Among the three major Amazon clans, the Chanting Tribe is in charge of all sacrifices and ceremonies handed down from ancient times, which naturally includes various sacrifices to the Storm Goddess.
Among these rituals, there is a ritual that the chanting tribe has been holding since ancient times. This ritual is held once a year. The purpose of the ritual is to allow the priests to try to communicate with the Storm Goddess.
During the ceremony, a high priest will lead six priests and offer a basin of seawater taken from the depths of the Twin Seas in the center of the altar. All the priests in turn drip blood into the stone basin filled with seawater as a means of communication.
The medium of the gods.
Then, the high priest will offer tribute and begin to pray, and the remaining six priests will gather next to the altar, kneel on the ground, and pray with the high priest.
Although this ritual has never been interrupted for thousands of years, even when the Haworth Islands were invaded by giants, no ritual has ever received a response from the Storm Goddess.
However, during a routine ceremony not long ago, High Priest Anji and his group of priests received a very vague "oracle" during prayer.
At that time, a thin layer of mist suddenly appeared over the stone basin filled with sea water, and at the same time, billowing white water vapor flowed out of the stone basin, and soon the entire altar was covered inside.
Angie, the high priest who presided over the sacrificial activities, entered a state of hazy illusion after inhaling the shallow mist. In this state, she seemed to hear the hollow echo from the abyss deep in the Twin Seas.
This voice flowed into her mind, and a line of writing was printed in her consciousness - "I will return! My messenger will contact you, offer your loyalty, and I will become your patron saint again!"
After receiving these words, Anji immediately reported the matter to the Storm Queen Fina of the Singing Tribe, and Fina felt that it was not appropriate to disclose this matter to the other two tribes for the time being, so as not to cause a backlash from the other tribes.
At the same time, she also hopes that the chanting tribe will become the biggest contributor to welcoming the return of the Storm Goddess, so that with the help of the goddess's power, she can completely bring the other two tribes under her command.
She will become the only "Storm Queen" of the entire Amazon clan!
Therefore, Fina concealed the unusual changes caused by the ritual. She secretly asked the high priest Anji to continue contacting the Storm Goddess and find a way to find the goddess's messenger.
According to the records handed down from ancient times, the goddess's most trusted servants were the giant sea swords that once massacred the Amazon tribe, so both Fina and Anji believed that the messenger of the Storm Goddess should be a sea giant.
Since the end of the ceremony, High Priest Anji has been trying to contact the messenger of the Storm Goddess, and finally succeeded in reusing the ceremony on a stormy night and heard the terrifying and strange roar of the sea giant.
The sea giant's voice beat rhythmically into the high priest's soul, and she found that she could understand the giant's roar and understand what the giant meant.
It is demanding sacrifices and announces that it will land from the west of the Haworth Islands in four days, bringing news to all Amazon tribes that the Storm Goddess will resurrect.
The sea giant made Anji its spokesperson and asked Anji to be ready to provide food for it to enjoy after landing.
It wants to eat people!
However, even with such a terrifying request, Fina, who was blinded by the sense of honor of being the first person to welcome the return of the goddess, still agreed.
She asked Anji to select a total of 200 "youngest, strongest and most delicious" men from the tribe, and prepared to sacrifice them to the "messenger" after it landed.
However, now that all the sacrifices have been prepared, the "messenger" suddenly lost news.
It should have appeared on the westernmost reef of the Haworth Islands last night, but the priests led by Angie waited there for a whole day and night, but did not even see a hair on it.
Fina, who was let go by the "messenger", was a little annoyed and anxious. She ordered Anji to start using the ritual to contact the Storm Goddess again, but this time, the Storm Goddess never responded to them.
Whether it was the goddess or the messenger, all traces were completely lost, as if everything that happened not long ago was just the hallucination of the high priest Anji.
If the words that the Storm Goddess had imprinted on the high priest's mind hadn't faded, I'm afraid even Anji himself would have thought that he had worked too hard recently and had fantasies during the ceremony.
After losing all information about the goddess and the messenger, Storm Queen Fina and her high priest could only stumble around like headless flies. They tried all kinds of rituals about the goddess handed down from ancient times.
I tried all over the place, but still couldn't get any response from the abyss.
Not long before Xue Hua and the others arrived in Yuxon, the high priest Anji had just completed a barbaric living sacrifice. She slaughtered five "male animals" like slaughtering livestock, and poured their blood mixed with their brains.
In a stone basin filled with water from the abyss.
The high priest and her priests smeared these disgusting mixtures on their bodies after praying in an attempt to strengthen their connection with the goddess.
This barbaric and terrifying ritual comes from the earliest Amazon sacrificial rituals. Because the sacrificial method was too bloody and cruel, this ritual was declared abolished as early as that era.
And even after performing this anti-human ritual, Angie still failed to get any follow-up information about the Storm Goddess and the messenger, which made both her and her master feel very frustrated and confused.
In the secret room on the second floor of the Presbyterian Church wooden house, Fina was listening carefully to the high priest's report about the previous ceremony. When she heard that the ceremony had no effect in the end, she finally couldn't help but frown in annoyance.
"The goddess no longer responds to you, high priest! Should you give me an explanation?"
"Female...Your Majesty the Queen, the goddess is definitely real! The oracle she gave me is still engraved in my mind..."
"Engraved in your mind? Do you want me to dig out your brain to verify it?!"
Fina leaned forward slightly, with a gentle smile on her face.
"No...it's not like that..." Angie was frightened by Fina's expression. She knew from the time she first started serving the queen that if the queen is angry like you, then
You at least have a chance to save yourself, but if she starts to smile at you tenderly and affectionately... then you can prepare to write a will...
"Last chance, High Priest, there are many people in your priest group who are eyeing your position..."
Seeing Anji's trembling look, Fina sat back on the chair with satisfaction. She gently stroked the spear on the armrest of the wicker chair with her right hand, her tone filled with casual indifference and calm cruelty.
"I...I understand, Her Majesty Queen Fina, I will not let you down again..." (To be continued)