Sword Sorcery

Chapter 163 Emotions
Aaron hadn't had time to study the mysterious book that was snatched from Hilton back then because he was busy dealing with the 'Red-striped Smoked Leaf'.

Until now, Aaron has finally completed the promotion of 'Consolidating Sorcerer', and it's time to start studying this book.

Aaron closed the windows in the hotel, installed a layer of zero-ring witchcraft for sound insulation and protection, and checked the closed door and other places before putting the quaint books on the table and observing them carefully. stand up--

The cover of the book is like a layer of skin, and it has a weird silky feeling to the touch. In addition, the surface of the cover is somewhat irregular, like the pits on the surface of the moon.

Aaron touched the cover of the book with his right hand. Suddenly, the witchcraft pattern on the back of his right hand lit up, and a crack appeared in the upper right corner of the cover, revealing a ferocious eye, blinking at Aaron. Eyes a few times.

Facing such a strange scene, Aaron didn't show any strangeness.

Because most of the magic books of wizards are weird, not to mention the books in front of you, even the more absurd and weird book postures are 'normal' in the eyes of wizards.

For example, the standard magic manual distributed to Aaron by the Wizarding Academy can be called weird - it can be changed into a bracelet at will, and it also has the authentication function of 'Mist Swamp'.

In addition, Aaron understands the true meaning of the 'eye' revealed on the cover, just to remind the user - this is a book on 'witchcraft' that's all.

Just like the original 'Book of Enlightenment'.

Aaron opened the cover, and the name of the book was engraved on the first page - "Rite of Pride"

Aaron frowned when he saw these four big characters, and an association flashed in his mind: "Is this thing related to the 'evil sacrifice'?"

"That's right, Hilton and Judy have captured so many young girls, I'm afraid they are all sacrificed - it seems that this is a kind of evil sacrifice."

Wizards' sacrifices to different worlds are divided into righteous sacrifices and evil sacrifices. Among them, the principle of "equivalence" is the principle of "equivalence". 'In exchange for other powers—

To put it bluntly, this is a 'fair deal'.

The power obtained through the ritual sacrifice will become the priest's own power and cannot be taken back by anyone - just like a consumer buying a product with money, the product no longer belongs to the store, but to the consumer, and the store has no right Take back the merchandise.

but,

Evil sacrifices are different from proper sacrifices. Evil sacrifices are essentially to 'pleasing' the sacrificed through sacrifices, and there is no principle of 'fairness' - you may sacrifice an ordinary lamb, but get far more than a lamb. A reward of its own worth.

Just like two people are close friends, Party A lent a bunch of toys to Party B out of "friendship".

Compared with the main sacrifice, it is obvious that the evil sacrifice is easier to improve its strength, and even the target is easier to choose - because the fixed target required by the evil sacrifice is lower than the required threshold for the main sacrifice.

However, evil sacrifices also have a disadvantage - this kind of power belongs to the object being sacrificed. If the priest does not perform sacrifices for a long time, the power will be gradually withdrawn by the other party.

This is a 'dependency relationship' rather than a 'fair deal'.

However, evil sacrifices are quite closely related to the 'seven major emotions', but all rituals that are related to emotions are basically a kind of evil sacrifice-of course, there are many types of evil sacrifices, and only a very small number of evil sacrifices are related to emotions. And it belongs to the 'high-end' range.

Emotional festivals and festivals are like the relationship between 'high-end cars' and 'cars'.

Obviously, this "Pride Ritual" is an emotional cult.

It was this that made Aaron frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Personally, I don't shy away from the means and goals of the sacrifice, as long as it doesn't hurt people who are close to me—as for other people's I am too lazy to care about life and death."

"It's just that the power obtained by the evil sacrifice is unreliable, and it's never your own real strength—it's like a mirage, which looks beautiful on the surface, but in fact it's too vain."

Aaron continued to flip through the pages of "Rites of Pride", and the more he looked back, the more his brows furrowed.

Because, this "Arrogant Ritual" mainly records a ritual—an arrogant ritual with young girls as 'sacrifices'.

The Arrogant Ritual does not care about the strength of the 'sacrifice', it only requires that the target must be a young girl, and it is best if it has some 'characteristics' - such as slutty, pure, immoral and other attributes.

No wonder, Hilton often stared at the group of noble girls in the noble district. His feelings were because of their "slutty" characteristics, so that he could get more benefits after the sacrifice——

It is also difficult to find a pure girl in a common area, but it is very easy to find a slutty girl in an aristocratic area.

What a sad truth.

Through the holding of the arrogance ritual, the priests can quickly improve their spiritual power, thereby pushing themselves to a higher level of life.

"Unfortunately, this is a kind of evil sacrifice, it seems that I don't have to think about it."

Aaron didn't intend to carry out this kind of evil sacrifice. Integrating the false power bestowed by the "object" into his body is tantamount to making his spiritual power no longer pure-this kind of thing is like taking a drug. It's hard to turn back.

Even if the sacrificial priests no longer perform "evil sacrifices" in the future, they will not be able to make progress because their spiritual power is not pure enough, and they will stop at that stage for life.

Aaron originally thought that the other party was an ancient ritual, and planned to use it to study it. It would be best to speed up the improvement of his own strength, but if the other party was an ancient evil priest, then there was nothing to consider.

"It's sad, I gave up my future for the sake of temporary strength."

Aaron shook his head, directly flipped through the information of the "Pride Ritual", and decided in his heart to hand over the "Pride Ritual" directly to the academy in exchange for points - anyway, he doesn't need this thing, so it's better to use it as a waste.

The current ancient sacrificial methods are quite rare, and all of them are secrets that are not passed on. If Aaron chooses to hand it over to the academy, he believes that he can get a lot of points-it is better than rotten in his own pocket.

However, after Aaron finished watching the "Pride Sacrifice", he noticed the last record about the "mask"——

This is something called 'Arrogance Mask', which uses 'arrogant power' to cover up the spiritual fluctuations of the wizard stage, and it actually has something to do with 'sacrifice'.

Because, the 'Pride Masks' are all made of the skin of young girls. They are actually a variant of 'sacrifice', but the objects are changed from human beings to the 'masks' themselves.

"Interesting stuff, luckily I didn't throw away the masks I found."

Aaron put away the book "Ritual of Pride". He scavenged more than a dozen arrogance masks from Hilton back then, so he didn't need to dirty his hands to make this kind of thing himself.

"By the way, emotional sacrifice, self-confidence. Arrogance!!!"

Aaron suddenly thought of a key point, and couldn't help looking at the "Arrogance Ritual" in his hand again, his eyes became complicated and deep: "I've only heard of the Emotional Evil Sacrifice before, but I didn't expect a possibility—"

"Could it be that the emotional sacrifice will also affect the character of the priest?!"

It seems that Hilton's 'confidence' has something to do with arrogance!
the next morning

Aaron packed everything up and set off for IELTS province again, because
The location of Magic Mirror Manor is within the territory of Yasi Province!

(End of this chapter)