Chapter 94
It felt as if thousands of voices were wailing in her mind, and for a moment, she thought her brain might explode!
This spiritual being... no, wait!
It was very likely a descendant of Sadana!
Was the "Judger" Shaer going to become a cultist too?
With great effort, Shaer lifted her left hand and clutched her head tightly, hoping that the pain would help her regain some clarity.
A massive tentacle emerged from the blood mist, attaching itself to the nearby wall. A gaping maw, as if from the abyss, was being pulled out by spiny tentacles, squeezing through the swirling blood mist.
Its gigantic mouth, resembling a grinding wheel, connected to a throat lined with serrated edges like sandworms, unfathomably deep... The throat before her seemed like a passageway to another world.
If she went in there... could it really lead to the other side?
The shadows beneath Shaer began to boil, alert and ready to confront the terrifying creature that had brought her such maddening whispers.
But...
Shaer noticed a ring of eyes surrounding that massive mouth, some of which were watching her, radiating an unmistakable goodwill.
A "gurgling" sound emanated from deep within its throat, almost like a playful cooing, and even when these sounds reached Shaer’s ears, they caused no mental disturbance.
Right now, it felt like a golden retriever stuck at the door with a stick, unable to get through, wagging its tail pitifully at itself.
Stuck... not enough materials? Missing corpses? Too little blood?
These concerns were not on Shaer’s mind at the moment.
Because in the reflection of the purple, sinister eyes beside the massive mouth, she saw some familiar figures.
So it was them...
No wonder my head felt like it was going to burst... how did they bring so many people?
If they didn’t quiet down soon, she really wouldn’t be able to hold on.
Shaer pressed her left hand against her head and slowly turned to look behind her.
It seemed they were shouting something, and the people following them were staring at her in terror, but Shaer couldn’t make out what they were saying.
“Shut up already…”
Couldn’t they be a little quieter?
Before she could finish her thought, a series of horrific howls echoed in her mind. She saw several extraordinary beings at the door, clutching their heads and beginning to panic and scatter.
And that third-tier "Crown Guard," Nia, had already raised her sword and shield, blocking Avina’s path, the silver shield glowing faintly blue.
What’s going on? Why are they pointing their swords at me?
Shaer hesitated for a second.
Am I fighting a third-tier? Is this for real?
Oh right...
Shaer suddenly remembered that there was an unappealing spiritual being behind her; they must have been frightened by this monster.
Whoosh—
A rush of wind whooshed past her ears. As Shaer pondered how to explain the situation, the threatening maw lunged forward, extending all its tentacles toward the four who hadn’t yet fled.
I’m super, don’t!
Shaer quickly raised her hand to press down on a nearby tentacle, making it halt in its tracks.
But she could only stop one tentacle.
Over twenty others, like a dark cloud, surged toward the group.
The massive mouth, which had been stuck at the edge of the blood mist, completely abandoned its attempt to emerge and instead retracted, leaving a portion of its eye-studded skin behind to observe, while the rest of the space was already covered by the dense tentacles.
“Clang—!”
With the others fleeing, the whispers in Shaer’s mind and ears temporarily quieted, and she heard the sound of metal clashing, faint yet shaking the ground.
Amidst the writhing tentacles, Shaer saw a golden, honeycomb-like barrier flickering in front of Nia, each segment separated by gaps, yet firmly protecting Jidi and Avina behind it.
Those seemingly terrifying tentacles and barbed spikes had no effect on Jidi’s shield.
A multitude of tentacles covered the shield; although they couldn’t penetrate it, the suckers continuously released green slime, flowing through the gaps in the light barrier and enveloping it.
Yulis, sensing the terrifying spiritual alarm in her mind, instinctively gathered all her white shadows in front of her, severing the probing tentacles, purple blood gushing from the severed ends and splattering all over her.
Adele, however, was more direct. The white shadow left by Yulis couldn’t determine where the attack was coming from, as alarms blared from all directions—the tentacles had already surrounded her.
The result was that the first-tier Adele, with no means of defense, was ensnared by four tentacles and yanked back in an instant.
“Wuwuwu.”
Adele was left hanging beside Shaer, bound by the tentacles.
Seizing the moment, Shaer turned to glare fiercely at the eyes in the blood mist whirlpool, her heart shouting, “Stop attacking!”
Shaer couldn’t issue any complex commands; from previous experiments, she knew that overly complicated instructions might be completely incomprehensible to spiritual beings.
After a moment, the purple, sinister pupils rotated slightly and slowly retracted the tentacles, pushing the remaining ones to the edge of the blood mist whirlpool.
At this point, the whirlpool was gradually shrinking, indicating that time was running out.
After dealing with the spiritual being’s attack, feeling the increasingly overwhelming whispers that threatened to split her head open, Shaer turned to Adele, who was still dangling in midair from a few tentacles.
“Don’t cry!”
Shaer raised her right index finger to her lips, trying to keep her tone calm, though it still came out threatening.
Adele, hearing Shaer’s voice, paused for a moment, quickly pressed her lips together to silence herself, but tears continued to fall as she blinked.
“Let her down.”
Shaer waved her hand, instructing the tentacles to release Adele.
Standing there, Adele felt her legs weaken at the sight of Shaer but didn’t dare to run away, fearing she might be caught again.
“Adele? Where are you?!”
“Miss, are you alright?”
“I... I’m fine…”
Shaer glanced toward the door, where chaos reigned, and she couldn’t hear what they were saying.
She had to turn back and ask Adele beside her, “How did you all get here?”
This time, Shaer’s direct question finally brought Adele back to her senses.
Once she confirmed she wasn’t imagining things, Adele sniffled and asked, “Shaer... you... haven’t gone mad?”
“Why would I go mad?”
Shaer frowned and replied, “I just can’t hear you all very well. Yulis was the same; she just ran off for no reason.”
“...Huh?”
Adele blinked, momentarily stunned, murmuring, “They said you drank a first-tier potion and a second-tier potion within 24 hours... that you’ve gone mad…”
“My ‘Avenger’ potion isn’t something I drink within 24 hours.”
Shaer shook her head and said, “I just have hidden methods; you’ve misunderstood.”
Adele: “Huh?”
Adele: “Then... what’s up with that monster?”
Adele could sense that Shaer was indeed rational and could communicate fluently, but she still couldn’t understand the evil sacrificial array Shaer had set up and the terrifying monsters she had summoned... it was clearly the work of a cult.
“A few cultists held a sacrificial ritual here before they fled. I just happened to wake up and came to deal with it.”
Shaer casually fabricated an excuse, then inwardly urged the spiritual being to retreat.
As the tentacles retracted, the blood mist whirlpool slowly shrank until it completely vanished.
Even the purple blood and slime left by the tentacles, along with the severed limbs on the ground, began to disintegrate, transforming into faint blue spiritual light and dissipating.
Adele clearly believed Shaer’s explanation, her mournful expression lifting, and the whispers in Shaer’s mind lightened considerably.
However, the whispers still coming from the door continued to assault Shaer’s brain.
“Help me explain this to them,”
Shaer said to Adele, “And tell them that I have a lot of chaotic voices in my head right now. If they stay fearful, the whispers in my mind will only worsen.”
“Okay!”
Adele nodded vigorously and then dashed toward the door.
At the entrance, as the purple blood and slime disappeared, the crowd began to regroup, warily eyeing Shaer.
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