"Come on, be a good boy and eat this. This stuff is incredibly nourishing. Like they say, you are what you eat. Maybe if you eat this heart, you'll grow one of your own, learn right from wrong, and realize that spending all day lusting after other people's wives is a pretty awful thing to do.
Come on, open wide!
Huh?
You don't have a mouth. Never mind, then."
Murphy leaned on Longnight Guardian, whose faith connection had reached 91.6%. For the first time, he used faith's compulsion to demand that the battered Mother of Midnight swallow his own Underworld Heart. But the latter was, after all, a supernatural holy relic born beyond the bounds of reality. It could sense that the thing Murphy had taken out was coated in the deadly poison of the Underworld.
Even if it was a brainless godspawn, it knew that eating random things would get it killed.
However, although the Mother of Midnight showed extreme resistance, it couldn't keep fighting against the faith compulsion of Longnight Guardian while weakened by the Omega Program and the suppression of the gods.
The vampires' faith in the Mother of Midnight was not so much nonexistent as barely beginning to take shape. Still, a connection had been established between them. With his battle blade in hand, Murphy felt as if he'd activated a "mind-reading cheat," allowing him to clearly sense the changes in the godspawn's state of mind.
He frowned as he examined the gigantic, twisted abomination before him.
There was no need to dwell on its evil, depraved form. Salokdar had already been half-mad when he created it, so he'd naturally had no time to give the thing a "beauty filter" or mold it a decent face. Then the influence and temptation of the forces of Chaos