What’s it like when someone has a seizure next to you?!
The answer: You want to call the police!
I watched in disbelief as Hu Tu acted erratically beside me. His posture remained as upright as ever, impeccable to anyone who saw him, yet his eerie smile sent chills down my spine!
Damn it, I never expected Hu Tu to be a potential mental patient!
The spine-chilling blood sacrifice, the abnormal Hu Tu, this Shepherd God's Blessing ceremony was fraught with danger from the very beginning.
Crap, I should go back and find another way to remove this Mother of All Creation's mark on me. If this continues, not only will I fail to save the Shepherd God, but I'll be done for myself!
Just as I was contemplating an escape, further changes occurred in the arena!
The dark red blood in the recessed grooves on the ground gradually filled the channels, and a faint mist of blood rose, mingling with the pungent smell of rust in the air, as if something unknown had been added.
“High Priest, this grand display, I’m afraid it’s not just for my Shepherd God's Blessing ceremony, is it?”
Our seating arrangement now was me, Hu Tu, and the High Priest.
My gaze, passing over the convulsing Hu Tu, fixed directly on the High Priest.
“Batu, this is all normal procedure, don’t mind it.”
Beneath the High Priest’s seemingly calm face, a terrifying madness seemed to lurk, yet he still possessed reason and could respond to my question.
Damn it! I shouldn't have stayed with these lunatics!
Even I hadn't realized it, but at some point, the deepest part of my eyes had also been tainted with a bone-deep madness.
By now, the blood mist in the great hall grew thicker, even shrouding the figures of the Shepherd God's Proxies.
My gaze involuntarily shifted to the blood mist before me. Whether it was my imagination or reality, I couldn’t tell.
I seemed to vaguely see many things that shouldn't exist within the blood mist!
Horns made of twisted conches, grotesque and eerie statues, a black-covered notebook I used in school, and a powerful Desert Eagle, among other things.
These things vanished in an instant. If my fingernails hadn’t been digging so fiercely into my thigh, I would have thought it was all a hallucination!
Gradually, these things were replaced by something else, or rather, absorbed. Through the dense blood mist, a statue with an indistinguishable face vaguely rose in the hall!
As this statue appeared, I actually heard human wails coming from within the blood mist!
No need to guess, the only ones in the blood mist now were the High Priest's most elite Shepherd God's Proxies. Those screams were coming from them.
I instinctively focused on the location where I remembered the closest Awakened Body Proxy to be, and I truly saw something!
That Shepherd God's Proxy wailed in agony as disgusting tentacles sprouted from his body. I watched him mutate, until it was questionable whether he could still be called human!
Holy crap! The High Priest is truly ruthless, even turning these loyal Shepherd God's Proxies into fertilizer for this blood sacrifice!
I guessed that the other Shepherd God's Proxies had also become the monstrous, half-human, half-beast creatures before me, just hidden within the blood mist, unseen.
Those writhing monsters were like the personification of humanity's deepest fears, with forked limbs, soft and sticky tentacles, countless eyes, and flesh skin interwoven with crimson and pure black. They moved on the ground, dragging dark, wet trails behind them.
This was the final state of the Shepherd God's Proxy I had seen.
After mutating, he left his position and moved into the blood mist.
Listening to the scalp-numbing sounds of their movement, I couldn’t help but draw the hunting knife I always wore at my waist, stood up, and pointed it at the High Priest.
“High Priest, what exactly are you doing!”
At this moment, I couldn't wait any longer to confront the High Priest when the ceremony was over. With the scene unfolding now, I might not even survive, and would become fertilizer for this blood sacrifice!
“A’Du, what are you afraid of? The grander this Shepherd God's Blessing ceremony is, the more power the Dream God will bestow. It’s all for you! I’ve even sacrificed my most elite Shepherd God's Proxies. You will become the most powerful Temple Guard Commander in Anluo’s history. Why aren’t you happy?!”
The High Priest’s eyes were filled with confusion, and greed as he appraised his future body.
I stopped wasting words and drew my knife, stepping forward!