After the third challenge of the promotion ceremony, Anne and Funya were brought back to the training camp by Sarah. They needed to dress up and attend the afternoon ceremony in the best spirit.
The promotion ceremony was held at the Ceremony Square in Yuxon City, the same square where the first challenge "Firewood Mountain" was held.
When Xue Hua and Kane returned to the Foreign Guest Building, they saw that the entire square had been completely rearranged.
The ceremonial platform built with newly felled logs replaced the previously burnt blackened firewood mountain, and the surrounding vine bridges were also hung with many gorgeous petals.
In the center of the square, on the newly built ceremony platform, dozens of chanting clan priests wearing white robes were performing their final blessing prayers.
A large number of twisted wooden pedestals and temporary wooden stands surrounded the entire ceremony square. The pale white incense smoke wafting from the incense stands placed in every corner of the square made the entire ceremony platform look like a fairyland.
The promotion ceremony is a very strong and solemn ceremony no matter where it is held, and its importance is no less important than the same annual inauguration ceremony.
Every mercenary who is able to pass difficult challenges and obtain promotion qualifications can be described as a treasure in the ocean. Many of them will be included in various elite legions or organizations immediately after receiving the promotion ceremony and become mercenaries.
Core member.
Not all mercenaries have the courage to perform the promotion ceremony. There are also a large number of mercenaries who participate in the promotion ceremony every year, but have never been qualified for promotion.
This ritual, which has always had a high death rate, is even more severe than a real army crossing a single-plank bridge.
This can be seen from the three challenges just concluded.
There were hundreds of Amazon mercenaries who initially participated in the first challenge, but after three challenges, only Anne and Funia finally passed the challenge.
Xue Hua had always been focused on his girls before, so he didn't pay attention. Now by asking Kane, he found out that in the first challenge "Huo Mu Mountain", he died because he didn't have time to shout the word "abstain".
There were more than 60 participants during this period.
The second challenge, the Flying Snake Swamp, was even more intense. Nearly half of the more than 20 participants who participated in the challenge did not come out of the swamp alive.
And if there were no special circumstances that caused the third challenge of this promotion ceremony to be a little strange, generally speaking, the third challenge is the most bloody and cruel stage.
Just take the last promotion ceremony of the Amazon tribe of Haworth Islands as an example. Among the eight participants who participated in the last challenge, only three came out alive.
Two of them were eliminated, and only one participant successfully passed and qualified for promotion.
This is not even the most cruel.
In the history of the Amazon family, since the Haworth Islands were qualified to hold promotion ceremonies, there have been dozens of situations where no participant came out of the assessment field alive after the three challenges were completed. During this period,
This shows how intense the competition is.
And there is another most important rule, that is, once a mercenary is over two hundred years old, he has actually lost the right to participate in the promotion ceremony in the normal way.
Just like Chui Ji and her teammate, according to normal methods, the two of them should not have appeared in the challenge of the promotion ceremony at all.
This was the qualification that Singing Queen Fina had forcibly obtained for them, even at the risk of being charged with killing her own people.
Unfortunately, in the end, the two still failed to qualify for promotion.
At the edge of the festival square, Xue Hua looked at the bustling scene in front of him and couldn't help but smile.
Carp leaps over the dragon gate.
The two girls finally achieved this most difficult step.
Although there is also the help of Youjin Gene Potion, if they are not willing to work hard, even if Xue Hua asks Abathur to prepare the best genetic potion, it will not help them at all.
They deserve everything in front of them. For this day, the two girls have endured a lot of hardships.
Well, it makes me sad just thinking about it...
Xue Hua curled his lips, and his mood quickly became high again.
After the two girls were officially promoted to Amazon professionals, their "complete contract" with him was automatically terminated.
That thing can only be used to restrain mercenaries, not professionals.
This is a fundamental change.
However, he did not feel any worries about this. On the contrary, he had always wanted to terminate the contract he had made earlier to keep the secrets of the insect swarm.
Because the status of the two parties involved in the contract is very unequal, especially the "life sharing" that is heavily biased towards professionals.
The enemies Xue Hua is fighting now are all very terrifying enemies, and even he himself does not have absolute confidence that he will be as lucky as he was last time against the Skeleton King.
If something happens to him in the future, he doesn't want the two girls to be buried with him...
Bah bah!
The bad one doesn't work, the good one doesn't work...you can't curse yourself even if your balls hurt!
Xue Hua quickly spat twice.
Kane, who was walking in front, turned around and looked at him with a very strange expression. He didn't understand what this guy was doing and why he was spitting in someone else's festival square?
Xue Hua laughed awkwardly, ignored Kane's strange gaze, and walked quickly towards the foreign guest building not far away.
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On the other side, in the secret room of the Presbyterian Church, the Singing Queen was half-lying on a wicker chair, listening to Lenia, who had just been promoted to high priest in front of her, reporting to her the preparations for the Tidestone Sacrifice.
The former high priest didn't know what kind of curse he was under, but he still hadn't woken up yet anyway, so Lenia, the "acting high priest", could only continue to work hard.
"Your Majesty, the sacrifices to the Tidestone are almost ready. All the sacrifices are ready. We are just waiting for your order to begin the sacrifices immediately."
After saying this, Leniya hesitated for a moment, and then asked in a somewhat hesitant tone like the Queen of Chanting: "Queen, do you need to inform Her Royal Highness the Queen of the other two clans about the resumption of the Tidestone Sacrifice... After all.
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"No need for the moment, you don't have to worry about this matter, just do your own thing."
Fina reprimanded in a tone that left no room for doubt.
"Yes..." Lenia pursed her lips, wanting to say something but in the end she didn't say it.
Although the Chanting Clan is responsible for all ritual matters in the entire Amazon tribe, the resumption of a long-abandoned sacrificial activity still requires reporting to the queens of the other two clans.
She was a little afraid that when the queens of the other two tribes would inquire, Fina would throw the blame on her again.
After all, this is how her former high priest Angie was sent to death row.
Fina ignored Lenia's uneasiness. All the priests in the priesthood had at least one direct female blood descendant in the clan. With these hostages, Fina was not afraid that these priests would dare to betray the secret.
"The first sacrificial event will be arranged at midnight. Prepare more sacrifices, but don't make it too grand, and don't allow the news to be leaked to the outside world. Do you understand?"
