Girl Hero: Revenge on Goblins!-Chapter 322: D116. Princess

Border City, in the reception room of the Military Department.

"Curse Ceremony..."

The explanation of Hunting Knowledge finally reached the most critical part, and the Hero listened intently, but as the Hunting Knowledge’s narration deepened, her expression became increasingly troubled.

In the distant past, which for the Hero was merely an era recorded in books, magic creatures were once worshiped as gods.

Although today’s Church did not believe in gods, this was not something difficult to understand, even the Hero had some understanding of this.

She knew well that in times when the Kingdom and humankind’s civilization were not as strong as they are now, ignorant and weak people often regarded powerful magic creatures as faith.

Even now, in some remote areas of the Kingdom, similar phenomena still existed.

Some naturally gentle magic creatures would actively protect those humans, but more ferocious and brutal magic creatures would treat humans as playthings, demanding blood sacrifices and more cruel and twisted rituals.

For ordinary people who were non-professionals, not to mention fantasy species or ancient dragon species, even just high-tier or intermediate magic creatures, their strength was enough to make them revere them.

And as the Church expanded its sphere of influence, spreading faith based on conviction and ideals, under the leadership of the Saintess, the Holy Knight Order and the bishops of the Judgement Court did not know how many of these magic creatures, regarded as gods, they slaughtered.

Facts proved that there were no truly all-knowing and all-powerful gods in the world, the so-called "gods" were merely powerful magic creatures, or even professionals using special abilities to deceive as gods.

Ignorant mortals couldn’t discern, understand the essence of their power, and thus arbitrarily revered those existences as gods.

Just like that sword of the Sergeant, cutting through the firmament, if placed in ancient times, would surely be regarded by many as an unequivocal miracle.

However, in this long history of ignorance, humankind did not remain entirely inactive, content with being weak. Many peculiar kinds of magic were invented during those times, lost in the river of time, and then recorded by Knowledge Hunters.

Among them, a mysterious ritual involved offering magic power to summon the power of so-called "gods" to destroy enemies.

This ritual magic often only received responses from fantasy level magic creatures, and to target a specific species, an in-depth understanding of these magic creatures was required.

So in the past, this ceremony called Divine Descent could only be used by high priests serving "gods."

And what Hunting Knowledge was introducing now, was the forbidden ritual of summoning the Devouring Curse Demon to curse enemies.

Although to the Hero, this ritual seemed more like bait thrown by the Devouring Curse Demon, just waiting for humans as fish to take the bait.

But... what if it truly succeeded in summoning?

After ending the explanation, Hunting Knowledge did not move again, presenting a look of having said all there was to say.

After seriously thanking it, the Hero and the Snow Woman began discussing the content they had just heard.

Both of them were somewhat indecisive.

"Summoning and borrowing the power of magic creatures, although I’ve heard of such magic, I’ve never seen anyone succeed in summoning a fantasy level magic creature." The Snow Woman gently shook her head, appearing somewhat puzzled.

"The reason why this knowledge was lost is not difficult to speculate. Nowadays, the Church’s chapels nearly cover the entire Kingdom, there have been many years without discovering phenomena of magic creatures raising humans or humans worshipping magic creatures.

"Although those past heretical sects, not all believers of their faith were killed, at least on the surface, those people dared not openly promote their doctrines anymore."

The border defenses had stood firm for a long time, the Kingdom repelled wave after wave of Arcane Surges, although humankind wasn’t the mightiest species, it was no longer the weak to be trampled upon.

Even terrifying existences like the Devouring Curse Demon could not act recklessly within the Kingdom.

Like Sister White Snake, though she could roam freely within the Kingdom, her movements were actually always under surveillance by the Church and the Kingdom.

Therefore, summoning the Devouring Curse Demon, unsure if it was for its amusement or for hunting, naturally, it gradually lost practitioners.

Those weak ones wishing to curse others found it difficult to access such taboo knowledge, while powerful spellcasters had enough strength to cast curses on their own.

Some similar forms of magic still existed in modern times, such as rituals utilizing the power of elemental spirits, but specific to brutal magic creatures like the Devouring Curse Demon, summoning magic for it apparently had no necessity to continue being passed down, having it collected by Hunting Knowledge seemed reasonable.

The Hero was deep in thought, recalling the core elements of the ritual:

"Require genuine hatred, a bit of the cursed one’s medium, the curse’s effect determined by the magic power offered, the needed magic power determined by the respondent — that is, the Devouring Curse Demon. If the magic power was insufficient to pay the price, the caster would be backlashed by the curse..."

The object of hatred... genuine hatred...

[Hero’s curse object —]

1. Herself frёeweɓηovel_coɱ

2. Goblins♛

3. Consult the Church

4. Consult the Count

5.1

6.2

7.3

8.4

9. Does not meet casting requirements

10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure

D10=d10(2)=2

"Hmph, a curse object, it seems it doesn’t have to be human?"

— Isn’t that Goblins?

The Hero’s eyes lit up, and she arrived at the answer in less than a second.

[Fallen Phoenix loot (30-none, 50-only feather, 50+demon core, 90+eyeball)]

D100=d100(39)=39

However, the Snow Woman beside immediately perceived the Hero’s thoughts and couldn’t help but remind her.

"Miss Hero, our goal is to summon the Devouring Curse Demon and then hunt it, to use the materials it drops combined with the Fallen Phoenix’s feathers to create a tool to suppress the curse on you, not to curse Goblins."

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