Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 916 Something That Wants to Emerge

"You're quite magnanimous."

Milo spoke, but did not look up, still squatting on the ground examining the things left behind at the site of the human sacrifice.

Imnal, carrying two hard loaves of bread, came over and said:
"You also think they're trying to summon something from the abyss, right?"

"Guess."

Milo neither confirmed nor denied it.

Judging from the remaining props at the scene, the offerings had been burned to death, the candles had burned out, and there were no signs of other summoners dying at the scene. This indicates that the summoning ritual was completed completely. Otherwise, if something went wrong, the summoner would not have been able to escape unscathed. But why did the ritual fail to summon anything even though it was complete?

Milo carefully examined the crack in the wall; there were no traces of superior beings or other abyssal creatures passing by.

Something existing in the abyss releases an awakened order, controlling the Kem people of the Dream Realm, turning them into strange awakened beings. These awakened beings then perform a ritual of human sacrifice, intending to summon that "thing" itself.

Does this technique sound a little familiar?

Isn't this the reverse summoning spell that Rick concocted with the Stone People?

Although Milo doesn't need that thing anymore, he can teleport directly using the embers created by the power of faith.

This also shows that the thing that wants to emerge from the abyss does not control the embers.

...

A series of lines evoked Milo's thoughts.

It is indeed very likely that the awakened order was not a natural invasion, but rather manipulated by some will.

Furthermore, the appearance of the Abyss Rift in the Kingdom of Kem was not accidental, but rather intentional.

In fact, the investigation has already become very clear. The vast majority of the clues point directly to the temple of the Kingdom of Kem – Hook Finger.

The pastureland of the Temple of Hooked Finger is very large, much larger than that of the Temple of Law, which only has a golden kingdom.

To the north, in the center of the western continent, lies almost half a gravel desert; to the south lies the Kingdom of Kem; and to the southeast, including the Six Kingdoms Peninsula, is now entirely under the faith of the Hooked Finger Temple.

However, since a few years ago, the Hook Finger Temple has only been consolidating its power, gathering all its forces back to the temple's holy land, that is, returning to the area covered by the blessing, and no longer interfering in anything outside.

Of course, cherishing one's life is only one reason. Milo, who knows the inside story, knows that in the plan to recreate the divine body, the Temple of Hooking Finger is ahead of all the temples because they have actually created a divine embryo that can contain the power of faith and the will of the gods.

This was all thanks to Imnar, who absorbed the part of humanity that should have destroyed the divine embryo Aegon.

So Aegon didn't die, but he will likely live the rest of his life as a puppet of the Hookshot God if Milo doesn't do something.

...

Of course, all of this is still just speculation.

Milo has not yet found any trace of the Hook God Temple in the Kingdom of Kem, and he cannot be 100% certain that the thing trying to climb out of the abyss is the Hook God.

...

"I strongly suggest you stay away from that thing."

Imnar's figure came from behind.

There was a clear fear in his gaze as he looked toward the abyss rift, a fact that Milo could sense without even turning around.

Milo shrugged, surveyed the abyssal rift before him, and then asked:

“Didn’t you say you were going to do something a savior should do?” Imnar handed two loaves of bread to Milo, took a few steps back, looked up at the ceiling of the mansion, muttered something, and began to reach out and tear at the colorful fabrics hanging on the walls.

"The purpose of the Kem royal family is to help the Hook Temple monitor this sea area. There is a Hook altar in the tower above this mansion."

After the colorful fabric on the wall was torn away, countless runes engraved on the wall were revealed.

There are also traces of interlocking special stone mechanical structures on the ceiling.

Imnar had somehow triggered one of the runes, and a muffled sound began to echo from above. Then, all the rune totems began to glow with a faint, cold light. Some of the mechanisms in the mansion's towers were activated, and many of the previously tightly closed walls were split in two. The interior of the royal mansion, which had seemed somewhat cramped, suddenly opened up, allowing sunlight to stream in.

The Hook Altar, located atop the tower, is prominently displayed on the top floor.

There stands a statue with a hooked finger.

In front of the statue is the decaying mutilated corpse of an old woman wearing a cloak. Her long, gray hair covers the altar and emits a strange, putrid stench.

...

"It appears that the Finger-Unraveler, who was abandoned in the Kingdom of Kem, is dead."

Imnar gazed at the altar on the top floor from afar. It wasn't that he didn't want to go up and explore, but there was no staircase leading up to it.

Milo, on the other hand, put his arm around Imnar's shoulder and lifted him onto the altar.

The stench that hit Imnar made him stagger backward, almost causing him to fall off the altar again.

However, the stench did not emanate from the old woman untying her fingers, but rather from the statue of the finger-hooking figure.

"How could a statue rot..."

Stepping on the wisps of hair scattered on the ground, I walked straight toward the hooked finger statue in the center of the altar.

At that moment, Imnar's voice came from behind: "Because the raw material for making the statue is flesh and blood."

"Just like those Greek 'creations' they burned in the mortuary?" Milo narrowed his eyes.

On the hooked finger statue, you can indeed see traces of thick slurry that flowed out after the inside rotted, and it was those things that emitted the strong stench.

...

Now that such obvious changes have occurred in the mansion, it's impossible for the Awakened Ones wandering the city to be completely unaware.

They only needed to look up to see the two men with no sign of awakening on the altar atop the royal residence.

The Awakened Ones roared and charged toward the mansion at breakneck speed.

In this kingdom, they do not allow the existence of such mediocre and pedantic souls; they are combinations of souls burdened with original sin and evil bodies, and must be purified by fire.

...

The bad news is that the entire city's Awakened Ones surged toward the royal residence in waves.

The good news is, well, there's no staircase leading to the top altar.

...

From their perspective, Milo and Imnal could see that the walls between the various floors of the mansion, now fully extended by the mechanisms, were covered with countless deep fissures of varying sizes. These fissures, which were originally hidden within the interlocking mechanisms, were now fully revealed.

At a glance, there are at least dozens of them.

Hakimed's prediction was still conservative.
(End of this chapter)