Chapter 63

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Chapter 63: The Queen’s Inheritance (II)

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“Can’t we go in right now?” Qi Leren asked.

“I’m afraid this isn’t an open half field,” Ning Zhou judged by experience.

Qi Leren recalled the situation when he was with the Slaughter Secret Society. Indeed, without Mrs Kathleen as his guide, he wouldn’t have been able to blend with the Slaughter Secret Society to enter the half-field, so it seemed that they would have to ask Celia to do something about this.

Qi Leren came out from behind the column, walked to the lake, and looked at it. Ning Zhou squatted down and scooped up a handful of lake water. The blue fluorescence was not algae or plankton upon closer inspection, but was a kind of jellyfish with a deep blue light. The jellyfish felt the abnormal fluctuations in the water’s surface and slipped away quickly.

Standing in front of the inclined temple, looking at the half engulfed by the lake water and the vast underground lake beyond, Qi Leren suddenly had a strange feeling like being in a trance, as if something was staring at him from the void. He couldn’t see it, but he had imagined it in his mind—a huge, omniscient and omnipotent eyeball.

As if by instinct, he took out something from his inventory that he had only recently received.

“Leviathan’s Eyeball. It’s what I got from the last copy.” Qi Leren handed the thing to Ning Zhou.

“Full of evil and chaotic power,” Ning Zhou commented.

“In the last copy, there was a cosmic alien called an amphioctopus, which bred through parasitism and could even destroy human civilization… Is there such a creature in the Nightmare World?” Qi Leren asked.

“Yes,” Ning Zhou said. “Many.”

It’s a terrible world, Qi Leren thought to himself, and listened as Ning Zhou continued to say: “Sometimes there are some incredible connections between this world and the copy worlds. For example, a copy polluted by evil power. In addition, there are some powerful evil creatures in this world, such as demons and devils, and there will be their projections… or insinuations of them in the copy worlds.”

“You mean that the octopus I met was probably the projection of a creature in the Nightmare World?”

“Hmm.”

Qi Leren picked up Leviathan’s Eyeball again and held it over his head for careful observation. Although it had hardened, it didn’t feel terrible to the touch, but staring at it carefully, there was still an unsettling fear. But the strange thing was, while he was staring at it, that kind of fear turned into an enraptured impulse. The more you were afraid, the more you wanted to be close to it…

“Don’t look too close!” Ning Zhou’s voice pierced Qi Leren’s trance like a sword.

Qi Leren’s hands shook. The eyeball suddenly fell into the water, and it rolled along the sloping ground toward the lake at the bottom. Qi Leren stepped into the water to pick up the eyeball, but all of a sudden, the eyeball in the water glowed with a faint blue light. The jellyfish in the lake seemed to feel the call of some mysterious force, and the whole lake was shrouded in blue light and shadow.

Qi Leren picked up the eyeball and stuffed it into his item bar. Ning Zhou took his hand. They were swallowed up by the mysterious blue light, and disappeared into the abandoned building.

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A magnificent underwater temple appeared in front of Qi Leren. He didn’t bother to take a look at it and immediately turned to see Ning Zhou. The two men looked at each other with four eyes, and he was relieved.

“What is this place?” Qi Leren lowered his voice and asked.

Before them, there was a temple that seemed to have sunk to the bottom of the lake, which is obviously in the style of the Holy See. However, the original white columns and sculptures had fallen over time, and their decadence had become ruins in the earthly world. Because of the bone lamps on the steps and the singing from inside the depths of the temple, there was a gloomy and evil atmosphere.

“The cult worshippers’ half-field,” Ning Zhou said seriously, striding toward the remnants of the Holy See inside this lake.

Qi Leren quickly followed up and looked around as he walked. Although it looked like the bottom of a lake, there was no water. There seemed to be an invisible barrier above them. The world outside the barrier was filled with a deep and remote blue light, which might have been the jellyfish in the lake.

There is no cult guard outside the temple. They were confident that no one would enter here, but it happened that Qi Leren and Ning Zhou had accidentally set foot in this boundary.

The sound of chanting from the temple was becoming more and more obscure, and the rhythm was getting faster and faster. A strange fanatical atmosphere infected the believers inside. They start shouting a word that they didn’t understand, repeating, repeating, repeating…

It was also this word that allowed Ning Zhou to identify the identity of this group of people—the fanatical worshippers of Utopia.

“Let’s go in and have a look?” Qi Leren mouthed. Although it sounds like the fanatics inside were still amid their ceremony, they hadn’t started to slaughter the sacrifices. If they started the massacre, many more people would die, and Qi Leren still wanted to save as many innocent people as he could.

Ning Zhou nodded, and they went in from behind the temple.

After entering the temple, the scene inside was very amazing. The dark crowd knelt down in front of a strange altar, bowing down and singing loudly, and a black mist hung over the altar.

The ragged sacrifices stood up and walked towards the altar. When they stepped into the black mist, the tentacles covered with lesions stretched out from inside it, and the quiet sacrifices were subsumed into the black. The sounds of tearing flesh were drowned out by the fanatical chanting, and the shrieks of the sacrifices were swallowed up by the thick fog, leaving only a deep pool of blood, like the dirty blood of this festering land…

The rest of the sacrifices turned a blind eye to this cruel scene. They were like a flock of blind lambs, being led to the precarious cliff under the guidance of the shepherds.

Amidst this scene, Qi Leren was cold and trembling. What was the strange creature in the mist? What Qi Leren thought of at first was the second part of the main task [Sacrifice of the Devil King]. Did these cult believers worship the Devil of Slaughter? Were they offering cult sacrifices for the Devil of Slaughter’s resurrection?

Qi Leren held the necklace given to him by the Prophet. This metal feather with a steampunk appearance brought him great psychological comfort. When he thought carefully, it sounded quite just to have an angel come to a site of cult sacrifice.

Qi Leren poked Ning Zhou with his elbow. Ning Zhou put his finger to his lips and pointed to a sacrifice who was heading for the altar.

The sacrifice had his head down, moving forward step by step, but his stature was very high and his steps were steady. As he walked through them, the worshippers were constantly bowing down, just like he was passing through ants fighting for their turf, and he was turning a blind eye to their survival.

This man, something was wrong with him.

Even Qi Leren noticed this. As the distance between him and the altar became closer and closer, the man no longer concealed his incompatibility. The worshippers who guarded the ceremony around the altar stood up and shouted at him.

The failed sacrifice smiled, and a shining silver tangdao appeared in his hand. With the single sword, he easily separated the two guards’ heads from their bodies! The broken and bleeding corpses were swept away by the monster in the black mist on the altar and were devoured greedily.

This sudden incident plunged the whole ceremony into chaos. The worshippers in the front row rushed up waving their weapons, while the worshippers in the back row didn’t know what had happened. They dodged around in panic and crashed into the group of sacrifices. The originally unconscious sacrifices suddenly woke up from their confused state, screaming and fleeing everywhere, and the whole scene became a chaotic whirlpool.

“Go!” Ning Zhou took out the Sword of Judgment and went up to protect the fleeing sacrifices.

Qi Leren hesitated, and didn’t activate “Prophet’s Heart”.

The chaotic situation didn’t affect the mysterious sacrifice’s rampage. He held the tangdao and didn’t entangle himself with the worshippers, because his attention was always focused on the unknown creatures in the black mist. He rushed to the altar amid the screams of the worshippers!

The monster hiding in the black mist on the altar sensed the breath of the living, and stretched out its ferocious tentacles from the black abyss. Tentacles full of lesions snaked on the ground, while the sacrifice ran wildly to avoid being entangled by them, easily cutting off the disgusting tentacles with his sword.

The attack angered the monster in the black mist. In the chaos, the strange, huge, and evil creature let out a roar as if it had come from the abyss. This horrible sound is neither like a human’s or an animal’s voice. It was more like a roar that brings together the evil forces in the world, leading to the dark desires in the human heart!

The worshippers’ eyes began to redden, and they tore at their hair and screamed like wolves. The fragile worshippers’ eyeballs popped, and their empty eye sockets sprayed continuously with blood. They cried and frantically attacked all living things around them, whether they were worshippers like themselves or innocent sacrifices. And their fallen bodies fell to the monster in the black mist, that gluttonously swallowed them up one by one.

The entire altar in the lake was like a bloody hell on earth. There, an indescribable force had gathered, as if it was the source of all forces in the world, and it could dominate everything!

In the void, an eye suddenly opened.

It was a scarlet eye, which looked down at what was happening in the altar with malice.

“Don’t look up!” Ning Zhou’s voice sounded in the distance.

But it was too late. In the group of fanatic worshippers, Qi Leren looked up and saw the scarlet eye. Suddenly, his mind went blank. He seemed to hear a woman’s light laughter. She said in a gentle and compassionate voice:

“Come on, let the glory of Utopia shelter your poor soul. You no longer have to suffer in this world. In my country, you will enjoy eternal life with me.”

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Editor’s Notes: Has anyone guessed who the man with the tangdao is yet? He’s a fun little easter egg ;)

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