1102 Demons and Believers Part 2 (2/2)

”Master, let's go.” Nailisi was very irked, but she was unable to tell why she felt so.

Saleen nodded and took Nailisi away from the village with the demons. The conversation between the demon and the believers put him in deep thought and made him understand that humans were once a glorious race, but they were no longer so. The weak, dirty parts of humanity were laid right before his eyes, as well as the pitiful foolishness.

Humanity was not actually such. All that was but a part of the human soul. When their race was no longer glorious, the pitiful, vile parts emerged. Saleen was not disappointed. There were, after all, still humans who refused to yield and fall.

For example, most mages found on the mainland did not betray their own faith even when the powers across Myers Mainland had fallen to its lowest point. It was a faith in themselves that the mages existed to understand thoroughly the truth of the world. To mages, combat was but a small part of their lives. Most of their time was spent conducting experiments, doing calculations, learning, and creating.

The collapsed house was at the other end of the village. Saleen turned around as he followed the squad of demons out of the village. He found the group at the hill had finally moved. They were moving at the same speed as Saleen's group.

He pointed at the collapsed house and said to everyone around him, ”You see that? Even when Titan had fallen for years, it was still immensely difficult for the Holy See to propagate their faith. Most people, even such a small village, refuse to buy into their lies.”

Saleen's words were actually meant for himself. In his mind, he had already developed some vague structures of how to propagate Nature Faith and what to preach. There would be no more lies about the gods creating the world. Every being would have the chance to become a god.

The 200 demons left from the main path and the peasants in the village slowly began to gather. The villagers were puzzled as to how to clean up the mess left behind while over a hundred golden-armored knights charged into the village from the other end.

The knights in gold all held lances of over 13-feet long. The knights spread out when they came to the village. Half of them stepped into the fields while the other half rushed into the collapse white house.

The golden-armored knights began to slaughter everyone before the villagers were able to react.

”All who defiles the gods shall die!” The great head inquisitor gave the order to slaughter everyone in the scene without giving any explanations.

Many of the villagers had witnessed a demon killing a priest and had heard of the conversation between them. What happened would have been very bad for the Holy See's rule.

The village was not actually that small. The knights chased after peasants in the fields as they killed them. While there were a magic beast or two used for plowing the fields retaliating and some retired soldiers fought back with hoes, the task given by the great head inquisitor was easily accomplished.

There were only a swordmaster or two in a village like that.

However, the fields were vast. There were peasants faraway running into the mountains. The great head inquisitor took out a golden book with a cold expression. There was a huge ”X” mark on the cover of the book.

No script or form of writing on Myers Mainland had such a hard, geometrical alphabet. The symbol was something from another plane. The great head inquisitor opened the golden book. The 12 adjudicators circled around him, beginning to chant prayers.

A huge, black ”X” mark flew into the air, forming into a huge dark cloud. Every single living being shrouded by the mark withered. The handful of running peasants and ones hiding in the holes of their own fields died without making a sound.

The young adjudicators saw the great head inquisitor put the golden book away as the sky began to light up. It was only then that they stopped chanting.

The golden-armored knights returned to their formations one after another. They looked unfazed, just like the great head inquisitor. For them, the order from the great head inquisitor was to be executed to the letter without the slightest of doubt. The reason for killing peasants did not matter.

”Let's go.” The great head inquisitor felt Saleen's group had gone too far by then. He held onto the reins and had his people pursue them westward.

The golden-armored team followed quickly. The village burned in great flames. Everything was reduced to ashes. It was as if the village had never existed in the first place.

A long time after the great head inquisitor left, a short figure was seen crawling out from the rubble. It was none other than the boy, Gagas, who had talked to Nailisi. While he had suffered burns on his limbs, he felt nothing.

Everything in the village was destroyed. He was the only one left alive. He held onto the carving that Nailisi gave him as a present. The small demon statue only had half of it left. The other half had burned to nothing. If it had not been for the statue protecting him, the boy would have died as well.

”Dad? Mom?” Gagas did not cry. He dared not cry before seeing his parents.

There was no one around to answer him. The villagers were the target of the great head inquisitor's divine spell. Even the scavenging magic beasts in the air and the rats underground perished under the workings of that spell.

As the sky gradually turned dark, there were some houses still burning. The air was scorching hot. Tears fell out of Gagas' eyes as he began to leave the village, one step at a time.

He was all that was left in the area. He was still holding on to half of that statue in his hand.