Chapter 31 Residual

Chapter 31 Residue
Vanna raised her head and looked towards the black-skirted lady who was checking the mental state of certain cultists, who noticed her sight and also raised her head in a slight salute in this direction.

The other lady looked to be in her early twenties, but had a certain calm demeanor that was far more mature than her age, her long black hair was coiled up behind her head, and the light blue crystal earrings on her earlobes reflected the reflections of the gas lamps not far away as they swayed.

“…… Heidi’s here too …… Did City Hall send her?” Vanna inquired of the young guardsman at her side.

“No, Ms. Heidi happened to be in the area when it happened and came straight here when she heard the news – is something wrong?”

“No, it’s nothing, Heidi, though an employee of the city hall, has also had a long standing relationship with the church, just make up an on-site registration when you get back,” Vanna shook her head, and quickly refocused her attention on the matter at hand, examining the cultist cleric who had lost his mind and died, casually inquiring as she did so. “What else did the still-communicative cultists say? What exactly was the situation like at that time?”

“Their language was confusing, and two of them mentioned that the normal sacrifice ceremony had already ended at that time, but suddenly another escaped sacrifice was caught near the assembly ground, so the messenger decided to sacrifice this sacrifice to the Sun God ……” the guardsmen recalled while While speaking, “Those two cultists were standing far away from the altar and didn’t have a clear view of what exactly was going on on the stage, all they said was that the sacrifice pierced through the heart and didn’t die, and instead they chanted the name of the Sun God and directly designated the messenger as the sacrifice …… As a result, the messenger was sacrificed. ”

“…… A person chosen as a sacrifice, who chanted the name of the evil god on the spot, directly sacrificed the person who presided over the ceremony?” It was as if Vanna had heard something heavenly, and in her heart, she only felt extremely absurd, but as this was coming from the mouth of a strictly trained, loyal and reliable church guardian, she then had to face it seriously, which caused her expression to quirk up, “How could there be such an outrageous thing – if this is also works, then wouldn’t the sacrifices on the scene of how many cult sacrifices be able to kill the heretical clerics back if they were just a little quicker with their mouths?”

“Who says it isn’t, even the lamest of Magi are in the absolute driver’s seat when presiding over a ritual, how could a weak ordinary person’s casual words make the ritual spiral out of control to that extent – not to mention that we’ve also examined this Magus, and he does indeed have a trace of the ‘deeper layers’ of the world that he was sentenced to death by the ‘deeper layers’ of the world. The world’s ‘deep’ projection erosion, this is a real ‘baptized’, and according to the description of the cultists at the scene, he was still holding the ritual dagger with the blessing in his hand …… “

The young guardsman shook his head as he spoke, then went to another body nearby.

“But …… you take a look at this one, this is the ‘sacrifice’ that ‘killed’ the cleric in return.”

Vanna glanced at the guardian before her eyes fell on the corpse that had completely lost its life, and in the next second, her vision sharpened.

It was a thin young man, even closer to a teenager in size due to being so thin, and the most notable abnormality on his body was the large, empty hole in his chest.

“…… He has been sacrificed ……”

“Yes, this is a sacrifice that has already been sacrificed, and judging from the combination of the traces at the scene as well as the confessions of the cultists, I’m afraid that this ‘sacrifice’ had already lost its heart before it was pushed up on the stage,” said the guardian in a serious tone. “So …… what really happened at that time was that there was a walking corpse that walked onto the stage in full view of everyone and killed the cleric who presided over the ceremony as a sacrifice.”

“A …… necromancer’s trick?” Vanna muttered to herself in thought, “No, the power of the Black Sun is extremely restraining to necromancers, and it’s unlikely that a walking corpse under their control would have walked to the totem of the Black Sun with a big grin …… a reviver under abnormal control?”

“Have you checked the lights in this neighborhood?” She suddenly raised her head and looked at the guardsmen beside her, “Are there any thoroughly unlit underground spaces within five hundred meters?”

“We’ve checked, no lightless crypts exist – even the cultists know the dangers of lightless crypts, they’ve left torches and oil lamps in the caves where they’ve discarded their remains, and they’ve been very careful in this regard.”

Vanna didn’t say anything for a while, but bent down in front of the young man’s remains with a strong sense of doubt, carefully examining the “sacrifice” that had sacrificed a Transcendent in full view of the public and caused the ritual to go completely out of control, and while reaching out to turn the other’s stiff eyelids in an attempt to find some trace of the heretical power left behind in his body. The “sacrifice” of a transcendent in full view of the public, causing the ritual to go completely out of control, while reaching out and turning over the stiff eyelids of the other person, trying to find some trace of heretical power in his body. Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, there seemed to be a flicker of light – she seemed to see the young man’s body slightly open his eyes, and there was a ghostly green fire jumping up in those empty eyes, and a tiny spark erupted on the tip of her right forefinger, and then immediately drifted away with the wind.

Vanna’s eyes glazed over, instantly used her left hand to take out the dagger at her waist, and without hesitation, she waved her hand to cut off her right index finger, and then backhanded the dagger to the forehead of that corpse, and the cleric’s dagger engraved with runes violently emitted a blazing flame, completely engulfing that corpse.

It took her less than a second to accomplish this, and the moment the corpse was engulfed in flames she had already straightened up and taken two steps back, and then immediately took out the blessed holy oil from her waist, and after biting off the cork with her teeth, she poured the oil inside onto her right hand, which was frantically bubbling with fresh blood – the holy oil came into contact with the blood and flesh, and instantly a large amount of white smoke was emitted from it in snorts. white smoke.

The pain surged up, but the expression on Vanna’s face didn’t change at all, as she saw that the guardian who had been following her quickly drew the steel sword at her waist and chopped off the head of the burning “sacrifice”, and then threw into the flames a potion mixed with seaweed extract and silver powder.

With a continuous roar and flames that surged high into the air, almost licking the roof, the alienated corpse was reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.

The flames, which were quite loud, did not extend to the other corpses next to it in the slightest.

The surrounding guards had already reacted, half of them instantly drew their runic steel swords and gathered around Vanna, while the other half drew their large-caliber revolvers and quickly formed a guard around the periphery, and the two priests at the scene also drew their revolvers hidden under their robes, reciting the name of the Storm Goddess, Gemona, while using the incense burner to bless the muzzles of their guns, and continuously pointing their guns at the crazy ones who were stirring up due to the change in the surrounding environment. cultists who were stirred up by the change in their surroundings.

“Your Honor the Inquisitor!” The young guardsman with a steel sword in hand came to Vanna at this time, “How are you? Just now ……”

“There’s some sort of power lingering within that ‘sacrifice’ and it’s bypassing all the protections the Goddess bestowed upon me, even bypassing my psychic alerts.” Vanna waved her hand, her gaze falling on her right hand – the goddess’s gift had taken effect, and the index finger that had been severed by the dagger was writhing and recovering a little, but even as she felt the excruciating pain dissipate, her mind did not settle at all.

“The situation is not right, there is not only the ‘Black Sun’ here, there may be another powerful force that has visited this sacrifice ceremony …… and this force has not completely left, it has something else in mind. ” this judge quickly made a judgment, “transfer all the human evidence and material evidence away, take them to the church under strict guard, after that all the examination and interrogation will be carried out inside the church, and the scene here will be subjected to thorough purification …… Is there anyone else else elsewhere? ”

A guard next to him immediately replied, “Yes, we previously rescued a group of imprisoned ‘intended sacrifices’ from another nearby cave, they are now temporarily housed in the adjacent pipe room.”

“Take them along, too, and bring them to the church – even though they’re victims, they’ll have to undergo a rigorous examination before they can be released to go home,” Vanna spluttered, only to say immediately afterwards, as if she suddenly remembered something, “Where’s Ms. Heidi? Is she all right?”

“I’m here,” a calm female voice sounded from nearby, and the black-skirted “psychiatrist” employed by the city hall approached nonchalantly, nodding to Vanna, “Don’t worry, I just I didn’t react at all – so what’s going on?”

“…… Like many classic tales tell, the cultists have attracted something far more sinister than they are,” Vanna glanced at the ‘psychiatrist’, and “I would strongly suggest that you put an extra layer of protection on these cultists afterward when examining them as well as hypnotizing them …… There have been forces here that shouldn’t be here, and there are remnants of them.”

(End of chapter)