52 towers
The next day, while the Holy Maiden was checking various letters from other cities, the Paladin walked in and reported, "My lord, the person who questioned you has been found. ”
"Let him in!"
After that, a young man dressed in the black uniform of the Northern Academy slowly walked in and saluted the holy woman, and when he saw the perfect face of the holy woman, he was stunned for a moment, but quickly lowered his head to keep calm.
"May I be seated, may I ask what is your name?"
"Sodeyith."
"I think what you said yesterday makes a lot of sense, maybe we can talk about it carefully."
The saint asked, "Do you think what I did yesterday was democratic enough?" ”
Sodeith shook his head in response.
"You know that the answer they will give in the end must be to put those people to death."
"So what should you do according to you?"
"I think that the law and the judiciary should be improved, and if the judicial and legislative power is now in your hands, and even the most powerful legions of the entire Santa Seca, then those who challenge your authority will surely have only one end."
The saint's eyes kept moving upward, and when she met his eyes, Sodeith sat down in her chair and said, "This is just my own foolish opinion. ”
"Any other suggestions?"
"I hope that ordinary people can also have access to real knowledge instead of feudal religious ideas, which is something that all countries have not done, and if you take the lead in doing it, then you will be even greater than the First Emperor."
"I've asked the nuns to teach the orphanage children on a regular basis, so that when they grow up, they will go to the academy for a deeper level of study."
"That's not enough, I mean everyone."
"Yes, but everything has to have a beginning and a process, and even I can't do so many things at the same time."
Suddenly, Ankh appeared in the doorway with Elanhi, who had two dragon crystals and a specific spell amulet, and stood quietly, and the saint got up and said, "Sorry to keep you waiting for a long time?" Please come in! ”
"It didn't take long for me to know you had a guest disturbing you today."
Ankh then sent Alanshi to the saint and said, "I'm going to leave now, I'm here to send Alanshi to you for foster care." ”
"Stay safe, Mr. Anka."
Ankka then said goodbye to Ellanch and turned to leave.
Sodeith also stood up and saluted, "I'm sorry, I'm going to leave after I've finished speaking." ”
"You're interesting, I'll probably come to you in the future and ask more questions."
At this moment, a paladin walked in and said, "Holy Maiden, the high-ranking nobles you asked us to find have now gathered in the hotel. ”
"Let them rest for a while, please go and tidy up a conference room that is big enough."
Anka, on the other hand, went straight to the place where the monster was last seen through the tower's teleportation circle.
A ruined city to the northeast is surrounded by large plains that are unobstructed.
Although the city is dilapidated, there is still a central building that has not been completely destroyed, but the tall tower building is a little strange.
Ankh walked through the dilapidated streets, littered with ruins and charred corpses.
Ankh said, "What kind of powerful monster can do this? ”
"It should or may not be possible for a powerful monster to turn an entire city into ruins in an instant. ”
"What do you mean?"
"I think it's been ravaged by monsters and then attacked by humans."
"Have you been taken advantage of?"
"It should be! After all, this is the border! ”
Suddenly, a baby's cry reached Anka's ears.
Ankh made a quick walk through the rubble to find the source of the sound.
A woman holding a crying baby is being cornered by several equally thin men.
Ankka didn't reach out directly to help, but quickly jumped to the ruins around them to observe them.
"Hand over the sacrifice."
"You have turned away from the light."
"Divine light? Now we have found the true God. ”
Just as the man was about to make a move, Ankka threw his magic sword to stop them.
Ankha walked over and asked, "Are you alright?" ”
"It's okay."
"Can you tell me what's going on here?"
"You are?"
"I'm here to get rid of monsters."
I heard the woman chuckle a few times and said, "You shouldn't have come." ”
"Why?"
"Adventurers like you have become nourishment for that monster, run!"
"I can save you."
"I'm hopeless, and so is this kid."
The woman then lifted the quilt that wrapped the baby, revealing the bloody baby and her own chest, which had rotted to the point where her internal organs could be seen.
Ankha let out a voice in surprise, and the woman sat down slowly, saying, "I'll tell you what's going on here, but I don't want you to save us, I just want you to warn those who want to enter here." ”
"About a month ago, that monster suddenly appeared in the sky above the city, it was an ugly and twisted monster that I still don't want to recall, it was suspended in the air like that, and in a day, the inhabitants of the city became crazy monsters full of flesh and mental mutations, and even some of the twisted heretics who worship monsters have made a tower made of humans, and I don't know what kind of blasphemy technology they have, those twisted humans have never died, and you will hear cries for help when you get close to it, I was a nun in the temple of the goddess of fertility before the disaster, and I and the other nuns did not want to see the victims being tormented by monsters and heretics, so they kept avoiding them to save the victims, but it seems that I can no longer carry out my duties, and I will throw myself into the embrace of the divine light. ”
After speaking, the woman looked at the baby in her arms, who had lost her breath but the mutated tentacles on her body were still shaking, and said with a wry smile to Anka: "Please end us!" ”
"This ......"
"We don't have long to live, and I don't want to be taken over by monsters when I die, and use my identity to kill people."
"I'm sorry."
Anka slowly raised the magic sword and aimed it at the woman, and then the woman slowly asked, "Am I a qualified nun?" ”
Ankh nodded.
The woman smiled bitterly and said, "I hope the Lord can forgive me for not saving this child, now please do it!" ”
As Ankka swung the sword vigorously, the woman and the mutated baby in her arms all turned into dust scattered in the air.
Ankh looked into the air and clenched his magic sword and asked, "Can you kill that monster to destroy this damn curse?" ”
Kajudil responded, "Mostly yes. ”
"What do you think is the odds of winning?"
"I don't feel that there is a strong monster aura, and it should be able to be crushed."
"Then let's get on!"
With that, Ankka ran at full speed towards the tower.
Upon reaching the vicinity of the tower, Ankka felt a shock like never before, the tower made of humans was constantly emitting a distorted tone, and from a distance it was a blood-red tower, and when he got closer, he realized that the blood-red was not dye, but the color of the poor humans' skin turned out.
Ankka approached and noticed that their exposed skin had all grown together, and some of the exposed internal organs had been attached to the top as if they had been providing them with nourishment, and they seemed to be advising Ankka to leave when they saw Ankka coming, but their distorted voices only made Ankka feel as if there was a muffled thunder ringing in his ears.
Inside, the environment was even worse when he walked inside, and the sweltering heat and depression quickly pounced on Ankka, who looked up to see that the intestines were all wrapped together like pipes leading to it, and they seemed to be lighting it by sticking candles directly into the exposed bones of the poor people.
Ankka felt something strange under her feet as she searched for a way up the stairs, and looked down.
I saw that the floor was made of countless tongues under Anka's feet, and there were painful sounds around Anka as she stood up from the slowly descending elevator as she resisted the urge to vomit.
"It seems that this elevator was also made by those people, hahaha I have to say that the person who made this tower is an excellent monster," said Kajudir. ”
"You seem to like it here?"
"Of course, I'm a demon! This tower is simply an excellent torture tool that can extract pain all the time. ”
"It seems that you are no different from them."
"Oh? And then what do you do? ”
"If I can really end the War of Doom in the future, then after you lose your effect, I will also live in seclusion with you in the Holy Mountain, so that you will not be used by those who have evil thoughts."
"That's not something you can control, and after a hundred years, I can wait thousands of years again with the soul obtained from our contract until the next person makes a contract with me."
Anka pondered for a moment and then spoke slowly, "Really? ”
After the door made of human skin slowly opened, Ankka saw countless humans with twisted flesh and various crimson monsters in front of him, Ankka brandished his magic sword and slowly approached after noticing that the elevator was no longer rising, and said, "Concentrate, here we go!" ”
For the next whole hour, Ankka wielded the glowing magic sword against the enemies who kept coming down from the elevator, and during this hour, the fire and frost burst from the magic sword became the only light here, and the enemy corpses were piled up all over the area, and Ankka even needed to use the magic sword to dig and destroy the broken corpses in order to return to the elevator that was already soaked in blood.
"These souls are not tasty, but they are quite satisfying. ”
"Hehe, let's go up and deal with that monster and enjoy the rest of the soul! I can't wait. ”
Ankka didn't have any expression on his face after hearing this, but the proper way to deal with Kajudil and the magic sword had already appeared in Ankka's mind after that.
The elevator slowly ascended to the top floor with the shouts of the humans around him, where there were only a few skinny red subhumans who controlled the elevator up and down, these subhumans looked like goblins, but upon closer inspection, Ankka saw that these cunning things appeared to be human, but his form resembled that the cubs had become more profane than the twisted flesh that Anka had killed.
His head was large, with translucent skin and bones that allowed Ankka to see inside of him, though it was a little different from a human.
Standing in front of him was an individual who seemed to be more mature than these little things, his body more mature, his skin and bones no longer transparent, but a large number of tubes attached to his brain.
Suddenly he spoke: "My great master is here to greet you. ”
"Your master, he knows me?"
"The master knows everything."
Ankh pointed to the side and asked, "What are those?" ”
"Foolish humanity will soon know the plan of the Great Father, who knows all and mighty."
Seeing that he couldn't ask, Ankka strode forward and killed him, driven by an inexplicable flame of rage.
In an instant, the Lord they provided for appeared, a huge ball of flesh with wings and countless eyes and mouthparts, it floated in the air, sometimes its figure was blurred, sometimes it was clear, sometimes it was restless, sometimes it was quiet, Ankka covered his head, he felt as if his spirit was being distorted, he felt a hand reaching into his body, constantly kneading, Ankka's facial features were huddled together, kneeling on the ground in pain, covering his head and retching.
At that moment, all kinds of negative emotions poured into Anka's mind, and together with the physical pain, they destroyed Anka's spirit.