Chapter 314: Proof of Death

Jiedeer retracted the Twilight Giant Sword once again; He had already used Light Storm several times, and the skeletons that had been continuously pouring out from all parts of the building complex had all been cleared away.

Yet during this process, the expression of this Angel grew increasingly grave, and the throbbing of his spiritual perception became more and more frequent.

"Is it because the distance to the Seal is no longer far?" Jiedeer could also sense that He was gradually approaching the true Seal, and the eerie patterns on the surface of His body were already becoming nearly impossible to suppress.

"Ah!" A scream suddenly erupted from the group of the God of War Church as they walked.

Jiedeer's eyes were filled with the orange-red of Twilight; His body instantly teleported in front of the priest who had screamed, and He reached out to place a hand on the priest.

The light of Twilight bathed the entire person in an instant, but it was clearly already too late.

Even under the Angel Blessing and the protection of Twilight, the priest still could not suppress his screams, and in just a few dozen seconds, the priest's face was covered in black corpse spots; these corpse spots devoured the priest's flesh, life, and even soul.

In less than ten seconds, this priest, who stood nearly two meters tall, had gone through the process of death and decay, gradually becoming a pile of dull-colored bones before crumbling into bone ash.

"..."

Jiedeer, a Sequence 2 Angel, could only watch him die in agony, without any way to help.

He had tried Holy Ointment, Angel Blessing, Purification, Exorcism, and various other means, even utilizing the eerie patterns on His own body that had activated to a certain degree, but without exception, they all failed.

Death is irreversible.

"Must Die!" This is an essential ability for high-ranking members of the "Death" Pathway, like the final judgment of a cold Death Monarch, which is fundamentally impossible to resist.

"Death Uniqueness..." Jiedeer was silent for a moment, put away the Beyonder Characteristic that had gradually precipitated, and then led the team to continue forward.

He expanded the armor protecting His body outward, as if transforming it into a curtain of Twilight light, shrouding everyone.

"Speed up!" The group moved quickly under the Angel's protection, gradually approaching the largest one... the Bone Pyramid.

It was the very Bone Pyramid that had once manifested on the Space Barrier; it was the noblest architecture in the traditions of the Balam Empire, symbolizing that "Underworld Emperor" who controlled the Underworld and life and death.

When truly standing before this Bone Pyramid, everyone, including the Angel, had to lower their heads to show respect.

Any Beyonder who came here could know to whom this pyramid belonged.

That was an emperor who ruled the Southern Continent for a thousand years, and also a True God!

His mausoleum was actually in this obscure little city!

Although the Balam Empire had split, its royal Aegis Family had always remained an Angel Family, and even possessed more than one Angel.

They had searched for the mausoleum of their ancestors for countless years, but their gaze had always been focused on the already half-destroyed Underworld, never thinking it would land here.

Jiedeer slowly raised His proud head, began to examine this mausoleum, confirmed the degree of closure here, and then began His plan.

"I need your blood!" Jiedeer looked at those people He had brought.

"... Yes!" The others were also well-prepared; the Bishop and the other priests all slashed their wrists at the same time, letting fresh blood gush out from their veins.

They were all Beyonders, and Warriors whose physical fitness almost exceeded the limits of humans; their blood volume was higher than that of ordinary people.

Jiedeer, with an expressionless face, drew the corresponding Sacrificial Rune on the ground; the rune and the blood combined as if they had come to life, beginning to actively extract blood from these people.

This time, it was truly a gushing flow of blood; the lives of these Beyonders seemed to be passing away along with the blood.

Bang!

The shortest among them, who was also the lowest-Sequence Warrior, fell down, having already entered a state of shock.

Jiedeer looked at him expressionlessly without stopping; finally, under His burning gaze, that person completely became a dried corpse, and all the blood in his body was extracted.

Bang!

Another one fell, repeating everything from just before.

This was an extremely eerie scene; people kept falling, and people kept being drained into dried corpses, but these people did not scream, just letting their lives fade away.

They were all believers of the "God of War".

There were nine people in the group; six of them were forcibly drained into dried corpses, and three of them were also about to lose their lives.

"Enough!"

Jiedeer finally called for them to stop; at this moment, He also cut His own wrist, using His own blood to draw the most eerie part of the Blood Sacrifice Rune.

Different from the previous blood sacrifice, the current blood was merely a primer, the ink; its only function was to finish drawing that rune.

The function of the rune was also very simple, merely to stimulate a certain kind of activity in this bloody way.

"You stay here, do not approach the pyramid again."

Jiedeer looked at the few Warriors who had not died from excessive blood loss.

"No matter what happens here, do not look up, do not look; if something falls in front of you, pick it up and send it back to the church at the fastest speed, praying for the help of my Lord."

"Yes!" They seemed to realize something and stayed to wait in a building not far from the pyramid.

Jiedeer looked at the completely finished Blood Sacrifice Rune, dissipated His armor, and tore open the clothing on His chest.

There was not a single piece of intact skin on His chest; blood and bone were both dissolving in a certain black radiance.

But He was an Angel after all, and the flesh on His chest was also constantly squirming and growing, resisting that black radiance.

It was just that the level of that black radiance seemed to be even higher than Jiedeer's, not only eroding His chest but also diverting a portion to all parts of His body, forming those eerie patterns that seemed to have life.

Jiedeer forcibly reached His hand into His own chest, groped around inside His body, and finally touched a hard object within His chest cavity.

It was not His bone; His bones, lungs, and even heart had already been dissolved by the black radiance and no longer existed.

His chest cavity had long been empty; if He were not an Angel, He would have died long ago.

Sizzle!

An eerie sound that made one's scalp tingle rang out; Jiedeer expressionlessly pulled the hard object out of His chest cavity, still stained with half a section of intestine.

Jiedeer pushed aside that half-section of intestine, revealing the true face of the hard object.

It was a badge.

"Proof of Death." This was the name in the Divine Oracle of the God of War; this Sealed Artifact did not even have an official Sealed Artifact sequence number, and it had been hidden deep within the God's Kingdom of the God of War since the beginning of the Fifth Epoch.

It was not until half a month ago, when the "God of War" issued a Divine Oracle, that this thing was bestowed.