Chapter 2 Modification Ceremony
At the edge of the altar, twenty figures wearing grey masks were crawling on the ground. They were the believers who were enjoying the blessings of the sacrifice this time, and they were all talents trained by the cultists.

According to the process, the sacrifice's artery must be cut first, allowing the sacrifice's blood to flow into the channel prepared in advance on the altar. The priest then recites the blessing, establishes an anchor point, and calls upon the undead sub-plane.

The more detailed and clear the blessing is, the more accurately the undead sub-plane can be located.

After successful positioning, the undead subplane will take away the sacrifice and bestow blessings on the believers.

The less time wasted in the sacrificial ritual, the stronger the blessing effect.

Roland was the first to be sacrificed.

The cultists used a dagger to cut the arteries in Roland's limbs, and the thawed blood immediately flowed out, filling the dents under Roland's body.

Under the nourishment of the dark element, although Roland continued to bleed, his face only turned a little pale.

Freina stood under the altar. The pampered girl was frightened by the blood, flesh and bones around her, her face turned pale and her lips trembled slightly. But despite this, she still did not give in. She stood straight in place with drooping eyes and gritting her teeth.

She glanced at Roland on the altar with a hint of pity in her eyes.

On the altar, the thin boy was standing barefoot in his own blood, his red eyes were dull and lifeless, like a weak and helpless lamb that had been separated from its flock and surrounded by wolves.

How can a simple child fight against the evil cultists?

Perhaps it was the regret for the beautiful opposite sex dying in front of her that touched Freina's heart, and it seemed as if something was trembling in her heart.

Roland was also looking at her.

He knew that she was about to awaken, and even without his help, she would definitely awaken as soon as he died.

However, Roland did not intend to sacrifice himself for the benefit of others. In addition, he did not intend to go to the undead plane to participate in an exciting undead chicken-eating competition across all planes.

What he wanted was [reincarnation into another world and starting a leisurely life] instead of [rebirth as a king of the undead plane].

Right in front of the altar, the priest had already begun reciting the blessing, his voice low and hoarse, filled with pain and resentment.

'The essence of death' 'The Lord of the Dead' 'The final destination of all living things' 'Your followers call upon you and dedicate the lives on the altar to you.'

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After all, this is only the very opening plot of the game, and some settings within the game have not been completely finalized, so that in later versions, many of the original settings have been overturned, modified, or patched.

As a large-scale virtual online game that has been operating for nearly ten years, eating books is a very normal phenomenon.

According to the setting when he lifted the trophy in his previous life, there are no gods in this world, and the gods that the cultists in front of him are worshipping naturally do not exist.

What they sacrificed was actually the sub-plane of the undead attached to the material world.

Therefore, without clearly identifying the object of the sacrifice, their blessings naturally had many problems.

The undead sub-plane is not the so-called essence of death. It is just a sub-plane whose main body is dark elements. At most, it is somewhat related to death because of the existence of the undead.

As for the monarch of the undead, the undead sub-plane has no independent consciousness, so the word monarch is not appropriate to describe it.

As for the destination of all living beings, that is even more ridiculous. The undead subplane is just a subplane attached to the material world, and the souls of the undead who died in it have to return to the material world.

Therefore, this blessing is not only unreliable, but also, since the priest has not provided the exact coordinates of the material world, there are only rough coordinates of "this altar" which are basically useless. Even with various auxiliary materials, the effect is quite poor. Although the undead sub-plane can be found, it needs to be called repeatedly, which consumes a lot of time and materials. Moreover, this call can only sacrifice one sacrifice, and the next sacrifice must be summoned again.

In addition, this kind of sacrifice is also quite dangerous. Since there are no accurate coordinates and the blessing cannot be heard clearly, the consciousness of the undead sub-plane will generally choose to pack up and take away all the people on the altar, and then throw the blessing away and leave.

The priest finished reading a passage and was about to start again.

At this time, Roland finally moved and stood up calmly.

After the priest finished reciting the sacrifice for the first time, the ritual on the altar had already isolated the inside and outside. No matter what Roland did next, they could not stop him.

Therefore, Roland is safe, at least, now.

As the only sacrifice standing on the altar, the priest would not risk backlash by opening the isolation barrier, and the other cultists would not risk their lives being harvested to stop Roland.

As Roland stood up, the pitch-black chain quickly extended and lengthened, ensuring the connection between Roland and the altar.

The priest glanced at Roland with contempt, ignored him, and continued to recite.

As a priest with rich experience in sacrifices, he had seen too many struggles of sacrifices before death.

When he was performing sacrifices a few years ago, one of the sacrifices ran to the edge of the altar, took off his pants and defecated in front of him, and the shit even splashed in front of him, but he continued to recite without changing his expression.

It's just a last-ditch effort.

The priest commented in his heart.

Just as he was about to continue reciting, Roland finally moved.

Through the magic power in his body, which was not even as strong as that of a wizard's apprentice, Roland used his own blood as material and began to modify the sacrificial ritual.

Fortunately, in his previous life, in addition to competition days, he would also live broadcast games, fight boss challenges, and teach some techniques. Therefore, he is relatively familiar with this low-end sacrificial ceremony.

Roland bit off his finger and used his own blood to control the dark elements that were injected into his body from the altar. He used this as raw material to add new runes to the altar.

As for why the blood from the cut limbs was not used? The blood was captured by the ritual when it flowed out, and it was imprinted with the traces of the ritual. God knows what other messes were imprinted in it besides the dark elements.

For safety reasons, Roland chose to squeeze himself a little more, avoiding the ritual and cutting his own throat to draw some clean blood.

This ritual, which was spread among cultists through word of mouth, was very crude. In Roland's opinion, there were too many loopholes that could be exploited.

After generations of priests' iterations, the current ritual has become a messy and dirty pile of runes. Only a small part of the structure can function normally, and most of the structure is redundant and useless.

Looking at the two intertwined energy transmission structures in front of him, some dark elements were constantly circulating in these two structures. Roland had no idea what the function and significance of these structures were.

In addition, the current ceremony does not even have the most basic identification and anti-theft functions and is completely open source.

Roland simply covered and replaced a few runes, removing the chains from restricting him.

(End of this chapter)