The walls of the cave were covered in foot-long chisel marks. It was as if they had not been carved out with tools, but gouged out by some kind of fingernails.
Many places were stained with blood seeping from the stone.
But what drew everyone's attention even more was the pool in the center, roughly four meters long and wide, because it was filled with viscous black blood!
The blood churned incessantly, like boiling lava.
A foot-thick layer of cold mist hung over the surface. The moment anyone drew even slightly closer, the frigid sensation chilled them to the bone.
Only with Ron's help did Caroline and her child avoid that cold.
Their arrival seemed to have disturbed the pool.
Strange, seaweed-like things extended from the four walls of the pool, waving constantly as though searching for living creatures nearby.
They looked bizarre, entirely blood-red. Rather than seaweed, they resembled shriveled intestines.
At that moment, Ron felt an oily sensation coming from the black devil heart in his hand.
It gradually began to heat up.
Faintly, it seemed ready to rise into the air and charge into the pool.
"So this is the so-called Devil Altar?" Jeff stared at the pool, glanced around, then picked up a stone from the ground, seemingly intending to toss it in and test it.
"Don't mess around."
Kevin hurriedly reached out to stop Jeff.
What a joke. Since this was an "altar," tossing a stone in carelessly might anger whatever was inside. They might end up provoking it again.
He himself was no longer afraid, but his wife and child were still here.
Following Kevin's gaze to Caroline, Jeff sheepishly withdrew his hand. "All right."
Ron extended his hand forward and released the force restraining the heart in his palm.
The devil heart floated