Dark veil [2]

As the place shook constantly, the creature slowly began to take shape from the fountain of crimson blood, increasing the pressure as the seconds passed.

Out of her stupor, Alice quickly grabbed her swords and roared earnestly, "Kleint, Lee Joon, get ready quickly! Liana, retreat quickly towards the hallway!"

Lee Joon and Liana, frozen as they watched the creature take shape, came out of their stupor and caught Alice's words.

Without a second thought, Liana ran with the ancient alchemy book to the stone corridor without looking back for fear of being attacked by the monster created from the blood fountain.

Lee Joon quickly took a distance from where the monster was being created. Besides, that's the most logical thing to do; having the [Archer] class, it would be foolish to attack the monster from close range; it would only sentence its death.

On the other hand, Kleint, who was near the altar, was perplexed as he looked at the dark veil on his hand. Before he could react, the veil began to encircle his left hand and slowly took the shape of a dark glove, and a crimson star appeared on the top of the glove.

This... Kleint could not express his astonishment because his brain began receiving much information he could not understand.

He clenched his head tightly at all the sudden information coming into his brain about the veil that had now turned into a black glove with a crimson star.

After a few seconds, Kleint opened, and his red eyes glowed slightly after receiving all the information; at this moment, he had completely forgotten about the monster forming on the wall next to him.

Ugh, I didn't expect these to happen. Besides, I can't understand practically any of the information; it's as if my brain has overloaded and blocked all the information to avoid an accident... And why, suddenly, was there a breeze in this underground place?

Kleint sighed while clutching his head with a slightly wrinkled expression from the stinging pain and now began to review the information he understood for the moment.

According to the information I just received, this is a sealed item called "Crimson Star Dark Veil" that belonged to a goddess, which also belongs to the same era as the author of the ancient alchemy book.

At that moment, Kleint's train of thought was cut off when he heard the scream of a monster and quickly turned his attention to the source of the sound.

The moment he looked at the creature, he visibly shuddered, for as he was close enough, he could see it in great detail, with a height of three meters made entirely of dark red blood.

It has four long arms also made of blood, two of them together, and it has what looks like a rosary, but with the inverted cross black as if it were the representation of "He." In addition, it has neither a mouth nor ears nor eyes.

In short, it had no face.

And it had no legs but a long tail like that of a Boa builder snake but made entirely of blood.

But his transformation was not over yet.

Kleint innocently activated his attribute and looked at the monster's status window.

[Checking Monster Bloodbeast's status window]

[Name: #%$#! ]

[Title: Former follower of the god &%$#"]

[Age: $%&#$]

[Disposition: Instinct and madness]

[Class: None]

[Stats]

[Strength: 20]

[Agility: 22]

[Vitality: 23]

[Stamina: 19]

[Luck: 13]

[Mana: 15]

A monster that used to be a follower of a deity, eh, interesting... Kleint stopped looking at the monster's status window and quickly ran towards the entrance of the stone corridor, getting as far away from the monster as possible.

Being sufficiently withdrawn from the Bloodbeast, Kleint looked at Alice and asked, because he had failed to hear before, when she roared, "How do we deal with this monster?"

He wanted to say that this monster was once a former follower of a "Deity," but he didn't say it so as not to arouse suspicion. Besides, he had no intention of revealing its attribute, for everything it has done would collapse.

Another thing he noticed was the monster.

It also belongs to the same era as the goddess and the author of the ancient alchemy book!

Fuck! This place is getting more and more complicated as I discover subtle things... It's good I didn't use my attribute on that strange statue... Kleint sighed inwardly, relieved inwardly at not using his attribute on that statue, and looked at Alice, waiting for her response.

Alice glanced sideways at Kleint without taking her eyes off the monster; she did not respond immediately but focused her intention on the Bloodbeast, as she had already encountered these monsters.

I knew they were the unfortunate result of dabbling in magics not understood by those who control them. And that many magicians choose to study the nature of hemomancy or blood magic. I also knew that they retained a trace of their intelligence of who they were before they became this monster.

Alice's brow furrowed slightly as she looked at what appeared to be a rosary, with the inverted cross completely black, and thought: That inverted cross is quite strange; I've never seen a creature of that kind with something like that or something similar.

Could the monster be the servant or follower of that strange statue?

Alice shook her head because now was not the time to deduce whether the Bloodbeast was a servant or follower of the statue that seemed to belong to an "Evil Deity."

Phew. Alice sighed internally as she looked for a brief moment at Kleint and replied, "That monster is weak to fire. So attack it now, before it finishes taking shape."

Kleint assisted without saying a word, began to use the fire element, and started to create a fireball; due to his lack of mana, he could not shape the fire. Otherwise, he would try to make a huge spear and pierce the Bloodbeast's head satisfactorily.

Once he finished creating the fireball, he took a deep breath, calming all his turbulent emotions, and without further thought, launched the attack.

The fireball flew rapidly towards the faceless head, which was finished taking shape.

Boom!

The fireball impacted perfectly on the Bloodbeast's head, which let out a loud high-pitched scream, causing everything to cover its ears with force.

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