Master Bruce crouched on the ground and brushed the dust from the slate with his hands, and some carved lines appeared in it.Caterina and I, along with Win Li, also crouched down to help, and soon cleared out the stone slabs on the altar, which seemed to depict some kind of ritual being performed on the altar, and the countless criss-crossing stone troughs covered the entire slabs, which seemed to form a pattern that I had never seen before.Bruce sat on the stone on the edge of the altar, spread his hands and made a helpless motion, and said to me, "Actually, we are lucky, this should be a blessed altar for blessings, according to the relief on the magic stone tablet of the altar, if you want to perform a soul ritual on the altar of divine blessing, you need to sacrifice your own blood from the priests of Nepharan, unfortunately, I am not a Nephran." ”Ying Li's eyes fell on me with Caterina, Helena, and Becky, and their eyes were full of unconcealed worry."
Need to sacrifice my blood?"
I asked, looking up at Master Bruce.Mistress Bruce was blunt: "Yes, only the blood of the Nefarans can make this altar work. ”After saying that, his eyes fell on the reliefs at his feet, and I noticed that the relief was painted with a vague enough picture of the sacrifice, that is, four old priests standing at the top of the altar at the same time, they cut their wrists with knives, so that the blood flowed on the altar, a man kneeling in the middle of the altar, and above his head appeared an angel with his wings outstretched, and this angel shone brightly in the picture, his hands in prayer on his chest, and his hood on his head, and his face could not be seen clearly.I hesitated for a moment before I asked Lord Bruce, "Lord Bruce, I would like to know if this is not the altar of divine blessing used by the Nephalans for blessings, but the altar of divine punishment for transcendent souls, and if you want to open that altar, you also need to sacrifice the blood of the Nephalans?"
”Sitting at the top edge of the altar, Lord Bruce was stunned for a moment when he heard my question, then shook his head and said, "No. ”Seeing me staring at him, Master Bruce continued, "If the Soul Awakening Ritual is held at the Divine Punishment Altar, according to the law of equivalence between demons, the sacrifice we need to sacrifice should be a pure soul. ”The crowd on the altar fell silent.If the Altar of Divine Punishment is seen as an altar for sacrifice to demons, then the Altar of Divine Blessing should be an altar for the sacrifice of angels, and the sacrifice of a person's soul is far more cruel than the sacrifice of some blood, but the biggest problem now is that there are no more Nephalans.It was just me, and I rubbed my somewhat stiff face with my hands, and at this moment, I thought that the smile on my face must be ugly."
Heh, Lord Bruce, how much blood do you need me to give?"
I think Mistress Bruce asked.Probably this is also the main concern of everyone on the altar."
It's hard to estimate."
Master Bruce looked at me and said very seriously: "If you decide to start the Soul Awakening Ritual, then you need to sacrifice your blood to the altar all the time until the altar is activated, and you can't stop without my signal, otherwise your efforts will be wasted, can you do it?"
”I took a deep breath and didn't dare to look at Ying Li and Caterina behind me.Just as I was about to answer, Master Bruce walked up to me, patted me on the shoulder, and said to me, "Don't rush to answer me, think about it before making a decision, I'll take a turn and maybe find another way to open it." ”Ying Li and I sat side by side on the stone steps at the top of the altar, looking up at the picturesque valley in front of us, and the dense jungle beyond the Great Fissure looked like a green carpet, and dozens of waterfalls hung from the Great Fissure, which rushed into the abyss with a rumbling roar.The ruins of the city are surrounded by dozens of pinnacles, originally the territory of a group of dragons, although it was reduced to ruins, but it is well protected, and we can still find some traces of the Nepharan in the ruins.Ying Li rested her head on my shoulder, and I knew she was full of worry and apprehension, but she didn't say it.I put my arm around her shoulders and could only bite the bullet and say to her, "I've been preparing for today's ceremony for so many years, so if you want to persuade me, I can only say sorry!"
”"Have you decided?"
She asked, turning her head to stare at my face.I nodded firmly and said, "Yes, I want to see her come back to life, whether she is a native of the Grimm Empire or an elemental spirit abandoned by the elemental world, as long as she can recover her broken memories and can be revived, this is my goal." ”"Then do it."
Ying Li said to me very simply, but the look in her eyes was not as crisp as her words.I squeezed her hand, only to find that her palms were covered in sweat."
Well, trust me, it's going to be fine."
I wanted to lighten up the conversation, so I said, "If I can wake up Sister Guoguo this time, maybe I can ask Lord Bruce to separate the princess from your body, and we still keep her Cana fish-man body for her!"
”Hearing me say this, Ying Li glared at me fiercely and said with a serious expression: "Then I also have a decision." ”"What?"
I asked her.At this moment, Ying Li's pupils kept changing between black and sea blue, so I couldn't tell whether the person sitting next to me was Ying Li or Princess Ireliel, and the aura on her body kept switching between fire and sea, and even the voice seemed to be two people saying at the same time: "I don't want Princess Ireliel to return to her body, I think it's actually good, although I feel like I need to share everything with her, but occasionally I can reap double happiness, And she I don't want to be a mermaid anymore, it's a decision that I have with her and me. ”Some of the words are actually the voices of two people, and I don't know how Ying Li did it.I rubbed my forehead with a little headache, and tried to persuade her: "Actually, the two soul awakening rituals don't need to be held at the same time, you can wait until I fully recover and have full preparation before proceeding, don't worry about me being sucked dry blood, I have orc blood in my body, I have strong self-healing power, and there is Su Zai" Ying Li didn't say anything more, just looked at me calmly.I know what kind of stubbornness the gentle Ying Li has in her heart, and when she insists on doing something, I should keep my mouth shut.Eight barbarian slaves carried a huge ice coffin slowly up the steps, their heavy iron boots stepped on the stone steps of the altar, every step, the foundation stones on those steps seemed to be constantly cracking, the huge ice coffin was seven or eight meters long, two or three meters wide, in the hot wild rainforest, this ice monument was carried out of the Xinliu Valley by the barbarians, and it was constantly braving the cold.The translucent ice coffin sealed Sister Guoguo, who had evolved into the spirit of the ice element, and the invisible water element chains pierced through the ice tablet, forming a sealing circle to imprison her in it, and those water element chains could only be perceived by those who had reached a certain level of water element affinity.When this ice monument was carried out of Xinliu Valley by barbarian slaves, Teacher Heidi followed all the way to the side of the ice monument, she released her powerful ice elemental power at this moment, turning herself into an ice elemental body, the whole person looked like an ice sculpture, she looked at Sister Guoguo with a blank face, but everyone could feel the strong emotions bursting out of her empty eyes.When I was on the Pali Plateau, I never imagined that Jonbach would have such a terrible rival in love, and I don't know where that guy and Viru had gone, and the letters I wrote to him were like a sea of seas, and he should have been there for this soul awakening ritual anyway.Sister Guoguo in the ice coffin, although she still retains her last moment of life at the moment, but the whole person is completely the body of the ice element, which is incomparably consistent with Teacher Heidi's current appearance.On the other side of the ice coffin, followed by the sisters Anne and Su.Seeing the ice coffin sealed with Sister Guoguo being carried out by the strong barbarian slaves, Anne and the Su sisters finally realized that this seemingly incredible soul awakening ceremony was about to be held, and Sister Guoguo was about to wake up from the ice coffin.Lord Bruce stood on the altar wearing the magic robes of Charlon, which symbolized the identity of the Magister, the demonic fanged staff had been put away by him, and now he held a curved silver horn soul horn, which I borrowed from the Kraken descendant Justes, the whole horn looked like a curved morning glory, and waves of magical halos rippled from the soul horn, which actually made me feel that the world around me was a little unreal.Seeing me follow the ice coffin to the altar again, Lord Bruce took a breath and asked me in a deep voice, "Decided?"
”"Yes, Master Bruce."
I replied calmly.Master Bruce didn't say anything, he turned around and walked to the center of the altar, took out a pocket, and took out high-grade magic crystals from it, one after another on the nodes of the altar's stone trough, and the entire altar was immediately filled with magic.Master Bruce asked the barbarian slaves to carry the ice coffin to the center of the altar, and the ice coffin fell to the ground with a slight shock to the top of the altar.The barbarian slaves were a little afraid of Teacher Heidi, and when they retreated, they all bypassed her from a distance.After Master Bruce had arranged the twelve high-grade magic crystals, he walked up to me, took the soul gem from my hand, and placed it on top of the ice coffin.Immediately afterward, he said to me, "Show your most powerful state, so that the blood that flows from your body can be filled with a powerful magical aura, and maybe activate this altar sooner" I nodded.He walked up to Su again, looked at Su with a somewhat complicated gaze, and said to her, "You have to perform the strongest healing technique, only the power of the divine prayer can make him recover quickly in a short time." ”Su Ye nodded solemnly.Then he went up to Anne and Caterina and said to them, "You two must keep cutting his wrists, and his wounds will heal very quickly under the strong healing technique, and only by cutting his arms will keep his wrists bleeding." ”With that, he gave Caterina a deep look.I chanted the spell softly and released the four stone pillar totems, which were more than four meters tall and stood at the four corners of the altar.Master Bruce looked at me in amazement, he probably didn't expect me to unleash the totemic power of the orc shaman.Then, a golden wave rippled under my feet, this sea spread to the top of the entire altar, the dark clouds rolled overhead, the electric snake surged, and a large green mountain appeared behind me, and countless tornadoes swept over the golden sea This is my own momentum, although some knights are a little majestic, but Lord Bruce looks calm.A wing made of countless arcs of lightning in series and a wing of countless wind whirls pieced together into white feathers, broke out from the left and right shoulder blades behind my back, and unfolded behind me with a snort, I was actually suspended half a foot from the ground at the moment, and the furious electric wings detonated the electric snakes in the dark clouds above my head, and those electric snakes actually formed countless thunder waterfalls behind me.Countless whirlwinds swirled around my body.I pulled out a thin-skinned knife and gently slashed my wrist, blood running down my arm into the groove on the altar floor, but after only a few seconds, the wound on my wrist began to heal rapidly.Caterina and Anne stood on the left and right sides of my body, Caterina did not hesitate, and continued to cut my wrist with the dagger in her hand, so that my blood continued to flow out, but Anne did not expect that without receiving any treatment, the wound on my wrist would actually heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, and I could only follow Caterina's example, gritting her teeth, and cutting my wrist with a somewhat pale face.The two of them kept cutting my wrists, and I found that as the blood kept flowing into the stone trough on the altar, Anne's face became paler and paler, while Katerina's eyes were getting more and more scarlet, and Su sat across from me, her expression was a little complicated, and she didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, and began to treat me quickly.I don't know how long it took to be in this state, until my consciousness became a little blurred, and I heard Master Bruce whisper in my ear, "Jiga, can you still hold on?"
”I barely lifted my spirits, and stimulated a wave of physical magic talent mana, and waves of water elemental mana were instilled into my body, and just as my consciousness became a little scattered, I vaguely heard Master Bruce say: "It's okay" Anne stopped her hand with a pale face, and Caterina quickly took out a hemostatic bandage to bandage my wound.My eyes fell on Lord Bruce, and I saw him walk to the ice coffin and reach out and press on the ice coffin, only to hear him quickly spit out a spell from his mouth, and the hand that was placed on the ice coffin actually reached into the ice, and under our gaze, he tore off the ice element chain sealed on Sister Guoguo's body.The next moment, Sister Guoguo in the ice coffin suddenly opened her eyes, obviously the spirit of the ice element had no pupils, but at that moment I clearly felt that she opened her eyes.The ice coffin as solid as gold and stone seemed to be rubbed vigorously by an invisible big hand, and the ice coffin slowly transformed into Sister Guoguo's body, and an ice sculpture more than six meters high was erected on the altar, and Sister Guoguo's somewhat empty eyes swept over everyone on the altar, and then opened her hands and let out a sharp scream that pierced her soul.That soul shock hit my spiritual sea, making me a little dizzy at this moment.Lord Bruce scooped up the soul gem that fell on the altar, looked at Sister Guoguo's Ice Elemental Spirit in the center of the altar with a somewhat solemn face, and pressed the soul gem in his hand into Sister Guoguo's body of Ice Elemental Spirit