Chapter 3485: Inverted City

Xia De looked at the pages in the demon's hand again. His guess that the 【Puppeteer's Script】 was playing a role in affecting the people and unicorns around him seemed to be correct. It was just that he guessed the object using the relic wrong.

Xia De's first reaction was that the 【Society of Ten Thousand Returns】 actually cooperated with a demon to deal with him. Last year in the Randall Valley, the evil cultists who believed in the 【Stone Heart Demon】 had done similar things.

But soon he realized that things shouldn't be that simple. The blood stains on the pages in the demon's hand seemed to indicate something:

"These pages were snatched by you? What did you do to the 【Society of Ten Thousand Returns】?"

Of course, no one would answer Xia De's question, and Xia De also realized long after that the "priest" who was knocked off the snow mountain by the joint efforts of Luweiya, Emilia, and Miss Sabel on the first night of the All-Souls Festival had bumped into the demon hiding in the snow mountain while in an injured state.

Even if a candidate rashly uses a relic, they have to pay a price. This is the rule of fate, especially since he actually wanted to use the "Puppeteer's Script" to affect the fate of the Time-Chosen.

The demon's hand touched the flesh-and-blood wall, and then blackness soaked into the flesh color and blood red. The ground under his feet was vibrating slightly, and the blood pool in the room also rippled. That layer of deep darkness did not completely change the surrounding colors, but the walls of the core room suddenly bloomed with dazzling blood-red light two seconds later.

In that layer of light, the mimic opposite the blood pool took a deep breath and closed its eyes. The flesh and blood all over its body were quickly stripped and reorganized, and Xia De saw that the meat mass in its body actually began to differentiate into organs similar to human internal organs during this process.

It was becoming stronger, and stronger and stronger. The unicorns in the corridor behind Xia De were crying uneasily, but the maid Winnie remained silent.

The mimic opened its blood-red eyes, and the phantoms of huge buildings around it constantly emerged. It said softly to Xia De:

"God-Caller, welcome to my 【Flesh-and-Blood City】."

"Oh! Was there an earthquake?"

At the pier of Kyle-Todd Town, the monstrous waves had retreated at this time, leaving a huge number of water ghost and fish-man corpses on the pier. Miss Ilese walked from the sea holding the relic that had just been contained. Elder Harald was just about to sigh with the elf priests who were also resting beside him when the ground vibrated.

"Something happened at the summit again. It seems the remedy ritual must..."

The old man stopped his words and looked up at the sky with the elf priests of the Moon Creek Clan. Blood-red light floated in the morning glow that had not yet dissipated above the island. Elder Harald, as a priest of the snow mountain, perceived the whispering elements that suddenly erupted in that layer of strange blood light even faster than the old elves who were twice his age.

"What is that?"

Ordinary people might just think that the sky this morning had an unusual color, and subsequent newspapers would attribute it to air pollution. But from the perspective of a ring-wielding, as that layer of blood-red light in the sky gradually became more stable, a huge city was suspended upside down in the clouds above the sky.

Buildings of blood-red color were arranged neatly and distributed in every corner of the field of vision, or rather, any position that could be seen in the field of vision was blood-red. But all the buildings were cast from flesh and blood, and these flesh-and-blood buildings were even wriggling.

When Elder Harald stopped observing the details of the upside-down blood-red city and instead observed it as a whole, he felt in a trance as if a huge, deformed flesh-and-blood creature was floating above Fatumunster Island at this moment.

An inexplicable panic surged into his heart. The appearance of this feeling had nothing to do with age, just because his inspiration was reminding him how terrifying the thing he was seeing at this moment was.

But Elder Harald had experienced too many things after all. He took a deep breath to adjust his breathing and tried his best to move his gaze away from above. And the elderly elves beside him were the same as him, no longer looking up at the sky, but the red light in their field of vision and the fishy sweetness in the air that gradually overwhelmed the smell of the sea breeze were still reminding them that the thing above their heads had not disappeared.

"This is an Unknowable-level relic similar to the 【Gap of Life and Death】 in Mid-Hill Castle."

Miss Ilese, who had already arrived on the shore, said, handing the relic in her hand to the girl with flaxen hair:

"It should be that the 【House of Mimics】 is out of control, but even if a relic is out of control, it shouldn't have such powerful power."

Elder Vilda and Elder Sorin also walked over at this time. Although the thing above their heads had just erupted and had not directly threatened the island, they knew what kind of disaster this thing would bring to the island of Fatumunster if it was not eliminated as soon as possible:

"The All-Souls Festival ritual must be completed as soon as possible. When the All-Souls Festival ritual is completed, the power erupted from the snow mountain can calm any abnormal elemental area on this island. Even if it cannot completely expel the current anomaly, it will not make the problem more complicated."

"Excuse me, how should the remedy measures be done?"

Rita asked from the side, and Elder Harald explained:

"The ritual is actually considered a failure now, so the remedy ritual doesn't need to be too complicated. It only needs to send fire and extra sacrifices back to the summit, and then hold a special ritual. The fire seed sent back to the mountain should have been extinguished, but the bonfire in the town will retain the fire seed for three days according to custom, so you can use that.

The extra sacrifices are some special snake skins, and they should be in the warehouse."

He thought that other things might happen in the town, so most of the people here couldn't leave. After scanning the crowd resting on the pier, he asked Miss Ilese:

"Claire has gone to the city to help rescue that unicorn, so we don't have a suitable candidate for the time being. Can you help send the fire seed and sacrifices to the summit?"

But the boat girl shook her head:

"I'm going to the city in a while too. The situation is very bad now. However, this Miss Swift can help. She is very trustworthy."

The three elders hesitated slightly before agreeing. But the girl with flaxen hair asked:

"Isn't this ritual required to be performed by Fatum people?"

Elder Harald explained:

"The ritual has already failed, so the remedy ritual is not that strict. But you can't fly directly to the summit. You need to pass through some important nodes and light the fire in the auditorium. I'll go prepare a map for you... You haven't been to the snow mountain, have you?"

Rita shook her head. After coming to the island, most of her time was spent in the high tower and the castle.

"Let Claire's friends lead the way. Some of them have been to the snow mountain."

Elder Vilda suggested, and Matilda said:

"I'll go with Miss Swift. Although I'm not very familiar with the snow mountain, I'm a diviner, so at least I won't get lost."

None of Claire's followers had been to the peak of the snow mountain, so it was even better that Matilda was willing to help.

The great elders agreed. Just as they were about to give more details about the climb, the old elves suddenly said:

"Look over there!"

Under the sky in the direction of the city, several white figures were approaching rapidly. Then, amidst the exclamation of the young Fatum priest on the pier, three unicorns landed.

These were, of course, not Aili or Little Liana. The three unicorns were sturdier than them, and at a glance, they were standard-sized adult unicorns. And returning with the unicorns was Stella, who had white hair.

She jumped off the back of a unicorn and explained:

"Miss Sienode has already broken into the 【House of Mimics】 with the unicorns. Miss asked me to bring three unicorns back to see if help is needed here."

As a candidate, she should have actually found a way to enter the 【House of Mimics】 to help like Mr. Mortis just now, but the situation had changed too much now. Even Emilia wanted to persuade Luweiya and Danister before entering the 【House of Mimics】, so she was left outside by Claire.

It just so happened that someone was needed to return to the town to check the situation here, so Stella brought three unicorns back.

"The matter here is temporarily over, but it's not certain whether there will be other situations later."

Miss Ilese said, and then asked others:

"There are three unicorns willing to help here now, and three people who are free. I think no one else is needed to help."

So Stella, Rita, and Matilda were responsible for sending the fire and sacrifices back to the "Peak of Destiny." The three adult unicorns served as mounts to facilitate their rapid movement. These adult unicorns had outstanding combat power, enough to protect them as they climbed the mountain smoothly. After all, why no ordinary Fatum people had reached the summit was still unknown to everyone.

Taking advantage of the elders going to find the sacrifices in the warehouse, Miss Ilese asked Stella again:

"How is the situation in the city?"

The white-haired girl answered immediately:

"It was already a bit late when I and Miss arrived at North End Alley. The first batch of reinforcements had already broken the door of the 【House of Mimics】 and rushed in. Later, the great witches arrived one after another, and then Miss Sienode, Miss Danister, the unicorns, and Miss Sylvia and Miss Edwards, who arrived earlier, entered the 【House of Mimics】 as the second batch of reinforcements.

When Miss Anat was arranging the third batch of reinforcements, the anomaly occurred. Now the city is still discussing whether the city in the sky is directly connected to the interior of the 【House of Mimics】. That 'Miss Balance' wants to try to enter the deepest part of the relic directly from the city in the sky, and then I was sent over."

The unicorns stood beside them, blowing the sea breeze. The boat girl nodded gently without looking up again:

"You three should also be careful when climbing the mountain. Ensure your safety and reach the summit as soon as possible. Completing the remedy ritual will greatly reduce the pressure on Xia De's side."

The three witch apprentices nodded together, and the three unicorns that came from Saint Byron were actually quite uneasy at this moment. They had a stronger perception of relics and evil than humans, and they understood better how terrifying the flesh-and-blood city inverted above their heads was at this moment. ===== CHAPTER 3486 =====