Chapter 20: The Ceremony Begins

Under the watchful eye of a large group of ghouls, the captured girls shrank as much as they could, lowered their heads, and followed the vampire in front of them, trembling and moving their steps step by step towards the depths of the unknown castle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

They didn't want to keep going, but they didn't dare to stop.

Because they knew that if they were far away from the group, or too far behind the demon in front of them, the ghouls around them would rush up and tear them to pieces mercilessly.

These were the words that the demon had said to them personally, and, not long ago, they had verified its authenticity with their own eyes.

It was a girl who had accidentally tripped over the steps, and she had broken her elbow at the end of the line, and in the excited and bloodthirsty roar of the ghouls who smelled blood, poor her legs were so frightened that she could no longer stand up, and then completely disappeared from everyone's sight.

The girls who walked in front of her tried to pick her up, but were too frightened by the ghul's howls to come closer, and finally watched as she was overwhelmed by the ghouls.

After this, no one dared to question what the demon had said.

As soon as you stop, you will be dead, and this is a bloody fact!

She was the only one who had the guts to ignore the ghouls around her, and she was walking in the middle of the line, too far away, and didn't always pay attention to the back of the line. So, when it happened, she didn't know what was happening, and when she looked back, the girl had already been eaten by the ghouls.

And who can guarantee that when the sacrificial rite begins, she will die more easily than the maiden?

At the very least, the girl didn't have to worry about her soul being sacrificed to any Blood Ancestor......

Walking among these girls, she sighed helplessly in her heart, not only for the tragic experience of the innocent girl, but also for the girls around her who were about to die, and likewise, herself.

Without attracting attention, she could only silently follow the flow of people forward, while silently observing and remembering the terrain along the way, and analyzing her escape route.

Although she knew in her heart that it was very slim, and it was probably just useless work, it was the only thing she could do now.

"Hey, Alexie, are you there?"

She asked silently in her heart, which was the last struggle: "If you have any suggestions, it's better to say them now, we don't have much time......"

Sure enough, the other end of the psychic connection was just silent, without the slightest response.

Hey, if a little girl who frankly said that she wanted to obey the arrangement of the god of fate could come up with any way, she would be surprised!

Shaking her head, she glanced up at the back of the vampire in front of her, feeling even more hopeless.

Yes, this is crushing under absolute power, no matter what conspiracy and trickery, it will seem so powerless in front of it.

Perhaps, from the moment he was caught by it, he was already doomed, right?

If the vampire prince knew about her struggle and unwillingness, he would probably just laugh at it, right?

Although I had this premonition for a long time, I still felt very unhappy watching death and despair approaching step by step!

Tut...... Still too weak, myself!

Even if it is the original self in that world, in the face of this kind of thing, it is still too weak!

In the original world, I relied on perseverance and sweat to reach the top of the world step by step. Could it be that she is so vulnerable in this other world?

Heaven has given her a chance to miraculously come to this mysterious world, but before she can get acquainted with all this, is it time to say goodbye to her?

This kind of ending...... She is unwilling!

The blue eyes narrowed into a slit, and she clenched her teeth and clenched her fists, even if the force was so great that it involved the wound on her arm, and blood oozed again.

It represents a failed death ending, and it deeply pierces the proud heart of this top killer.

If before she just looked at this other world with an outsider mentality and didn't care much about everything that happened, then now, after seeing the mysterious power of this other world last night, the heart that has been eager to fight but because its own strength is at the peak, it can't find a suitable opponent at all, and finally woke up from its slumber, almost dried up, almost greedily absorbing the nutrients brought to it by this other world!

She is unwilling to welcome the ending at such a time.

I haven't stood at the pinnacle of this world to enjoy that scene, how can I die so aggrieved?

Her expression gradually became a little scary, and the unwillingness in her heart seemed to make her almost crazy, and the dangerous aura exuded from her body made the girls who were originally walking next to her startled, and they involuntarily left away, and even the ghouls around her were a little afraid to approach, and let out a strange low roar.

Just as the riot she had caused was about to attract the attention of the vampire prince in front of her, the eyes of the god of fortune seemed to finally notice her, and with a slight wave of his arm, the changes she had caused were erased at once, and the wind was light and cloudy, and there was no trace of it.

Because, the vampire who walked at the front of the line, led the girls to a wide circular hall.

Its attention did not fall on her at the back of the line after all.

And she, too, realized her abnormality because of the sudden opening in front of her, and soon, she restrained her thoughts, stopped showing it, and after taking a deep breath, she began to look at everything in this hall.

After looking around the hall for a week, as she expected, this place was still a closed place, except for the passage where she came, there was no window or any other exit, and there was no chance of escape at all.

However, after the journey she had just experienced, she did not show any disappointment, nor sighed, nor sighed, lamented and complained about her luck, but walked calmly, following the order of the vampire prince, and with the maidens, she finally stood in a corner of the hall.

As she had guessed last night, the number of girls who had been summoned to this hall by the vampire at this time was in the hundreds. However, this is good news.

Because, this number is the same as the number of shadows she saw when she was attacked by vampires in the city, at least, it shows that no more people have been taken captive by this monster.

In the center of this rotunda is an altar about a meter high, which is also circular and seems to have been built of a dark brown stone.

Standing not too far from it, she could clearly see everything on the altar.

On top of it, there was a strange magic array in a huge texture, and from the moment her eyes fell on it, there was a strange dizziness that made her feel as if her soul was about to float out of her body, which made her heart sink, and she couldn't help but quickly look away.

In the center of the altar, there was also a square pillar, which was also full of dense strange patterns, which seemed to be connected with the magic carving array below, and finally converged to the top of it, where it was a bowl-shaped depression, and there was nothing inside, and because of the angle, she could not see it very clearly, but she did not know what it was for.

As she surveyed everything on the altar, a sound of wind caught her attention, and she turned her head to see the vampire prince flapping its wings and flying over the altar, landing beside the square pillar. Then, it lowered its gaze to where the girls were standing.

"You, come up!"

It stared at a young girl standing closest to it, a cold light in her eyes that shone with an unmistakable sense of command.

Her legs trembled with fear, and the girl did not dare to disobey the demon's will, and came to it tremblingly. Before she could speak, she was grabbed by the other man, and the index finger of her right hand popped out a razor-sharp nail and slashed at her neck, causing a little blood to splatter.

Then, letting go of the girl, and not letting go of the fact that she was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground, it reached out to her lips and licked it with her tongue, as if tasting something, before finally nodding her head, and placing her index finger in the hollow at the top of the square pillar, and gently knocking the few remaining drops of blood off it.

"Next!"

The vampire turned his gaze back to where the girls were standing, and commanded in a cold voice.

At the same time, with a slight wave of the bat's wings behind it, the girl who was called up was easily fanned away by it and landed on the edge of the altar, but it happened not to fall and leave the range of the altar, which frightened the girl into an exclamation, and she didn't dare to move easily.

In this way, with its repeated commands, one maiden after another was called up, and it cut the skin on the neck, and took a small part of the blood, which, after careful tasting, was collected to the sunken top of the square stone pillar in the center of the altar.

Everything is going smoothly, and it seems that there is no danger to them?

This result, which was completely different from what the girls had feared before, was really a bit unexpected by all of them.

However, just when they felt a little relieved and thought they would survive, things finally took a different turn---

"Hmph, unholy blood!"

The vampire prince narrowed his eyes after reaching out to his lips and licking the blood of a young girl, and he behaved in a completely different way from before. It snorted, spat out the blood with a disgusted expression, wiped its lips, and then looked at the girl with a look of utter disgust, and the bat's wings on its back slammed away, sending her out of the altar and into the middle of the ghouls.

At the girl's screams, the ghouls swarmed up, her body being torn to pieces, and soon she was silent......