"Is this the Elven King?" Dylan muttered to himself as he looked at the red-haired man in the middle of the hall who was talking to hundreds of people at the same time, "It does look like a king, and his bearing is extraordinary." ”

Lisa, who was originally silent and well-behaved in front of several bigwigs, couldn't help but answer at this time: "How do you see that he has the demeanor of a king, his appearance is no different from that of an ordinary human being." ”

Hearing the succubus little Lori answer, Dylan didn't look back, but just said while observing the elf king: "There are several kings in the world who can talk to hundreds of people at the same time, and their thoughts will not be confused." ”

"That's it?" Lori continued.

Dylan was surprised and asked, "What else do you want?"

Seeing that Xiao Lori didn't reply, she continued: "The most important thing as a king is not how strong your ability is, there are people in your country who are more capable than you, and it is enough for you to use them well." The most important thing for a king is clarity of thought and perseverance. How many human kingdoms in history perished because the kings were dizzy. And many of these dazed kings were originally eloquent. When they first came to power, they all worked for the welfare of their country and people and worked hard for the development of mankind, but in the end, because of some very stupid mistakes, they led to the fall of their own country. ”

Lisa looked at Dylan's side face with a thoughtful expression on her face.

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"Please, the banquet will officially begin tomorrow evening, and tonight, you two will stay in this room. If you need anything, press the magic crystal on the door and we'll be there shortly. The waiter in the castle, after taking Dylan and Osborne to a room, said politely to them.

Dylan looked at the room, nodded in satisfaction, and replied, "Okay, then I'm sorry for you." ”

"You're welcome, that's what I'm supposed to do. The waiter bowed, then turned to leave the room.

Glancing around, the room is simply furnished, although luxurious, it does not look vulgar. Because he knew that Osborne and Dylan were bloodborne, there were two sleeping human maidens on the bed in the room. The Elf King was very well prepared. But as soon as he entered the room, Osborne's attention was drawn to the bookshelf on one of the walls of the room.

As soon as Osborne entered the room, he walked over to the bookshelf and picked up a book to read, and beckoned to Dylan, "Dylan, come quickly." Most of the books in this room are out of print that are no longer visible to the outside world. Come and see, there's a lot of this that I haven't even seen. ”

"Oh?"

When Dylan heard that there were out-of-print books to read, he was shocked and hurriedly walked over, and he picked out a copy from the shelf. Turning the first page, I glanced at Dylan a few times before I realized: "The words in this book... I don't recognize it!"

Osborne glanced up at the book in Dylan's hand and said with a smile: "The inner book you are holding is an ancient religious book, and most of the religious books in ancient times were written in coded language. People outside of religion do not have a way to decipher it, and they cannot understand it. ”

"Aren't religious books supposed to be known to everyone? Oh! I see. Dylan reacted when he spoke: "When you say religion, you mean cults." Most cults of all sizes will write some kind of books that are generally incomprehensible. ”

"It's a mystery. ”

Hahahaha····· Osborne laughed a few times before he said, "You don't know this, they write in code words, but it's not just because they're playing tricks. Dylan, do you know how religion came about?"

"The origin of religion? I've done my homework on this. ”

Dylan cleared his throat and said aloud: "There is a saying about religion that there is a founder and an object of worship called "sect", there is a group of followers and a certain sacrificial ritual is "teaching", and the so-called religion means a group of people gathering together for a purpose. Religion has existed since the period of primitive society, and the root and basis of its emergence lie in the low level of development of the productive forces and the weakness of primitive man's struggle against nature. At that time, there were no laws and morals to bind people, so religion made faith a social norm that people followed. ”

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"It's a textbook answer, and you're right. Osborne closed the book, clapped his hands, and said, "Yes, faith is the only yardstick that people use to bind people in those days of ignorance. The "sect" is the founder, so the principal of the major denominations is called the pope. "Teaching" is a ritual, so only those with rituals are called sects. ”

"So where did the Pope's ritual come from?"

Hearing Osborne's question, Dylan thought to himself: "If there were no gods in this world, I must think that the so-called rituals are all random things to fool people." But..."

Osborne sighed: "What people worshipped in the beginning was not actually a god, but everything in the world, that is, the primitive worship you see in the American Indian tribes. At that time, people still had too little knowledge of the world, and they feared and worshipped because of ignorance. And ritual was just a way for them to express their fears in the first place. Because of fear, people gathered into groups and eventually developed into religions and tribes. That's how politics and religion came about. ”

Osborne took the book in Dylan's hand and flipped through a few pages casually: "You have seen how the Indians sacrificed on the American continent." ”

Dylan nodded.

"Then you must have seen how they do the ceremony," Osborne said. ”

Dylan hesitated, then nodded again.

"Do you think that the methods of sacrifice can be clearly written?" Osborne finally asked.

Dylan realized: "Primitive human beings lived and sacrificed cruelly and ignorantly, and when human beings came out of primitive obscurantism, they themselves did not want to admit what they had done before. Although they put on clothes and built houses, religion was not severed, and there was always something they couldn't put down. In the beginning, people used the way of carving, leaving behind many frescoes and stone carvings. Later, they recorded some unseen things in secret words. ”

"This book is a religious ritual. ”

Dylan asked, "Am I right?"

Osborne smiled: "That's right, this is the 'Book of the Dead', which records the ritual methods of a small sect in ancient times. Actually, I don't understand the content of the book. You can pick the bookshelf, you can read it. With that, Osborne put the book back on the shelf.

Inside the house, the sound of pages turning continued all night, and neither Osborne nor Dylan wanted to waste this rare learning opportunity······.