The gloomy underground passage beneath the castle extended less than two kilometers underground before entering a bubble-shaped subterranean space...
Any ordinary person entering this underground space for the first time would probably be frightened senseless by the sight before them, because everything here was already so bizarre and terrifying that it surpassed the imagination of normal people.
This was a pool of blood—or rather, a sea of blood—thick and reeking of gore, its baleful aura soaring to the heavens, spanning more than ten square kilometers.
Encircling this sea of blood was a massive embankment built from bricks of high-grade crystals above Grade Five and gold. The crystal and golden bricks formed the shores of the blood pool, and all manner of runes had been carved upon them. The natural energy gathered by the crystals caused those strange runes to glimmer with a ghostly red light. Densely packed, they looked at first glance like pairs upon pairs of blood-red eyes, staring fixedly at the sea of blood. An invisible, mysterious energy blanketed the entire sea like a giant net...
The blood sea moved without wind, rolling up waves of scarlet that crashed against the crystal-and-gold embankments.
Within those bloody waves floated countless translucent flesh spheres, a sight that made one's scalp crawl. Viewed from above, the scarlet flesh spheres bobbing up and down resembled fish eggs laid by a school of fish. They were densely packed in layer upon layer, pressed tightly against one another, filling the entire blood sea. At a glance, there were already more than a hundred thousand of them.
Inside each translucent flesh sphere floated a humanoid figure hugging its knees and curled into a ball, as though still within a mother's womb.
Within a mother's womb were fetuses, yet the humanoid figures inside those flesh spheres