-Search a high place and use that ray of yours to freeze as many insane people as you can, this space should be useful for that purpose, and unless your life is in danger, attack only after me.
-Understood, my master.
-Gweeek
Right, the bird.
I looked at the ostrich with stars in its big and dark eyes.
-When the fight begins, I´ll free some people, protect them and kill anyone who tries to pursuit them wearing these cloaks.
-Gwaaak!
I suppose that´s a yes.
-What will you do after that master?
I half-opened the door of stone and watched the huge crimson magic circle in the wall behind the podium.
-I´ll kill anything that gets out of there.
The expression of Fei Xue hardened, she knew that something very bad would soon arrive.
And so did I.
-Let's go.
I opened the door and entered the place, we both took different paths, while Fei Xue climbed steps and gained some high ground, I mixed with the crowd and slowly moved forward until I was in front of the stone podium with headless corpses.
The floor was wet, not only blood was there, but other fluids easy to recognize with the smell.
My prince* My lord* Avenge us* Help them* Kill them*
Black threads arrived from all directions, and explosive strength filled my body.
The ghosts of the people murdered floated over the corpses scattered in the surroundings, some of the fanatics were enjoying them while others cut their distinctive features to make grotesque accessories.
All the ghosts had a scar on their necks or the stomach wide open, some had their clothes made shreds, showing their damaged skin, they did not care about the gender, age, or race, the hands marked on their bodies made it clear.
The ones who kept breathing were inside an iron cage with several magic circles surrounding it.
-It´s okay, stay calm, the help will arrive soon.
Inside the cage was a female elf with the same uniform as Iris, although being filled with wounds, she kept smiling and talking to the civilians in front of her with a warm voice to keep them calm.
A surrealist attitude in this dark scenario.
But it was something I could respect.
-Brothers! Sisters! I must notify you of something very, very sad! Terribly sad! So, so, so, sad that I can´t stop grieving how sad it is!
Among the multitude of screams, a voice echoed from behind the podium, a human with nothing but fancy pants was walking to the magic circle with the arms wide open to the crowd.
A pair of green eyes that constantly bleed, his head lacked hair and his complexion was skinny but muscular, all his body was covered in collars and bracelets made of pointy ears or animal tails, his skin of weird purple tonality was the home of several tattoos with the shape of pentagrams and letters that I didn´t understand.
-NO! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME!
While the man was speaking, an elf was brought to its execution.
The uniformed woman tried to stop it, but her bruised arms lacked the strength to do so.
To me, all the elves were similar, so I used the same method I used to distinguish the triplets.
Hair and voice.
This one had it short and his terrorized voice was a bit high-pitched.
They left the elf over the podium and then walked away.
-Today, two of our eldest brothers were... T-They were...
The tears mixed with the blood in his face, I would have loved to think that they were fake, but the truth is that the guy really put his heart into it.
-THEY WERE MURDERED!!
With a vociferous scream, his body collapsed, his fists hit the ground so many times that soon wounds appeared in his knuckles.
AAAAAHHHHHHH!!! *
The multitude stopped their activities and joined his cry.
I pretended to do the same to keep my drama, but mentally I was regretting having to be in contact with the compound of liquids down my feet.
-I know! I know! The pain is insufferable! Unbearable! Overwhelming and suffocating!
The hands of the mad man were scratching his neck so hard that blood spurted out of him.
The little drops of blood stained the faces of various fanatics.
-Brother Dorlo!
-Let us avenge them, brother!
-I will always follow you brother Dorlo!
...
Absurd.
It was hard to believe how a charisma so twisted had managed to convince so many people to follow him.
From afar I noticed how Fei Xue thought the same as she ripped off the heart of a fanatic with her hand.
Opposite of what I expected, the people near Fei Xue clapped her action instead of call for help or attack her.
Fucking freaks.
I returned my attention to the front.
The man called Dorlo bent his body in mortal angles while he raised from the ground, the disgusting cracks of his bones being crushed and his entrails being pulverized made clear that he wasn´t a normal character.
When he was basically a human spring bursting organs and blood with the bones piercing his flesh, he kept his monologue with an intact head that did not match the rest of his body.
-This pain! This unbearable pain is my punishment for having allowed such atrocity! This pain will be my expiation to the demon lord! Please! Remember this figure! Burn in your eyes this appearance to allow expiation on me!
The strange chants resound in all directions.
Don! * Don! *
Heavy drums made the ground shake.
-Look at me!
Don! * Don! * Don! *
Dances that reflected obscenity and savageness among those with wet crotches and knives in their hands left footprints on the blood.
-Everyone! Look at me!
DON! *
As a final act, Dorlo ripped off his own heart and exhibit it as a trophy over his broken body, his face seemed to have reached Nirvana.
-LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!!!
DON! * DON! *
Then the drums stopped.
The still-beating heart was wrapped in scrolls whose letters blinked with a red spark.
That must be his weak point!
I grabbed one of my knives and aimed at the heart.
-Greet the demon lord for me, damn son of a bitch...
My thoughts filtered through my mouth in a disgusted whisper.
And just when I was about to throw the knife...
-Let´s give our blood to the demon lord brother!
One of the fanatics tried to stab me.
I easily dodged the slash, then I positioned myself in his back and buried my hand inside his flesh.
-GHAGH!!
When I knew I had his vertebral spine I pulled.
KKRRRGH! *
Then his body fell while I had his skull and spine in my hand.
WOOOOOOHHHHH! *
-Excellent tribute, brother!
-What a beautiful way to kill!
-Please, delight us again!
I never thought I would be complimented for brutalizing someone.
In silence, I dropped the skull and kicked away the corpse.
Pot *
Incidentally, the blood of the guy made its way to the elf's mouth.
His face filled with disgust and then...
Blagh* Blegh*
He puked.
The sound of food falling caught the attention of everyone.
This is bad.
Reluctantly, I saved the knife I was about to throw.
...
An uncomfortable silence ruled.
Honestly, any sane person wouldn´t have accused the elf, what we just saw was a display that overpassed morbidness by many, many levels.
-You damn scum!
But this wasn´t a place with sane people.
-How you dare interrupt brother Dorlo?!
-I´ll eat your stomach so you never do the same again!
Now there was an enraged horde swinging knives everywhere.
Dorlo guarded his heart inside his unnatural body.
-Fuck...
Slowly, the amalgam of flesh rebuilt itself, but the head didn´t stop its words.
-It pains me, elf, the fact that you do not comprehend my expiation hurts me more than any wound. Is for that lack of love that beings like you just work as a sacrifice.
A pair of people approached the elf with daggers on their hands.
Dorlo opened his arms and hanged his head.
-From your invasive flesh the true regents will rise.
-AH! NO! PLEASE! DON´T!
The daggers fell.
And the elf fearfully closed his eyes.
BRGH* KRGHK*
-... Eh?
Before they could harm the elf, my hands were already crushing the heads of the fanatics.
-Who are you?!
Then I grabbed Dorlo´s head.
-Your death.
And activated Putrefaction.
-AAHH~ THIS PAIN! IT´S SO SWEEEeeeet....!
In seconds his flesh rotten, his eyes became liquid, and his brain left his fragile skull in a pile of grey matter.
Then I buried my fingers inside Dorlo´s chest, and with all the strength of my hand, threw him to the cultists.
While he was in the air, the hands of Dorlo moved strangely despite being headless.
Like if he was using sign language.
Thump*
-Brother Dorlo?! Ah! What is this?!
Once the infected body with Putrefaction crashed with the cultists, the effect spread like a virus from their skins.
-My hands! What is happening to my hands?!
-My face! My face is falling!
Lots of lives disappeared in a few seconds.
While I absorbed the black threads, the magic circle absorbed the blood of my victims and its shine became a blinding light.
Fei Xue established a mental connection.
-Prepare yourself, master, the demons are coming.
I glanced at the circle, and with a bothered smile, I said:
-Nothing unexpected.