Kitty, lying on the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Her nose was bent sideways, even her front teeth felt loose, but she could only curse her bad luck inwardly.
The person before her was indeed the Bishop. She felt the sa sensation from him as she did with Georgine earlier—the inability to generate offensive intent.
Now, Kitty could only resign herself to having encountered a mad Bishop.
She had to find a way to slip away quickly.
“Cough, cough...” Kitty acted heavily injured, coughing up blood. She knelt on the ground and said, “Your humble servant has completed everything according to your instructions. Is there anything this lowly servant did incorrectly?”
Braque was both shocked and furious. He looked at Kitty kneeling nearby. He could clearly sense that Kitty had humbled herself extrely, and there wasn’t a single lie in her words.
Who?
Who was impersonating him?
Or perhaps, another Bishop ca before him?
No... wrong...
Drip—
A drop of blood landed on Braque’s mask.
He slowly raised his hand, wiped the blood off the mask. Braque looked up towards the sanctuary’s do.
Above the dark do, in the area untouched by the torchlight, sothing terrifying, evil seed to be surging.
The mont he looked towards that darkness, Braque felt the spiritual alarm explode in his mind.
“Radiance Bishop” Braque abruptly raised his hand!
A white shadow shot straight towards the do, then exploded violently like a holy light bomb, illuminating the entire stone do with pure light!
Simultaneously, it illuminated the blood threads above, seemingly alive, coiling and twisting overhead. The entire do resembled a giant heart, pulsating rhythmically with the writhing blood lines.
At this mont, many believers were disturbed by the holy light above. They raised their heads one after another, expecting to witness a miracle.
But the instant they saw the blood threads above, strange howls began to echo in the minds of many.
No... wrong...
Braque’s eyes widened, his scalp tingling.
Kitty, kneeling before him, had also looked up and seen the terrifying blood array above. Reacting even faster than Braque, the white shadow on her body had already lunged towards the wooden door behind the Bishop, about to break out.
“Schlick—”
A blood thread pierced down from the do, entering directly through the top of Kitty’s head, straight into her heart, dragging her struggling body slowly upwards.
Countless blood lines began to descend from above, hoisting up corpse after corpse. During the process, many bodies were sucked dry into mummies, completely losing all signs of life.
Wrong... Wrong!!!
The white shadows behind Braque shot out violently. Two rushed towards the rear door, four lunged towards the gradually coalescing dark red vortex overhead.
He had to destroy this terrifying ritual array before it fully ford! If not! At least he could escape using “Shadow Shift”!
Schlick—
The white shadow rushing towards the rear door, upon reaching the edge of the blood array overhead, had a large chunk of its torso torn off by sothing unknown. Intense pain, seemingly transmitted from the spiritual body, almost made Braque scream.
He quickly moved away from the door, looking up in horror at the gradually forming blood vortex.
Almost everyone was dragged towards the top, their flesh and blood offered as sacrifice, channeled through the complex web of blood threads above into the central dark vortex.
A speck of starlight drifted out from the seemingly bottomless vortex.
Braque’s mind went blank.
All whispers, fears, pains seed to vanish, leaving only a familiar warmth, like flesh and blood rging.
Mother Goddess... above...
Braque knelt on the ground, looking up in terror at the vortex above.
The starlight entered Kitty’s suspended, mutilated body. Her body rotted and swelled, lumps of flesh piling up, slowly solidifying into a terrifying blood cocoon.
The cocoon shell hardened bit by bit, pulsating as if alive. Through the translucent shell, under the remaining holy light, one could glimpse the beautiful, ultimate life being nurtured within.
Crack—
The blood cocoon cracked open bit by bit. A figure slowly floated down from above, the multiple pairs of insect wings on its back flapping, emitting a wail-like buzz.
“Divine Servant... Milord...” Braque’s heart began to tremble with excitent. He looked at the inhuman figure before him, his emotions bordering on frenzy.
Under his gaze, the “Divine Servant” slowly raised its head, looking towards the do.
Its gaze seed to pierce through the hanging corpses and the terrifying blood array above, through the stone do, towards the existence above the do.
“Mother Goddess... Milady.”
A bloody slit opened on the Divine Servant’s face, seemingly calling out to so entity above.
Mother Goddess Milady?!
Braque looked up in astonishnt towards the do above.
Who was above the stone do?
Who was up there, worthy of being called Mother Goddess by the Divine Servant Milord?!
The blood array couldn’t have been drawn and triggered out of thin air. Soone must be nearby, performing this ritual!
Priestess Kitty’s earlier words flashed through Braque’s mind.
No... It wasn’t soone impersonating him, nor soone impersonating a Bishop...
The person who instructed them, who made them complete these rituals...
Was the Mother Goddess’s proxy! The Mother Goddess’s human vessel!
It was the Saintess!!!
“I... understand, Mother...” The Divine Servant seed to have received instructions, its gaze slowly turning towards Braque before it.
A blood thread erged from its slit, continuously splitting, burrowing towards Braque’s body.
Braque knelt devoutly on the ground, arms outstretched, watching the spreading fleshy tendrils, raised his head madly, shouting:
“Mother Goddess above!!! Urgh!!!”
The fleshy tendrils burrowed into his body, gradually draining him inch by inch.
The distant Divine Servant, sensing the transmitted, imnse flesh and blood energy, bulged with lumps of flesh once more.
It began its second cocooning.
...
Creek Hill, Deton Manor, Card Room.
“I win.” Ciel smiled, placing the last card onto the pile, then looked towards Adele beside her and said, “Let’s go, let’s head back to the city for sothing to eat.”
Adele: “!”
Avena: “?”
Hearing Ciel’s words, Adele practically jumped to her feet. Normally, she slept early and ate regular als. Having missed breakfast and lunch today, she was already dizzy with hunger.
Avena, however, was filled with confusion.
Her earlier distraction caused her to lose the solitaire ga, but... the change she expected hadn’t occurred at all?
Or did sothing happen that she just didn’t notice?
They walked out of the card room, through the corridor to the front hall. Just as they were about to pass through the main door and step outside the manor, an anomaly occurred.
Reviews
All reviews (0)