With Acheron, Phainon, and Mydei's help, Gnaeus and Stelle smoothly cleared out those crazed Kin of Strife. However, the heavy stench of blood in the area left everyone rather uncomfortable.
"Come to think of it, is it really necessary for the Xuanfeng people to fight these endlessly spawning Kin of Strife to the death for some inexplicable honor?"
"Titans should protect their people by rights... yet here, all I saw was a bloody scene filled with wailing."
As a guide who led people away from Nihility, Acheron still could not understand the corpses strewn across the ground.
"Because they are concealing certain secrets."
"They want to use mortal flesh and blood, and slaughter, to pacify this Strife Titan that has long since gone mad!"
Gnaeus revealed the shocking truth, leaving everyone present stunned as they looked at him.
"Huh? What do you mean by that?"
Stelle looked at Gnaeus in confusion and asked.
"Just as I expected..."
Mydei looked at the bloody scene around them and sneered.
"You figured it out too?"
Phainon looked at his best friend Mydei in surprise.
"Of course! The moment I entered this so-called festival, I knew something was deeply wrong!"
"Rather than a trial, this place is a slaughterhouse!"
"The Heaven's Punishment Legion has become blades that shred flesh, massacring every trial participant in this festival, all to offer them up to the Mad King Nicadori, who has fallen into madness!"
Mydei stared at the surroundings with disgust and spoke in a low voice.
"I thought the smell of blood here was really strong too... and there is barely any ash left behind when those Heaven's Punishment Legion soldiers turn to dust. It seems like they can repair themselves."
"Could it be... the trial participants were dragged to death by force? The earlier puzzles