In the pitch-black night, within the territory of a noble in the Rey · Estijer Kingdom, black-robed figures continuously gathered in a secret chamber hidden beneath a slum, while crimson lights flickered incessantly in the center of the chamber. However, the high platform in the center of the secret chamber was completely empty.
Whoosh~
Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through, causing the crimson flames to sway wildly. When the light calmed again, a man who concealed most of his face beneath a hat appeared there, his beast-like pupils silently watching the crowd gathering below.
Several minutes later, as the last person entered the secret chamber, with the sound of the door closing, everyone inside raised their heads, their eyes filled with fervent devotion towards the man on the high platform. Especially those closest to the platform, noticing something bulging and wriggling beneath the man's black robe, their gazes gradually turned manic and obsessed.
"Has anyone noticed?"
At that moment, the man on the high platform, his face mostly hidden by his hat, spoke in a voice that was both hoarse and slippery. Simultaneously, his shadow on the wall began to twist and branch out, like wild beasts completely consumed by hunger, as if about to break free from the wall and devour everything in sight.
"Divine Envoy, please rest assured, everything is proceeding in secret. That idiotic noble and his men will definitely not notice us."
Below the platform, a burly man shrouded in a black robe stepped forward, half-kneeling before the so-called Divine Envoy, his tone filled with fervent devotion. They had prepared for this gathering for several days, eliminating anyone who discovered anything unusual along the way.
"Mm."
Upon hearing the response from below, the Divine Envoy on the high platform nodded in satisfaction. Then, the black robe on his body moved without wind, revealing a face that was half-human, half-monster under the eerie firelight. His aged face was covered in dense fleshy sprouts, and beneath the black robe, tentacles filled with fangs loomed indistinctly.
Below, when everyone saw the so-called Divine Envoy's appearance, they felt no fear whatsoever. On the contrary, they became even more fanatical, their eyes, filled with madness, fixed intently on the indescribable form beneath the Divine Envoy's black robe.
"Divine Envoy, may I today..."
Suddenly, a petite figure below the platform raised her head, gazing at the Divine Envoy with obsession in her eyes, asking with a hint of anticipation and longing in her voice. From the gap in this person's black robe, the skin that could be vaguely seen seemed to possess its own consciousness, constantly wriggling.
"Of course, that is my duty."
Having said that, the half-human, half-monster Divine Envoy revealed a pious expression on his face, then carefully took out a black book from his bosom. After opening it, he stared intently at the words on it, listening to the murmurs coming from his mind.
At this moment, the so-called Divine Envoy's aura became strange yet sacred. His appearance was as if he were listening to the words of God, and he was filled with a sense of mission for what he was doing.
"The great, indescribable She, is the embodiment of gluttony and lust, the king of all 'evil', is \u0026%\u0026 * %\u0026 * \u0026… … … … \u0026 * … … * ...."
Under the dim light, a low, twisted murmur came from the Divine Envoy's mouth. Instantly, an indescribable power enveloped everyone, and everything in the room began to distort and warp. The surrounding walls and ground began to writhe, the crimson flames gradually turned dark red, and the flames themselves began to mutate...
However, the many black-robed figures in the secret chamber were oblivious to all the changes, completely immersed in the murmurs that seemed to echo from their souls. Even if someone occasionally woke up and noticed the changes in the secret chamber, they prostrated themselves on the ground with a fanatical expression, constantly chanting something.
A full several hours later, the so-called Divine Envoy turned another page of the book in his hand, but only half of the information was recorded on this page. When the last word was uttered, the Divine Envoy's voice abruptly stopped.
"Not enough... still not enough... I need more knowledge of the gods!"
Looking at the blank pages in his hand, the Divine Envoy's expression gradually became manic. His inner longing for the forbidden knowledge of the gods caused the tentacles hidden in his black robe to twist and swell continuously. Several black-robed figures closest to the high platform were instantly torn to shreds by those fanged tentacles before they could even react.
"Whoosh~!"
A few seconds later, after the fanatical, hungry tentacles were temporarily satisfied, the Divine Envoy also slightly regained consciousness from that endless desire for forbidden knowledge. After casually glancing at the remaining bloodstains below the high platform, he roughly understood what had happened.
However, the Divine Envoy had long been accustomed to this kind of thing, and it was not worth his attention at all.
What truly concerned him was among the many black-robed figures below, those whose bodies were constantly mutating, gradually transforming into indescribable beings. They would be the bargaining chips for him to obtain new forbidden knowledge from the higher-ups.
"This time, there should be several new Divine Envoys born."
A hoarse and slippery voice echoed in the secret chamber. Five black-robed figures lying on the ground were constantly mutating, their fragile black robes easily torn apart by newly grown tentacles. Under the dark red firelight, those tentacles twisted and intertwined in mid-air, forming a terrifying scene.
"Eh?"
At this moment, the Divine Envoy turned his gaze to a petite black-robed figure closest to the high platform. He saw that the black robe that had originally covered her head had slipped off at some point, revealing an ordinary face to the Divine Envoy.
But this was not what surprised the Divine Envoy. What truly surprised him was that the facial features on the petite figure's face, such as the nose and mouth, were gradually disappearing, and countless eyes of varying sizes were constantly growing out of the positions where those organs had disappeared.
In just a few minutes, the young girl's ordinary face had turned incomparably horrifying. If someone with trypophobia were to see the girl's face at this moment, they would probably be scared to death on the spot.
"A Divine Envoy of Lust, I didn't expect one to be born this time."
Regarding the girl's terrifying and indescribable appearance at this time, the Divine Envoy's half-human, half-monster face instead revealed an excited look. One had to know that compared to a Divine Envoy of Gluttony, the birth of a Divine Envoy of Lust had absolutely no rules, and the difficulty of birth was more than ten times that of a Divine Envoy of Gluttony.
"This is...?"
"So strong... is this the power of the gods?"
"Eat... want to eat..."
Just as the girl, whose appearance had become the terminator of trypophobia sufferers, woke up, the several figures in the secret chamber who had previously begun to mutate also woke up. Then, they noticed the changes in themselves, and a power that was so strong that it completely exceeded their imagination surged from within their bodies.
At the same time, a desire from the soul and the body's instinct arose, and this desire was accompanied by a seemingly endless void. Only forbidden knowledge could fill this void and desire, making them crave more forbidden knowledge from the moment they were born.
"Congratulations on becoming apostles of God."
Just as the few people below who had just completed their transformation were filled with joy and excitement about their changes, the divine envoy on the high platform spread his arms, and dozens of tentacles emerged from under his black robe, dancing in the air. As the attention of those who had completed their transformation was drawn over, a crazed and slippery voice rang in their ears.
"Hey! Old man, stop your yapping and hand over the rest of the knowledge to me, or I'll tear you to pieces right now."
Below, the man who had previously been servile and dog-like tore apart the black robe on his body, revealing a bloated, disgusting body. A face like a worm split open into a large mouth full of fangs, roaring at the divine envoy on the high platform.
The desire for new forbidden knowledge and power in his heart had already turned his eroded and twisted soul impatient. After all, for beings like them now, in the truest sense, 'knowledge is power'.
"You want new knowledge, do you? Then come with me!"
Above, the divine envoy didn't seem surprised at all, because he had been like this when he had just completed the ritual. Then, the divine envoy turned around and walked directly towards the wall of writhing flesh that had completely transformed, his entire body merging into it.
Seeing this, the six people who had just completed their transformation followed without hesitation. However, as the fat, bloated man stepped forward, he looked down at a black-robed man not far away lying on the ground, half-transformed, muttering something. With a grin, he stepped forward and raised a tentacle, smashing him into pieces.
Afterwards, he glanced at his old opponent, who had turned into a pile of minced meat, and walked directly into the wall of flesh. However, after he left, the minced meat began to wriggle and gather into a blood-red meatball.
On the other side, in the royal capital of the Li Yestige Kingdom, inside the former Eight Fingers underground brothel, the entire underground brothel had already turned into a land of flesh and blood. From within the constantly writhing walls of flesh, beings similar to the divine envoy who had completed their transformation emerged continuously, and various indescribable monsters instinctively gathered towards the central position.
And at the center of the underground brothel at this moment, a monster nearly ten meters tall, covered in various fleshy tumors, tentacles, and large eyeballs, was entrenched here. Above this monster's head, a constantly writhing dark red book was suspended in the air.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, the book suspended in the air automatically flipped open a page. The indescribable monster, which had been entrenched here without any movement, suddenly began to wriggle. Countless eyeballs stared at the new forbidden knowledge in the book with desire. As the new forbidden knowledge poured into its soul and memory, the monster's body began to transform again.
"More... more... not enough... give me more..."
Qi Luo's indescribable body split open into a mouth several meters wide, and a crazed roar echoed throughout the room. Ever since he obtained the book containing forbidden knowledge from Lu Minghao half a month ago, Qi Luo, driven by the desire in his heart and the murmurs constantly echoing in his mind, had opened the first page of the book upon returning to Eight Fingers.
Subsequently, Qi Luo was unsurprisingly eroded and twisted. And under the suggestion of Lu Minghao, the absolute dominator, he relied on his transformed body to completely rule the entire Eight Fingers in just one night, and summoned all the members to erode and twist them.
Then, driven by the endless desire for forbidden knowledge after the transformation, the members of Eight Fingers began to spread forbidden knowledge throughout the kingdom, based on their original forces. The more they spread and transformed, the more forbidden knowledge they obtained.
In just half a month, one-fifth of the people in the underground world of the Li Yestige Kingdom had been completely eroded and twisted, and the remaining four-fifths were either half-twisted or had received some news about forbidden knowledge to varying degrees.
And as more and more people were twisted and eroded, Qi Luo gradually opened one-third of the book that Lu Minghao had given him.
Similarly, similar to what happened in a certain noble territory in the Li Yestige Kingdom before, the same thing was happening simultaneously in various towns and noble territories throughout the Li Yestige Kingdom.
"Not enough......"
However, this was not enough to satisfy Qi Luo's already insatiable desire. Today, he would summon all the transformed freaks who had been completely eroded, and let them take the forbidden knowledge to other kingdoms. He wanted to plunge the entire world into forbidden knowledge.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Just then, strange wriggling sounds and footsteps rang out in the room. Many transformed freaks who had been completely eroded and twisted by forbidden knowledge walked in. Subsequently, the dark red book above Qi Luo's head emitted an indescribable light, and all the transformed freaks below received new knowledge based on their recent contributions.
Moreover, under Qi Luo's crazed orders, they left here and went to other kingdoms.
......
At the same time, outside a luxurious manor in the royal capital, various carriages bearing the exclusive crests of nobles drove into the manor. After the carriages stopped, nobles in elegant attire stepped out of the carriages one by one.
Tonight, the well-known noblewoman Hilma in the royal capital invited these nobles to attend a grand banquet, which made those guys who were at most barons or noble descendants excited.
After all, even if they considered themselves noble nobles, they actually knew that they were just deceiving themselves. Compared to those great nobles of the kingdom, they were just some impoverished nobles without money or power.
If, through Hilma's banquet, they could meet some descendants of the great nobles of the kingdom, or form an alliance with other nobles, it would be a win-win situation.
What's more, it was said that for this banquet, Hilma had specially taken out a legendary artifact passed down from ancient times as a spectacle for this banquet, which even made some well-known great nobles of the kingdom somewhat tempted.
"Heh."
Just as many nobles in elegant attire were talking, chatting, and pretending to be noble in the banquet hall, Hilma, dressed in a luxurious evening gown, looked at the many nobles below with a hint of mockery on her lips. The disdainful sneer made the maid behind her subconsciously reveal a look of fear.
"What's wrong? Are you very afraid of me?"
At this moment, Hilma, who was walking in front, suddenly twisted her head into a strange posture. Although her body was still walking forward, her head was completely twisted to the back, her eyes staring fixedly at the maid.
"N... no!"
Seeing this, the maid quickly raised her hands to cover her mouth, suppressing the scream she almost let out, and then shook her head at Hilma with tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Is that so?"
Looking at the terrified maid, Hilma nodded casually. After her neck made a chilling cracking sound, she twisted her head back, and then walked down the stairs towards the many nobles with a charming look.
