"Swoosh!" Li Huailin saw that there was someone on the altar, and the other party immediately started to flee. He was quite fast. Judging from his speed, the other party might be a Sage.
"Your Majesty, should we give chase?" one of the Sages beside Li Huailin asked.
"Forget it." Li Huailin spread his hands. "Let's study the mechanism first. However, it seems that the altar is quite dangerous. I reckon that the sacrificial people will come here. If that's the case, you should be on guard."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The Sages nodded.
Soon, Li Huailin arrived at the top of the altar. The square altar was quite large. Its surface area was about the size of a basketball court. There was a concave area in the middle of the altar, which looked like a place for the sacrificial offerings. There were also some strange symbols around it.
"It's not a magic array." Eofamu habitually looked at these strange symbols and quickly came to an answer. It was obvious that these patterns were just for decoration and did not have the effect of a magic array.
"How do we do it?" Li Huailin looked around, but there was no switch to activate it. Hence, he said to his subordinates, "Bring the corpse up."
A Sage quickly carried the Earth Dragon's corpse up and magnified it into the concave on the altar. Li Huailin took a look, but … there was no reaction.
"How do we activate it …" Li Huailin held his forehead. He was about to study it when the Jade Emperor discovered something strange. He said to Li Huailin, "There's a circle drawn here. I reckon it's to stand here."
Li Huailin walked to the Jade Emperor's side and took a look. There was indeed a circle drawn on the ground in front of the concave. It was facing the direction of the pyramid. Judging from the position of the circle, it should be a switch or something.
Of course, Li Huailin stood in it without hesitation. As soon as he steadied himself, the concave in front of him suddenly emitted a purple light. Eofamn was also stunned because she did not feel that the thing on the ground was a magic array, but it was emitting a strange light as if it had been activated.
"Could it be a matrix that I can't understand?" Eopham was a little surprised as he studied it. Of course, Li Huailin soon received a system notification.
System Notification: Sacrifice failed. This offering was not personally hunted by you, so it cannot be sacrificed.
The instant he received the system notification, the light above the pit disappeared instantly, and the altar returned to its original state of tranquility.
"What's wrong?" the Jade Emperor asked directly because it didn't seem like he had succeeded.
"Notification failed. It seems that I can't sacrifice things that I didn't get myself." Li Huailin was slightly surprised and replied, "That's right, it was written in the previous rules that offerings can't be snatched. So that's what it means."
"I see." The Summoning Jade Emperor nodded.
"In that case, let's try getting the one I just killed." Li Huailin thought for a moment before speaking again. Although he had dealt the final blow to the one he killed, he did not know how the system determined it. Li Huailin needed to test it out.
Soon, the Saint-ranked combatants took down the corpse and replaced it with the corpse of the Earth Dragon that Li Huailin killed. Li Huailin stood in the circle again. Soon, the ground around the pit began to emit light again, and the sacrifice began again.
However, the situation was similar to the previous time. After a while, the light dimmed again. It was obvious that the sacrifice had failed again. Li Huailin hurriedly looked at the system notification again. I guess this thing doesn't belong to me?
However, after reading the notification, Li Huailin discovered that things weren't so simple. The system notification said: Sacrifice failed. Your offering points are less than 100.
"What?" Li Huailin was slightly taken aback. Then, he suddenly realized the difficulty of this trial. Yes, this trial didn't mean that you could directly kill monsters. The system didn't require you to kill monsters one by one. To be precise, you had to kill items worth 100 points, then move them to the altar at once. Only then would you be considered successful. This was much more difficult than killing monsters directly.
Therefore, this was obviously something that wasn't mentioned in the rules. Fortunately, Li Huailin tested it out. In that case, the rules this time should be that you have to kill monsters yourself first. Then, you have to move the corpses of the monsters you killed here. In this case, the strategy was completely different from what he had imagined. The difficulty of this trial had increased exponentially.
First, there was the problem of selection. When you killed monsters, you had to consider the situation of transporting the corpses. Obviously, if you transported the corpses here, the risk was still very high. After all, the rules this time stated that you would be directly eliminated if you died. Therefore, even if others couldn't steal your offerings, they could still attack you. Sending the corpses here was very dangerous. What was more troublesome was that if you killed a lot of large things, you might not be able to move them all at once. For example, if Li Huailin killed a few Earth Dragons, he wouldn't be able to move them back if he didn't have a lot of subordinates. Therefore, when you choose your prey, you have to consider it carefully. It's best if the prey is small and has high points. It's easier to gather 100 points.
Secondly, the monster that Li Huailin killed was killed by the last hit. The system notification said that you didn't have enough points. It didn't mean that it wasn't your monster. In other words, the system might have determined that you were the one who killed the last hit? Or that everyone who participated in the attack could be sacrificed? No matter what, this mechanism was obviously encouraging kill stealing. Although they couldn't steal sacrifices, they could still steal kills. Of course, this also increased the difficulty. When others found out about this mechanism, they would probably want to kill steal as well.
Of course, in the end, Li Huailin still did an experiment, and that was the experiment of a live sacrifice. That's right, Li Huailin just let a soldier walk up to the altar and see if he could sacrifice him or not. The result of the experiment was that he didn't have enough points, but it didn't mean that it couldn't be sacrificed. Therefore, it was obvious that a live sacrifice was feasible, and the mechanism seemed to be different from a corpse. Because Li Huailin didn't attack his soldiers, it seemed that there was no problem with the ownership of a live sacrifice.
In short, after a little experiment, Li Huailin also told the results of the experiment to the others. After listening to it, everyone thought about it a little, and it could be considered as making up for the rules.
"Your Majesty, in this case, should we directly control this place?" Legg thought for a while and said to Li Huailin, "After all, everyone will come here to sacrifice after hunting. We just need to control this altar, otherwise, if others get close, they won't be able to sacrifice and complete the mission."
"Oh?" Li Huailin thought for a while, and this plan had its advantages and disadvantages. Yes, the only trouble was that when fighting monsters, they had to fight by themselves, so if they wanted to get points, they had to leave this place and fight monsters. However, there were more people on Li Huailin's side, so they could implement a mechanism similar to a rotation system. That is, a team of people would defend, and another team would fight monsters. When they were done, they would change shifts and so on.
But in this case, it was obvious that everyone else would be against him, because if they wanted to pass this round of the trial, they would definitely have to perform a sacrifice. If they found out that he was guarding here, the others would definitely join forces. At present, apart from Li Huailin's troops, there were estimated to be about 100 other people. The stronger ones among them were the few remaining Protoss and some Saint-rankers. In theory, they definitely wouldn't be able to defeat Li Huailin head-on. However, considering the mechanism of the rotation system, the people Li Huailin left behind to defend might not necessarily be all of them. Could they defeat them?
Li Huailin wasn't sure if he could defeat them, but after thinking about it, he still wanted to give it a try. After all, the temptation of directly suppressing this place was too great. In the previous second round, Li Huailin had already suffered. If there was another overtime in the third round, and he was tricked again? Li Huailin felt that he wouldn't be able to handle it.
So now, Li Huailin really wanted to deal with everyone except his people, so as to prevent any more trouble. It would be best if the people who entered the observatory were all his people. That would be much safer. If that was the case, the most important thing was to deal with the few masters.
Yes, if the other party had a few Protoss and Saint-rankers, it was possible that they couldn't stop them. Then, the best way was for him and Eofam to stay here to suppress the situation. However, that was impossible. He had to fight the monsters, and Eofam had to go too. Even if they were to take turns, there would still be gaps. The only person who could stay was the Jade Emperor. Although the other party could protect his people from dying, his attack was a little weak … He couldn't stop the other party.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Huailin thought of a way, and that was speed. Yes, the trial had just begun, so the others probably hadn't gathered 100 sacrificial points yet. So, they probably wouldn't come here yet. In that case, as long as he quickly gathered 100 sacrificial points, he could come back and guard here.
Li Huailin now regretted letting the person on the altar escape because he was probably here to try the sacrifice. He should also know the rules of replenishment. When the other party formed an alliance, he would probably tell the others about it. If it weren't for him, these people would probably have to make several trips.
Of course, it was too late to regret it now. The best thing to do now was to quickly gather 100 points. Now that he had the corpse of an Earth Dragon worth 19 points, Li Huailin decided to use the fastest speed to find a monster worth more than 81 points and call it a day.
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