Feron 404.

It was an inconspicuous year in the tens of thousands of years of the world of Ferron.

This year, there was no splendid war between the ancient elves and the astral empire, no battle between the five-colored dragons and metal dragons, and no great disaster caused by the fall of the gods and the destruction of life......

It's just a mediocre year.

Therefore, there is simply not enough weight to notice the sudden appearance of a certain sect force in the northern countries of mankind this year.

【Eaters Alliance】

……

It sounds like a chef's guild or a boring organization for food lovers. It seems as strange and useless as the 'Watchmakers' Guild, the 'Circus League', or the 'Oak Gate House' established by the freaks who love acorns in the world of Ferron.

However......

When some organizations specializing in intelligence collection conducted a preliminary investigation of it, it was found that things were obviously not as "simple" as they seemed.

This so-called Eaters Alliance is a pure cult that has nothing to do with "chefs" and "food", and there is a suspicion that there is some kind of demon, devil or evil thing behind it!

In the information sold by the 'Shadow Hand', there is this description:

"They are a rabble that comes entirely from all levels of the city. They ranged from the former servants of the goddess of goodness to the petty nobles and wealthy merchants in the city, but most of them were just a group of commoners and poor people living at the bottom of society. And they join this 'sect' - forgive me for calling it a sect, but if according to the traditional definition, that is, there is a condition for the object of worship and a certain number of believers...... [Eaters Alliance] can indeed be called a sect. Of course, they were just a small, incomparably fragile Order of the Freshmen. ”

Compared to the investigative report commissioned by the Shadow Hand, the Thieves' Guild's summary report after collecting information from a number of spies and thieves who received the mission is obviously much more formal.

They laid out the information of the nascent organization in detail.

Name of Organization: Eaters Alliance

Nature: Cult group

Scale: Small

Force: Weak

Personnel: 4 priests (formerly believers in the goddess of goodness), 12 nuns, 503 city residents

Analysis: No information has been found that the group worships abyssal demons or demons, but it is suspected that there is some kind of evil that affects the mind.

This year, this information from the Thieves Guild, along with tens of thousands of other ordinary information, was sold as "gossip" to the various forces they had cooperated with for a long time.

And almost no one paid attention to this parchment page, which was interspersed with countless other pieces of information.

After all, such a small nascent organization with no military guarantee will be destroyed at any time, and it is not worth any large-scale organization to pay attention to it.

For most of the forces, instead of spending manpower and material resources to focus on an inconspicuous and weak organization, it is better to invest these manpower and material resources in the war against the kingdom of Glens and the barbarians......

Winter has come in this case.

After the first snow in November, temperatures plummet in the north, and bitter cold winds blew from the permafrost-strewn wastelands of the far north and the ice fields further north...... Almost overnight, the outdoor temperature made it necessary to change into heavy cotton clothes to get through.

At this time of the year, in the kingdom of Glens, it was a time when the poor ghosts began to freeze or starve to death one after another.

And this year.

It's not just the "poor ghosts" who freeze to death and starve to death.

Under the ravages of barbarism, large swathes of towns and villages in the northern part of the Kingdom of Glens were destroyed by the war, and a large number of people were displaced. If it's summer, it's fine......

But in the onset of winter, these refugees who have lost their homes have to rely on makeshift shacks and fires for their warmth.

Some frail elderly women began to die in large numbers, while young adults were mostly dying due to lack of food.

As the saying goes, "I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world".

The words of the ancient Chinese who have already experienced countless wars, famines, and tyranny have summed up the results of the war very true.

This principle is also common in the world of Faerun.

The great nobles and officials of the Kingdom of Glens were still fighting for power at this time, and some even took the opportunity to launch a war for money.

All kinds of "smart people" who took advantage of the opportunity to buy and sell food and supplies and buy the property of those refugees cheaply became popular.

The price of goods in the entire kingdom of Glens has skyrocketed.

This led to merchants from several surrounding countries to start transporting grain in large quantities for sale, while the carriages brought back a large number of refugees from the Kingdom of Glens, accumulated property for generations, and even some beautiful Glens slave girls.

Time.

People are living under a cloud of despair.

At this time, a new Order appeared in the Kingdom of Glens.

These priests and nuns from neighboring southern countries brought relief food and a new gospel.

Perhaps most people are wary of these strangers at first—in case they are slave traders or something.

But when the refugees had their first hot porridge and a piece of hard but generous black bread...... Most people have some affection for the priests and nuns who have more or less a strange sign on their clothes or jewelry.

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Young people are always quicker to accept things.

Glenn is one such person.

Life during these months was like a nightmare for him: a sudden war, barbarians who burned down his village...... And the colder weather and the worst of all!

It was in this context that Glenn first came into contact with the priests and nuns under the crown of the 'God of Gluttony'.

The priests and nuns, who clearly spoke with accents from neighboring countries in the southern part of the kingdom of Glens, brought caravans of relief supplies.

It's a behavior Glenn has never seen before.

Despite being a well-informed "hipster" young man who knew a lot about the outside world, Glenn had never heard of any lords or temples that would help civilians in times of war.

Perhaps the Church of Tyr, the God of Justice, the Goddess of Goodness, or the God of Suffering, might do the same...... Unfortunately, these three are not "gods of relief", so this kind of behavior is extremely rare.

In the war.

Most churches or lords will only save more food or earn more money. After all, even the Church and the Lords are not immune to war, and supplies and food are an important part of their own strength. No one would be kind at such a time, let alone a neighboring country.

So, when the cultists under the crown of the god of gluttony did so...... Almost immediately, Glenn remembered the special markings that were characteristic of the supplies and the clergy's clothing.

That's a ...... A black sphere suspended over a large vague conical mound or mountain peak.

"What a quirky sign." Glenn had thought of it more than once.