After walking in the city for a while, Rosen found that the name "Gray City" was really appropriate.

The city is full of steel-gray ruins of sturdy buildings that are difficult to clean up.

The faces of the people walking on the street were gray, their clothes were gray, and the roofs of the houses made of various materials were also gray.

Finally, even the pigs, dogs and livestock wandering around the streets were mostly gray in color.

I don’t know if it’s a genetic mutation or because it’s too dirty.

Walking on the narrow, dirty, bumpy streets, Rosen clearly felt a doomsday world of poverty, depression, and despair.

I met a lot of people along the way, but I didn't see a single smiling face.

Some people were standing at their doorsteps and swearing at their neighbors, some were coughing and spitting loudly, and some were dumping overnight excrement onto the street. Some were fighting over a disagreement, or having sex in the street.

But more people just stay in the corner quietly, enduring the pain caused by misfortunes such as hunger, illness and so on.

There are also many downright unlucky people.

All the misfortunes weighed upon him, stretching his nerves to the extreme and putting him in a state where he could collapse at any time.

"Ah~~Ah~~~~"

From time to time, Rosen could hear some strange noises, half-smiling and half-laughing, made by madmen who were overwhelmed by life.

He had seen poor and dilapidated worlds before, but this was the first time he had seen a place like the abyss.

After walking for a while, he expressed the same sentiment as Belldandy.

'The Abyss is a hell of a place.'

Of course, even in the most desperate places, there will always be something new.

Because the biggest characteristic of the human race is that they love to make trouble.

Rosen followed the aroma of barbecue in the wind and kept walking forward.

As the aroma grew stronger, more people walked along the street.

The group of people traveling together were mostly young and middle-aged people, and judging from their expressions, most of them were outsiders who came to join in the fun.

The presence of these people injected a rare vitality into this gray city.

Following the crowd, we finally arrived at a large open space that was basically leveled.

A lot of onlookers had gathered around the open space, and further inward, there was a group of battle mages wearing navy blue robes and the emblem of the Eye of Dawn.

Looking further inward, the situation is more complicated.

On the left were open-air cages made of cast iron, single rooms, thirty in total, each containing a prisoner.

On the right side are ten specially made large barbecue grills.

The fires under four of the barbecue grills had been lit and the grills were loaded with barbecue food.

Some were already roasted and oozing with oil, while others were still breathing and screaming heart-wrenchingly.

In the middle of the open space, there was a high platform made of mud and rubble, and on the platform stood a Dawn Eye Mage.

This wizard had a big belly, a face full of flesh, and gray eyes. He looked like a rare villain.

He held a black gemstone staff in his left hand and a book in his right hand.

He announced loudly: "The next prisoner to be executed is the evil member of the Dragon Mountain Brotherhood, the traitor of the Eye of Dawn, and the 14th-ring fallen wizard Gwenevere Denbo!"

As he spoke, two tall and strong Eye of Dawn mages walked to a rusty iron cage and pulled a woman out of it.

Because of the nourishment of powerful magic power, the woman looks very young, but her soul age is over 70 years old.

His dark black hair was disheveled, his beautiful oval face was swollen in many places, he had no clothes on, his fair skin was covered with dirt and scars, and many congealed bloodstains could be seen on the inside of his thighs.

Apparently, she had been horribly tortured before her execution.

But when the magic power can reach the 14th ring, the vitality will become very strong. Even if the body is covered with scars, the spirit is not much depressed. There is no trace of fear in the pair of dark eyes, only anger and determination.

She did not offer any resistance and was soon taken to the platform in the center of the square, where she stood there in silence.

But even though they have suffered terrible torture and have become undignified, their image is still much better than that of ordinary mortals in the abyss.

It's like a phoenix falling from the clouds into the mud, or an angel suffering in the abyss.

There was a sudden commotion among the crowd.

Many people, especially men, stared at the female prisoner with a gloating, morbid and greedy look.

The chubby wizard glanced at the female wizard, blinked his triangular eyes proudly, and announced loudly.

"The sacred flame of the Mages will completely cleanse her sins and fix the great power of her body into her flesh and blood."

"Ordinary people who eat this flesh and blood can be blessed with mysterious power, making men stronger and women more beautiful."

"Of course, powerful flesh and blood is not obtained for free. It requires a price."

"In addition, the exact price will depend on the specific part of the flesh and blood."

“Like here.”

As he spoke, the round-bellied wizard picked up the black gemstone staff and pressed it against the female prisoner's chest with a little force, creating a deep dent on it.

"Because of its rarity, it is auctioned, with the starting price being one kilogram of obsidian gold."

As he spoke, he pushed the staff downwards again, finally touching an indescribable spot, also with great force, so that most of the black gem on the staff, which was as big as a baby's fist, was sunk into the area.

"And this is a good place that even the gods would be pleased with. Once it's roasted, it has an unforgettable flavor and can give you a very powerful mysterious blessing."

"The starting price is 3 kilograms of obsidian gold."

On the platform, the round-bellied wizard began to sell the flesh and blood of the female prisoners in public, just like treating them as animals.

What is even more frightening is that the onlookers around the square are not only accustomed to this, but many of them are even eager to try and join the auction of flesh and blood.

During the whole process, the female prisoner said nothing, only staring at the round-bellied wizard with a look of hidden anger.

Of course the Round-Belly Wizard felt it, but he did not feel the slightest fear. Instead, he became even more proud.

"Madam, things are different now. You are no longer the Hand of Dawn, but my prisoner. I can torture you however I want."

As he spoke, he started stabbing randomly with his black gemstone staff, causing the latter to curl up in pain immediately. However, the two mages behind him immediately used spells to firmly fix his body, making it easier for the round-bellied wizard to move.

The audience below the stage became more and more enthusiastic, and a bearded man shouted with envy.

"Kagel, be gentle, don't break it, we still need to sell it for money!"

Kagel was the name of the round-bellied wizard. He laughed and responded, "Lomi, you want to buy it?"

The bearded man spread his hands and said, "I would like to, but I lost the last bit of good stuff in my pocket last night."

"Oh~ You are really a hopeless gambler."

Kagel taunted him, then turned to look at the others and said loudly, "This prisoner was a big shot in the Mage Association. If he wasn't crazy, we would kneel down and salute him when we see him!"

"The stuff she has is something that most people can never see, let alone use. But now she can bake it and sell it. It's definitely high-end stuff."

"Please open your eyes and take a good look. This thing is much better than your wife. Even the coquettish girls in the brothel can't compare to it."

The spectators became more and more fanatical. It was clearly a horrific execution ground, but it was transformed into a barbecue sales venue.

Rosen stood in the corner, watching the scene expressionlessly and sighing secretly in his heart.

"This is probably what it looks like when order is completely broken down."

He wanted to save people, and also wanted to punish this bad guy named Kagel.

Although this Kager had a 12-ring soul and carried powerful magical weapons, he was able to kill it easily and silently.

But in the end, Rosen didn't make a move.

It was not because of fear of revenge from the Eye of Dawn, nor was it because of fear of the battle mage guards in the square.

It was because he discovered that the situation in the Abyss of Pain was not as simple as he had imagined.

Among the dense crowd of onlookers, he felt a very obscure atmosphere.

Lai Fu's talent for time, which has reached the extreme limit for mortals, and his powerful computing power have endowed him with incredible sensitivity.

He vaguely felt that although the owner of this aura was also a mortal, he possessed incredibly powerful strength, and made him feel a strong sense of crisis.

The scary thing is that Rosen couldn't locate this person's existence, and couldn't even produce a clear illusion of time because of this sense of crisis.

This meant that this person was also a spacetime expert, and his understanding of spacetime was enough to rival his, or perhaps even surpass his.

Since he has reached the pinnacle of mortals, why can the other party surpass him?

Rosen didn't know this before, but after forming an alliance with the Joy-seekers, he found out.

The Apostle of Joy Liv told him that in the abyss, there might be the mortal incarnation of the true God from another world.

In other words, he might have encountered the true God.

Because of this, Rosen had no choice but to endure and prepare himself to fight with all his strength.

But he did not despair.

Because Liv told him that the incarnation of the true God is very powerful, but because it is in the 23rd ring of the mortal world, it can only cast 23rd ring spells at most. Even with the assistance of the true artifact, it cannot break through the barriers of the rules of the mortal world.

Its greatest advantage is that it possesses many spells, or "divine arts," that are unknown to mortals.

But as long as you strike fast and hard enough, and throw a flurry of punches, there is still a chance that you can kill the master.

And this happens to be Rosen's advantage.

At this time, the evil deeds in the open space are still going on, and countless twisted-minded spectators are still fanatically following them.

But in the darkness, there is still light.

One of the rays of light was emitted by the young boy Oliande.

This young man also quietly sneaked into the open space.

Next chapter afternoon.

(End of this chapter)