Chapter XVI: Rituals
It was as if the chorus of the church choir sounded, and it seemed that the darkness under the chant could be felt, and an ominous aura enveloped the audience.
"Mr. Riggs!" Adel was the first to react, and quickly bowed his head and bent down in respect.
The other four xenomorphs' original vigilant states were also shattered by Adel's actions.
After seeing this, Adam grinned and walked calmly towards the house, as if there was an invisible force to line up the aliens, and one by one they stepped aside to make way for them.
Adam sat directly on the chair, crossed his legs, and put one hand on the mask, as if he had become the king of this place in an instant, making people feel the urge to kneel.
"I'm sure you've heard of the Tears of God ritual. Adam adjusted his voice and said in a hoarse voice, "I have something you need to do. ”
"Mr. Riggs, please. Several xenos glanced at each other and hurriedly said to Adam.
"Don't worry, it's not a difficult thing, I just need your help to collect some materials. Adam whispered, "If done well, I wouldn't mind presiding over the Tears of God ceremony for you guys in advance." ”
"Go and come back with a bottle of holy water, the aconitum grass on the cliffs, the cloak that humans often wear, the carcasses of different beasts, the dirt in the highest and lowest parts of the city......"
Adam said slowly, some of them were needed for the Tears ritual, and some of them weren't, just to complicate the ritual.
In a calm but unquestioning commanding tone, Adam instructed the xenos to collect their things.
"As for Adel. Adam looked at the blood slave with his head bowed, and seemed to think for a moment before he said, "Wait until noon to look directly at the sun, and collect the tears that have been shed in a bottle." ”
"Yes, Mr. Riggs!" Adel hurriedly agreed, with a look of ecstasy.
What other people collect, nothing has anything to do with them, only they need to collect their own tears, combined with the name of the Tears of God ritual, how can Adel not understand that he is the next to receive the ritual.
The Tears of God ritual is not mixed with any supernatural powers, it is essentially a divine art, that is, a miracle that is mainly done with the power of the gods.
The theme of the first stage of the ritual is confession.
Tears of repentance, the beasts do not need God, but they also suffer calamities because of God's departure, this is the sin of the beasts, the second son because he did not follow the shepherd's admonition, went to the cave, let the suffering come to the earth, this is the sin of the second son.
Therefore, in order to receive God's mercy, whether it is a group of beasts or a second son, you must repent of your sins.
Looking at the xenos leaving, Adam did not relax, but continued to sit in his position, closing his eyes and constantly sorting out his emotions.
As long as Adel's Tear Ritual is successful, all the Xenos present will become 'Loyal', and Adam will continue to instruct these people to invest capital in obtaining the Tear Ritual.
The more capital is invested, the deeper these xenos become, and they will become Adam's most loyal people for a more complete ritual later, and then help Adam subdue more xenomorphs and obtain more capital from other xenotypes.
With this, the summoned xenos have completed their classification. Adam kept thinking about the characteristics of these aliens, wondering if there was anything missing in his plan.
"Kim Adel invited him. Adam remembered what Adel had said before he entered the door.
"Aren't xenos interested in being able to hide their identities in a powerful way? No, they won't. "Adam knew very well that any xenomorph in the kingdom of the Holy Sound would be interested in the Tears of God ritual, even if that xenomorph had other ways to conceal the anomaly.
"Those who are interested, but do not agree to Adel's invitation, are the most dangerous. Because this kind of person is not divided into different classes by Adam, before Adam really controls most of the different species, the goal of that kind of person will be directly aimed at Adam, who has mastered all the rituals.
"Therefore, when I come into contact with Adel and them, I need to be more careful not to be followed by those people to find me. Adam noted this and put the concern aside for the time being.
Outside, Adel had gone to look directly at the sun.
In the prophecy, after the god left, there was an endless light falling, cleansing the beasts.
Therefore, most monks believe that God is the barrier of the world, and He guards the world from the excessive amount of light that damages the world.
In this way, another incarnation of a god was derived, and that was the god of the sky, who used his own power to divide the sun, the moon, and the stars, so that the three would not appear at the same time.
There is also a theory that the god replaced the sun and thus also derived the incarnation of the sun god.
When the church that believed in the god of the sky and the church that believed in the god of the sun were at loggerheads, the third theory was born.
"God is perfect, but the perfection of God is different from the perfection of man, He is the synthesis of good and evil, that is, the God of creation and the God of destruction, that is, God is the God of 'all'. ”
"The beasts let the gods go, but only the good of the gods left, and the evil of the gods remained, and punished the beasts. ”
The emergence of this argument has led most churches to point the finger at the church that describes God as "whole."
After all, most churches are founded on the basis that God is good and God loves mankind.
Of course, there is also the fundamentalist church, which believes that God is great and has nothing to do with good or evil.
The Tears of God ritual borrows the power of God, which seems to be a synthesis of the three types of God to which the doctrine of the Church directs, and does not simply borrow the power of some kind of God incarnation.
The sun, the sky, and good and evil.
The object of repentance in the first stage of the Tears of God ceremony is the god of the sun, looking directly at the sun to express his willingness to repent, and the tears left behind are the tears of repentance.
If Adam is really a monk and has the holy power himself, then he doesn't need holy water.
The aconitum grass on the cliff, which is believed to be related to werewolves, is violently poisonous, and most potions or evil rituals require aconitum as a material.
There is a popular saying that even a person with a pure heart, a person who does not forget to pray at night, will inevitably transform into a wolf on a full moon night when the aconitum is in full bloom.
As far as Adam knew, some people would choose to transform into werewolves to increase their lifespan, and the ritual of transforming into a werewolf was hidden in that sentence.
Vampires and werewolves are inextricably linked, and so are blood slaves, and it is necessary to use aconitum in rituals.
As for the coats commonly worn by humans and the carcasses of different beasts, they are generally some kind of symbol.
The dirt at the highest and lowest parts of the city is meant to connect to the true Tears of God.
In the myth, the second son of the demon spirit bewitches the lake in the most prosperous place, and the soil at the highest point of the city is to point to the point of 'the most prosperous', and the dirt at the lowest point points to the bottom of the lake.
Adam's fingers tapped his mask again and again, and through the mask, he seemed to be able to feel the scar on his cheek aching.
At the beginning, he suffered a lot for this set of rituals.
Thinking about it, these xenos are really lucky to be able to start the ritual so easily.
Memories of the past resurfaced, and Adam calmed his thoughts and calmed himself down once again.
"Trace the ancestors, trace the past, and dig up talents. Adam remembered the characteristics of the bloodline awakening: "Are there already some signs now?"
"It's always easy to be recalled, and the affinity does seem to have strengthened. ”
Adam lowered his feet and went to the window, watching Adel look directly at the sun, hoping to focus his attention on what was happening.
"Anyway, the blood slave is not afraid of the sun? Sure enough, some film and television stories in the previous life can't really be substituted into this world. Although this was known for a long time, the sight of a vampire staring directly at the sun still made Adam feel a little absurd.
In this world, vampires are the product of sorcerers' research on werewolves, and their weaknesses are similar to those of werewolves, fearing silver objects.
With a bone hanging in front of them, the mobility of those xenos became amazing, and soon, the items that Adam spoke of were brought back one by one.
This is where the ceremony begins.