20 Old Rituals

In Baifan Town, the door of a bungalow is locked, and the curtains are tightly drawn.

The light of the fire in the room was faint, and the seven candles on the wooden floor gave a ghostly glow. They are arranged in the form of a seven-pointed star, connected by a black blood line in the middle, and in the center is placed some unknown red powder, forming a magic circle.

A tall, lanky man with blond hair and a shawl crouched beside the circle, his sweaty face reflected by the candlelight. He held two tattered yellowed sheets of paper in his hands, and his breathing was slightly rapid.

"Why not...... Why not......" the man whispered. He looked at the pattern drawn on the paper and carefully checked it many times to make sure that there was no mistake in the placement, but he didn't know what was wrong.

This seven-pointed star circle, he even accurately measured the length and angle of each side, and then copied it according to the recorded proportions, it stands to reason that there is absolutely no problem, but the circle has no reaction at all.

Beads of sweat fell to the ground, and he didn't have time to wipe them, perusing the obscure words written in ancient language on the fragments. He had waited for this day for too long, and after the world was polluted, he looked for every opportunity to approach the Secret Ritual and learn the ancient language. Later, he finally came across the perfect moment and stole the fragments of two pages from an ancient book. And the return of the princess brought him the magic materials he needed, and everything was ready.

The man swallowed and frowned. After reading it repeatedly, he began to suspect that perhaps the purity of the demonic blood he had stolen was not enough to activate the magic circle. But the highest purity in the town is only 6 pure demon blood, and no matter how high the purity is, I have never even seen it.

For the descriptor of the required blood, the text directly translates to "pure". The man pondered carefully for a long time, and suddenly his eyes widened. He found that he seemed to have misunderstood, the so-called pure blood was not the demon blood, but the ...... Pure human blood?

For a moment, he felt his eyes darken, and he gritted his teeth. He took a huge risk to blame Ba Wen, and the high-purity demon blood he stole was useless in the end? He looked at the two tin cans in the hidden closet, and only felt fear fill his body.

If discovered...... The man didn't dare to think about it, his breathing became more and more rapid, and he began to look around, looking around for a place where he could hide his demon blood, but the houses in Baifan Town were very simple, and there was no suitable place at all.

Maybe we should sneak into the hospital in the dead of night and pour the demon blood back? No, since it has already been planted for Bawen, it is more likely to be exposed if it is returned. He kept reassuring himself: everyone thinks that Ba Wan did it, and no one will suspect you!

The footprints in the blood storage room were also deliberately left by him. Wearing oversized boots and deliberately stepping on them, all to create an illusion. The boots had been thrown into the campfire and burned to ashes and disposed of as garbage.

No one will doubt you. The man whispered to himself.

Suddenly, there was a thunderous chime outside the window, three long and one short. It was a hunter summons order from the square, and all hunters who could arrive must arrive quickly, and unless there was something particularly urgent, they would not issue a summons of this level.

The man was startled and quickly blew out the candles on the ground, trying to wipe off the black bloodstains. But the blood has dried up, and the harder you rub it, the deeper the marks are left, and the more panicked the man becomes!

He didn't know what had happened, why he had suddenly called out, could it be that his own business had been discovered? He suppressed his fear, and suddenly he had an idea, took a few new candles, and put a small jar of demon blood in his wide trench coat, and hurried out of the room.

The night was low and the stars were dim.

On the marble square in the center of Baifan Town, more than fifty hunters gathered here, all with their own weapons. It consisted of the supply team, pilgrims, and other freelance squads, and the hunters who had been nearly two hundred a few hours ago were now few left.

The fierce battle with the spiders outside the city left them with heavy casualties. Nearly 80 hunters who were seriously injured to the point of coma or loss of mobility are recuperating in the hospital, and the remaining hunters who are still slightly injured and can still move around have basically arrived.

The hunters didn't know what was going on, and many people were depressed after the First World War, and now they were urgently summoned, which made people very nervous and mentally unmanaged.

The centurion stood on the stone platform, looking at these familiar faces, new wounds and old marks engraved on their faces, and his heart was very uncomfortable. But as a leader, he can't show sadness and still has a cold gaze.

"Centurion, what's the matter?" asked one of the hunters.

"There is something to announce. The centurion replied in a low voice.

The hunters looked around, "Why didn't you see His Highness Yugshia?" ”

"They were recuperating in the hospital, something happened just now, and that's what I'm going to talk about next. The centurion clapped his hands, "Are all the people here? Everyone look at each other, and see who else hasn't come! ”

Even in such difficult times, the hunters still fought their spirits and stood neatly in a small phalanx, showing discipline. The centurion took a deep breath and whispered, "Bawen is dead. ”

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, everyone's eyes widened, some people whispered, and some people gritted their teeth fiercely. The Tukh warrior was straightforward, very bold, and capable, and many people had a good relationship with him. So when I heard about his death, grief swelled in my chest.

The centurion gave a brief account of what Yugshia had told him, and when he said that when Bawen was transformed into a monster, there were already hunters trembling and their eyes red. And when it came to the princess and Lorne defeating them, everyone was silent.

Everyone had a different idea in their hearts, and the centurion had no way of knowing. After a few seconds, he added: "There are traitors in our base. ”

These words caused a commotion. The centurion said, "The blood storage room of the hospital has been stolen, the demon blood of purity 5 and 6 is completely gone, and the thief has planted Bawin......! Everything can be forgiven except betrayal. ”

After a moment of silence, the hunters shouted, "We will get justice for Bawin!"

"Everyone followed me to search house by house, and we couldn't let go of any corner, and we couldn't scatter our actions. I'm going to find out this traitor,......" the centurion clenched his fist loudly, "you say, what if you catch a traitor!"

"Decapitation, decapitation, decapitation!" the hunters shouted.

"Beheaded!" the centurion replied with an angry response, jumping down from the stone platform, "Go!"

At this time, no one noticed that the young hunter in the back row of the phalanx was already staring hollow and covered in cold sweat.