Chapter 8: The Lord of the Demons
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It was the last round of the bonfire dance, and after two consecutive jumps, they had jumped from one end of the six-pointed star to the other. Next, as long as they go around the bonfire one more time, a few people can smoothly jump out of the circle and get out of this strange sacrifice.
Several people danced to the shadows, and the light blue bonfire had no temperature, and it was not until she was close to the exit that Charlotte noticed that it was not firewood burning but human bones. The well-informed Charlotte was naturally not frightened by this strange scene, he clapped his hands and jumped with those black shadows, seeing that Moore, who was at the top of the middle row in this round, was about to approach the cutting line of the outer circle, and suddenly, the black shadow in front of him turned his head towards Moore.
"Where are you going?" asked the Shadow suddenly.
As he asked, the campfire dance suddenly stopped, and this time not only the dances within the confines of this campfire, but all of them, including the other five campfires, stopped dancing. Only the dark shadow girl in the center is still dangling on the swing, singing a heart-palpitating ballad.
Moore responded with silence.
At this time, all the dark shadows, including Charlotte, looked at the few people who were forced to be involved.
"So do you. The dark shadow in front of Jessica said in a voice that didn't frustrate.
"You broke the rules and jumped several campfires. This time it was the dark shadow next to Kitty who pointed out.
Although the dark shadow beside Malfurion did not speak, it also waited for him with strange eyes.
Finally, the dark shadow beside Charlotte asserted in a categorical tone, "You are ghosts who have mixed in with the sacrifice. ”
Charlotte knew that the matter had been revealed, and he didn't make any excuses, and his face was not flustered, but asked with a bright smile, "You know that you won't run yet?"
As soon as the words fell, he drew his sword, and the sword light followed the trajectory and directly cut the black shadow in half from the upper left.
This caused the entire sacrifice to riot, and at this time, the appearance of the black shadows changed dramatically, they were no longer just a shadow, but showed their original abomination.
It's full of ghosts and demons, and there is no such thing as a normal person. Some of them have deformed bodies with abominable sarcomas, some are like monsters crawling on their feet, and some are twisted like twisted flowers. Even if there are occasionally one or two existences that are indistinguishable from ordinary people from their body shapes, their demeanor and movements are like wax figures, sluggish and empty.
Half of the body of the guy who was split in half by Charlotte was described as withered and like a shriveled zombie, but half of his body was as delicate as a flower, like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. The image resembles Yog, the god of death, whose body has been split in half and is not dead, but still wriggling on the ground, disgusting like a reptile.
Charlotte had dealt with these monsters assimilated by nightmares countless times in the past few years, and knew that they did not have a common sense of death at all. Fatal injuries in the normal sense only render them incapacitated, and after a while they return to "normal".
With Charlotte's thunderous means, the swing in the center finally stopped shaking, the strange ballad stopped, and the figure of the black figure singing the ballad gradually became clear.
She seemed to be the only normal being in this demon sacrifice, the girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, and although her face was expressionless, her face was delicate and lovely, like a doll. She had long blond hair, which was tied up in a ponytail and raised high, and because of her indifferent expression, she had a majesty that she did not have at this age.
Malfurion and the others weren't doing much yet, but Charlotte gasped when she saw the girl's appearance.
That's clearly the Sylvia of childhood!
"Sister!?" Charlotte blurted out.
As soon as he finished speaking, Malfurion and the others showed alarmed expressions. One of them asked, "She's Sylvia's consciousness?"
But the girl who looked like Sylvia didn't react, and only after a few seconds did she look at Charlotte when she realized that Charlotte was calling her.
There was no confusion in her eyes, and there was no strangeness in her eyes. Just like Sylvia when we first met, it seems to be just a vivid puppet, and there is no emotion at all. But Charlotte intuitively decided that she wasn't Sylvia.
"It's not. Charlotte shook her head.
This is also normal, Sylvia's consciousness should not wander in the empty court.
"Monsters?" asked the Sylvia-like girl, her voice crisp and pleasant, but lacking in popularity like a music box.
Kitty only felt ridiculous, they were the only normal people in this mutated empty court, but they were recognized as monsters by the demons. Since she knew that there was no way out, she no longer suppressed her nature, and scolded directly, "Although you look delicate and cute, you are a complete monster in our eyes!"
"Ridiculous. Although the girl retorted, her face was still expressionless, "You have broken into my sacrifice, are you not a monster?" ”
The girl was obviously the leader of the demons in the empty court, and as her words fell, the demons all showed their greed and ugliness, and swarmed like zombies. But Charlotte and the others are not easy people, everyone present is a legend, except for Charlotte and Jessica, the rest of them have achieved legends for a long time, and they can be called the top in their respective fields.
The five of them cooperated with each other, with Charlotte and Jessica dealing with nearby enemies, and the other three casting spells to deal with them.
It's just that no matter how badly injured, the stump still twists and wriggles on the ground, groping for the broken limbs that have been destroyed, which looks disgusting and weird.
In just a short period of time, five people have withdrawn from the circle. Malfurion shouted "go", and the rest of the group changed their energy from a seven-point defense to a three-point defense, and accelerated their speed to break through outside the black forest clearing.
But at this time, the girl who is the head of the demons hummed a ballad again, and this time the ballad was different from the previous one, if the previous one was cold and weird, then this one was cruel and murderous everywhere in the innocence.
The crowd that ran to the edge of the clearing suddenly realized that something was wrong, and the black forest in front of them changed strangely as if awakened by the sound of song. The once lifeless forest turned into a living thing, and the branches became thick and huge vines, and the rhizomes in the mud broke through the soil one after another, attacking several people like living creatures.
"What's next?" asked Jessica, a bee stinger, who had met a sacrifice in all these years, but had never seen the true face of the Lord of the Demons.
But the answer she received made her heart cold for a while, and Malfurion, the oldest of the seniors, replied while casting a spell to resist, "I don't know, we haven't encountered this kind of situation." Generally speaking, as long as we follow the rules of the sacrifice, even if we wake up the demons, we will not wake up the owner of the song. ”
Jessica subconsciously looked at Charlotte, because this change had first appeared since Charlotte entered, and with his relationship with Sylvia, she bet that glimmer of hope on Charlotte.
She asked, "Do we still have to move forward?"
Charlotte looked at the overwhelming forest branches and roots in front of her, and did not answer immediately.
Obviously, whether it is the activated forest in front or the demons chasing behind, they are all nightmare monsters in this empty court, and if they act rashly, they are likely to be devoured by the nightmare and become a member of the demons.
There is only one way to crack it, he made up his mind and said to a few people, "Help me buy time, I'll crack this nightmare!"