The Valley of Atonement is located in the northwest of the Holy City, which can be reached in about ten days on a fast horse, and is the northwest edge of the Holy City's jurisdiction. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to the priests of the Church of Light in the Holy City, the Goddess of Light is equal to all people, both good and bad.

She will give salvation and tolerance to all, and the way to redeem is to banish to the Valley of Atonement, where there is a spring of water that purifies sinful souls.

All you need to drink is the spring water to cleanse you of all your sins, and then you can live quietly in that rich land and start a new life.

Of course, this is just the claim preached by the Church, and every year a large number of people who have committed sins are sent here to begin their long journey of atonement.

Especially during that upheaval more than thirty years ago, tens of thousands of people were sent to the Valley of Atonement, where they will spend their lives happily.

But in fact, it is rich, not because of the land, but because of the huge gold mine, because of the geographical location, it is cold all year round, but even in the middle of winter, the gold mine has not stopped mining, and it has been for decades.

Handcuffed and shackled sinners were driven by soldiers to work in the gold mines every day, from before sunrise to after sunset.

They could not distinguish between day and night in the mines, and at noon they could eat moldy, dry, hard bread and eat it in the snow.

After returning in the evening, I was finally able to set up a pot and boil a little hot water, and if I was sick with wind and cold, I could find some medicines.

As for asking for something from the soldiers, it is naturally impossible, and once the value of labor is lost, it will be forcibly taken away and purified.

The Valley of Atonement, which the church advertises as a place of redemption, is in fact a place of sin covered with bones.

A steady stream of prisoners are sent here, and of course there is no clear standard to define whether these prisoners have actually committed crimes.

The glittering gold mines were transported to the Holy City, and the high-ranking clerics had a soft spot for these shiny things.

The people who entered the Valley of Atonement never went out, and 5,000 soldiers were stationed here to watch over the tens of thousands of so-called sinners here.

The gold mine had not been mined for decades, and it was a natural treasure trove for the clergy, but the light of the fire at night became more and more restless.

"I didn't commit any crime at all, so I was sent here, saying that I wanted to atone for my sins here, and this is simply working here as a miner, without enough food every day, cold and hungry, but still having to do hard labor, is this what those good priests brought us?

A young newcomer is shocked by the truth about the Valley of Atonement, and he is furious that he has not been treated fairly.

"I just stole a loaf of bread because of hunger, and I've been working here for four years, isn't four years enough to atone for my sins? I want to go back, I don't want to stay here for a moment, I want to go back, I have my family, every day I dream of them, I miss them. ”

There are the whimpering weepings of prisoners who have been here for several years, and there is nothing more attractive than going home.

"It's only been four years, and if you stay for a few more years, you'll slowly forget about those, happy memories will only bring expectations, and expectations without results will only make people more desperate, so it's better to wake up as soon as possible and work hard, some people have been here for more than 30 years. ”

Someone tapped the young men on the shoulder, and looked to another corner in the shadows, where the group was out of place.

Because they were the oldest group of people banished to the Valley of Atonement, they had been here for more than thirty years, and they had been strong men in their twenties.

Now they are all in their fifties and sixties, and even they have bred the second and third generations here, no matter how many generations there are.

They have never been able to escape this cage, in fact, the soldiers have the most brutal repression of that group, and they never show the slightest mercy.

"More than 30 years? I really don't know how they persevered, what kind of crimes they committed, and how they will be treated like this!"

Some people also raised questions in addition to emotion, they have little contact with those people, and they don't know why the soldiers target them everywhere.

"You newcomers don't know yet, they used to be believers in the Dark Holy Court, after the oblivion of the Dark Holy Court, they lost their protection, and they were exiled here, and began a long lonely life of more than thirty years, more than thirty years, I really don't know what force made them persevere. ”

The insider sighed at this, no matter what, this perseverance is very admirable, and the life here is too hard.

"Is the Dark See, the Church that preaches evil in the most heinous way, and if so, they really deserve it. ”

"Hey, it's a great sin or something, that's what the priests preached, and we don't know the real situation. ”

"And now it is clear that the church has deceived us, coaxed us to come here to work as miners and coolies, far away from our families, and talk about sin......"

The young men were indignant, their faces full of dissatisfaction, but they were immediately signaled that they could keep their voices down so as not to alarm the soldiers.

"I don't know much about those people, but after a while, it always feels like something is not quite right with them, have you noticed?"

"It seems like that's true when you say that, they've been surprisingly silent for the past few days, and they've been extinguishing the flames early, but I can still see people moving around them in the middle of the night, and I don't know what they're doing there, and it feels like something is going to happen. ”

"Forget it, it's not our business or don't provoke it, let's continue to stay here honestly, I really don't know when it will be the end. ”

The banished people looked up at the sky and sighed, and when the night was gone, it would be their toil.

But what else could they do but accept all this? After all, this is what they have been taught since childhood.

At the same time, on the other side of the camp, where the believers of the Dark Holy See, who had been rooted in the Valley of Atonement for more than thirty years, were located.

"We have endured all this in silence, and we have been waiting for this time to come, more than thirty years ago, that man left us, leaving us disoriented, lost in the night, but our faith has never wavered. ”

"Now the moment we have been waiting for has finally come, the time has come to bloom the light of our faith, I have seen that flame, follow it, that is where we belong, we have never been abandoned, the light of hope is ahead!"