Everyone gathered around the altar.
They all understood what that red light meant. Vanessa... was actually sacrificing these things.
"Th-this needs to be sacrificed too?" Alice finally could not help asking.
Vanessa was currently holding her toy, a rabbit doll she was quite fond of.
The girl glanced at her, nodded in realization, then stepped forward and pried Alice's mouth open.
"Mmph! Mmmph!!"
Soon, Vanessa turned and walked back to the altar.
Alice looked around at the others in bewilderment.
She felt air leaking through her mouth-Vanessa had just pulled out her baby tooth, which had been about to fall out.
"Allen, is our Lord... really this sinister?" the little boy beside him whispered.
Even Allen's usually expressionless face could not help twitching.
In front of the Difference Engine, Elliot watched the Golden Threads with interest.
The thread had grown a considerable length!
Upon realizing he did not know what to sacrifice, he had decisively chosen the simplest method: try sacrificing everything that could be sacrificed.
Of course, this approach could easily lead to one outcome: once you had an altar in your home, the altar would be all that remained...
But he had to admit, it really worked.
Elliot had indeed discovered quite a few things that could advance the sacrifice progress.
First came various miscellaneous objects. Sacrificing these things was practically useless; the Golden Threads did not move at all.
Then there were the things that made the thread advance a little.
For example... meat.
Vanessa had sacrificed two pounds of beef. Dorothea had only recently bought it and had intended to save it for soup the next day.
This made the Golden Threads shift ever so slightly, almost imperceptibly.
Then there was Alice's baby tooth, which moved it a little more than Vanessa's fingernail had.
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