58 Transcending the Mortal World? (1/2)

The nauseating smell invaded the trio's senses, but they did not halt their steps.

The reason for the smell became apparent when they arrived on the horrifying scene.

In front of the trio laid a ground with no trees whatsoever so they could see everything without any obstruction.

Hundreds of children laid their lifeless on the ground! Each one of them had their throats slit open, blood dripping down to form a large puddle of blood!

They could not understand the purpose of slaughtering all those children. But the reason became apparent when they moved their eyes towards the horrendous sight in front of them.

The ground had various rows of runes created on it. All of the runes glowed with purple light while it absorbed the blood of those children!

The runes were placed in such a manner that they created a star on the outer ring, and rows of runes stretched from each corner to join together in the middle.

The middle part again had a circle of those carved runes as it glowed in a black hue whenever the star-shaped runes provided it with the energy.

It did not take a genius to understand that this was a ritual site! The rituals were common knowledge among the Mages.

The idea was for the Mages to receive something they wanted by sacrificing something of equal value.

The scene in front of Ozul showed that while this was indeed a ritual, but it was a kind that was considered immoral. Evil Mages often did such rituals.

The difference in these rituals was that while other Mages used a non-living thing or an animal as a sacrifice, Evil Mages sacrificed alive humans!

Those living humans also had specific conditions such as they could be virgins, women, or orphan children!

The reason for such rituals could be anything from obtaining some insight to gaining instant power.

But even in those rituals, only one sacrifice was enough to perform the ceremony if the Mage was proficient enough.

Sacrificing hundreds of children for only a single ritual was unheard of!

What type of ritual would need such a sacrifice? This answer could only be obtained from the man standing in front of them and the abomination slowly forming in the middle.

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-Sometime Earlier.-

-Unknown POV.-

Everything was in the right place. All that time and the nobles couldn't do anything to find our location.

Even now, my subordinates reported the explosion of Count's estate. This just proved how predictable those arrogant pieces of shit those nobles could be.

My plan until now has been perfect! Only a little more time and I will transcend to a higher plane! Hahaha...!!!

The only risk in the plan was to kidnap these children, but even that went without a hitch!

Even a kid would know that those Beast attacks were just mere distractions, but those fools could care any less about these children when they found such an 'interesting' wonder.

Those hungry nobles just wanted to be able to control the Beasts such as I did, but Lord Zeph knows how much I had to pay to be able to control the Beasts... sigh.

I look towards the terrifying Beast... No, it can't even be considered as a Beast! It seemed as though it was a different entity!

After all this, my efforts are finally showing some fruit! This 'thing' required the sacrifice of about four hundred children!