"Although the gifted ritual is only the most basic among many priestly rituals, neither the arrangement process nor the auxiliary materials required for the ritual are beyond the reach of ordinary people."

"That is to say, even if we collect the three kilograms of sacred minerals required, we still cannot perform rituals everywhere."

Somo frowned and lightly brushed his fingers over the description of the gift ritual in the "Priest Ritual Ceremony".

Except for the first batch of God-given priests, every subsequent priest has experienced the God-given ritual and is no stranger to it.

However, as the books say, the layout and auxiliary materials of the ritual still have very high requirements.

This also makes most small tribes want to give birth to priests, and they can only go to large tribes to follow each other's rituals.

For example, Thomas was taken by the old priest to the "Snow Eagle Tribe", a tribe of thousands of people, to be promoted.

Of course, this kind of cheating is not free.

According to convention, each tribe needs to submit an additional half kilogram of divine ore as a reward in order to participate.

"I now have a full 13 kilograms of divine ore, and this number is likely to continue to rise. The reward of just half a kilogram is insignificant."

"But the problem is that after the beginning of spring, all the major tribes are busy farming, and the latest gift ceremony will not be held until twenty-four days."

Soma focused on the needs of rituals.

The sacred ore has been gathered, but after two months of collecting auxiliary materials, there are still many gaps.

If you choose to wait for twenty-four days, based on the experience that the magic of greeting can provide every day, this is equivalent to a loss of 50,000 experience.

"This time is enough for me to be promoted to a fourth-level priest, and more and more people from the Fire Fist tribe will definitely be promoted to priests in the future. You can't just let people go to other tribes every time to take the opportunity, right?"

Sumo thought for a while and simply copied all the contents of the talent ritual onto a piece of paper.

upgrade.

Must be upgraded.

The reason why the ritual has not been upgraded before is because the most critical sacred mine gap is too big.

Even if upgrading could reduce demand by half, it would still be a hopeless figure.

But today is different from the past. The large sum of money received from the divine mine has given Somo an idea.

"Based on the large amount of information collected during this period, the development and use of divine magic by humans in the world of faith and the way they absorb the energy of divine mines are indeed still at a very elementary and superficial stage, far inferior to that of aliens.

The use of mysterious power can be described as the difference between cloud and mud."

"There are even many people who "return to their original nature" and take the risk of self-destruction to absorb the power in the divine mine orally. It is simply unbelievable."

"Of course, taking the divine mineral orally orally is not completely ineffective. Theoretically, if someone can withstand and perfectly absorb the energy contained in three kilograms of divine mineral at one time, then he may have a high chance of awakening his magical talent. However, for ordinary people

For humans, the entrance to the divine mine must have only one end, and that is death."

Soma sorted through the known information.

Currently, there are two main ways for priests to use divine minerals.

The first is to hold various rituals and use the power of rituals to absorb and release the energy of the sacred mineral.

This method is the most mainstream, almost harmless to the human body, and has high absorption efficiency.

However, the relative material consumption is huge, and a large amount of auxiliary materials are needed every time.

At the same time, the arrangement of rituals is also extremely time-consuming, and only large tribes have enough manpower to arrange them.

The second is to take it orally directly and use the body to absorb the power in the divine mineral.

This method is much simpler and cruder.

Because according to Soma's research, after briefly dissecting several priests, he found that each priest had a special organ in his body.

It is located in the human stomach and has a weird shape. The first half is like a sieve, which can filter food.

The second half is like a furnace that can wrap up substances that cannot be filtered.

After taking the divine mineral, if the sieve can catch it completely, it will be absorbed through this organ later.

But if something goes wrong in the middle, part of the divine mine will leak through.

That's terrible.

As soon as it comes into contact with gastric acid, the ore will immediately turn into poison, causing all kinds of horrific side effects.

"Therefore, the essence of the gifted rituals carefully designed by mankind is more like an efficient and safe 'energy digestion' system cleverly constructed outside the human body. People who accept the rituals only need to stand in it to be safe.

Safely receive and continue to absorb the pure energy flow released by the divine ore after being finely crushed. In this process, as long as the amount of energy absorbed per unit time reaches the critical threshold of three kilograms, it will be 100% stimulated.

The human body grows the prototype of this organ and acquires the gift of divine magic."

"According to this idea, there are two ways to upgrade the talent ritual."

"First, significantly reduce the need for ritual auxiliary materials and only construct a simple external digestive organ. Although the consumption of sacred minerals may increase dramatically, the slow absorption will also simultaneously reduce the probability of side effects."

"Second, change the requirements for auxiliary materials of the ritual, upgrade the layout of the ritual, and construct a more powerful digestive organ. With the help of this method, the probability of humans obtaining high-level magical talents will be greatly increased."

After figuring out the upgrade idea, Sumo thought and called up the system.

As far as the current situation is concerned, of course the first method is the most practical. Even if it costs twice as much divine ore, it is completely worth it.

"280 points, the price is so cheap, it has gone up!"

Compared with the price of creating magic spells out of thin air, the upgrade of rituals is traceable and the points required are relatively cheap.

Somo immediately stopped hesitating and finished speaking.

A green light shot out, dragging the paper and flying off the table.

Visible to the naked eye, the words on it began to change rapidly, evolving into black ink prints like swimming fish.

After a few seconds, the paper fell, and a brand new talent ritual appeared on it.

The requirements for auxiliary materials have plummeted from the original nineteen types to four, all of which are common ore materials in cracks.

The layout has also been greatly simplified. Nine complex processes have been reduced to three, and the time consumption has been reduced by two-thirds.

"If you can crush the divine ore and absorb the internal energy, well, let's call you Devouring Ritual!"

The upgraded talent ritual is no longer purely used to obtain magical talents.

Its main purpose is to help the user absorb the energy in the divine mine, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, there are gains and losses, and the standard for using Devouring Ritual to obtain talents has been increased by half.

The original three kilograms now require four and a half kilograms to do.

"It's better to choose a different day than to hit the sun. Try to get talents tonight!"

Soma took a deep breath.

With the addition of an additional priest to the Fire Fist tribe, Thomas' burden will be instantly relieved.

At least he, the clan leader, can lead his tribe to retreat at critical moments and have the ability to build the tribe in another place.

In this way, it can be regarded as a way out.

It's night.

It is the fourth day since the snow bandits set off from Qinggang City.

Six of the seventeen snow bandit teams have been killed by Thomas, and the remaining eleven have not appeared yet.

But I estimate the time will be today and tomorrow at most.

Therefore, except for the sixteen guards who remained in the Fire Fist tribe, the rest of the civilians were moved by Somo to several surrounding tribes for temporary residence.

"Clan leader, this ritual."

Thomas came to the platform on the heating tower and frowned as he looked at the rituals on the ground.

Although he has not arranged the gift ritual with his own hands, he has seen what the ritual looks like with his own eyes.

The ritual that Soma laid out was like the building blocks built by a child. It couldn't be simpler.

"This is a reward from the Stone God. I'm not sure whether it will work or not."

Sumo didn't even raise his head and opened his mouth to make a fool of himself.

According to the requirements of the genuine talent ritual, you first need to choose a full moon night, at the top of a mountain or at the intersection of rivers. There is no such terrain around the Fire Fist tribe, so it is simplified to an unobstructed high place.

Can.

"All right."

As soon as he heard the words "Stone God", Thomas immediately shut his mouth.

Sumo tinkered for a while, but he didn't say anything, just stood in the corner and watched quietly.

About half an hour passed.

After comparing the structure on the paper, Sumo stood up with satisfaction, took out the sacred ore from his pocket and weighed it.

"Do you need four and a half kilograms?"

"Well, there is no other way. There is too little other material, so we can only use the divine ore to neutralize it."

"As long as it can be done, it's worth the expense. We now have a lot of surplus from the divine mine." Thomas seemed to be worried about Sumo's psychological pressure, so he took the initiative to say a few words of comfort, "In a while, when you and I are both five
To be continued...