After trying a different, shorter route on their way to ?, they find themselves at a place where people are performing a variety of rites.
Lighting and balancing candles on their hat while walking in circles all over the place in open spaces. Digging holes deep enough so that one can shovel dirt on the head of a candle balancer to extinguish the flames, after which they switch with the shovel person and do what he did. After having been a shovel person, it seems like one can decide on doing another round of candle balancing and dirt on head.
In another rite, they plank over burning hot stones. If you drop too low, you burn your ass.
Kinda like so: ——_-_-___
🟰🟩🟩🟢 🟰 🟢 AHUIIIIIIIIII! >
⬛▪️🔸⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛▪️🔸⬛
And over there now in front of their sight, these people are talking weirdly next to a dude with black hair, pale sunburnt skin, and greyblue eyes captured in a boat with his arms and legs shackled inside of the boat frame. And they force him to eat honey and milk until he shits himself, seemingly with the intent to send him into the middle of the small lake. There is also a rope attached to the boat, and it's anchored ashore, which is likely used to pull the boat back.
Weirdly talking guy 1: "I'm still happy that this time around we had an easier time getting on a sacrifice."
Weirdly talking guy 2: "Are you still on about your day off that you got through this?"
Weirdly talking guy 1: "Of course! It's been long since the last time a person within our midst was against the sacrifices."
Weirdly talking guy 2: "Well, he still did somewhat achieve his goal of protecting people from being sacrifices."
Weirdly talking guy 1: "Wahaha, right, he prevented it through equal exchange. Hahaha."
Weirdly talking guy 2: "Wahahahuu, let's do two people together next time, so his sacrifice will be in vain, wuhuhuk."
Weirdly talking guy 1: "Hu~hu~huu~ great idea!"
During the time of force feeding, they ask around about what's going on. From doing so they get answers like:
"Enjoy the festivity." "If you know, you know. If you don't know, you don't know." "IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT Are you doing here?" "It's an offering ceremony."
seeing as the person on the water has been soaked in honey as well after being force fed even though he was trying his best to resist. Hyang can't watch anymore. However, to his surprise, Perlmut isn't beside him. He immediately notices that Perlmut, for whatever reason, was swift to action, as she already stood on the water, the water frozen as she frees the guy in the boat.
Guy in boat: "Hihihihi, am I being taken to heaven? Have I been shown mercy?"
Perlmut: ""
Hyang comes over.
'ERROR'
Perlmut takes a position ensuring a, at most arm lenght, distance between her Hyang and the guy in the boat.
Perlmut *and now?*
Perlmut puts her pointy fingers together to then move them away from each other, visualizing a see through white line. She connects one end to Hyang and the other to herself.
Hyang: "Power sharing ok?"
After that she goes through the line with her hands and touches herself, with seemingly nothing happening.
more maniacal laughter
Guy in boat: "hahahahihihihihi"
Hyang: "Did you just try to connect it to yourself?"
Hyang rethinks and shakes his head. "You know what, never mind, I'll give you time for whatever it is that you're doing."
The people participating in these rites do not sit by idly either. "They are interrupting our main ritual!! STOP THEM!" people start screaming. However, trying to get through the water proofs to be a treacherous way. "Ahi! The water is bone chillingly cold! One would not be able to move anymore if they were cooled down to this degree." And so the people not wanting to go into this bone freezing water throw things at them, for they are angered by this interruption of their ceremony.
Hyang: "I'll be so free as to borrow your acquired spatial ring."
Perlmut holds the hand with the spacial ring, which is free right now, to him. Hyang takes out resources from inside and immediately starts throwing the wood and such against the objects, plants, dirt, fruit, plants and feces that these cultist looking people are throwing, blocking and stopping them from flying to him and Perlmut. As it costs both of them less effort in comparison to preplanning movements to block and dodge these things directly, especially while Perlmut is doing - her thing right now. It's not like Hyang couldn't block all of it with his sword. But feces, honey, and whatever those things are covered in are preferably avoided.
Perlmut now goes through the line again with her hand and touches Rex with her index finger, causing the line to suddenly jump to Rex.
Hyang: "That's weird."
She pushes Hyang a slight step back, causing the line to jump back to him. Through that, Hyang and Perlmut are reconnected by the line, instead of Perlmut and Rex.
Hyang: "Huh, funny for sure, but I assume you're not done with whatever you picked up on the street of wisdom."
She now removes the line again.
Guy in boat: "hihuhahahahihiha"
Hyang: "...Really?"
Guy in boat: "haha"
She starts repeating the exact same steps except that she is now connecting the line with the guy in the boat.
In short, the line connection was as follows from start to finish.
Perlmut-Hyang → Perlmut-Rex → Perlmut-Hyang → No line → Perlmut-Hyang → Perlmut-Guy in boat → Perlmut pushes Hyang again → Perlmut-Hyang → Line removed
Hyang: "?"
Guy in boat: "This power I received, I'll use it wisely. Thank you, I, Fritigernus, will bring desired peace."
Hyang: "?"
Fritigernus: "Ahihahahahaha"
Fritigernus goes off and slaughters all of the people, making sure they feel no pain, all while sporadically letting out some maniacal laughter.
Hyang O.O' "Uh, what. Why?"
Fritigernus: "Fuhihahaha hihi~huhuh~he"
Perlmut: "You're better off not knowing, child."
Hyang *But I'm older than you.*
he thinks to himself
Hyang: "I know that he was a sacrifice, but he just jumped into action, and why is he still as powerful as if he were power sharing with you? The technique isn't used for fights in the first place because of its limitation in distance in addition to being extremely vulnerable."
Perlmut: "I'm able to be on the same wavelength as him, I guess."
She stares weirdly at Hyang.
Hyang: "You know, I think I don't want to know. Just let me check if you're still right in the head and if you're unaffected by potential evil spells, and we will be right back on our way."
Perlmut: "That's alright."
After the checkup, they go back on their way.