At the very top of the altar, a woman knelt with her hands pressed together in prayer. Before her lay the little girl who had been chosen as the sacrifice.
She was the mother of the little girl about to be sacrificed. Yet as she watched her own child being offered to the Divine Lord, not only did she feel no sorrow, she knelt devoutly beside the altar, kowtowing as she spoke.
"My child being able to become a gift for the Divine Lord is truly something to be proud of."
"Great Divine Lord, we offer you our faith. Please help us drive away demons and protect our village with favorable winds and rain!"
The woman looked somewhat crazed, without the slightest trace of pity for her child, who was about to die.
After seeing this, Kallen could only feel that these people had gone completely mad.
How could she send her own daughter onto the altar as a sacrifice so casually?!
How could they mutilate an innocent little girl like this?!
"Even if you save that child... it's too late... the tendons in her hands and feet have been severed... even if you save her... she'll no longer be able to move..."
That voice appeared beside Kallen's ear again. This time, she heard it clearly—there was a man speaking right beside her.
But Kallen had no time to care about that. She shouted at the voice.
"Shut up! What do you know?! That child... I'm definitely going to save her!"
As she shouted, Kallen's pace quickened.
"...What a foolish girl. No wonder so many people like you."
"Then... I'll give you a hand."
At that moment, atop the altar, a massive beast claw rose high into the air and came crashing down toward the child being sacrificed and her