The Divine Hunter Chapter 9: Travel Notes and Ceremonies

The cold wind blew into the second-floor window of the library, lifting Yaer's hair on his temples. Yaer reached out to cover the slightly dazzling white light outside the window, and rubbed his sore eyes and wrists.

He said with a hint of complaint,

"Roy, you should take a look at the sky outside. We have been looking for it all afternoon, and it is almost dark! You have to understand that I am just an ordinary person, and I am short-sighted. I don't have the abnormal physique of a demon hunter. I can Can't you let me rest for a while?"

"Brother, try harder." The demon hunter's voice was loud and clear, and he was still full of energy and showed no sign of fatigue.

"If we hurry up, we can save Lei Suo from the pervert!"

"And didn't you say this morning that you had seen the concept of the 'Seven Deadly Sins' in a travel journal? Let's look through the travel journal again and we will definitely find it!"

"I wish I had copied all the books in the library so I could find that book right away."

After Yaer finished speaking, he wailed and continued to chew on the book.

For a while, in the empty library, there was only a rapid rustling sound of pages turning.

I don’t know how long it took, but Yaer’s heavy eyelids were almost completely closed. His eyes were red and tears were streaming down his face. His narrowed eyes glanced at a certain book in the collection and suddenly widened.

He slammed the table and stood up suddenly,

"Roy, come here and take a look, I found the book!"

"Good guy, I really have yours - "The Travels of Van Zelennan"..."

Yar opened the yellowed hard cover and came to the first page. He fumbled for the words with his slender fingers and read them over and over again.

"Van Zelen, 1168-1239, a missionary at the Meliteli Temple in Elland, traveled to Nilfgaard in the south in 1215, and spent ten years traveling through most of the southern land before returning to the temple. Download this book. This book introduces in detail the customs, customs, culture and beliefs of the Nilfgaard Empire."

"Page 39, City of Golden Towers..."

Roy leaned his head next to Yael and read word for word without taking his eyes off it.

“Today, I came to the capital of the Nilfgaard Empire, the City of Golden Towers. This magnificent city located on the banks of the Alba River is the heart of the Nilfgaard Empire. In the minds of the locals, only the Golden Tower Only the people living in the city and its surroundings are qualified to be called true Nilfgaardians. Residents in other areas of the empire are not eligible to enjoy this honor."

“It is adjacent to the Yaruga River and has the largest port in the entire south. Its unique advantages make it the economic center of the south.”

"Not only that, it is also the center of religious culture in the south, home to the headquarters of Nilfgaard's 'largest religion'."

"The origin of the 'Greatest Religion' can be traced back to eight years ago in 1207. The then King of Nilfgaard, Fergus Enrith, carried out drastic political and religious reforms, allowing a hundred flowers to bloom. In the south, the largest religion was born - the Sun Religion."

“Fergus Emres appointed the Sun Cult as the Nilfgaardian religion, and appointed himself as the high priest of the Sun Cult, allowing the clergy of the sect to serve as important officials in the national civil service, unifying the monarchy and theocracy. , subtly making the entire empire more unified and power more concentrated."

As a religious personnel, Van Zelen may have been inspired by this, and here he focuses on the Sun Religion.

"Glory to the great sun! Praise the sun!

——Nilfgaardian Hymn. ”

"The Cult of the Sun became supreme in the south. The Temple of Meriteri was dominated by women, while the Cult of the Sun was, on the contrary, dominated by men, with its high priests and clergy all held by men."

"These powerful men believe that all life in the world is protected by the sun. He is the giver of life and the protector of mankind! But he is also cruel and extremely destructive."

"Unlike the tolerance and kindness that the goddess blindly preaches, the dark side of the Sun Cult is shocking."

"By chance, I discovered the secret hidden in the Sun Cult."

"Fergus Emhyr wrote the Seven Original Sins in the secret scripture to warn the core members of the sect. They are greed, gluttony, sloth, anger, envy, **** for money, and arrogance."

“Every year, the church secretly selects sinners who have committed seven crimes from among the death row prisoners and performs a sacred blessing ceremony that few people know about!”

"Send a sacrifice to the supreme sun with the blood, flesh and blood of original sin to destroy evil and give birth to beauty. The sun will give blessings. In order to maintain the purity of the ceremony, during the sacrifice, participants are not allowed to have the blood of innocent people on their hands. Otherwise the ceremony will be polluted."

“The vast majority of Sun Cult believers are men, and the purpose of the ritual is usually to let the sun bless one’s spouse.”

"Although the meaning is beautiful, I think the sacrificial process is extremely inhumane. Even if it triggers the so-called "sin", it will not lead to death. If things go on like this, it will definitely lead to disaster."

(Afterword: Sure enough, in 1236, my sanity was not completely chaotic. Suddenly I heard news from the south that Fergus Emres was completely overthrown by the usurper, and the power of the Sun Cult plummeted and never returned to the past.)

……”

"Sun Cult?"

Roy pondered this word and was lost for a moment.

And Yaer suddenly realized, "No wonder we have been looking for so long. The Seven Deadly Sins did not come from the northern sect at all. They were born in the southern empire and involved a secret ritual. The Sun Sect has only flourished for thirty years. By then, with the emperor's abdication, it completely declined... The thousands of books in the temple are probably recorded in this travel journal!"

"No..." Roy murmured, "Now the Sun Cult has begun to revive."

That Fergus Emres, who unified divine power and monarchy, was the biological father of the current southern emperor Emhyr Emres. The latter was overthrown and killed by the usurper, but his good son had replaced him a few years ago. He took revenge, killed the usurper and regained the power of the empire, and once again brought the Sun Cult to the political stage in the south.

"The Revenge of a Prince Comes Soon."

Roy felt that with the restoration of the Sun Cult, the Nilfgaard Empire continued its Northern Expedition, and it was unlikely that any fanatics from the sect would be allowed to come to Elland.

"Then can we conclude that the murderer, the high-level vampire, is a remnant of the Sun Cult?"

"According to the description in the travel notes, he killed the seven sinners one by one in order to offer sacrifices to the supreme being. The murderer was a tall male vampire, and male believers usually participated in the ritual to worship the woman they loved. Or a spouse prays for blessings. This should also be the murderer’s motive.”

"The burial sites are gathered around the palace - this is no coincidence!" Roy suddenly looked shocked, and looked at Yaer across from him with a confused look on his face.

"In the palace, there is a woman that the murderer likes. The murderer is showing his love to the woman in this way! If this woman is a maid, it would be a big deal to spend a lot of money on an ordinary maid..."

"Does Prince Siward have a princess?!"

Roy suddenly said something that startled Yael. The skinny boy was stunned and stammered, "No...no, His Royal Highness does not have any heirs!"

"Roy, my boss, what on earth have you thought of? Don't be surprised again. I haven't slept all night. If you scare me again, I will feel weak..."

"By the way..." Roy ignored his complaint, but remembered that in the novel, after the death of Siward, one of his relatives legally inherited his throne and became Siward II. If the prince had a child, It won't let that relative take advantage.

"Since there is no princess..." He frowned tightly, "Who in the palace is worthy of letting the murderer offer such a noble sacrifice?"

"Nilfgaard Sun Cult, sacrifice, palace, woman~IndoMTL.com~ These words were put together, and Roy suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, "This...could it be that women are ..."

"And the murderer can defeat Leisuo..."

Nine times out of ten, he is a high-level vampire.

He already has a suspect in his mind!

Although the information observed before is normal, high-level vampires, like the cursed, can change their forms and blind their perception.

Now that the motive is basically clear, it’s time to show off with that guy!

"Yar, if I don't come back before tomorrow night to report that I'm safe, help me give this notebook to Old Aunt Nannick."

The road ahead is uncertain and life and death are uncertain.

But he couldn't retreat, Lei Suo was still waiting there.

The demon hunter took a deep breath, checked the alchemy supplies, and stood up suddenly.