Terror Hidden in the Abyss!

In the north, a forest of black fir trees.

Thorns and poisonous weeds grew unusually lush. After only a few steps, one would step on the snow-white bones of animals and humans beneath the dead branches and fallen leaves. Dried blood had fertilized this land.

The thick fir trees pierced the clouds, their chaotic, slanted branches blocking most of the celestial light, leaving only heavy darkness and the scent of blood.

Following the river valleys upstream, one would reach the heart of the fir forest, where a magnificent temple, embedded in earth-yellow rocks, stood.

The Beast's Lair, the Temple of Blood!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

For some reason, a huge impact sound echoed from within, and violent tremors spread outwards.

Under this immense force, gravel and debris on the outer sides of the temple began to fall, and the mountainside itself started to shake.

Simultaneously, thousands of various beasts that lived nearby lay on the ground, agitated and uneasy, trembling as they looked towards the interior of the temple.

"Kingu! Kingu! Kingu, where are you?!"

The impact sound of a colossal creature reverberated around the temple. A monster, hundreds of meters tall, with purple hair cascading down, and the lower half of its body a hideous snake's form, while the upper half was a plump, mature, beautiful woman, let out high-pitched, frantic roars.

"I am here, Mother. You have awakened?"

A gentle whisper with a neutral voice, exuding a calming magic. The figure emerging from the dark corridor was none other than the green-haired elf who had previously pursued Merlin and the other two.

Within the Temple of Blood, intricate corridors connected to each other, like twisted blood vessels spreading from the depths of the earth.

The viscous bloodstains on the surroundings, once dried, formed purplish-red patterns. Ovoid embryos, like root nodules, covered both sides.

The green-haired beauty made faint sounds as she moved, causing the nearby beast eggs, which were maturing, to tremble slightly.

The monsters, curled up within the purplish-red membranes, thrashed about, eager to break through the thin barrier and descend into the world.

"Kingu, come to me, quickly come to me…"

"I think I dreamed I was living on an island, with two shadows beside me. They felt familiar yet strange…"

"They were speaking to me, but I can't remember what they said."

The goddess nurturing these beasts raised two terrifying claws covered in purplish-red scales, pressed them against her head, and slammed them against the nearby mountainside. Her brow furrowed in pain, and she moaned.

"We… were driven from the land by humans and ended up on that desolate island."

"Even so, we held no resentment. We only wished to continue living there, with nothing…"

"We cherished few things, so no matter what, we wanted to protect this last refuge."

"Even if it meant sacrificing everything!"

"I curse humanity! I curse everything about them!"

"Ah! My head… it hurts so much…"

As the beast goddess murmured in pain, the yellow wings spread behind her, and hundreds of monstrous snakes formed from her purple hair writhed and slithered around, their vertical pupils wide open, their tongues flicking. A killing intent that could freeze the soul permeated the air.

"You'll be alright, Mother…"

"Rest a little longer…"

Kingu, whose true name it was, the green-haired beauty whispered, stepping forward. She raised her hand, aiming it towards the beast goddess's abdomen. Golden ripples spread outwards.

As the ripples touched the purplish-red serpentine body of the beast goddess's lower half, a simple, ancient golden chalice trembled slightly, resonating with it.

Gradually, the beast goddess's unstable emotions calmed down, and her sharp serpentine pupils slowly closed.

The hundreds of giant snakes extending from her back lost their ferocity and coiled on the ground, falling asleep.

Seeing that the beast goddess had been soothed and had fallen asleep, Kingu frowned and approached the crimson-black abyss of blood in which her massive body was submerged.

The rift that ran across the mountainside was a sea of scarlet.

The once nearly overflowing purplish-red blood tide was pouring and steaming from a gap in the pool's wall, its level having dropped to less than one-third.

This blood was the vital nourishment that provided magical power to the Temple of Blood and nurtured the beasts. It was also one of the divine supports and sources of power for this "Mother."

However, with just one lapse in vigilance, most of the accumulation from the past six months had been depleted!

Consequently, the plan to besiege Uruk had to be hindered and stalled.

Merlin! That damned succubus!

Kingu gritted her teeth, killing intent blazing in her eyes.

Slightly composing herself, the green-haired beauty leaped into the abyss. After passing through the thin mist of blood, she stood on a protruding rock, looking down.

The blood tide, whose water level had dropped by two-thirds, revealed the jagged rock walls on both sides of the valley. Countless crimson-black blood vessels emerged, their rough outlines visible. They were densely packed into the soil, the mountainside, and the abyss, their reach unknown.

These things resembled the extensive root systems of banyan trees forming a forest.

Tracing the pathways back to their origin, focusing her perception to the extreme, she could vaguely see, through the blood tide, a purplish-red heart nestled between nothingness and existence, enveloped by countless blood vessels, root nodules, and water veins.

As the blood tide surged, the heart pulsed, and a massive tide of magical power spread in all directions through the dense network of blood vessels.

Kingu let out a sigh, her tightly furrowed brow relaxing slightly.

Fortunately, that succubus had only evaporated a portion of the blood tide and had not discovered the true secret hidden beneath the abyss.

At that moment, an inexplicable throbbing sensation and the strange feeling of her body's fluids being uncontrollably drawn, as if her blood wanted to flow backward, caused Kingu's expression to change. She immediately withdrew from the abyss.

The green-haired beauty glanced at the slumbering Beast Goddess, a shadow of gloom crossing her features.

After the Demon God King Goetia revived her, his plan to awaken the great disaster Tiamat and destroy the foundations of human civilization hit a snag.

Tiamat, hidden within the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, refused his summons. She suppressed her innate abilities of "Return" and "Destruction," instead sealing the Hole of Heaven.

There was no other way. As Goetia's collaborator, she had to settle for second best.

Subsequently, at a critical moment, both sides exploited the connectivity of the Sea of Imaginary Numbers to channel the conceptual information of another deity from a different World Bubble.

Then, through a process of Spirit Core fusion, this Beast Goddess from another dimension took on the title of the Mother of Origin, acquiring a portion of Tiamat's divine authority.

However, a fake is still a fake. The quality of her Spirit Core could hardly compare to the true Origin Goddess.

As a result, even just the diluted authority of [Hundred Beast Womb], which mass-produces magical beasts, pushed her to the limit of what her Divine Spark could contain.

Relying solely on this "Mother" to destroy Uruk was likely an almost impossible task.

Therefore, only one method remained.

To use Tiamat's authority over creation and life to awaken the true terror of this land!

"Oh gods, I shall bring you a surprise!"

Kingu gazed into the abyss, which pulsed with a bloody light, a sinister smile curving his lips.