The citadel was quiet.
As if he didn’t notice the uproar outside.
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Or as if noticing it and leaving it alone.
The inside of the fortress was a disgrace that had no choice but to think like that.
[Oh oh… The end of false freedom… !]
A slogan that had already been heard outside.
There were robbers who shouted it out.
In front of them were naked humans spread out like chunks of meat.
‘Personal sacrifice… .’
It was a human sacrifice.
It also uses living humans.
‘paralysis? anesthesia?’
It was droopy, but if you look closely at the humans, you can see that the pupils are reacting.
There were some who rolled their eyes, and there were those who shed tears from the corners of their eyes.
Vera knew at once what they were trying to do.
‘fire.’
Behind the man performing the ritual, there was a man standing with a large torch.
Also, if you look at the necks of humans, there was an inverted cross engraved on them.
This was a form of fire.
Vera was troubled.
‘… going out?’
Should I step out of here?
Is it the right choice to get past this tragedy and go deeper?
There was only one reason for concern.
It was because he knew that the victims scattered here and there were the ghosts that make up this fortress.
Knowing that this place was not just a hallucination, those who were in danger of being sacrificed were trampled on by their eyes.
The worries didn’t last long.
Vera let out an annoyed breath and drew his holy sword again.
And it was shot out with the divine being wrapped around its body.
spatula-.
cutting edge sound.
There was no reaction to it.
It was because Vera was swinging his sword faster than the recognition of the dozens of men who were there.
Fuhua-ah-ah!
Monsters turning into pieces of meat.
Blood splashing all over the place.
They began to fall on Vera and the human body.
Leaving behind the grunts, Vera wiped the blood from the holy sword and turned to the naked humans.
The images scattered randomly on the altar looked like a corpse at first glance, but when you look closely, you can feel the reaction of life.
It was so clear.
Their rolling eyes turned to Vera.
Eyes that shoot out eagerly with a sign of finding salvation.
Vera raised the divinity, covered them over their bodies, and applied the known detoxification techniques one by one.
The strange thing happened around the end of the fifth operation.
“Ugh… .”
A moan escaped from the mouth of the young man at the bottom.
That was the beginning.
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One by one, people started making noises, and then they started shaking and trembling.
Those who had regained control of their bodies began to escape from the entangled places.
Everyone shed tears.
He approached Vera naked.
“Sa, Sado… .”
Those who had crawled in front of Vera knelt and put their hands together.
There was no time to feel ashamed of being naked, they just made the appearance of praying in front of the coming salvation.
A cry echoed through the hall.
And the joy in it.
Vera exhaled and asked them.
“How did you get caught?”
Their condition was serious.
Apart from the numbness, the erosion due to irregularities was also deep in each of the molar bones, which were in contact with each other.
If you leave it like this, you’re sure to die pick-pick without having to do anything.
It was the young man who was the first to groan before he answered the question he posed with the desire to obtain information.
“Yeah, they came. Unholy minions. They burned the village and brought us… .”
“Calm down. Everything outside has been removed, and I’m guarding this place too, so there’s no threat. Would you like to tell us slowly?”
His mental state also seemed to be poor.
Vera aroused a slight divinity and injected it into his body, and the inverted cross on the uvula blazed against it.
“Big… .”
“Hold on. Fortunately, it’s not a very high-level denial, and we’ll be able to bite it soon.”
A crude injustice different from the injustice that happened at the lakeside.
Vera, who grasped it at a glance, uttered the divinity even stronger, and the inverted cross fell.
A smirk appeared on the young man’s face.
Those who were seated remembered the light of longing.
“Me too! me too… !”
“I’m First! Treat me first… !”
thud-!
Vera rolled his feet.
The mouths of those who were seated in the long ringing vibration in the hall closed.
Vera said in a low voice, putting his index finger in front of his mouth.
“It is not safe yet, so please silence the sound. Besides, I want to hear from what happened before the treatment, so will you wait for me?”
There was no backlash.
It was natural.
This is because those who had already weakened did not have the strength to retaliate against the strong Vera, and they also recalled the instinctive judgment that they should not retaliate against him, the only hand of salvation, away from it.
Vera looked around his son-in-law, who had become quiet, then knelt before the young man again and asked.
“Well, let’s hear the name first. Where are you from?”
“Golgo, I am Kenin’s Golgo.”
“good. Kenin’s Golgo. Can you tell me how you got here and what is happening there?”
A huge door with Vera’s hand at the end of the hall.
I headed towards the entrance to the introspection.
Golgo swallowed his saliva as he looked at it, then nodded.
“Oh, it was a sudden invasion. A confrontation between Archon Taurus and Alaysia was oscillating the Lake Mountains.”
Vera’s brow narrowed.
‘Is it a new generation too?’
There was information that could be obtained with a single word.
Kenin.
Archon Taurus.
lake mountain range.
Kenin and Lake Mountain were the names of places in the New Age, and Taurus was one of Terdan’s no longer servants.
The fact that Taurus is in a confrontation with Alaysia must mean that now is the end of the God Era.
As Vera was gathering information, Golgo continued.
“We are slash-and-burn people in the corner of Kenin. I was running away from the war that had occurred in the mountains. I thought this war wouldn’t be too long, so I was just holding my breath… .”
Fear flashed across Golgo’s face.
The reason is that there is a fear that comes up together just by looking back on the past.
The next words were in a shaky tone.
“… W, those holding up the inverted cross have invaded the village. They were all crawling monsters with red arms. yes yes… There they are.”
Golgo’s fingertips are pointing in the direction where Vera’s corpses are shredded.
“The unclean servants of Alaysia. They invaded the village, harmed the vigilantes and kidnapped us.”
There were people who freak out all over the place.
The head turned in the opposite direction to the introspection.
Vera asked with a serious face at their common reaction.
“What is inside?”
“Mom, I don’t know… .”
“Yes?”
“We don’t even know. All of us kidnapped have been in that prison cell, all we know is screams and the smell of blood inside me.”
Golgo’s head fell.
He bowed down to Vera as if he was sorry.
“Wow, I’m out of breath. At some point, an inverted cross began to appear on the uvula, and my body did not move at will. In the meantime, a scream was heard. We heard the sound of an iron cage opening and closing somewhere, and through that, we could tell, at least indirectly, that the people in this prison were being dragged somewhere.”
“Human sacrifice. You mean the same thing happened today?”
“It won’t be just this. Boo, there must have been some who went deeper… I could feel it… ! You hear a creaking sound from the right of the prison hallway when heading up and from the left when heading down.”
Vera stood still.
‘Are there any rules?’
Because there was a family that came to mind.
It was hypothesized that human sacrifice was not just an act for blasphemy, but could be a kind of method of systematically grouping people of different ages in various places.
The evidence was plentiful enough.
If you check one more thing, you can definitely confirm causation.
“… Or, were the people going down the elderly or children?”
All of them here are young men and women.
Isn’t that strange?
The apostates would not have kidnapped only young people, but there are only strangely young men and women here.
Golgo nodded.
“No, that’s right! The children don’t know, but it was definitely the elderly who went further inside!”
Vera’s brow narrowed.
‘It’s a drink.’
It was clear that this sacrifice had a purpose other than blasphemy.
There was something that came to mind.
‘Flesh.’
The flesh that makes up this fortress of reality.
And the fraud and injustice that overflowed the entire space.
Perhaps this ritual is for making it.
Vera nodded as he made up his mind.
“Thanks for the information. For you… .”
Just as I was about to tell him to run away, I’ll cure the infidelity, Vera’s mouth shut.
‘… Where?’
Where can they run away?
This is the dimension where the soul is imprisoned.
It is a level of seeing the essence.
In other words, no matter how much they escaped, these people in reality were arms between flesh, and they were the dead who belonged to death.
It means that their souls will not be saved by leaving this fortress.
‘I’m not noticing it.’
They don’t know they’re dead.
He acted as if this place was real, as if he was still living in that time period.
Golgo’s head tilted at the sight of Vera who suddenly shut his mouth.
“Apostle… ?”
Vera felt his heart sink.
“… Yes.”
“Hey, where should we go? Oh, if you don’t mind, can I borrow a little piece of land near Elia? I will not set foot in the citadel! I just don’t have a good foundation to live on anymore… .”
Eyes of anticipation pierced Vera.
Vera couldn’t figure out what to do and began to think of hesitation.
‘how… .’
What should I do?
How do I tell them the truth?
In the midst of hesitation came to mind, a woman stood up from her seat.
“Hey, take me inside!”
It was a woman with tousled straw-colored hair.
A woman with freckles all over the place, a woman with a broken bone, just like everyone else here.
she spoke again.
“I have a brother inside! I’m nine now… I’ve been away since I came here… .”
With helpless steps she approached Vera.
“… Tea, I need to find it. I have to go out with my brother.”
He grabbed Vera’s arm.
There was an eagerness in his brown eyes.
As Vera’s expression wrinkled, several people behind her began to stand up late.
“I have a mother… .”
“My son… .”
“Grandpa… !”
They were all eyes full of earnestness.
A situation that happened on a whim.
However, at the same time, it was a situation that could make grace.
Vera exhaled, then made up his mind.
‘… Once inside, the first priority is to enter.’
Their handling was, of course, an important issue, but it was not a question that could be answered by thinking about it here.
This is the dimension of the imprisoned soul.
This means that somewhere in this citadel there must be a device that will release their souls.
“Okay, then I’ll head to the depths. Golgo, could you please keep the rest of us in hiding until we get their families back?”
A small hesitation appeared on Golgo’s face.
There was a strong sign that he wanted to run away right away.
However, fortunately, what came back from him was positive.
“Where would you like to hide?”
Golgo’s gaze turned to Vera.
Vera pondered for a moment, then reached out toward the outside of the citadel.
“If you go out of that door right now and go to the left, there is a place where I cut down the apostates. There was a big tent there. We have confirmed that it is safe inside, so please wait for personnel there.”
Golgo nodded his head and got up.
Followed by others with no family left inside.
Vera confirmed it and spoke to those heading inside.
“Once you put on the robes those apostates are wearing.”
“yes… ?”
“Aren’t you supposed to cover your body?”
Their bodies trembled in shock.
It was only later that they felt ashamed and began to cover themselves.
Vera nonchalantly turned them over, rummaged through a nearby corpse and removed the robes.
and wrapped it around the body.
“I will sneak in.”
Thanks to the robe’s fullness, I could afford to wear armor.
Vera completely covered even the holy sword inside the robe, before telling those who had hidden themselves.
“Now, let’s pretend to be an apostate. So, follow me. The end of false freedom.”
An operation that added its own rationality.
However, those who were seated felt shivering.
There was no other reason.
‘… Apostle?’
Still, he is an apostle of God.
It was awkward to insist on using blasphemy words on such a subject.
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Of course, it was a thought that Vera would not understand.
Vera tilted his head and spoke again.
“What are you not doing?”
He wasn’t very religious at first, and he didn’t even know what was wrong with his actions.