South of Yuxon City, in front of a sea cliff facing the depths of the Twin Seas on Haworth Island, under the silver moonlight, a group of priests in white were driving a large number of thin men in ragged clothes to carry heavy tribute boxes.
Not far in front of them, an altar camouflaged by tree branches was being quickly erected.
The sea cliff where the Tide Stone is located protrudes more than ten meters from the coast, and behind the sea cliff is a lush hillside jungle.
In the jungle on this hillside, hundreds of Punisher sentries were spread out, and under the leadership of their leader Nuwam, they surrounded the entire hillside.
These punisher sentries set up open posts and secret posts, using the utmost vigilance to keep an eye on every path leading to the sea cliff.
Some of them are guarding the road with bows, arrows and spears, warning and sending back those tribesmen who inadvertently intrude, while the other part hides themselves in disguise, hiding in the treetops, using internal vision skills to monitor all those who may sneak into them.
Road inside the cordon.
Sea Spear Queen Hannah is right. There are indeed people in these secret sentries who are responsible for monitoring the movements underground to prevent anyone from escaping and sneaking in. However, even with the internal vision skill level of the three Storm Queens, they cannot see through from the ground.
The passage network of insect swarms, because they are buried too deep.
Through this network of passages, the four of Xue Hua easily bypassed the exposed and hidden sentries set up by the punishers, and directly emerged from a temporary exit in the bushes near the altar.
After leaving the underground, the two queens immediately unfolded their original force fields and enveloped everyone in them.
The Singing Queen Fina is a legendary powerhouse. Her perception ability can even catch the surveillance king insect at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Unless there is a powerhouse of the same level who uses the original power to blind her perception, no one can easily think of it.
Close to her area.
This is one of the important reasons why Kane insisted on bringing the two queens here together.
The four of them were wrapped in a perception-impeding shield formed by the original power. After Kane released the group invisibility spell, he carefully pushed aside the bushes in front of him and looked from between the trees to the tidal wave at the end of the sea cliff.
stone.
"Altar... Fina has indeed resumed the sacrifice of the Tide Stone!"
Sarah saw the altar covered by camouflage of branches and vines at first glance - this level of camouflage can only deceive remote observers, but once it gets closer, its true identity is instantly revealed.
"Don't be impulsive now, that's not why we came here." Hannah patted Sarah on the shoulder, telling her not to worry and to take a look first before talking.
The four of them lurked in the bushes less than 200 meters away from the altar, silently observing the priests of the Singing Clan as they completed building the altar and placing the tributes on the sea cliff.
As midnight approached, all preparations were finally completed.
A figure holding a dark gold spear came out of the woods - it was Fina, the Queen of the Singing Clan.
She looked at the altar that had been set up and nodded with satisfaction, then walked to the high priest in white beside the altar.
"Everything is ready, Your Majesty."
"Very good, no one else noticed it?"
"No, it's been very quiet here, Your Majesty."
"Well, let's start now!"
Fina nodded and said to Lenia impatiently.
"Yes." The high priest agreed and quickly led the group of priests onto the completed altar.
In the bushes on the other side, Xue Hua and the other four people were hiding and quickly cheered up.
"It's about to begin. Let's see what kind of trick they are playing."
Sarah murmured something in a low voice, and then watched the sacrifice with full concentration.
On the altar in front of the sea cliff, the high priest led a group of priests in white clothes and placed a tall stone basin in the center of the altar, and then arranged them at the four corners of the altar to begin the sacrificial ceremony.
The high priest stood next to the stone basin and recited a prayer that Xue Hua could not understand at all in a strange and trembling tone.
Every time she recited a sentence, the other priests in the four corners followed suit.
While these priests in white were reciting prayers along with the high priest, they also knelt on the altar and danced with weird movements. The whole sacrificial process was full of weird and mysterious meanings, which made people have goosebumps all over their bodies.
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As the sacrifice progressed, large amounts of blue mist suddenly began to evaporate from the stone basin placed in the center of the altar.
Seeing this, the two Storm Queens' expressions immediately became solemn. They couldn't remember when such a strange phenomenon would occur during the rituals and sacrifices in the clan.
"It seems that something is indeed wrong. I can feel a strange power from the fog...a brand-new power that is completely different from the power we have seen..."
Sea Spear Queen Hannah's expression began to become serious. She had just felt an unprecedented energy, which suddenly gave rise to an ominous premonition in her heart.
"Yes, I have also sensed it. This power...is somewhat like the original, but not exactly the same..."
Sarah also frowned. She originally came with the purpose of exposing Fina's diorama, but now it seems that things are not as simple as she imagined...
Above the altar, more and more blue mist poured out from the stone basin, and Fina, who was standing under the altar, had a look of ecstasy on her face.
The goddess responded to her!
The goddess responded to her request without hesitation!
What does this prove?!
This proves that the goddess has recognized her!
She is not far away from everything she wants!
But now is not the time, she still has to endure it until the goddess returns with strength!
Fina thought like this, then stepped forward, walked to the front of the altar, crossed her arms on her chest, and slowly prostrated herself beside the altar.
"Dear goddess, your followers request to meet you..."
Then, a voice suddenly sounded in Fina's mind.
"Come to the Tidestone, my disciples... We must be more cautious in our communication..."
Fina bowed down respectfully, then turned around and walked towards the Tide Rock on the top of the sea cliff surrounded by blue mist.
At the same time, a dark cloud came from nowhere and suddenly blocked the moonlight in the sky, and the entire sea cliff suddenly fell into a darkness that could not be seen.
The priests lit torches, only to find that their queen had already walked to the Tidestone.
She stood there upright with her head raised, her eyes white and looking at the sky, as if she was experiencing some kind of illusion.
In the small bushes on the other side, not long after the blue sea mist emerged from the stone basin, the fragment of world will in Xue Hua's inventory suddenly started to vibrate.
Fortunately, this time, although its abnormal movement was more violent than the previous one, it was also much shorter. Xue Hua was sweating with cold sweat and tried hard to cover it up in the end.
At the same time, Queen Song and Queen Sea Spear were looking at Fina in front of the Tide Stone with shocked faces. This posture of rolling their eyes and looking up to the sky had appeared in the ancient books of their tribes.
This is the typical state of communication between the high priest of the clan and the gods before offering sacrifices to the goddess! (To be continued)