He could not tolerate such blasphemous words. To him, Anvis's remarks were even sharper and more insulting than someone telling an ordinary person, "I'm your father."
"You want the Holy Relic? Fine..."
With a strange smile, "Evan" raised his left hand.
A Golden Chalice suddenly appeared out of thin air in his empty palm.
The cup was slightly larger than a fist, its surface gleaming and devoid of any engravings, looking utterly unremarkable.
By now, after stalling for some time with words, the cup had once again filled with dark, abundant radiance.
"Then experience the gods' gift for yourself, right here!"
As his words fell, the cup suddenly disintegrated. A bizarre radiance like viscous liquid instantly enveloped the entire cave, completely drowning everything within.
Chom immediately stepped in front of Anvis and slashed at the cup with a lightning-fast sword strike, but the sword light dissolved into the radiance as well.
Enveloped by the dense dark radiance, Evany and Chom's vision instantly dimmed. Overwhelmingly negative emotions rose from the depths of their hearts, and their consciousness began to blur.
Pain and fear swept into a vortex, dragging their minds into an abyss darker than night. Yet within the sea of blood at the bottom of that abyss surged greed, the desire for indulgence, and the stimulation of supreme ecstasy...
Anvis did not know what Chom and the others were feeling, but when the light reached him, he discovered once again that, just as he had vaguely expected, the power of the so-called Holy Relic in the priest's hand had no effect on him.
The terrifying radiance slid off his body like flowing water, just as it had when he faced the roar of that ancient giant "Amoeba" in the Ruins.
He was like a reef amid the tides, completely ignoring