Chapter 1014 Eighty-one. Lu Li's sacrifice

  The corpse shrieked in a "crack", burning the midday night.

  Lu Li was taken to the square by the pagans and tied to a stone pillar carved with complicated runes and patterns.

  The flames were burning. Professor Hagrid stepped up the steps and stood in front of Lu Li with a short dagger wrapped in cloth.

   "You want to sacrifice me to the evil god?" Lu Li asked Professor Hagrid, who smiled gently.

   "You don't seem surprised?" Professor Hagrid saw his reflection in those calm black eyes.

   "Just skeptical."

   For example, why are they simply imprisoned without guards? For example, in the last dream, the pagans bowed to them.

   "You trust people too easily."

  Professor Hagrid said that when he moved Lu Li's head, it was like a butcher treating cattle and sheep for slaughter, revealing the tender neck.

   "I won't change my judgment until my suspicions build up to a certain level."

   After all, Professor Hagrid's respect is never false, and this also makes his betrayal surprising.

The    voice fell, and there was a tingling pain in the back of the neck, and the moist heat flowed along the neck and fell into the rune stone pillar against the back.

"You have done a good job, Your Excellency Lu Li." Professor Hagrid dropped the blood-stained dagger, retaining his humility towards Lu Li: "Even excellent... We had imagined that it would take a long time to complete the premise of the ceremony. My child Hisoka En is just the beginning of the plan, he should have pretended to be persuaded and led us to flee, when he was about to succeed, he suddenly betrayed us and caught us again, and then you fled again, rescue me, my betrayal... just yours The excellent performance allowed the ceremony to be completed ahead of schedule."

   "It seems right now that we don't have the greed to continue the ritual." Professor Hagrid was about to step down from the altar: "Otherwise you might find out the truth earlier and try to escape."

"why."

  Professor Hagrid stopped: "What do you mean?"

  The wound did not heal, and the blood drained along the back of the neck, and merged into the ravine engraved on the stone pillar. "You are a professor at the Giant Tree Academy, and you have already obtained what everyone has asked for. Why do you join the Evil God Esoteric Sect?"

   "It was long before you became a professor at Giant Tree Academy."

  Because of blood loss, Lu Li's face began to turn pale, even so, the calmness has not disappeared from his face, as if he can get out of the predicament at any time——

   However, the fact is that Lu Li has no way to break free, and rescue will not appear at the last moment by coincidence.

   "No... Your Excellency Lu Li, I joined the Equilibrium Church after I became an academy professor."

Professor Hagrid frankly revealed the fact of his betrayal: "Giant Tree Academy is not as glamorous as imagined... You know, junior professors are "consumables". In order to protect students, we will not learn anything other than the basics Mystical power, apart from knowledge itself, we are just ordinary people... unable to leave the canopy, unable to leave the city of late night, unable to have faith, I call it... a bird in a cage."

"From an objective point of view, Giant Tree Academy did nothing wrong. We need protection, and students need protection. But life is not perfect. When we are hungry, we need food; when we are full, we need warmth; when we are warm , we need safety; when we are safe, we need emotion... We have emotion, and we want more... Wealth, longevity, strength... Our desires are never satisfied, like snakes, so we need Faith to redeem the soul... The Balance Church appeared at this time, helped me, and redeemed me at the same time."

   "Do you want to know why I believe in the Balance Church?"

   Staring at the outline of the increasingly weak and drooping head, Professor Hagrid slowly told the last story Lu Li heard before he was about to die.

  Professor Hagrid is very smart.

The title of    "smart" accompanied him from childhood to adulthood, and it also made him stand out from the candidates and become the Giant Tree Academy.

   But as Professor Hagrid said more than ten years later, when you are full you need warmth, when you are warm, you need safety, when you are safe, you need emotion, and people's desires can never be satisfied.

  Professor Hagrid at that time got everything that ordinary people can't reach, and his desire was born, and he reached the climax in that strange accident——

   When the rescue had not yet arrived, and his wife Mim revealed the real face and could save their dying son, Professor Hagrid did not hesitate to pay the faith and the price to save their child Sithone.

   "Then...have you ever thought about...the incident that hurt Sithawn...maybe it's church manipulation..."

  Lu Li's thinking became weak, and his speech became difficult.

  The believers on the edge of the altar did not hear these blasphemous remarks, and the only one who heard Professor Hagrid was smart and rational.

   "The Lamb of the Lord will not doubt the Sheepdog," he said. "The Lord of Balance will love our wonderful offerings to Him."

  Professor Hagrid stepped backwards down the steps, raised his hands, placed them parallel to his chest at a distance, and kept his head up and recited.

"We take the opposition between light and darkness as the bone, the conflict between life and death as the flesh, the crossing between hope and despair as the blood, the change between friendliness and hostility as the tendon, the contradiction between trust and betrayal as the skin, and the harvest of capture and escape as the hair , the perfect ceremony thus arranged is sacrificed to you—"

  The chanting of the pagans gradually became clear and coincident. Regardless of Professor Hagrid's family, regardless of the pagans in the square, regardless of the corners of the camp and the outline of the patrol, their prayers came together and sounded over the camp.

   In the dark, some indescribable, indescribable, incomprehensible, and incomprehensible hazy consciousness descended and approached the altar.

   Lu Li, who was bound to the stone pillar, lowered his head, and his chest seemed to stop rising and falling. In the echoing prayer, a symmetrical golden scale slowly unfolded behind him, like a strange and fantastic light wing.

   After receiving the response from the gods, Professor Hagrid became more and more fanatical, and opened his arms to welcome the miracle: "The supreme truth, the master of balance, please accept the sacrifices prepared by your devout believers for you!"

   "Supreme truth, balance master, please accept the sacrifices prepared for you by your devout believers!"

   "This is... a false... balance."

   At this time, weak whispers faintly sounded between the echoing prayers.

   "The minions of the outer gods reach into the world...the surface is shrouded in darkness...the land is strangely rampant...humans hide in corners...the native gods are hunted..."

   "Strong and weak...is it also a balance?"

"Take the opposition between light and darkness as the bone...the conflict between life and death as the flesh...the spanning of hope and despair as the blood...the change of friendliness and hostility as the sinew...the contradiction between development and betrayal as the skin...capture and escape The harvest is the hair... The ultimate reversal of the sacrificed becomes the sacrificer... The perfect ceremony thus arranged is sacrificed to you...

   Weak Lu Li raised his pale face and repeated the prayers of the believers, covered with golden light, his black eyes reflected the silhouettes of the believers in the camp square, and the horrified face.

   "Supreme Truth... Balanced Lord... Please accept your devout believers... The sacrifices prepared for you..."

   "The heretics who have turned their backs on the balanced truth..."

   (end of this chapter)