Chapter 13: Sacrifice
"The national treasure box...what is this thing?"
Sitting in the coffee shop, Dorothy looked at the list of assets in Nephnis's hand, and she couldn't help but feel a little curious about what was in this so-called heirloom box. She was very interested for a moment.
'Mazar is the last prince of the Baruch Dynasty and also loves the first crown prince. If the Baruch Dynasty had not been overthrown, then Mazar would have been the next Baruch King. So this heirloom box may be something that every generation of Baruch Kings have inherited together. It can allow a country to inherit for decades. What kind of good thing is this?'
Touching her chin, Dorothy thought with interest, and suddenly became interested in this royal family heirloom. From the list in Nephnis's hand, although Mazar's property was not much, it was basically some secular finances. Apart from this so-called treasure box, there was almost no item that might be related to the extraordinary. Dorothy was now curious about what was in this box.
After a little thought, Dorothy decided to ask Neveu from afar to take out the so-called national treasure box so that she could study what was inside it.
Then, after Dorothy gave instructions to Neveu in the distance, she sat on the ground, drinking coffee and reading a book while waiting. After waiting for about an hour, Neveu, who had finished her disguise, hurried into the coffee shop, walked upstairs and sat in front of Dorothy. After she took a long rest, she opened her eyes and spoke to Dorothy with a little excitement.
"Miss Dorothy... We, we are rich this time! That fat prince is so rich! With his assets, we will never have to worry about food and drink for several lifetimes!"
Neveu spoke frankly with stars in her eyes, and there was a hint of undisguised joy on her face. Dorothy took a sip of coffee and responded indifferently.
"After all, he is a prince of a country. Even though he is not rich anymore, he still has some assets."
"Yeah... I thought at first that guy might have some money, but I didn't expect it to be this much! This is much more than what we got by robbing or stealing..."
Neveu continued to sigh and said that after she gradually accepted her identity as a thief, some characteristics seemed to have gradually awakened in her heart, and her obsession with gold and silver treasures increased significantly. At this moment, Dorothy sighed that she was worthy of being born into a family of tomb robbers.
Then, Dorothy and Neferness chatted for a few more minutes. Since Neferness also contributed to this activity, Dorothy directly gave Neferness one thousand pounds in cash from the three thousand pounds of Mazar inheritance as a reward. At this time, she couldn't wait to go out shopping. After Dorothy gave Neferness some instructions, Neferness hurriedly left the cafe, leaving only a large square package wrapped in cloth on the table. It was obvious that this was the item that Neferness had just taken out from the Artisans' Guild base not long ago, the heirloom box in the list.
Looking at the package on the table, Dorothy slowly drank the rest of the coffee, then stood up and took the package to the bathroom, where she put the package into her magic box, walked out of the bathroom and left the cafe.
Then, Dorothy stopped a carriage and quickly drove back to the hotel where she was staying. After returning to her room, she placed the package on the table and then opened it.
After untying the cloth, Dorothy saw an iron box with intricate patterns on it, including Baruch's guardian beast, the scorpion, the symbol of Baruch's royal family, and other symbols of authority. The box was quite large, and Dorothy felt its weight when she lifted it, and she became even more curious about what was inside.
Then, Dorothy did not rush to open the iron box. In order to prevent any mechanical or cursed things inside, she set up a divination array on the spot to predict whether there would be danger after opening the iron box. Since the anti-divination system of the Baruch Dynasty was already destroyed, the iron box did not have other forces like Mazar and Maad to provide anti-divination for other people or for themselves. However, Dorothy's divination was successful at the first try. After she confirmed that there was no danger inside the iron box, she finally began to try to open the iron box.
However, the opening process was not smooth. Dorothy first tried to open the box directly and found that it did not move at all. After carefully checking for a while, she found that there was a small hole like a keyhole on one side of the box, which seemed to be used to insert a key. Just as Dorothy was worried that she did not seem to have the key, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a point.
Dorothy opened the magic box, and after rummaging around inside for a while, she found a metal seal, which she had obtained from Mazar, the seal of King Baruch, with which Dorothy had stamped Mazar's will not long ago.
After taking out the seal, Dorothy fiddled with it in her hand for a while. Then Dorothy twisted the handle of the seal and turned it hard. Then the handle of the seal opened with the rotation, and a key-shaped toothed iron piece extended from it.
Then, Dorothy inserted the key into the lock of the iron box and turned it. With a "click" sound from inside, Dorothy pulled out the key and then opened the lid of the iron box, revealing what was inside, which was a bundled animal skin scroll.
"It's not a scroll..."
Looking at the things in the iron box, Dorothy murmured something, then opened the scroll and looked inside. After the scroll was opened, Dorothy's eyes were filled with text. Fortunately, this was Northern Wu language instead of ancient Northern Wu language, so Dorothy could still understand it.
After glancing at the information on the scroll a few times, Dorothy roughly understood the contents.
"The Royal Family Sacrifice Book... This is a sacrificial guide book..."
The scroll in Dorothy's hand at this time was a sacrificial guide, which recorded a sacrificial ceremony called "King's Sacrifice". The object of this ceremony was the founding king of Baruch, Rahman Baruch.
According to rumors, more than nine thousand years ago, the Dofin Dynasty, the ruler of Adus, firmly supported the True Lord in fighting against the Glowing Cult in the holy war against the Glowing Cult. Due to the country's firm belief and strong combat effectiveness, the Dofin Dynasty became one of the main forces of the Northern Ukraine coalition in the holy war against the Glowing Cult's invasion.
However, there was a huge gap in strength between the Northern Wu coalition and the Glorious Church, which controlled the entire main continent. No matter how hard the coalition fought, it could not stop the advance of the holy war army. Just when the coalition felt desperate, because the Glorious Church had suffered too much damage, they proposed a theoretical concession to the Northern Wu countries to recognize the True Lord and the Glorious Savior as one, in order to appease and recruit the Northern Wu countries. However, due to the powerful strength of the Glorious Church, most of the Northern Wu countries also compromised with the Glorious Church. Only a few countries chose to resist for the true Lord's thought, and Adus of the Dofin Dynasty was one of them.
Later, the Dofin who chose to resist was destroyed by the Crusades of the Glorious Church. The Adus region fell into a state of division and became a chaotic place with warlords, bandits, and vagrants everywhere. There were wars everywhere. In just two decades, four dynasties were established and destroyed, and the whole land was in chaos.
Rahman lived at that time. Legend has it that he was just an ordinary herdsman, but became an extraordinary person because of some adventures he encountered while grazing. He then used his extraordinary power to build a force and set up a militia, providing shelter for a large number of ordinary civilians in the bloody chaos, while fighting with many other forces on the land of Addus.
During the years of fighting, Rahman was promoted all the way and eventually became a powerful extraordinary person of the Red Cheng level. Then he used his powerful strength to eliminate various armed forces on the land of Adus, and announced the establishment of a country, establishing the Baruch Dynasty. After that, Rahman ruled Baruch for almost ten years, and then retreated behind the scenes, secretly guarding Baruch for more than two decades, and finally died at the age of nearly three decades.
After Rahman's death, he was secretly buried in the place where he had encountered the adventure according to his own will. He had built a huge mausoleum there before. From then on, Rahman's mausoleum became a holy place of the Baruch dynasty.
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