Like fireworks, brain matter, shredded flesh, and blood burst outward in all directions high above. Since the holy vessel was floating beneath the dome, his shattered brain splattered across the entire church!
Every Purifier gazing devoutly at the holy vessel in the sky was sprayed across the face with brain matter and fragments of flesh!
Quite a few had been standing there with their mouths wide open, and had even swallowed a piece or two of shattered brain!
The entire church fell silent. Everyone seemed to have turned into statues, and every sound had stopped, save for the organ's eerie music, making everything within the church seem like a silent film with a score.
The headless body floating in midair fell to the ground with a thud, both legs breaking from the impact as it rolled into the pool of blood beside the altar.
Only then did the Purifiers, as if released from a paralysis spell, come to their senses. Including the hopeful holy vessels, they all began screaming, unable to understand what had happened.
"Descent... the descent failed!?"
"Why didn't the Whispering God descend successfully!?"
"What happened just now? Oh God! What... what is in my mouth!?"
"Brain... I think I swallowed a piece of brain!"
"Help! What the hell is going on!?"
"..."
The crowd descended into chaos. The holy vessels standing on the altar trembled violently, wanting to flee at once, only to discover that their legs seemed to have been sealed. A terror rising from the depths of their souls, beyond even their biological instincts, left them unable to move a single step.
Kesuer Ivanovich was the first to recover. His face remained grim, his eyes filled with devotion as he raised his scepter and said coldly:
"Silence! Anyone who dares disrupt the offering to the