CH534 Divine Heist Gone Wrong?
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Meanwhile, Alex and Udara arrived at the makeshift underground shrine.
What greeted them was gruesome enough to twist the stomach.
True to its stench, the chamber was decorated almost entirely with skulls, bones, and strange ritualistic paintings the pair could barely make sense of. Symbols overlapped symbols, smeared in dried pigments that had long since darkened into something unpleasant.
At the centre stood the main object of worship.
A hideous statue.
Neither Alex nor Udara could tell what race it depicted.
Humanoid… yes.
But its features were a nightmare collage of monstrous traits — goblin, lizardman, insectoid and others that refused to remain fixed in the eye. From one angle it looked like one species; from another, something entirely different.
It was as if certainty itself slipped away from it.
More disturbing, however, was not the shape.
It was the divine aura. And the skulls.
