Chapter 269: Seventy-First Floor, The Crimson Wilderness (7)
[Complete a contract. Time remaining: 86 hours 24 minutes.]
Tunyak screamed and dropped flat to the ground before Doppy, seemingly bowing in reverence. He pressed his forehead to the earth, both palms raised toward the sky.
I couldn’t immediately grasp what was happening. Wide-eyed and confused, I glanced back and forth between Tunyak and Doppy.
On one side, Tunyak was in the midst of worshiping his god. On the other side, Doppy stood still with his eyes closed, while a crimson glow gathered around him.
What? Don’t tell me the Forgotten God actually descended.
There was no other explanation.
The power now radiating from Doppy was unlike anything I had sensed from him before. Though the golden light was familiar, it was interspersed with something wholly different.
The red light and golden radiance enveloping Doppy slowly intermingled, forming a swelling orb at his fingertips before shooting toward the fallen divine beast. The conjoined light settled softly over the divine beast and shimmered faintly as it spread across the corrupted beast’s hide.
A quiet wave of divine energy pulsed through the air, resonating gently from where the beast lay.
“———!”
Doppy’s chanting caught me off guard—he was speaking in an entirely unfamiliar language. Moreover, it wasn’t his voice.
At the same moment, the divine beast flared with a brilliant light. Within that radiance, blackish-red smoke crackled and began to fade, as if burning away.