Totem Magic! Four Sets of Enhanced Armor

Bone-rattling~

The blood-red glow radiating from the magic array shone upon slave after slave, and vast numbers of them became like snow beneath the sun.

Their hands, bodies, heads, and every other part went limp against the ground as if their bones had been pulled out—or as if they were candles melted by fire!

Splash! Splash!

Centered around the sacrificial altar, every slave began turning into pure waves of flesh and slurry, churning across the ground as they continuously merged into the magic array.

A slave near the outer edge huddled together with the others, trembling. His bewildered, terrified eyes carried the purest desire to survive.

However.

Perhaps due to the servility ingrained in them over time, perhaps because of the most primal fear, or perhaps because of the magic array's influence, every slave remained rigidly rooted in place!

"—Grand Sacrifice!"

Boom!

Countless slaves transformed into pure tides of flesh, instantly engulfing the slaves across an even wider area and absorbing them as well.

"Lowly slaves, offer up your strength! This shall be the most glorious moment of your wretched lives!"

The elderly Minotaur raised the magical evidence in his hand and stood atop a wooden platform resembling an altar. With a crazed, fanatical expression, he performed a strange dance. "Ritual Arts—Dread Totem!"

In an area ahead of Vengeance, a huge mass of flesh and slurry vanished into thin air. Immediately afterward, a circular totem roughly three meters wide rose from the ground, its center bearing the image of some roaring beast.

"Weakening Totem!"

"Silence Totem!"

"Vengeance Totem!"

"Armor-Shattering Totem!"

Buzz! Buzz!

Five circular totems, each roughly three meters wide, appeared in five different locations around the central plaza.

Blood-red sacrificial energy continuously poured into the five totems, making the light they emitted denser and expanding its range.

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