Chapter 379: Ten Hearts
Lynn is not unpreceding a noble lady who has never seen blood, and growing up in a city of molten iron, she has too many opportunities to deal with the dead or the dying. Among other things, the occasional nomadic invasion alone can cause a large number of casualties. This can be seen from the first time she meets the cursed crow, where the ordinary maid encounters a robber, where there will be thoughts of resistance and escape, fear will become the strongest nail, nailing the unprepared in the same place, turning into lambs to be slaughtered.
But even so, Lin couldn't ignore the situation in the room, the pieces of flesh, guts, bones, and God knows what were scattered on the floor, and the only connection between them was that they undoubtedly came from the human body. But now, they have been dismantled and turned into separate individuals, and the former maid can't even tell how many people have died in this room, and the flesh and blood are too scattered.
"Shhh They, or rather, they were draped in brown robes, with scaly feet exposed under the hem of the fabric, and the three-toed, sharply barbed soles of the feet were naturally reminiscent of lizards. And indeed it was, the vertical pupils under the brown robes flashed with a cruel light, and the long, slender, bifurcated tongues of their mouths emitted an oozing trill. Radnor, a snakehead who lives in the underground tunnels of the Molten Iron City. These creatures used to be found in the city's complex sewers, but now, they somehow escaped the eyes and ears of the Hammer Grand Duke and made a rather bloody move.
After seeing the snake's head under Radno's robe, Lyn's already snow-white face turned even paler, her legs went limp, and she sat down on the stairs, her eyes full of fear. What kind of monster was this? She didn't know, and she didn't want to know. Feeling the agony of death in this room, the Banshee rushes to fulfill her duty to comfort those who are dying, but now she discovers that death is not only happening to others, but may soon befall herself.
"Click, click" The snake man's paws stomped on the blood-soaked floor. Lynn moved her body backwards until she was against the wall, her eyes closed tightly, as if that would make the monsters disappear. Tears flowed from the corners of Lynn's eyes, but she couldn't tell if they were out of fear or just a biological instinct. "Click, click" The monster's footsteps drew closer, and Lynn felt herself feel the cold, fishy breath.
"Hmm!" the pain on her scalp drove Lin to resist, but she was too weak in front of the snakehead, and those punches and kicks on the scales didn't make the snakehead feel a trace of pain. Although she has many magical abilities, the physical fitness of the Banshee of Death will not be enhanced by this. The strongest of the three radnor tugged at the former maid by the hair and forced her into the room!" Radno, holding a strange cane in his hand, said, tapping the floor in front of him with his cane, where a ring was made out of stone, and in the ring were several human hearts that were no longer beating.
The strong smuggler heard his companion's words, nodded, and pulled Rin to the ring. A third radnor walked over, a dagger made of obsidian in his hand, and judging by the blood stains on it, the scene in the room was largely from this weapon. "Let go of me!" Lynn noticed the danger, and she kicked the dagger with her feet, but was deftly dodged by the other party, and her cries for help were covered by the darkness that shrouded her. The monster holding Lynn buckled the former maid's head with a black cloth bag. Lynn's struggles thinned and weakened as the air in the bag thinned out, and her violently waving limbs slowly stopped moving. "Don't, suffocate. Live, take the heart!" The smuggler with the rod reprimanded his companion, apparently not wanting the sacrifice he had sent to his door to be wasted.
Seeing that Lynn was about to be slashed open by a sharp stone dagger, the door to the room was pushed open again. The moaning of the doorshaft attracted the attention of the three snakeheads, who cast their eyes on the doorway, only to see another human female leaning against the doorframe, holding an iron flask in her hand and drinking from herself, a little red liquid flowing down the flask and between her lips, leaving a shocking red mark on her beautiful cheeks.
Radno looked at each other, and they smelled two scents from the woman, the smell of alcohol might explain why she was so calm, but the other was alarming, the smell of blood. "Poof!" Qili drank the rest of the liquid, then casually tossed the flask down the stairs. She looked at the room nonchalantly, wiping the smudge from the corners of her mouth with the back of her hand, her magical eyes half-open, and she looked like a cat that had found an interesting prey. "I was thinking about how to greet this sister, but I didn't expect you three lizards to intervene. Well, that's not bad. ”
As she spoke, the witch walked barefoot into the blood-soaked room, pulling her hair lightly, as if she was worried about getting bloody. "Ah, this sacrificial circle is doing a good job, and it deserves to be the chosen believer. She smiled, stooping down to look at the stone ring on the ground, as if admiring some beautiful jewel. Contrary to Kiri's reaction, Radnor's bodies trembled visibly when they heard the words "Chosen Believers", and they understood that no matter who the woman in front of them was, she knew something she shouldn't know. The cane-wielding snakehead secretly cast a color on the two companions, and the other two monsters put Lynn aside for the time being, and instead headed towards Kiri from both directions.
"Five, six, seven... Alas, I remember that this ritual requires ten hearts that have been dug out alive to start, and you don't work hard enough. The witch counted the hearts in the ring with her fingers, and didn't seem to feel nervous at all.
"Kill, kill!" But the snake-headed people didn't care whether Kiri was scared or not, and with a command, the two Radno, who were in charge of the battle, launched an attack on the target, the stronger one swung at the witch's face with its claws, and the dagger wielded a weapon to stab Kiri in the leg.
"Eight, nine, one more!" said the girl with bright eyes, and there were two more beating hearts on her hands! Puff Ton's heartless bodies collapsed limply on the floor, and they didn't even understand what had happened until they died.
However, this did not prevent Radno, who was the only one left in the room, from understanding the situation in front of him. This woman is not the other woman, she is not the prey sent to the door, on the contrary, she is the hunter who follows the trail of blood. "Don't, hiss, don't kill me!" the panicked snakehead dropped his cane, took two steps back and tried to distance himself from Qili and then fell to his knees all at once, it was scared, why did its companion die, it didn't know, it didn't want to know, it just wanted to live, and that's it.
Kiri tossed the hearts of the two snakeheads into the ring, looking up and smiling at the monster begging for mercy. "But it takes ten hearts to sacrifice, and here there is one missing. She said with a distressed expression. Radno didn't care about anything else at this time, and it didn't know why this woman wanted to complete the sacrifice, but it sounded like the other party would be satisfied if she got the last heart, so there was one person in the room besides them...
The smuggler turned his head towards Lynn, and the poor banshee was still fainting from lack of oxygen, but judging by the slight heaval of her chest, she was at least alive. Without thinking too much, the monster jumped up and rushed towards Rin, who fell to the ground, as long as she gouged out her heart, she could live, and although there were some accidents, the sacrifice was completed after all, and then another strange woman would not be a problem, in front of the great earth mother, she was just a mortal!
"Poof!" the obsidian dagger pierced through the scales, sideways across the brain. So, the last Radno also died. The witch crouched down with a look of excitement on her face, but just as she was about to dig out the last heart, she suddenly realized that it didn't meet the requirements of sacrifice, because the monster was dead before she could dig out the heart. Kiri noticed her mistake and angrily kicked the corpse in the abdomen to vent her frustration.
"Ten hearts, one missing..."The witch thought in pieces, suddenly remembering Lynn who was still covered by a cloth bag and fell to the ground, "Aha!" she laughed happily, bent down and pulled out the dagger from the corpse's head, and walked step by step towards the unconscious banshee......