Chapter 2381: Generations Of Servitude.
The availability of people to move corpses away from the presence their God is one of the reasons why more than one person came to speak to the man on the throne even though all three of them knew the news.
It might sound silly but it is very important that if one or more of them is killed for the news they brought, there will be someone present to drag away their corpse. After all, some can’t expect the man on the throne to clean up the mess he made.
The second reason why three people came to be three news is so that if one of them is killed, the news won’t die with them. The presence of other people who know the news means that someone else can continue informing the man on the throne about the news.
The third reason why there is one person for each piece of news is perhaps a selfish reason. It is so that one person will be responsible for the repercussions of one piece of news and won’t have to risk death more than once for sharing more than one piece of news.
It is clear that death during the process of announcing the news is a common thing. It is so common that the priests have come up with various ways to deal with the risk of death.
The best method they came up with to reduce the risk of death is just to share one news. If they share one piece of news and survive, then they will survive the entire meeting and won’t have to bear the consequences of other news, be they good or bad.
Some people will call this whole situation evil or barbaric. Those people will be called blasphemers.
As priests of the church of blood, these three people believe that sacrificing people and dying while sharing news is a glorified way of living. They have no choice but to believe this because this is how they were raised.
The person they worship has lived in this temple for more than a thousand years. So the man on the throne was worshiped by the ancestors about 50 generations ago.
These people were born into this way of life. They were raised to believe that everything they are doing and experiencing is a privilege.
They don’t know of a better way to live. This is why, even though the judges of the Church of Justice are fighting to save mortals and people like them from being treated like this, they themselves believe that the people of the Church of Justice are demons.
They have been brainwashed so they think that the people of the Church of Justice are their enemies and that the man in the throne is their god. To be fair, there is some truth in both beliefs.
It is like they say, the best way to deceive someone is to tell them half-truths. This way, the lie will be grounded in reality.
This is how these people have come to believe that every angel of killing is the avatar of their god. The truth is that every angel of killing can become an avatar of their god.
It is only a possibility that an angel of killing is the avatar of the man on the throne. There are other possibilities in regard to the relationship between angels of killing and the man they worship as God. But they don’t know that, and they don’t question it either.
Their faith is very strong, so they don’t question anything about their religion. Even though they just witnessed someone they know get killed before them, their faith isn’t questioned at all.
To be fair again, it will be asking too much of a god of killing not to kill people at the drop of a hat. So it was a strong unwavering faith that the chief priest dragged the headless body of the corpse while the female priest dragged the head away.
After they were gone, the man on the throne began contemplating the situation. He was considering what to do about the news he had just heard.
In particular, he was thinking about what to do about the new angel of killing that had appeared in Wessex. He was weighing the risk of helping the angel of killing survive the hunt of the church of justice.
As he was thinking of this, he thought to himself, "Could it be that this angel of killing is the one in possession of my body?"
By body, he is referring to the bloody heart. The blood heart is a part of his flesh.
He can always sense the location of his flesh, so he knows that there is one of his flesh in the possession of a killer in Wessex.
Legion can sever the link between the bloody heart and the blood network of the lamp bearers, but they can’t stop the owner of the flesh from sensing what used to belong to them. This is how he became aware of Legion.
After thinking about and sensing that bloody heart again, he shook his head and said, "No, it shouldn’t be. The one in possession of my flesh in Wessex is a rank 6 killer who has met the advancement requirement to advance to rank 7."
"This new angel should be one who has remained hidden for a long time. I didn’t even know that there was a rank 8 killer in Wessex. It seems the church of justice didn’t know either, or they would have killed the killer before it became an angel."
He had sensed Legion’s existence right from the moment they came into possession of the bloody heart. That was in Ivory Town. So he is aware of how fast they have been progressing in the pathway of killing.
He has had his hopes up about Legion for a while now. He thought that Legion was his best option for an angel of killing appearing in the kingdom of Wessex.