Chapter 1055: Chapter 393 Andrea: It’s not fair, it’s not fair!

This is precisely the illusion caused by primacy effect!

Both Aiwass and Princess knew the real name of Blood Celestial Marshal was Cain, and that he is the son of the Banquet Master and Sasha, and in actuality, even more so the son of the Banquet Master and Eternal Self… Thus, they subconsciously felt there might be some issue in logic or details here.

The Banquet Master himself is a Dragon.

And the growth rate of Dragons is particularly slow… Helquinn’s son is a testament to that.

Cain’s posture when he ascended to godhood is still that of a “youth,” how could he grow so fast in the Material Realm!

—-But looking at Cain being the center of attention, even highlighted by numerous spotlights, nobody thought he could be fake! Coupled with Sister Sasha’s personal recognition… From the beginning, Aiwass never considered this “Cain” to be an impostor!

But if he truly is the son of the Banquet Master, the future Blood Celestial Marshal, how could he be killed in an instant by Andrea of the Fourth Level!

…In other words, since “Cain” can indeed be killed in one strike, this suggests that such an action is feasible!

So, what if there is a BUG in the painting?

Then fix the BUG!

That’s why it’s called “completing this painting”!

Aiwass suddenly saw the light.

But he also realized in an instant that he was one step behind.

As a Son of the Moon, Andrea has the racial advantage that allows her to sense her own kin. As Blood Celestial Marshal, the original Son of the Moon… his blood must be the purest, there’s no way Andrea couldn’t sense it.

In other words—-

Andrea did not go dance with him out of fervor for Blood Celestial Marshal, but planned to kill him when the dance came to an intimate end!

If successful, that would mean killing a bastard who disguises as one of her own, pretending to be an ancestor; if he truly was the Blood Celestial Marshal she couldn’t sense, she would still be no worse off!

To put it as enforcing Pengbonazi’s will, launching a rebellion against the ancestor of the Sons of the Moon!

—-Is this pretending to be foolish while being extremely wise?

Or rather, because she didn’t think too much, she actually seized the opportunity… While Aiwass was still organizing his thoughts, she had already boldly acted and gained a point!

“What’s going on…”

“Why…”

The guests stopped dancing one after another, but they did not flee the place in fear.

Instead, they pointed at the stage, and the band changed the rhythmically feverish melody into a suspenseful atmosphere.

“Listen to me everyone!”

Andrea called out loudly: “This person is not Chris at all!

“Chris is a Dragon, how could His offspring be so fragile?!”

“That is my child with Chris—-”

Sasha cried out in the crowd.

Aiwass’s eyes widened slightly.

Wait, isn’t Chris your master? Why can you call out his name directly?

—-During that instant, a memory fragment from not long ago surfaced in his mind.

Sasha came here two days ago.

She claimed to be the lover of “Master Chris.” But her hair color, eye color, figure, height, and race completely differed from the real Sister Sasha…

At the time, Aiwass subconsciously thought, could it be that the Painter drew her wrongly.

But if…

—-What if she really isn’t Sasha?

“Kill her, Your Royal Highness the Princess.”

Aiwass immediately whispered: “Kill Sasha.”

Although hesitating due to a lack of extensive knowledge in mysticism and theology, Her Royal Highness the Princess is sharp-minded; looking at Andrea’s actions, she had roughly guessed half of it already.

Therefore, upon Aiwass’s order, she did not hesitate to act.

Her pupils instantly shone with a hint of bright yellow light, her soul leaving her body!

The black smoke of her soul pierced through the body of Sasha standing beside her, and Sasha’s entire being crumbled and collapsed like sand.

Since Andrea has accidentally found the correct direction, what Aiwass could do was only to wrest points from her hands!

From her actions, Andrea’s chosen direction seems to be [Madness and Slaughter].

So she came out and directly tried to kill that “Cain,” just needing to create chaos to be on the right track.

Aiwass is still unclear on how to steer the story of this painting toward “Funeral and Sacrifice”… So to be safe, he must first limit Andrea’s points!

—-For now, just follow her lead, let the Princess directly snatch the “Sasha” kill!

Without a doubt, both of them are key characters in this scene.

Even if Sasha’s importance is not half, it should at least be one-third. By this means, it ensures Andrea can’t get 100% of the contribution points!

“This person is not Sasha.”

Princess Noel took the initiative to speak before Aiwass gave a prompt: “I’ve seen Sasha, this is not her!”

“—-You bastard!”

Andrea was immediately enraged.

Obviously… after killing Cain, she also realized the underlying mechanism of this ascension ceremony. And she instantly knew what that woman was doing.

After Sasha was killed first, even if this outcome was achieved, she would not be able to obtain all the points!

That means, if someone else in the other two paintings gets all the contributions, her failure is already predetermined!

—-Unacceptable!

She was counting on finishing her painting quickly and then chasing after that Clown!

Therefore, Andrea didn’t hesitate—-

She slightly curled her finger, blood gathered… and in the blink of an eye, a crescent moon of blood rose from the ground!

It was a mountain of swords made of blood, rising like a mountain range, straight through the line of guests in an instant!

Amidst the unceasing screams, severed limbs and mangled bodies drenched in blood were strewn all over the ground.

The carpet, once like red velvet cake, suddenly seeped with a dark crimson crack.

—-Her thought process was straightforward.

By killing everyone here, she would quickly put an end to this painting!

The ritual’s time limit was three hours—-she remembered clearly, ten minutes from the start to choose an answer, and ten minutes from making the choice to return. Three answers could be chosen per hour, totaling three hours, which is nine times. This number also matched the “choose one out of three” victory condition!

In other words, if she wanted to kill that Clown Laro, the Great Mage… as well as that troublesome girl, she had to finish this painting as quickly as possible in the first few rounds!

Only then would she have more time to descend and interfere with others’ paintings—-conversely, if she directly left this place, she would find herself in a situation with paintings she didn’t understand and could easily fail to finish even one, thus unable to complete the main quest and face defeat.

In terms of points, the total score of “The Banquet Tower” was only 3000. It was the least among the three paintings, half of the third one.

And points were equivalent to difficulty—-at least, as determined by the host.

Therefore, Andrea directly concluded that this was the easiest painting.

She must complete it within three choices!

So, how could it be finished as quickly as possible?

—-The answer was, to complete “Friends Who No Longer Laugh”!

By simply killing everyone, naturally, they would no longer be able to laugh!

In other words, what she had to do was to kill all present—-slaughter all the artificial souls and the Ascendants mingled among them!

“Let this painting turn into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood—-”

Andrea declared with murderous intent: “Her Royal Highness the Princess… right.

“My father killed your father, so allow me to kill you!”

She no longer disguised herself but directly revealed her identity.

Andrea then lifted her right hand, and blood continuously drew from her own body and condensed into a sphere of blood.

The blood sphere flew directly towards the crowd—-it coalesced and compressed in mid-air, transforming into a white light sphere.

That was the “Fireball Technique” powerful enough to destroy a building!

But clearly, Andrea wasn’t a Mage, so this was a Fireball Technique simulated using Blood Magic!

Princess Noel’s gaze involuntarily went to Aiwass who was praying with closed eyes.

She wanted to know what she should do next.

Should she continue competing with Andrea for points, rushing to kill all the guests first… or should she stop her?

At that moment, Aiwass suddenly opened his eyes.

He abruptly raised his left hand, fingers spread wide.

Above his head, pure white thorns of light appeared and vanished like ephemeral bubbles, and nine different colored radiances bloomed out of thin air in front of him!

That was indeed the Protection of the Nine Pillar Gods, the Divine Art used by the Eternal Pope to withstand the Perfect Light Spear!

—-Boom!

The Fireball Technique, capable of instantly demolishing a building, was utterly unable to penetrate the protection of that light screen, not even causing a ripple!

—-That was the Protection of the Nine Pillar Gods!

Normally, such a powerful Divine Art would require a complex ritual for an ordinary Archbishop to invoke the respective Strength.

Only a Cardinal Archbishop would be able to complete the prayer in a short time, and could also add the effects of all the Advanced Divine Arts they mastered.

But to Aiwass, who was still wearing the Holy Crown… although the Holy Crown wasn’t brought into the Ascension ritual, he still “qualified” as the acting Pope, needing only to communicate with the Nine Pillar Gods to get an instant response.

His casting speed was much faster than that of an ordinary Priest!

Although at this moment, Aiwass didn’t have the Path crystal of Adaptation condensed on his body, and therefore couldn’t use the higher-level Divine Arts of the Lord of Scalefeather.

—-But I’m not some trash who can’t do anything aside from Advanced Divine Arts and Aleister!

Aiwass thought to himself.

He was the second Ascendant who entered the waiting room by his own Strength!

Now, relying solely on the Priest’s own power, he was still enough to defeat Andrea!

“—-Grant me the petrifying flames, Amber!”

Aiwass chanted swiftly, and the color spectrum light screen floating in front of him suddenly turned amber.

Several verses of prayers praising Amber flitted through the light screen in a deeper shade of amber. The light screen then contracted and transformed into a diamond-shaped miniature shield with an eye in its center, floating in front of Aiwass.

The next moment, a beam of dull yellow flame erupted directly from that eye!

Behind Andrea, a pair of Blood Wings suddenly appeared. She dodged through the air at high speeds!

But at that moment, a pitch-black gust pierced through the petrifying flames, rushing straight at Andrea!

“Get lost!”

Andrea roared, and the blood gathered in her right hand transformed into a white lightning bolt.

Just as she was about to aim the soul-purifying Thunder at her target, Aiwass’s voice echoed once again:

“—-Enshroud her in darkness, Eternal Self!”

The next moment, Andrea felt her vision go completely dark.

How had it happened so quickly?!

She instinctively sensed something was off with this Archbishop.

But after a moment of hesitation, Andrea knew she had to make a decision—-so she immediately shot the Thunder in front of her!

The dancing white Thunder formed a conical shape before her, while her other hand gathered crackling chain lightning, preparing to hurl this auto-targeting Spell directly into the crowd!

The disintegrating power of darkness hadn’t descended upon her immediately.

But the petrifying flames that were still scanning had already reached her!

—-Why is he able to pray to two Pillar Gods at the same time?!

This was Andrea’s last thought before she was petrified.