For the next few hours, Jake grew dull at all these executions. The Zhorion priest had no intention of stopping and the crowd seemed to gorge themselves on these barbaric acts like geeks bingewatching their favorite TV series.
The day passed and the number of participants still in the running continued to drop at a dizzying rate. However, the prisoner sacrifices taking place right in front of him were not enough to explain such a hecatomb alone. The other Zhorion tribes were probably doing the same thing.
Even after several hours, only about fifty prisoners had been sacrificed and luckily Sarah and the others were not among them. In contrast, more than 100 Players had been eliminated during those few hours. Including the prisoners, they numbered just under 900.
