ATPnovel #148 - Chapter 148: Cultists of the Abyss
#148 - Chapter 148: Cultists of the Abyss
Meanwhile, outside the real world, in the endless abyss.
Wu Wei, completely unaware of Li Muyun and Li Mengmeng, was strolling through the ruins of a city.
Unlike when he left a few days ago, the city ruins were now filled with terrifying corpses and bloodstains that had not completely dried.
Wu Wei merely glanced at them and could tell the extreme pain these corpses had suffered before death.
By the way.
Before leaving, Wu Wei did not provide any form of food or water for these ten thousand demon slave laborers.
But he wasn't worried at all.
Because these demon slave laborers were the best food and water for each other.
Flesh as food, blood as water.
"...."
Wu Wei arrived at the center of the city ruins, scanning everything around him.
And in the surrounding dark corners, countless bloodshot eyes were staring intently at him.
The owners of these eyes were the surviving demon slave laborers!
Over the course of three days, their minds had been permanently twisted by the ongoing slaughter.
Too many betrayals from friends and relatives, too much killing among their own kind.
No one here was innocent anymore, no one trusted anyone.
Each of them had blood on their hands, the blood of their friends, their kin.
And during this period, their souls were unconsciously twisted into the shape the endless abyss loved.
They had excellently completed the assessment task assigned by Wu Wei.
And now, they were qualified to be accepted by the endless abyss.
"You've done well."
Wu Wei smiled, very satisfied with this.
"Those of you who survived, you can come out now."
With Wu Wei's forceful command, the surviving demon slave laborers, no, the proto-abyss cult followers, began to emerge from their hiding places in various unexpected corners of the city ruins.
However, these people, whose minds were on the verge of collapse and were nearly insane, still maintained an extremely distant distance from each other.
No one wanted to expose their back to another.
This was the aftermath of the slaughter, but also proof of their growth.
"Oh? Fewer than I expected."
The number of surviving proto-abyss followers was only 622.
This was far less than the one thousand slots Wu Wei had previously given.
But this was understandable.
In such a slaughter, none of them could accurately judge how many people were still alive.
Next was baptism.
After Wu Wei took out the abyss codex that had been completely fused, the baptism from the abyss began.
But just like Hendricks said, this was just a symbolic formality.
Wu Wei, holding the abyss codex, could, with just a thought, make these fallen souls belong to the great endless abyss from now on.
So, after Wu Wei "recognized" them, this withered abyss quickly welcomed a new batch of abyss followers once again.
Of course, all of this sounded somewhat bland to Wu Wei, but this was because Wu Wei's status was different from theirs.
For these new abyss followers, the moment Wu Wei recognized them.
Their souls completely transformed from their previous twisted state.
Their souls became complete!
The completeness here meant that a large number of desires they had not noticed began to fill the hearts of each of them.
Endless depraved thoughts began to replace their old thoughts as beings of order.
Everyone here had never felt so powerful!
They could also feel that they would have an infinite future in the endless abyss.
From this moment on, they could no longer escape from the abyss.
Even if their souls were crushed into fragments by a stronger being, their souls still belonged to the abyss.
But Wu Wei didn't care about all of this.
He just noticed that after having new abyss followers, he was finally able to unlock the special building [Abyss Cult Sanctuary].
So, Wu Wei began to mobilize resource points, selecting the initial location of the abyss cult sanctuary in these city ruins.
After all, in his opinion, no location was more suitable for the abyss cult sanctuary than this place.
Because the first batch of followers' depraved acts began here.
With the consumption of tens of thousands of resource points, a huge black brick church building began to rise from this land, replacing the past ruins.
Countless bones were automatically collected by the system and turned into embellishments on the gate of this huge brick church building.
And those bloodstains that had not yet dried were randomly smeared on these black bricks by the system.
Then, in the eager eyes of countless abyss followers, one beautiful but depraved angel image after another was carved out and placed in all directions of the church.
[Construction complete!]
[You have a new special building - Abyss Cult Sanctuary.]
The next moment, a new prompt rang in Wu Wei's Heavenly Dao system.
[Because you have built an abyss cult sanctuary, the system will draw your first fallen angel!]
When Wu Wei received this message, the black-red vortex in the abyss sky, which never stopped turning, immediately accelerated.
Then, countless black congealments began to condense from in front of Wu Wei, into a dimensional portal like a broken mirror.
And after more black congealments materialized, they began to pour into the portal.
Before long, a pair of black wings appeared from the portal....
That legendary fallen angel will return to this abyss, which they are both familiar with and unfamiliar with....
Together with the followers they rule!