will be seen by the temple priests. Alex persuaded.

Chen An was not such an easy person to convince, he knocked on the stone slab laid on the ground, always felt that the sound was not quite right, and then turned to Alex Road. "Help me watch the wind, and let me know as soon as someone comes. ”

Without waiting for Alex to refuse, he grabbed the gap between the slate with his fingers, and then jerked the not-so-tight slate out with all his might.

"Ann, what are you doing?!" Alex was directly frightened by Chen An's actions, if the temple personnel saw it, he could directly execute Chen An with a blasphemy.

"I see. Chen An stared at the secret under the slate, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show an inexplicable smile, and then he re-covered the slate.

"When the body recovers, let's leave quickly!" Chen An turned to Alex.

Frightened, Alex quickly stood up, rushed to Chen An despite his weakness, took his hand, and ran out of the auditorium.

"You're so damn bad! Do you know you're blasphemy!!"

"I also felt reckless. Chen An ran with Alex. "I didn't feel like myself at that moment, but I always felt uncomfortable when I couldn't solve the doubts in my heart. ”

"And what did you find?!" Alex asked.

"Something both familiar and unfamiliar. Chen Anyi said simply, without the slightest intention of continuing to explain.

Chen An would never have imagined that his behavior in the auditorium would eventually be discovered.