Chapter 655: Sacrificial Ceremony (4)
The family prayer room is enshrined with a statue of the spider goddess Rose, such an important existence is naturally a place that every family must strictly guard, so if you are not a core member of the family or do not get the trust of the family mother, you are absolutely not qualified to enter this room, let alone participate in the sacrifice ceremony in the prayer room.
Ten family mothers, each with two retinues, a total of thirty places, and Herudian's side only arranged fifty people, it can be said that in this matter, the mother of Maris gave enough face to these allies. However, the Mother of Maris is not all prepared, except for Ryan and Faras who will be present at the scene, all the defenses inside the entire prayer room are in charge of the newly baked Legendary-level Soul Golem.
These legendary-level soul golems stood around the hall of the prayer room without saying a word, if you don't know about them, you still think that this is just some statues used for decoration, but after a series of family bloody battles about half a month ago, no one in the entire Isopaton City does not know the power of the Hrudian Golem Legion.
Before the formal sacrifice, the Mother of Mares, who presides over the ceremony, performs a series of activities, entering a state of meditation to purify her mind, reciting hymns in praise of the goddess Rose, and vowing in prayer to obey the will of the goddess forever...... After these auxiliary foreshadowing tasks have been completed, it is time for the climax of the whole ritual to offer sacrifices to the great spider goddess Rose, the more precious the sacrifice, the more it will show the faithful of the believers to the goddess, and they will naturally receive more gifts from the goddess.
As early as last night, at the foot of the statue of Goddess Rose in the prayer room was a huge Mithril Furnace, which was supported by eight legs and was covered with exquisite reliefs on the surface of various famous battles, heroes and deeds in the history of the Hrudian family. Inside the furnace is a light green sesame oil, this mellow fragrance of sesame oil, carefully blended by some secret recipe, it is said that the spider goddess Rose is particularly fond of the smell of this sesame oil, if lit at the time of sacrifice, it will greatly increase the chance of being noticed by the goddess.
Today, as the presiding officer of the whole sacrificial ceremony, Mistress Maris was dressed in a completely different way than before, she had already bathed once beforehand, smeared her body with aphrodisiac perfume, and then put on only a black robe with purple trim, and stood barefoot in the family prayer room. The style of this robe is also different from the others, it is full of eight-legged spider-shaped cutouts, allowing the plump skin of the mother of Maris to loom in it. When Mistress Maris walked, the black purple-trimmed robe with a high slit could barely hide anything, directly exposing Mistress Maris's round thighs.
Contrary to her outfit, she wears a very tight Mithril mask on her head, which is in the form of a twisted spider with eight long legs coiled around the back of her head, as if a large spider is attached to Marith's face at first glance. In addition to these outfits, the Mother of Maris also holds a magic weapon in her hand, which is a spider-shaped dagger with eight feet that extend downwards and eventually converge to form a sharp blade, which is identical in style to the one held by the Mother of Sabellena of the House of Alberne.
With a wave of her arm, the Mother of Maris opened the magic circle inside the Mithril Furnace, and then an emerald green flame ignited on the sesame oil, and the air in the prayer room was immediately filled with a pleasant sweet smell. When the flame of sacrifice was lit, the maids who had been waiting outside the prayer room for a long time brought in the various offerings with trays also made of Mithril.
One by one under Lanina's command, the Dark Elf maids stepped forward and stood beside the Mother of Mareth, who was the priest of Lady Rose, who presided over the sacrifice, and took each sacrifice with her own hands and threw them into the flames of the Mithril Furnace, but surprisingly, these sacrifices were not destroyed by the flames, but slowly disappeared in the flames, a change that made the face of the Mother of Maris appear with joy, but she wore a spider-shaped mask on her face, and no one else could see this scene.
If there is something in the sacrifice that disagrees with Goddess Rose, it will be thrown out by the flames, and even directly cause a heavenly fire to descend, turning the entire prayer room into ashes along with the statue of Goddess Rose, but the latter situation is very rare, and often only if the goddess Rose is seriously angered, it usually follows a large-scale divine punishment that will destroy all the families responsible for this sacrifice.
Seeing that the various offerings prepared by the family were slowly decreasing, the members of the Hrudian family who were watching the ceremony around were also smiling, and they were full of anticipation for the future prospects of the family. Originally, men were not allowed to participate in this kind of sacrifice process, but since Ryan was disguised as a dark elf man, then Maris had to solve this trouble anyway, but fortunately, this time it was two powerful legendary creatures that needed to be sacrificed alive, and the safety of the sacrifice process must be ensured, so Maris Mistress justifiably used the top twenty strong people in the family strength ranking to be present, and a total of six of these people were men.
Precious gems such as Ice Chalcedony, Heart of the Ocean, Ice Tearstone, Fire Agate, and the magic cores of various high-level magical beasts were thrown into the flames by the Mother of Maris without hesitation, and then teleported to the palace of the spider goddess Rose in a strange way. About thirty percent of these staggering and unusually precious offerings were purchased temporarily, and this was a small fraction of which the Hrudian family spent hundreds of millions of gold coins on it, many of which were half-sold and half-given away from allies, otherwise the cost would have been even more staggering. If the previous Seventh Family naturally did not have this kind of strength, but after having a large amount of wealth from the Moller, Alberney and other families, these expenses were only a little huge for the Hrudian family, and they were not a big loss of vitality.
When the last gem was consumed by the emerald green flames, the face of the Mother of Maris slowly became serious, and she solemnly recited a large number of hymns to the goddess Rose to express her loyalty, and during this time, Lanina personally pressed the formation, with dozens of elite family guards, carried the two legendary soul prisoners who had been tied up and placed them in the center of the prayer room.
The two Soul Prisoners had huge heads, almost two-thirds of their entire bodies, and their limbs were relatively small, but they still possessed shocking explosiveness. The horror of the Soul Prisoner is not how fierce its hand-to-hand combat is, nor the sharpness of its teeth or claws, nor the poison in its blood, but its octopus-like mouth.
When the Soul Prisoner Demon silently approaches the prey, it will burst into trouble, open its bloody mouth and attach itself to the prey's face, and then the Soul Prisoner will unleash a powerful spiritual power to control the prey spirit that falls into their grasp, so that the Soul Prisoner Demon replaces the prey's brain with its own brain, and it only needs a thought, and the prey caught by the Soul Prisoner will make any delicate movements like an arm.
With this ability similar to "possession", as long as the opponent of the Soul Prisoner Demon is slightly negligent, it will be replaced by the Soul Prisoner, and then all the abilities of the "possessed" target will become the ability of the Soul Prisoner, unless the Soul Prisoner gives up this "possession" state, or is rescued by a strong person who is better at soul magic than the Soul Prisoner, otherwise this target will always become a stand-in for the Soul Prisoner.
At that time, the reason why La Nina captured these two prey relatively easily was because Ryan prepared a "sane heart" for them to prevent psychic attacks, with this magic ornament, even if the Soul Prisoner Demon possessed the target's head, there was no way to control their prey through mind control in a short period of time, so La Nina They only paid a few bait, and successfully introduced the Soul Prisoner into the trap arranged in advance.
Now the two Soul Prisoners were lying on the altar in the center of the prayer room, their limbs and bodies were firmly bound by finger-thick Adamantite chains, these Adamantite Chains did not have any magic runes attached to them, their only effect was to be strong, not to mention that the Soul Prisoners were not originally the kind of creatures with infinite strength, even several legendary creatures known for their brute strength could not break free.
In order to prevent the two Soul Prisoners from affecting the others participating in the sacrifice, Ryan specially made a kind of mask for them, which was attached to the "Psychic Barrier" magic barrier, and they were worn on the head of the Soul Prisoner, so that the latter's spiritual power could not penetrate at all. When the spider-shaped dagger in Maris's hand stabbed deep into the throat of a soul prisoner, blood immediately flowed down the wound, and the soul prisoner struggled desperately after being wounded, but it could neither break free from the pure gold chains on its body, nor attack Maris's mind through the mask on its head, so all its actions were in vain.
The altar used to sacrifice living creatures is specially made, it will collect the blood of the sacrifices on the altar into a blood pool below, for the sacrifice to use, and when the blood of the two prisoners has been released, the blood pool is also filled with the blood of legendary creatures, but at this time the air is still filled with the sweet smell of burning sesame oil, so the smell of blood is directly masked.