Arcane Lord

Three days later, on the Moon Festival, Xia Duo gave all the people in the territory a day off.

During the day, the residents who were assigned houses invited other residents to their homes. Although the current conditions were still relatively difficult, it did not prevent them from having fun. A piece of dried meat was the best treat for their guests.

At the same time, Shado was also discussing the evening sacrificial ceremony with Leiden and Mott. Both of them were novices. Although they had learned the corresponding knowledge when they were in the temple, they seemed to be in a hurry when they hosted it themselves.

What made them even more busy was Xia Duo.

It is normal to change customs if you want to and to change things subtly, but at key points, Xia Duo also has his own persistence.

"In addition to offering sacrifices to the dead, there is also a sacrifice to the moon during the ceremony. I have prepared the sacrifices!"

Leiden naturally did not dare to object, but Mott raised an objection, "But sir, doing this will destroy the integrity of the ceremony and the blessing effect will be reduced."

"Don't worry about the blessing effect, what I need is the ceremony itself, you know?"

This time, compared to the form, Xia Duo gave up the essence without hesitation. In fact, the form of the ceremony itself was the real essence for him.

The so-called sacrificial rituals are nothing more than eliminating negative energy, increasing positive energy, and providing holy power for protection, but these can actually be done on a daily basis.

But Moon Festival does not happen every day. For this day, he has made a lot of preparations in advance.

After several discussions, Sha Duo finally convinced Mott, and the three reorganized the ceremony process. When Mott and Layton rehearsed the ceremony, Sha Duo came to the cemetery alone. He also had to rehearse it to avoid Something went wrong at night.

What he wanted to rehearse was not a ritual, but a spell, or a large-scale illusion.

The difficulty of casting the spell itself is not that difficult. The difficulty lies in the fact that besides the spell, the illusion needs to be perfectly matched with the real scene. This actually tests the artistic ability of the caster.

It's like if you originally wanted to make a realistic illusion, but ended up making it into a cartoon, you can imagine that it will definitely not deceive people.

At present, Xia Duo has not yet mastered spiritual spells. The illusions he can provide are only at the audio-visual level and cannot penetrate into the soul. Therefore, this illusion is actually to prevent all recipients from discovering the flaws at the same time.

This is difficult.

Fortunately, magic exists in this world. As long as it is not too exaggerated and leads to a direct collapse of the three concepts, ordinary people are still very accepting of counter-intuitive phenomena.

Regarding this illusion, even if it was regarded as magic by the residents, Xia Duo could accept it. After all, his original intention was just to create a concept.

It's just that compared to the lord casting a spell, it would be more natural for the people to discover it themselves.

After rehearsing twice, Xia Duo felt that there shouldn't be a big problem, but it was a bit weird to rehearse the illusion scene at night during the day.

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Soon, the day time passed, and the round full moon quietly came into the sky without knowing when.

The citizens of Daxia Territory were led by the leaders of their respective working groups to the outside of the cemetery. The cemetery has just been built not long ago, and there are not many graves in it. There is a lot of open space, which is more than enough to accommodate a few hundred people.

In the future, if there are more tombs, perhaps only people with a certain status can enter.

As one of the hosts of the ceremony, Leiden was the first to appear. Although he did not have the priest's robes in his arms, he looked very majestic and sacred surrounded by the holy light. Followed by Mott, he was also surrounded by the holy light, but he died. The Holy Power is not as sacred and dazzling as the Brilliant Holy Power. Its true nature is dim and mysterious.

As for Xia Duo, as a lord, of course he does not need to host it personally. As long as he is present, he will definitely be the focus of the audience.

At this time, he stood beside the ceremony venue and watched quietly. Before tonight, he had only watched two previews, but he had never seen more. There was a certain difference between the previews and the actual performance. The biggest difference was that The difference is that there is no Shengli involved in the rehearsal, and it is more of a process-based rehearsal.

Shado never openly went to Leiden or Mott to ask for Holy Power for research, but every time he had the opportunity to see the Holy Power, he would observe it carefully and try to discover the mystery of the Holy Power.

Now, the ceremony was about to begin, and Xia Duo was even more energetic.

"Lord of all things, Lord of order, guided by the Holy Spirit, clearing away the haze."

Leiden just recited two prayers, diffused the sacred light, and made way for Mott. At this time, only the four corners of the cemetery and the ceremony site were lit with fires. Leiden's holy power seemed to light up the cemetery. The light inside was evened out, and although it was still a little dim, considering the bright moonlight, it was already comparable to dusk.

However, as soon as Mott appeared and took over the ceremony, the light was still like dusk, but in the personal perception of everyone present, it suddenly became much darker. It seemed that even the moonlight above their heads was much darker.

Mott did not recite any proverbs or prayers. He just walked around the cemetery and spread the holy power everywhere, especially in the new tombs.

In Xia Duo's field of vision, a tranquil and peaceful aura spread out, covering the entire cemetery, making people feel calm. It seemed that they were not even afraid of death itself, and there was even a faint feeling of joy in death. .

"He is indeed the Lord of the End of All Things!"

Xia Duo watched quietly. The changes in the aura caused by the Holy Power of Death were only superficial and could be easily detected by others. However, in the deeper nature, Xia Duo saw that the magic network here had also undergone some subtle changes. Must be a little slow.

This was not an illusion. When he tried to cast a spell, he clearly felt an extremely weak resistance. All spells related to positive and negative energy were restricted. This affected almost all spells, because positive and negative energy are not just positive. Negative energy itself, as well as the positive and negative tendencies of other elements.

Any spell is more or less related to positive and negative energy. Even a plastic energy spell requires the use of positive and negative energy in guiding and shaping energy. Otherwise, it is not a spell, but pure elemental energy.

In addition, Sha Duo noticed that the influence of this holy power on the magic net is not constant. As the holy power dissipates and fades, the magic net is also recovering. In other words, divine spell casters can also use holy power to cast Exactly the same spell as an arcane caster.

Of course, this requires that the divine spellcaster has the same magical attainments as the arcane spellcaster.

What about the other way around?

Sha Duo thought of arcane energy, but arcana energy is just a kind of pure energy, which is different from holy power, which has specific attributes, but relative imitation may be feasible.

At the same time, Shado also thought of the saying circulating in Netheril that gods are just more powerful arcanists!

Of course, this is not a mainstream view, but to some extent it also reflects the arcanist's ambition - to become an existence equal to God.

Perhaps the arcane energy is a kind of power created to match the holy power.

For a moment, Xia Duo's heart was a little confused, and he was even more eager to become an arcanist.