Life itself has power.

On this altar that had just been built, Cardinal Salom of the Order of Salene was drawing the circle with the blood of innocents, surrounded by two dozen other priests, assisting Salom in doing the same.

The altar was built deep underground, beneath the residence of the Count of Guise. It took more than ten years and a lot of materials to complete the entire altar. Once successfully opened, the altar will temporarily seal the area within the small half of the city centered on the Earl's Mansion, and use itself as a coordinate to tear the space, open the gates of hell, and harvest the living souls in the area.

At that time, even if the Magic Association notices the anomaly here in an instant, it will not have time to break the spatial seal in this area, and can only play with their ridiculous spells angrily outside.

The magic circle is extremely huge and covers an extremely large area, and it is not easy to quietly excavate such a huge underground space, and the sect alone will definitely not be able to do it, but fortunately, these two contract partners of hers are quite strong, and they can give birth to this exciting scene in front of them.

And the blood used to draw the circle alone took quite a long time to collect. Six hundred and sixty-six innocent people were drained of their blood to meet the needs of this sacrificial circle. If a vampire were to see it, he would be scolding them for being wasteful.

Although everyone in the entire continent shouts and fights against the Salene sect that believes in the devil, the sect has never lacked powerful contract partners. The Order of Sallene knew human nature so well that as the baron's contractual partner said, 'Man itself is a complex contradictory product of desire and ambition,' which Salom really.

At the moment, these two contract partners are not the strongest in terms of overall strength, because there will always be people who still want more and thirst for more, even if they are in high positions. And what they desire is undoubtedly impossible to obtain by their own efforts, so they can only be 'traded'.

The devils are the ones who advocate "fair trade" the most, which is quite similar to the mages.

No, it should be said that it is better than mages, at least in terms of credibility. In Salom's opinion, the devils will at least keep the contract and try to complete it, no matter what form it takes, but it will be done in the end!

This alone is much stronger than those mages who rely on their strength.

In the early days of the Divine Wars, without the help of the devil, the mages would not have had the opportunity to rewrite the 'original agreement' that balanced the forces of the entire multiverse, because they didn't know how to do it.

Those mages are like a group of powerful but ignorant wildlings, ignorant or ignorant of most of the secrets hidden in the multiverse.

The entire history of humanity is too short, let alone those rising mages. So they don't know anything else but brute force.

The devils knew what to do, after all, the agreement was originally drafted by the Supreme Lord of Hell.

However, the things that were said well at the beginning changed in a blink of an eye, and those mages who admired order as much as the devil did that kind of chaotic thing, and there was no ambiguity at all.

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Although the altar is underground, the whole space is quite bright, because there are countless white bone chandeliers hanging above the magic circle, and the heavenly spirits with white bones are covered with miserable white candles, and the jaws that have lost muscle traction are wide open, as if telling their own misery and unwillingness.

After a long time, the circle was finally drawn, and the thirteen 'keys to hell' were placed in their corresponding positions. Some of them are a bone engraved with symbols, some are a long braid made of unknown hair, and some are just a humble book.

The next thing to do is the sacrifice, which is the most important part of the process. The life of the sacrifices is the key to opening the altar, and the way they do it is also important.

The massive altar is made of 'Bartobi Iron' (a special metal produced in the Nine Abysses Hell), defended by the white bones of countless innocents, and embedded with the Ice of the River Styx, the fifth layer of the Ice Realm of the Nine Abyss Hells.

A blue mist rises from the black surface of the Styx ice, making the entire altar even more mysterious.

Around the altar are five bronze pillars in the shape of an inverted five-pointed star, with many 'blasphemous words' and 'depraved runes' engraved on the pillars, and many strange-looking objects hanging - conjoined babies, two-headed lambs, blinking and smiling cats, etc......

The sacrifices were naked (harmonious) and were driven by the armed cultists. They huddled together in horror and looked at everything in front of them with despair on their faces.

Whimpering and crying rang out in the crowd, and the sacrifices either knelt down in prayer or cursed loudly, venting their fears in this oppressive space.

Salom loved the atmosphere, and she was fascinated by the unsettling dread. Once upon a time, she was extremely repulsed by her own strange habits, but now, she can enjoy it in a grand manner.

Gray-robed priests gathered in front of the crowd to select the first person to be sacrificed. The crowd lowered their heads, dodging her gaze in a panic, and even the most swearful people did not dare to look at her.

After a quiet glance, Salom took two steps forward. The crowd dodged to the sides like butter cut by a hot knife, only to be driven back with weapons by the congregation.

Salom reached forward and gently took a girl's arm and led her towards the altar.

The girl covered her lips with her other hand tremblingly, but the sound of crying still came from between her fingers. Her tears rained down, but she went up to the altar without a slight, and lay on the altar without a struggle, with two frightened and innocent eyes open like a lamb to the slaughter.

"What a beautiful girl, what a vigorous life. Shalom ran her fingers across the sacrifice's face and down the pair of buds, the belly of the platform, and the place where life was born.

The girl trembled, "I, I ......"

"Shhhh Salom smiled and said to the sacrifice, "Close your eyes, everything is just a dream." When you wake up, you'll find that everything is the same as usual. ”

The girl obediently closed her eyes tightly, as if she really wanted to forget what was happening in front of her.

Salom took out an obsidian dagger in the shape of a sheep's head from his cuff and aimed the sharp point at the heart of the sacrifice, slowly slicing it away with a gentle motion.

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