Chapter 20 Sacrifice
Chapter 20 – Sacrifice
The scale of this sewer system is extremely large, in Duncan’s eyes has even completely exceeded the “city sewage” as a single function necessary, and the gas lamps with runes everywhere in the sewers, and enough to serve as a shelter reinforced structure can be used as a shelter for many of his guesses about the location of this underground facilities.
But no matter what the design of this place was, one thing was clear: deep within this vast facility, beyond the eyes of the world above, this cold, dark place had become a nursery for some kind of evil to thrive.
A cultic group that worships the sun in name only to send chills down the spine.
At the intersection of several corridors of the sewers was a vast underground space, with solid concrete pillars holding up a masonry dome, and metal casting piping structures connecting near the dome like a spider’s web, with bright gas lamps illuminating the entire space, as well as the crowds of people gathered at the “intersection”! —
At a glance, there were at least hundreds of people wearing black robes gathered in this dirty and humid place, and in the middle of them was a high platform protruding out of the ground, on which stood a tall figure also clad in black robes, which was obviously the person with the highest status among this group of black-robed people.
This person standing on the platform is not wearing the same hood as others, but wearing a golden yellow mask, the mask style is strange, like a disc that radiates endless light flames to the surrounding area, and its surface is inscribed with a large number of broken cracks at the same time.
Behind the person wearing the mask, there is also a peculiar totem on the platform – that is a high stake, the top of the stake is fixed with a burning fireball, the core of the fireball seems to be some kind of metal, the surface of which is open with a lot of small holes, the flame is from those small holes out.
When Duncan was “escorted” here, what he saw was such a scene.
The black-robed people gathered in the assembly hall also noticed him.
“We caught a runaway sacrifice on our way to the assembly grounds!” One of the black-robed men in charge of the escort walked forward and said respectfully to the “leader” on the platform, his tone not without a sense of inviting credit, “This sacrifice has been in the darkness for too long, and its thinking has become a bit confused, so I wish you would use your might to let the glory of my lord descend on this pathetic body! ”
The cult leader wearing a golden mask on that elevated platform turned to stare intently at the expressionless Duncan, a hint of surprise and coldness in his tone, “An escaped sacrifice?”
Duncan, however, did not make any reaction, he was just observing the place curiously, including the golden mask on that cult leader’s face, and the totem of the burning fireball behind the other party.
Perhaps these symbols were bizarre and outlandish things to the ordinary people of this world, but he could tell almost at a glance that these things …… were imitating the sun.
Not imitating the “ball of light” in the sky that was bound by a large number of flame streams and a twofold runic circle, but imitating the burning sun that Duncan was familiar with, emitting ten thousand feet of light.
These people were really worshipping the sun, worshipping a sun that seemed to have “fallen” in a very old age, and worshipping it as some kind of god.
Duncan raised his head and looked at the black-robed cleric who was looking down at him from a high platform, but perhaps because of the necrosis of his facial muscles, his frank look looked more like some kind of insensitive numbness in the eyes of the other side.
The magus wearing a golden mask stared at Duncan for less than two seconds before turning his head and instructing one of the men standing next to the high platform, “Go and check the place where the sacrifices are being held, and return as soon as you can.”
After that he nodded to the black robed men who had brought the sacrifices back, with a hint of praise in his tone, “You have done well, even if it is a small feat for the Lord, it will be your eternal glory when the sun shines on all things again. ”
Just a salty and routine praise, several black-robed people but as if received a great encouragement, one by one excited, while praising the “true sun god” while pushing Duncan to the front of the platform, while the masked magistrate until now to Duncan to open his mouth: “Going astray, poor man! Poor man …… do you feel the deep cold between the lightless rocks and the dirt?”
Duncan had no idea what the cleric was talking about, and could only remain silent, while the cleric clearly didn’t care about the reaction of the “sacrifice” in front of him, his words were not addressed to Duncan, but more to the believers around him, and to the “Sun God” he believed in! “:
“Cold and darkness are the misery that the false sun has left in this world, and under its rule, oceans of darkness rage, and there are only small pockets of broken land for the creatures to survive, but even in these broken lands, the world is not free of suffering, and the shadows of the old days lurk beneath the ground, and the lightless crypts of the earth are wriggling with their predatory claws and teeth, and the earth is filled with hatred and strife. The earth is filled with hatred and disputes, and the pure souls of men are stained by the breath exhaled by the evil gods ……
“How shall we endure this long suffering? How can we endure the twisted and absurd world brought about by the false sun?
“We cannot endure it, we only wish for the return of our Lord, we only wish for the true Sun God to come down to the earth again, to blaze from blood and fire, to bring order and prosperity back to the earth!”
Stirred by this masked cleric’s highly motivational tone, Duncan could clearly feel the atmosphere in the assembly hall change, the black-robed believers agitated one after another, they first echoed, and then this echo turned into fervent cries, “May the true Sun God descend to the earth once again! Burning from blood and fire!” “May the true Sun God come again to earth! Burning in blood and fire!” “May the true Sun God descend upon the earth once more,” the cleric on the high platform exclaimed, then reached out and pointed to Duncan, “And today, my Lord will further awaken from his slumber – the blood of the lost will soothe the sun’s wounds after it has crumbled! of the wounds!
“Bring forth the sacrifice!”
Several black-robed men swarmed up from the side, but Duncan was faster than they were – he didn’t even need to be pushed, he rolled over and climbed onto the altar himself.
This body wasn’t very good, but he could still climb a platform.
After climbing up, he arrived in front of the masked cleric, who at this time still maintained the majestic and mysterious posture when he ordered just now – the change happened very suddenly, completely beyond the past experience of the unfolding of the way so that this cult leader did not react at once, he looked at Duncan face to face through the golden mask, and around the altar was also All at once it was eerily quiet.
Duncan, however, did not seem to notice the change in the atmosphere around him at all, he just felt that he had gathered more information about this world, and was looking forward to seeing more rare scenes before this temporary body was “scrapped”.
“So, what,” Duncan rubbed his hands together with a certain sense of probing anticipation and inquired earnestly, “then? What’s the next step?”
Masked Magus: “……”
“Didn’t catch that?” Duncan frowned – but didn’t because the muscles in his face weren’t working too well, “I said, what’s next?”
It was then that the cleric finally responded, and although he was separated by a mask, a moment of confusion was evident in his eyes, but soon he spoke in a low, suppressed voice, “The shadows in the darkness have indeed affected your mind, but rest assured, the Sun of the Most High and the Most Holy will put an end to your suffering… …Bring the sacrifice to the totem!”
Two black-robed men immediately walked up the stage from the side, pulling Duncan’s arm towards the totem pole topped with a fireball, a step Duncan did not quite understand, naturally, there is no way to “cooperate in advance”, but he still maintained a state of non-resistance, and honestly in the two black-robed men’s “pincers “Under the two black-robed men, he stood under the burning fireball.
Although Duncan’s body did not have any resistance, the two black-robed people who grabbed his arm still used great strength to clamp the arm of the “sacrifice”, as if they were afraid of this sacrifice in the last moment of violent resistance to break free, their strength is abnormally large, Duncan can even feel that the bones of this temporary body are a little bit of bursting open! , which made him look at the two black-robed men with considerable surprise.
And immediately after that, the masked cleric approached again.
Duncan’s attention was immediately attracted to him, he saw that the magus pulled out a peculiarly shaped dagger from his pocket, the dagger was curved strangely like a dried and twisted knuckle, the blade was pitch-black as if it was made of obsidian, and its surface reflected the light of the fire on the totem, it looked bizarre and extraordinary.
Duncan silently prepared to cut off the “soul projection”, he knew that this temporary body can collect information should be the end.
The cultist cleric’s benediction rang out from the high platform:
“O supreme and holy Sun God! Please accept the sacrifice on this high platform! I offer you the heart of this sacrifice, may you return it from blood and fire!”
Duncan immediately halted his move to cut off the soul projection and looked at the cult cleric in front of him as if he were a fool.
(MOM YEAH!)
(End of chapter)