Chapter Seventy-Three: Rituals and Sacrifices

After the third challenge of the promotion ceremony, Anne and Funia are taken back to the training camp by Sarah, where they need to dress up and be in the best spirits for the afternoon ceremony.

The promotion ceremony was held at the Festival Square in Yukesen City, where the first challenge, "Fire Mountain", was held.

When Xue Hua and Kane returned to the Wai Guest Building, they saw that the entire square had been completely rearranged.

A ceremony platform made of freshly cut logs replaced the blackened firewood mountain, and the rattan bridge around it was hung with many bright flower petals.

In the middle of the square, on the newly built ceremonial platform, dozens of priests of the Chanting clan in white robes were praying their final blessings.

A large number of twisted wooden pedestals and temporary wooden stands enclose the entire festival square, and the pale white incense smoke wafting from the incense stands placed in various corners of the square sets off the entire ceremony platform like a fairyland.

The promotion ceremony is a very heavy and solemn ceremony everywhere, and it is no less important than the same annual inauguration.

Each of the mercenaries who can pass difficult challenges to obtain promotion qualifications can be described as a pearl in the ocean, and many of them will be included in various elite legions or organizations immediately after receiving the promotion ceremony and become core members.

Not all mercenaries have the courage to perform the promotion ceremony, and there are also a large number of mercenaries who participate in the promotion ceremony every year, but never get the promotion qualification.

This ceremonial rate, which has always had a high mortality rate, is even harsher than the actual crossing of a single-plank bridge.

This can be seen in the three challenges that have just ended.

Initially, there were hundreds of Amazon mercenaries who participated in the first challenge, but after three challenges, only Anne and Funia passed the challenge.

Xue Hua's mind had always been on his own girls, so he didn't pay attention, but at this moment, by asking Kane, he learned that in the first challenge "Fire Wood Mountain" alone, there were more than 60 participants who died because they didn't have time to shout the word "abstain".

The second challenge, the Flying Snake Swamp, was even more intense, with nearly half of the more than 20 participants who participated in the challenge not making it out of the swamp alive.

And if it weren't for the fact that there were special circumstances that made the third challenge of this promotion ceremony a little unusual, under normal circumstances, the third challenge would be the most bloody and cruel stage.

In the last promotion ceremony of the Amazon tribes in the Howorth Islands, for example, only three of the eight participants who participated in the final challenge made it out alive.

Two of them were eliminated, while only one participant successfully qualified for promotion.

And that's not even the most brutal.

In the history of the Amazon, there have been dozens of times since the Howorth Islands were qualified for the promotion ceremony, and not a single participant has survived the three challenges, which shows the intensity of the competition during this period.

And there is one most important rule, that is, once the mercenary is over two hundred years old, then he has practically lost the right to participate in the promotion ceremony in the normal way.

Just like Triggie and her teammates, the two of them shouldn't have been in the challenge of the promotion ceremony at all if it were normal way.

This is the qualification that Queen Fina forcibly obtained for them at the risk of being charged with killing her own people.

It's a pity that in the end, the two still failed to qualify for promotion.

At the edge of the festival square, Xue Hua looked at the bustling scene in front of him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

The carp jumps over the dragon gate.

The two girls finally managed to take the most difficult step.

Although there is also the help of the Youjin Gene Elixir, if they are not willing to work hard, even if Xue Hua asks Abbather to prepare the best Gene Elixir, it will not help them at all.

Everything in front of them is what they deserve, and for this day, the two girls don't know how much they have suffered.

Well, it hurts to think about it......

The corners of Xue Hua's mouth twitched, and his emotions quickly rose again.

After the two girls were officially promoted to Amazon professionals, the "complete contract" between them and him was automatically terminated.

It can only be used to restrain mercenaries, not professionals.

This is a change in nature.

However, he didn't feel any worries about it, and on the contrary, he had always wanted to break the contract he had made to keep the swarm secret.

This is because the status of the two parties to the contract is very unequal, especially the "life sharing" of the profession that is heavily biased.

The enemies that Xue Hua is fighting against now are some very terrifying enemies, and even he himself does not have absolute confidence that he will be as lucky as the last time he dealt with Skeletron every time.

In case something happens to him in the future, he doesn't want the two girls to be buried with him......

Phew!

The bad is not good... Idle eggs can't curse themselves when they hurt!

Xue Hua hurriedly spit out two mouthfuls of saliva.

Kane, who was walking in front, turned his head and looked at him with a very strange expression, wondering what the hell this guy was doing, why he was spitting in someone's festival square?

Xue Hua smiled a little awkwardly, ignored Kane's strange gaze, and walked quickly towards the foreign guest building not far away.

......

On the other side, in the secret chamber of the Council of Elders, the Queen of Chanting was half-lying on a wicker chair and listened to Lenia, who had just been promoted to high priesthood, report to her on the preparations for the Tidestone Sacrifice.

The previous high priest didn't know what kind of curse he had fallen, and he hadn't woken up until now anyway, so Lenia, the "acting high priest", could only continue to be forced to continue the present.

"Your Majesty, the sacrifice of the Tidestone is almost ready, all the sacrifices are ready, just wait for your order, and the sacrifice can begin immediately."

After saying this, Lenia hesitated for a moment, and then asked in a somewhat hesitant tone like a chanting queen, "Queen, do you want to inform the queens of the other two clans about the resumption of the Tidestone sacrifice... After all......"

"You don't have to worry about it for the time being, you don't have to worry about it, just do your own thing."

Fina reprimanded in a tone of non-questioning.

"Yes......" Lenia pursed her lips, trying to say something but not saying it.

Although the Chant clan is responsible for all rituals in the entire Amazon tribe, it stands to reason that the resumption of a long-abandoned rituals should be reported to the queens of the other two tribes.

She was a little afraid that when the other queens of the two tribes would inquire about it, Fina threw the pot on her head again.

After all, that's how her former former high priest, Anji, was put on death row.

Fina ignored Lenia's anxiety, all the priests in the priesthood had at least one direct female blood in the clan, and with these hostages, Fina was not afraid that these priests would dare to tell the water.

"The first sacrifice is arranged at midnight, prepare more sacrifices, but don't make it too grand, and don't allow the news to leak out, understand?"

"Ming... Got it......"

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