41. Ceremony (medium)
After the draw was over, three indigenous hunters stood up from the crowd.
Walking to the steps with his chest held high, he handed the bamboo stick with the red mark in his hand to the hands of the great wizard Inoyatilla.
The Grand Wizard raised his head and looked at the three Native Hunters earnestly, reached out and dipped a little white powder in the box handed by the maiden Molly, drew strange symbols on the foreheads of the three Native Hunters, and said a word to them in an incomprehensible Native language.
"The words spoken by the Grand Wizard probably mean 'blessing'."
Surdak sat beside He Boqiang and whispered to He Boqiang.
The three indigenous hunters knelt in front of the Great Wizard with their hands folded, placing their foreheads against the top of the Great Wizard's feet.
The native hunters behind them also learned to kneel, and looked at them as if they were a god standing in front of them.
At this time, the Bakari swordsman, who was sitting in the big wooden house, said to the warriors:
"We're going to attend one of their ceremonies, and you take care not to do anything rude during the ceremony."
His gaze was stern, especially when he looked at Augustus, who was sitting down and looking around when he had just spoken to the Grand Wizard, looking very impolite.
Hearing the Baguari swordsman say this, Augustus looked very respectful, but he still showed a nonchalant expression.
He muttered quietly, "Swordsman, I don't think we need to rely on the power of the natives......
The Bagelari swordsman didn't explain much, but said: "You haven't seen that demon gate, I'm afraid you don't know what kind of terrifying existence it is, and you'll understand it later!" ”
Augustus shrugged his shoulders, finally quieted down under pressure from the swordsmen of Bakuli.
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The only stone building in the indigenous village is the circular altar in front of you.
Above the altar is a ten-meter square platform, about three meters high, and there are stone steps leading to the platform in all four directions, and the entire altar is made of pebbles, which from a distance looks like the most imposing building in the village.
"Woo woo woo ......"
Ten young natives stood under the altar and blew the trumpets, the muffled sound of the trumpets echoing through the village, and the natives of the village, young and old, came out of their huts and gathered around the altar.
However, women made up more than seventy percent of the total number of natives in this group, and there were many natives and children, and soon everyone gathered around the altar.
The members of the second squad also stood on the edge of the altar, He Boqiang glanced back, it is estimated that there are about a few hundred people in this indigenous village, but the adult indigenous hunters are only a few dozen people who have just drawn lots, in He Boqiang's eyes, the indigenous men here are almost all dead.
The Grand Wizard of Inoyatilla ascended the altar with the support of the maiden Molly, a total of more than a dozen steps, and the Grand Wizard rested twice.
Behind the Grand Wizard of Inoyatilla were the three chosen native hunters, who were wearing only a pair of leather pants with a crotch and a bronze body of flesh, and followed the Great Wizard to the altar.
The great wizard stood on the altar, the momentum on his body changed instantly, it looked like a different person, his rickety body straightened, with a divine brilliance on his body, and the loose wrinkles on his face seemed to have decreased a lot at once, and a pair of eyes became impossible to look at.
She raised her cane in both hands, looked up at the sky, and muttered a series of indigenous words.
Three indigenous hunters kneel side by side on the altar with their hands on their chests. The front is punishable and focused.
After the great wizard finished reciting the incantation, a scene that made He Boqiang a little unbelievable appeared, at this time it happened to be a sunny afternoon, since a pillar of light descended from the sky, directly shrouded in the great wizard's body, and then a huge phantom gradually appeared behind the great wizard, the phantom was seven or eight meters high with two faces, four arms, and two arms. Legs of gods and demons.
Seeing this demon god phantom, all the natives standing in front of the altar, regardless of men, women, and children, knelt down in unison and began to worship their gods.
Only the Bagelel swordsmen and the second squad of warriors stood abruptly under the stage, looking around blankly.
There were four clay pots of the size of face plates on the four corners of the altar, which were already burning silently at this time, and a half-meter-high blue flame burst out of the clay pot, He Boqiang had a very strong feeling, and his intuition told him that the flames in the clay pot were cold.
In view of the previous warning of the Bakari Swordsman, the soldiers of the second squad held back their voices.
He Boqiang stood in the audience, as if he was watching an extremely ridiculous magic show.
But his heart was extremely shocked at this moment, and the moment the pillar of light on the altar fell, there seemed to be some kind of invisible power in the sea of spiritual consciousness, and at the same time, it also pulled him into the void.
At this time, the void formed by the sea of his spiritual consciousness is no longer only the phantom of his own body and the countless stars shrouded by the phantom of his body, just on the opposite side of the phantom of his body, there is suddenly a two-faced and four-armed demon god, the idol has two completely different faces, with fear, destruction, hatred These negative emotions, and the other face of the idol is with courage, justice, and hope, these are some feelings on the inner level that make He Boqiang indescribable.
The huge god statue stayed in He Boqiang's spiritual consciousness sea for only a second, and just when He Boqiang's spiritual consciousness sea was about to collapse, the demon god phantom actually disappeared, as if it had never been before.
He Boqiang came to his senses, and saw that the body of the great wizard on the altar also shook at the same time, and Inoyatila glanced at He Boqiang with a stunned expression.
Fortunately, the ceremony was not interrupted because of this, otherwise He Boqiang really didn't know how to explain it, did he really want to use a tree branch and find a sandy area to draw what had just happened?
Molly, the girl standing next to the great wizard, also glanced at He Boqiang with a strange expression.
didn't have time to think about these things, because there was a commotion under the altar, He Boqiang looked in the direction of the sound, and saw four indigenous hunters carrying a huge stretcher slowly coming out of the woodland, on which was clearly lying the corpse of a demon, the indigenous hunter carried the corpse of the demon to the altar step by step, and the head of the demon had already been cut off with a sharp weapon, and it was placed on the chest of the corpse.
Immediately after that, four more indigenous hunters carried over the corpse of a demon, and three demons corpses were carried to the altar in a row.
The Great Wizard took out a black horned knife with symbols painted on his body, which looked like an old bone dagger, he bent down, carried the long horn protruding from the demon's forehead in one hand, and held the dagger in the other hand and stuck it on the top of the demon's head, and then reverently placed the demon's head in the tray and placed it in front of the demon god phantom in the middle of the altar.
He Boqiang knew from the memory of the original owner of the body that it was an extremely rare 'sacrifice' ceremony.
At present, this ritual is only passed down in the hands of some indigenous witches, and in the Grimm Empire, this ritual with a dark magic nature is expressly forbidden.
As the Great Wizard said his words, the demon head in the tray under the Demon God's Phantom Shadow turned to ashes in a stream of blue flame......