The blood-red moonlight scattered across the sky seemed drawn by some force, pouring in its entirety into the ball of flesh on the Primitive Island.
It began to swell.
Its blood vessels and sinews became increasingly distinct and terrifying.
The heartbeat inside the ball of flesh grew louder and louder.
Until-
"Hiss-"
A slit appeared. As though the swollen ball of flesh had found an outlet, blood gushed from the slit, and it rapidly shriveled, leaving only a thin layer of skin.
After a long while, a fist-sized bulge appeared beneath the skin. With a bout of wriggling, it crawled out from under the covering-a crimson heart.
It struggled to prop itself upright, as though gazing at the Blood Moon in the sky. Then it rolled forward, tore through the air, and burrowed into the Spirit World.
Loen, Midseashire.
At a gathering place for a branch of the Abraham Family, the successive appearances of the Blood Moon had left every family member who had taken the Apprentice potion and become a Beyonder in agony-the higher their Sequence, the greater their pain.
During the Blood Moon a few days earlier, two Sequence 5 family members had quickly lost control and turned into monsters. Had they not been discovered in time and eliminated with a Sealed Artifact, this branch of the Abraham Family would probably have been wiped out that night.
Yet only a few days later, another Blood Moon had arrived.
Was heaven determined to destroy our Abraham Family?
While everyone was suffering in pain and despair, a tall, well-proportioned girl with long dark brown hair, blue eyes, and rather striking features lay in agony on the floor of a neatly tidied room. Her fingernails grew wildly as she clawed hard at the tables and chairs, trying to ease her