This discovery brought great shock to Chen Rui. The mysterious church's dark hand had actually spread to the beastmen race!
To be precise, the beastmen were also victims of deception. Their faith in the Beast God had been converted to the evil god of the mysterious church!
As the saying goes, Rome was not built in a day. Judging from the situation in the Divine Prayer Hall, this deception must have been carried out for a long time.
At this time, only a faint shadow of the god-given weapon remained. The bodies of the other three had already disappeared, leaving only the secret servant protected by the Domain of Spring. The power of the Domain of Spring seemed to be very targeted. Even the speed at which the shadow of the god-given weapon disappeared was slowed down, so the secret servant would not be annihilated for a while.
"I didn't expect you to be the Black Death Apostles! This is the southeast of the mainland. That Long Metil shouldn't be the Archbishop of the Southern District, right? No, her position should be higher than the Archbishop … "
The secret servant was shocked and cried out involuntarily, "You … who are you! How do you know so many secrets of the church! "
"Tell me the whereabouts of Long Metil and the half-elf!" Chen Rui's eyes were extremely cold, emitting a strange power that made the soul tremble. "Otherwise, I will pull out your soul now and slowly interrogate it. Even if you are a believer of the Abyss, you can't be reborn after losing your soul! Then, I will give your soul to the Church of Light. You should know how they deal with the Black Death Apostles. At that time, death will be nothing more than an extravagant hope for you! "
Although Chen Rui's words were a threat, he had learned a lot about the mysterious church from Shura, such as the interpretation of the soul rebirth in the teachings of the Black Death Apostles. These words hit the nail on the head. The secret servant's body suddenly trembled. Looking at Chen Rui's gradually approaching hand, he could not help but cry out, "The Great Wizard took the half-elf to the Blood Cave!"
"Blood Cave? Where? "
"The secret cave of the Nightmare Volcano is the highest place of worship in this branch … There is a transmission array behind the statue that can be reached directly, but only Lady Long Metil can open it." The secret servant gritted his teeth. "I have already told you everything I know. Give me a quick death!"
"One last question. Why does Long Metil want to capture that half-elf girl?" A destructive power appeared in Chen Rui's hand.
"The blood sacrifice offered to the Lord God requires a main sacrifice. Lady Long Metier had once used the Eye of the Blood Sea secret technique to search for her, and just happened to sense that the half-elf girl possessed a special physique. She was the best main sacrifice, so she issued a bounty."
Although Chen Rui did not quite understand how the Eye of the Blood Sea had found Blanche, he finally understood the cause and effect. Right now, he had to go to the Blood Cave of the Nightmare Volcano to rescue the half-elf girl as soon as possible. With a thought, he withdrew the power of the Realm of Spring.
Without the protection of the Realm of Spring, the Secret Servant's life force began to rapidly fade. His body gradually flickered, and the shadow of the "whip" was already so weak that it could no longer be seen. Soon, the Secret Servant would be annihilated like his three companions.
"It's too late. The first stage of the blood sacrifice should have been completed by now …"
The Secret Servant's last words before he was annihilated made Chen Rui's heart tighten. He hurriedly quickened his pace and walked towards the three layers of relief. After feeling around for a while, he opened a secret door and found a two-way teleportation array inside.
The secret servant once said that only Long Metil herself could activate this teleportation circle, but the spiritual imprint of Long Metil that Chen Rui devoured was still deliberately retained and not "digested". Plus, he had abundant faith power. In theory, he was another Long Metil, able to freely enter and exit any place of "authority" in the Swamp of Misfortune.
As it turned out, this theory was completely in line with reality. Activating the teleportation array did not consume too much time for Chen Rui, and he soon arrived at the Blood Cave through the teleportation array.
If the Swamp of Misfortune was a dangerous place in the Plains of Nightmares, then the Nightmare Volcano was a dangerous place. Almost no life could survive in the volcano. The Blood Cave was in the middle of the Nightmare Volcano. There was boiling lava everywhere, and the terrifying temperature was suffocating. Even one's vision had the illusion of distorting.
Chen Rui walked forward step by step, and after two turns, he arrived in front of a large cave. His gaze immediately froze.
Corpses. Corpses were everywhere, piled up together, almost covering the entire flat ground in the middle.
The flat ground was the size of a field, like an isolated island surrounded by a sea of lava. The ground was covered in dried blood, and from the color of the ground, the number of people who had died here far exceeded what he could see. Due to the evaporation of the high temperature, the corpses of the men and women had become incomparably withered. They looked even more sinister, but one could still distinguish their races. There were humans, beastmen, and half-beastmen.
The strange thing was that there was no aura of life here, nor was there any trace of the great Wizard Long Metil.
These corpses were surrounded by some kind of strange patterns on the ground. The depressions in these patterns were blood-red crystals, which seemed to be the essence condensed from the blood of these top-grade corpses. They were connected to form a single Qi, like words.
These patterns gave Chen Rui a familiar feeling. That's right! The Starlight Academy's Magic Formation Master, Sukrad's stone slab!
That stone slab was still in the hands of the Elven Grandmaster Finoa. It turned out that the real mystery lay in the depressions of those patterns …
This was actually some kind of language used by the mysterious church to carry out evil sacrifices. Or could it be called … the language of the abyss?
Chen Rui's heart tightened as he tried to find the corpses of the half-elves. Fortunately, he didn't find any. He went all the way to the blood-red altar in front of the mountain of corpses.
There were also several corpses under the altar. Strangely, these corpses were not as withered as the ones in the circle. Their expressions were vivid and lifelike, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying.
From their attire, the status of these corpses should be that of the altar's guards and auxiliary Wizards. Could it be that for the needs of the sacrifice, Long Metil had also sacrificed her own subordinates?
Chen Rui walked up the altar step by step, and was suddenly startled. His eyes focused on the corpse on the altar. It wasn't Blanche, but rather … a tall woman wearing a black cloak. Her face was thin and pointed, and beside her was a silver staff. The top of the staff was shaped like a beast's skull, with two curved horns.
Looking at this woman's appearance and attire, she was clearly the Great Wizard Long Metil!
Long Metil was dead?
The blood sacrifice this time was to offer a sacrifice to the "Lord God", and the main sacrifice was Blanche. Now, how could Long Metil have sacrificed her own life?
Like the guards, there were no scars on Long Metil's body. It was as if the power of her soul had suddenly disappeared in an instant. However, her expression was somewhat strange. In addition to shock, there was even more disbelief, and there seemed to be a little fear?
Perhaps it was just an illusion. Chen Rui shook his head. Then what about Blanche?
Where was Blanche?
A glimmer of hope ignited in Chen Rui's heart, and he began to carefully search for the whereabouts of the half-elf girl. At this time, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he stared at the ground behind the altar near the edge of the magma. There was something there, a pair of glasses.
The magic glasses he had given to Blanche!
This was a quasi-divine artifact that could imprison Blanche's Blood Annihilation. Without the will of the half-elf girl, no one could take it off!
Judging from Blanche's attitude last time, the glasses should be one of her most cherished things, and she would never easily give it up.
If the glasses were left here, then …
Chen Rui strode forward and looked at the bottom of the rock wall. However, there was no trace of Blanche, only surging hot magma.
A scene seemed to appear in his mind. Blanche, at the critical moment of life and death, took off the glasses, and used the power of the Blood Eye to kill Long Metil and the others, who had wanted to kill her as a sacrifice. However, because of the other side's counterattack, or for some other reason, she had slipped and fallen into the magma …
Chen Rui bent down and carefully picked up the glasses, as if he had picked up the strong and weak girl. Harboring the last bit of wishful thinking, he did not want to give up, and searched every corner of the vicinity again and again. Unfortunately, he did not find anything.
The layout of the cave used for the secret sacrifice was simple and secretive. Apart from the transmission matrix, there was no other way out, which was tantamount to a dead end. This made him give up his last hope.
He had fought all the way here, disregarding everything, but this was the result.
In fact, since they had known each other until now, the number of conversations he had with Blanche could be counted on one hand. The half-elf girl seemed to be not good with words, and was even less good at expressing her feelings. Only those three words were unwavering.
I will wait for you.
"Blanche!" Chen Rui only felt a pain in his heart. With an angry roar, he punched the ground. The hard ground that had been bathed in magma for countless years suddenly collapsed.
Black Death Apostle! The mysterious church! Chen Rui's figure whistled as he flew out. His knuckles had turned white from clenching his fists so tightly. He must completely uproot that evil cult! Take revenge for Blanche! Take revenge for all the innocent people!
When Chen Rui's figure disappeared from the transmission matrix, the magma in the blood cave suddenly surged, reflecting countless mirror-like spatial shadows. The shadows gradually became solid, and a huge whirlpool had formed in the sea of fire.
In the center of the whirlpool, a stream of fiery red magma slowly rose, and bloomed layer by layer, as if it was some kind of flower. The center of the flower began to emit an extremely pure blood light. Slowly, all the magma stopped moving, and began to crystallize and solidify. It was a spectacular sight.
The blood light quickly moved, and turned into a human figure. It was the body of a completely naked woman. Her light red skin was covered with spider web-like cracks, and the veins were golden red. It was as if the blood circulating in her body was not blood, but magma.
The woman's delicate facial features could be vaguely seen. Her eyes were one blue and one red, staring at the direction of the transmission matrix.
She slowly retracted her gaze and lowered her head, looking at the terrifying skin and knife-like nails on her raised hand. In her blue eyes, a teardrop that looked like a flame slowly rolled down.
That drop of 'flame' fell on the solidified crystal. In an instant, all the solidified crystals shattered at the same time, and returned to the surging magma.
The magma seemed to have some kind of intense emotion, violently surging and swallowing everything, including the transmission matrix and the sacrificial platform.
After everything turned into ashes, the woman slowly closed her eyes. The rising pillar of blood slowly sank into the magma, like an angel with broken wings falling into the darkness.
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