Struggle in the Steam Age

"God of War." A militiaman who should be a descendant of immigrants from the former Holy Visby Empire groaned. "What an evil, what a blasphemy."

Lawrence felt that the summary made by the militiaman was very incisive. The hill made of bones in front of him was about two people high, exuding the stench of rotting meat. At the bottom of this hill of corpses are some corpses that have been completely skeletalized, while blood-red shreds of meat still remain on many of the bones above.

In fact, many wild beasts have the habit of leaving the food they have eaten in the fifth lair or near the lair, so the smell of stench when entering the beast cave to explore is a common occurrence for most people who have experienced adventures. very normal thing. But this pile of things obviously exceeded the upper limit that everyone can tolerate.

Because Lawrence found that there were many bones belonging to intelligent races in this pile of corpses, such as a skull that clearly belonged to a minor. What is outrageous is that this skull is yellow and brittle, and there are residual tooth marks on it. Explain that the poor child was eaten by goblins.

"Damn it." Nora flew to Lawrence's shoulder and saw the small skull he took from the huge pile of bones, and her face suddenly became ugly.

In any civilized society, eating intelligent beings is a taboo. Not to mention daily edible intelligent creatures. This is an important reason why all intelligent creature races in this world are fighting with the goblins forever.

Therefore, under the leadership of the Ratman, some teams began to deploy their defenses, while others cleaned up the huge pile of bones. According to Lawrence's order, they will move all the bones outside and build a mass cemetery, and then plan to invite the priests of the god of death to make a requiem prayer.

As the bones were removed, a gleaming statue of one person appeared in front of everyone. The first militiamen to spot the golden glow in the pile of bones thought they had found gold.

However, after clearing a larger area, they discovered that the gold color looked a bit whitish under the light, and it didn't look like gold. The most important thing is that this thing seems to be carved out of a large piece of golden rock, and the rough surface looks like a bunch of small cubes gathered together.

A fact that even ordinary people know is that if the gold monomer is larger, there is only one kind of gold dog's head in nature, and the edges of the dog's head gold should be round. This golden-yellow metal with obvious crystalline surface should be pyrite, which is commonly known as fool's gold.

After spending most of the day cleaning up the huge pile of bones, a rough pyrite statue carved like a large potato stacked on top of a small potato appeared in front of everyone. But at this moment, a palpitating feeling appeared in the hearts of everyone in this cave hall.

"Be careful, this is a high-level goblin god altar." Just as the phantom of Bai Ze in Lawrence's mind released a mass of silvery-white light to drive away this uncomfortable feeling, the The ratman priest screamed with his eyes wide open. "It's best for non-professionals to quit this space now."

"All non-professionals exit the cave immediately." Lawrence and Fatina gave orders at the same time. In an instant, those militia fighters who felt unwell and the Ratmen left the space together, leaving only a dozen low-level fighters, Transcendent and Lawrence, who stayed in this big cave.

"This altar seems to be alive." As a constructed creature with divine nature, Nora immediately felt the difference of this altar. "What it just did was sort of counterattack when it found out about our situation."

"—You're right." The Rat Man Priest glanced at Nora floating in the air in astonishment and said seriously. At first, he just thought that Nora was just a constructed puppet that spellcasters or rich people would have. Later, seeing Lawrence and the others chatting with this puppet, he realized that she was a constructed life.

But now that Nora had told the changes of the altar for the first time, the priest realized that Nora was even more miraculous than he had imagined. Of course, this time is not the time to think about these issues, he quickly withdrew his divergent thinking and said to the rest of the people. "This should be a high-level altar. For safety reasons, I think this place should be destroyed now."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded, "But how should we destroy it? You see, we only have a dozen extraordinary people here, and if we want to destroy an altar of this level, only these people can't guarantee safety .”

Of course, the pure power of faith that has been condensed into liquid in Nora's hands should be able to destroy this altar. But now Lawrence and the others don't want to expose Nora's ability. Best of all, the place isn't without other options for dealing with this altar of the goblin god.

"There is only one way now." The Rat Man Priest said with a serious face, "That is, we will build a temporary altar here for our lord, the horned rat, and then I will preside over a battle sacrificial ceremony to sacrifice this altar to our lord. "

"Sounds very good." Lawrence nodded, and then asked the next question he cared about. "You just said that we are building an altar for His Majesty the Horned Rat here, so can people like us who are not rat people participate in such a sacrificial ceremony?"

After all, each god has different requirements for whether non-believers can participate in their sacrificial ceremonies. Gods such as the God of Knowledge or the Goddess of Agriculture generally allow non-believers to participate except for individual sacrificial ceremonies, as long as they can maintain respect The respect of the gods is enough.

But some gods are not like this. For example, most of the gods of the elves do not welcome non-believers to participate in any sacrificial ceremonies related to them, while the various gods of the dwarves only allow those non-believers to participate in a very small number of rituals related to themselves. Religious ceremonies, and these ceremonies are often related to certain festivals.

So at this time, Lawrence would ask the priest about whether non-believers could participate in the sacrifice. After all, differences between religions in a world without gods like the previous life would cause fatalities. In this world with gods, this kind of problem is naturally the top priority, and it must not be ignored.

"My lord is not a conservative god." The rat man priest said firmly. "People like you who show enough respect to our lord are allowed to participate in the sacrificial activities of our lord."

"It's fine if that's the case." After receiving an affirmative answer, Lawrence nodded. As for other issues, I don't have to worry about it. After all, the Great Horned Rat, as the god of the Ratman, was recognized as an ally by the human gods a long time ago. As a human being, participating in the sacrificial ceremony of the Ratman can also be carried out in a fair manner.

Lawrence, for example, knew of many cities where human sewer cleaners prayed to the horned rat god on the sewer wall before going to work. A small but very enthusiastic sacrificial ceremony is held every autumn when harvesting.

The next step is to build a temporary Great Horned Rat Altar, because this is a cave, so a lot of work can be saved, and a temporary altar can be built with a simple layout.

Soon, several humans and ratmen dragged a tree trunk from outside the cave, and then several ratmen and humans with carpentry experience carved it with the tools they had brought for camping before according to the requirements of the ratman priest. . And Lawrence contributed a palm-sized gold cake and Nora made a temporary holy emblem together.

Finally, when night fell, everything was arranged properly, and we waited for the Ratman Priest to start.