The magic merchant who mingled with Fairy Tail

Kira was very depressed, how could she deal with this situation?

Do you want to say "Sorry, I am the author you said has lowered the literary standard of the novel industry"? Would she be so embarrassed that she dug her toes into the ground to dig out three bedrooms and one living room?

Fortunately, I just gave a negative review for Versailles. Otherwise, if I kept praising it and the other party said "trash", wouldn't I be very embarrassed!

No matter what happens, Versailles is indeed the right thing to do!

Long live Versailles!

Until the two of them separated, Kira did not reveal his identity. Since the other party was not his reader, there was no point in revealing his identity. The reporter lady whose name he had long forgotten would not change his view of the novel because of this. Or pestering him for autographed photos.

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Traveling is to increase knowledge, and a person travels to not be restrained. It stands to reason that Kira should be like Gildas, wandering around the world and constantly taking risks, setting foot on one mountain after another, walking through one town after another, and then Everywhere I go, I discuss the magic of life and the human body with the local beauties. Even if I get tired occasionally, I won't stay in one place for too long.

But Kira has been in this town for a week.

The reason for stopping here is not that there is any irresistible food, wine or beautiful women, but that a very important festival is about to be held here.

On Kira's first day here, he heard that people in this place would hold a festival called the 'Farming Festival' at this time every year, with the purpose of praying to the gods in charge of agriculture for the local climate in the coming year. The weather is good and the crops are good.

At first glance, this festival sounded similar to Magnolia's 'Harvest Festival', but after getting to know the locals, Kira learned the difference between the two: the 'Farming Festival' is a prayer for a good harvest in the coming year. The 'Harvest Festival' is to express gratitude for this year's harvest; the latter is a procession and celebration, and the former is a serious ancient sacrifice, which is said to involve communicating with the gods and offering sacrifices.

To Kira, it sounds similar to the legendary dancing master.

Yes, this magic level is at the forefront of the world, and there is even a mechanical race. The huge empire whose territory covers the entire Western Continent still retains this ancient custom of praying to the gods to improve crops.

It stands to reason that the world of Fairy Tail is a Western fantasy world, and the Albarez Empire is even more so. It is completely incompatible with this kind of sacrifice and other activities in terms of style, but it exists, and it is said that it originated from ancient times. It’s a custom that has been preserved.

In order to join in the fun, Kira simply stayed. He planned to experience the foreign culture at that festival, and use it as something to brag to the juniors in the guild, or future generations, but now he was using it as a source of information.

Time came half a month after Kira stayed here, on the day of the 'Farming Festival'.

The setting sun melts gold, the setting sun shines in the evening, and the residents of the town are ready to make sacrifices.

The main members of the sacrifice are young people in the town. According to locals, the elderly and underage children do not need to participate in the sacrifice. They only need to attend the banquet at the end.

As for the reason... they don't know, it's just the custom!

Young men and women accounted for about half of the town's population. Like previous years, they wore pure white cloaks according to tradition and gathered in front of the mysterious ancient ruins in the west of the town. Everyone's expressions looked solemn and solemn.

In the huge square, there is a high stone platform in the center. Young men and women waiting quietly stood under the platform and stood in circles around it.

On the high platform, there are livestock such as pigs and cows prepared for sacrifice, as well as fine wine, fruits, bread and other food on the edge. A strange magic circle is drawn on the ground in the center. In the center of the magic circle is a thick The stone pillar was dancing with golden firelight at the moment.

Kira, who was standing in the crowd, was dumbfounded: "This 'Farming Festival'...is it really used to pray for good weather tomorrow? Why does it look so like a ritual to summon a demon?!"

If you put this in Ishgar, it is considered to be a church that believes in black magicians, or worships a certain evil god, or a follower of a certain devil!

As time passes, the setting sun reflected on the altar begins to shift.

At the moment when the clouds dispersed and the moon rose, several people who looked like they were responsible for 'communicating with the gods' walked up to the altar. They stood a distance apart from each other and stood along the edge of the magic circle. They looked at each other and then spoke slowly. , under their leadership, the rest of the people standing under the stone platform also began to chant in an overall order.

The voice is low, solemn, and solemn, making people shudder!

Looking at the scene in front of him, Kira couldn't help but whisper to himself: "It's already weird to choose the time of the festival at night, but I didn't expect the ceremony to be even weirder!!"

Isn't that right? It's so ridiculous to contact the god in charge of farming at night!

As for their way of connecting with the gods... Kira found out that what these people sang was the most widely circulated piece of music in the town that almost all residents had heard since childhood.

He had heard this piece of music once before. At that time, he thought the melody was pretty good, and the lyrics were all about giving thanks for this year's harvest and begging for continuation next year. There was nothing major about it, so he didn't taste it carefully, but now it sounds like it's basically Raque felt only eerie and terrifying. Well...the two are probably the difference between nursery rhymes and scary nursery rhymes.

The cold moonlight, mysterious festivals, strange rituals, residents wearing white cloaks, terrifying songs...

The last time Kira encountered a similar situation was when Leon found a group of men to collect moon drops on Karna Island in order to free Deliora.

This moment is just like that moment!

But they actually told me that these people in front of me were praying to the weather gods for a good harvest next year? What a joke! ! My own novel about The Thirteenth Shield of the Empire is not so good at editing it!

Moonlight, altars, residents, white cloaks, magic circles, and scary songs all formed a horrifying sight. A person with poor psychological quality would probably be scared away.

"What a weird atmosphere! By the way, these people are not followers of Zeref... Wait! Let me go! They are the citizens under Zeref's rule!!"

Kira complained casually, but in the middle of the sentence, he suddenly realized that this was not the place in Ishgar that kept the name 'Zerf' secret, but the Western Continent where Zeref was regarded as the emperor!

Although judging from the information collected, this festival has nothing to do with Zeref, but since he is a resident of the Albarez Empire, Zeref is definitely responsible for the blame!

This ceremony lasted for more than half an hour, after which several people on the stage brought the previously prepared sacrifices - the livestock - to the center of the magic circle and killed them one by one.

This is one of the procedures of this festival, sacrificing animals!

Sacrifice is one of the most common rituals in all magical worlds, but the sacrifices vary depending on the object and purpose. For example, an uncle who has returned from another world drives goblins to sacrifice a cow's head; another example is that some humans sacrifice their souls to demons in order to gain powerful power...

In Kira's opinion, as long as it is not a human sacrifice, it is acceptable.

The scarlet blood slowly flowed towards the magic circle, soon soaking it completely brightly.

Under the moonlight, Kira could feel the majestic magic power slowly gathering towards the magic array, and then it seemed as if some switch was activated there, and the entire magic array emitted a dazzling red light.

“Is this what is called, building a bridge to communicate with ‘gods’?”

Kira's eyes were fixed on everything in front of him, not daring to be careless in the slightest, for fear that a black mage, evil god, or demon would suddenly appear there who was planning to destroy the world.

His intuition told him that this place, this ritual, and this so-called 'god' contained a great secret.