Chapter 246: The Shadow in the Stone
Xia Yu looked at the vague human form and couldn't help but be taken aback, and at the moment when he lost his mind, an invisible will suddenly enveloped his spirit.
Xia Yu was startled, and subconsciously wanted to fight against that will, but just for a moment, Xia Yu felt that there was a flower in front of him, and he saw a completely different picture.
The black cave was gone, replaced by an open wasteland, with huge fires blazing, and in the open space between several fires, a huge rock statue was erected, and this statue was faintly visible, which seemed to be a naturally formed strange stone, and around that strange stone, surrounded by many wild men dressed in animal skins and covered with hair, their mouths let out strange howls, shouting and dancing at the humanoid strange stones in front of them, and casting dark and provoked shadows in the firelight.
The light of the fire shone on the stone statue, and the light and shadow changed, and it was full of mystery.
The picture changed again, the wilderness became a village, the original settlement of dozens of people became a huge tribe of thousands of people, a gray-haired old man, wearing gorgeous and cumbersome ornaments on his body, wearing a crown of ancient craftsmanship on his head, holding a wooden staff and praying loudly.
Around him were solemn-faced tribal warriors, hundreds, who listened to the prayers of the elders and cast awe-inspiring glances at the stone statues in front of them.
Several warriors pulled the captives onto the altar, put away their knives and fell, and the blood suddenly flowed down and was smeared on the stone statue, the strange stone statue was soaked in blood, revealing a bloody and strange aura, and even the human face that was gradually taking shape became full of evil energy.
The scene changes for the third time, this time, the village has become a city-state, and the location of the strange stone statue has also become a solemn temple.
Brightly lit and resplendent in gold, solemn priests, dressed in black, densely arranged around the stone statues, holding their scepters alof, chanting scriptures, as if performing some kind of ritual, cumbersome and full of ritual. The stone statue was adorned with gold and precious stones, and it even had a somewhat sacred feeling.
Xia Yu was like a dream, and for a while he couldn't tell whether this was an illusory dream, or whether he had traveled through time and space and witnessed the past.
The scene turns again, the temple falls, the city-state falls, the streets are littered with corpses and the sound of cries, and a group of black-clad cultists, dragging stone statues in ox carts, walk towards the wilderness in the distance.
Xia Yu seemed to have turned into a wisp of ghost, and the retreat of the followers slowly moved forward, constantly some people fell, some people left, and the surrounding scene kept changing, one would be a wasteland, one would be a forest, and one would become a hill, like a slide show.
Finally, a familiar scene appeared in front of me, a pitch-black cave, a dozen or so remaining black-clad cultists, surrounded by a cave, they knelt around the stone statue, and kept praying.
Xia Yu heard a few words in their prayers.
"Great Leukard...... Shadow in the Stone...... The evil gods are rampant...... Destruction of the Temple...... Slaughter of the Faithful...... In the blood of our believers...... Please God come down ......"
At the end of the ceremony, more than a dozen black-clothed disciples swung their knives and cut their necks together, and the blood sank into the stone statue, the texture of the stone statue actually changed, and the black basalt turned into a gem-like texture, and a ghostly light was projected in it, and a figure appeared in it, looming.
The picture happened again, the surroundings became dark, Xia Yu stood in this darkness, a dark and distorted human form, quietly suspended in front of him, unable to see his face, he beckoned to Xia Yu gently, although he didn't say a word, the meaning of the words had already been transmitted to Xia Yu's heart.
"You want me to offer you a sacrifice to awaken the gods of the old?"
The picture in front of him changed, and finally returned to the original scene, and it became a scene in a cave again, Xia Yu suddenly removed his hand from the stone, took a few steps back, and exhaled a long breath.
He instantly summed up everything that had just happened.
I didn't expect this old god to be old enough, it seems, this god should be a belief that has existed since ancient prehistoric times, at first it seemed to be just a slightly humanoid stone, worshiped by primitive people, somehow developed and grown, but time has passed, with the rise of new gods, this old god has been forgotten in the valley after all.
But think about it, what kind of stone god, listening to it is very uncompelling, such a doctrine can continue to be a ghost.
However, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and it seems that this thing has not completely disappeared, and it is even asking for help from itself.
But do you really want to sacrifice to him?
This should be beneficial to you, after all, there is no believer in this product at present, and if you sacrifice to him, you will be equivalent to becoming the only spokesperson of this old god.
Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious.,This thing is a forgotten god.,It's really hard to say how much divine power is left.,Loycard/Shadow in the Stone.,It sounds like it's very low.,It's hard to guarantee what benefits you can give yourself.。
This statue of the old god should also be able to be sacrificed, but well, the power obtained may not be as good as sacrificing to demons, after all, he is a dark creature.
Besides, I don't have any sacrifices to use right now.
But if you really can't find the demon statue, you can also consider it, and the problem now is that you have to find the sacrifice first.
The so-called ceremonial people are not to blame, Xia Yu bowed a few times to the statue, "I said that the shadow in the stone, I don't have a sacrifice in my hand now, otherwise it doesn't hurt to worship you, if you really still have a spirit, just give some sincerity first, and I will definitely return you this favor when I get the sacrifice back." ”
After saying that, I waited for a while, but I didn't feel any changes, and I couldn't help but be a little disappointed in my heart, yes, it seems that this is also a master who doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles, so I'll see you again.
Shaking his head, Xia Yu walked out the same way and resealed the entrance with stones.
Walking out of the cave along the cave, the miners outside had already finished their lunch, and Xia Yu took advantage of the fact that they hadn't come in yet, knocking and going around.
When he returned to the cemetery, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and as soon as he walked into the cemetery, Xia Yu found that something was wrong, only to see that the ground was full of messes, the four tombs buried yesterday and the day before yesterday were all dug up, and the coffins inside were also opened, empty, and the corpses inside were already gone.
I rub, what's going on? Who stole the body?
Xia Yu was a little confused, what the hell is stealing corpses, this kind of thing can't be done by civilians, is there a ghoul in the dark creatures?