Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

第448章 血窟之底！（3k8，5-600月票加更~今日总更1w！）
The bottom of the blood cave.

"Executioner" Koros stood there like a wooden sculpture. Almost eight hours had passed.

After the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" finished his last sentence with Koros, he stopped making any sound and just sat there quietly, sitting on the pedestal that symbolized the "Red Lotus".

When the eighth hour had passed, the entire blood pool suddenly began to boil, and the base where the Blood Sacrifice Master was located also glowed with bright red light.

"…It's time, Koros."

A crack suddenly appeared on the smooth face of the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice". He raised his arm, stretched out two withered fingers, and pointed at a flesh-and-blood servant who was standing with his hands hanging not far away.

The servant was wearing a dark red cloak as colorful as blood. When the Lord of Blood Sacrifice pointed at him, he raised his head and opened his wide hood, revealing his bloody and hideous face.

It was like a face that had been burned by fire and healed several times, now crawling with maggots. The two eyes embedded in it flashed an unusual scarlet light, staring blankly towards the Lord of Blood Sacrifice.

“Ah…Ahhh…”

His throat rolled, making a hoarse sound, and then he raised his hands in a very twisted posture, and his ten fingers pierced into his head like awls.

Bang!
The next moment, his head exploded, and brain matter and blood foam splattered everywhere, turning into scarlet mist before hitting the ground and floating into the hands of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice.

"Um……"

As if he was tasting something, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice made a trembling sound all over his body as if savoring something.

On the Red Lotus Throne where he was standing - in the blood pool surrounding it, bubbles popped up, and along with it, a gigantic hand emerged in a grasping posture.

It was a completely red palm, with flames burning at the position of each of its nails, waiting for the Lord of Blood Sacrifice to place something on it.

Around the blood pool, the flesh and blood servants standing in a circle did not show any emotion due to the death of their "comrade". They just gathered around the headless body of the servant whose head had been blown off, and lifted him up with their hands, waists and feet. They stepped into the blood pool and came to the burning giant hand, and placed the headless body of the flesh and blood servant in the palm of the giant hand.

The giant hand suddenly clenched.

The flesh and blood of the corpse began to swell from between the "fingers", and the bones made crackling sounds. The force exerted on the corpse by the giant hand was incredibly great. After a moment, the corpse was crushed with a "puff"!

Blood was squeezed out of the corpse like juice, and flowed into a pool of blood through the fingers of the giant hand.

At the same time, a raging fire began to burn, burning the remains after the blood was squeezed out.

"..."

"Look... Koros. He is so, so hard to satisfy."

The skin on the face of the Blood Sacrifice Lord was wriggling, and terrifying, strange cracks kept opening and closing, and a turbid and thin sound continued to be emitted:

"These things around here... they were originally my 'sacrifices' to Him."

"I thought you would leave... Koros. But you actually stayed... ah."

"..."

The Lord of Blood Sacrifice sighed, his "head" turned around, and the "eyes" in the cracks on his face stared at Koros and said:

"Fafnir...he is not in this city now."

"I suddenly wondered... I often wondered. If I sacrificed a 'Fivefold Fate' to Him, could He help me and remove the Seal of Glory... or the curse of 'Gray Blood'?"

"Ah... Koros. You and I have had many grievances and grudges in the past... But now, I am grateful, thankful, and grateful for the gift of the 'Seat of Destruction'."

"Fafnir... it doesn't matter anymore. You are still the first executioner who will stay here during my 'blood sacrifice'."

"Poor worm."

"..."

As he spoke, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice raised his dry hand and stretched out two withered fingers in the direction of Koros.

“…You are right, ‘Lord of Blood Sacrifice’.”

"It is indeed time."

Before the invisible curse spread to his body along the spiritual thread, Koros had already raised the colorful dagger in his hand.

The corners of his mouth raised in a strange arc, and he bent his fingers at the same time——

--clang!!
He flicked the dagger, and the dark bell curtain descended on the head of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice!

The spiritual power of Blood Sacrifice Lord "Blood Sacrifice" was cut off at the same time. Koros's movements were smooth and seamless, as if he had already rehearsed that Blood Sacrifice Lord would attack him and was ready to counterattack at any time.

However, Koros, who was actually more like an "executioner", had already wanted to kill the master of the blood sacrifice!
"…Um?"

The Lord of Blood Sacrifice twisted his neck, and the cracked "eyes" on his face stared at Koros, with a confused dim light bursting out of them.

It didn't seem like a "counterattack" that was decided on at the last minute, but rather an attack that had been planned long ago.

What he was waiting for was the moment of "sacrifice"...but what was Koros's "time"?
Such thoughts began to emerge in the mind of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice.

But he no longer cared about the answer to the question.

Just like Koros said, the bottom of this blood cave is his home ground—

He was not an "executioner". Although he had gone to Fafnir to seek asylum, his relationship with the "chief executioner" and "executioners" of the Dark Principality was generally one of employment and contract.

For the Lord of Blood Sacrifice.

He was still stranded in the underground of Fafnir City, at the bottom of this blood cave, simply because the backlash from his flesh and blood had never stopped, and the two holy seals of authority of [Glory] imposed on him made it impossible for him to get out.

He was not truly "loyal" to Fafnir or the Dark Principality. If he could get out of here, he would have left long ago, and he had made such attempts many times.

But most of them failed. Attempts like the "Dusk" ritual and the constant devouring and stitching of new flesh and blood of extraordinary people all failed.

He even lost his "blood of thorns" for this, lost his tentacles that could reach out to the outside world, and lost his important foundation.

Only the ritual of "blood sacrifice" was successful, effective and preserved - he had sacrificed half of his soul and flesh to the Throne of Destruction, and had to constantly offer him new soul and flesh. This was his way of preventing his own flesh from completely collapsing, and that was the ritual of "blood sacrifice" during the full moon.

And now, when the "blood sacrifice" ceremony is about to take place——

An "executioner" appeared here.
Then there was a reason to "betray" Fafnir, and sacrificing an "Executioner" to the "Seat of Destruction" was an attempt that could be made. But now——

clang! !

It was in front of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice that the "Executioner" Koros once again heavily flicked the colorful dagger in his hand!

An extremely unnatural distortion suddenly occurred from the dark bell curtain. The barrier woven by phantoms instantly pierced through with one, two, and countless sharp cones.

——Sizzle!
The countless spikes protruding from the bell curtain pierced through the body of the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" at the same time.

Gray blood gushed out rapidly from his body, flowing down along the cracks of the red lotus base beneath him, and finally into the pool of blood.

"..."

The "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" pierced by the dark spikes is the "Executioner" Koros who is looking at the opposite side and outside the "bell curtain".

He said nothing, but a huge bloody crack suddenly appeared on his face, and his body began to swell rapidly at the same time!

—Puff! Puff! Puff!

More and more "thorns" pierced out from the surface of the bell curtain, and the body of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice became more and more riddled with holes, with gray blood oozing out from those horrifying holes.

But he seemed unaware and just kept "expanding"!
Very quickly - perhaps just a blink of an eye, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice had expanded to the point where he completely fit into the inner wall of the "bell curtain"!

And in the next moment——

Bang! !

Pah! !

The "bell curtain" was broken, bursting from the inside out.
——It was burst!
The "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" whose flesh and blood expanded to the extreme, the spiritual thread drawn from his body once again connected with the wandering spirit outside the bell curtain.

As for Koros, an ominous dark red color had enveloped him. His eyes suddenly turned bloodshot and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

And in the blood pool, the giant hand burning with flames regained its activity again. It squirmed, trembled, and at a certain moment clenched into a giant fist of flesh and blood covered with flames, and blasted towards Koros!
--boom!!!!!

A scarlet light suddenly flashed, and Koros's body flew backwards, hitting the edge of the rock wall of the blood cave heavily.

Then, from the pool of blood thrown out by the giant hand, a second and third hand stretched out... a total of six giant hands entangled in flesh and blood!

They let out sharp hisses, then emerged from the blood pool one by one and rushed towards Koros!

--boom! !
--boom! ! ! !
--boom!!!!!!
"..."

The "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" was protected by armor wrapped in flesh and blood. His "eyes" looked through the gaps in the flesh and blood to see the scene of Koros being madly exploded.

The "blood pool" he sat in was full of "monsters" that he had fed with his flesh and blood for decades. As Koros said, this was his home ground.

He will let the flesh and blood monsters he has nurtured explode Koros again and again until he is completely killed, and then "blood sacrifice" his soul and flesh to the "Throne of Destruction" in exchange for some of His descent and gifts.

Perhaps there is no need to "betray" the chief executioner and take unnecessary risks.

He actually had plenty of time to "sacrifice" Koros in front of him until nothing was left, thus completely destroying any traces of "betrayal".

"..."

Just as he was thinking this, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice suddenly heard a series of "bang, bang" sounds coming from above the blood cave where he was.

It seemed that the sound had been there just now, but it was covered up by the sound of the giant hand entangled in flesh and blood, so it was not heard clearly.

This made the Lord of Blood Sacrifice feel confused again, but this confusion did not last long.

He could feel that after about the eighteenth blow of flesh and blood, the spiritual response of the "Executioner" Koros had become quite weak.

"…ah."

The Lord of Blood Sacrifice stared into the crevice of the rock, at the "executioner" who was tightly grasped by two giant hands of flesh and blood and whose body was already a bloody mess, and he let out a long and hoarse sigh.

He raised his skinny arm again and was about to extend two withered fingers in the direction of Koros.

But in the next moment——

Boom! ! !
At the bottom of the blood cave where he was, the rock layer above him suddenly shook violently as never before, and then began to collapse!
--boom!!!!!

At the same time, dazzling and extremely scorching golden light poured into the "eyes" of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice!

He felt as if he was enveloped by something. An incomparably hot golden light surged from top to bottom, engulfing him and causing the edges of his flesh to begin to burn instantly!
At the same time, he heard a huge explosion, and in an instant he seemed to see a figure emitting brilliant golden light, appearing between him and the "Executioner" Koros.

He was about to give Koros a final blow and then throw him into the blood pool for a "blood sacrifice" but was blocked. He had to control the big hands in the blood pool to return to his side and began to try to extinguish the golden holy flames that were burning on his body.

At the same time, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice also saw clearly,

——Suddenly, a [Glorious] Bishop appeared!

A [Glorious] Bishop appeared here!

The flesh and blood of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice began to tremble violently, and his giant hands were unable to extinguish the golden flames. The scorching holy flames were burning his body more and more fiercely.

The sound of scorching continued to be heard, and through the cracks in the flesh and blood, the "eyes" of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice stared at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

That was the bishop of the Holy See, and he was wearing the robes that belonged to the bishop of the Holy See...

That bishop actually knew the location of the bottom of the blood cave where he was! How could he know this location!

The Lord of Blood Sacrifice was thinking about these things frantically in his mind.

The "eyes" hidden beneath his flesh and blood were staring at the other party through the light of the burning holy flame.

That was a young bishop... but for some reason, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice always felt as if he was very familiar with the bishop in front of him.

It was as if he had seen him somewhere before, but the Lord of Blood Sacrifice could not remember where.

……

(End of this chapter)