In the core palace of the inner city of Blackpool City, Barbara, dressed in a black robe, walked out of the prayer room with a trace of exhaustion, slowly sat down on her gorgeous seat, and picked up the 'soul wine' carefully prepared by the maid.

After swallowing the blood-like liquor in her mouth, Barbara gently rubbed her forehead to soothe the fatigue and discomfort of the long prayer, and set down her glass and waved her hand to the maid.

Although Barbara is a high-level legendary-level sacrifice, and her soul and spiritual power are extremely powerful, under the suppression of the law seal of the Arcane Empire, it is still extremely difficult to cross the border and have a long prayer exchange with the spider queen. Especially at the moment, the spider queen is accumulating strength, preparing to break through the shackles of the seal on herself, and further open up the connection with the Ymir continent, and she needs to extract the soul power of Barbara's legendary level sacrifice, so after every prayer, Barbara will be quite tired and even a little weak.

For this situation, although Barbara is slightly dissatisfied in her heart, there is no way. As the mother of the master of Blackpool City, although Barbara is above 10,000 people and has a status comparable to that of the lord of a country, in fact, she is a pawn and puppet of the spider queen. When she became the Mother of Chiefs, Barbara's soul was infused with the divinity of the spider queen, and she signed the most stringent soul contract, guaranteed by the power of the River Styx.

Barbara obeyed the Spider's arrangement in everything, and was able to enjoy supreme power and glory while she was alive. Once there is a disobedient behavior or thought, it will be immediately detected by the spider queen, and a cruel punishment will be lowered. In severe cases, the spider queen can directly deprive Barbara of her soul. And because of the relationship of the top-level Styx contract, even if other gods with powerful divine powers intervene, it is impossible to save Barbara's soul.

So don't say that the spider queen just asked Barbara to pray for a long time and extract Barbara's soul power, even if it was other more excessive requests, Barbara could only obediently obey.

Of course, the spider queen is not a believer who blindly oppresses herself. Although she treats believers very harshly and does not allow failure and betrayal, she is also quite generous to believers who serve themselves devoutly and strive to please themselves.

Like Barbara, she continued to pray for a long time during this time to provide soul power to the spider queen, and the spider queen also gave Barbara a lot of higher-level knowledge and understanding, which could help Barbara move towards a higher level. Moreover, the spider queen also made a promise that once she successfully broke through the seal, she would give more power to the lords of each city according to the contributions made by the sacrifice rituals of the major main cities. If you have outstanding performance and great contributions, you can even make an exception and be promoted to the demigod level.

"Demigod Rank! What a tempting power!" Barbara sighed in a low voice as she felt the gentle soul power in the Soul Rejuvenation Wine melt into herself, recovering her spirit and strength.

Being able to become the mother of a city and the spokesperson of the queen of spiders, Barbara is definitely a person who is cunning and ruthless enough, and all Barbara knows very well that the demigod-level power promised by the queen of spiders is just a bait hanging in front of all the queen mothers, in order to let the mothers of the major main cities do their best to provide themselves with the power to break through the seal.

However, although she knew in her heart that the power of the demigod level was just the bait of the spider queen, Barbara still chose to go all out and prepare the grandest sacrifice ceremony for the spider queen. This is done on the one hand to please the spider queen and maintain his own status. After all, the core strength of the master mother will always come from the trust and gift of the spider queen. No matter how great the sacrifice for the sacrificial ritual is, as long as the queen is happy, Barbara can maintain her position. And if the sacrificial ceremony does not satisfy the queen of spiders, Barbara is likely to lose her position even if she has more hole cards in her hand.

On the other hand, it is because Barbara needs stronger strength, and even for the power of the demigod level, Barbara also has her own ambitions. After all, as the topmost figure of the dark elves, Barbara knew very well that after the surging of demons, the whole world would face a huge turmoil. In this kind of great chaos that is enough to destroy the gods, the power of the Legendary Rank can only protect itself at best. If you want to truly rise in troubled times, the demigod rank or immortal rank is the most basic requirement.

Therefore, Barbara would rather sacrifice a considerable part of the heritage of Blackpool City, rather endure Bella's provocation, and still choose to focus almost all of her energy on this sacrifice ceremony. In order to be able to obtain more gifts from the spider queen, and strive for his chance to be promoted to the demigod level in the future.

But fortunately, everything is almost ready now, and after a long prayer communication, Barbara has secured the connection between herself and the spider queen. And the sacrifices and sacrificial circles are basically ready, and they only need to be arranged one last time, and the sacrificial ceremony can really begin.

When Barbara drank the third glass of soul wine and basically recovered her state, the maid who had retired before carefully opened the door of the temple, and then the footsteps sounded, and Gordon, who was half a head taller than the ordinary dark elves and had a more grim appearance, stepped in.

"Barbara, you're finally done praying. Walking in front of Barbara, after Barbara sat down, Gordon said eagerly: "I have captured the legendary python you wanted, and the sacrifice has been prepared." ”

As Barbara's spouse and ally, Gordon has almost equal status with Barbara, so when facing Barbara, Gordon is very casual and close, and there is no inhibition.

"Thank you for your hard work," after smiling and soothing Gordon, Barbara asked slightly strangely, "Didn't Bella take the opportunity to make trouble?"

This time, Gordon was sent out of Blackpool City to capture the Legendary-level poisonous python, on the one hand, of course, the sacrificial ceremony required high-quality sacrifices. On the other hand, it is also a certain way of luring the snake out of the hole, trying to attract Bella and Heller to take the initiative. And whether Bella and Heller attack Gordon or Barbara, Barbara, who has been prepared, will set traps, hit each other hard, and even take advantage of the situation to uproot each other.

But what Barbara didn't expect was that Bella actually gave up this great opportunity and stayed in her sphere of influence and guarded it strictly. In this way, Barbara can only endure for the time being unless she risks destroying Blackpool City.

"Nope. Even Heller didn't move, and stayed in his mage tower. Gordon shook his head and said helplessly: "In this case, unless we give up half of Blackpool City, it will be difficult to attack them!"

"Then wait until the sacrificial ceremony is time to do it. The Spider Queen will love such a sacrifice. ”