Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 8 Jia Xiu fooled the cultists
Billy, male, 32 years old, a follower of the God of Fraud and Curse.

He couldn't quite remember when he became a believer in this god.

It could have been 21 years ago, it could have been 22 years ago.

He only remembered that it was a hot and humid summer.

When he was a child, he was thin and small and was always bullied. That day, he used the money he saved from odd jobs to buy a bag of fruit candy.

He had never eaten fruit candy, which was something only children from wealthy families could afford.

In order to buy this bag of candy, he saved money for several months, as a child could not earn much by working.

When he got the candy, he felt as if he had gotten the whole world and felt that he was no worse than the children from rich families.

He counted them over and over again, and found that there were 12 pieces in total, like 12 gems.

However, the joy did not last long.

A kid who was a head taller than him punched him hard in the eye and snatched the candy away.

Some might say it's just a bag of candy.

But to Billy at that time, it was his whole world.

From the moment the sugar was taken away, his world was destroyed and hatred consumed him. He cursed the town and wished that everything in it would be destroyed.

But he had no power.

At this time, a god he had never heard of responded to his wish.

Once the ritual is completed and powerful undead spirits are summoned, Riverwood will be transformed into a purgatory filled with pain and despair.

From then on, he became a loyal follower of the God of Deception and Curse.

Summoning the undead and destroying the town has become the only obsession that has kept him alive until today.

Just like his failed childhood, his career as a cultist was also a failure.

In the past twenty years, only a dozen believers have been developed, and several of them have dropped out midway.

A total of eight sacrifices were completed, all of which were of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.

It might not be a sacrifice sufficient to satisfy the gods, but it was the best he could do.

Due to lack of guidance, he had to figure out the steps of the ritual and the placement of the magic circle on his own.

The effect is not good, it is just barely usable.

In fact, the gods had given him a text recording the rituals, but he was illiterate.

I can't just ask someone to find out what these words mean.

I can only break it down word by word, ask different people, and finally piece it together myself, adding a little bit of speculation and understanding.

That's not the worst.

The bigger problem is that this small sect is almost unable to make ends meet.

As a last resort, I had to take the order from Hays.

It was unwise to deal with the nobles, but he had no choice.

But what he never expected was that this kidnapping would become a turning point in his destiny.

"What about yesterday?"

Billy stared at Jia Xiu's smiling face, his heart pounding wildly.

What does this mean?
Billy used his not-so-bright brain to think about it.

This guy thought he sacrificed eight people a day, so he said it was not bad.

Billy broke out in a cold sweat.

Are the results of his twenty years not as good as the other person's one day?

This is a senior!
Did the gods finally answer his prayers and send a senior to guide him?

wrong!

It can't be such a coincidence.

Billy put the obsidian knife against Jia Xiu's neck and said, "Don't bluff me. You are an excellent spellcaster rated by the association!"

Jia Xiu calmly asked, "Why? Can't an excellent spellcaster from the association be a believer of the God of Fraud and Curse? Do you understand fraud?"

"This……"

Billy was frightened by Jia Xiu's words.

Jia Xiu continued to drop a bombshell, "The materials for your ritual array are not placed correctly."

"what?"

Billy knew very well that there was something wrong with the magic circle he set up, but he didn't expect that others could see it at a glance.

"Move the skull bowl five centimeters to the right, and swap the positions of the scroll and the human bone flute..." Jia Xiu corrected the incorrectly referenced constants back to their correct positions based on the problems seen by the Eye of Runes.

Seeing the other party's tone was so firm, Billy adjusted the position of the materials half-believingly.

The moment it was rearranged, the dark green flame burning on the candle immediately shot up a level.

In his eyes, what was rising was not only the flame, but also his hope of fulfilling his long-cherished wish.

“Senior!”

Billy's attitude turned respectful.

"I'm so sorry, please untie us. We are also commissioned by Hays. We will refund the money right away."

"and many more!"

Jia Xiu, who had just been released, spoke to stop him. He moved his stiff wrist and explained.

"A follower of the God of Fraud, you wouldn't even dare to defraud the son of a minor noble? I won't do the work, and I won't return the money!"

"But……"

Billy was worried that Hannas would get angry and send the lord's knights to attack them.

"No buts!"

Jia Xiu used all the acting skills he learned in the university drama club and acted like a veteran cultist.

"This is the first step for you to become a true and qualified follower of the God of Deception. Furthermore, Hans's visit to you must not have been approved by his father. Therefore, he suffered a loss and did not dare to go to the lord."

The cultists around nodded.

As expected of a senior, he dared to deceive the nobles right away.

"Let me see the ceremony you prepared."

"Thank you, senior." Billy hurriedly thanked him.

Jia Xiu finally got the chance to observe the entire ceremony carefully.

Two hours passed in a flash. Several cultists were waiting anxiously, but no one dared to disturb them.

On this side, Jia Xiu was shocked.

This ceremony was more complicated than he had expected.

First of all, the entire ceremony is actually a one-way ceremony, with only believers providing sacrifices and no gods giving gifts in return.

As for the spell that summons the undead, strictly speaking, it is a fake and only has a visual effect.

In other words, this god of fraud and curse gave nothing to his believers, made a blank promise, and earned sacrifices for nothing.

It's worthy of being called a fraud.

Unity of knowledge and action!
In addition to the fact that the evil god was deceiving his believers, what was even more amazing was that the fake undead summoning technique actually worked.

There is indeed a dead soul in this cave. It was affected by the sacrificial ritual. Its name is Bubu and it is in the process of revival.

That is, targets of high research value discovered by detection.

After figuring it all out, Jia Xiu cleared his throat.

"Ahem, from now on, we won't resort to such backward methods as sacrifice."

"Huh?" Billy asked, "What do you use?"

“Faith born of prayer.”

"But, our faith isn't enough to summon the undead, right?"

"Who said I'm relying on your faith? I'm relying on the faith of all the tourists who come to Ximu Town!"

“Tourists’ faith?”

Billy didn't understand. Although there were indeed many tourists in Ximu Town every year, no tourist would be so bored as to go to a cult to pray.

"Yes, I'm going to do an 'Absolutely True, Super Horrifying Fraud and Curse Cult Secret Cave Escape Project'! Praying to the gods is essential for passing it."

Billy didn't quite understand what the project with the long name meant, but he roughly understood that the intention of the predecessors was to make tourists develop faith through the experience.

After sorting out the logic, he expressed his concerns.

"But those beliefs are not sincere enough. We are deceiving the gods."

"what?"

Jia Xiu looked at Billy with a hopeless expression, which made Billy confused.

"me……"

"What are you talking about? You don't even dare to deceive the God of Fraud. How can you become a qualified follower of the God of Fraud?"

(End of this chapter)