The witch drank the blood brew, which was so cold that even Shade found it unbearable, and her face turned blue as she shivered. The two little girls hugged each other, drinking the blood brew in small sips to keep each other warm.
After they finished drinking, the blood the witch brought was distributed to everyone.
Although the blood she brought had a fishy smell, it was not red, but blue. Looking closely at the liquid in the glass, one could even see a faint light flickering like stars in the sea of stars.
"This is the blood of star whales. Each star whale only passes through the material world once every 300 years. It is a creature between the physical body and the astral body. I waited from the age of 56 to 78 before one of them appeared in the sky of the material world. And my wish is to break through the ninth level of the witch. I know that it is impossible for me to continue to move forward, but I really don't want to accept it, I don't want to accept it..."
The blood brew made from the blood of the starry sea whales did not have any bloody smell. Drinking this blood brew would not bring any discomfort to the drinker. Xia De even felt that he was vaguely touching the power of the stars.
After drinking a whole cup of blue liquid, the eyes of the mortals present all had some barely noticeable twinkling lights. By asking the old man around him, Xia De learned that he also had similar symptoms in his eyes.
The witch didn't know why this was happening. After all, no one had ever drunk this kind of thing before. Shade just hoped that this would not be a permanent change.
"Finally, valuable blood has appeared. The last time I drank the blood of a star sea whale was in the Fourth Epoch. My loyal servants gave it to me."
The saint also drank the blood, and the words of praise made the witch smile. Although she still had to live until the end of the party to get what she wanted, at least she was sure that her twenty years of waiting were worth it.
There was no sound in the manor at night. In the eerie and quiet night outside the window, the manor courtyard had not changed at all so far, as if the scenery outside the window was actually just a realistic painting.
It took a lot of time to talk and drink these drinks. 24 minutes had passed since Shade stepped out of the white mist and came here. The time seemed just enough for him to drink the last glass of liquid.
The twin girls only brought one blood, but the gods recognized that it was their shared blood. The blood turned into scarlet blood wine and was evenly distributed to everyone. The red blood looked ordinary. Shaking the wine glasses, the saints and mortals also heard the girls' stories:
"We are twins, I am the older sister and she is the younger sister."
The girl in the white gauze dress said, her voice was more mature than her appearance. Although she was only fourteen or fifteen years old, she spoke with the same logic as an adult:
"Our family is very old, even older than this era. In an era when the family's information had been lost, the family took on the responsibility of guarding a certain seal. In return, every generation of the family can give birth to extraordinary people."
This story was a little more complicated than the others, and no one interrupted her.
"According to the contract signed by our ancestors and the ancients, whenever twins are born in a family, it means that there will be problems with the seal. After the twins grow up to be extraordinary beings, a ceremony needs to be held to stabilize the seal. The content of the ceremony is that one person goes into the seal, the other stays outside the seal, one dies, and the other lives. Relying on the unique talents and soul connection of the twins born in the family, in the torture of longing and pain, in the form of life and death resonance, and the bond between the twins, a ceremony is constructed from inside and outside the seal... This is the oldest contract and a responsibility. Even if we don't want to fulfill this responsibility, fate will guide us to do so."
Compared to the various rituals that Shade had seen, this one was not particularly strange. And using a sacrifice that only occurs every few generations to ensure that every generation of the family has a transcendent, in the eyes of most people, it was actually worth it.
This should be considered a typical "sacrifice", sacrificing one of the twins, using the longing and torture of two souls to achieve an effect that ordinary rituals could not achieve. Shad had learned about similar rituals in books.
Of course, he himself would not judge whether it was worthwhile to do so, because it had nothing to do with him.
"But I don't want to be separated from my sister."
The girl in the white gauze dress said, and Xia De could see the determination in her expression.
"I don't want to be separated from my sister either."
The girl in the black gauze skirt said, and the two little girls bravely raised their heads together, looked in the direction of the saint, held hands, and expressed their wishes while tears and blood flowed from their eyes:
"We never want to be separated."
In fact, they didn't need to express their determination in this way. In order not to separate, they actually dared to attend the evil god's cocktail party, which was very telling.
"So, God, we hope you can relieve us of our fate. If we die here, our souls will return to the same place."
"But what about the seal that your family is responsible for guarding?"
The armored old man asked the questions of Shade and the witch. The witch handed them a handkerchief. The girl in the black dress, who was the younger sister, apologized quietly. She was more shy, while the girl in the white dress, who was the older sister, pursed her lips:
"That is the responsibility of our ancestors and the contract they signed. It has nothing to do with us."
The old man stopped talking, but from his expression, although he sympathized with the twin sisters, he did not agree with this idea. The witch had no expression on her face, and it was unknown whether it was because she had good facial management skills or was used to such things.
As for Shade, he had no opinion. At this point in his life, this was already a thing of the past. At least the world was not destroyed by the so-called seal, so he just wanted to end this cocktail party. Although he was curious about the ending of the girls, he would not interfere with other people's choices.
This is, after all, a story of the past.
"God, the blood we offer is the blood of the twins of the family before the ceremony. The family preserves this blood not only to commemorate and thank them and their sacrifices, but also to strengthen the bond between the twins and strengthen our already magical gifts by bathing the newborn twins in this blood. There is also our blood in it."
The twin sisters drank the blood, and the old man with silver hair shook his head and drank the blood. After the witch knew that it was only human blood this time, she drank it without any psychological burden.
The saint did not drink it immediately, but shook the glass and took a deep breath, as if he wanted to inhale all the flavor into the nasal cavity of this body:
“That’s really good.”
He was generous in his praise, and everyone could see God's undisguised joy:
"This is really good blood. Ties, pain, regret, longing, responsibility, repentance, courage, sadness... Such complex human emotions are perfectly blended together. This kind of blood can only be produced after generations of fermentation and the catalysis of the emotions of pairs of souls connected. Not bad, although it is still not perfect, but it is really good. It can almost be regarded as a collection."
This time He did not drink it all in one gulp, but tasted the wine carefully.
Suddenly he looked at Xia De who was sitting across the table:
"Unexpected guest, why not drink?"
Of course it was because this was human blood. Xia De had even swallowed frog blood for spells, so he had no objection to dragon blood, butterfly blood, and whale blood. After all, when learning magic and spells, one had to swallow even the strangest materials.
Although making him drink human blood is not directly sucking blood, nor will it hurt other people, nor is it eating human flesh, it still has some psychological burdens, so he wants to try other methods:
"Excuse me, can I 'drink' it in other ways?"
The god smiled:
"I already know about your connection with me. Unexpected guest, do you want to taste this fine wine with your eyes at the intersection of time, space and blood?"
The blood-sucking god really knew.
"Yes."
"Yes, but this method can only be used once. But next time, you can't do it again."
The second drinking party would involve drinking the evil god's own blood, and something even stranger would surely appear. It was not just human blood, and Shade was very sure that the evil god's blood would not be drunk without a price.
"Can."
But in short, he didn't intend to drink human blood this time.
Dragging the red droplets, Shade dripped the entire cup of blood into his right eye. A normal eye certainly couldn't "drink" such a large amount of blood, but Shade's Blood Echo could absorb the effective components in the blood and remove impurities while it was actively activated.
Therefore, although after "drinking" it all, the right half of Shad's face was dyed blood red by the impurities in the blood, at least he did "drink" it all.
This time travel journey seemed simple, but the complexity was still to come. Before the second cocktail party, he had to collect two types of qualified blood and drink the blood brew of the gods at the cocktail party.
It can be said that among the three chances of this key, almost all the risks are concentrated on the second one, which is different from the previous ones.
"Well, Duke Laurel, I think I should leave for now."
The time was almost up, Xia De put down the wine glass, then stood up and bowed respectfully.
“Looking forward to your next visit.”
God said softly.
The old man and the twin sisters were puzzled by Shade's departure, but they said nothing. The middle-aged witch hesitated to speak, but before Shade turned around, she spoke:
"You can come back outside can you?"
"No, I'm different from you, so I can't give you any help."
Although "Night Manor" is most likely the same as other places, with memory loss after leaving, Shade still doesn't want to tell irrelevant people about his origins.
"Two kinds of blood, and special antidotes and stuff like that."
He calculated in his mind, counting down as he walked to the door he came in from.
The double doors on both sides opened automatically, and just in time, Xia De walked into the white mist behind the door.
The saint at the main seat of the banquet table clasped his hands together and placed them on the table. He looked at the four people who were surprised to see Xia De disappear on the spot:
"What an interesting banquet. I originally thought he would be as rude as the host of the blood banquet. It was a disaster to go to the mortal world with him last century. Although he has a good appetite, his taste is really bad..."
The saint glanced at the four mortals present and suddenly smiled:
"Before the unexpected guests come back, maybe we can play a little game during the party... Thousands of years ago, a mortal named Sledge Riddle mistakenly entered my party. Although he didn't bring blood wine, he played a game of life that only existed in the Fourth Age with me at the party, so I let him go and gave him some gifts. He said that he had spread this game on a small scale. So, do you in this era play the game of life?"
"I can."
The old man took out his cards skillfully.