Eerie Gods Card Master: Starting with Myriad Ghosts Night Parade

Finally, Amber stopped before a massive grape vine.

This giant vine was even thicker than the one Amber had nurtured with the [Vine of Harvest]. At first glance, one might mistake it for a thousand-year-old ancient tree.

Visibility was decreasing rapidly, but thankfully, the Door Gods emitted divine light, dispelling the thick, almost unbreathable blood mist.

"This is it. This is the altar 'He' chose, the meeting point of all divine gazes...

Birth is sacrifice, the feast is the end..."

Amber murmured the prophetic, secret words.

Lin Chen slowly approached, not daring to be careless. He could feel the scent of blood growing stronger...

At this tense moment, Chen Xiao Diao's bracelet suddenly rang!

Lin Chen answered. It was a colleague from the Security Bureau's Anomaly Inspection Department, reporting in a panic:

"Xiao Diao! The... wine you... sent for testing... the flesh and blood inside... isn't sheep...!

In the culture dish I'm... cultivating, the meat... is actually... growing!

It's an eerie... meat chunk with tentacles, definitely... a guǐwù (supernatural entity), you... be careful!"

The signal on the communication bracelet was extremely poor, the other party's voice intermittent, but the general meaning could still be understood—

The flesh and blood in Amber's wine were not from sheep, but from an eerie object!

Lin Chen was shocked at first, but then fell silent when he looked up at what was growing on the giant vine.

On the other end of the bracelet, the colleague from Anomaly Inspection was still speaking:

"Xiao Diao... are you... there? Say... something!"

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and replied, "I'm at Amber's tavern. Come quickly."

The other party: "Can't... hear... clearly, why do... you... sound... like... a man?"

The communication bracelet signal was completely lost, likely due to the blood mist in the wine cellar.

The colleague's warning was useful, but it was already too late.

Because Lin Chen had already seen the source of that eerie flesh and blood—

A huge black tumor, embedded in the giant vine, contracting like a living creature, shedding small pieces of flesh with each contraction;

It was wrapped in a uterus-like, semi-transparent amniotic membrane. Upon closer inspection, one could see a giant fleshy embryo with hooves inside;

Countless tiny slits had opened on the surface of this membrane, revealing wriggling... teeth on the embryo?

No, they looked more like unformed mouths!

These 'mouths' were greedily sucking the sweet, scarlet juice transported by the grape vine;

This giant grape vine was nurturing a monster! A terrifying eerie phenomenon!

Merely gazing at it made Lin Chen's skull tingle, as if invisible tentacles were drilling into his eyes—

The [Sober Mind Bracelet] on his wrist instantly sprang its needle, the sharp point piercing Lin Chen's flesh;

It was this sharp pain that allowed him to cling to the last shred of his sanity, preventing it from shattering!

Lin Chen recognized it. It was the Black Goat's Egg!

It was the embryo of a young black goat, and the offspring of the Dark Mother of Harvest—the Outer God Shub-Niggurath!

It represented the fertility of gestation, flesh, and corruption.

A genuine mythical creature!

The wine cellar of the Cult of the God of Wine was actually a breeding ground for the offspring of an Outer God?

Lin Chen managed to force out a sentence from his throat: "Aren't you... the Cult of the God of Wine?"

Seeing Lin Chen's astonished expression, Amber was extremely pleased. He enjoyed these moments of enlightening lost lambs:

"Your understanding of the Cult of the God of Wine is ultimately too shallow. The Mother Goddess and the God of Wine have an intersection of authority;

The Mother Goddess needs our authority over plant harvest to accelerate the growth of the Black Goat's Egg;

And I need the Mother Goddess's offspring to continuously breed flesh and blood to refine the Holy Grail through blood brewing.

The cooperation between the two cults is a convergence of 'reproduction,' a symbiotic win-win!"

No wonder Amber didn't need to hunt ordinary humans;

Because the flesh and blood of the Black Goat's Egg could constantly regenerate and reproduce, it could satisfy the "quantity" of flesh and blood needed for the Holy Grail;

What was lacking was the "quality," which only required the vital blood of Card Masters to supplement.

Thus, Amber only needed to target solitary Card Masters, which also reduced the risk of exposure.

Lin Chen also realized—

Amber's eerie grape wine, and the tender "mutton" mentioned by that wine guest, all originated from the Black Goat's Egg!

The meat was indeed tender, and it could regenerate even after being eaten, so of course it was tender.

At this moment, the foul and evil Black Goat's Egg and the immaculate, elegant priest stood together, creating a stark contrast;

But ironically, they were working together!

Countless fragmented mythological facts clicked into place in Lin Chen's mind like puzzle pieces—

No wonder the goat was the symbol of the God of Wine...

No wonder the goat's silhouette was always lurking in the shadows of the oil paintings depicting the Dionysian Festival;

Even the Satyrs, attendants of the God of Wine, had distorted half-goat, half-human forms;

This was no coincidence at all!

The worship of goats in the cult of the God of Wine was clearly influenced by the Black Goat Mother Goddess!

The mythological system Lin Chen had once firmly believed in was completely overturned!

He couldn't help but have a terrifying thought:

"Have the Outer Gods... been corrupting the native beliefs of this world for a long time?"

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Chapter 34: What Mother Goddess or God of Wine! Anyone who blocks my path is an Evil God!

"Have the Outer Gods... been corrupting the native beliefs of this world for a long time?"

The thought sent a shiver down Lin Chen's spine, as if an icy hand had gripped his insides.

But now was not the time for wild speculation;

Amber had revealed the final secret, and Lin Chen had used all his cards;

With both sides' trump cards laid bare, this feast was about to reach its climax!

The enormous Black Goat's Egg slowly contracted and then swelled, as if it would burst open at any moment.

Amber gazed at Lin Chen and said solemnly:

"The offspring of the Dark Mother of Harvest is about to be fully gestated;

And I—a Priest of the God of Wine—will simultaneously perform the blood sacrifice resurrection ritual!

Lin Chen, today you will have the honor of witnessing two divine beings descend together!"

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Don't even think about it! I won't let you succeed in any of it!

What Mother Goddess or God of Wine! Anyone who blocks my path is an Evil God!"

Amber chuckled and remained silent, summoning the [God of Wine Staff] and casting [Vine of Harvest] on the giant vine nurturing the Black Goat's Egg.

Countless thick grape roots pierced the amniotic sac, beginning to deliver a sweet, viscous liquid;

The Black Goat's Egg and the giant grape vine were in a symbiotic state; catalyzing the growth of the grape vine was equivalent to catalyzing the birth of the Black Goat's Egg!

This was the combined reproductive technique of the Cult of the God of Wine and the Mother Goddess's offspring.

If it were allowed to hatch successfully, it would be enough to turn the entire area into a breeding ground for eerie phenomena!

Just as Lin Chen was about to send the Door Gods to destroy the embryo of this Evil God's offspring;

Amber summoned the [Blood-Meat Holy Grail] and began chanting the blood sacrifice ritual;

The sacrifice, of course, was—the still-unconscious Chen Xiao Diao!

She was tied to the giant vine, only a few meters away from the Black Goat's Egg!

Lin Chen had to change his target—he had to deal with Amber immediately!

But in his peripheral vision, the writhing Black Goat's Egg was expanding at a visible rate, and black tentacles were beginning to emerge...

If the young black goat were to fully form and be born, it would devour everything around it!

Chen Xiao Diao would be swallowed in an instant!

Every choice was a dead end—

Deal with Amber? The fully formed young would instantly devour Chen Xiao Diao;

Attack the black egg? Amber would sacrifice Chen Xiao Diao;

He could only divide his forces, sending his two Door Gods to attack one enemy each.

But one was an Evil God's offspring, and the other was a Priest of the God of Wine. If he divided his strength, he feared he wouldn't defeat either of them in the end!

This was too much of a gamble!

But it was the only gamble he could take!

Lin Chen dispatched all his Card Spirits—