They had reached a conclusion: if they wanted to lure out more enemies, a recording clearly wouldn't do. They had to bring Rosaliya herself here and have her sing her heart out before they could determine who was stronger—them or that higher-ranking monster.
They left the theater, intending to seek outside help.
A startling sight met their eyes. After walking two blocks, they found the main road filled with people kneeling on the ground. They were all prostrated in the same bizarre posture, as though taking part in some hair-raising ritual to beg forgiveness from a legendary being. Zhao Bai looked around. They were all ordinary people, and he detected no Honkai energy fluctuations from any of them.
The world fell silent.
It wasn't just the people who had stopped moving. The entire city had become eerily quiet, as if it had ceased functioning in an instant.
For a moment, Zhao Bai could actually hear heartbeats.
His own and Bronya's. Their two hearts throbbed like vigorous engines, while the sound of blood flowing mixed with the wind and poured into his ears. He couldn't tell whether it came from outside his body or within it.
"What futile ritual are they performing?"
Worship of sages, worship of gods, worship of one's eighteen generations of ancestors... all of that existed. But Zhao Bai had never heard of something as idiotic as Honkai Beast worship.
P.S. There was huge, huge, huge news in the webnovel world again... Every time, small and mid-sized authors like us were the ones who suffered. Who knew what would happen this time? Hopefully things would get better.
Sigh.
Gray Serpent Addicted to Fishing (4/4)
So this was worship?
Because they worshipped them, they had instinctively concealed their existence during that sudden questionnaire survey. The doubts from earlier