What was to come had finally come.
While Søren was busy in Mordor City, tens of thousands of orcs had gathered near the Agate River.
Of course.
This time, the gathering of orcs was not for war. With the outbreak of the Avatar Crisis, many lands in the entire material plane had become barren. Because of Søren's intervention, the current casualties in the material plane were about 10%, which meant that almost one-tenth of the population had died. The orcs were one of the unluckier ones. Because of the battlefield of Autumnfall, the orcs had lost about 50% of their population in the Avatar Crisis. But fortunately, the orcs were very fertile. Basically, as long as peace was restored, it was enough to double the population in ten years.
As a mixed-race creature, the status of the orcs had always been very awkward.
Humans did not like them, and the pureblood orcs did not like them. They had always been wandering outside the two races. It could be said that there was a big gap between them and the half-elves.
And the biggest gap was that the difference in appearance was too big!
Because of the gap in appearance, the orcs had always been unable to integrate into other races. The final battle of Autumnfall was once ridiculed by female adventurers as the "battle of appearance" of the mixed-race.
The densely packed orcs gathered together.
In the center of the orc camp, there was a magnificent altar with a diameter of more than 100 meters!
More than ten old Shaman priests gathered near the altar. Their faces were a little excited as they directed the nearby Half-Orcs to get busy. At the most important part of the altar, a lifelike statue had been erected. On top of the statue was Eugene with an aged face. He held a spear in his hand and looked into the distance. His body was covered with tattoos made of ashes.
The bonfire was jumping.
Night was coming.
A large number of orcs gathered around the altar, and the Shaman priests became the hosts of the ceremony.
Boom!
As if they had received a command, at about nine o 'clock in the middle of the night, all the orcs suddenly knelt down, and then a low prayer came from the center of the altar.
"My Lord Eugene!" … "(Note: Orc language.)
"You are the master of the orcs! You are the protector of the orcs! "
"You guide us forward! You teach us to farm! You strengthen our race! … You are our eternal guide! "
"My Lord Eugene! "
"You raise the kingdom of God! Rise to the sky! "
The muffled sound of prayers echoed across the wilderness.
As tens of thousands of people's prayers gathered together, a little divine brilliance began to gather on the statue in the center of the altar.
The Investiture!
Eugene endured for so long and finally decided to become a god at this moment.
Eugene, the Ascender!
This old orc who was about to reach the end of his life. Because of this, he had finally succeeded in becoming a god.
It was different from Sauron's investiture ceremony.
Eugene's investiture prayer was very short. It was almost a regular Half-Orc clergy. The time he chose was around nine o 'clock at night, which meant that he was one of the gods in the evil camp. Under normal circumstances, the gods of the good alignment would be apotheosized during the day. Similarly, unless they were very powerful, the apotheosis ceremony would usually be held before dawn.
In terms of scale, Eugene's Investiture Ceremony was undoubtedly bigger than Søren's.
However, judging from the divine brilliance on the altar, Eugene's Investiture Ceremony was only about half of Søren's. Due to the limitations of their race, the level of civilization of the orcs was not high. Therefore, Eugene chose the Wild Mode Investiture Ceremony.
The so-called 'Wild Mode' was just a joke.
It meant that the level of civilization of the Investiture Race was so low that there was no way to popularize temples.
What should they do?
In this case, they could only use an altar to make up the numbers.
The so-called altar was often a platform and a few large stones. It was very convenient for the Investiture Ceremony, but at the same time, it also reduced the proportion of the Power of Faith absorbed.
Of course.
Using altars also had its benefits.
For example, what happened in front of them. After the first prayer, a group of orcs dragged a few ground dragons to the altar.
— — [Blood Sacrifice]!
This was the oldest sacrificial ceremony.
As the shaman personally ended the lives of these ground dragons, the blood flowed along the runes on the altar. Then the light condensed on the statue skyrocketed, and at the same time, there was a faint bloody light.
…
A thousand miles away. Modor City.
Søren appeared outside the door in an instant. He looked up at the sky, and then cast a simulacrum.
— — "Greater Teleportation!"
Søren's figure appeared over the city of Autumnfall, and then quickly came near the Agate River.
He saw tens of thousands of orcs gathered, and at the same time, he realized that Eugene was holding a Investiture Ceremony.
"Finally, it's Investiture!"
Søren shook his head and sighed. Then his figure appeared, and a little bit of golden divine brilliance appeared.
Compared with his Investiture Ceremony, Eugene's Investiture Ceremony was a bit lonely because no other gods came to congratulate him from beginning to end. The only one who appeared in the sky was Søren, his former enemy, but now he was temporarily cooperating with him. Søren's existence could only be seen by Eugene, and the orcs could not see him.
Other than that, neither the gods of the Human God System nor the gods of the Orc God System appeared.
The blood sacrifice was in progress.
When Søren saw the blood sacrifice ceremony, he knew the path Eugene had chosen.
This was the ancient shaman doctrine.
As a half-orc, Eugene did not choose the way of preaching because it was difficult for the orcs to establish enough civilization like humans. This ancient blood sacrifice could quickly increase Eugene's power, but it would also create a bottleneck for him because of the blood sacrifice.
Søren had always rejected the blood sacrifice from beginning to end. Even all the rituals in the temple did not include blood sacrifice.
For him, this kind of impure power was not beneficial at all. However, Eugene had divinity stolen from the lesser demon lord, so it was not surprising that he chose the blood sacrifice.
A little bit of golden brilliance appeared.
Eugene was not able to create a Holy Kingdom in such a short period of time, but the orcs also had their own ancestral land, which was a kingdom formed by ancestor worship.
What the ascendant needed to do now was to inherit all of this.
The whole Investiture Ceremony lasted for about an hour and a half, and the blood sacrifice ceremony took up two-thirds of the time.
After Eugene completed the Investiture Ceremony, he nodded slightly at Søren, who was watching all of this from the sky. Søren nodded in response and turned around and disappeared.
They were both officially Gods, but Eugene's influence on the material plane was far less than Søren's. Basically, he did not disturb any gods, and not many gods paid more attention to him. Even the Vampire God's Investiture Ceremony was a little bigger than his.
This was the limitation!
Eugene was only a half-orc, and both Søren and Reinhardt were the successors of the Three Gods of Death.
…
(PS: Guess who will be the next to become a god!)
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