"Is this the basement where the actors gained their abilities...?"
The Underground Area did not have the mansion's maze-like complex layout.
The elevator opened onto a straight passageway.
The wall lamps on both sides were skulls topped with red candles. The audience members who had once been beheaded here continued to provide their remaining value even in death.
Passing through the corridor led to the basement's sacrifice area.
It was an open, regular hexagonal room of roughly two hundred square meters.
There were also six such passageways and elevators, each leading to a different area of the mansion, allowing actors hunting in any area to easily bring their prey to the basement for the Sacrifice Ritual.
1. Along the walls stood enormous wardrobes made from ancient wood. Residual bloodstains from countless different years remained in their corners or seeped through the cracks beneath their doors, spreading across the floor.
2. Ten demons holding bowl-shaped containers stood in the central area.
3. A massive stone heart hung at the very center, with blood vessels extending from its surface to connect to every demon statue.
The most terrifying part was—
The headless corpses of the Old Butler and Baron Holly were impaled upon the long horns of two demon statues, their blood completely drained.
The first thing the two thought of upon seeing this scene was destroying the statues.
However, destroying them would not be easy in the slightest.
Destroying them recklessly could very well trigger traps or alarms.
Moreover, these statues were not made of ordinary stone. An eerie scarlet gleam flowed across their surfaces.
It would be practically impossible for an ordinary person to destroy them with brute force. Even if they found tools such as chisels, they could not destroy them quickly. If they drew the actors over, it