On the pillar, the girl in white dress and white dress was shivering in the cold wind, but compared to the cold of her body, the fear in her heart was really approaching the limit.

"Crazy...... It's all crazy. ”

She bit her lower lip tightly, her legs and feet softened with the fear that was spreading in her heart.

In her sight, the old prophetess kept chanting words from her mouth, and the faces of the many Norse warriors who followed closely behind the prophetess were also full of excitement.

Torbjorn, the most old-fashioned old man in her eyes, the bearded old man she remembered as taking care of her, one of the clan leaders, was now blind in one eye and with a broken leg, and had to stand in the crowd on crutches.

The calmness and composure that once flashed in his eyes were gone at this moment, but he was looking at the girl in front of him with fanatical enthusiasm, as if he was looking forward to the next sacrificial scene.

Paul, the young man who had just replaced the deceased former clan leader and became the new leader, was covered in scars and couldn't tell that just a few months ago, he was a rib man who was often bullied by his fellow clansmen.

And he, at this moment, also looked at the girl coldly, without a trace of pity on his face......

From left to right, from right to left, no one in front of the girl had the slightest sympathy or compassion for her, but seemed to be eager to wait for the sacrifice to begin.

There is no doubt that the girl who is dissatisfied with her own people and ends up being sacrificed obviously has reason to be afraid, but this is far from the reason why the girl is terrified.

"Why...... Why can't you all see it?"

The girl's glass-like pupils stared at the expressionless crowd in front of her, her lips trembling with excessive fear.

In her sight......

Above the heads of those who were looking at her indifferently, there was a slender gray cloud-like thing, which continued to fly upwards and spread, and finally, thousands of mist gathered together, forming a huge mist that covered the entire wilderness, seemingly nothing.

This huge and unpredictable fog is entrenched in the sky, as if something is brewing inside, and just looking at the huge fog, the girl will feel a deep sense of despair and fear deep in the bone marrow, like a toad targeted by a snake, the deep fear of being watched by the cold gaze of the natural enemy, makes the girl feel extremely trembling.

However, unlike the deep fear in her heart, everyone seemed to see nothing, and turned a blind eye to this strange scene.

No, it should be said......

They really just can't be seen.

Shortly after the sacrifice began a few months ago, the maiden had noticed that something was wrong, and from then on, she had realized that the fog was not a good thing.

And all this...... It seemed that she was the only one who could see it.

She was scared and wanted to tell her kindred, but ...... She's a mute girl.

The inability to speak makes it difficult for her to explain what she sees to her own people, and life is fine, but in the face of such a scene that is too complicated for her to explain, even if she desperately tries to dance, it is difficult to describe what it is to her people.

And with the progress of the sacrifice, under the frightened eyes of the maiden......

Everyone seems to be starting to change.

Gentle people become irritable, good people become evil, tolerant people become rude, friendly people become aggressive......

In the eyes of the girl, the whole world seems to be crazy, and everyone is changing imperceptibly, whether it is personality or other, it is constantly changing, but it is as if everyone except her is unaware of it, and all these changes are taken for granted.

And the only one who has insight into all this, she can only watch in endless fear, watching her familiar and warm hometown become a strange place like a demon cave.

She didn't dare to confide in her kindred, for she was beginning to fear the people who were becoming mad and twisted.

She was so timid that when she realized that she was powerless to change all this, she could only hide in her bed and shiver in vain, not daring to say anything more about what she had seen.

She was inconspicuous among her clan, and no one cared about her, so she saw a lot of things because of it.

Clan leaders say that people are dying on a large scale because of the heavy snow brought by the darkness, disease, and the invasion of wild beasts.

But......

Passing by a room by chance, she glimpsed through the crack in the door with clear fear that the clan leaders were gathered together, around the corpse of a fellow clan that they claimed was "dragged into darkness by wild beasts", slicing open his belly, like a pack of wolves feasting, the greedy posture of gobbling up, the fighting scenes when fighting each other for intestines and lungs, the hideous eyes with blood at the corners of the mouth when biting the corpse, the bloody picture of corpse fragments everywhere and blood flowing......

So that the girl could not connect with those once generous clan leaders at all.

Beneath the seemingly normal exterior, the blood stains that suddenly appear in the middle of nook corners and are quickly erased, the things that occasionally appear like human fingernails in the middle of meals, the people who are getting more and more irritable and can often fight over trivial things......

Everything is making the girl feel more and more unfamiliar with the place where she was born.

The methods of sacrifice became more and more bloody and cruel, and with the sacrifice, every day, the fog continued to expand and grow.

At first, it was nothing more than wisps of smoke, but as the smoke grew larger, eventually all the smoke gradually came together, forming a huge mist that floated overhead, covering all the sky as far as the girl's head could see.

And in the end, even though she was trembling, she was still pulled out by her fellow clansmen as a living sacrifice for the sacrifice.

......

Looking at the prophetess muttering a prayer in front of her, the girl's body trembled involuntarily.

Not because of the cold wind of the night, but because of the extreme fear that filled my heart, the fear like falling into an ice cave.

She couldn't understand why, but she knew it wasn't normal.

"Who's going to save me......"

She wanted to ask for help, but as a mute girl, she couldn't say anything, she could only open her mouth silently.

She wanted to struggle, but with her strength, she was powerless to break free from the rope, and could only wait in fear for the end of the sacrificial ceremony.

And even the longest prayer had a time to finish, and when the prophetess had finished speaking, she raised her head and looked overhead as if she was expecting something.

In the night sky, a cold wind blew through it, and then there was no movement, as if the sacrifice had failed.

However, looking at the cold wind, the prophetess murmured as if in a dream.

"It's coming......"

With the words of the prophetess, the cold wind suddenly became fierce.

"Hoo !!"

The howling cold wind continued to blow in the wilderness, more and more intense, blowing up countless dust and debris on the ground, and in the darkness nearby, there were also the panicked wails and whimpering sounds of animals fleeing.

"It's coming!"

The prophetess shouted excitedly again, her voice trembling with some inexplicable excitement.

When the girl heard this, she subconsciously turned her head to look, and suddenly a lightning bolt pierced the night sky......

"Boom !!"

The deafening thunder roared in the sky, just like an angry dragon swimming in the sky,

In an instant, there was a day between heaven and earth, illuminating everything in front of the girl, and looking at the standing "figure" in front of her, the girl suddenly felt a creep, her pupils contracted suddenly, and the fear in her heart instantly climbed to the extreme.

Her body involuntarily clung to the cold wooden pillar behind her, clenching her teeth, as if the cold wooden pillar gave her a little more security than this crazy world.

I saw it in front of her...... A humanoid monster was watching her with its cold snake eyes.

At some point, her eyes had become like snake pupils, her face was covered with fine snake scales, and even her tongue had become like a narrow and forked snake letter, but she was still looking at her as if she was unaware of the prophetess, and the expression on her face seemed to be caught in an inexplicable excitement and fanaticism.