"I would say you are dying anyway, instead of begging, fight for your life, but who am I telling this to. Not only you, but even your ringleader Zebani were like this!"
Nora waited inside the Blood Dome without disturbing her hands joined on her chest; she watched without blinking until the last scream of the Holy Fire Disciple whose bones were being burned by blood flowers.
"The unfinished account will surely be closed!"
These words were in her mouth when she woke up inside the Fifth Circle; before even an hour passed, the Blood God had passed the test she was in.
Her nostrils were fully dilated, her eyebrows were furrowed downwards in defiance. She only drew a deep breath into her lungs and started stepping towards the Sixth Circle.
The air she spread around resembled that of a wild creature determining its territory in the forest; while she was passing to the next stage, no one including the Head Supervisor could open their mouths and utter a single word.
However, when she entered the circle and closed her eyes, they started gossiping; especially in the place where clan stands were, a strange air was blowing.
"Wasn't the Fifth Circle modeled after the Holy Fire Sect too?"
In the voice of the woman with a long robe, the desire for approval peculiar to people asking a question whose answer they knew was striking the eye.
"It should have been; what is happening right now is completely nonsense!"
Clan representatives choosing the Death Pit trial to stop the Bloody Moon Trio didn't want to believe what was happening; while their own representatives were dropping like flies, the young ones they targeted were proceeding without cutting speed.
"Look, another one passed the Fifth Circle too!"
The person speaking got so excited that people exposed to voice transmission were forced to squint their eyes; words coming in a shrill tone almost pierced into their brains.
Despite this, when they turned to the said place, they saw Alis whose clothes were almost all burned. His pants were battered from many places; the underwear underneath was completely in plain sight.
"What hot kids they were man, they scorched the entire creation!"
While the young boy was messing up his white hair, he was scanning the state of his attire; a breath later, the voice of the Head Supervisor rang in his ears.
"Bloody Moon Alis, you should wear something on you!"
Although he wasn't aware himself, there were burns in certain parts of his underwear and his private parts were visible from there.
"Would you like the Sect to provide you clothing?"
The stagnant state of the young boy would push the Head Supervisor to make this offer.
"No need, your clothes are very tacky!"
Alis took out his new clothes from his tag having inter-spatial storage feature and wore them immediately; the entire area would focus on his style once more.
He wore short-legged black shalwar, a plain white top with a loose collar and asymmetrical cut. With shoes in the same color as his top on his feet again, he didn't resemble anyone in the giant area.
"It became a little sporty but we will manage; it becomes very costly when dressing classically!"
"Not important at all, from now on it's okay even if you wander naked. Ah, if I didn't have to enter seclusion, I would have trained you with my own hands!"
Someone called out addressing the young boy tidying himself up; everyone knew who he was. The Sheikh was singing the praises of Alis, thanks to whom he won a big bet.
"I liked these clothes very much; you give me a suit when the test finishes!"
The Holy Blood Sect Sheikh let loose so much that he was talking with Alis as if chatting with a very close friend.
"Just ask for it Sheikh, I will make a beautiful combination!"
Alis got into the mood too; not a sound was coming out from the crowd watching these states of the duo with astonishment.
"My Young Lady!"
Ekaterina knew the meaning of the call coming from her bodyguards; the two men had started questioning the reliability of the formation.
"If we look at the others, we can see it is working normally; however, two options remain in our hands. Either the Sheikh knows this trio and helped them to provide some benefits, or the Bloody Moon Trio is really stronger than everyone expected!"
When the most authorized mouth in the area put the final point, the two men were forced to shut their mouths; no matter what happened, the strong one could spoil any kind of order.
"Nora passed to the Sixth Circle, let me not leave her alone!"
Alis was walking, Atractivo was laughing with joy, the faces of those in the clan stand looked like they ate a lemon, and the public was applauding madly. It was obvious they were living a day they wouldn't forget for years today, and it didn't look like it would end here either.
"Wait for me too!"
Count Jashua called out from behind Alis proceeding to the Sixth Circle; naturally, the entire area heard this.
Alis didn't make a sound but there was a meaningful look in his eyes. Count Jashua gave the answer via voice transmission; this time he didn't want anyone to hear him.
"I don't have Ice and Fire Immunity like you, I am forced to struggle a little to cut!"
Alis laughed intermittently; he wasn't ashamed due to the advantage he had, but he had understood the handsome young man's trouble too.
"You enter too; it doesn't look like the Sect will suffer from Blood Stone shortage this year!"
While Atractivo spoke rubbing his hands, he was looking at where the clan stands were; he was taking both the men's blood stones and their morale from their hands.
Thus the Bloody Moon Trio entered the Sixth Circle; the Third Elder immediately to the left of the Sheikh was looking for a place to hiss like a snake.
"Sir, all bets you played won; only the passing the Sixth Circle bet giving 1 to 20 remained. If we win that too, the Merchants Union will make a big loss today!"
With his bent neck, the hump appearing on his back, and folding his hands in front of him, the Third Elder was a total sycophant; unlike him, the Second sitting on the right side was watching the test with all his majesty.
"Second you have no joy at all; you always grumble about my expenses but didn't utter a single word about me winning heaps of Blood Stones!"
Atractivo wasn't unjustified; although he entered a big risk, the return would be magnificent to that extent too.
"I cannot ignore the returns of your success on behalf of the Sect, but forgive me, my mind got stuck on a completely different subject!"
"Tell quickly, I wondered very much what could be important enough to overshadow this terrific move of mine?"
The Second, after averting his eyes for a second to the thin man next to Atractivo, breathed out from his nose and started speaking.
"I suppose you are aware of our situation; the Royal Family is after lowering our Sect status by taking the festivities to the end of this year. They have pulled all of our clans to their ranks; right at this moment, three such people coming out from the Bloody Moon doesn't seem normal to me at all!"
The moment the majestic man completed his speech, the Third entered the conversation.
"My clan Bloody Star is always loyal to the Holy Blood Sect!"
When words touched him too, the thin man leaped forward but Sheikh Atractivo raised his hand and ensured he shut up.
"I presume this cannot be a coincidence; especially their increasing performance upon the request of Clan Representatives made me suspicious one more fold!"
The situation was quite interesting; Clans were attributing the trio's success to the Sect, and the Second Elder of the Sect to a game planned by external powers.
I guess the clearest mind right now belonged to the Holy Blood Sect Sheikh Atractivo.
"Let this test finish, we will think about these after that. Sixth Circle, if they pass, I will rake in enough money to enter seclusion for a year!"
After what he heard, the Second Elder turned his head to the other side with anger; there was a pleased smile on the Third's face.
Since night darkness settled thoroughly, the area was illuminated with torches; smoke rising from flames was mixing into the air together with thousands of thoughts.