The drizzle hit the iron window of the cell.
Ansu opened his eyes dazedly.
He lowered his head and looked at the boy's face reflected in the puddle, stunned.
That's not his face.
The boy had a delicate face, looking no more than fourteen years old, his pale blue eyes reflected a cold light, and his skin was so pale that it was almost transparent.
Dressed in luxurious aristocratic attire, his robe trailed on the ground along with his long gray hair, covering his bare feet.
The sickly noble boy and the dark and damp environment around him are completely different styles.
"hiss"
Ansu felt a sharp pain in his head.
The vast amount of memories from the previous life came flooding back like a tide.
He is the most famous speedrunning anchor in the world, and is currently speedrunning a Western fantasy game called "Naraku".
This is his seventeenth round, and he is about to challenge the world's fastest clearance record. By the way, the current world record is Anzu's sixteenth round.
He was staying up late to work on his art when suddenly his eyes went dark and the world changed.
He was reincarnated into the world of Naraku.
As the memories continued to merge, An Su's face became uglier and uglier.
—It seems like I’m going to send it right at the beginning.
It was as if he had been reincarnated into a character who was sacrificed at the very beginning.
Literally sacrificed by the occultists.
His name is Ansu Morningstar, the heir of one of the wealthiest families, the Morningstar Family. Although his family is extremely wealthy, Ansu is not destined to be the protagonist.
First, his dark attribute is rare in a century, and his light attribute is extremely rare. He has been known as the "cursed child" since he was born. If it weren't for his father's open-minded family, he would have been pressed to death in a pig cage.
Secondly, he was born into a noble family, and his personality was that of a person who burned books and buried scholars alive. He had been a loner and weird since childhood, and his best skill was running away from home.
The above two characteristics constitute the main reasons why Ansu was kidnapped by the esoteric cultists.
The cursed child with high dark attributes is one of the best sacrifices to the evil god.
The Mother Goddess of Life likes these two dishes best: children with high darkness attributes and high holy light attributes. They taste salty and light, fat but not greasy.
Children who love to run away from home are the easiest targets for esoteric cultists to kidnap.
According to Anzu's memories of his previous life, he should now be in the opening CG stage of the "Naraku" plot.
This time the cultists kidnapped two children.
One is him, and the other is one of the heroines of this work, the future saint of the Church, a favored child of heaven who hates evil and hates evil—Lorga Fast.
As we all know, the opening of the game always paves the way for the protagonist's appearance, and Anzu is unfortunately the stepping stone for the protagonist's appearance.
According to the original plot, the secret believers sacrificed two people one after another, and Ansu died on the spot and was taken away by the evil god.
Ansu's death also stimulated the heroine Luojia, who awakened her potential as a saint and killed the secret believers.
From this point of view, the first step is to please the little saint, cling to the protagonist, use the experience of the previous life, and find a way to activate Luojia's saintly physique in order to save one's life.
Hold the protagonist's thigh.
—This is the conventional and correct solution.
In this situation, any normal person would know what to do.
There is nothing wrong with it.
An Su was thinking, and he found that his thoughts were exceptionally clear and unusually calm.
He stood up, walked to the next cell, and looked at the girl in the next cell.
She is only one year older than Ansu.
Luo Jia lowered his eyes, his silver-white eyelids seemed to be covered with a layer of rime, and his bright golden eyes beneath the rime reflected a cold light.
She was wearing a washed-out nun's uniform, with her white hands hugging her knees, sitting in the other corner of the room.
The dim torch shook her cheeks, and her shoulders trembled slightly, like an uneasy kitten.
Perhaps she noticed that An Su was looking at her, so she raised her head, paused, then lowered her head and turned her face to the other side.
“The Lord will bless us.”
Luo Jia suddenly said.
I don’t know whether she was comforting Ansu or comforting herself.
"My name is Ansu, what's yours?" Ansu asked politely.
"Lorga."
"Lorga, listen."
Ansu called her name and said solemnly, "I have a way to save our lives, and you are the most critical and important part of the plan."
The most critical and important thing
Luojia raised his head and met Ansu's eyes.
For some reason, she inexplicably developed a sense of trust in the noble boy in front of her.
Maybe it's because his smile is so sunny.
After all, he is handsome.
Luo Jia asked, "What should I do?"
Ansu looked into her eyes and spoke slowly.
"That is, swear to the Goddess of Contract that you will not report me after you get out."
".?" Luo Jia was confused, tilting his head, his silver hair hanging on his shoulder, "What?"
“And,” the boy added, “you can’t beat me up in the future.”
Many years later, when Luojia, who had become a saint of the Vatican, looked at her Pope, she would always recall that dark and damp autumn afternoon, and the innocent smile on the boy's face when he forced her to swear to the Goddess of Contract - and she would feel sincere regret.
—
Time passed slowly, and the drizzling autumn rain outside the window stopped.
Ansu never revealed his plan to Luojia from beginning to end. He just leaned against the wall and waited quietly.
The occultists' ritual preparations are complete.
A priest wearing a golden sun mask opened the cage, took the flail from Ansu's hand, and then pushed him out.
A golden mask.
It is a characteristic of the Life Mother Goddess's secret followers, the same as the setting in the game.
"Naraku" is a game with a high degree of freedom, and the Mother Goddess of Life is one of the eight esoteric cults that players can choose to join. They believe in the original mother goddess - the Mother Goddess of Life.
They love to sacrifice lives the most. By sacrificing dark lives or believers of righteous gods, they win the favor of the Mother Goddess and are ultimately blessed.
As the most senior player, Ansu is very familiar with the various sacrificial rituals of the Mother Goddess of Life.
After all, in the sixteenth round, he chose the route of the Pope of the Mother Goddess Church and held countless sacrificial ceremonies.
After walking out of the cage, you will reach the altar.
The runes of the call have been drawn with mercury and blood.
Around the altar were twisted arms, wildly growing chunks of flesh and blood, and piles of dry bones.
Ansu recognized every material here, [Twisted Meat], [Dead Bed], [Bone Cradle]. Every material could not be obtained through regular channels, and could not be bought with money.
It seems that the secret believers attach great importance to this sacrifice, Ansu thought.
After all, one is the son of curse and the other is the saint in preparation.
There were twenty figures wearing golden masks crawling on the altar. They were the believers who were blessed by the Mother Goddess this time.
They are all talented.
According to the process, children with dark talents or nuns from the Vatican are brought to the altar one after another, and the bishop recites the blessing, establishes the anchor point, and calls on the name of the Mother Goddess.
The more detailed and clear the blessing is, the more the Mother Goddess can hear the call.
The Mother Goddess takes away the sacrifices and finally bestows blessings on the believers.
During the sacrificial ceremony, the happier the Mother Goddess is, the greater the blessing will be.
The first person to be sacrificed was Ansu. Lorgar stood under the altar, her face pale with fear at the white bones around her, her lips trembling slightly, but she still did not give in, staring at the secret believers with cold eyes, biting her teeth gently.
She looked at Ansu on the stage again, with some expectation, even though she knew it was just a fantasy.
The half-grown boy on the altar stepped barefoot in the blood, his pale blue eyes dull and lifeless, like a timid deer.
How could a simple child possibly defeat the evil secret cultists
She wanted to save Anzu more than herself.
It seemed as if something was trembling in my heart.
An Su also looked at Luo Jia. He knew that the saint was just one step away from waking up.
The conventional solution is to cling to the protagonist.
But he is an evil player.
An Su only believes in one point: it is better to rely on yourself than on others!
The priest next to him had already started chanting the blessing. His voice was low and hoarse, like a roar of pain.
'Mother Goddess of Desire' 'Great Mistress of Life' 'Your followers call upon you to offer you a dark child on the altar.'
really
As an experienced player, Ansu could find at least three grammatical errors in this blessing.
After all, this is the very opening plot of the game, and when Ansu played to the 17th week, the game had been updated to 3.0, and the settings of the Mother Goddess of Life had been patched a lot, and the blessing speech had of course been upgraded.
For example, the Mistress of Life should be changed to Mistress of Fertility.
Although this blessing could attract evil spirits, it was barely audible.
It takes a lot of time to call repeatedly.
And only one sacrifice can be offered at a time.
Sacrifice the next one and summon again.
Wasting time on meaningless CGs which cannot be skipped is what players complain about the most, so the official was attacked by players.
The 3.0 blessing speech unlocked later added more and more accurate anchor words. The evil god can be summoned with one click, and multiple sacrifices can be sacrificed at one time.
The priest finished reading a passage and was about to recite it again.
At this time, Ansu spoke.
He looked like a 14-year-old boy, his pupils trembling constantly, his voice trembling, as if he was about to cry in the next second, he said fearfully and childishly:
"Uncle, can I leave a last word?"
The dark blue eyes reflected the faint light of tears.
According to the setting, the sacrifice would please the mistress more if it left a last word.
This is also part of the ceremony.
The more miserable and desperate the last words were, the happier the mistress was.
So there was no way they could refuse.
The priest nodded contemptuously.
What can a spoiled aristocratic child do
It's nothing more than a few cries.
Under the altar.
Looking at the boy's frightened expression, Luo Jia's heart sank to the bottom.
Ansu stood in the center of the altar, and perhaps because of fear, he could not stand steadily, so he crawled on the ground, facing the twenty believers who were also crawling on the ground.
"Mother goddess of desire and the moon, great fertility matron."
"The eternal motherhood above the spirit world,"
The high priest noticed something was wrong. The boy's tone became more and more strange, as if he was shouting, and his last words were even stranger.
Your last words were clearly my words.
No, it's even weirder than the priest's blessing.
"Hey."
The young man laughed strangely. He raised his eyes, and there was no fear on his face. His eyes were full of calmness. This was not the look of a fourteen-year-old child at all.
"This is a hymn for the most sincere people, a feast for the soul and spirit,"
An Su said, smiling brightly, "This is a delicacy of blood and flesh!"
"Your devout believer Ansu Morningstar presents this gift,"
"I dedicate the twenty-one dark heretics on the altar to you—"
"I invite you to have dinner with me!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience was in an uproar.
Luo Jia's eyes widened.
It was not until this moment that she finally understood what it meant to not report.
What the hell.
The priest also widened his eyes.
What is this operation
It's simply the opposite of Tiangang.
For the first time in more than thirty years of presiding over the sacrifice, was he sacrificed by his own offering, or on the altar he had carefully set up
This is equivalent to a chef who has worked for thirty years, but today when he was cooking, the food was cooked backwards, and he still used their chopping board!
He was so angry that he almost laughed out loud.
This little brat, does he think he can summon the Mother Goddess by just reciting a word
You have to chant for at least four hours.
And the anchor sentence was pronounced incorrectly.
Finally, who can sacrifice twenty-one people at once
If you recite the wrong anchor words when summoning the evil god, you will anger the evil god and bring about divine punishment.
But the next second, he couldn't laugh anymore.
A great terror had come.
He saw the believers crawling on the ground begin to twist and twitch their bodies, and their greasy fat began to expand like water. When it expanded to the limit, it exploded, and blood splashed on the stumps. Some of the blood also splashed on Ansu's sunny smile.
How come this guy was even more extreme than me when he offered sacrifice!
The priest's body also began to change and he screamed.
For the first time, he questioned his faith.
I'm dancing and playing music here, and the goddess only responds with an 'oh' after calling her ten or twenty times. But this rich second-generation brat just shouts casually, and the goddess comes to me happily
It’s awesome!
In this situation, in Ansu's previous life, the professional term is clown.
"You can't do this." He wailed in pain. "You can't"
"You are a heretic of the cult. The more a heretic opposes me," Ansu stared at him and said seriously, "the more it shows that I am right."
"Who among us is the secret believer?" This was the high priest's last thought, "You are not even an adult yet!"
He was engulfed in flesh and blood, his skin exploded, and his internal organs and bones splashed in ripples in the air.
According to the rules of the Mother Goddess religion, the blessed believers and the living sacrifices must stand on the altar at the same time, so theoretically, whoever completes the ceremony first will be sacrificed first!
The Mother Goddess of Life is an evil god. She doesn't care who summons whom. Even if the people being sacrificed are her believers, she will still eat them.
As long as it is a life of dark or holy elements, He will accept it all and then give out rewards.
So, who else has a higher level of dark elements in their body than the occultists
No.
"Sure enough, there is this bug,"
An Su nodded, revealing a happy smile like a good harvest, and looked at Luo Jia who was shocked and speechless, and thought to himself,
"Sacrificing twenty-one secret followers at once is a huge profit."
Embrace the protagonist
Risking being killed, being a stepping stone for the protagonists, licking them madly, and getting nothing in the end
No.
—There are plenty of ways for evil players to speed through the game.
(End of this chapter)