"Yuras, McClun, go and bring the ritual hounds. Krim, Nathano, take people to clear a suitable open space and make preparations before the ceremony."
Under Rhodes' gaze, Keret quickly gave instructions to the nearby dog trainer.
After receiving Keret's order, the dog trainers whose names were called quickly came out of the queue. Among them, the short dog trainer from before was prominently in the queue and entered the factory-like shelter.
Under Keret's order, some dog trainers came to the shore to clean up the wreckage left after the battle. Some dog trainers entered the shelter and brought out a group of hell hounds from inside the shelter. .
Rhodes noticed that these hellhounds brought out by the dog trainers were all injured and did not seem to have any fighting ability.
"Is this the ritual hound you call?"
Looking at Ceret in the distance, Rhodes seemed to have thought of something, and his expression gradually changed: "Is the ceremony you mentioned... a 'sacrifice ceremony'?"
The sacrifice ritual that Rhodes talked about is famous in the world of magicians. It was developed by the ancient Lord of Negon, the king of magicians in the underground world.
The deeds of the King of Magicians can even be traced back to the days when the God of Magicians was active.
Rhodes once learned about the deeds of the King of Magicians from the secrets of the Brakada Magic Guild. It is said that he is the most powerful opponent of the God of Magicians. He does not know how much harm he has brought to the entire Brakada. However, he was eventually defeated by the God of Magicians and had no choice but to lead all the magicians and retreat underground, accumulating strength in the underground world to prepare for the day when he would make a comeback.
Among them, the sacrifice ritual is the most powerful magic ritual that the King of Magicians has gone through countless painstaking research. In terms of effect, it is comparable to any fifth-level magic. Of course, this is after excluding the conditions required for the ritual. situation.
As the name of the ritual describes, the sacrifice ritual is a ritual that relies on sacrificing the lives of other creatures in exchange for what the sorcerer needs.
It doesn't matter if a close partner or a relative whose blood is thicker than water dies. The sacrifice ceremony can resurrect them intact, and the effect is better than reincarnation. If you want to be as rich as a country, the sacrifice ritual can directly create countless gold coins. To destroy the enemy, the Sacrifice Ritual can cast any fifth-level magic.
The sacrifice ritual can satisfy all the requirements of the magician. The price required is only the lives of other creatures. This is also the most terrifying part of the sacrifice ritual. It can fulfill any wish of the magician. This is unlike any other kind. The ceremony cannot be accomplished.
Obtaining the sacrifice ceremony is equivalent to obtaining all the magic and all the wealth in the world. The value of this ritual is not even comparable to some artifacts that condense the will of a hero.
Of course, the greater the sorcerer's wish, the more complicated it is to achieve, and the more lives required for the ritual.
If you want to obtain wealth that rivals that of a country, the first thing you need to sacrifice through a sacrifice ceremony is more than the lives of the people of a country. Even for a powerful sorcerer, it is not easy to accumulate enough people for sacrifice rituals.
The lives lost in the sacrifice ceremony are the price the magician has to pay in order to achieve his own goals.
Even the God of Mage has no way to use the sacrifice ritual, which proves the power of this ritual.
Such a powerful sacrifice ritual is naturally not accessible to all magicians.
In Rhode's past life's memory, the sacrifice ritual has always been controlled by the royal family of Negon, and other magicians have no access to this secret method. King Hardwood of Negon even relied on sacrifice rituals to suppress countless rebellious sorcerers.
Unfortunately, at the end of the second expansion pack, Hardwood, who mastered the ritual of sacrifice, eventually died in the hands of Moriel, a natural hero. The method of casting the ritual of sacrifice was lost, and Moriel also became the queen of the underground world. In the third expansion pack, join the demons in their counterattack on the surface world.
The reason why Rhodes was so impressed by the sacrifice ritual was because in the previous game, there was a player who mastered this black magic ritual in the later stages of the third expansion pack.
After the player mastered the sacrifice ritual, he did not keep the ritual firmly in his own hands like the ancient magicians did. Instead, he shared it with the remaining legendary priests of Erathia. Based on the sacrifice ceremony, a more powerful "prayer ceremony" was derived.
The sacrifice ritual can achieve whatever the magicians want, provided that the magician can afford the large number of fresh lives required for the sacrifice ritual. The prayer ceremony eliminates the cost of sacrificing the ritual and can directly fulfill the wishes of the ritual leader.
Compared with the sacrifice ceremony, the prayer ceremony is undoubtedly more powerful. Even if the king of magicians is reborn, he must admire the power of this ritual. It has completely broken away from the category of magic.
At this moment, watching Ceret bring out the hounds, Rhodes' expression suddenly changed, and the possibility of a sacrifice ceremony suddenly came to his mind.
The sacrifice ceremony only requires fresh life, and does not have many requirements for the quality of life itself. Most of the creatures sent into the sacrifice ceremony by the magician are physically injured, rather than creatures with sound limbs. Only in this way can the interests be maximized.
Not far away, the hounds brought out by Keret were all injured, which seemed to indicate something to Rhodes.
Although the sacrifice ceremony has been lost for a long time, and only the royal family of Negon has the relevant method of casting spells, this does not prove that the king of hell cannot have this ceremony.
Just like the unlimited fusion ritual taught by Messiga, Rhodes realized that it seemed possible that the Lazy King had mastered the sacrifice ritual.
Laziness is one of the seven sins. Lazy people do not mean that they do not have many desires in their hearts. On the contrary, they may have more and more exaggerated desires in their hearts, but they just do not have the motivation to realize their desires. Many desires are Just think about it in your mind. When it comes time to put it into practice, lazy people may give up at the first opportunity.
The existence of sacrifice rituals is undoubtedly the best help for lazy people. Relying on the power of the sacrificial ritual, lazy people don't have to do anything. They only need to sacrifice the lives of other creatures to achieve everything they want. This is undoubtedly the best gospel.
Because of this, in Rhode's view, it seems to be a very reasonable thing for the lazy king to control the sacrifice ceremony.
Thinking of this, Rhodes' eyes became eager as he looked at the injured dogs around Ceret.
(End of chapter)
