Chapter 75 The truth of sacrifice?
Unfortunately, Natiyavida still adopted a non-violent and non-cooperating attitude, and said in a cold tone: "Do you think I will tell a human our secret?"
"I really don't understand, is that sacrifice a very happy thing, or is your centaur having a habit of letting the same clan die?" Qi Yu said, "Besides, even the entire race does not exist anymore. What's the relationship between the secrets and not the secret?"
"What do you mean?" Natiyavida felt cold.
"Oh." Qi Yu said in a plain tone, "I mean, if you don't want to say what the hell is that priest, then - I don't mind letting the entire race of Centaurs be completely erased from this world."
"Dare you dare?" Natiyavida widened her eyes and looked ferocious. As a high priest of the centaur, she was responsible for the prosperity of the entire race, and Qi Yu's threat obviously touched her weakness.
"Do you want to see?" Qi Yu stretched out his left hand slightly, his palm spreading upwards, and a trace of flame appeared in his palm, revealing dazzling golden white.
At the same time, the originally cold cave hall suddenly became stuffy, and the heat source, the seemingly inconspicuous little flame in Qi Yu's hand.
"Who should I choose?"
Qi Yu looked at the centaurs who had just asked him, and at the same time expressed his "proudness". These centaurs were grabbed by magical hands and hung upside down in the air, and their blood flowed backwards. At this time, they were already confused.
However, when the scorching flames approached them, the hair on their bodies immediately burned automatically, and several centaurs became "snake-type torches", making a roar of horror and pain.
"I'm not joking with you." Qi Yu looked at him and gritted his teeth, his eyes glowing blood. A Natiyavida who chose someone to eat was a glance and said coldly.
"Let them go, I will take you to the place of sacrifice!" Finally, when these centaurs were burned to the point of charred black and dying, Natiyavida spoke.
Qi Yu dissipated the flames in his hand, and with a wave of his hand, the flames on the bodies of the centaurs disappeared, emitting an unpleasant charred smell. However, the vitality of the centaurs is much more tenacious than that of humans. These centaurs may live in pain for the rest of their lives but will not die.
"You promise me not to hurt my tribe members first-" Natiyavida made her request.
"You are not qualified to make conditions. From the beginning, you ruined any possibility of negotiating with me. From now on, I say, you obey, that's that simple." However, before she could speak, she was interrupted by Qi Yu.
Natiyavida gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, her fingernails sank into the flesh without any sense of anything.
"Okay." Natiyavida said gritting her teeth after she was silent for a while.
"Lead the way." Qi Yu said.
Natiyavida walked towards the passage at the entrance of the cave hall with her not very stable legs.
Seeing her walking towards the other side, Qi Yu dispersed the magical hand that had been blocking there, and the centaurs who were still there rushed in immediately. However, before they could attack Qi Yu, Natiyavida shouted sternly to stop them.
"A clever choice." Qi Yu said. So far, his patience has been almost exhausted. If there is a centaur who cannot see the situation clearly, he doesn't mind completely erasing him from this earth.
Smiranda walked aside and took her equipment back and followed. Joanna was no exception.
Natiyavida walked in front of her, and while walking, she talked to Qi Yu and others about the sacrifice.
When is the origin of the sacrifice no longer verified? Anyway, it seems that since the entire race of centaurs, sacrifices seem to have existed. The time for sacrifices is not specific, basically about ten years apart, sometimes a few years longer, and sometimes a few years less.
The specific time was sensed by the high priest. As the next priest, Natiyavida also learned a lot about the sacrificial situation. That was why he adopted Joanna, a little human girl who appeared in the Centaur Mountains for some reason.
And this sacrifice, as Qi Yu guessed, was not just a simple sacrifice. These centaurs would get some benefits from it. Within one month after each sacrifice, several centaurs would undergo special changes and become extremely weak.
At this time, the priests will bring these centaurs to the sacrificial place. The centaurs will not only recover their health, but will also become particularly strong and tall.
Wittan and his younger brother are the products of the sacrifice after the benefits gained from the sacrifice. However, it is not without a price to gain strength. Those changing centaurs will have lower IQs. Wittan is fine, but his younger brother becomes more like wild beasts than smart races.
Some centaurs even go crazy and attack their companions around them.
"It doesn't sound like that. There are so many disadvantages, why do you still need to continue to sacrifice?" Qi Yu said. They were walking in the cave passage of the centaur, with fierce centaurs in front and behind.
However, no one, including Qi Yu, took them seriously and walked on their own. These centaurs could only continue to advance and retreat with Qi Yu and the others' pace.
"Do you think it's something you can stop if you want to stop?" Natiyavida's tone was cold, but there was a hint of trembling in her voice. "How many centaurs do you think there will be in the entire Centaur Mountain?"
"Two different ethnic groups, about a thousand?" said Smiranda.
"Hmph!" Natiyavida sneered, "This is the number before the last sacrifice. Now, there is only one tribe in the entire Centaur Mountains! There are less than four hundred Centaurs!"
"The last time I sacrificed, the tribe who thought it was powerful did not plan to continue. They thought they could get rid of it-" Natiyavida said in a faint tone.
During the last sacrifice, Joanna, the original sacrifice of the tribe of Natiyavida, was forcibly taken away by Karin, and had no choice but to use the centaur of his tribe as a sacrifice. That time was also the last time the previous high priest presided over the sacrifice, and the next task of the sacrifice was to be handed over to Natiyavida.
During that sacrifice, another tribe did not choose sacrifices, they chose to resist, hoping to get rid of such a fate. So, a huge accident occurred in that sacrifice. The sacrifices of the two tribes died. Only Natiyavida survived, and the price was that she lost one leg. In the next month, another tribe had centaurs died every day, and the cause of death was unknown.
In less than half a year, the originally powerful tribe disappeared, leaving no fish that missed the net.
Natiyavida also received an instruction in her sleep that the next sacrifice must be humans, otherwise their tribe will have the same consequences.
At this time, the Tian that fell from the sky was the only treasure of the Centaur tribe, and it was their only hope for survival. In order to prevent the last incident similar to Joanna, Natiyavida took Tian to the sacrificial place, which made her contaminate the breath of that place.
In this way, it is equivalent to confirming that Qiong is a sacrifice, and she will wake up for only a little time every day, and she will fall asleep at other times. If she is branded in advance, even if someone forcibly takes Qiong away, she will slowly become weak during her sleep day by day, and finally die.
"What's the solution?" Qi Yu asked.
"I don't know." Natiyavida said, conscious of the shocking chill behind her and immediately shouted loudly, "I really don't know! Maybe there is a possible solution when you arrive at that sacrificial place!"
"What solution?" Qi Yu said.
"After so many years of sacrifice, the Centaur has not thought of getting rid of such a life. Although it has not been successful, it still has a clue. What we have always worshipped should be some kind of terrible creature that exists in the cracks." Natiyavida said.
"What is the gap?" Smiranda asked.
"I don't know, maybe it can be used as a gap between different spaces." Natiyavida said. The creature had never really shown its face, but just devoured the sacrifices through the leakage of power. Moreover, it would be difficult for it to spread its power, otherwise the time for each sacrifice would not be so long."
"Space crack?" Qi Yu and the other two were stunned.
As humans in the new era, they are of course very familiar with space cracks. According to Natiyavida, the objects they have always worshipped may be foreigners from other planes or other spaces.
"Is there a permanent and constant space crack?" Qi Yu asked with a frown.
"I don't know, I've never heard of it." Joanna shook her head and Smiranda both shook her head.
The space cracks that have appeared in the past few hundred years have flashed and disappeared in an instant. Isn’t this the space crack that has permanent existence a space channel?
And according to Natiyavida's meaning, this space channel seems to have existed for a long time?
"Don't you know?" Qi Yu asked. If there was really a space channel that existed for so long, it would be too unreasonable for these magicians to know nothing about it.
Smiranda shook her head: "I don't know. But do you think that in the current situation of the demonic French state, will someone go to the territory of the centaur to explore the space channels that may be possible?"
"It is because the current Demon France has been closed and self-disciplined, and it is obviously unable to catch up with the changes in the outside world, but it still regards itself as a noble and a superior person, that a group of new magicians have emerged to change this situation." Joanna intercepted.
"Sure enough, the magician is actually a group of otakus." Qi Yu said.
"It makes sense." Smiranda burst into laughter.
While the few people were talking, they had already left the centaur's cave.
Chapter completed!