“What now?”
The young seventeen-year-old girl took a seat at the Blood Feast’s long table; she had considered what might happen when she broke into the manor, but the bizarre scene still left her at a loss.
“Don’t worry, the inconceivable-grade relic 【Sword of Diesel】 is already being used downstairs. He cannot leave here for the moment, we will entangle him, the Church’s divine descent ritual is almost—”
Mr. Hogg Lundell was also spitting blood; it should be said that everyone uncontrollably seated at the table at this moment was spitting blood. Blood stained the white tablecloth, yet it made the flesh in the golden plates and silver bowls on the table even more tempting.
Miss Lanina Green, a Ten-Ring Sorcerer also affiliated with the Sun Church, was to Iluna’s left, and Mr. Modero, an elderly Eleven-Ring Sorcerer from the Peace Church, was to her right.
Dozens of people could not fill the seats at the long table, so footsteps appeared, and more and more figures, moving stiffly, came up to the third floor from the stairs, pulled out chairs, and sat at the table. These were all guests who had come to the banquet; even if they were unconscious at this moment, after such close contact with a god, even if they survived, they probably would not be able to return to normal human society.
Only the seat directly opposite the blurry figure in red formal wear, at the other end of the long table, remained empty, but the bell symbolizing the start of the banquet grew louder and louder.
Outside the large hole in the wall, broken open by the Church’s Ring Sorcerers to enter, was a wide street directly facing the mansion. At this moment, a new anomaly appeared in the blood mist: a golden eleven-step staircase rose from the ground, and a woman whose face could not be seen, with an Eleven-Ring Sorcerer’s Destiny Ring behind her, stepped onto the staircase.
“It’s the Great Witch of the Witch Council!”
Iluna heard someone say in a difficult whisper.
For the first time, the blurry figure at the end of the long table stopped eating because of the appearance of a mortal, but it was only for the moment. No one knew what happened, they could only see the golden staircase outside the broken wall collapse, and the woman climbing the staircase stopped stiffly in mid-air. But she was not forced into the banquet hall to pull out a chair, instead, she disappeared like a bubble into the blood mist.
This was the only Ring Sorcerer so far who was able to retreat completely, of course, also because she never entered the bloody banquet hall from beginning to end.
Time seemed to no longer affect this place; a bloody halo appeared on all items in sight, and urgent bell sounds urged the Blood Feast to begin. Thick blood mist sent the scent of blood into everyone’s nostrils, and the scarlet flesh on the long table now looked so tempting.
The blurry figure gradually became complete; the Saint was about to fully appear here. Although the physical body only occupied a human-sized space, it now seemed to be everywhere.
The unconscious ordinary people had already begun to eat uncontrollably; the splashing liquid and swallowing sounds instinctively made Iluna feel nauseous.
“Iluna, close your eyes, it’s okay, it will all pass.”
Miss Green’s voice entered her ears, but such comfort was useless.
“I didn’t die in the ruins, yet I’m going to die here…”
She closed her eyes, but the swallowing sounds in her ears all stopped after two or three seconds. The wind and the swirling mist simultaneously stagnated, and the dizzying mental pressure temporarily disappeared.
“Who is it this time?”
She knew people would sacrifice themselves one after another, but she couldn’t imagine which High-Ring Sorcerer could cause such an anomaly. Dazzling light shone on her eyelids, making the darkness after closing her eyes bright. She opened her right eye and, along with those still conscious sitting around the long table, looked at the street outside the broken hole, and then saw an astonishing scene.
In the night sky above the street, the blood-red mist broke open a large hole. A massive silver Moon Wheel appeared, as if about to fall to the ground, casting holy Moonlight from behind the blood mist towards here.
The silver Moonlight from high above shone on everyone’s faces, making the gold and silver tableware on the table reflect light, and making the disgusting dishes on the table emit black mist. At the same time, the holy light also healed their spirits, dispelling the blood mist. For a moment, it even made the banquet hall, which should not have existed, disappear, turning back into the third-floor corridor of the mansion with unconscious people scattered about.
Although the silver Moon’s suppression of the blood mist and the Blood Feast hall lasted only a few seconds, it still almost made the seventeen-year-old girl cry. Everyone felt another equally vast and ancient power arriving, not the power of any righteous god, but it was equally great.
The wind stirred the thick blood mist, and in the distance, a girl’s light singing seemed to be praising something. Under that silver Moon Wheel, it was extremely quiet.
Ding~
A holy silver light pillar descended from the sky, enveloping the figure standing at the end of the street, directly facing the broken hole on the third floor of the mansion.
That light was serene and ancient, profound and holy.
No one knew when he appeared, but at this moment, standing in the silver light pillar was the Outsider in a black cloth robe.
The light dispelled the blood mist. Under the hood, Xia De, whose body edges seemed to be plated with golden light, looked up and gazed across the distance at the Saint at the end of the long table who had stopped eating.
In the eyes of mortals, that was just a man in red formal wear whose specific face could not be seen. But in Xia De’s eyes, as divine power gradually spread throughout his body, a huge, wriggling mass of flesh had already swallowed the mansion; that mass of flesh was the Saint’s true body.
He had not yet fully entered here, but compared to Lakeview Manor, he had indeed arrived.
【Outsider, divinity has ignited. I will control the power for you, be careful with everything.】
“Understood.”
In the darkness and blood mist, he closed his eyes, his body floated upwards, leaving the ground, and the golden liquid in his soul silently dissipated.
His soul and perception were infinitely elevated at this moment, reaching a higher dimension that mortals could not describe, yet he could still feel his physical body merely suspended above the ground.
The blood mist on the road from the end of the street to the mansion dissipated, and his entire body seemed to melt into that silver heavenly light. Fine golden luster climbed along the muscle lines, spreading from within the body to the whole, and the feeling of infinite power gradually elevated the “person”.
The silver Moon hung above his head, and a low, sacred hymn, a confluence of thousands of voices, began to sound from an unknown place, praising his power, praising all things.
The sound of the hymn gradually grew louder, and the silver Moon disk above his head bloomed with an even softer light.
At this moment, Xia De seemed to understand everything in the world, yet also seemed unable to comprehend anything.
Under the massive silver Moon Wheel above his head, he slowly landed, his formerly tattered black hooded robe having transformed into a pure white long robe.
The one who closed his eyes was the Outsider Xia De · Su Lun · Han Mi Er Dun.
The one who opened his eyes at this moment was the God in the world.