Alex was lucky. Before sunset, the two hurried to the temple near the Demon-Closing Tower to complete the registration for the awakening ceremony. After paying the fee, the priest of the temple informed them that it would be their turn to complete the awakening ceremony after the previous applicant completed the awakening ceremony.

While waiting, Chen An looked calm on the surface, but in fact he was more nervous than Alex, who was about to receive the awakening ceremony. It seemed that in order to resolve the tension in his heart, he began to turn his attention to the architectural layout and decoration aspects of the temple.

The architectural style of the Oscar temple is almost the same as that of the ancient Greek temple. It basically has a structure of beams and pillars. The entire temple is rectangular. The hall is divided into front hall, main hall and back hall, covering an area of ​​half a football field. The most eye-catching one is the dozens of thick and majestic circular stone pillars supporting the temple.

The interior of the temple is spacious and bright, with reliefs all over it. Each wall is engraved with a lifelike background of myths and stories. Most of them depict the heroic images of gods fighting against the abyss demons. Through these murals and the huge statues standing in the center of the front hall, Chen An unexpectedly discovered that both gods and demons are very similar to humans, and are not the indescribable strange shapes in Cthulhu mythology.

He believed that the gods and demons on these mural stone statues were not subjectively imagined by the sculptor. Unlike the illusory gods in the religious beliefs of the earth, the gods here are real, and the gods occasionally appear to show miracles, so people are not unfamiliar with the appearance of gods. The same goes for the demons in the abyss. Although the demons have long been sealed in the abyss, there are no traces of the humans who have personally witnessed the war between gods and demons in ancient times, they will definitely leave behind historical materials about the image of demons. Even if humans in later generations distort it, they will not be distorted anywhere.

So why do the images of gods and demons look similar to humans?

Assuming there are really gods, Chen An would not think that gods would look like humans. As the highest level of creatures, they should be more like a concept, an order, and a rule, rather than a shell with supreme power.

Could it be that they deliberately incarnated into humans? Or is this what they are?

When he was deeply involved in this aspect, he couldn't extricate himself, Alex suddenly patted his shoulder and brought him back to his senses.

"An! Stop being dazed! It's my turn to prepare for the awakening ceremony."

Chen An woke up in shock and looked at Alex with a nervous look. He smiled, temporarily putting the messy thoughts in his mind aside, and soothing Alex's mood.

"Don't be nervous, I will cheer you up later!"

"come on?"

"Uh...encourage! Yes!encourage!"

Chen An changed the word awkwardly, and for a moment he brought the earth's speech habits.

"Well! I will definitely work hard!"

Alex clenched his fists and immediately exasperated himself with a serious expression.

After a moment, the two of them entered the awakening ceremony in the main hall under the guidance of the priest. On the way, they also saw the person who received the awakening ceremony. The other party was a middle-aged man in his forties, followed by two women. It seemed that they were his wife and daughter. Judging from his infatuation, he seemed to have failed again.

The older woman kept comforting him. Although the voice was very small, Chen An still heard a little words.

"…The family already...don't...daughter...dow...dow..."

"So it's him..."

When Alex saw Chen An looking at the middle-aged man with interest, he said disdainfully.

"Do you know him?" Chen An looked at Alex in surprise.

"Of course, after all, we are all believers of the God of Fraud and Lies. We generally know one thing. His name is Dorofen. He was born in a merchant house. He has been participating in the awakening ceremony since he was young. Unfortunately, he has never been able to pass the approval of God. Over the years, he has no idea how much money he has wasted. Originally, he had a father who could make money to support him. After his father died, he would almost lose all his family's property. Now he is here to participate again, probably embezzling all the dowry money he prepared for his daughter..."

Did Fan Jin, who failed to win the imperial examination? Chen An subconsciously thought of a sad and ridiculous story character.

"People who watch the ceremony please watch the ceremony here. Please follow me if you receive the awakening ceremony."

In the room in the main hall that looked like an auditorium, the priest who was responsible for leading them gave a warning, and then left Chen An to continue walking forward with Alex.

The huge auditorium was covered with no cover, and the room was like a courtroom. The only difference was that there was no judgement seat here. At the front of the isolated ceremonial seat was a stone statue of Ricky. Under the statue was an old man wearing a sacrificial robe. The other party was holding a cane. After the priest brought Alex to him, the priest said a few words to the old man and left directly from the side door next to him.

The old man started talking to Alex again, but the distance was too far and the voice was too small. Chen An on the ceremonial hall could not hear clearly. After a while, Alex nodded several times and turned around and walked towards the center of the ceremonial hall until he stopped under a chandelier with countless candles lit.

He waved to Chen An on the ceremonial hall, then turned around to face the old man.

What's going on?

Chen An looked at the scene in front of him in confusion. Is this the so-called awakening ceremony?

Soon, Chen An saw the real awakening ceremony.

When Alex stood still, the old man nodded, then raised the brown short staff in his hand, saying something in a daze. Suddenly, a round method with red light appeared under Alex's feet, and the chandelier above his head cast a white light completely enveloped him.

Chen An stared at the incredible picture in front of him with wide eyes. What is this? Is the legendary magic?

Alex, standing in the center of the magic circle, began to tremble all over as time went by, and then screamed sharply as if he had suffered some pain and stimulation. At the same time, he fell to the ground and kept twitching like shrimps.

Chen An's eyelids twitched and looked at Alex in front of him who was tortured. Without understanding the actual situation, it was difficult for him to judge the reason for it, and he would not recklessly step forward and obstruct. After all, this was Alex's choice, and he must also know what the consequences of the awakening ceremony would be.

After a while, Alex, who was twitching on the ground, gradually stopped moving. The chandelier above his head and the red light of the magic circle on the ground gradually dissipated and returned to his original appearance. The old man put down his cane and slowly walked to Alex. He squatted down and helped Alex up. Due to the obstruction of vision, Chen An only saw the old man patting Alex's shoulder and left. Only he and Alex were left in the entire auditorium.

Seeing this, Chen An immediately turned over the wooden fence half a person tall at the ceremonial seat and rushed to Alex, but only saw Alex looking at him with a pale face and sweating head, smiling foolishly.

"Alex! Are you okay?" Chen An asked quickly.

"I...I...I'm fine, I'm just...I'm exhausted..." Alex looked at Chen An and still smiled foolishly. "An! I succeeded! I succeeded!"

"Successful?!" Chen An looked at Alex in a daze, then smiled and said, "It's good to succeed, it's good to be fine... I'll help you to rest first, look at your appearance, you can't leave now."

As he said that, Chen An helped Alex to the corner of the wall on one side and leaned against it. After seeing the other party's unhinderedness, his mind turned to the chandelier where the red light array and white light beam had just surfaced.

With curious thoughts, he came to the position where Alex was standing just now, raised his head and looked at the chandelier above his head. After careful observation, he found that a white crystal as big as a thumb was embedded in the center of the chandelier lamp. I guess the white light just now was thrown from this crystal, but what is the principle? Thinking of this, he lay on the ground and began to observe the patterns of the red light array appearing on the ground, but he found nothing.

"An! What are you doing?!"

Alex, who had recovered a little bit of strength, couldn't help asking after seeing Chen An's strange behavior.

"I'm just a little curious about the principle of the awakening ritual. You know, everything that happened in front of me just now was so magical." Chen An answered casually, then continued to explore the secret of the magic array on the surface.

"Haha! This is true for those who watch the awakening ceremony for the first time. I think you should not waste your time. Awakening ceremony is a gift from the gods. No matter how you search, it is useless. Just stop your behavior quickly. If you are seen by the temple priest, it will be bad." Alex persuaded.

Chen An was not such an easy person to convince. He knocked on the stone slabs laid on the ground, always feeling that something was wrong, and then turned to Alex and said. "Help me look at the wind, tell me immediately when someone comes."

Without waiting for Alex to refuse, he used his fingers to slit the gaps in the stone slabs, and then he tried his best to turn out the less tight stone slabs.

"An! What are you doing?!" Alex was frightened by Chen An's actions. If the temple staff saw it, he could directly execute Chen An with a blasphemy.

"So that's it." Chen An stared at the secret under the stone slab, and an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he re-covered the stone slab.

"We will leave quickly when our body recovers!" Chen An turned to Alex and said.

Alex quickly stood up in shock, rushed to Chen An despite his weakness, and pulled his hand and ran out of the auditorium.

"You really want to die! Do you know that your actions just now are blasphemy!!"

"I also feel reckless." Chen An ran with Alex. "I felt that I didn't look like myself at that moment, but I always felt uncomfortable if I didn't solve the doubts in my heart."

"Then what did you find?!" Alex asked.

"Things that are both familiar and unfamiliar." Chen Anyi said in a brief terror, without any intention of continuing to explain.

Chen An would never have thought that his behavior in the auditorium would eventually be discovered.
Chapter completed!