"…As you wish, Master."
Just as the two began to think that the participants wouldn't follow such an absurd order from Erika, Valyr and Ataraxia were instead proven wrong as one of the men stepped forward.
Placing one of his hands on his chest, the man proceeded to exert all of his strength as he tore his chest apart, his face showing no expression of pain whatsoever.
Breaking through the bones and muscles as if he were doing it to someone else, the man eventually took out his still beating heart out of his body, only to then crush it after uttering a few words.
"All for the god."
Squelch!
Watching the first man that volunteered fall to the ground with a calm expression, Erika soon glanced at another participant in the formation, only for them to more or less do the same thing sometime later.
One by one, the men took out their hearts and offered them up to the god, gradually transforming the sight before the two from the pinnacle of debauchery to the pinnacle of cruelty.
