Light!
Blood-colored light!
It bloomed fiercely!
Above that intricate Sacrifice Ritual, threads of Blood Light gathered without end.
In midair, they formed a continuously spinning sphere of light!
Beneath its radiance.
Inside the altar, the offerings that had originally been piled up like small mountains seemed like ice and snow under a scorching sun.
They began to slowly melt away...
And the believers' prayers grew ever more impassioned at this moment...
"My Lord, please grant us Apocalypse!"
"Has the time for our people's revenge arrived!"
In the end.
As the Pope's question left his lips.
Countless strands of Power of Faith churned!
At that moment.
An inexplicable force instantly pierced across an immense distance and arrived directly at this city deep underground!
It caused the dark red patterns on the surface of the tower-like building at the city's center to rapidly light up from bottom to top!
Then.
Once every pattern had been activated.
As though it had finished charging.
At the spire's peak.
Where something like a trident stood, vast quantities of energy began to gather!
And within the Sacrifice Ritual inside the spire.
The blood-colored sphere of light, like a Scorching Sun, released an incomparably brilliant orb of light!
At a speed surpassing light itself, it arrived at the tower's summit in an instant and merged with the surging energy there!
When the believers raised their heads in astonishment.
They saw only billions of twisted blood-colored bolts of lightning erupt at that very instant!
Like the branches of a spreading tree.
They frantically extended across the very roof of the underground city...
After spreading to their limit.
They contracted together again in the blink of an eye, continuously churning and spinning within that blood-colored sphere of light...
Throughout the entire process, merely the slight overflow of power was