Chapter 408: Schemes Upon Schemes
“To restore the glory of our ancestors, I will sacrifice everything!”
“Since you will all become necromantic beings eventually, why not serve as my resources?”
“Don’t blame me. Your deaths are not meaningless. If you want to blame someone, blame the Rust Crow. It was the Rust Crow who sold me this ritual. I will avenge you by killing the Rust Crow.”
Watching the footage of the crazed Zuvendas mercilessly attacking his kin, everyone stepped further away from him. ‘Weeping Sand Red Cap’ Cleos even slightly raised her gun, seemingly ready to aim at any moment.
Like Annan, Zuvendas’ ritual was skipped by the Gospel, directly jumping to the celebration after the ritual’s completion.
Zuvendas sat in a bizarre blood-marked magic circle, surrounded by the corpses of Kaesrei clansmen: they had been cut in half at the waist by Zuvendas. Their upper bodies outside the circle had their hands clasped in prayer, while their lower bodies knelt in front of their torsos, legs together. Their dried corpses contained not a drop of blood, all of it converging on Zuvendas’ forehead, forming a diamond-shaped blood mark.
“Fate… I see it…” Zuvendas’ pupils shone with a flowing light. “Everything will inevitably come to an end.”
Zuvendas Kaesrei received the reward ‘Blood Mark.’
“Blood Mark: Requires 100 milliliters of Kaesrei clansman’s blood to activate. The Blood Mark remains active for 10 minutes, during which the sorcerer’s cognitive abilities are enhanced by 15%.”