Chapter 74: Incomplete Memories

Chapter 74 Incomplete Memories

Duncan quickly withdrew his gaze from gazing at the golden mask, allowing himself to lower his eyes slightly like the ordinary worshippers around him, making a show of being ready to listen attentively to the teachings.

He hadn’t heard anything useful yet, and couldn’t afford to draw the attention of this cultist group too soon.

And just the moment he lowered his head, that feeling of being swept by someone’s eyes came over him once more.

Duncan frowned slightly and followed the sensation, and sure enough, it was the girl in the black dress with the strange bell around her neck watching herself surreptitiously again – and she didn’t move to turn her head when his eyes turned away.

This made Duncan’s mind split with confusion.

He was sure that he did not recognize the other party, and there was no information about this girl left in the memory of the original owner of this body – why would a follower of the Sun God, who was meeting him for the first time, pay frequent attention to him?

Could it be because the dove on his shoulder was really chic?
After he had thought about this for a while, he heard the voice of the leader of the believers suddenly come from the front – after wearing the golden mask, that leader had become the embodiment of some kind of divine power force, and even his voice when he spoke seemed to be low and majestic, and he didn’t know if this was because he deliberately controlled his voice or if the mask was really in his voice mixed with another consciousness:
“The benediction is over, the Lord has witnessed our piety and reverence – grace has shone upon our souls, brothers and sisters, be thankful, for one more day that we have persevered in this difficult and dark world, we are one day closer to the day when the fiery sun will be reborn and order will be recast. ”

The “Magus” wearing a golden mask opened his hands and spoke in a very compelling tone, then his eyes suddenly fell on the corner of the believers, his tone was put in a calm and intimate.

“But before we proceed to today’s assembly, we would first like to welcome two of our compatriots – people who were once caught up in the darkness during difficult times, but who were fortunate enough to be guided by the Lord to rejoin the community …… Introduce yourself! , simple will do.”

Two compatriots?

Duncan instantly remembered that the leader did seem to have told himself earlier that he was not the only unfamiliar face on this assembly ground, and immediately afterward he looked in the direction the leader was gazing – and he saw the girl in the black dress.

For some reason, he didn’t feel surprised.

“You can call me Shirley,” the girl naturally took a half step forward and spoke in a graceful manner, “My parents were fellow believers, but they were unfortunately killed by the minions of the Church of the Deep four years ago, and all these years I’ve been hiding out in the Crossroads neighborhood, and haven’t been able to contact any of my other handlers …… Fortunately, you guys are here.”

Her voice was small and sounded quiet and well-behaved, if not for seeing it with her own eyes, it would be really hard to connect such a child with a bloody cultist.

“Welcome back to our midst, young sister,” the leader nodded, and then looked around to the congregants immediately afterward, “Shirley’s parents were victimized by the Church’s Great Purge four years ago, and we found her parents’ names on the list of names from that year- -next up is another compatriot.”

The leader’s eyes finally fell on Duncan.

“Duncan, living in the lower city,” Duncan had been prepared for this, and took a half step forward quite frankly, “I’m a survivor of a sacrifice ceremony in the sewers that the Church of the Deep disrupted a few days ago.”

He spoke briefly, but his attitude was sincere and frank enough, and the news of the Deep Sea Church’s previous raid on the cult’s stronghold in the sewers was widely known, occupying the front pages of several newspapers, so several members around him immediately whispered after his words fell, while the leader in the center of the assembly hall nodded and added to the situation, “This is also a well-tested compatriot who has After experiencing the brutality of those hyenas of the Church of the Deep, he’s still trying to find a way to rejoin the Lord – and he’s credible with the Emblem of the Blessed on him as a token.”

As the headman’s words fell, the uninformed members of the congregation in the room instantly cast glances at Duncan, some nodding and others sighing, while Duncan continued to cover most of his face and recite the multiplication table backwards again ……

“The brief introductions are over,” at which point the ringleader finally spoke up and got to the part that interested Duncan, “the next announcement is an update.”

Duncan’s ears immediately perked up.

“…… At present, there are still a large number of compatriots converging on this city-state, including both ordinary believers with strong faith, as well as powerful messengers and clerics, our power in this city-state is gradually increasing, and the day of the order’s reshaping is approaching… … “But undeniably, the minions of the Church of the Deep have also reacted, and in recent times the city-state authorities have become more and more severe in their scrutiny of the foreign population, and several of our gathering points have already been destroyed by the authorities, so those who move about the city should be extremely careful, and the collection of sacrifices can be slowed down- The Lord’s children have sent a metaphorical decree that we are more than halfway through our recent collection, and where there are still gaps, the Lord’s children will take care of them themselves ……”

The surrounding worshippers immediately seemed to be greatly moved, and even began to praise the Sun God’s love and greatness, while Duncan immediately associated it with the sacrifice ceremony he had seen in the sewers earlier – this group of cultists, they were really using that kind of ceremony to gather power, and it sounded… …the masterminds of the group known as the “Children of the Sun” were even personally involved this time?

At present, the power gathered by this group of cultists seems to be insufficient, because the city hall and the church in Prand have already detected their activities, but if those heirs are also personally involved in the battle …… I am afraid that the plan of this group of cultists will have to continue to move forward!

Just then, he heard that leader continue again, “…… Currently, our main task is still to determine the exact location of the sun fragments. Keeping in mind that our goal is always to bring the real Sun God back to the world, and retrieving the lost sun fragments is the most urgent part!”

Duncan’s mind reeled – a sun shard? What the hell was that?

Could a stack of sun fragments be assembled to open up the Spear of Arden?
He felt the pigeon on his shoulder suddenly become restless, and Aye made a low cooing sound from his throat as he shook his body vigorously.

Through the connection coming from the fire of his spirit body, he could vaguely sense what the pigeon was trying to do.

It wanted to push, it wanted to push loud, it wanted Duncan to get his solar tomahawk and regroup another wave of troops.

But it couldn’t speak – it was just a pigeon here.

And that was depressing it.

“Quiet.” Duncan could only mutter in a whisper, while rubbing the pigeon’s head with the back of his hand in a soothing gesture, while at the same time a member of the congregation closer to the ringleader spoke up and inquired, “Can we pinpoint the approximate location of the solar debris now? Is there any way to …… detect it?”

“The sun shard is currently in a state of slumber and cannot yet be detected by any means,” the leader shook his head, “but the Lord has sent down guidance that the shard should be hiding in the vicinity of Prand’s lower city. Also considering that a new compatriot has joined us today, I will explain the situation again:
“According to the information already available, that shard should have first appeared in the human world eleven years ago, and most likely has triggered some kind of widespread transcendental phenomenon – it could be a large-scale fire, it could be an anomalous high heat in an entire neighborhood, or it could be a collective spontaneous human combustion, a group hallucination, which is exactly what we are now direction of our investigation.

“The city-state authorities have detailed information about the transcendental phenomena of the past years, and the great Divine Familiars are already trying to find these records, and there may be some among the ordinary people living in the Lower City who remember the ‘weird thing’ that happened here eleven years ago, and our task is to gather clues in this regard in order to deduce the the location of the sun shard.

“But be careful, all prying must be done with utmost care, although the authorities have always been lax in their management of the Lower City, the sense of smell of those hyenas of the Church of the Deep is sometimes extraordinarily sharp …… They are already on the alert.”

The leader explained the current situation to the surrounding congregation, and Duncan’s mind was spinning rapidly, he paid special attention to the time point of “eleven years ago” – according to the leader, eleven years ago, it was the time when some kind of superhuman being called “Sun Shard” was discovered, and it was the first time that Duncan had ever seen the sun. Eleven years ago, according to the leader, was the date when something extraordinary called the “Shard of the Sun” had come into existence, but Duncan had noticed it because of something else.

Eleven years ago, at the age of six, Nina had lost her parents.

It seemed to be because of a fire.

Was it just a coincidence? Is there such a thing as coincidence?

Duncan tried to organize those messy and broken memories in his mind, but a large part of these memories have been dissipated with the death of the original owner of the body, he tried to recall, but can only remember one or two vague fragments: the original owner of his body rushed out of the fire, holding his dying niece in his arms, an unrecognizable building behind him burning and collapsing, and in the distance, is the distortion of the dim, as if phantom-like city streets, a number of wild crowds in the streets, shouting and frantic. In the distance, there were distorted and dimly lit city streets, as if they were phantoms, and uncountable crowds of frenzied people were running wildly through the streets with hoots and hollers. ……

(End of chapter)