Chapter 619 Ron's Goal (Six Thousand)
There were a large number of figures surrounding the altar. They were all members of the Andre family, mostly men. After all, women did not have much status in this family, and their greatest value was to get pregnant and give birth to children.
Most of our lives are spent either being pregnant or preparing for pregnancy.
On weekdays, even the opportunity to leave the house and go out for fun is extremely rare.
But men are different. In the Andre family, men's status is naturally superior to that of women. This is because the founder of the Andre family, the supreme ancestor Regias Andre, is convinced that only men can truly inherit the family bloodline.
Therefore, men here will not be subject to too many constraints and restrictions.
There are only two most important tasks for them every day: one is practicing, and the other is sowing seeds.
The only time they have other than practicing and sowing can be said to be quite free. Of course, if they don't mind being tired and are good enough, they can even apply to the family management for more spouses. Therefore, it is common to have three wives and four concubines within the family.
If a family can produce enough outstanding descendants, even if they are not very strong, they will receive very generous treatment when they are old.
It is for this reason that nearly half of the people around the altar are young and strong men, and the rest are children and old men. They gather near the altar, pointing at Mansfield on the altar. After all, it is too peaceful in the Andre family's nest. Such an important thing may not happen once in thousands of years. No one who can come here wants to miss it.
Whether it was a child or an old man, every face was filled with pride and arrogance.
It is confidence and pride.
That is the pride that comes from the deepest part of the soul.
Who else in the world can sacrifice a dragon except the Andre family?
Even though the current Andre family was severely damaged by the disaster a thousand years ago, and even after such a long time, it still has not recovered to its heyday, but no matter what, the Andre family is definitely not something that those rubbish families or royal families in the Dusk Continent can challenge. There is a fundamental gap between the two sides.
They held their heads high, and even the old man's cloudy eyes were filled with contempt. The way he looked at Mansfield was like looking at an ant that could be crushed into powder at any time.
"roar……"
At the altar, Mansfield roared.
He is the Dragon Prince.
He is the youngest and most outstanding genius among the dragon clan.
In the dragon clan, everyone treated him with great respect, and his father even trained him to be the next Dragon King.
In the Dusk Continent, everyone is afraid of him wherever he goes. No matter if it is treasures or beauties, as long as he shows the slightest interest, people will immediately offer them to him.
He was the one who should be high and mighty. When had he ever been treated so humiliatingly? Being sealed, thrown on the altar as a sacrifice, and watched and played with by countless filthy and tiny humans like a monkey? Shame.
When had Mansfield ever experienced such humiliation?
The dragon clan... If the dragon clan was still there, if the dragon clan had not been destroyed and was still powerful, who in the world would dare to be so disrespectful to them?
For Mansfield, this feeling was like falling directly from heaven to hell. The twisted feeling that everything was turned upside down and the empty feeling that his heart was hollowed out tortured Mansfield so much that he almost went crazy.
The contemptuous looks and disdainful voices were like sharp knives cutting Mansfield's body, leaving him covered in bruises and blood.
Unprecedented anger had almost turned into a raging flame, burning and jumping in his chest, almost bursting his body. He wished he could rush down from the altar, open his bloody mouth, and use his sharp fangs to bite those hateful bastards to death one by one, and use the souls and blood of these humble humans to wash away their sins.
But Mansfield couldn't do it.
Before that, he had been seriously injured by Ron and Ifrit's attacks. All the flesh and blood in his body turned into minced meat, and his bones and tendons turned into powder.
Even though the dragon race has extremely strong self-healing abilities, this kind of serious injury cannot be recovered in a day or two. It may take ten or twenty years.
That’s not all. Even his soul had sustained considerable damage in the previous conflict. Compared to the injuries on his physical body, the damage to his soul was even more troublesome.
At that time, Mansfield was already in despair. He thought he was going to die at the hands of his sister and her mistress. Although he was unwilling to accept the fate, he could no longer see any future.
But who would have thought that when he thought he was doomed, a mysterious old man suddenly appeared and saved him from the brink of death.
Mansfield thought that his luck would turn and he would have a new beginning, but who could have imagined that this was just the beginning of a new nightmare.
He was brought to this mysterious space.
From the conversations among the people around him, Mansfield roughly knew where he was. This was the headquarters of the Andre family.
Mansfield knew about the Andre family. After all, the sage Partridge came from this family. In short, it should be considered a behemoth in the human world.
On the surface, they do not participate in any affairs of the Dusk Continent and stay away from the world, but Mansfield is very clear that the Andre family is behind many major events in the Dusk Continent... In Mansfield's view, they are just a group of rats hiding in the dark sewers and stirring up trouble.
However, his father was extremely cautious about the Andre family.
My father had reminded me more than once that no matter whether I became the Dragon King now or in the future, I must not offend anyone from the Andre family.
Mansfield could even remember the vigilance and slight fear in his father's eyes when he said these words... In Mansfield's heart, his father had always been a fearless person, and nothing had ever frightened his father. This was the first time he felt fear in his father's eyes.
This was difficult for Mansfield to understand.
He admitted that the Andre family was indeed very strong.
A demigod-level sage, Patridge, appeared.
Oh, by the way, Archibald the Blasphemer seems to be from the Andre family as well.
The fact that two such super masters have appeared in succession is enough to show that the Andre family is extraordinary. I am afraid that all the human kingdoms in the entire Dusk Continent combined are no match for the Andre family.
But, so what?
They are dragons.
It is the most perfect and powerful race in the world.
Although there were not many demigod-level masters, the dragon clan also had them. Was it really necessary to be afraid of a group of humans? Moreover, both the saint Partridge and the blasphemer Archibald were dead, the only two demigod-level masters were gone, and the Andre family was like a toothless tiger. What else was there to care about? He sneered at his father's cautiousness and cowardice, thinking that his father was old and timid, and was no longer suitable to continue to stay in the position of Dragon King. The dragon clan might need a younger and more energetic leader, and he was born to become the new Dragon King.
Mansfield has always believed this.
It can even be said that Mansfield felt this way during the first period of his time in the Andre family.
At the beginning, the members of Andre's family were very nice to him. They took out extremely precious magic potions to heal his injuries, allowing his originally broken body to recover to its original state within just a few days.
Mansfield was still feeling somewhat proud at this time.
He felt that his identity as the Dragon Prince was still very valuable. Even though the dragon clan had now perished, even the most powerful family among humans did not dare to do anything to him. Some even took good care of him and served him.
After his body returned to normal, Mansfield felt that he was able to do it again. He looked down at the old men who had just saved him and said that he wanted to revitalize the dragon clan. He was willing to give the Andre family a chance to be loyal and assist him. After he re-established the dragon clan and became the Dragon King, he was willing to reserve a place for the women of the Andre family in the harem.
At this time, Mansfield, who was always boastful and ambitious, didn't know his own weight. He sincerely felt that the conditions he offered were already quite generous.
Then, he saw those old men, who looked white-haired, half-dead, and with little breath on their bodies. A trace of surprise first appeared on their faces, and then they looked at each other, with shock in their eyes.
And then...these old men laughed.
He smiled contemptuously.
At that moment, Mansfield felt that they were looking at him as if he were a fool.
A psychopath.
That look of extreme contempt made Mansfield extremely angry. For a moment, he even had the urge to make a big scene in the Andre family.
Damn it, these humble, tiny, damned ant-like humans, why do they look down on me? Aren't the conditions I offer generous enough? Isn't it an honor for them to assist me in rebuilding the dragon race? Isn't it a gift to them to leave a place for the women of the Andre family in my harem?
Why do they look down on me? Do they think that just because the dragon clan has been destroyed, they can look down on me, the dragon prince?
Damn bastards, sooner or later, I will make them realize that looking down on me is the worst mistake they have ever made in their lives.
Fortunately, although Mansfield was extremely angry, he had not lost his mind because of anger. He tried his best to control the anger in his chest and prepared to say goodbye and leave. He couldn't really make trouble in the Andre family's lair. After all, the old man was able to rescue himself from Ron and Ifrit, which was enough to prove that the old man's strength was far superior to the two of them, and also far superior to his current self.
At this point in time, it will not do you any good to completely break off relations with the other party.
Mansfield was convinced that in the near future he would continue to break through his limits and become the greatest and most powerful emperor in the history of the dragon clan.
He was about to leave, but at this moment, a half-dead old man suddenly stood in front of him. Mansfield tried hard to control his patience and wanted to ask this old man what he meant and why he was stopping him from doing something. However, he only felt a flash before his eyes, and the old man's figure appeared in front of him, and then a hand patted him on the shoulder.
Really, it was just a light tap.
But this slap that seemed to be without any force made Mansfield, the Dragon Prince, collapse directly to the ground. Mansfield had no idea what had happened. He only knew that the moment the old man's fingers touched him, all the strength in his body was ruthlessly deprived. Although his body returned to normal, it seemed like a puddle of mud again and he could not move at all.
Until this moment, Mansfield finally understood how powerful these old men in the Andre family were.
He finally understood why his father was so cautious and even fearful of such a human family.
There are thirteen old guys like this in the Andre family.
He finally understood how reckless his previous words were and why these old men didn't even look up to him at all... Because they didn't need to, because even the dragon clan at its peak was not necessarily more powerful than the Andre family.
Mansfield begged for mercy, but to no avail.
From an old man named Regias, he finally understood the value of his existence.
He was a sacrifice.
It was a sacrifice offered to the gods by the Andre family.
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Everything he had experienced was quickly played out in his mind like a slide show. Mansfield felt suffocated and angry when he thought that he, the Dragon Prince, was being used as a sacrifice and had no chance to realize his ambitions.
The pointing and laughing of the dense crowd around him made Mansfield even more unbearable.
He roared continuously, trying to use the roar of a dragon to drive away these humble insects, but his strength was completely deprived. Even just raising his eyelids almost exhausted all his strength. His roar sounded more like whimpering. Not only was it not intimidating at all, but it made people feel pitiful.
Unreconciled.
I really can't accept it.
Mansfield didn't know how long he had been exhibited like a monkey.
Ten days, half a month? Or even longer?
He could no longer remember anything. He only knew that during this period of time, he racked his brains to think of a way to escape, but no matter how hard he tried, it was of no use.
He had no way of breaking the seal that the old man had put on him, and he didn't even have a clue how to break the seal.
Gradually, Mansfield's hope was completely worn out. He seemed to have turned into a dead dog, lying on the altar, motionless. If he were not still breathing, one would even think he was a dead dragon.
Mansfield was enveloped in despair and desolation. How could the Dragon Prince still have the same high spirits as before? This was what Ron, Partridge, Philomena, Hefferson and Daphne saw when they appeared near the altar.
They were lucky enough, and they had made preparations in advance, so they were not forcibly separated when they entered the Andre family's lair.
The place where they landed was in an alley of a residential building. Although three thousand years had passed, Daphne still remembered the situation here clearly, so she did not lose her way. Fortunately, because of the things happening at the altar, most of the patrol members had to go there to maintain order, so no one noticed Ron and the other outsiders.
He found a few lone members of the Andre family and killed them easily. He put their bodies into the storage ring and then replaced their clothes. There was no other way, their clothes were incompatible with the current Andre family. Anyone who was not a fool could see the problem with just a quick glance.
Then, after a few minor adjustments to their hairstyles and decorations, the five people easily blended into this space. They were almost no different from the residents living here. As long as you didn't look closely, it would be difficult to find anything unusual.
As soon as they entered here, Ron and his companions immediately discovered that the energy concentration in the Andre family's lair was extremely terrifying, at least dozens of times the average of the Dusk Continent, or even hundreds of times.
This situation could be said to be very strange. Both Patridge and Philomena had traveled far and wide, and had visited every corner of the Dusk Continent. But even so, they had never found any place with such a strong energy.
Heferson was also shocked by the energy concentration. Even the energy concentration in the mother tree of all things was not as high as it.
If you feel carefully, you will find that the energy is seeping from under your feet.
The energy was so dense that it was almost turning into substance. Even the naked eye could clearly see that the air in this space was distorted by the fluctuation of energy.
After lifting a few floor tiles and digging for a distance downwards, Ron finally discovered that there were a large number of magic stones buried underground in the entire space.
Moreover, they are all top-grade magic stones.
Ron was unable to estimate how many magic stones were needed to cover the entire town.
Just from these magic stones, one can tell how much wealth the Andre family has plundered from the Dusk Continent over the past ten thousand years.
As long as the members of the Andre family are not complete fools, practicing under such a rich energy will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort. The Andre family can have the current strength and so many masters, mostly because of the extremely abundant energy.
The overly rich energy even gave Patridge an illusion that as long as he continued to practice here, it would not be impossible for him to enter the realm of God in a few decades at most.
Even Ron, Heferson, and Philomena subconsciously had this impulse. If they could stay here to practice, reaching the demigod realm would be a piece of cake.
It's a pity that the most important thing now is to stop the ceremony of the gods' descent. Otherwise, these people really have the urge to be a knight in shining armor. If they can dig out all the top-grade magic stones buried underground by the Andre family, they will never lack energy for practice in this life.
In the end, everyone could only rely on their great willpower to suppress the greed in their hearts, and under the guidance of Daphne, they walked to the vicinity of the altar.
When I first arrived near the altar, the first thing I saw was people. There were so many people, shoulder to shoulder, and countless heads crowded together. People with trypophobia would get creepy at the sight of them.
This number must be tens of thousands, right?
Then he saw Mansfield lying half-dead on the altar.
He looked so miserable that Ron felt sorry for him. If he had been able to kill Mansfield directly in the Spang Theocracy, he wouldn't have to continue suffering like this.
Look how kind-hearted you are.
We are still concerned about Mansfield. If he knew, he would definitely be very touched.
Ron muttered to himself casually, and at the same time, he felt quite lucky. Fortunately, they entered the Andre family's lair in advance.
In the future that Ron peeked into, he only saw the scene of Montelicia being possessed by another body.
And that was also the time when Montelicia was possessed by another body.
Sometime about two and a half days later.
However, Ron obviously forgot about Mansfield's existence. Judging from the current situation, Mansfield was sacrificed and possessed before Montelicia.
If he really entered the Andre family at the right time, I'm afraid Mansfield would have already been possessed by another body. By that time, there would be an additional powerful enemy possessed by a god, and the difficulty of causing trouble would definitely increase exponentially.
Ron could feel the gazes coming from around him, and he glanced over silently out of the corner of his eye. There was a brief exchange of glances between several people.
Now there is a very obvious choice before everyone, that is whether to take action immediately. There are no so-called ancestors guarding the vicinity of the altar now. Although there are many strong people in the back, it is still impossible to stop them.
If we act now, we will surely be able to destroy Mansfield easily.
Once Mansfield is completely destroyed and his physical body no longer exists, the sacrifice chosen in advance by the Andre family will be missing. Even if there is still a god descending to the world, there will only be one left, and this time the goal will be half accomplished.
On the surface, that is indeed what it seems to be.
But, in fact, Ron obviously considered it more carefully.
There are two sacrifices, Mansfield and Montelicia. Among the two, Montelicia is stronger, has a stronger body, and needs to carry a stronger god.
Although there are two gods descending to the mortal world, what Montelicia has to carry is the most important. If the combined strength of the two gods descending to the mortal world this time is one hundred, then the proportion of the gods carried by Montelicia may be sixty, seventy, or even eighty.
Simply destroying Mansfield would not change the overall situation much.
Moreover, taking action now would inevitably arouse the fear and vigilance of all the ancestors of the Andre family.
Once all thirteen ancestors appear, they will have no choice but to escape.
As long as these thirteen old monsters are still alive, they may carry out a new round of sacrifices at any time. After this experience of being destroyed, it will be almost impossible to stop the God's Descent Ceremony next time.
From the beginning, Ron's goals were clear.
That is, it is not just about preventing the gods from coming.
At the same time, irreversible damage will be caused to the Andre family. Only in this way can they have a few days of peace.
At this moment, Ron's faith moved slightly. He seemed to feel something. He looked up suddenly and saw several figures appear in front of him.
Chapter 1 (End of this chapter)