Chapter 201 4.61 The True Image of the Holy Mountain

The closer he got to the bottom of the cave, the closer Loki could get to the blazing light. When he was completely standing at the bottom of the cave, he saw what it was.

It was not a living thing, but a stone portal the same size as the blood-colored stone statue!

Several thick iron chains were tied to the portal, and a huge stone lock was tied in the center of the iron chains. In the middle of the stone lock is the saber-toothed leopard emblem of the O'Sullivan family.

"Sure enough, things turned out exactly as I thought!"

"For the Vikings' sacred mountain to become what it is today, this group of businessmen from the O'Sullivan family are absolutely responsible!"

Loki murmured to himself and gently touched the golden portal.

As early as in the Conqueror's Fortress, when he saw a group of God's Chosen mercenaries that looked like they were produced on a factory assembly line, he couldn't help but think about a question:

“Isn’t it too easy to be promoted with the 8 upgrade paths in the Hall of Valor?!”

Looking at other faiths on the continent: if the monks of the Holy Bishop want to advance, they need to go to strange lands and preach to other humans. This was not an easy thing in the Middle Ages. How many monks died in a strange country tens of thousands of miles away from their hometown, starving to death, freezing to death, or being massacred by strangers in various ways.

There is only one person in a hundred who can successfully preach.

Although the Vulcan Cult can directly obtain power from the hands of high-level cultists, just like the harsh boss in the 21st century, who will give you the ability to survive for no reason?

Many of the tasks that come from the Fire Sacrifice are not at all as easy as missionaries going out to preach. It is also common for various accidents to expose one's disguise during the journey.

The "Stairway to the Sun" of other religions in the New World relies on cannibalism, Brahmanism relies on cruel body refining, and the followers of the ancient Egyptian sect need to temper their souls in constant survival and death.

Even sword cultivators in the Tang Dynasty need to go through rounds of cruel trials such as body tempering, elixir melting, god transformation, thunder tribulation, etc.

However, in contrast, the Vikings only need to complete the simple task of "drinking the magic potion". This method of obtaining power is hundreds of times easier than other sects!

The action of "drinking water" is the first lesson that human babies learn without learning at birth.

Gain power in such an easy way! Compared with other sects in the world, this is not too inconsistent!

Arriving at the bottom of the Holy Mountain today, Loki finally understood what all this was about.

After seeing the blood-colored stone statue, he knew that the yellow stone statue locked by layers of iron chains was actually a piece of something.

That's a portal.

The Viking ancestors thousands of years ago certainly did not follow a promotion process of "come to the Holy Mountain, take out the gold coins, and buy the magic potion."

According to Loki's guess about the facts, all the Vikings should have known the recipe for the potion thousands of years ago.

But if they want to make a potion, they need to cross the portal and enter "Asgard" to personally hunt the beasts needed for the potion formula.

Only in this way can we "drink fine wine with the gods after death"!

Because "Asgard" is Odin's hometown!

This is the correct origin of this ancient rumor!

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In recent hundreds of years, two things have destroyed the traditional customs of the Vikings.

1. The vast majority of people in this country are illiterate.

Although the older generation of Vikings knew the magic potions of the eight sequence pathways, they could only tell their children through word of mouth. When all the children die or a major accident occurs in the village

Without words as a carrier, these ancient inheritances would naturally be forgotten.

2. The O'Sullivan family suddenly came to power.

Through personal observation in the Conqueror's Fortress, Rocky could almost conclude that the "O'Sullivan Family" was definitely not a family that grew up in Scandinavia!

Culture can be taught and skills can be learned, but innate habits are extremely difficult to change.

Just imagine, if you want a modern person to brush the soles of his feet with a hard brush every morning, no one would be willing to do it.

For the Vikings in the 7th century AD, brushing your teeth was just that.

The act of sticking a hard brush into their mouths every morning to brush their teeth is simply incomprehensible to them. But siblings Mohlentin and Ivar have white teeth and fresh breath. Like the aristocratic lady "Emma Waldorf" from Constantinople, they all have these subtle hygiene habits.

This needs to be cultivated in a favorable environment from an early age.

The two siblings of the O'Sullivan family gave him the feeling that they were very much like those shrewd and smooth businessmen of the 21st century. When a businessman begins to govern a country, his first thought is never to seek welfare for the people, but how to continue his business dynasty.

In the eyes of businessmen, the power of capital is far greater than that of the people.

As far as the world structure in the 21st century is concerned, this route is certainly not wrong. When the capital flow is sufficient to a certain extent, and almost half of the world depends on you for doing business, capital can use "currency" as a very powerful weapon.

Currency not only allows a country to avoid war, it can even sanction and provoke disputes between other countries at will!

This was the bud of capitalism, and the O'Sullivan family can be called the pioneers of this era to a certain extent.

To be fair, the O'Sullivan family is doing pretty well.

Externally, they attracted investment, and found merchants from the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Empire, and even the Tang Dynasty in the East to come to this wild land to open businesses, open mines, and attract capital.

Internally, they "created" two buildings, the Holy Mountain and the Hall of Valor, to prevent ordinary Vikings from entering Asgard and accepting the "Trial of the Chosen".

The reason for doing this is naturally because if they raise these beasts and creatures from "Asgard", they can make Vikings drink magic potions in batches like making toy soldiers in a factory, and let them become mercenaries to fight for them.

Relying on the dual rule of the "Holy Mountain" and the Conqueror's Fortress, the wild Viking pirates will become like docile lambs, obeying their commands!

They will drink the magic potion obediently, and then willingly become pirates, mercenaries, or cheap warriors.

It is true that some Vikings will die from the explosion of rotten raw materials, but for the capitalists of the O'Sullivan family, this is not a problem that needs attention.

In the Middle Ages, countless people died every year for various strange and irrelevant reasons.

They would not care if someone exploded and died on the way to gain power.

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However, when Loki personally entered the cave and saw this rotten prison with his own eyes, he felt bad.

The leader can treat the people as pawns, but is it really good to use this method to make the Vikings who should be as powerful as gods cut off their arms and make the entire nation regress in combat ability?

Entering Asgard to participate in the trial of the chosen ones will indeed cause many Vikings to lose their lives, but it can be expected that more Vikings returning from the realm of God will become as powerful as gods.

Compared with these warriors who have been tempered in foreign lands, the inferior "new god sects" such as the Holy Bishop, Zoroastrianism, and Brahmanism will become as fragile as babies under the impact of the Vikings.

However, the O'Sullivan family turned the Viking people into what they are today just to quickly extract profits.

This practice is really against human ethics!