Chapter 137: Conducting scientific research on the power of the Black Goat Mother! (Successful on time!)

Rand is doing an experiment today.

Ever since the alchemy workshop was built, Ellie and Lisa have been hanging out together, and no one knows what they are doing.

However, the tasks assigned by Rand to the alchemy workshop will still be completed with top priority.

This freed up Rand's time greatly. He threw many vague development directions of the technology tree that he could not remember clearly to the Alchemy Workshop, and then supervised it from time to time, gave some suggestions, and made some guesses.

The alchemists who were originally fearful would immediately look at him with admiration.

However, today's experiment can only be completed by Rand himself.

Because of the haunted iron mine incident, he kept seeing adventurers sending money to the Torchlight Church instead of giving it to him.

This was really unbearable for him, and during this period of time he had been studying how to use the power of the Black Goat Mother to complete the destruction of the undead.

Anyway, sacrificing humans to gain power or profit is unacceptable to Rand, so he has to find other ways to use the power of the goddess of abundance.

The only example at present is Seth. Rand has verified it from many sources and Seth has definitely not sacrificed anything, at least not living things, let alone humans.

So how did Seth get this magical power? At least turning his hands into tentacles is definitely not a power that humans should have.

Rand asked Seth many times, and the answer he got was: pray.

So, the same is true for the Torch Church. I have never heard of the Torch Church sacrificing humans, so how did these Torch Church believers gain their power? According to the information he had looked up during this period and the clues discussed by Taner, Rand had a rough guess.

In fact, Rand wanted to ask Fenris, but he was afraid of scaring away this suspected mole, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Fenris is much more useful than Rand imagined. He works very hard and can fully exert his subjective initiative.

And there is no impact at the moment. Taner also promised him that he would keep a close eye on Fenris to prevent any real problems.

Just like what Rand felt during the civil war in the Frostmoon Kingdom, if one has had any connection with the God of Struggle before, then as long as one participates in the struggle, it is often equivalent to making a sacrifice to the God of Struggle.

The same may be true for the people of the Torch Church. After offering their faith to the Torch Goddess, they use fire to deal with enemies, dispel darkness, bake food, and spread faith. These may all be sacrifices to the Torch Goddess, and then they will obtain the divine power bestowed by the Torch Goddess.

This is where the problem comes in.

What does the Dark Fertility Goddess, the Mother of All Creation, the Great Black Goat Mother, like?

It seems that nothing has gone wrong with his tampering with doctrines during this period. It seems that apart from repelling the invasion of the God of Struggle and giving him a task, this god doesn't care about anything else.

However, judging from the blessing bestowed upon him by the Mother of Black Goats, the power and preference of the Mother of Black Goats should be inclined towards reproduction. But it is not possible that one has to give birth to a child to receive the blessing. This is not realistic either. What he needs now is a means to clear out the undead in large quantities.

But now the only creatures that can be said to be created by the power of the Mother Goddess are the cow-horses formed by the crossbreeding of cows and horses.

As for the hybrid wheat that is still under research, it is in line with the basic principles of development of things. The thirst of the Black Goat Mother only plays a certain catalytic role, and it is generally more scientific.

But cows and horses are different. There is reproductive isolation between cows and horses. The birth of cows and horses is almost entirely caused by the power of the Black Goat Mother. So in a sense, Rand's use of the power of the Black Goat Mother on cows and horses is also a sacrifice to the Black Goat Mother?

What if it was just ordinary breeding, raising and breeding livestock, cultivating and breeding plants normally, would it be considered a sacrifice to the Black Goat Mother? And if this really counted as a sacrifice and pleasing the Mother Goddess, then what would it take to get the Black Goat Mother's reward? Rand was experimenting at this time, but he couldn't get any results.

After careful consideration, Rand decided to try whether cows and horses could exorcise evil spirits.

Elsa had always been in charge of adventurer-related matters, and this time was no exception. After bringing the sealed undead to the lord's hall, Elsa leaned against the exquisite relief stone pillars in the hall, folded her arms across her chest, and looked at Rand.

In Rand's hand, he held a young cow-horse.

Elsa narrowed her eyes and asked in her usual cold voice: "Can this horse with horns that you made from nowhere really drive away the undead?"

Rand was not sure either: "It's normal to fail in an experiment."

As he spoke, he moved the young cows and horses in his hands closer to the ghost in the cage, and the cows and horses began to tremble.

The undead who were bound and unable to move appeared to have not changed at all.

It seems to be really useless.

Rand brought the ox-horse closer to the terrifying ghost. The ox-horse was already shaking like a sieve. If Rand had not firmly grasped the scruff of its neck, the young ox-horse would have tried to run away.

Finally, Rand touched the undead with the cattle and horses in his hands.

The undead finally changed. Its originally translucent body became completely transparent after being touched by the cows and horses.

It should be said that wherever the cattle and horses touched, it disappeared immediately.

Then I tried skeletons and zombies.

It turns out that cattle and horses can effectively kill the undead.

In fact, if there is no power from any god, people in this world can also cause harm to the undead, but the efficiency is very low.

For example, if you smash the skull into pieces, knock open the skull, and pour some water into it, the person will die.

Ghosts are a little more troublesome, but in fact, sunlight and high temperature, or extremely bright light, or some powerful magic, can also cause damage to ghosts.

However, these methods are very inefficient.

This is why adventurers who go to the haunted iron mine to mine have to keep giving money to the Torch Church. Some of the exorcism items and materials provided by the Torch Church are indeed useful.

Test three, Rand handed the calf to Elsa, then took out a wooden sword.

In order to conduct more experiments this time, Elsa was commissioned to bring a large number of undead here, so the lord's hall is now eerie.

Rand poked the ghost's body with the wooden sword, but it seemed to have no effect.

"Come closer."

Elsa moved closer, holding the calf.

After killing ghosts, skeletons, and zombies just now, the cows, horses, and calves didn't seem to be afraid of the undead anymore, and they just stared at them with big eyes.

It was because Elsa didn't hold it very comfortably that it was still struggling.

Rand stabbed the ghost with the wooden sword again. He did this just to see if there was any halo effect.

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"It seems to have faded a little." Elsa's eyesight was much better than Rand's.

"Has it faded?" Rand looked at the ghost, who seemed uncomfortable, in confusion.

Then he stabbed and cut repeatedly with the wooden sword, and soon, the ghost became fainter, visibly so.

"It seems to be really useful." Rand touched his chin.

After many experiments using the control variable method, Rand finally determined that as long as there are cattle and horses around, the undead will be weakened to a certain extent, making them more vulnerable to harm. Although the magnitude is very low now, cattle and horses will grow up, and when they grow up, the effect will probably be stronger.

Now is the time to break the Torch Church's monopoly.

There seems to be a split within the Torch Church now, but even with Ellie's intelligence skills, it is impossible to find out what the situation is for the time being.

But it is undoubtedly certain that the influence of the Torch Church will be further weakened.

Although Rand still did not dare to sell cattle and horses to compete with the Torch Church for sales, at least in the Crescent Territory and New Moon Territory, Rand could make the final decision.

That is, in the Haunted Iron Mine, these adventurers will soon be able to enjoy the localized version of the Niuma Torch Cult service.

Let the Torch Church make more money first. When the cattle and horses grow up, it will all be Rand's money! Just as Rand was imagining a future of making a lot of money from adventurers, Lysa walked in.

Rand's heart skipped a beat, and his originally relaxed face suddenly tensed.

When it comes to handling serious matters, Lisa is very reliable, more reliable than anyone else in the den, including Rand. And now, it's not time for the small classroom at the foot of the mountain to end, so, is there something wrong? "I have an exam today, so I have half a day off." Lisa looked at Rand, whose face suddenly became serious and nervous, and smiled strangely.

Rand relaxed immediately.

"According to the rules we set before, the one who gets first place in the exam will be qualified to be alone with you." Lisa continued.

So that's what it was.

"How do we arrange it?" Rand asked. "I did say this before. I will fulfill my promise. Do you have any suggestions?"

Lisa pretended to think for a while, then said, "How about a cross, whip, and torture package?"

Rand's chest rose and fell a few times, and he took a deep breath, then asked, "You didn't take the exam yourself, did you?"

"No, no, I'm just giving you a serious suggestion." Lisa explained seriously. Just looking at her delicate face, one could never imagine that beautiful mouth would say such words.

As expected, I shouldn't ask for Lisa's opinion. Rand looked at Elsa who was watching the show on the side.

"Do you have any comments?"

Elsa pretended to think for a while, then said, "Cook with the first place winner, and then invite everyone to taste it?"

Well, everyone has expressed their thoughts, right?

"You're not going to take the exam, are you?" Rand stared at Elsa.

"Really not." Elsa explained, "Please think positively about us~, then how about changing and trying to steal something with the first place?"

Rand rolled his eyes. Who would be like this? But this time it was indeed his problem. Why would he think of asking these two people? After all, Lysa and Elsa were the two most bizarre people in the den.

Now it seems that I can only ask Ellie and Olenna.

(End of this chapter)