Azazel, who had vanished in an instant before Saraka, reappeared atop the chandelier in the banquet hall where all light had faded and only confused murmuring filled the air. Looking down, he saw Pheraulos with his angelic face deeply furrowed, covering his nose.
Perhaps because Azazel and Pheraulos were incompatible by nature, they found each other's scent particularly repulsive. With his vision stolen and even his sense of smell failing to function properly, he should have been out of his mind, yet even in that state, he sensed Azazel's presence and lunged at him.
Azazel began acting as bait, focusing Pheraulos's gaze entirely on himself. While he bought time, the girl dressed elegantly in her gown began to move.
Right now, inside the banquet hall, only one person besides Azazel could see the surroundings clearly. The one Saraka had personally selected, believing her to be most suitable for killing the Crown Prince, was one of the Crown Prince's twin daughters.
Watching the princess stab a blade into her own father's heart amid the chaos, Azazel hung the Crown Prince's corpse by its collar on the chandelier, decorating it so it would be displayed perfectly and catch everyone's eye at once.
As Saraka had requested, a modified summoning circle of the kind sorcerers use to summon demons was drawn on the floor. If everyone in the banquet hall were to summon demons, it would exceed the limits the temple could manage, so the shape had been deliberately altered slightly.
The summoning circle employed insidious trickery to bewitch humans into summoning demons, and even with just a similar form, it was sufficient to incite those who witnessed it to act on impulse.
This pattern would spread from the nobles and begin to secretly trend. Among those bewitched, some would, after much inquiry, discover the true summoning circle and summon demons. Even if they failed, they had betrayed Rahel God by placing blind faith in a fake summoning circle, so they deserved punishment. That would be the time to properly resume the massacre of heretics.