"Thud, thud..."
"Swoosh, swoosh..."
Heavy footsteps came from behind the altar. Ning Cheng forcibly steadied his mind and looked intently in that direction.
A giant, standing over thirty feet tall, was stepping towards them. Each step it took made the ground around them tremble.
What shocked Ning Cheng even more was the giant's tragic state. It had a gruesome blood hole where its heart should have been, apparently carved out forcibly, with the blood still dripping down its chest. The giant also had only one arm, and the single arm and its two legs were shackled with massive chains. With every step it took, the chains rattled loudly.
Even its eyes were not spared—only one remained, and it too was a hollow void. The other eye was blind. From the remaining hollow eye, dark blood dripped, and the giant could only be described as wretched.
"I sacrifice my blood, restore my heart..."
"I sacrifice my blood, restore my eyes..."
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