Chapter 1570: "Double Act" Cecil 5 Years, in early spring, with the Frost Sky leaving the highest point in the night sky, the Frost Sky gradually rose from the horizon, and the cold winter entrenched in the northern country finally gradually left. An atmosphere of looking forward to the warm spring blossoms began to gradually brew between cities and villages. The Recovery Festival is approaching. For most countries on this continent, this will be the most important festival of the year.

For the citizens of Cecil City, this year's Recovery Festival is even more special.

This is the first recovery festival since the victory of the Talash Grand Final Battle, the first major festival that the Alliance has welcomed since the celebration of Victory Day, and it is also the day when His Majesty Gowen Cecil ended his tour and returned to his loyal imperial capital. In order to celebrate this special day, the Imperial Royal Family and the Theocracy Council even came forward to consign a grand religious celebration to hold a "blessed prayer and sacrifice ceremony" in the largest Trail Blazers Square in Cecil.

Since the Theocratic Council vigorously rectified the sects across the country and the authority of the church has been completely weakened, priests and believers of various sects have not held a ceremony of this scale for a long time.

For this day, half of the city has been decorated with lights. The Pioneer Square began to prepare for several days ago. Now it has been completely arranged as a sacred ritual venue that conforms to the doctrine of the Three Gods of Prolificity. Various herbs and ores of the three sisters of Dimo ​​Gaia, the goddess of harvest Eve and the goddess of spring, are dotted everywhere in the square. The street lights are tied with dried wheat ears and straw poles specially stored last year, and extending from Pioneer Square to the church area.

The crowd of people who were dressed out of their homes since the early morning, walked along the main road from the church area to the main square, and arrived at the altar area on time before the sun shone on the square. They led the priests in the dressed team to pray to the statue in the morning sun, and poured the dew collected on the first day into the clay pot in front of the altar with the last drop of water falling into the clay pot. The ceremony of praying to the gods began.

Then the trumpet sounded, and bells and drums symbolizing the joy of harvest sounded. The monks wearing garlands walked towards the high platform. They stepped on the thorny road specially paved in front of the high platform with barefoot. The blood under the feet of these priests was regarded as the will of the goddess of spring to melt the winter snow. The saint wearing a simple long skirt and holding wheat ears in his hands also walked onto the high platform. She will preside over the sacrifice ceremony in the next session, as a representative of the devout believers, and directly listen to the will of the gods on the high platform...

And when all this began, Gao Wen stood on the tallest tower at the end of the Trail Blazers Square, quietly overlooking the crowded atmosphere in the square and the solemn and cumbersome sacred rituals on the altar.

Behind him, a large-scale machine was placed in the not-so-spacious room. The machine occupied almost half of the area of ​​the room. It was a hexagonal prism. In the layered metal frame, neatly arranged crystal matrix and rune substrates could be seen. As the crystal emitted a shimmer, a low buzzing sound also came from the depths of the machine and echoed slightly throughout the room.

Outside this room, there are various protective devices distributed throughout the tower, and they are fully armed and determined to judge monks guarding the various places.

These layers of protection are not to ensure Gao Wen's own safety. The safety of a legendary strong man does not require the protection of these things. The real purpose of these protections is to maintain an unprecedentedly powerful anti-divine barrier to ensure that the theocratic Council researchers in the tower can safely record various parameters at the ceremony site, maintain communication with the disobedient courtyard, and not be noticed by the divine half of the rich three gods in this process.

Gao Wen's eyes passed through the window and fell on the altar. He saw that the "saint" had placed the wheat ears in his hand in front of the three holy images. The three holy images were half human and half deer. They showed the posture of Gaia, Eve and Flora, the three sisters politely staring at the world. Accompanied by the solemn and pious prayer in the saint's mouth, the surface of the three holy images immediately appeared, and then the originally dry wheat ears returned to their vitality.

Seeing the statue glowing and the wheat ears turned green, the saint seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. She smiled and nodded. This "image of miracles" indicates that the connection between the gods and the present world has been established. The three goddesses have set their eyes on this sacred sacrifice site. The upcoming sacrifice ceremony here... is a "right move" recognized by the gods.

A familiar breath emerged from the air. Gao Wen heard the voice of amber coming from beside him: "It seems so troublesome... I started preparing a few days ago, and now it has finally started officially. There are still a lot of twists and turns of 'symbolic rituals', what about taking a walk before the sun shines, monks pricking their feet with thorns and putting wheat ears in front of the statue... Isn't this all tossing?"

"The cumbersome religious rituals are to demonstrate the divinity of the gods and to establish a clear distance between the gods and the mortals. At the same time, the process of artificially formulating complex rules and strictly enforcing them, gradually evolving them into iron laws is also a manifestation of the authority of the church," Gao Wen smiled and said casually, "And in the early stages of the society, the cultural level and logical ability of ordinary people were generally not strong. In this case, to ensure that large-scale activities are carried out in an orderly manner. Some strange but compulsory 'rules' are essential. These rules can not only make people feel awe, but also ensure that the sacred ritual scene will not lose control."

Speaking of this, he paused and shook his head: "Of course, with the development of society, the purpose and form of many religious rituals will be 'transformed' to a certain extent. On the one hand, the church must strictly implement its 'core' to show its orthodox status, and on the other hand, it will add a lot of 'private goods' to it under human factors. Anyway, as long as it does not violate the basic dogma of the gods, sacrificial rituals will be successful as long as it can be performed."

"That's right, I suspect that Gaia and the others are directly involved in the final part of the statue's glow," Amber approached Gao Wen, and looked at the square while muttering, "The ascetics in front were to raise money for the soup and medicine in the square halfway through the ceremony..."

Gao Wen: "…"

Although he wanted to remind the Shadow Assault Goose that what was going on in front of him was an extremely serious large-scale experiment that directly affected whether the Ragnarok plan could be carried out smoothly, there was another voice in his heart telling him that this guy was right.

The feeling of being unable to exude a complaint was particularly uncomfortable, so Gao Wen quickly turned his attention to another place. He retracted his gaze from the ceremonial scene in the square and turned to the large equipment in the center of the room. The buzzing device was essentially a high-power anti-divine barrier generator. However, for this special application scenario, it integrated an encrypted communication device inside. Gao Wen reached out to activate the crystal located in front of the device. With the clicking sound of the rune substrate switching, the crystal surface gradually lit up, and then a clear holographic projection appeared in front of him and Amber.

The most eye-catching thing in the center of the holographic projection is the golden oak tree that disobeys the depths of the courtyard. Next to the golden oak tree, Flora, the goddess of spring who was talking to Amoen, heard the movement from the communication device and immediately got up and walked over.

In the background behind Flora, in the dark depths that were still a distance from the golden oak, you could vaguely see other tall and majestic figures gathered in the "assembly venue" and prepared to witness the sacrifice ceremony.

"The ceremony in Cecil City has begun," Gao Wen nodded slightly to the goddess of spring who appeared in the communicator. "As planned, the ceremony scene between Tifeng and Baiyin should also be launched at the same time."

"Yes, we have just felt the strong prayer of the believers," Flora nodded immediately, raised her hand and pointed to the darkness disobeying the distance of the courtyard. "My two sisters have returned to the Kingdom of God to monitor the sacrificial passages. I stay here to pay attention to the changes in the world."

"Well," Gao Wen responded simply, then he seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked again, "There is no problem with the calibration of the sacrifices and the ceremony site? Don't make a mistake in such a large-scale sacrifice passage, which is the first time since ancient times."

"Don't worry!" The goddess of spring smiled brightly on her face, and her front hooves gently tapped on the ground, "Take the things in the house, don't want the house, take away the things with the words "Wude Express, Mission Must be Achieve" printed on the box, don't want those without marks, and things can be taken away without anyone watching them. Once someone sees them, you can't take them of course, except for the person in charge of the handover arranged by the Theocracy Council on site. Simple, we remember clearly!"

Gao Wen nodded while listening, and his heart relaxed a little. To be honest, he didn't suspect that the three goddesses would not even remember such a simple thing, mainly because he was worried that these three sisters would make mistakes because they were too excited. After all, God's human nature is more inclined to "human", and creatures like humans...the intelligence will be significantly reduced when they are about to get off work.

However, when he nodded, Amber next to him seemed to suddenly remember something and came over quickly: "Hey wait! Don't forget to take the things on the altar!"

The goddess of spring in the communication screen was stunned: "Altar? What altar?"

"The platform where your saint is standing!" Amber's eyes suddenly widened, "That is the focus of this sacrifice ceremony! Don't forget to take away the sacrifices on it in the end... Didn't you really forget me, right?"

The goddess of spring suddenly fell silent, and then she used her hooves to dig the ground while turning her face: "I haven't forgotten."

Gao Wen: "…"

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At the same time, on the large altar in the center of the Trail Blazers Square, the saint of Plenty has completed the prayers and blessings before the sacrificial ceremony, and this sacred ceremony is about to usher in a critical stage.

With the eyes of thousands of believers and many priests, this saint with brilliant golden curly hair came to the statue of the three goddesses with an extra serious expression. She lit the incense prepared in front of the statue, and sprinkled the dew collected in the morning on the edge of the incense plate. Then, in the unison of the priests, she took the holy thing handed over by the sacrifice and placed it in front of the statue.

It was the first tender seedling in the temple garden before the Resurrection Festival, the snow water collected during the last snowfall in the cold winter, and the highest-quality lapis lazuli talisman representing the "holy nature" of the three goddesses.

The saint placed these sacrifices at the feet of the statue. This was not the first time she performed a sacrifice ceremony to the three goddesses, but it was definitely the most respectful, serious and solemn time she had ever lived.

Not only because this ceremony was supported by the royal family and the Theocracy Council, but also because on the eve of the royal order, she actually received the revelation of the three goddesses in her sleep, and the goddess directly foreshadowed the arrival of this grand ceremony.

Before the orders of the royal family and the Theocracy Council were issued, we got "oes" from the gods. What else can such a prophet do not mean the true grace and miracle of God? It cannot be because the gods had a meeting with His Majesty the Emperor two months in advance?

With a grateful heart of gratitude for being inspired by the gods and sufficient confidence to be supported by the royal family, the saint of richness took a breath. She felt that this might be the most successful sacrifice ceremony she could have in her life, because... she had already felt that the god's eyes had descended on this land.

There was joy and expectation in that gaze.

On the edge of the Trail Blazers Square, deep in the streets and alleys that believers attending the ceremony did not notice, a large warehouse facility was standing quietly.

This is an inconspicuous warehouse, no different from the common civil storage facilities in this urban area. However, at this time, more than a dozen guard posts were arranged around the inconspicuous warehouse, either open or secretly. The judges and nuns of the tribunal, who were dressed in casual clothes, were vigilant and monitored all the movements at all gates of the warehouse and at every nearby street intersection. Even at least one monitor was responsible for guarding the roofs of every building around the warehouse.

On the tightly protected warehouse front entrance, a small badge with wheat ears as the main body is printed in an inconspicuous corner.

That is the emblem of the three gods of fertility.

A place with sacred emblems is the sacrificial ground.

Veronica, holding a platinum scepter, came to the warehouse. After a brief handover with the sentry at the main entrance, she pushed open the warehouse gate and walked into it.

The rich artistic atmosphere in the warehouse came to loading units in tons, neatly placed shell boxes that were almost piled up into mountains, crystal bombs that could not be seen at first sight, and other dazzling "modern art crystals".

The common point is that it is convenient to use and resistant to storage, simple and easy to stimulate, and does not need to consider the launch environment. Detonation in situ is amazingly powerful.

Of course, for safety reasons, the piles of bombs in this warehouse are actually just part of the bombs. They have been removed and all the fuzes are placed in another warehouse opposite the square, where there is the same layout as here.

Veronica's eyes swept across the warehouse. After confirming that the "sacred ritual field" was as usual for the last time, she took out a piece of paper from her arms, shook it open, and said the words on it expressionlessly: "The symbol of the earth, the master of harvest, the messenger of spring and recovery..."

In the square, the saint in the center of the altar raised his hands to the statue, with piety and awe, and her voice echoed in the ears of thousands of believers: "The devout believers pray to the three gods, we are like lambs, crawling in the world, we are given the grace of God and sincerely sacrifice..."

In the warehouse, Veronica had put away the paper that recorded the prayer in her hand. With memory, her voice as unrolled as reading the manuscript ended at the same time with the prayer of the Saint in the square.

"...I would like to offer this humble state of mind to the treasure of the world, and may God give his grace and receive this sacrifice."

The next second, a distorted light curtain filled Veronica's sight!

All perceptions lost their effect at this moment, and the opening of the large-scale sacrifice passage directly and briefly distorted the time and space order in the warehouse. The tons of "art collection" were transformed into something between matter and virtual image, and were sucked into the depths of the twisted light curtain like a storm!

In the square, thousands of believers looked at each other, and the saint of richness was also staring at the three sacrifices under the feet of the statue. This was the most critical stage of the entire ceremony. Whether the gods were happy with the piety of ordinary people and whether the harvest and success of the year could be guaranteed, it was all up to see whether the sacrifice would be taken away by invisible power. The girl with golden curly hair did not dare to blink. She stared at it for a long time, and just as the uneasiness in her heart was about to emerge, the vision she was looking forward to finally appeared.

The invisible light curtain suddenly descended from above, and the offering disappeared from the sky wherever the light curtain passed.

Even the tray for the offerings seemed to be gone...

The saint blinked, and she looked at the Assistant Saint next to her and found that the Assistant Saint was also a little panicked.

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But after all, he is a high-level priest. His calm mind is the most basic requirement for standing in this position. The saint quickly woke up from the surprise of "how did the three goddesses even take away the plates", and in one second he thought of the reasons to convince herself and all the believers. She turned around and looked at the square, facing the crowded scene, and loudly declared loudly.

"Cheer! God is so happy with our piety!!"

The next second, there was a thunderous applause in the square.
Chapter completed!