NABC Chapter 465: 16 The Luckiest Draw in History (4.1k)_2
Chapter 465: 16 The Luckiest Draw in History (4.1k)_2
Chapter 465: Chapter 16 The Luckiest Draw in History (4.1k)_2
The white-robed High Priestess spread her arms to signal the six people to place their hands on it for the test, one by one.
The six exchanged glances and couldn’t help but frown slightly.
“This is a necessary procedure for participating in this hunt, all heroes must pass this test.”
Seeing the doubtful expressions on everyone’s faces, the High Priestess immediately pursed her lips and earnestly explained the reason.
“After all, in order to deal effectively with the Beast Disaster, we need to verify everyone’s identity and capabilities and ensure the safety of all as much as possible.”
Listening to the tactful explanation, Luo En and the others looked at each other and nodded slightly.
Simply put, it was to prevent enemy spies from infiltrating and to ensure their own safety; on the other hand, it was to assess the level of the recruited hero units to make appropriate plans for the expedition.
This test was not chosen to be conducted upon their entry to the Royal Palace to meet the King of Arcadia, but was formally initiated after the negotiation had ended, showing them enough respect.
Once they understood the reasons, everyone had no objections, they stepped forward one after another to place their palm on the surface of the crystal ball, injecting Aether Magic Power.
Instantly, the Magic Circle Diagram activated, and three golden beams of light rose one after the other, the amethyst of Mingyue, the silver-white of the bright moon, and the golden Sun divine seals successively took shape.
Devotees of Hecate, Goddess of the Hunt Artemis’s kin, and messengers of the God of Light, Apollo...@@@@
All of them were blessed by gods!
The white-robed High Priestess, looking at such a high-quality collection of golden light, was rather shocked, then her solemn gaze finally fell on Luo En, who had not yet been tested.
“It’s your turn.”
Luo En nodded lightly, stepped forward and placed his hand on the crystal ball, a grapevine bursting forth from the earth, lush and dripping with vitality, its clusters of grapes refracting a glimmering white light.
A follower of the Dionysian Sect?
The white-robed High Priestess couldn’t help but take a few extra glances at Luo En but soon shook her head somewhat disinterestedly.
It was just an ordinary level, a false excitement.
However, the High Priestess clearly did not notice that within the white light, there was a hint of iridescence, nor would she imagine that the most valuable card of the six was the one before her.
Suddenly, as if realizing her behavior was a bit impolite, she quickly averted her gaze and smiled as she spoke.
“Heroes responding to the call are now arriving from various places and will need some time to gather, so the official day to enter the mountains and clear out the Magic Beasts is tentatively set for three days from now. In the meantime, why don’t you all rest up in the city? The Temple will arrange accommodations for you.”
The Moon Temple, serving the Goddess of the Hunt, thus became the predominant faith in Arcadia, indisputably supreme.
The white-robed High Priestess who had tested Luo En and his companions was from the Moon Temple.
In order to regain a foothold in the region of Arcadia, that resourceful and Speedy God started a religious reformation, gradually developed the Hermes Trismegistus Sector, and dispatched his disciples to propagate his teachings in this land.
True to his reputation as the God of Commerce, his mind is indeed nimble.
Luo En gave a fair assessment and then turned his attention to the other group competing with the Dionysian Sect for territory.
“Oh merciful Goddess, I thank you, grant me food.”
A hundred or so people crammed into a cramped and dark little house, freely distributing and drinking freshly brewed barley porridge, and then, drunk-like, leaned against walls and the ground, falling into a deep slumber.
At the same time, wisps of black mist escaped from those who had consumed the barley porridge, gradually dissipating into the air.
As these impurity-like substances were expelled from their bodies, the devotees appeared to be purified from the inside out, their brows relaxed, their complexions serene, their breathing steady, and their whole bodies seemed to radiate a lustrous glow.
Smelling the scent of the porridge coming through the door cracks, Luo En couldn’t help but sneeze.
Hygieian Porridge, no wonder it felt a little familiar.
If he remembered correctly, this was a favorite ingredient in the secret rituals of the Eleusinian Esoteric Sect.
This sect worshiped the Agriculture Goddess Demeter and Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, hoping through specific foods and rituals to attain immortality and endless life.
In the original myth, while searching for her daughter Persephone, the Agriculture Goddess Demeter had used the nectar of Hygieian Porridge to cleanse the body of a city-state prince she had nurtured, and at night, she would place him over the fire to purge his mortal parts, hoping to make him immortal,
And the Ocean Goddess Tethys dipping her son Achilles into the waters of Styx to grant him an indestructible body was also influenced by the Eleusinian mysteries.
Since to mortals, forever life and immortality are almost irresistible temptations, the spread of the Eleusinian Esoteric Sect was quite rapid. Not long after Artemis had left, this foreign sect managed to attract a large following in Arcadia.
Walking down the street, Luo En stopped himself for the third time from slipping his hand into his pocket, observing the various figures in the city, and murmured sarcastically to himself.
The Moon Temple that believes in Artemis, the Dionysian Sect that believes in himself, the secretly formed Hermes Trismegistus Sector by Hermes, and the older Eleusinian Esoteric Sect that worships the Agriculture Goddess Demeter and Persephone, Queen of the Underworld...
Top it all off with the “Beast Disaster” associated with the divinity of Typhon...
Indeed, the land of Arcadia is teeming with life, a veritable hotbed of contention.
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