1102 Demons and Believers Part 2 (1/2)

Over a hundred people simply stood on a hill like they were being nailed to the ground about 10 miles away from the village. The strongest of the golden-armored warriors were but silver grand swordmasters, preventing them from seeing what was happening over 10 miles away.

Even the 12 adjudicators were incapable of seeing so far away. Only the great head inquisitor was able to observe patiently with the Eye of Divine Smith in his hand. The demon was baiting him to make a move. Should I make a move here?

If he were to do nothing, the demon would have had no problem killing the priest and the believers. While his subordinates were unable to see anything happening there, everyone passing by the village would know what was going on.

His subordinates would not hold it against him if he were to do nothing. However, the demon would not stop at once. There would be another town another few miles away from there, and there would be a church in there as well.

What if the demons massacred the holy masters in that church? There would be another small city about 300 miles beyond that town. If they were to move 600 miles further, they would find themselves before a garrison of the Tribunal. Should I act now, or should I wait for a little bit longer?

Nailisi eyed the believers who were glaring at her. Such puny creatures actually have the courage to stand up against me because they have faith. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

”So, the act of the Holy See starting up wars and having Kroraina and Qin plunged in the flames of war was a manifestation of god's wrath. Am I correct?” Nailisi asked.

”Indeed. Dirty defilers are not fit to live on Myers Mainland,” the believer said.

”Aren't any of you afraid of death for talking to me like that?” Nailisi's tone was not eerie at all. She suddenly understood how mages felt. A decent humans turned incredibly stupid just because they came to believe in some god. Everything was ”god said this, and god said that.” Whatever ”god said” would be the ultimate truth. There was no need to learn, research, or explore.

What is the difference from being dead if one was to live like that?

”Death? Can you actually kill me?” That believer gave a sarcastic smirk. ”Death was but the beginning. I will live forever in heaven.”

”Live forever! Haha, even the gods themselves can't live forever. Those lies are good for only fooling stupid *sses like you people.” Nailisi lost any interest in arguing with the believers.

She was able to see from Saleen's Sensory Sharing that the ones at the hill had no intention of coming into the village to rescue their people. The priest and believers before her had outlived their usefulness.

That priest suddenly said, ”Defiler, you shall forever be condemned in the purgatory of god. You shall suffer eternal pain in the fires of purgatory!”

Nailisi was angry. You puny holy master, whose level is no better than a level two mage, dare to try to use curses on me?

Even if the curse were to succeed, the priest would have died immediately. The price for cursing a demon of such levels was not something a priest like this one would have been able to bear. Furthermore, the curse that the priest used was the vilest of curses. If the priest were to succeed, he would have been able to truly drag the enemy's soul into the Lord of Glory's purgatory and rob the enemy of their freedom for eternity.

Then again, even a level nine holy master would have found it difficult to curse Nailisi. Being a demon already made it difficult to curse her. Additionally, she already had two doubles in the 12 Notes of First Purgatory.

The doubles continued to supply power to Nailisi. One of the doubles was in the purgatory of the fallen while the other was in the purgatory of purification. Both of those doubles were anti-god and anti-divine spell doubles. They were extremely lethal to gods and those wielding divine arts.

Even a level nine holy master would have had to be condemned right there and then if they were to be thrown into any of the two purgatories. There was no way a village priest's curse would have succeeded on Nailisi.

Nailisi's original, near-dissipated intention of killing those people before her was riled up again by the curse. She grabbed onto the priest, brought him to her, and squeezed. With a sheepish smile, she said, ”You mentioned purgatory, didn't you? Well then, let me show you what the fires of purgatory are like.”

She drew a wisp of fire from her double in the purgatory of the fallen and spat it right on the priest's face. The priest began to burn with pale grey flames. The flames did not stop by burning the priest's body; it burned his soul as well.

The priest immediately shrieked in pain. The pain of the soul was an unbearable one. Furthermore, he was able to witness from the flames of the purgatory of the fallen how the kingdoms of various gods were broken and attacked by humans. His faith collapsed right there and then.

Without a belief supporting his soul, the priest was little more than a professional who was slightly stronger than common folk. There was no way he could have been able to bear such pain.

”As for you people, you are humans who have chosen to have faith in a puny god. It's an utter disgrace,” Nailisi said as she chucked the three believers with adamant beliefs into the purgatory of the fallen.

The other six attempted to run, but there was nowhere to run to. They had curled up at the walls when they saw the demon begin to kill people. They cried and begged Nailisi for mercy. ”We don't believe that thing. We don't believe him at all.”

”Spare me, I'll never listen to him again...”

”You all are the true filth of the bunch.” Nailisi slapped hard.

The two-story building collapsed right there and then. The six false believers were instantly turned to mush. She did not even bother picking up their dirty souls.