Chapter 1978 A Ball
“Give me the thing! Hurry up! Go up and break it!”

The voice sounded exasperated and extremely anxious.

It was clearly just a vague voice, but now it turned into an angry shout. It was obvious that he was talking to someone, but the conversation broke down.

But then again, Alyssa felt that this voice sounded a little familiar. The man with disheveled hair who was performing the cult ceremony on the terrace just now seemed to have this voice.

Everyone tiptoed up the stairs. In this situation, it was not appropriate to let Benben follow, because no matter how careful it was, it would make noise.

So Benben stayed at the bottom of the stairs, while the others, including Xista, walked up two stairs silently and stretched their heads to look up to the second floor.

The first thing that caught my eye was a strange object.

It was a ball wrapped in vines, very large, almost as big as a shuttle, with a diameter of nearly twenty meters.

The vines are wrapped tightly and no one knows what’s inside. One can only see some light green light through the gaps in the vines.

The walls on both sides of the vine ball were filled with torches emitting blue light. Alyssa didn’t recognize this thing.

Because of the eternal flame, they had not used it for a long time. But Alyssa could see that this thing emitted cold light, and it also provided a clear lighting for the second floor.

The disheveled man seen on the terrace earlier was waving a silver scepter and shouting at the cultists in black robes around him. He kept calling them incompetent and useless, which was quite reminiscent of the West Coast style.

The cultists who were scolded quickly squatted down.

Alyssa saw that there seemed to be several people lying on the floor. The cultists used a silver knife to cut the wrists and necks of these people, as if they were bleeding as much as possible.

The blood seemed to be alive, constantly accumulating and wriggling on the floor. Alyssa thought it might be some kind of evil magic, because the bloodstains formed something like a magic circle on the floor.

Alyssa is not a professional magician. For Alyssa, identifying magic circles is something that no one can understand unless they are scholars who study ancient magic technology.

Two light clicks were heard in the communication channel. It was a signal from Lieutenant Dui on the stairs on the other side, meaning that they were ready and could open fire at any time.

Alyssa also tapped the throat mic twice to show that she understood. She listened carefully to the headphones and found that Li Chengxi did not speak.

Although she could immediately strike the cultists by surprise, Alyssa wanted to know what these guys were doing here.

The style of this painting is different from the previous swarm, especially the vine ball that is most obvious in the field of vision, which makes Alyssa feel that it may be a safe, and these cultists are trying to open it.

Then, things are simple.

Since it is a safe, there must be treasures inside. The Swan’s scanner also shows high-energy reactions nearby. When the cultists open the safe, it will be a great opportunity for them to reap the benefits.

In particular, Li Chengxi did not immediately let Alyssa and the others launch an attack, which shows that the cultists’ actions should not pose a threat to them.

So Alyssa chose to let others wait and see what was going on.

The cultists moved very quickly, mainly because the disheveled man kept urging them on. It seemed that if they were slow, the man would personally bleed those who were clumsy.

In just a dozen seconds, the cultists completed the bloodletting operation and quickly retreated to the wall. The blood on the floor was quickly and automatically forming some kind of magic circle.

The disheveled man stood in front of the magic circle, holding up a necklace-like thing that looked like many centipede legs. Although the shape of this thing was slightly different, it was similar to the holy emblem that all members of the Glowing Ion Yin Order would wear.

In other words, it is the evil emblem of the evil god.

A blood-red light burst out from the emblem and shot into the magic circle. The disheveled man chanted something loudly in an incomprehensible language. Perhaps it was not a language at all, but some syllables specifically used in magical rituals.

Alyssa had heard that wizards in the Middle Ages would use magic words to chant spells, which in her opinion was a very old and backward method.

Along with the man’s voice, changes began to occur.

At first there was a dim roar, followed by a clear vibration. Within a few seconds, it seemed as if the entire building and even the entire ridge were shaking.

The gods have no power in the mortal world. Even in the void, the place with the least oppression, the gods cannot demonstrate their divine power here.

This should be a ritual to forcibly guide the power of the Centipede Lord.

Alyssa heard a crack, and then a piercing noise as if thousands of crystals were shattered, and then some invisible shock wave hit everyone.

Alyssa and the others were actually fine, after all, they were hiding on the stairs and sticking their heads out to observe. When they saw the cultists hiding by the wall being knocked down one after another, they quickly retreated back under the stairs.

If a real shock wave flew over the head, the door that was open inward would be hit by the shock wave and closed tightly with a loud bang.

Alyssa felt that the shock wave should have passed, so she quickly looked up again.

The cultists standing on both sides of the magic circle were knocked down at this time, but the man with disheveled hair seemed unaffected. He still held up the evil emblem of the Centipede Lord and chanted some strange syllables loudly.

A layer of fine red light appeared on the magic circle made entirely of blood. At that moment, everyone seemed to see a giant red centipede twisting its body appear in front of them, which scared everyone.

But the cultists did not notice that Alyssa was peeking. They blinked and realized that the scene just now was just an illusion.

At this moment, the disheveled man let out a high-pitched shout and two eye-catching red smoke streamed out of the magic circle.

It’s called smoke only in appearance, but in fact it is more like two bands of light that are like arms, reaching out to grab the ball made of vines.

These guys actually called upon the power of the Centipede Lord. This scene was actually the same as Li Chengxi reaching out to interfere in the mortal world.

Those two arm-like light bands were truly the hands of the Centipede Lord.

The sphere made of vines is like a seal and also some kind of defense, but just like Li Chengxi can pierce the seal with one finger, the Lord of the Centipedes is also a powerful divine power, and its power is also a dimensionality reduction attack on the mortal world.

The vine ball, which looked very solid at first glance, broke apart the moment it was touched by the arm of the Centipede Lord. Large pieces of vines fell from it, and dried up and turned black the moment they hit the ground, as if they were dead.

However, this vine ball seemed to be very thick, with one layer wrapped around another. The Centipede Lord tried to pull it open with his hands for a long time but failed to completely open it.

When you think about it this way, it’s a bit funny.

Alyssa knocked on the throat microphone twice, telling everyone to get ready. As long as the vine ball was opened, it didn’t matter if there were treasures inside, they had to clean up these cultists first.

(End of this chapter)