Chapter 174: Blood Clan Sacrifice

The Trensost Empire, one of the three great empires of the present day, was established the most recently, yet by relying on the Gods Alliance and receiving the secret support of almost every Church, its development has been extremely rapid.

Furthermore, the Night Emperor is also a capable ruler who formulated strict laws, fixing rules in place in a mystical sense.

"He even married a 'Beauty Goddess' as his Empress." Chumen walked through the capital of Trensost—Backlund.

The United Kingdom is gone, but this city has ultimately stepped onto the world's most dazzling stage.

"The rules of Trensost..." Chumen had already sensed the special nature of this city the moment he stepped into it.

Every inch of land here is demarcated by sacred rules; compared to the neighboring Solomon Empire, it is strikingly symmetrical and orderly.

This even effectively constitutes a "spider web," with the God's Kingdom of the "Judge" at its center.

Under these circumstances, any act that violates the law within the scope of Backlund will be punished by the rules.

From being silenced to being whipped, and then to being sent to the guillotine, there is always a method of death that criminals prefer.

From ordinary people to the King of Angels, no one can stir up trouble in this city.

This also makes this city one of the great wonders of this world.

Due to the conflict between their Pathways and the original betrayal, the relationship between the "Night Emperor" Trensost and the "Black Emperor" Solomon is extremely hostile.

This can be seen from the style of the empires.

"Moon, Blood Clan..." Chumen soon arrived at the Blood Clan's residence.

With Aornia becoming the Empress of the Trensost Empire, the Blood Clan, which had been somewhat withered since the "fall" of the Ancestor in the Second Epoch, returned to the center of the historical stage and became an important supporter of the Empire.

Chumen walked through the Blood Clan's residence, sensing various traces of sacrifices to the Moon.

"A 'Summoning Master', currently the rotating officiant for the Blood Clan's sacrifices." Chumen found what he needed at the altar, along with a priest.

This was an old Blood Clan member with hair half-gray, wearing blood-colored divine robes, praying devoutly to Lilith.

The Blood Clan has always firmly believed that the Ancestor of Blood never truly fell, and they frequently hold rituals of prayer to the Moon.

These rituals sometimes receive a response, generally when Lilith happens to be paying attention to the Blood Clan and casually sends down a Divine Oracle.

But under the influence of the "Mother Tree of Desire" and the "Fallen Mother Goddess," it is hard to say who is actually responding.

Chumen saw many records of sacrifices outside the altar.

His gaze changed instantly; in his eyes, this space seemed to be flowing backward in time, and each previous sacrifice was reflected in his pupils.

This is a deepening of his ability to control divination, prophecy, and information, obtaining sufficient information from the Spirit World and the Real World to conduct a historical deduction.

With such an ability, not much can escape his eyes.

And those that can escape have major problems themselves.

"Divine Oracle..." After an unknown amount of time, Chumen reached out and tapped, and a scene was intercepted from the fog of history, manifesting into Reality.

In the scene, there was a Blood Clan member wearing a blood-red crown.

Even in the fog of history, this Blood Clan member possessed a beauty that was difficult to describe in words, capable of instantly causing those below the level of Angel to fall and sign a summoning contract with Her.

This is one aspect of the application of the "Beauty Goddess" ability: obtaining "privilege" through incomparable, conceptual beauty.

At this Sequence, Her appearance and charm are Her most powerful Beyonder abilities; to resist them, one needs at least the status of an Angel.

"A sacrifice held personally by the 'Beauty Goddess', the timing was about ten years ago, and it has been performed periodically..."

Chumen obtained sufficient information and subsequently interpreted the "Divine Oracle" from that scene.

"Accelerate the reproduction of new Blood Clan members." This is a very normal Divine Oracle, and it is also something the Blood Clan has always been doing.

"But... 'reproduction'?" Chumen's spiritual intuition provided the answer.

"Reproduction" is the Authority of the Mother Earth Goddess; when Lilith was an Ancient God, She was a True God who blended the "Moon" and "Mother" Pathways, and She once held such Authority to propagate the Blood Clan.

And according to the customs of the Blood Clan, new Blood Clan members must offer sacrifices to the Moon in gratitude after they are born.

"Hmm..." But from the overall scene, it is impossible to tell if Aornia's state has any problems.

"Then let's do it again." Chumen used the "Authority of Empty Imagination" to arrange for the entire Blood Clan to hold a sacrifice, using the excuse that several "Summoning Masters" of the Blood Clan had received revelations from the Ancestor in their dreams and needed to perform a clearer verification.

"The 'Beauty Goddess' Aornia, because of Her attention to the Blood Clan, also noticed this sudden sacrifice and decided to return to the Blood Clan personally to preside over it and listen to the Ancestor's teachings."

"Blood Clan..."

Chumen's script writing deliberately bypassed Trensost; as the True God of Rules, the "Judge," Trensost could perceive various subtle changes in the world and discover traces of "Imagination."

And just as Chumen's script was written and began to be implemented, the "Beauty Goddess" Aornia returned to the Blood Clan's residence.

"Your Majesty!" The Blood Clan member responsible for guarding the altar knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at the face of the "Beauty Goddess."

The status of the Blood Moon Queen in the Blood Clan is incomparable, second only to the Ancestor.

"Prepare all the sacrificial items; I will preside over it personally." Aornia was even more beautiful than the portrait in the fog of history.

A gorgeous long dress in deep black dotted with red moons and stars, a bright red moon crown, blood-colored eyes, and fair, rosy cheeks—She only had to stand there to become the most beautiful scenery in the world.

She seemed to possess every beautiful trait in human and even non-human aesthetics, making sentient creatures unable to look away, lost in Her beauty.

This is also a form of control, the kind with no method of restraint.

"This kind of weapon... no wonder even True Gods would fall." Chumen thought of the first time he saw Lilith.

Trensost and Aornia were not just a simple political marriage; these two truly had love and affection like an ordinary couple.

"I would even be met with a desperate strike from Trensost the moment I moved against Aornia?"

Chumen exclaimed, sensing a certain rule from Aornia.

Trensost shared a considerable portion of the Rule Divine Kingdom's permissions with Aornia; the current Aornia is more like the Elf Queen of the Second Epoch, acting on behalf of the God's Authority.

"The controller of life, the Ancestor of the Blood Clan..."

After everything was ready, Aornia began the sacrifice; on that altar, runes drawn with human blood burned, and as the blood-colored flames flickered, a certain power drifted toward the endless heights.