Shadow Covenant

Chapter 170 "Best Friend"

A dense cold fog shrouded the branches, covering the hazy moonlight, only a few starlight sprinkled in the swamp full of filth and stench, and also vaguely revealed the corner of the altar shrouded in darkness, filled with blood, red and terrible .

"It hurts, Kakun, that human, I want to eat her!"

The sound of the apes communicating came from the darker surroundings, but those with dark vision would find it dilapidated. Beside the altar bathed in a spring of blood, there were two tall and short creatures standing, and a kneeling kneeling behind them. A large group of creatures in uniform black robes.

The tall one has black wings, stands more than two meters tall, and has an extremely terrifying ape head. The black mane tightly surrounds its neck and continues to spread downward.

As for the short one, it was a creature wearing a blood-red robe. Judging from the wrinkled, hairless hands and the protruding thick lips under the red hood, it should also be some kind of ape, and it was very old, and it spoke The voice was dull, with a vicissitudes and ancient taste.

"No, she is the sacrifice of our Lord."

This short old ape has a more powerful aura than this flying ape in the prime of life, and his words are full of undeniable oppression. While saying this, he is shaking his staff, speaking to the flying ape Treatment of large and small wounds on the body.

But maybe he realized that he still needed to appease the flying ape's emotions, so he added another sentence.

"When everything is over, I can leave her bones to you."

Flying apes like to collect the bones of their opponents as trophies, especially skulls and phalanxes. The former can be piled up into seats, and the latter can be strung into bracelets or necklaces as decorations.

But even so, the flying ape still didn't seem to be satisfied. It lifted the one-eyed ferocious face that was scratched by a slender knife mark, and roared angrily in a voice almost growling.

"Karkun! That's your master, not mine!"

"I'm not discussing with you, she is my prey, no one is allowed to take her away!"

Perhaps it was the pain caused by the body, or the humiliation in the memory, which made this sturdy flying ape pacing around very restlessly. His arms as thick as stone pillars shook back and forth uneasily, and his knuckles creaked even more. Crisp.

Facing the high-pitched voice of the flying ape that can reach up to 12 miles away, the crooked figure wrapped in a rough red robe slowly inserted the staff in the shape of twin snakes in his hand into the stone on the ground of the altar. Let it stand on the edge of the altar in the gap between the two snake-shaped towers on the highest part of the altar and the sculpture in the shape of a skull on the top, and then slowly take off the hood and lift the The old, hairless face spoke.

"Sebas, how long have we known each other?"

After hearing this, Flying Ape stopped his wandering steps, seemed to think seriously for a moment, and replied contemptuously.

"I don't remember, I just remember that when I met you, you couldn't even use a bow well."

"However, it is precisely because you can't use bows well that you became the tribal priest, hmph."

Facing the ridicule, the old man-eating ape priest did not show any displeasure, but instead showed a nostalgic look on his face.

"But I remember, 52 winters ago in the Forest of Whispers, at the waterfall in the south. At that time, although the number of people in my tribe did not exceed a hundred, I envied you very much, Sebas."

"Envy me? Don't be kidding, Kakun, this is much more outrageous than humans falling in love with me. At that time, I was just a poor guy who was driven out of the group, a weakling who lost the competition."

"And you, at that time, had already become a respected ruler of the tribe."

Hearing the voices of his old friends for many years, Sebas the Flying Ape, who has a great and fierce reputation, was a little puzzled on this business road in the Forest of Whispers, and his fangs were half-opened and half-closed due to his anger.

It used to be a candidate for the chief, after being expelled from the rainforest and choosing to settle in the Whispering Forest, it has rarely recalled the past.

"But I really envy you, I never lied to you."

The aged man-eating ape priest turned his head to look at the group of people who were prostrate outside the altar, their bodies half-submerged in the swamp. When it glanced over, what responded to it was always its humbly drooping head and eyes. It can't hide the fanaticism, but its heart is indescribably exhausted at this moment.

"So what's the envy, it's all their own destiny, when I was down and down, I also envied your life."

"In any case, she must give it to me!"

"My clan has also lost several, this is compensation!"

Sebastian was terribly paranoid at the moment, and he didn't let go because of the emotional card. However, their cooperation has been like this many times in the past. Every time they divided it up, they would quarrel with it because of the distribution of spoils. Reconciliation as before.

After all, they all know how lucky it is to have an ally to help each other in this vast dense forest.

Sure enough, when it finally got a leisurely sigh after a while, Sebas understood that his old friend had compromised.

"Okay! She's yours..."

As if he had figured it out, Kakun, the anthropoid priest, stopped obsessing over sacrifices, and soon returned to the topic.

asked directly.

"How is the situation in other directions?"

As a priest who has been concentrating on building shrines and altars, it has exhausted all his energy to deal with the spellcaster in the town. He knows far less about the attack and defense in other directions in Green Brook Town than this close friend in front of him. Come clearly.

"The west has been completely breached, while the south is deadlocked, and the group of goblin mercenaries in the north are still building fortifications... Where did you find these strange things..."

Seeing that Kakun is no longer obsessed with sacrifices, Sebastian will naturally not ignorant of current affairs and continue to ask for more. It only asks within the scope of what it can ask. The contact between them will be terminated soon, and there is something to be given, so in return, some support and news, it answered very professionally, and told it everything Kakun wanted to know in a few words.

"That's great. As expected of a dragon's vision, none of the eagles raised in our clan have as good vision as yours, Sebas."

"It really doesn't look old! It's the same as when I was young."

"Ho ho."

Hearing Sebastian's reply, the man-eating ape priest spoke with some praise and lament.

Although the origins of the man-eating ape and the flying ape seem to be related to the spell experiment of the caster, the different experimental results have already revealed the essential difference between the two species, such as lifespan.

A normal flying ape has a lifespan of more than 200 years. At best, 50 years is just enough for it to progress from youth to middle age. The twilight has not yet come, but for the man-eating ape, it is enough to make a baby fall to the ground. Become a rare elder in the tribe.

Looking at the cloudy eyes of old friends, Sebas somehow felt his heartstrings being touched.

The furious mood gradually calmed down. After all, it suddenly realized that the time of this old friend in front of him seemed to be numbered. After this battle, in a few winters, it should not be the one in charge of this tribe!
So its tone softened a little.

"Don't worry, isn't your master very powerful? When the time comes, let him replace the blood in your body with a higher-level one. Undead creatures are also good, but when we meet, I'm afraid I can't help but put your head under my ass. Ha ha ha ha."

Speaking of this, Sebastian still couldn't help showing his hearty and weird smile. This kind of ridicule has appeared many times in the past, and this time he didn't close it. Anyway, as the nominal flying gorilla, Most of Sebas's life is rolling back and forth in the gully of satisfying desires, either looting, or never returning on the road of reproduction, such is the natural character.

The man-eating ape priest, Kakun, was not angry either, but looked at the black spring that was still flowing with blood, and said helplessly.

"But at that time, I was no longer a man-eating ape. Although I became stronger, but for my people..."

It looked at the believers huddled in the swamp, and there was a little nostalgia in the muddy pupils.

"What's the point..."

"I don't understand what you think. It doesn't matter if you become stronger and have some changes in your body. My current pair of wings are also mutated from my ancestors."

Sebas, who is well aware of the history of the flying ape, does not think that mutation is a bad thing. Instead, he thinks that if the race can continue and the bloodline becomes stronger and better, it is a good thing.

Ka Kun only smiled when he heard the words of the flying ape in front of him.

But this smile made the folds in the eyes that were already accumulated on the face more dense, and the loose skin with dark spots squeezed together, as if it was a face full of black pores magnified dozens of times.

"It's almost time, you go first! The female mage gave it to you, and I have to prepare a sacrifice for my lord..."

For some reason, Sebas felt that Kakun's tone was different when he said this, the deep voice was like the wind blowing through a deep cave, which made people feel chills in the bottom of their hearts.

"Ok."

Although he was confused, Sebastian didn't want to ask so many questions. After all, the sacrifice is just a mirror image, and Green Brook Town has not been completely broken, so after feeling that the wound is no longer painful, it plans to spread its wings and fight with the town again. Among them, the casters fight again.

But this time, when he instinctively opened his wings, a sharp pain suddenly came from the root of the wings on his back, causing it to grin its teeth in pain.

"What's going on! Kakun! Help me find out..."

It instinctively asked its best friend for help, but when it lowered its head and saw the indelible smile on the face of the man-eating ape priest, it trembled all over, and its pupils contracted suddenly.

"Yes...you did it?"

"why……"

Sebas the Flying Ape wanted to go forward and grab the hairless ape, which was so short that it was only as thick as its arm, but it found that its movements were a little staggering, and as it walked, its vision began to blur, and seven or eight people appeared in front of it. A ghost of Kakun.

bang.

Its center of gravity was finally out of balance, and its body of four to five hundred pounds finally fell to the ground with a bang, splashing blood, but its eyes were still fixed on the red robe not far away.

"Ka Kun! Ka Kun..."

The low growl of the lips makes one can clearly feel the mood of this huge beast, unwilling and angry, confused and puzzled.

But all of this, Ka Kun kept watching with cold eyes, and only sighed leisurely after falling to the ground and being unable to move.

"Don't struggle, my old friend, I originally wanted to deal with you later, so that you can live a little longer."

"But you really don't know what to do. How dare you touch my Lord's sacrifice, Sebas. This is an unforgivable sin!"

Kakun looked devoutly at the kingdom of twin snakes hovering overhead, and the ape skull enshrined at the top, his eyes were fanatical, and his tone was serious.

Hearing Kakun's response, even Sebas, whose whole body was paralyzed by the strange toxin, couldn't help opening his fists clenched in pain, hammering hard on the ground, and roaring like a beast because of betrayal .

"Let's start the sacrificial ceremony!"

Kakun once again held the double-headed snake staff that stood upright on the altar and let the blood wash over the roots. He first turned his head and said to the large group of believers behind him, then turned his head and knelt down, whispering in this Said in the ear of the flying monkey whose head had completely lost control of its body.

"You'll get what you want later, Sebas."

"She will be in your arms, dedicated to my Lord!"

"Look, I didn't lie to you!"

"So, rest in peace!"

"My best friend!"

After finishing speaking, it didn't care about the ferocious expression on Sebastian's face, stood up directly, opened his arms, and began to chant a spell loudly.

——"Devil's Touch!"

In all directions of the altar, four or five twisted tentacles that were black and red all over the body suddenly struggled out of the bloody water. Each of them was as thick as the arm of the flying ape. The tentacles met under the body of the flying ape and lifted it up until it lifted It reached the top of the entire altar, and then revealed its fangs.

The end of a tentacle protruded from its sharp mouthparts, ruthlessly pierced into the body of this strong beast, and began to suck the blood in the body heartily, and the whole body quickly turned from black red to bright red.

The first root, the second root... the fifth root.

When all the tentacles were pierced into the body of the flying ape, the bloody water around the altar was like a flood that opened the gate, and the flow was more than doubled. The nearby swamp puddles and soil were dyed bright red.

And with the blood soaked, the believers behind Kakun also began to sing praises of Demogogan, and under the guidance of tacit understanding, the believers began to catch each other in pairs, destroying and ravaging each other's bodies at will, The evil and cruelty that belongs to the abyss are freely released to this land. When the black robe is torn off, the scars on the skin of every man-eating ape are shocking. What's more, there are several healing scars on the skull. The most cruel "self-eating" in the sacrificial ceremony is a cruel ritual that requires opening the hard head.

Soon, amidst the waves of fanatical believers, the swamp soil began to squirm, and four side-by-side coffins slowly rose from the swamp.

When it rises completely.

Ka Kun also couldn't wait to sing the final summoning particle.

"Wake up! Glory to our Lord!"

Its call this time will be the most terrifying and notorious creation of the demon lord Demogorgon.

--"Death knight!"

(End of this chapter)