Chapter 213: Carrying Honey to Korea (2)

After sending Narumi to create a base, Jinseong shut himself in the shrine storage room as if all urgent matters were now finished.

This was partly due to Jinseong's desire to focus on sorcery and cursed objects, but there was another reason.

That was the price.

The price for the 'Sacaea human sacrifice sorcery ritual' had come.

Tsk.

The sorcery Jinseong had performed was a ritual derived from human sacrifices performed in ancient Babylon.

This festival, called Sacaea or Sakaeia, began on the 16th day of the month of Lous and lasted for five days, during which one of the servants switched places with the master and ruled the household for five days, pretending to be the master. Moreover, they didn't stop at being the master but also dressed up as the king, and at this time, the servant dressed as the king used the title Zoganes.

And the royal palace also participated in this festival.

At the palace, they selected one death row inmate, raised them to the king's position, and allowed them to enjoy everything a king enjoys for five days.

At this time, they also gave the death row inmate the title of Zoganes and treated them like a king. However, after five days passed, the revelry and feasts bestowed upon the death row inmate disappeared without a trace, they completely changed their attitude, dragged out the fake king, stripped them of their clothes and ornaments, beat them severely but not to death, and then hanged or stabbed them to death...