Chapter Twenty-Three: Sacrifices?
This is not her kind!
Her kind is definitely not such a monster!
The girl's heart was already cold, but there was no doubt that the clothes worn by the monster were clearly those worn by the prophetess.
And under her gaze, the "monster" showed a hideous and strange expression, and laughed wildly at her, laughing wildly, and at the same time opening his arms excitedly and shouting wildly.
"Here we are...... Here it comes...... It's coming!!ha!!!!!haha
"Boom Boom Rumble !!!!"
Accompanied by the strange sound of the "monster", the roar of thunder and lightning suddenly sounded in the dark night sky, and under the light of lightning and lightning, the slender figure of the monster was distorted and changed, together with the excited laughter, revealing an inexplicable sense of weirdness, which made people shudder.
The thunder swam restlessly through the dark clouds, making a roaring sound.
In the girl's frightened gaze, in an instant, the heavy rain poured down, and the raindrops the size of soybeans fell heavily on the girl's body, and the girl with a thin body bit her lower lip, even if she bit out the blood, she didn't know it.
The body is cold.
But the heart is even colder, as cold as ice.
Under the lightning that flashed from time to time, those "people" were clearly no longer human.
The dark and shiny scales, the erect snake pupils, and the distorted face...... Except for a few places where its original human identity can be discerned, in other aspects, it is a group of half-human, half-snake monsters.
"O my master, I offer you a sacrifice! Accept the sacrifice of your humblest and most faithful servant!!
The prophetess, no, the "monster", looked excitedly at the thunder and lightning sky above her head, and fell to her knees in the pouring rain without hesitation, her arms wide open, and she shouted at the sky in a frenzy, her face full of eagerness.
"Boom !!!"
The loud thunder in the sky rang out again, the long thunder like something in the clouds answering the call of a monster.
The heavy rain became more and more intense, and in the pouring rain, the firewood that was intended for fire sacrifice had already been washed away by the fierce current, and the water rose very fast, as if the whole sky had leaked a big hole, and countless streams of water were falling on the sky.
And that's exactly what happened.
The mist rising from the dim sky gradually formed a huge dark red vortex, and the dark red vortex continued to expand in the night sky, bigger than the moon, bigger than all the stars, as if the sky had broken a big hole, and indescribable light emanated from the dim and strange dark red vortex, full of distorted feelings.
And looking up at everything in front of her, the girl's face was pale, and her heart was beating non-stop, not because of fear, but because a large amount of cold rain was rapidly depriving her of body surface temperature, and the fierce torrential rain washed the flower crown on her head to nowhere to go, and the scattered red hair was weakly draped over her shoulders.
The feeling of fear was slowly fading as she was gradually losing consciousness, and even the feeling of fear was no longer formed.
The girl's lips turned white, her brain began to become groggy, everything in front of her was gradually blurring, turning into some distorted strange figures and vague flashes, and the wild laughter, thunder, and rain in her ears gradually faded away and became quiet.
"I ...... Are you going to die?"
Suddenly, a topic suddenly came to the girl's mind.
And then, something seemed to sound in her ears.
Deep, dim, deep, like ......
Sounds from the depths of the sea.
“......”
When the murmuring voice sounded, the girl suddenly felt that she had an extremely strong sense of detachment, as if her soul was being summoned and gradually freed from the constraints of her body.
"Ah~"
She tried to make a sound, but found that she couldn't say anything, and her voice was stuck in her throat.
The eyeballs fluttered wildly uncontrollably, all the sounds in the ears were constantly moving away, and the picture in the field of vision gradually changed from various blurry light and shadow to a pure white......
And in that pure white light, it seemed to be filled with a peaceful atmosphere, which made her involuntarily try to plunge into it.
"What a beautiful ......"
Stunned, a thought couldn't help but appear in her heart, and then, she only felt that her consciousness was getting more and more blurred, and she couldn't feel anything at first, and was gradually pulled into the pure white light......
"Roar !!!!!!!!!!!!"
A roar that shook the heavens and the earth suddenly came, and the girl's consciousness couldn't help but shake and regain consciousness.
And in her clear vision again, she saw a shocking scene that she will never forget in her life......
In the dim night sky, the dark red vortex that almost filled the entire field of vision was twisted in the sky, as far as the eye could see, the dark red vortex extended outward, extending to the horizon without reaching the end at all, countless clouds revolving around the whirlpool, riotous thunder, strange light, constantly coming and going in the whirlpool, even the moon and stars had to succumb to this huge front, becoming as small as dust.
The sky is like the sky, covering the four fields, but at this moment, it is this dark red vortex like the sky, covering everything as far as the eye can see.
And in the very center of the whirlpool......
It's something unimaginably large and indescribable.
The erected snake pupils in the sky, as if looking down on everything in this world, the incredibly large body, entrenched in most of the entire dark red vortex, so that the girl can't even see its full picture, this incredibly huge existence, inadvertently a breath, will form a huge tornado storm on the earth, showing its greatness to the whole world, every move, can seem to be able to easily destroy this small world......
And at this moment, the indifferent pupils that overlooked everything seemed to look down on her.
Looking at the scene in front of her blankly, the brain has completely lost the ability to think, and only a deep tremor and fear envelop the girl's heart.
There is no way not to be afraid, and this fear comes from the instinct of life, a deep fear of the huge life.
But at the same time......
And that kind of frenzy that gradually spreads from the deepest part of the heart, almost instinctually, and irresistibly tries to worship.
Yes, it's worship, it's fanaticism.
When the maiden saw this scene, she suddenly realized why the prophetess had become so mad, for anyone who had witnessed the greatness and grandeur of this being could hardly suppress his instinctive tremors and mad worship of the powerful.
It's like worshipping the sky, the sun and the moon, and the stars.
This kind of worship does not need any reason, just because in the face of these unimaginable things, human beings completely feel how small and humble they really are, and thus feel a strong fear, and the fear finally gives birth to an inextricable obsession and worship.
Worship them, try to worship this thing that seems to be eternal between heaven and earth, try to get close to this incomparably great, incomparably vast thing, and finally kneel in front of this great being, madly believe in them, and give everything you have.
So, when the prophetess felt the greatness of this presence in the dark, she could not suppress her instincts, nor could she resist the trembling and fear of trying to worship it madly.
And at this moment......
The maiden also felt everything that the prophetess had ever felt.
The kind of realization that in the face of this kind of existence, I suddenly realize how small, how lowly, and how fragile I really are.
"I ...... Give you all I have. ”
In the blank eyes, an inexplicable emotion gradually filled the girl's bright pupils, and the blankness gradually faded, replaced by the eager, excited, and excited fanaticism.
This mute girl, who had never spoken a word, said the first words of her life incredibly.
Looking up at this indescribably huge life in front of her, her eyes were full of obsession and fanaticism.
"Boom ......"
In the clouds, thunder and lightning chanted loudly, singing the praises of the grandeur and immeasurability of the great existence.
Looking indifferently at the small human in front of him, who had fallen into excitement and fanaticism, the serpent slowly opened its abyssal jaw.
"Roar !!!!"
In the pouring rain, in the lightning and thunder, in the deafening roar......
In front of the abyssal maw that is enough to devour all things, the girl who is tied to the wooden pillar, her red hair dances wildly in the wind, her white dress flutters in the wind, and there is no trace of fear in her bright and beautiful pupils, but only the eagerness, fanaticism and anticipation when she sacrifices herself to the gods......
......
"Wake up, wake up, wake up ......"
"It's so pitiful, she's the only one left......"
“......”
In my ears, there were faint fragmentary voices, and there seemed to be some sympathy in the voice.
"Hmmm......"
In the dazed mind, the girl seemed to hear something in her ears, and someone else was holding her back and feeding her water.
She struggled to open her eyes, but she saw herself lying on a straw pile, and looked around, but in a dilapidated wooden hut with a fire lit in the middle of the cabin, around which a group of armored soldiers sat watching her, and from time to time exchanging words and whispering something to each other.
"Uh......"
She tried to stand up, but found that her hands and feet were weak, and the people behind her were busy supporting her.
"You just woke up, don't move. ”
The voice is soft, and she is clearly a woman.
She turned her head to look, only to see an older woman with a rather heroic eyebrow, wearing leather armor.
"You ......"
As soon as she spoke, the girl was surprised by herself, when she was able to speak.
The older woman on the other side didn't understand the surprise in the girl's heart, so she said to her.
"We are soldiers of the kingdom, and the other day the sky here changed dramatically, thunder and lightning were combined, and King Anthony ordered us to come and check on the situation, but when we arrived...... There are ruins everywhere, and we only have time to find you dying next to an altar. ”
As she spoke, there was a little more guilt and self-blame on her face.
"We haven't been able to find any survivors other than you. ”
Listening to the news in a daze, the girl's face was in a trance, and then, she bit her lip, but her face involuntarily began to cry silently.
The female soldier looked at the weak girl in front of her, and felt pity, and gently took her into her arms, kissing her hair while whispering comfort, but only the girl herself knew what she was crying for.
She was abandoned by the god she worshipped.