Only I Level Up By Shoveling-Chapter 66: "The Cult Is Summoning Something"

"Everyone, take cover!"

Castra hurriedly squatted behind a rock but the others couldn’t react as fast as he could, especially when the angel was still treating Miria.

The orc knight used his shield to cover the angel and Miria while the others used their own bodies to circle Miria and the angel.

Once they were in their positions, monsters of all sizes started to run towards Aran and Himi, passing through the group of examinees.

"@&! @&@&! (Ugh! Push them!)" The female beastman swung her sword and pushed the monsters who were rushing towards her.

The monsters didn’t bother to attack her and just continued to run towards Aran and Himi.

The others also used various tricks to change the monsters’ direction so that none of them would be trampled to death.

The chaos continued for almost half a minute before the dust settled and the monsters surrounded the two suspicious examinees.

Castra, the one who wasn’t with the group, could see Aran and Himi clearly.

By now, they were already standing dangerously close to the central lake.

The moment the monsters gathered around, the two people tossed the strange bowls into the central lake.

Splash!

The bowls only created a small ripple before they sank, but the monsters’ eyes flashed with red light as they pounced into the water.

"KIEKKK!"

"Screeee!!"

One after another, from strange crocodile monsters to the lizard bat monsters, they didn’t hesitate to dive into the water, chasing after the bowls!

Castra looked at this strange scene with a wide mouth.

"What the hell...why are the monsters acting like that?"

Lady Fera sniffed the air and furrowed her non-existent eyebrows.

"This lady smelled something strange. It seems to attract the monsters."

"Uh, then why did those two toss the bowls into the lake? If they wanted to harm us, isn’t it better to control the monsters?"

He didn’t know whether the two people attacked their group because of the exam or for a personal reason, but they just missed their chance to "wipe out" the entire group!

"Fufu, maybe they want to kill the monsters all at once and get the points— "

Lady Fera hadn’t even finished her words when something strange happened.

The small streams that vaguely surrounded the huge lake suddenly burst like a water fountain.

An eerie crimson light started to swim throughout the small streams, as if there was a crimson snake inside.

"@-@#$@&@&?? (W-what is that??)"

The female beastman gasped and the others also looked at the strange sight with wide eyes.

The crimson "snake" in the small streams slowly surrounded the huge lake and soon, it created a huge circle.

It was a simple circle, but as more and more small streams burst out while emitting crimson light, the simple circle became complicated.

The petite mage looked at the entire scene and gasped in disbelief,

"H-how come the circle looks like a magic circle??"

To be more precise, it looked like a formation that was commonly used in ceremonies and rituals.

Judging from the eerie crimson light...

"It looked like an evil cult ritual?"

The merged twins murmured with a voice that sounded both like a girl and a boy, sending a shiver down everyone’s spines.

What evil cult— you guys look more like a cult member!

But what the twins said triggered something in everyone’s heart— limited to those who could understand human language.

An evil cult ritual.

Could it be that those two examinees were members of evil cults??

It was rumored that many dark summoners were members of suspicious organizations and evil cults!

But what could they do even when knowing the two people’s identities?

They could only watch as the eerie "magic circle" was completed and something even more bizarre unfolded.

The monsters who were still noisily diving deep into the lake slowed down their movements.

"Khuk..?"

"Khiiieekkk..."

"Screeee— "

The monsters shrieked one after another, but as the crimson magic circle glowed brighter, their voices became weaker.

A few weaker monsters slowly stopped moving and sank into the deep lake.

Then, other stronger monsters flailed around as lights slowly went out of their eyes.

Their energy was drained by something mysterious and they too, slowly sank into the deep lake.

When more and more monsters sank into the lake, a tinge of red appeared on the surface of the lake’s blue water.

Every time one monster sank, the tinge of red became thicker and thicker until the examinees could see the change of the lake’s water even when they were a distance away.

"Oink! @&@&@@&@&? (Oink! What’s wrong with the lake’s water?)"

The orc knight felt a strange ominous feeling that he couldn’t ignore.

"@&#&. @&@&@&@&#&? (The water color changed. Is it because of the magic circle?)"

The dwarf, who was knowledgeable about chemical transformations, rubbed his beard and furrowed his thick eyebrows.

The two foreign examinees couldn’t understand each other, but somehow, they could guess each other’s speech.

Their faces slowly darkened.

The female beastman with a sensitive nose even pinched her nose in disgust.

"@&@&#&....(It’s the smell of blood...)"

And the smell is getting thicker.

The angel, who was healing the hole in Miria’s stomach, also furrowed his eyebrows and murmured in a depressed voice,

"@&@&...@&@&@@&@&...(This is strange...the wound isn’t healing at all..)"

Even if the dungeon was a dark element dungeon, it shouldn’t suppress his healing so much that the wound didn’t even get better by the slightest.

Something is wrong.

Everyone had this feeling, but it was too late.

The blood in the lake became thicker and thicker and with many colors of blood mixed in, the water turned pure black.

The black water quickly "devoured" half of the enormous lake.

By the time the lake was divided exactly into half with one side dyed in black blood and the other side remained pure, the entire lake suddenly stirred.

SPLASH!

Starting from the center, a huge whirlpool appeared, and soon, the entire lake was spinning around, as if it was about to burst!

Even worse, when the whirlpool appeared, Aran and Himi immediately kneeled on the lake’s bank while screaming in a shrill voice.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! IT IS HERE!"

"IT IS HEREEEE— "