"Snap."
Dust motes drifted through the air as the experiment journal was closed with both hands.
Xia Nan rubbed his fingertips over its rough yet pliant cover, recalling the records inside, his expression thoughtful.
Although it was filled with large amounts of tedious, incomprehensible experimental jargon, mixed with many subjective ravings and inexplicable inner musings, if one read through it page by page from the beginning, skipped over the parts with little useful information, and summarized it a little, it was still possible to determine the journal owner's identity, as well as the cause and effect of his arrival here.
An adventurer whose level had already reached I5 and whose class belonged to the "Druid" profession had accidentally encountered a powerful monster called a "Gauth Beholder" on the outskirts of the Underdark. His team had suffered heavy losses, two teammates had died one after another, and he himself had triggered a curse on his body because of the beholder's special gaze.
In order to find a safe and hidden place to recover from his injuries, he came to this canyon.
Only, the curse on this Druid seemed especially vicious, and ordinary treatment methods could hardly alleviate it.
It just so happened to be the Moon of the Xia Dynasty, the season when Fog Lamp Grass bloomed.
By chance, he found an opportunity to heal his wounds from the blooming Fog Lamp Grass, and even take a further step forward to advance to I6, but at the same time, pure Life Force was needed as the medium and catalyst.
Thus, Fog Lamp Village, which bordered the canyon, naturally became his target. They were forced to conduct the Sacrifice Ritual and regularly offer him "sacrifices."
And this was the origin of Fog Lamp Village's so-called ancient ritual passed down through the generations.