Chapter 840 "Endless Feast" has been completed
The eldest princess's hands were shaking a little.
Not only has she never skinned or mutilated anyone, she has never even killed anyone.
Aiwass thought with some regret and some relief.
The moment her trembling blade pierced Aiwass's skin, he realized she was a novice. Skinning was fine, though she managed to peel off some flesh, causing Aiwass to cry out in agony... but when it came to severed limbs, she was practically unable to continue.
Perhaps it was because Aiwass's screams were so miserable that she was so scared that she was trembling all over. She had no strength to cut off Aiwass's hands and even started crying.
Aiwass gave Noelle a bloody hug and offered gentle comfort and encouragement for a long time.
"Don't you want courage?"
Aiwass said gently: "Then I will give you courage."
He didn't mean to speak so gently, but because of the pain of being skinned by the novice, he was too weak and had lost his strength. Aiwass's pain was not diluted or weakened, otherwise the pastoral care method would have lost its effectiveness.
"…What's your name in real life?"
It was clearly Aiwass’s own plan, but after hearing his screams, Noelle’s heart softened—or rather, she felt a little frightened.
She couldn't help but say, "I'll find a way to make it up to you..."
Aiwass simply gave a mysterious smile: "That's not necessary, Your Highness. You can't give me any compensation."
In the end, Noelle made up his mind.
She used the power of the Path of Balance to strengthen the ritual knife in her hand, and quickly severed Aiwas's limbs one after another, and then chopped off his head with a clean cut.
She just didn't want to hear the wailing anymore. But such a quick action actually made the pain less severe.
When Aiwas's head flew out, intense pain still remained in his brain.
But he just closed his eyes and prayed, a line of blood and tears flowing from his empty left eye socket:
"I offer the wings of freedom to the host...
"I offer the Master of the Feast my pure wrist...
"I offer my dancing feet to the host..."
In Noelle's shocked eyes, she saw the body parts cut off by Aiwas flying up and surrounding the colorful statue of Candle, exploding and turning into a blood mist, dyeing the Candle completely scarlet.
Aiwas's flying head drew a strange arc and landed on Sizhu's head.
With one eye closed and a pure white flower growing out of the other, he looks eerie yet compassionate.
From his right eye, dark sin thorns continuously sprouted, wrapping around the already red Sizhu, finally filling the last bit of scarlet that Sizhu lacked. The white Sizhu's originally eerily joyful smile, now stained with blood, became compassionate.
Beautiful white flowers also bloomed from the black thorns, completely hiding Aiwass's head behind them.
The next moment, all the candles on Sizhu's head lit up and ignited pure white flames.
The light that was enough to illuminate the sky and the earth actually revealed a hint of rainbow glow in the blood mist, looking like a sacred halo.
The bodies of the guests and musicians killed by Aiwass, all of them, burst into flames at the same moment - but they were bright red flames.
Their burning bodies suddenly rose from the ground, their hands raised vaguely as if they were holding wine glasses; they bowed or touched their chests in salute to the candlelighter, or to Aiwas above the candlelighter's head.
Afterwards, the guests embraced each other warmly in the flames, and the musicians played a cheerful and passionate final song.
Dance, dance, dance like crazy—
A dance that gets wilder and wilder, a dance that's completely desperate.
Noelle stared at the scene in amazement.
This time, their dance had no rules or techniques. Everyone followed their own ideas, and the musicians' music was out of sync... But this chaotic feeling didn't feel chaotic or noisy. Instead, it gave Noelle an unusual sense of shock.
Suddenly, she was pulled into the center of the dance floor by "someone".
He was a blond young man in his twenties.
There was a huge wound on his neck, but his face was filled with a warm and cheerful smile.
In the royal court of Xingbi, Noelle had never seen anyone with such a smile except the clown Lalo.
Everyone seemed to have some sad story, and either had a frown or a stern face. Everyone was preoccupied with thoughts and was always arguing with each other.
"...Why is everyone so happy?"
The eldest princess, who was being pulled and dancing funny, couldn't help but ask.
But the other party did not answer her.
However, the young man was not an unconscious dead ghost - he stretched out his hand, gestured at his face, stroked the corner of his mouth with one hand, and smiled upwards.
Then, the other party pulled her to dance wildly.
The flames on his body didn't spread to Noelle...or rather, they only made her feel warm. It was like putting on warm, dry clothes after being caught in the rain.
His clothes first burned and turned into nothingness, followed by his skin and flesh.
When the song ended, all that was left of the guests and musicians were just skeletons.
The picture began to slow down and freeze.
Aiwass watched all this.
Although his head was severed, he was still "alive".
His body was transparent and luminous, making him extremely conspicuous.
But at this moment, Aiwass was standing behind Noelle, but she didn't see Aiwass.
On the other side...
Aiwass looked at Andrea who was petrified.
But her soul did not leave her body.
Sure enough, as long as she is not completely "killed" but only controlled by petrification, freezing, sealing and other means, she will have nothing to do with this promotion ceremony.
Just like the Son of the Moon in the material world.
The best way to deal with immortality is to seal them away.
"only……"
Aiwass sighed inwardly.
It really is a candle ceremony, it really is encouraging one's own "death".
He hadn't chosen to sacrifice himself deliberately to try to figure out the questioner's intentions. But now, because his choice happened to coincide with Sizhu's, he was benefiting...
In the frozen world, a line of words appeared in front of Aiwas again.
【Why did the guest die? 】
Immediately afterwards, three doors appeared beside him.
The corresponding sentence also emerged below:
——[Feast], [Killing], [Judgment].
Now, he no longer has any doubts.
Aiwass, in his spirit form, pushed open the door of [Feast] without hesitation.
The next moment, the whole world turned into light.
The whole world was thus stripped away and condensed into a complete painting.
The crimson candle wrapped around the thorns of sin shone with a circle of brilliant light.
On the scarlet stage, skeletons, each blazing with crimson flames, danced passionately to the music. Each skeleton's movements were completely different, more like a mad, unbridled dance than a social dance.
There were also skeletons raising their wine glasses and clinking them enthusiastically, and the scarlet wine was also spilled due to the fierce collision of the glasses.
It was not a party.
But carnival——
Every feast must come to an end. Drink the blood of fools and devour the flesh of the feasters until the feast is complete and the guests have left. Then, the feast host will be perfected again, ascending to the position of celestial minister. The feast they long for will eventually be held again, perhaps in dreams, perhaps in the future.
[——Completed, "Endless Feast"]
Such a childish yet solemn voice rang in Aiwas' ears.
It’s not easy to write, so I wrote it a little slowly for the sake of quality!
I'll have lunch and then write the second chapter, and post it before six o'clock!
I want to take a day off tomorrow...
(End of this chapter)
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