040: Blood Sanctify Sect

After dinner, taking advantage of the crimson moon's rise before it reached its highest point, Don pulled Olsen into the 'Theater With Curtains That Never Draw.'

As he had expected, people he 'acknowledged' would not be turned into marionettes.

Although the hidden theater core still wanted to string up Olsen like preserved meat, it ultimately remained wary of those 'ravings' it had heard when being sealed, turning a blind eye.

"This, this is..."

Olsen was obviously stunned. Looking at the corpses that had been sorted and packaged on the ground, along with the Beyonder Characteristics placed together with these corpses, Olsen was in a complete state of bewilderment—'Who am I, where am I, what is all this stuff.'

"These are the corpses of Abraham family members remaining in this Sealed Artifact, along with the Beyonder Characteristics they left behind."

Don explained.

Seeing Olsen's incredulous expression, Don shrugged, "As long as the sealing is done correctly, it's completely possible to extract these things from under the Sealed Artifact's control."

But... hadn't they just encountered that terrifying Sealed Artifact a few days ago?

Right?

No problem, right?

That's how it was, right?

He hadn't really slept for a month or a year, had he?

You have to know, a Sealed Artifact that could easily kill Sequence 4 Beyonders had absolutely reached the Angel level—that was equivalent to a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact within the Church!

All Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts represented the Church's most core power. Every Grade 0 Sealed Artifact sealed by the Church, if no deity was involved, represented massive experiments and lengthy cycles.

Wanting to master a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact was extremely difficult. The Angel level represented powerful force, loss of control, madness, and eeriness. Even the orthodox god Churches didn't possess many Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts—

Don had just sealed a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact like this?! And even stripped away its marionettes?! How long had it been!

Olsen felt like he hadn't woken up yet. He looked at the Beyonder Characteristics on the ground, then at Don who was examining that huge dark iron gate, his heart filled with unprecedented shock while forcibly calming himself down.

'Calm down, calm down. Don's father appears to be a high-sequence Beyonder, perhaps there's also help from that high-sequence Beyonder.'

It couldn't possibly be an evil god intervening!

He controlled his emotions, maintaining his spirituality, not letting himself be scared to the point of losing control.

After organizing his thoughts, Olsen looked at those extracted Beyonder Characteristics, his heart filled with complex emotions.

He saw among them a Demigod-level Beyonder Characteristic—just looking at it once, he averted his gaze, not letting his already somewhat out-of-control state fall toward an even more unpredictable direction.

"On behalf of the Abraham family, I thank you, Don. Thank you very much."

He mumbled.

Honestly, Don could have completely kept everything for himself. As long as he didn't speak, no one would know what marionettes and hidden Beyonder Characteristics in that theater belonged to the Abraham family.

This favor was far greater than the other party fishing him out of the theater, far greater than telling him about possible methods to resist the ravings.

Too much—it was also beyond his ability to decide, a favor he couldn't repay.

Seeing this performance, Don knew that his plan to win over the Abraham family was pretty much settled.

"Stay here for a while and see if the ravings appear," Don had just carved a few more flowers on the iron gate to pass time. After Olsen nodded and began collecting those Beyonder Characteristics from the ground, he flashed out of the theater's interior, simultaneously releasing his Traveler marionette and traveling back to the castle again.

The crimson moon rose, its demonic enormous moonlight displayed in mid-air. Looking at it too long felt like one would sink deeply into it, unable to extricate oneself.

Don walked to the door of his study and pushed it open to enter.

A servant had already lit flames in the study, illuminating the interior brightly. Owen had been sitting inside for who knows how long, currently holding a poetry book with a face full of bitter resentment.

Don went over for a look. Oh, Intis script.

"Looks like everything went smoothly?"

Seeing it was Don, Owen unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, throwing the poetry collection onto the table like a hot potato.

"This is simply like mental pollution," he complained somewhat.

"Reading more is always good." Don gestured for the Traveler marionette beside him to bring over a chair. Owen glanced at that Traveler marionette. "New marionette?"

"Mm."

Speaking of this, Don's face carried some smile, his tone also containing some bragging, "A Traveler."

You have to know, Travelers were very hard to kill even among all mid-to-low sequences. Without making comprehensive preparations in advance, wanting to kill or turn a Traveler into a marionette was simply wishful thinking.

But he had two!

Owen shrugged, not asking where Don had gotten the Traveler marionette from, just like he never asked who Don's 'Artisan' friend really was.

After Don had the marionette stand beside him, he also sat down. "I've roughly understood the source of that Sealed Artifact."

The marionettes captured by the 'Theater With Curtains That Never Draw,' as long as they were below the Sequence 2 level, were equivalent to having undergone deep spiritualism by it. Before returning, Don had already called over that Sequence 4 Devil to question him once. The other party was indeed one of the members of Blood Sanctify Sect, believing in the evil god called the Dark Side of The Universe.

"This time it was the evil god they worship who issued a divine oracle."

"The Dark Side of The Universe issued a divine oracle?"

Owen widened his eyes, somewhat incredulous.

"Massive blood sacrifices... that's roughly the meaning. As for what the Dark Side of The Universe wanted to obtain through sacrifices, or perhaps to satisfy some ritual requirement, that Devil wasn't clear either."

"However, he wasn't the guy who deployed the theater and turned many people into marionettes."

Through the Devil's description, Don roughly understood that cooperating with this Devil was a Desire Apostle.

Not at the Demigod level—the Devil was very clear about this point. But what exactly was his identity, and why did he have the confidence to cooperate with a murderous Devil? Wasn't he afraid the other party would turn on him and steal the theater?

Blood Sanctify was, after all, a loose alliance. The Devils among them, having gone through the 'Fallen Angel' sequence, simply couldn't possibly have concepts like 'companions.'

Killing and treasure-snatching was very common. Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts were rare treasures anywhere!

But this point didn't manifest specifically even in the theater's deep spiritualism. When mentioning that Desire Apostle, the Devil's marionette even trembled somewhat. This was the most core thing simulated by the theater, and also the point that made Don most suspicious.

Was it unknown, or deliberately erased? A mid-sequence Beyonder who made a Demigod feel trembling... this was a very troublesome guy, who had even backstabbed the Devil cooperating with him, leaving him together in the theater to serve as ritual material.

Cold-blooded, indifferent, not treating people as human—Beyonders of the Abyss pathway deserved to die just like Beyonders of the Secret Supplicant pathway.

(End of Chapter)