New Gods of North America.

Chapter 382 "Sacrifice"

After confirming that no one wanted these things, Wayne packed up all the extraordinary materials.
Humph,
If you don’t eat it, I will.

Lina was blatantly speaking ill of Wayne:
"Everyone, don't learn from him. This guy drinks holy water all day long. He is able to survive only because of his strong vitality. If it were someone else, they would have already turned into extraordinary material long ago..."

Upon hearing this, Willy and Damon MacCready silently looked in the direction of Wayne's bombed cabin.
Then they nodded in agreement.

The other agents looked at Wayne with a kind of awe that inexplicably filled their eyes.

Wayne did not return to the office directly. He first took the extraordinary materials to ask Inissa if she needed any.
By the way, I also want to confirm her current condition.

Inissa's condition seemed to have improved slightly. The pupils of her eyes were no longer so scarlet, and her lips were slightly more red.
But it felt like she was still "taking a bath", as if she had just climbed out of the bathtub, with water still dripping all over her body.

Inissa observed the extraordinary materials for a while, but did not select any from them:
"Although I feel that their ranks are not too high, but... are you sure you want to absorb this much pollution? I feel that this is even more pollution than what you absorbed in that indigenous tribe before, and it is also more 'active'."

Similar to the ones in Tecumseh’s tribe?

Isn’t that a piece of cake?
Wayne's spiritual intuition told him that "it's not a big problem", so he comforted Inessa a little, "It's okay, it can't be wasted."

Inesa stopped trying to persuade him. "Then you'd better find a relatively secluded and open place... You also need someone to supervise nearby, so that they can rescue or warn you in time if they find any unexpected situation."

Wayne nodded to show that he had received it, and after letting Inessa continue to rest, he returned to the office, called Doug to come over to protect him, and sat down to prepare to "eat".
and many more,

When I blew up my cabin before, my spiritual intuition didn't seem to have any warning...

Although it was indeed "no problem" in the end,
However, the spiritual intuition’s judgment of “no problem” seems to be different from that of ordinary people.

Wayne thought about it and decided to take the extraordinary materials out of the office, and also took a bottle of holy water to moisten his throat.

This time, Wayne had already thought of a plan. He would find a small bush outside the yard and absorb these things first.

If it is really "indigestible", there is still a piece of stone slab fragment in the cellar. That thing is much more effective than holy water and can make the spiritual power in the body easily digestible in an instant.

Wait a minute.
Since that piece of slate fragment can make the spiritual power in his body easier to digest, can it be used to directly purify extraordinary materials?
Hey, I'm such a clever kid.

By the way, Wayne thought that he had not yet had time to tell Lina about the impact of the slate fragment on Miss Olivia.

So I called Lina along and they went to the cellar to check out the situation.

"I can't see anything unusual... The sage didn't give me any warning..."

Unexpectedly, Teacher Lina didn’t find anything wrong with this thing.

But she is obviously more experienced in "metaphysics":
"You said it can help you digest the spiritual power that you can't absorb. It sounds like it can remove certain 'pollutions'. There are several reasons for this... Can you demonstrate it to me first?"

This was actually the first time Wayne had done such an experiment. He picked out a piece of extraordinary material that he liked.

Then put it on top of the piece of stone slab.

The good news is that slate fragments can indeed remove contamination from extraordinary materials.

But the bad news is that it "ate" the entire piece of extraordinary material... and after it "finished eating", it didn't seem to have changed at all, and it refused to admit its mistake even after it was full.

Lina seemed to understand, picked up the slate fragment and continued to observe:

"There are three common and effective ways to 'remove pollution': purification or rejection of the 'sacred' realm, 'suppression' caused by higher-level beings in the same realm, and... 'sacrifice' to specific gods.

"If I had to guess, I'd say it's the last one."

"So can I still use it?" Wayne asked. Everything else was easy to deal with, but this question was more urgent.

Lina shook her head silently:
“I don’t know…even sages may not respond to matters involving gods. But if this thing is indeed ‘effective’, then the sensible thing to do is to use it with restraint as much as possible.

"Because you can't tell when it will lose its effect, or whether it will attract the 'attention' of a higher being - the latter usually causes more serious consequences. Not all higher beings have good intentions, and even if they do, humans sometimes can't bear it."

……

After Lina explained the situation clearly, she did not dissuade him.

Wayne didn't struggle for too long and chose to continue trying the old method.

Anyway, if "as long as you have a connection with a higher being, you will be in danger", then I am afraid that I have already won the bid before, and I don't have to worry about having too much debt.
In Wayne's eyes, these extraordinary materials on hand are at the level of "falling on the ground, but can still be eaten after washing", which is wasteful and not environmentally friendly.

So Lina stood guard at the entrance to the cellar.

After a series of operations, Wayne "opened the boxes" of a bunch of extraordinary materials one by one.

I felt similar to the "mushroom man" I met in the dormitory before, with a bloated stomach and indigestion.

However, the "weight" of these things was not as much as that of the "mushroom man". He absorbed them all one by one, and the extraordinary materials "deflated" or "turned into powder" one by one.
All together they are equivalent to a "mushroom man".

Wayne was also familiar with the next process. He greeted the entrance of the cellar, then cautiously but resolutely reached for the fragment of stone slab.
The "cocoon" wrapped around the spiritual power in the body, or the "impurities" mixed in it, seemed to be cleared away in an instant, just like before.

And the spiritual power that was absorbed into the body was quickly "digested" and became part of Wayne's "blue bar".

"It seems that only you can use this method. I feel that your condition is much more stable than that of Beyonders of the same rank..."

After Lina came down to confirm the situation, she had no objection to Wayne's method of "recycling" the contaminated extraordinary materials, and even seemed a little envious.

But just like Inissa, her perception of the slate fragment had become less favorable.
So Lina reminded Wayne again:
“There are always risks in the advancement of Beyonders. It is not a bad thing to find a relatively safe way to absorb contaminated Beyonder materials.

"But you still have to be vigilant. Using something that doesn't seem to have any problems like this can sometimes be potentially more dangerous. You might end up becoming the 'sacrifice' yourself."

Well……

The truth is correct, but hearing the evil god's "daughter" say this always feels a bit weird...

(End of this chapter)