Volume 9: Vampires and Dungeons Chapter 26 'The Truth'
'The mission has been changed to 'Find the truth''
'Task Introduction : You finally recalled some information you had forgotten in the past. Through these people's clumsy performances again, you realized that there were many things wrong. This is not so much a banquet or a family gathering as it is a ritual. Including all the actions, everything that happened here is to reach a certain secret ritual that cannot be revealed.
But they don't seem to be particularly flexible, and seem to just complete their so-called family inheritance through this rigidity. But the ritual and performance happened once, and it was enough. If it happened a second time, it could only be called a replica. Even if there was a problem with intelligence or they didn't want to care about these things at all, the repetition of something for the second time was enough to make people alert to a certain extent. Obviously, their first experiment failed, so they took the second ritual.
You don't know why they failed, but you may be able to find the reason why they made such a decision. This reason must be the truth you are looking for.'
"A strange replacement and substitution ritual. Who among you is responsible for this...?"
Oh, the most likely possibility is that you know nothing?
There were corresponding changes on the taskbar, and the bloodstains and flesh on it also subtly completed a ritual of movement and replacement.
Li Lin might not know much about archaeology, but regarding things related to blood sacrifice and magic circles, after cramming in school, Li Lin should be able to be considered an expert.
There was also a series of meaningless characters written on it using a particularly awkward form of forbidden knowledge. The translation was something like 'Following the ancient rituals, we present everything to your will, allowing the circle to be filled and everything to be reinterpreted'. These words seemed poetic and impressive, but they didn't really mean anything.
Li Lin didn't believe that these people really knew what the forbidden runes on it said. Because as one of the experts in the void, he could clearly recognize how many typos there were. Moreover, the strokes and order were all wrong , and it was obvious that there was a sense of re-correction and mechanical copying. If a person really understood some knowledge and words, what he wrote would never be so stiff, so the result was obvious.
These people, the people in these families, have been following some kind of ancient ritual that was passed down from the previous era, and they have been reproducing it rigidly in this family. Perhaps a long time ago, there were still people who could understand everything recorded here, but the time is too long, and there may be errors when the knowledge is transmitted. Instead, this ritual has become more and more rigid and distorted, so that people can detect something wrong the first time, and it is directly exposed the second time.
Magic and rituals have never been inconvenient things. It is better to say that the reason for these things is to pray for more convenience. It is more convenient to make money and gain power, so various rituals and magic appeared. Only fools think that the more complicated these things are, the better. The real strong kneeling on the ground and praying is considered a ritual. Apocalypse directly gives lottery numbers.
Obviously, it was because there were too many rigid and distorted parts in the rituals that Li Lin was unable to recognize what the hell this thing was at first.
Li Lin didn't know how much of this was part of the ritual, but he still recognized the bloodstains.
That was a sacrificial ceremony to obtain the transfer area through the sacrifice of flesh and soul. Because there were higher-level suspected characters on the return ceremony, it was easy to distinguish the lower-level units. The dungeon that didn't seem to be built in a short time didn't seem to be built in a short time.
The entire underground was pulled out of the alien space through this strange blood sacrifice ceremony through unknown means. And the humans here have no magic power which is completely understandable. Sacrifice is only operated through the soul and flesh itself, and this kind of thing does not require magic power. Because all the fluctuations are carried out inside the void, the blood sacrifice is just to complete a passage.
Faced with such a result, Li Lin could only sigh and lament that it was no wonder that the game column called him a moron. Even he himself felt that he was probably a moron.
It's their specialty. They can't even recognize the blood sacrifice. What's the point of living? It's really embarrassing.
"Transfer ceremony, there is already a prepared altar underground palace below, right? No wonder you have been so calm all this time, after all, you did everything by yourselves, there is nothing special to explain except that you knew it a long time ago."
"Let me guess. You are probably restoring what happened to your family ancestors in ancient times, right? You recreated a certain scene, and then used a mysterious ritual to restore all the original powers to zero. This method can barely be called sophisticated. From the beginning to the end, all the characters are your actors, except for those archaeologists and me. If there weren't three cowards in this generation, you wouldn't have done this."
"Through the mutual attraction and stimulation between the bloodlines, and then using the Void Ritual to merge and classify, and finally using the Ring Ritual to re-bless the original power, a perfect family cycle is completed, a complete circle. It seems that the ancestor of your family really has a special ability to linger on, just as the old housekeeper said. A good ritual of inheriting power was mutated by the demon into a place where reproductive desires are inherited and personal wills are distorted. I also know the reason for the failure, because that guy awakened his magic power, and you can't cover the original ritual."
"The first candidate is the fat man. He is weak-minded and timid, but he is obsessed with blood and money. So you use all kinds of hints and emotional pressure to make him keep moving forward, and then simulate the scene and rewrite his memory. You will get a brand new and experienced clan leader. But it's a pity that you didn't succeed because I was here."
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Watching Li Lin digging in the dirt and telling all the inside stories in no time, the butler took a deep breath and then exhaled. His eyes were determined.
"In order to revive the family, we servants must complete this ceremony. Please do not stop us ."
"Oh? What if I say no?"
Can you still kill me?
Just because of your mind that has been polluted by disputes?
Looking at the butler in front of him who seemed to have an unusually firm stance and will, Li Lin sneered and narrowed his eyes.
