41. Ceremony (middle)
After the draw was over, three indigenous hunters stood up from the crowd.
He walked to the steps with his chest held high and handed the bamboo stick with the red mark in his hand into the hands of the great wizard Inoyatira.
The great wizard raised his head, looked at the three indigenous hunters seriously, reached out and dipped a little white powder into the box handed over by the girl Molly, drew strange symbols on the foreheads of the three indigenous hunters, and said to them
An incomprehensible Aboriginal word.
"What the great wizard said probably means 'blessing'."
Suldak sat next to He Boqiang and whispered to He Boqiang.
The three indigenous hunters clasped their hands together, knelt in front of the great wizard, and pressed their foreheads against the great wizard's feet.
The indigenous hunters behind him also learned to kneel down. Looking at their worshiping look, it was as if the person standing in front of them was a god.
At this time, the Baikal swordsman sitting in the big wooden house said to the soldiers:
"We will participate in one of their ceremonies later. Please be careful not to do anything rude during the ceremony."
His eyes were very stern, especially when he looked at Augustus. Just when he was talking to the great wizard, Augustus was sitting below and looking around, looking very rude.
Hearing what Swordsman Baikal said, Augustus looked very respectful, but still showed an indifferent expression.
He muttered softly: "Sir Swordsman, I don't think we need to rely on the power of the indigenous people..."
Swordsman Baikal didn't explain much, he just said: "You haven't seen that evil door, so I'm afraid you don't know how terrifying it is. You'll understand later!"
Augustus shrugged his shoulders and finally became quiet under the pressure of the Baikal swordsman.
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The only building made of stone in the indigenous village is the circular altar in front of you.
Above the altar is a ten-meter-square platform with a height of only about three meters. There are stone steps leading to the platform in four directions. The entire altar is made of pebbles. From a distance, it is the most impressive building in the village.
"Woooooooo..."
Ten young indigenous people stood under the altar and blew the horns. The low sound of the horns echoed in the village. The indigenous people in the village, regardless of gender, old or young, came out of the wooden houses one after another and gathered towards the altar.
However, women accounted for more than 70% of the total number of people in this group of indigenous people, and there were also many indigenous children. Soon everyone gathered around the altar.
The members of the second team were also standing at the edge of the altar. He Boqiang looked back. It was estimated that there were hundreds of people in this indigenous village, but there were only a few dozen adult indigenous hunters who had just been drawn. In He Boqiang's eyes, here
Almost all the indigenous men are dead.
The great wizard Inoatira climbed onto the altar with the support of the girl Molly. There were more than ten steps in total, and the great wizard took two rests.
Following the great wizard of Inoyatira were the three selected indigenous hunters. They were only wearing a pair of crotch leather trousers, exposing their bronze tendons. They followed the great wizard onto the altar.
The great wizard stood on the altar, and his aura changed instantly. He looked like a different person. His rickety body straightened up, with a sacred radiance on his body, and the loose wrinkles on his face seemed to suddenly disappear.
It has been reduced a lot, and a pair of eyes has become impossible to look at directly.
She raised her crutches with both hands, looked up at the sky, and silently recited a series of Aboriginal words.
Three indigenous hunters knelt side by side on the altar, with their hands clasped in front of their chests, looking pious and focused.
After the great wizard finished reciting the incantation, a scene that made He Boqiang somewhat unbelievable appeared. It happened to be a sunny afternoon. Since a beam of light descended from the sky, it directly enveloped the great wizard's body, and then the figure gradually emerged behind the great wizard.
A huge phantom appeared. The phantom was a seven or eight meter tall god and demon with two faces, four arms and two legs.
Seeing the phantom of the demon god, all the indigenous people standing in front of the altar, regardless of age or sex, knelt down and began to worship their gods.
Only Swordsman Baikal and the second team of soldiers stood abruptly under the stage, looking around blankly.
There were four pottery pots the size of faceplates placed on the four corners of the altar. At this time, they were burning silently. Half-meter-high blue flames shot out from the pots. He Boqiang had a very strong feeling. His intuition told him that the pots were
The fire inside is cold.
In view of Swordsman Baikal's previous warning, the soldiers of the second team refrained from speaking.
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. The moment the beam of light on the altar fell, there seemed to be some invisible force in the sea of spiritual consciousness, and it also pulled him into the void.
At this time, the void formed by his spiritual consciousness no longer only contains the shadow of his body and the countless stars shrouded by the shadow of his body. A two-faced, four-armed demon god suddenly appears opposite the shadow of his body. The statue has two completely different characters.
One face carries negative emotions such as fear, destruction, and hatred, while the other face of the statue carries courage, justice, and hope. These are some inner feelings that He Boqiang cannot express in words.
The huge statue stayed in He Boqiang's sea of spiritual consciousness for only a second. Just when He Boqiang's sea of spiritual consciousness was about to collapse, the phantom of the demon god actually disappeared, as if it had never been there.
He Boqiang woke up and saw that the body of the great wizard on the altar was shaking at the same time. Inoyatila glanced at He Boqiang in shock.
Fortunately, the ceremony was not interrupted because of this, otherwise He Boqiang really didn't know how to explain it. Would he really have to use a branch and find a place in the sand to draw what just happened?
The girl Molly standing next to the great wizard also gave He Boqiang a strange look.
He 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 slowly walking out of the forest carrying a huge stretcher. There was clearly a body lying on the stretcher.
The indigenous hunter carried the corpse of the evil ghost step by step onto the altar. The head of the evil ghost had already been cut off with a sharp weapon and was placed on the chest of the corpse.
Immediately afterwards, four more indigenous hunters brought over an evil ghost corpse, and three evil ghost corpses were carried to the altar in a row.
The great wizard took out a black horn-tipped knife covered with symbols from his body. It looked like an ancient bone dagger. He bent down and held the long horn protruding from the evil ghost's forehead with one hand and the other hand.
Holding the dagger and inserting it into the evil ghost's head, he then placed the evil ghost's head on the tray with great piety and placed it in front of the demon's shadow in the middle of the altar.
He Boqiang learned from the memory of the original owner of the body that it was an extremely rare 'sacrifice' ceremony.
At present, this kind of ritual is only passed down in the hands of some indigenous wizards. In the Green Empire, this kind of black magic ritual is expressly prohibited.
Chapter completed!