In the Blood-colored Mountains,
As the Veil of Blood rose, Li Si sensed a special power descending upon the mountain range from somewhere unseen.
Using Belial's body, Li Si carefully observed the situation around him.
Along with him were ordinary people brought here from various places by the Hunting Temple, most of them children.
What surprised Li Si was that the Hunting Temple members who had emerged from Gray Castle were all rushing into the Blood-colored Mountains.
They were extremely wary of one another, yet none of them made a move directly.
Moreover, although Li Si had initially assumed the ordinary people were sacrifices for the ceremony, those people did not attack them first.
Perhaps it was because they believed these ordinary people, whose minds were controlled, posed no threat.
Thus, while guarding against one another, none of them had the spare attention to attack the ordinary people, afraid that someone else would seize the opening.
It seemed that this Rune Great Hunt Ceremony was meant to have them slaughter one another until one or several final victors emerged.
Like many evil god sacrificial ceremonies, the process of killing and hunting each other during this ritual was itself a process of pleasing Luen and offering him faith.
Although Luen was not even a demigod, a ritual directed at him would likely help him grasp the Divinity Shard and climb the Ascension to Godhood.
Li Si watched the people entering the Blood-colored Mountains.
These people were somewhat different from the Hunting Temple clergy in Gray Castle.
The gray-robed priests who had led Li Si and the others to the ritual site possessed almost identical auras, cold and lifeless as corpses.
The Hunting Temple members participating in the Great Hunt Ceremony, however, were no different from ordinary Extraordinary Professionals.
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