Lord of Arcane

Chapter 419 Sacrificial Ceremony
Three days later, on Moon Festival, Xia Duo gave all the citizens a day off.

During the day, the people who were allocated houses invited other people to come to their house as guests. Although the current conditions were relatively difficult, it did not prevent them from having fun. A piece of jerky was the best gift for them to entertain guests.

At the same time, Xia Duo was also discussing the sacrificial ceremony at night with Layton and Mott. Both of them were novices. Although they had learned the corresponding knowledge in the temple, they seemed to be in a hurry when they presided over it themselves.

And it was Xia Duo who made them even more hectic.

It is normal to change the customs and change the customs subtly, but Xia Duo also has his own persistence on key points.

"In addition to sacrificing the dead, the moon will also be sacrificed during the ceremony. I have already prepared the sacrifices!"

Layton naturally did not dare to object, but Mott raised an objection, "But my lord, doing so will destroy the integrity of the ceremony, and the effect of the blessing will be reduced."

"Don't worry about the blessing effect, what I need is the ritual itself, you know?"

This time, compared to the form, Xia Duo gave up the essence without hesitation. In fact, the form of the ceremony itself is the real essence for him.

The so-called sacrificial rituals are nothing more than eliminating negative energy, increasing positive energy, and providing protection with holy power, but these can actually be done normally.

But the Moon Festival does not happen every day. For this day, he also made a lot of preparations in advance.

After several discussions, Xia Duo finally persuaded Mott, and the three reorganized the ceremony process. When Mott and Layton were in the ceremony rehearsal, Xia Duo came to the cemetery alone, and he also had to rehearse it again, so as not to Night went wrong.

What he wants to rehearse is not a ritual, but a spell, or a large illusion.

The difficulty of spellcasting itself is not that difficult. The difficulty lies in the fact that outside of spellcasting, it is necessary to perfectly match the illusion with the real scene. This actually tests the artistic ability of the spellcaster.

This is like, originally wanted to make a realistic illusion, but turned it into a cartoon.

At present, Xia Duo has not mastered the magic of the mind. The illusions he can provide are only audio-visual and cannot penetrate into the soul. Therefore, this illusion is actually to make all the recipients unable to discover the flaws at the same time.

This is difficult.

Fortunately, there is magic in this world. As long as it is not too exaggerated, causing the three views to collapse directly, ordinary people still have a high level of acceptance of uncommon sense phenomena.

For this illusion, even if it is regarded as magic by the citizens, Xia Duo can accept it. After all, his original intention is only to create a concept.

It's just that compared to the lord's spellcasting, it's more natural for the people to discover it by themselves.

After rehearsing twice, Xia Duo felt that it should not be a big problem, but it was a bit weird to rehearse the phantom scene at night during the day.

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Soon, the day time passed, and the round full moon quietly came to the hollow without knowing when.

The citizens of Daxia Territory were led by the leaders of their respective working groups to the outside of the cemetery. Now that the cemetery has just been built, there are actually not many graves in it. There is a lot of open space, which is more than enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

There will be more tombs in the future, and perhaps only people with a certain status can enter.

As one of the hosts of the ceremony, Layton took the lead on the stage. Although he didn't have the priest's robes in his arms, he looked very majestic and sacred surrounded by the holy light. Mott was followed by Mott, who was also surrounded by the holy light, but died. The holy power is not as divine and dazzling as the glorious holy power, and its true nature is dim and mysterious.

As for Xia Duo, as the lord, of course he does not need to preside over it himself, as long as he is present, he must be the focus of the audience.

At this time, he was standing beside the ceremony venue, watching quietly. Before tonight, he had watched the rehearsal twice, but he hadn't seen any more, and there is still a certain difference between the rehearsal and the actual event. The difference is that there is no holy power involved in the rehearsal, and it is more of a rehearsal in the form of the process.

Xia Duo never went to Layton or Mott to ask for the holy power for research, but every time he had the opportunity to see the situation of the holy power, he would observe it carefully, trying to discover the mystery of the holy power.

Right now, the ceremony is about to begin, and Xia Duo is even more energetic.

"The ruler of all things, the lord of order, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, sweeping away the haze."

Layton just recited two prayers, diffused the divine radiance, and then gave way to Mott. At this time, only the four corners of the cemetery and the fire were lit at the ceremony site. Layton's holy power seemed to ignite the cemetery. The light inside was evened out, although it was still a little dim, but counting the bright moonlight, it was already comparable to dusk.

However, as soon as Mott appeared and took over the ceremony, the light was still like dusk, but in the personal perception of everyone present, it suddenly became much darker. It seemed that even the moonlight above his head was much darker.

Mott didn't recite any proverbs or prayers, but just walked around the cemetery, spreading the holy power everywhere, especially in the new tombs.

In Xia Duo's field of vision, a peaceful and peaceful aura diffused, covering the entire cemetery, making people feel calm, as if they were not even afraid of death itself, and even had a faint feeling of joy because of death .

"As expected, he is the Lord of the End of All Things!"

Xia Duo watched quietly, the changes in the aura caused by the Saint Power of Death were only superficial, and were the easiest to be noticed by people, but in the deeper essence, Xia Duo saw that the magic net here had also undergone some subtle changes. Be a little dull.

This is not an illusion. When he tried to cast a spell, he obviously felt an extremely weak resistance. All spells related to positive and negative energies were restricted, which affected almost all spells, because positive and negative energies are not just positive and negative. Negative energy itself, and the positive and negative tendencies of other elements.

Any spell is more or less related to positive and negative energies, even if it is an evocation spell, positive and negative energies are also needed to guide and shape the energy, otherwise it is not a spell, but pure elemental energy.

In addition, Xia Duo noticed that the influence of this kind of holy power on the magic net is not constant. As the holy power dissipates and subsides, the magic net is also recovering. In other words, divine spellcasters can also use the holy power to cast Exactly the same spell as Arcane Spellcaster.

Of course, this requires the divine spellcaster to have the same magical attainments as the arcane spellcaster.

What about the other way around?
Xia Duo thought of arcane energy, but arcane energy is just a kind of pure energy, which is different from holy power, which has specific attributes, but relative imitation may be feasible.

At the same time, Shaduo also thought of the saying in Netheril that gods are just more powerful arcanists!
Of course, this is not the mainstream view, but to some extent it also reflects a kind of ambition of the Arcanist-to become an existence equal to the gods.

Perhaps the arcane energy is a kind of power produced to match the holy power.

For a while, Xia Duo's heart was a little confused, and he was even more eager to become an arcanist.

(End of this chapter)