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Night.
Blood Sand City, East District, Dragon Castle, deep beneath the ground.
Massive fire pillars stood tall in the vast undercity square.
At the top of each fire pillar, near the fire basin, a little devil with a tail baring flames served, holding in their hands an array of sacrificial offerings from human bodies:
Hearts, intestines, forearms, brains, lobes of lungs, and so on.
Whenever a deep, female voice chanting echoed from the depths of the square,
a couple of the little devils would hurriedly toss the offerings in their hands into the fire basin.
Bang bang bang!
Infernos of blue or green flames burst forth from the basins.
Occasionally, some of these burning infernos would transform into angry human faces that flew out of the basins.
At that moment,
the little devil responsible for serving that particular fire basin would frantically flee to the ground underneath the pillar.
There,