Chapter 275: Hunters Entering the Sacrifice Site
"Yvina, you are a good child and you need to do the right thing."
After being beaten unconscious by Zane, these words kept echoing in Ivana's mind.
But Ivana didn't know who said this to her.
Is it the grandmother, or that...Wildfire Cultist?
Who is she?
In a daze, Ivana heard someone talking.
"Father Uru, will Miss Saint get better?"
"Of course, don't underestimate my Rhine spell, kid."
"But she hasn't woken up yet."
"Because she was pretending to be asleep."
“…Isn’t it possible?”
"If you don't believe me, just lick her."
"Will she wake up if I lick her?"
"That depends on whether you lick the right place."
Ivana, who was originally so tired that she could hardly open her eyes, suddenly found the strength and forced herself to open her eyes. Then she saw Vic sitting aside thinking about something, and immediately spoke.
"I... am awake." She said with great difficulty, "I don't need you to call me."
Seeing that Ivana had woken up, Vic said happily, "I'm glad you're okay, Miss Ivana. When I brought you back last night, your heart almost stopped."
Yvina gradually came to her senses and found herself lying at the back door of the Temple of Courage, right below the two spears.
Vic was sitting next to her, while Bai Wei was standing by the door, leisurely playing with the serrated knife in his hand.
The back door of the Temple of Courage had been opened, and the warm sunlight shone directly in, dispelling the haze and darkness of last night and showing her the road to the next temple. She felt as if everything that happened last night was just a nightmare.
But Yvina knew that it was not a nightmare.
So under the warm sunlight, Ivana's eyes still dimmed.
"I betrayed you." She looked at Bai Wei who was standing by the door and said bluntly, "I was instructed by them to approach you... To be more precise, to approach Vic."
After hearing what Ivina said, Bai Wei put away the serrated knife in his hand and looked at Ivina with a smile.
"Do you remember what I told you yesterday, Miss Saint?" Bai Wei said, "No matter if they are human or god, once they are dead, they are dead. There is no way to revive them."
Ivana's pupils narrowed slightly: "You know everything?"
"This guy told me." Bai Wei gestured to Vic, "He was watching from the side last night and witnessed everything. He was still torturing me."
"Torture you?"
"Yes, I'm pleading for you." Bai Wei said lazily, "Please don't let me settle the score with you."
Ivana subconsciously looked at Vic, who scratched his head and said, "After all, you wanted to save me at that time, so I felt..."
"We can talk about this on the way."
Bai Wei interrupted Vic, and then took out a wild fruit from somewhere and threw it to Ivana, just like Ivana threw it to them yesterday.
After Ivana took it, she heard Bai Wei say.
"We don't have much time."
…
"What is this?" Fig frowned slightly as he looked at the still-living rotten flesh in front of him. "Our Devourer?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the knights under his command immediately stepped forward to begin testing, and soon got the answer.
"Yes, Bishop, this is our Devourer," the knight replied.
"Sure enough, they have already chased here."
Figg looked at the scene in front of him.
Although he was a well-informed bishop, the scene before him still made him feel a little uncomfortable.
There were body parts and rotten flesh everywhere.
There were countless scratches on the ground, so wide that they looked like they were dug out with fingers. There was dark red blood in the scratches, and floating on the blood were the torn bodies of countless insects.
Fig was staring at the blood pool closest to him. Two crows that came to look for food suddenly attacked each other like crazy after eating two bites of the flesh and blood floating on the blood pool.
In less than a minute, two more pieces of rotten flesh appeared on the pool of blood.
This is truly their Devourer.
The Devourer cannot be killed. Even if it is crushed into pieces and only a little flesh is left, it can "come back to life" by entering other life forms and begin its "search" for Visas' power again.
But the problem was that after eating the Devourer's flesh and blood, the two crows did not unite as one to track the corpse, but instead started fighting.
Obviously, the tragic scene here was caused by countless split Devourers fighting each other. A group of unkillable monsters were constantly being smashed, reshaped, and then fighting each other, just like a perpetual motion machine.
But this is not normal!
Because it was as if they were changing the resentment engraved deep in their cells from Visas to each other.
How is this possible?
They are the product of the resentment of the gods. Who can change their resentment?
Fig already had a bad feeling, because the strongest card in his hand, besides himself, was the Devourer.
But now something is wrong with the Devourer.
It seems that this place is not as simple as he imagined.
Just then, a knight came hurriedly with a very ugly expression.
"Your Excellency the Bishop, we have discovered a very strange situation."
"Just say it."
"We found a set of footprints that left from here."
"Is it from the Devourer?"
"No." The knight whispered, "Judging from the distribution of the footprints, it is a rational...human."
Fig's pupils narrowed slightly.
Human?!
Humans who escaped from the endless slaughter of the Devourers?!
Before Figg could ask any questions, the knight spoke again.
"And according to our detection, he also has a lot of Devourer's aura on his body. It's almost as if... he devoured the Devourer here."
…
Abeke walked with a limp, his breathing getting heavier and heavier.
He felt that something might be wrong with his body, but he didn't know exactly where.
"Visas! Visas! Visas!"
The mouth on the forehead kept yelling, and the mouth on the right side of the eye was telling it to be quiet.
The left mouth said nothing, but suddenly opened and vomited out a bloody piece of meat.
Abeke took the piece of meat and chewed it with his mouth under his nose.
He ate and thought at the same time.
What went wrong?
Ah, this question is too complicated.
But it doesn't matter, he doesn't need to think so much.
Just find the next body part.
The nose in the palm of his hand had already smelled the other person's scent.
It will be soon. It will be soon.
Thinking of this, all six mouths on his face smiled.
…
"Yes, the condition they offered me was to resurrect my grandmother." Ivana whispered, "I believed them."
Now the three of them started on their journey again.
Although Ivina and Vic didn't have much rest after being rescued last night, they were still urged by Bai Wei to hit the road.
Vic was fine, as long as he wasn't killed on the spot, he would recover quickly, but Ivana wasn't in such good shape. Bai Wei's Rhine spells could only heal her injuries, but his energy couldn't be restored immediately, so Vic carried her on his back, saving her energy and naturally being able to answer Bai Wei's questions better.
"It sounds ridiculous, but you believe it."
Ivana was silent for a while, but nodded gently: "Yes, although I know the possibility is really low, I still..."
"But Miss Ivana's grandmother really survived." Vic interrupted Ivana and said to Bai Wei, "I saw it with my own eyes. She was sitting in a wheelchair! What's going on?"
Bai Wei heard a hint of nervousness in Weike's tone.
Obviously, Vic is also concerned about the sensitive topic of resurrection.
Bai Wei did not answer immediately, but looked at Ivana.
"What do you think?" he said, laughing. "Do you think that was your grandmother?"
Ivana hesitated: "I don't know."
"have no idea?"
"Yes, she is the same as my grandmother in every way, including her smell." Yvina whispered, "Even some small habits are the same. Except for me and my grandmother, no one should know these, and..."
Ivina recalled the last words her "grandmother" said to her last night, and she couldn't help but close her eyes with a painful expression.
"I really...can't tell."
"Well, if you can't tell them apart, don't do it for now." Bai Wei could see the scene in Ivana's mind, and knew how much of a shock it had on a little girl who was raised by her grandmother and had hardly ever left the mountains. "The fact that they've caused you so much pain at least shows that those guys are really good at this. You just said that they wanted you to send your grandmother's flesh... I mean, her body in pieces, in stages?"
Ivana's face turned even paler, but she still nodded: "Yes, they said that they needed grandma's body to complete a certain ritual, but they couldn't give it to them all at once."
"Well... I won't ask you nonsense like 'Don't you realize there's anything wrong with this?'" Bai Wei said, "Let's talk about something else. Is there anything else you're hiding from us?"
Ivana shook her head: "No more."
"Really?"
"Really nothing." Ivana said, "My grandmother passed away very suddenly. She didn't have the time to tell me everything, so I don't know much."
"I remember you said before that you and your grandmother also showed the way for many hunters, allowing them to inherit power in the sacrificial field."
"Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Do you remember the old hunter Vic told you about yesterday?"
Yvina thought about it.
Vic had already told me when they met yesterday that he met a real old hunter before coming here. The old hunter told me that the inheritance of the sacrificial site had long been cut off, and the current hunters all inherited it through blood transmission between each other.
Yesterday, Ivana didn't care much about this news. After all, she was fully focused on how to deceive Vic at that time, and didn't think much about the matter itself until now.
"Impossible." Ivana said the same thing as yesterday, "That old hunter is lying to you."
And Vic's answer was the same as yesterday: "Impossible! Mr. Ryan is a good man!"
The two of them almost repeated yesterday's conversation, but fortunately Ivana realized this.
"I didn't lie to you." Ivana said seriously, "Although I have never formally guided hunters, I saw my grandmother's guidance when I was very young."
"Your grandmother guided the hunters?"
"Of course, and more than once."
"Are you sure they are hunters?"
“Who else could it be? Only hunters come here,” Yvina said, “and they are all the same as Vic.”
Vic was a little surprised: "Same as me?"
"Yes." Yvina nodded, "They all brought hounds."
Vic was stunned.
Vic's pause made Ivana think that he didn't believe her, so she said immediately, "I'm not lying to you. I've seen many times that hunters who come here bring their own hounds. I remember that I even fed their hounds."
“I don’t disbelieve you, I just…” Vic subconsciously wanted to scratch his head, but then found that he couldn’t pull his hands out because he was carrying Ivana on his back, so he said to Ivana, “Can you scratch it for me?”
"……ah?"
"I can't pull my hands away. My head itches a little bit." Vic said, "Just above my ears. Thank you."
"...Oh." Ivana was speechless. When she reached out to scratch Vic's head, she suddenly had some hallucinations.
It was as if at this moment she had returned many years ago, when she followed her grandmother and teased the hunting dogs brought by the hunters, scratching their ears in the same way.
For a moment, Ivana felt sad again, until Bai Wei spoke again: "All hunters bring hounds?"
Ivana came back to her senses: “Yes.”
"Without exception?"
Ivana shook her head: "No."
"are you sure?"
"Of course." Ivana was very sure, "No exceptions."
"Is that so?" Bai Wei said slowly, "In other words, those hunters and hounds entered the sacrificial ground under the guidance of your grandmother to obtain the hunter's inheritance?"
"Yes."
"And then what?"
"Afterwards?" Ivana didn't understand what Bai Wei meant. "After what?"
"Is this the only way to enter the sacrificial ground?"
"certainly."
"So have the hunters who received the inheritance returned?" Bai Wei looked into Ivana's eyes, "Do you still remember?"
Ivana subconsciously wanted to answer "of course", but the words were stuck at her lips.
Because she couldn't find such a memory.
She only remembered the scene of the hunters entering the sacrificial site, but could not remember the scene of the hunters returning from the sacrificial site.
It was as if... none of them had come back from it.
It seems like this road is one-way.
At this moment, Bai Wei suddenly raised his head: "We're here."
Both Vic and Yvina looked ahead, and a new temple appeared before them.
"The Hall of Trust." Yvina said softly.
(End of this chapter)
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