As it turns out, the wyrm couldn’t be soothed with any of my prayers. It got damaged instead of calmed down. Which made it thrash around nearly killing me and 4 other dwarves that still had strength to move around.
The dwarves to their credit didn’t panic and attacked the creature, they cut it up very easily making me think that i wasn’t needed.
“No mister ”Pilgrim'' it isn’t normally this easy to butcher a living, probably breathing mass of steel armor. Look, the rings around its body are refined steel, stuff in between are scales of normal iron. John over there was surprised at how easily he cut through solid refined steel.
Our goal was to take its attention, so it would unblock the tunnel and allow us to flee.”
Georg said making air quotes at my title of a pilgrim, my new guides certainly didn’t believe that I was just a simple faithful. And probably this won’t ever change, I never expected for the purification prayer to target the whole thing as corruption and weaken it severely.
I inspected the body, the others were actively cutting up into the pieces. The “steel” had a consistency of half rotted flesh, I think the purification prayer works against unnatural beings directly attacking and killing cells the organism is made out of. I wonder If it would work against an elemental or synthetic being. I think I shouldn’t go into conclusions too quickly after all I have yet to see or ask about other races and world.
“Sir? Do you not wish to claim monster core? Whatever prayer you used greatly diminished the power of it, but it should still be worth a lot. “ John was looking at me with some expectation while clutching the core in his hands like some treasure. To me it was just a blue-ish gem covered in gore. I could feel some kind of power oozing out of it quickly so I claimed it just for curiosity's sake if not for whatever riches it should be worth.
But I got an even better idea, technically speaking all “evil” or “satanic” rituals stem from God after all “The one Holding Light” or Lucifer as we called him in modern times was formerly an angel. God created the world, Lucifer rebelled and got made into a prince/ ruler of hell.
So theoretically speaking you could make a ritual using your own blood to purify stuff or enchant it. That’s a work in progress theory I’m going to test right now.
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I sat on a rocky surface near the entrance to the tunnel, the dwarves were too busy butchering and scavenging the remains and prepping for the return. In front of me lied down sticks I arranged into a star of david. There was a bowl next to me with blood of the monster, my own and a lot of water. There wasn’t a neutral prayer for cleansing an item. By neutral I mean a prayer that also isn’t an exorcism.
So I had to make another prayer for these situations.
“Oh Lord, hear my plea, Your kindness is infinite
Your kingdom the most holy of all
Oh The one who holds Light Illuminate our path
Oh Lord and former agent of good,
Hear my plea!
Imbue this item with the power of cleansing, of purifying the agents of chaos
Imbue this item of power against creatures we mortals cannot comprehend!
As I imbue it with my blood and the blood of my prey.
Hear my will! Cleanse and Enchant!”
After I finished a pillar of light descended on top of the now bloody orb, I could see faint strands of darkness swirling around the beam of pure white. I couldn’t sit upright anymore as immense weakness started to overtake me. With the last shred of strength I threw myself into the pillar of light.
The next moment the only thing I knew was pain.
All I knew was PAIN.
I couldn’t think, speak, hear or feel anything other than pain.
I fought against pain, with almost a primal rage, in a moment of sanity I prayed for surviving this trial of faith.
I awoke to an unfamiliar ceiling and the glowing cross in my hand. I was holding it in death grip. I noticed it was made out of the same blue-ish gem I tried to “enchant”. Welp I guess I succeeded but I think I’m gonna need more consultation with others like myself aka people bending the world to their will.
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I examined my body, I had what appeared to be chemical burns all over my body. I could even see bones poking out through dissolved flesh. Thankfully it didn’t hurt, I wondered briefly if it was caused by bullshit magic or by lack of nerves in affected parts. As I was debating the damage to my body a person in white robes walked in. He was quite old looking, his eyes showed that he was slightly surprised by me being awake.
“Uh, so let's see. You are currently in fortress town 3 on the border with the wastes, this fortress is managed mainly by dwarves. Your companions have said that you traveled the wastes in the search of “Jerusalem” . Our maps don’t have this town or settlement or anything really on them.
We purified your body with magic just to find that it wasn’t needed due to you being a priest of a neutral deity, we couldn’t identify it but at least we uncovered that it was benevolent. You were really lucky in choosing an unknown deity, otherwise we would’ve had to brand you as either a follower of true neutral which would mean you wouldn’t give a damn about the world trying. I think I don’t need to explain what would happen if you were following an evil god.
As for your state, we applied healing reagents, this room also was enchanted with minor healing effects. The artifact you are holding is also helping, we identified it and it has an aura of cleansing and purification. It’s a minor holy artifact of your faith so even if someone attempts to steal it the artifact will return to you.”
He said in one breath literally not giving me a space to say anything and left before muttering that the healing will take about 2 days, maybe faster if I pray for it. Well at least I’ll have time to experiment with prayers in the meantime. As I was thinking about all of the safe experiments I could do a window popped up before me.
Well, fuck. I’m in a fucking anime.
