Yarra’s Adventure Notes Chapter 1488: 274 Nellie's Rebellion

Chapter 1488: Chapter 274 Nellie’s Rebellion

“Sacrifice, oh, sacrifice.” Nellie could no longer bother arguing about Pannis’s disdain for her slowness, as the ntion of dark god sacrifices imdiately filled the knight with negative emotions. The war between the two sides had caused countless innocents to pay with their blood and lives, which was the most shaful thing in her life. Whenever she thought of those souls struggling in despair, ultimately breaking down, her heart would be filled with pain. She had always believed that, although she was not the one who had killed those people, their deaths were inextricably linked to her, and this belief had not changed until now. Therefore, when Pannis brought up the topic of sacrifice again, she said with an extrely low mood, “You’re not wrong in your guess, they started forty years ago, not long after the temple erged from the earth. They’ve been using living beings in sacrifices in an attempt to transmit energy to Danacus, hoping to awaken him from his slumber.”

“They started that early?” Pannis frowned and muttered in a low voice, “Earlier than I thought.”

“Yes, that early,” Nellie said bitterly, “But in the first twenty years, the frequency of their sacrifices was not so high, at most only two or three tis a year, and sotis even not at all. In the past decade or so, the frequency began to increase, more and more, to the point that the year before last alone, there were twenty-four living sacrifices, almost catching up with the total of the initial twenty years.”

“Ever wonder why?” Pannis stroked his chin and asked, “There must be a reason for such an obvious change.”

“Of course I have thought about it, but of course, I haven’t been able to figure it out,” Nellie said irritably. “How could I possibly co up with an answer to that?”

“Eh, okay, you actually admitted it outright,” Pannis scratched his head and said with a wry smile, “So how did you deal with it? Did you just let them go on with their attempts?”

“Of course not, I’ve been fighting against them all along,” Nellie shook her head vigorously. “Whenever they held a sacrifice, I would use Divine Power to create a barrier, shielding the energy transmitted through their sacrifices and causing a backlash against themselves, inflicting severe damage on all the sacrificers. Sotis, when the power summoned through the sacrifices was too large, the backlash would also increase, to the point where it could directly kill those conducting the sacrifice.”

“Hmm, no wonder,” Pannis realized with a nod, “No wonder in the City of Innocence, from what we could see at the scenes, all the sacrifices ended in failure, with backlash occurring. At the ti we thought it was because the Deity ant to be the sacrifice’s target had perished, causing the sacrificial power to lash back because it had nowhere to go. It turns out you were actually fighting them.”

“That was later; I’ve said before that in the first twenty years, the frequency of sacrifices wasn’t so high, and when I sensed their sacrifices, all I had to do was to counter the power head-on and send it back. Other tis, there was no effect on . Besides dealing with their sacrifices, I still had plenty of ti to transform the world, to continue with my work.” Clearly, Nellie did not want to continue talking about sacrifices, not letting go of any chance to change the subject, “During that ti, I basically completed the transformation of the entire world, and the lives of the Undead started to get on the right track. I… Don’t look at like that, I really don’t want to bring up sacrifices again.”

“But this is an issue that can’t be avoided,” Pannis sighed, “Because based on what you said earlier, it’s possible to guess that this problem has been troubling you ever since.”

“Yes, indeed,” Nellie covered her face with her hands and rubbed it vigorously, as if she were groaning, “They never gave up on living sacrifices, and not only did the frequency increase, but the thods beca more and more cruel.”

“The crueler the thods, the stronger the power that erupts when the victims’ souls shatter,” Pannis nodded. “The increase in the number of sacrifices is likely because as ti went by, the Divine Servants grew stronger. They not only absorbed more Undead Mages who were originally followers of the traitor Morbis but also tempted more people who feared death to beco ghouls and further transford many Demigod magical beasts into half-living-half-Undead monsters. With these leaps in strength, they had more opportunities to carry out a large number of living sacrifices as a weapon to attack you, and like you said, there were twenty-four sacrifices in the year before last alone, which is only the completed ones. If you only react passively, their number of sacrifices will continue to grow until you can no longer shield the powerful force generated by the shattering of these souls.”

“Maybe you’re right, but at that ti, I didn’t know all this,” Nellie sighed, “Nor did I know how to stop them, besides constantly repelling their sacrificial power, the existence of the Divine Barrier prevented from directly harming them.”

“But you still fought back in the end, didn’t you?” Pannis said softly, “Although it took a long ti, you eventually took a stand, attempting to stop their sacrifices, right?”

“Heh, I can’t hide anything from you,” Nellie said with a bitter smile. “At first I tried to have the six half-Undead disrupt their sacrificial rituals, but the actions of the Undead are really too inconvenient, and the Undead Mages, including those three leading Deities’ archbishops, have an innate restraint against Undead creatures. Unless they use surprise attacks, it’s hard for them to kill directly an Undead Mage of a lower tier, and they might expose themselves instead, so this thod wasn’t very effective. Therefore, I switched to another thod.”

“Your thod was to throw the problem at , wasn’t it?” Pannis said helplessly, “What a great solution that is.”

“Hehe, you found out,” Nellie giggled, “By that ti you had recovered, so naturally, I could leave the problem to you. I knew you went to the City of Knowledge, so I had one of the Undead risk being discovered to tamper with the records of a sacrifice, directing the target to the City of Knowledge. Once the sacrifice was perford, as long as you were in the Holy City, you would definitely sense it, so I wasn’t worried that you wouldn’t find out or that an innocent person would beco a victim. I knew that if you saw what happened, you would definitely continue to investigate and you would definitely be able to uncover the conspiracy of Danacus’s followers.”

“Is that really all there is to it?” Pannis asked with a half-smile, “It couldn’t be that simple, besides throwing the problem at , there must have been another preparation you made. That’s the main thing, isn’t it?”