The Blood Demon Cult's High Priest is dead.
He died because he sacrificed all his life force and bloodline power.
In order to forcibly perform the ritual, he willingly offered himself as a sacrifice, yet until his last breath, he couldn't understand why, despite the summoning target being the Bloodborne Archduke, this mysterious God appeared instead.
Even as he breathed his last, his eyes remained wide open in disbelief.
Sebastian, however, knew exactly what had happened.
Excitedly watching the illusion on the altar, he fervently exclaid.
"Praise you, mighty master!"
"You truly are remarkable! With barely any effort, you caused a Third Tier Blazing Sun expert to self-destruct..."
"But to dare perform a divine ritual before you, these Blood Demon Cultists really courted their own doom!"
Charlotte smiled faintly, neither confirming nor denying.
Indeed, performing divine rituals before her, who possessed the power to counteract them, was akin to courting doom.
While modifying a large-scale divine ritual prepared by a Blazing Sun extraordinary for nearly a decade was quite challenging, with the blessing of blood magic, as long as she was willing to expend divine power, everything was possible.
As for what she modified, it was simple: she changed the summoning target to herself.
At the sa ti, she beca a beneficiary of the ritual.
With a Blazing Sun extraordinary and hundreds of cultists as sacrifices, the power they offered was considerable.
Charlotte could clearly sense that her physical abilities in reality were undergoing rapid enhancent from being nourished by such vast bloodline power and life force.
However, this imnse power only partially transford her body.
More power was absorbed by the Gospel of Blood, transforming into divine power...
The descent ritual was originally a divine ritual passed down by Gods.
Its essence was to sacrifice the power of living beings, convert it into divine power for the God, and then use it as a source of power for the God's incarnation.
The Gospel of Blood's Divine Ritual Counter did not elaborate on the principles of this ritual.
However, after experiencing the process of power conversion firsthand, Charlotte naturally understood the general idea.
Of course, only the general idea, knowing the fact but not the reason.
To draw an analogy, divine power was like an electrical appliance to her.
When given an appliance, she knew how to use it, but she didn't understand the detailed principles of how it worked, how to assemble it, or how to manufacture it by hand.
As for this ritual... in the concept of ordinary people, it was more like providing them with fully automated equipnt to manufacture electrical appliances.
Ordinary people only needed to follow the instructions, input the raw materials, press the switch, and wait for the electrical appliance to be manufactured.
At the sa ti, Charlotte vaguely understood why those resurrected Evil Gods recorded in the Holy Court's myths were so fond of conducting bloody sacrificial rituals in the mortal realm.
It was nothing else but because sacrificing living beings was a quick way for resurrected Gods to regain power.
Especially sacrificing extraordinary beings.
Even Charlotte herself, after experiencing the Blood Demon Cult's sacrificial ritual, couldn't help but feel excited.
Yeah, right.
This ti, using the power of blood magic to ambush the Blood Demon Cult not only didn't consu much of her stored divine power, but because of the Bloodborne High Priest's sacrifice in the end, she even gained another few seconds of True Ancestor's Liberation!
However, she quickly suppressed the idea of using sacrifices to replenish divine power.
No matter how others saw her, she didn't consider herself an Evil God.
Unlike an Evil God, she didn't want to kill innocent people to increase her own power.
One must have principles.
Especially when gaining powerful abilities.
Without principles, one would gradually lose themself in power and end up beco enslaved by that power.
As the projection summoned by the High Priest dissipated, Charlotte's consciousness returned to her body.
Although the Blood Demon Cult had been wiped out, she knew everything was far from over.
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"Sebastian, take care of the rest."
She called out the na of the Fla Elf.
Sebastian imdiately understood and summoned the Blasphemous Sword, thrusting it into the High Priest's corpse.
With his action, the High Priest's corpse imdiately let out a miserable cry.
No, it wasn't the corpse that was making the sound.
It was a phantom!
The appearance of the phantom was extrely similar to the High Priest's, and its expression as it looked at Charlotte was filled with fear.
This was the High Priest's soul.
As a Third Tier Blazing Sun extraordinary, his ntal power and soul had transford.
Even if their body died, they could exist in the form of a soul for a certain period of ti. If they could find a new vessel within this ti, the Blazing Sun even had a certain chance to continue to exist in a new form...
Obviously, although the High Priest died in the sacrifice, he hadn't completely given up yet, attempting to hide quietly.
But unfortunately, in front of Charlotte, who possessed the ability to resurrect undead, he had nowhere to hide at all, and for Sebastian, who had once been a Third Tier, his struggle was also futile.
Under the Blasphemous Fire, the High Priest's soul quickly burned out.
The sacrifice had consud too much of his power.
Even as a phantom, he had lost all resistance and was no match for Sebastian.
At this point, this Third Tier Blood Demon Cult's High Priest was truly fallen.
After completely killing the High Priest, Sebastian burned the remains of the Blood Demon Cultists to ashes with another fire.
This wasn't just to destroy the evidence.
More importantly, it was to use the Blasphemous Fire to completely burn the souls of the Blood Demon Cultists, preventing their souls from returning to the embrace of the Bloodborne Archduke, and then being discovered by this God.
Charlotte wasn't very clear about the relationship between Gods and believers, nor did she know how long it took for a believer's soul to return to the divine realm after death.
But at least... the souls of the believers wouldn't be imdiately called back to the divine realm after death, which gave her the opportunity to prevent the souls of the Blood Demon Cultists from returning to the divine realm.
When the Blasphemous Fire swept through the temple, Charlotte finally relaxed.
At this point, she could finally check on the unconscious Priest Lottie on the altar.
However, when Charlotte's gaze fell on the ugly demon eye above the altar, her eyes suddenly narrowed.
Although she had modified the divine ritual, a dark power still lingered around the hideous demon eye that made her heart skip a beat.
No, that wasn't the power of the demon eye.
It was the power of the altar.
Charlotte was instantly on guard.
This descent ritual... had not yet completely ended!
Not only that, but among these chunks of flesh-stacked eyeballs, she seed to sense a familiar aura.
She could feel waves of spiritual fluctuations emanating from the eyeballs, yet it seed to be subject to so kind of restraint.
Looking at the chains surrounding the eyeballs like seals, Charlotte's heart twitched.
"Sebastian, give the sword."
"At your command, great master."
Sebastian handed over the Blasphemous Sword with both hands.
Charlotte took the Blasphemous Sword from Sebastian and then used it to cut off those chains.
The ugly eyeball trembled slightly, and dots of light converged in front of the altar.
Soon, a little girl in a white dress appeared in front of Charlotte again.
It was Count Brois' eldest daughter, Marie.
As soon as she appeared, she bowed to Charlotte and said anxiously.
"Great being..."
"Please... save Lottie!"
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