"God of War." A militiaman who should be a descendant of immigrants from the former Holy Visby Empire groaned. "How evil and how blasphemous this is."
Lawrence felt that the summary made by this militiaman was very insightful. The hill made of bones in front of him was about two people high, and it exuded the stench of rotting meat. The pile of bones in this hill made up of
At the bottom of the hill are some bones that have completely turned into white bones, while many of the bones above still retain blood-red shreds of meat.
In fact, many beasts have the habit of leaving the remains of food they have eaten in or near their lairs, so smelling a stench when exploring beast caves is a common problem for most people who have had adventures.
It's a very normal thing. But this pile of things obviously exceeds the upper limit of what everyone can tolerate.
Because Lawrence found that among the pile of corpses there were many bones belonging to intelligent races, such as a skull that clearly belonged to a minor human. What was shocking was that the skull was yellow and brittle, and there were still remaining teeth on it.
Seal. It means that this poor child was eaten by goblins.
"It's so damned." Nora flew to Lawrence's shoulder and saw the small skull he took out from the huge pile of bones, and her face suddenly turned ugly.
In any civilized society, eating intelligent creatures is a taboo, let alone eating intelligent creatures on a daily basis. This is an important reason why every race of intelligent creatures in this world is fighting to the death with the goblins.
Therefore, a part of the team, led by the Rat Man, began to set up defenses, while others cleaned up the large pile of bones. According to Lawrence's order, they will move all the bones outside and build a collective cemetery.
It is also planned to ask the clergy of the God of Death to offer a requiem prayer.
As the bones were removed, a tall golden statue appeared in front of everyone. The first militiamen who noticed the golden light in the pile of bones thought they had found gold.
However, after clearing a larger area, they discovered that some of the gold looked a bit white under the light and did not look like gold. The most important thing is that this thing seemed to be carved from a large piece of golden rock.
The rough surface looks like a bunch of small squares.
A fact that even ordinary people know is that if the gold monomer is larger in size, there is only one kind of gold nugget in nature, and the edges of gold nugget should be rounded. This kind of surface has an obvious crystal feel.
The golden yellow metal should be pyrite, which is commonly known as fool's gold.
After spending most of the day cleaning up the pile of bones, a rough pyrite statue carved like a big potato stacked on top of a small potato appeared in front of everyone. But at this moment, a heart-stopping wave of
The feeling appeared in the hearts of everyone in this cave hall.
"Be careful, this is a high-level altar to the Goblin God." Just when the white shadow in Lawrence's mind released a ball of silver-white light to drive away this uncomfortable feeling, that person
The rat priest opened his eyes wide and screamed, "It is best for all non-professionals to exit this space now."
"All non-professionals exit the cave immediately." Lawrence and Fatina gave the order at the same time. In an instant, those militia soldiers who felt uncomfortable exited the space together with the rat people, leaving only a dozen low-level extraordinary warriors.
The author and Lawrence stayed in this big cave.
"This altar seems to be alive." As a divine construct, Nora immediately felt the difference in this altar. "What it just did seemed to be after discovering our situation.
There was some kind of counterattack."
"——You are right." The rat priest glanced at Nora floating in the air in shock and said seriously. At first, he just thought that Nora was just the kind of spell caster or wealthy person.
A constructed puppet. Later, when they saw Lawrence and the others chatting with this puppet, they realized that she was a constructed being.
But now after Nora immediately told about the changes in the altar, the priest discovered that Nora was even more magical than he imagined. Of course, this was not the time to consider these issues, and he quickly retracted his divergent thinking.
He said to the remaining people, "This should be a high-level altar. For safety reasons, I think this place should be destroyed now."
"You're right." Lawrence nodded, "But how should it be destroyed? You see, we only have a dozen transcendent beings here. If we want to destroy an altar of this level, we cannot guarantee safety by just relying on the words of these people.
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Of course, the pure power of faith that has been condensed into liquid in Nola's hands should be able to destroy this altar. But now Lawrence and the others don't want to expose the ability that Nola has. The most important thing is that there are no other people in this place who can deal with this goblin power.
God's Altar Method.
"There is only one way now." The rat priest said with a serious face, "That is to build a temporary altar for my lord, the Great Horned Rat, here, and then I will preside over a battle sacrificial ceremony to sacrifice this altar to my lord.
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"Sounds very good." Lawrence nodded, and then asked the next question he was concerned about. "What you just said is that we are building an altar to His Majesty the Horned Rat here, so people like us are not rat people.
Can people also participate in such sacrificial rituals?"
After all, each god has different requirements for non-believers to participate in their own sacrificial rituals. Deities such as the God of Knowledge or the Goddess of Agriculture generally allow non-believers to participate except for individual sacrificial rituals, as long as they can maintain their integrity.
Just respect the gods.
But some gods are not like this. For example, most of the elves’ gods do not welcome non-believers to participate in any sacrificial rituals related to them, while the dwarves’ gods only allow non-believers to participate in a very small number of rituals related to them.
Religious rituals, and these rituals are often related to certain festivals.
That's why Lawrence asked the priest about whether non-believers could participate in the sacrifice. After all, in a world without gods like the previous life, differences between religions would cause death. In this world with gods,
This kind of problem is naturally a top priority and cannot be ignored.
"My Lord is not a conservative god." The rat-man priest said firmly. "People like you who show enough respect for my Lordless Lord are allowed to participate in my Lord's sacrificial activities."
"That's good." After receiving a positive answer, Lawrence nodded. As for other issues, he didn't have to worry about it. After all, the horned rat, as the god of the rat people, had long been recognized as an ally by the human gods. As a human, he participated in the rat race.
Human sacrificial rituals can also be conducted openly and openly.
For example, Lawrence knew that many human sewer cleaners in cities would pray to the horned rat statue on the sewer wall before work. A small but enthusiastic sacrificial ceremony would also be held during the harvest every autumn.
The next step is to build the temporary horned rat altar. Because this is a cave, a lot of work can be eliminated. Only a simple arrangement is needed to build an altar for temporary use.
Soon, several humans and ratmen dragged a tree trunk from outside the cave, and then several ratmen and humans with carpenter experience used the tools they had brought to set up camp to carve it according to the requirements of the ratman priest.
.Lawrence donated a palm-sized gold cake and worked with Nora to make a temporary holy emblem.
Finally, when night fell, everything was arranged, and we were waiting for the rat priest to start.