"You can't guess how pleased I am; turn this so my subjects can enjoy it too!"
The Sheikh, whose pouch was filled, opened his mouth slightly before tightening it again; he deemed it appropriate to present a living being half the size of the wild creature he first gave to people as food.
"What do you say Third, can they pass the last circle?"
The snake-necked man was watching the formation squinting his eyes; he didn't even think to answer after the incoming question.
"I hope someone passes, but it doesn't look quite possible; the last circle was created considering our Holy Blood Sect!"
Before the Sheikh raised a single eyebrow and started laughing with a low voice, he threw a glance at Ekaterina sitting in the stand across him.
The young woman didn't look as comfortable as the first time she came to the square; although she tried not to show it, today was passing like a nightmare for the institution she headed.
"My Young Lady, there is something fishy going on here!"
One of the bodyguards whispered leaning towards Ekaterina's ear; succumbing to his excitement, he had forgotten to use voice transmission.
"Watchdog, what is fishy? Tell us too!"
Of course, Sheikh Atractivo heard this and his response wasn't pleasant at all. The bodyguard insulted in front of everyone and his friend next to him were like powder kegs; it was obvious from their states that they were ready to go into war at any moment.
"Insolent ones, who are you to take a war stance inside the Holy Blood Sect?"
A breath after the Second Elder leaped from his place, he appeared in front of the duo. Bodyguards were going to panic thoroughly; two black-colored orbs appeared in each of their hands.
When waves of blood energy starting from the Second's arms rose from his shoulders and took shape like long knives, Ekaterina understood what the men behind her were trying to do too.
"Stop immediately!"
Although the beautiful woman tried to stop them, her bodyguards were really very scared; they were candidates to do all nonsense a human would do not to die, but a muffled voice smelling of death came from where the stand's legs were.
"Since when can disciples of other sects show the courage to use their holy relics against the officials of the Holy Blood Sect!"
Following the faintly coming voice, a smallish shadow disappeared mixing into darkness; at the same time, two bodyguards standing on the stand were bleeding from all orifices on their faces.
Since they couldn't breathe, their colors were turning purple with every breath; they were struggling as if the control of their limbs wasn't with them.
"Second Elder, I apologize on behalf of my bodyguards, please forgive them!"
When Ekaterina shouted in panic, the Second Elder was looking at the two men writhing on the ground.
"Sheikh Atractivo, forgive the lives of my bodyguards!"
The Holy Blood Sect Sheikh didn't answer the call; this attitude caused Ekaterina to shout for the second time.
"I beg you, please!"
This time the Sheikh told the Second Elder to cut his attack, but the situation wouldn't change; the entire faces of the men lying on the ground were covered with blood.
"Second, enough!"
The Sheikh shouted once more, but this time it was frightening enough to curdle a human's blood. Only then could those around hear the duo lying on the ground breathing; while bloody foams were coming out of their noses, they continued agonizing.
The Holy Blood Sect Second Elder descended from the stand stepping back; the blank looks in his eyes were attracting everyone's attention.
"You, are you opposing my orders?"
Sheikh Atractivo appeared next to him too; judging by him grabbing his subordinate's collar with his two hands, he had no intention of leaving the accountability business to the night.
"I didn't do it!"
The Second said only two words, then the Sheikh exploded like a volcano.
"Will I believe you or my eyes! I give you eight months of closed meditation punishment, go to your residence immediately and start serving your punishment!"
Everything happened in an instant; while Ekaterina was carrying her bodyguards out of the area with the help of sect officials, Sheikh Atractivo was looking behind her with sad eyes.
He didn't move from his place until the beautiful woman disappeared from sight; when Ekaterina's scent was wiped from the air too, Atractivo returned to his place.
"Third, the sect's external and internal affairs depend only on you now. Choose your assistants, don't bother me."
The thin man's eye shone; due to a situation not in the account at all, he was attaining authority he couldn't reach even in his dreams.
Making a hand gesture immediately, he filled the Sheikh's throne with women and wine again; the handsome man had no objection to this move either.
In the place where the Sheikh and Third Elder were, there were wine and women; in the stand right across them, there were traces of the bloody path formed while bodyguards were being dragged. This situation wasn't exclusive only to the outside world; the realm inside the formation was hosting moments where blood flowed like water too.
"Wow man, which time's Holy Blood Sect is this?"
While Nora was swinging Mora's daggers, she was laughing madly on one hand too; unlike the first five circles, opponents here seemed to challenge her quite a bit.
"Look at these, it is just the first stage and all of these are like monsters!"
Blood-colored energy attacks were flying in the air; Nora, standing face to face with ten people, was on cloud nine from pleasure. The large-bodied Young Count inside another formation looked cheerful too; the majestic weapon in his hand had changed color right now and taken a blood-red state.
"Won't you all attack together?"
There were ten people across him too, and only one of these warriors was fighting. The Holy Blood Sect model inside the formation was functioning exactly with Sheikh Atractivo's logic.
"Numerical superiority has no importance in our sect; we must defeat you one on one!"
The warrior consisting of energy spoke while trying to plunge his thin and long sword in his hand towards Count Jashua's right eye.
"Then, allow me to accompany you!"
A red shadow appeared in front of the weapon of the opponent who wanted to make a point shot; the tip of the thin sword plunged into the young boy's weapon.
Suddenly Count Jashua started turning his long weapon with his two hands; it wasn't possible for the opponent remaining suspended in the air to prevent him.
The most logical move he could make became turning by adapting his body to this maneuver, but he missed Count Jashua leaving the weapon and jumping into the air.
The Young Count descended like lightning; when his knee hit his enemy's chest, a sound indicating bones were broken rose.
"Next!"
This word was said almost at the same time inside all three formations. In the first stage where one-on-one struggles were experienced, the Bloody Moon Trio were fighting at a level close to their full powers.
Alis was the person struggling the most among them; although being a part of Nora, he was closer to her state on the human side.
Apart from power animal abilities and dominance over sword techniques, he couldn't use Blood Techniques. Those powers were bequeathed from Mora to Orc Nafız, and enemies across him possessed similar ones to the same abilities.
"I must pass the first stage; I must kill these ten people by hook or by crook!"
Alis gritted his teeth; his enemies had consciousness and switching to tiny white mode wouldn't be beneficial. He grasped his two katanas tightly; the real test was starting for him now.