Chapter 609: Holy Sacrifice
Since more than 300 years ago, the Warcraft frenzy faded, the Viku clan was wiped out, and the ruler from the Atlantic continent intercepted the rights of the entire Viku continent, although it seems to be a city-state and aristocratic feudal system, but this is actually just the appearance, and it is the best environment for artificially shaping the cultivation and growth of professionals. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Its true internal ruling system is still the Giant Council, and the thirteen giant thrones firmly control the supreme power of the entire continent through the six major sects, two guilds and city-state guardians.
Then came the Demon Tide, after the great changes on the continent began, because of the slow response of the Giant Council and the forward-looking wisdom and various positive actions of His Majesty the Throne of the Violent Hurricane, so that the Six Throne Majesties united with a part of the Giant Throne and began the 'independence' operation.
This has led to a tendency for the upper echelons of power to be dispersed, but this is only a transitional mode, and with the Supreme Three-Person Council, the selection of the Supreme Throne, and the Guardian coming to the fore to ban the various city-states, the entire Veku continent has moved towards another peak of power centralization.
Looking at the institutional changes in the Viku continent over the past 300 years, no matter which one it is, it is a model of high concentration of power.
And this is also the root cause that now, when the gods have awakened and the invaders are constantly coming one after another, the Viku Continent is still firmly subduing everything, and with enough strength, it has enough voice and execution.
Comparatively speaking, the intelligent life on the Atlanta continent is much more difficult.
It was also three hundred years ago that although the Warcraft gave up the pace of extermination, they would not allow the existence of characters who could 'dominate the country', so the intelligent life on the entire continent also occupied a region and slowly recuperated.
In the past three hundred years, a strange system of 'co-governance of empires and guilds' has gradually been formed.
Needless to say, the empire is recognized on the continent and must be created by the legendary throne, and the legendary throne is also the biggest hole card and backstage behind every empire. For example, the backstage of the Saint-Lance Empire is the founding emperor, and it is also because of the advanced legend of the founding emperor that the current empire was established.
Although the function of the guild is similar to that of the Veku continent, it is very different.
First of all, guilds are organizations that exist across countries, and they have chapters in various intelligent life settlements across the continent, and even have ties to certain high-level Warcraft races.
Secondly, guilds can be divided into many types, such as warrior guilds, swordsmen's guilds, wizards' guilds, knights' guilds, thieves' guilds, assassins' guilds, and so on. They are independent of each other, do not belong to each other, do not have a unified upper-level leadership, and are intertwined with each other, and will communicate with each other in many aspects.
Each guild can not only issue tasks and certify professions, but also play the role of cultivating subsequent professionals.
Each guild is backed by a legendary throne of the same profession, and they intercept resources through the guild to supply cultivation, and provide shelter for the guild as the ultimate force to suppress everything.
Of course, there may be more than one legendary throne behind each guild, and each one is a thick thigh, and around this thick thigh, a relatively independent force will naturally be formed, which is also a faction.
Shadow Kamen is one of the factions of the Assassin Guild, and it is also the title of His Majesty the Throne, and it is also a fourth-order legend, the royal power of His Majesty the Shadow Kamen Throne.
Legend has it that His Majesty was born an orthodox Assassin, with a withdrawn and aloof personality, who barely communicated, loved to stay in the shadows, and saw the sun only a handful of times in his life.
After becoming a legend, he changed his bloodline in some way, giving himself certain characteristics of shadow creatures, so that he could stay in the shadow realm for a long time, and most of his subordinates were mixed with shadow creatures and intelligent beings, or assassins who were infused with shadow blood.
They are born with the ability to slip into the shadows, and are able to use simple illusions, with the strongest of them even being able to become permanently invisible.
Because of their distorted masks, they are known as Kamen Assassins.
They are the most notorious assassins on the entire continent and the most feared faction of assassins, none of them.
Of course, with the advent of the demon tide, the revival of the gods, the major churches once again received the blessings of the gods, and developed rapidly, coupled with the fact that the dimensional barrier became weak under the impact of the demon tide, the bottomless abyss, Bato Hell, the dark world, the heavenly realm and other forces seemed to see the wolf of meat, frantically surging and slaughtering everything.
Their strong advent and impact have already broken the original balance, and the system of 'empire and guild co-governance' is almost overthrowing under this oppression, and the major empires are also too busy to take care of themselves.
But it is undeniable that as a powerful organization that has ruled the continent for hundreds of years, these old factions in the guild still have extremely deep roots, and the legendary throne is enough for anyone to be careful about, and they are still enough to make many people fearful.
And now, Count Milou-Monroe seems to be in touch with the Shadow Mask, and they have their eyes on the Rose Collar.
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Night, in the temple area, inside the main temple of Waukin.
The statue of the Fortune Lady is ten meters high, with her hands crossed at her waist, and a cloak woven of gold silk envelops her whole body, which looks extraordinarily luxurious. Her head was slightly tilted, and she seemed to face the world with the left side of her face, but she couldn't really see it, and in fact, the faces of the gods were never beyond the reach of mortals.
From the statue of the deity, there is a divine light escaping, gentle but not dazzling, with a touch of comfort, which can soothe all pain.
Under the idol, High Priest Miles knelt on the ground, his hands folded against his forehead, and he was praying with words in his mouth, his expression focused and reverent.
Da-da!
Hurried footsteps came, and the Minister of Finance and Fortune Ilifu walked quickly into the temple, his short and fat body had a different agility, and his expression was a little inexplicably irritable.
When he got closer, before he could speak, the prayers echoing in the air stopped, and Miles still maintained the prayer movement, and did not turn his head, but asked, "Isn't things going well?"
The voice was unusually peaceful, and when a faint ripple swept over Ilif, it had the power to soothe people's hearts, and Iref only felt that the anxiety in his heart was swept away, and he calmed down a lot, and he first saluted the idol of the Lady of Fortune, and then said:
"It's not that it didn't go well, but those guys are doing bloody sacrifices, and they have to wait for the bloody sacrifices before they start a riot. ”
"Bloody sacrifices, did they slaughter some noble manor again?"
"That's what I'm surprised about, they didn't have a target for slaughter, but the sacrifice actually took place. Wouldn't they be afraid of the One without enough soul devotion?"
"Sacrifice without a soul, is this?" As if remembering something, Miles raised his head suddenly, although he still didn't look back, but the strong divine power vibrate, hovering with layers of aperture, and Iref, who was actually impacted, stepped back.
"It's a holy sacrifice, these crazy people, they want to attract the attention of the Chaos Serpent Apophis. ”
Feeling a strong uneasiness, Iref asked, "Holy sacrifice?"
In the middle of his breath, Miles' head lowered again, and he said, "Go and ask the chief knight, and he will tell you what a holy sacrifice is!
I need to do more preparation. ”
Iref left with a stomach full of doubts, and Miles's prayer rang out again, still the same prayer, but echoing through the hall like a bell, layers of divine light almost piled up and absorbed by his body.
Gradually, as if it was an illusion, a girl with cold eyes stood in his place.
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Night, somewhere, on a wide lawn.
On the square altar, the blazing white flames spread heat in all directions with an unparalleled scorching heat, and the surging heat was enough to ignite almost everything.
Under the altar, there were hundreds of black-robed men, all of them tall, short, fat and thin, standing scattered, their hoods covering their faces, silent, only the twisted two-headed snake ring on their left hand seemed to indicate their identity.
They are followers of the Chaos Serpent Apophis!
I saw that a chubby black-robed man lined everyone up and walked to the flames, she lowered her hood and revealed her true face.
This is actually an aunt who looks chubby, has a dark yellow complexion, and has deep wrinkles.
Looking around at everyone present, she suddenly raised her left hand, the black ring of the two-headed snake swallowing the snake core was unusually conspicuous in the firelight, and she only heard her say: "My name is Anna, when I was eighteen years old, my parents married me to my husband, although he is much older than me, although he smiles with a mouth of yellow teeth, although he likes to smoke those big smelling cigarettes, but he is very good to me.
He bought me beautiful clothes, he would not let me work in the fields for fear that I would be overworked, and every time he went to the market, he would bring me my favorite shortbread.
I was satisfied, because I felt that although he didn't have great skills and was cowardly, he was good to me, and that was enough.
But he died, in the tenth year of our marriage, only because the buffalo he was leading was stolen from the lord's field when he stole a mouthful of grain from the field, and was beaten to death by the steward of the lord's house.
I tried to complain to the lord, but I couldn't even see the lord's face, and the hateful knights would keep me away, they mocked me, they took my family's fields and buffaloes, and they even dragged me into the haystack.
Finally, I seized the opportunity and rushed to the lord, I cried about what happened to me, but he just looked at me with indifference, and then let people take me away, he didn't care, he didn't care about it at all, what clothes to wear tomorrow was more important than everything I did.
I hate! I hate!
I hate the steward, I hate the knight, I hate the lord, I hate the empire, I hate the world even more!
Therefore, I take refuge in my Lord, the great destroyer of worlds, Apophis, the serpent of chaos!
When the blood washes away the sin, when the flame burns everything, when the world returns to chaos and to our Lord, we will not be condemned and not be oppressed!"
Most of the followers of the Chaos Serpent Apophis are known as the Enemies of the World, most of them have experienced great changes, and thus hate society, they do not see the happiness of others, and they want to destroy everything.
At the end, the woman's eyes were almost red, she cried out that everything was in chaos, and suddenly turned around and threw herself into the flames, and a humanoid pillar of fire immediately appeared, and the blazing white flames roasted her miserably, but the atmosphere of the scene was high.
Above the flame of the altar, the space seemed to have a strange distortion, and the two flame eyes that seemed to be able to see the pitch black gradually condensed, as if they wanted to open them.
And below, all the black-robed people also had bloodthirsty red eyes blooming, and their momentum skyrocketed.
When the woman was burned to ashes, another black-robed man walked up, another 'speech' and 'self-immolation'!
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The other, inside the corner of the shadow.
Xia Zuozhen is teaching Reddy about knowledge.
The so-called holy sacrifice is also called self-sacrifice, life sacrifice, god-eye sacrifice, and so on, which is a mode of sacrifice that all gods, regardless of camp, have.
You know, as long as it is a sacrifice, there is a sacrifice, but this sacrifice does not, to be precise, the sacrifice is their own life and soul, at the cost of the burning of their own life and soul, in exchange for the personal attention of the gods.
In a sense, as long as you are religious, even if you are just a mortal, you will be able to make the eyes of the gods pay attention to you at some point, and you can even use the power of the gods. ”
After Xia Zuo finished speaking, Reddy couldn't wait to say, "Then you mean, they are pulling Apophis's attention here in the form of self-sacrifice, so that they can increase their strength?"
Xia Zuo: "Let's just say that!"
Reddy: "Then why don't we start it, let me take the brothers in and slaughter these madmen, and wait until they finish their sacrifice?!"
Xia Zuo: "Wait, wait, the boss's signal hasn't come yet, you can't disrupt the boss's plan!"
Reddy: "Still waiting?!I really want to rush in, rush in, even if I have a tragic past, it doesn't mean that I can inflict all the evil on other people."
By the way, what's going on with them under the Steelbeard Crown? Why haven't they been in place yet?"
Xia Zuo: "I also just got the news that a big man is coming, and they are tripping. However, you can rest assured that with their strength, they will arrive soon. ”
Reddy: "Big shot? Now?"
Xia Zuo: "You may not believe it, it is said that it is said to be a Throne Majesty, the Chosen Person of Mother Earth, a divine favorite, His Majesty Hihi Priest!"