The Village of Redemption is a village in the City of Holy Light, located west of the western border of the Empire, and can only be reached by traversing the long Grand Canyon of the Holy Ruins. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is the only way for the Empire to reach the Holy City, and it is also the most marginal village under the light of the goddess of light projected by the Holy City.

Although the land on the western side of the continent is fertile, there is no way to go out and cultivate the land because of this extraordinarily long rainy season.

The villagers can only do some manual work at home, take it to the city to sell, and subsidize some households, although they do not earn much, they are easy to be content.

After all, no matter how difficult the days have been over the years, a mere heavy rain is nothing, but on this day there are soldiers arriving.

These soldiers in silver armor are guards from the City of Light, and their armor bears the coat of arms of the Church, indicating their service to the Goddess.

Although it was still raining heavily, the soldiers gathered all the villagers into the square, and an officer gave a speech.

"In order to express your devout belief in the Goddess of Light, starting from this year, the payment of offerings has been doubled to those of previous years, and I hope that you will work harder to give back to the Goddess of Light for all that the Goddess of Light has given you, and the time for the collection of offerings will be three days later, so you should prepare in advance. ”

The officer announced the destination of his trip, and the villagers were all stunned when they heard this, and he looked at the villagers with disdain in his eyes.

"Doubling the current offerings is ridiculously high and it is hard for us to bear, how can we live if we raise it further?"

"And it's only given us three days, and it's the rainy season again, so we simply don't have enough time to prepare, we can't do it. ”

"This is simply pushing us down the road to a dead end, can't we be a little accommodating? ”

The villagers are very embarrassed by this, their village is not rich in the first place, and the existing offerings have put them under a lot of pressure to live.

Now it's doubled, how can they accept it? The rain washed over the soldiers' silver armor with a "crackling" sound.

"Don't forget who you are, you who were once heretics were not punished and sent to purification, which is already a great gift from the goddess of light, and now it is only a little more to show your pious determination. ”

"If you can't do it to this extent, are you still believing in the dark Holy Court that has long been destroyed? Hmph, that is, the goddess of light is too merciful to let you live, according to what I say, you guys must be purified, remember, there are only three days. ”

"If you are not ready in three days, you will not expect the consequences of disobedience to the Church, and then the sanction of the light will purify you pagans who should have been destroyed a long time ago from body to soul, and that should be your final destination, remember?

The officer snorted, waved his hand, and led the soldiers out of the village, which looked particularly lonely under the heavy rain.

There are many villages like this in this land, and similar scenes are played out in various villages, and the villagers have no choice but to return home.

"Three days, where are we going to get the food and goods they need? ”

"These guys are greedy vampires who don't treat us as human beings at all, and they want to knock us out and suck us out of the marrow and squeeze the flesh. ”

"I really miss the time when the people of the Holy Court were still there, when not only would they not let us pay for the offerings, but they would send people to help us repair the houses every time it rained, and they would also ask the priests to provide us with seeds, provide medicinal herbs, and heal us, and never ask for offerings. ”

While the villagers complained that they couldn't make offerings, some elderly people began to miss a different scene from a long time ago.

At that time, the land was worshipping another god, a god who never made a big announcement, but always gave silently.

"Didn't go through that era, but I always felt that the Dark Holy See was much better than this Church of Light, these guys were all rich, but they still plundered and looted from us, and always treated us as sinners, which was really hateful. ”

"The reason why they still keep us is to label us sinners, so that we can plunder in the open, what is the difference between our life and slavery?

"That's true, back then, the power of the Dark Holy Court was not lost to the Church of Light, but because of an incident, the Dark Holy Court fell sharply, and the Church of Light took advantage of the weakness to join forces to suppress the Dark Holy Court, thus completely expelling them from this land. ”

"During that time, the suppression of the believers of the Dark Holy Court was extremely cruel, a large number of villages were destroyed, and our redemption village also suffered a catastrophe, and the current villages were rebuilt later, don't look at it very dilapidated now, it was very prosperous before!"

An old man sighed when he saw the dilapidated and depressed village, and recalled that when he was young, it was by no means such a decadent atmosphere.

At that time, this place was not called Redemption Village, how prosperous and lively, but unfortunately it had become a thing of the past.

"I'm really a little envious of the old days, and now that they've cornered us, what should we do?"

"It's impossible to get together the offerings, and now that the village is under the watchful eye of the church, we must find a way to get the women and children out of the way, and we can't let them get involved, as for those guys, I can't tolerate them anymore, I have to settle with them!"

"Do you want to deal with those guys? But by our power alone...... It's just death, are you sure you really think about it?"

"They don't give us a chance to live at all, they all have to die anyway, the only difference is whether they die with dignity or not!"

The young villagers with strong flesh and blood secretly made up their minds, and they looked in the direction of the soldier's departure from a distance.

They had endured it for a long time, and even though it was raining heavily, it couldn't extinguish the raging anger in their hearts!

As soon as the officer who had made the declaration left the village, the officer waved his hand, and a large number of soldiers immediately surrounded him.

"It's time to purge the remnants of these stubborn Holy See, do you really think I'll give you three days to prepare? Tonight is your time to die, hehehehe. ”

The officer's smile was gloomy, hundreds of soldiers had already been assembled, and they had received an order to purify the villages within their jurisdiction!