Chapter 676: Nanmu Mountain
Like the previous Beast God Ceremony, if there are orcs who mastered the secret skills of the royal family, there is basically no need to get the perfect skull gem from them, because the sacrifices in their families are their first choice.
The importance of perfect skull gems to sacrifices is just like the demand of human wizards for top-level magic stones.
A large magic circle cannot function at all without a perfect skull gem.
And the perfect skull gems will only appear once every hundred years in the major death places of the entire orc empire, or man-made death places, and only in the sacrifices of the beast gods can it be harvested once every ten years.
Dead places need to be maintained, and what is needed is a large number of corpses. The good thing is that among the orcs, the peak orcs are born to make corpses. As long as there is enough food, there will be a steady stream of peak orcs.
Even with such an investment, Deathland can only produce some common-quality dead air condensate skeletons. Sometimes better skeletons will appear if you are lucky, but there are too few perfect skeleton gems, which makes some large magicians of the Orc Empire The array can only be vacant.
However, only one kind of skull gemstone will appear in the Beast God Ceremony, which is the perfect skull gemstone. This is considered by the priests as a gift from the Beast God. Festivals have certain expectations.
In the previous year's Beast God Ceremony, many high-level priests would wait outside, in order to obtain the perfect skull gems that the orcs obtained from the festival space as soon as possible.
This year alone, due to the impact of the Great War, everything has to be prepared for the Great War, so this time only the wolf cavalry commanders will participate in the Beast God Ceremony, which makes all the high-level priests have a lot of confidence in this Beast God Ceremony. All lost interest.
The high-level wizard Dono was forcibly assigned, and due to the lack of middle and low-level priests, he had to preside over the selection. He thought it was a waste of energy and no rewards. Abel.
A few days later, on October 15th, Enli's junior priest appeared on the square of the Beast God Temple. At this time, the square was divided into two areas, one was the 30 orcs who had passed the selection, and the other was the orcs who had been eliminated.
"The Beast God Ceremony is about to start, all the orcs who have passed the selection come to gather!" the junior priest Enli shouted.
The 30 orcs who had been prepared for a long time had already bathed and cleansed their bodies, and all the armor and equipment on their bodies had been wiped clean. Everyone came to Enli's junior priest with solemn expressions.
Abel stood at the first place in the team. This was recommended by everyone. The orc himself respects strength, and he is the strongest, so he is naturally ranked first.
"All the wargs, follow me!" Enli, the junior priest, looked at the thirty orcs in good health with satisfaction. This was a sign of respect for the beast god, and he waved his hand and said.
The junior priest of Enli jumped on a wolf, and everyone got on their respective mounts, and followed him to the Nanmu Mountain.
Nanmu Mountain looked ordinary, but Abel found countless death energy circles along the way, and these magic circles surrounded the entire Nanmu Mountain.
The tight defense here made him very grateful. If he didn't have the identity of Becher Wolf Cavalry Commander, he would not be able to enter Nanmu Mountain without being discovered without 'teleportation'.
After entering Nanmu Mountain, all the orcs got off their mounts and led them forward.
At the foot is a stone road, each stone is carved with different patterns,
There are various beasts, battle scenes, important historical moments of orcs, scenery of the orc empire, etc. Almost all things related to orcs appear on the stones on the stone road.
Although Abel is a human being, he felt that from the moment he stepped on this stone road, all the orcs seemed to be walking on a pilgrimage, and every step under his feet was the history and glory of the orcs.
The team moved forward silently, and the walking speed was not fast, and the junior priest Enli didn't have any intention of urging them. It was near noon that the team came to a huge stone wall.
At this time, Senior Priest Dono had brought his eight skeletons and stood in front of the stone wall. The stone wall was very smooth and had no patterns. In front of the stone wall was a concave stone platform.
"My lord, all thirty orcs who participated in the Beast God Ceremony are here!" the junior priest Enli said respectfully to the senior priest Dono.
"Well, let's start!" Senior Priest Dono nodded and said.
He is not satisfied with this year's ceremony, because there are too few orcs participating, and there are no orcs watching the ceremony this year, but what can be done? Activities, but also give way.
"Carry the sacrifice!" Enli junior priest shouted loudly.
Following his voice, a team of 20 peak knights came from the side mountain road. The peak knights did not ride on the symbiotic pigs, and the backs of the 20 symbiotic pigs were all living spirit beasts , there are twenty of them.
"Sacrifice!" Enli's junior priest shouted again.
A peak knight stepped forward and placed a spirit beast on the concave stone platform, then took out a short knife and stabbed it at the neck of the spirit beast. The spirit beast struggled desperately, but how could the bound spirit beast resist it? Got it.
The blood flowed into the concave stone platform along the neck of the spirit beast, and the spirit beast was also constantly struggling on the stone platform.
As the blood flowed in, the blood slowly seeped into the concave stone platform. As the blood seeped more and more, the concave stone platform emitted a burst of green light, and then the struggling spirit beast was engulfed by the green light.
Just a few seconds later, the green light disappeared, along with the struggling spirit beast, and the concave stone platform became clean again, as if nothing had ever appeared on it.
Abel didn't perceive any mana fluctuations or death energy fluctuations, but a strange energy that appeared and disappeared with the green light, which he couldn't understand.
The process of offering sacrifices was carried out unhurriedly. A spirit beast was placed on the concave stone platform, and then disappeared.
Senior Priest Dono watched with some heartache as these spirit beasts were bloodletted and sacrificed one by one. Although he knew that this was a gift for the beast god, if he could choose, he would rather stop the sacrifice of the beast god than Waste these twenty spirit beasts.
You must know that these spirit beasts were not randomly selected, each spirit beast is an intermediate-level spirit beast, and they are all spirit beasts with the most vitality.
For these mid-level spirit beasts, the temple mobilized countless combat forces and killed many people to capture all twenty spirit beasts.
Because the Beast God Ceremony cannot be stopped, the chief priest of the Beast God Temple has received the Beast God's information, and the Beast God Ceremony must be held every ten years, and the Beast God will give back corresponding rewards.
And these sacrifices are important energy to ensure the continued existence of the beast god, so even if they can't get enough rewards this year, they must also sacrifice the sacrifices.
Abel was also very surprised at this time. Although he didn't know all the spirit beasts in front of him, the aura revealed by each one was so powerful that it was the top combat power among the middle-level spirit beasts.
It is not difficult to kill mid-level spirit beasts, but there are two difficulties, one is to find spirit beasts. It is not easy to find spirit beasts, because spirit beasts have a strong sense of place, and the areas they choose are in remote mountains, forests, lakes and other places where there is no human habitation. If you want to find them, you must have enough people to search for them.
The second is to capture spirit beasts alive. Spirit beasts, especially powerful spirit beasts, are easy to kill but very difficult to capture alive.
There are many spirit beasts that will directly explode their crystal cores when they know that they are about to be captured. One can imagine how difficult it is to capture a mid-level spirit beast alive.
And these twenty mid-level spirit beasts had to be captured alive, and Abel was also deeply surprised by the high price involved.
After twenty mid-level spirit beasts were sacrificed, the concave stone platform gradually became crystal clear, and the performance of the stone was like crystal, and then a green light shot out from the concave stone platform, shooting directly at the huge surface. mirror-like stone walls.
After the concave stone platform emitted this green light, it seemed that all the energy of the twenty mid-level spirit beasts sacrificed just now had been aroused, and the surface of the crystal returned to the original stone surface.