Chapter 248: Sacrifice
"That's it. I have said before. In fact, if you really want to do it, it's still very simple, right." Outside the Temple of the Undead Capital, Lina stood at the top of the high stone steps in front of the temple. Facing the vast square with no one, she said to Sila beside her: "As long as your faith is pious enough and you master some special skills, you can easily become a communication channel, gather the power of faith with your own faith as a medium, and then directly offer it to the gods. Of course, it is also dangerous to do this. When you are not careful enough, you receive a little more power but do not send the power of faith to the gods as soon as possible, and you will be protruding by huge power. So at the beginning, I asked you to do as little as possible every time, just because you are worried that you will make mistakes, but you adapt very quickly and can dominate a large prayer activity normally."
The square was indeed empty, but not empty. The highest totem pole in the square had been blocked and stopped using it. Instead, it was a bone altar built in a short time in the part close to the temple. The round altar was about one meter high and five meters in diameter. The altar was facing the four directions of southeast, west and north, and each was placed with a human skull, which added a bit of gloomy breath to the entire altar. However, in addition, the altar was quite normal. In the space above the altar, you can intuitively detect the huge invisible energy slowly hovering, and every second more energy gathered from all directions and joined to the huge energy group.
"This altar is really unacceptable." Lina hugged her chest with her arms, rubbed her arms with her hands, and muttered, "I always feel like I'm doing something bad."
"Uh, is this kind of altar really normal?" The other girls who could only be bystanders stood not far behind Lina and Sila. Catherine looked at the gloomy altar below, couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from her forehead, and said with a dry smile: "No matter how you look at it, this is a very evil thing. Is it really appropriate to hold a ceremony with such things?"
"Sister, don't make trouble." The priest girl gave her sister a blank look and explained: "Although it seems very evil, this is actually the standard altar of the God of Death. Just like the altar of my Lord, you need to prepare the soil in all directions of the altar. The altar of the God of Death also needs to choose a marker representing death as a medium. The skull of the intelligent creature is precisely the object that best represents death. Of course, this medium does not require the skull that has just been cut down. No matter how long the creature has died, it can take effect as long as the skull remains intact. Therefore, this is not an evil altar, but...uh, it's more special."
"Okay, I don't understand anyway." Catherine scratched her head with a wry smile and said, "But, can we complete Panis's agreement? I always feel that we didn't do anything."
"That's fine, although it's a little different from Pennis's initial idea." Lina pointed to the altar and said, "Making a statue of God is a long work and cannot be completed for a while. So according to his original idea, he would just hold a large prayer without any facilities, and then ask me to teach Sila how to dominate the transmission of the power of faith. However, he thought it was too simple. If the large prayer was so easy, there would be no need for the temples to consume manpower and material resources to build statues everywhere. So, I improved his plan and created an altar, so that the power of faith was passed on to Lord Neli in another way. This would be easier to operate, and the loss of the power of faith was smaller than that of the large prayer. The only shortcoming was that it was essentially a sacrifice, so the altar was scrapped once used, unlike the statue of God, which could be used for a long time."
"But I don't understand why I was asked to lead the ceremony?" Sila asked in confusion: "Isn't it better to be hosted by Lucia? She is the master's bishop."
"Uh, if I do it..." Lucya, who stood with other leaders and the girls of the adventure group after being reduced, was speechless for a moment. The leaders did not know the real situation, so they were not sure that Lucya was actually not a believer of Nellie and could not perform the bishop's duties. However, it was difficult to explain temporarily at this time, so she didn't know how to answer this question. If Lucya still had a body, she might have sweated coldly.
"Didn't I just say it, because this is essentially a sacrifice." Lina interrupted Lucy's intention to explain and replied naturally: "This is the work that the priest should be responsible for, not the bishop's. The bishop is responsible for preaching and praying, and the priest is responsible for presiding the rituals. Although the two can replace the other's responsibilities in some special circumstances, if it is not necessary, it is better to clarify the division of labor."
"Um?" The girls blinked and looked at Lina with a serious face strangely. Obviously, when she chose to use the altar, she had already thought about how to explain it to Lucya. Only in this way can she simply avoid the embarrassing situation that made Lucya feel. From this way of handling, the girls seemed to see the shadow of someone. After all, before Panis arrived, the priest girl never had such a thought of taking care of everything around her and avoiding all her friends' embarrassment.
Of course, Sila would not guess what the girls were thinking. She just smiled bitterly and said, "But I am not a priest either."
"It wasn't before, but now it's." Lina made a decision overbearingly, then patted her thighs and said loudly in dissatisfaction: "It's because none of you guys knows how to make a church run normally. You don't even have a priest, and there is only one bishop. Oh my God, I can't believe that your faith can last for decades. It's incredible, it's incredible."
"Uh, I'm really sorry." Faced with Lina's roar, a group of undead leaders apologized in an awkward voice. Their beliefs were absolutely true, so when faced with Lina's responsibilities, these leaders could not argue, and could only respond with an awkward smile.
"But it will be fine in the future." Lina sighed and said, "I will tell you how to make the statue, of course, the premise is..."
The priest girl exchanged a look with Xila beside her and did not continue the second half of the sentence, but those who know the inside story will naturally know that she did not say it, assuming that after the matter is over, Nellie can still exist.
"Someone is here." Saren suddenly took a few steps forward and made a series of clicks. Sara frowned and translated: "Saren said that the creature who broke into this world has arrived outside the city and is rushing here."
"So fast." The girls looked at each other: "How could it be so fast?"
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Chapter completed!