Chapter 395 – King of the Storm.
“The Kamenciks needed a symbol of their greatness and power above all else.”
That pyramid itself wasn’t originally red. When it was first created, it was made of white, not unlike the surrounding land.
“The red pyramid is a symbol for him.”
In order to paint it red, the blood of countless humans was sprinkled there as paint. To do so, they called in followers of a certain age and killed them without hesitation at the top of that place.
“I’m not sure about the cycle either. When the red color of the Pyramid is faded or worn out, it is called in to paint that stone red.”
Because of that, no one knows how many people have been sacrificed in that pyramid.
“How… Why don’t people here rebel?”
Usher wondered how on earth that could be. Despite the situation we just saw, people who are perfectly fine are killed indiscriminately as ritual sacrifices, so why is no one rebelling and fighting?
“Rebellion, rebellion.”
Jeremiah muttered, leaning his head against the wall.
“I once thought like you.”
Why not drive out the apostles and Agnets who follow them? I mean. After all, those who have power in Kamenshik are a minority. At most, 12 humans called apostles are all.
There are so many people who live here that they cannot be compared to the inside or outside of Parz, so if we join forces, defeating or killing them will not be a problem.
“But they don’t move.”
Jeremiah affirmed.
“Why.”
“Because this place is rich.”
There is no shortage of food on the land suitable for farming, and the underground water flowing endlessly from somewhere does not dry up. Animals do not live well, but that can be solved by catching and eating small insects or fish. Monsters only come out at night and there is no problem if they hide in the house. At least, if I couldn’t solve my sexual desire, I would have had even a small complaint.
“Do you think you just can’t deal with your sexual desire under that circumstance?”
They mixed each other’s bodies indiscriminately, regardless of who the opponent was.
“It is said that humans are greedy, but well. Rather, those who want to achieve something even while taking risks are rare.”
A situation where everything can be solved by just doing the right thing, if you don’t have complaints, there’s nothing lacking, but who wants to get out of this situation?
“Critically, this is a matriarchal society, except for the absolute ones like the 12 apostles.”
“A matrilineal society?”
“Because the head of the village here is inevitably the concubine of the 12 apostles.”
With the power of the apostles on their backs, they form their own clans and villages to manage the villages. And if there are any who try to overstep the authority or power of her husband, she will use her own clan and people to capture them and offer them as a sacrifice to the apostle.
“The villagers and their entire families are Kamenshik’s followers and keepers.”
In places like this, those who have the courage to do so are long ago hunted down, ostracized, or killed.
“It’s not that there aren’t rebels. They’re gone.”
“I can’t save someone like that…”
“Kuh, haha!”
I wondered if that much could be saved, but Jeremiah burst out laughing at her. She seemed sincere, not out of habit this time.
“I’ll give you one piece of advice. It’s better to take care of yourself than to interfere with others.”
“…”
Usher couldn’t say anything. Because it was a fact that I felt so painfully. Usher bowed his head at the images of Belka and Erica passing through his mind.
“Tsk, yes. I don’t seem to have the knack for talking nice like that guy.”
Raising her head at her somehow regretful voice, Jeremiah sighed and wiped her own face. She then looked back at Usher and talked.
“What do you think culture is?”
“I don’t know. Isn’t it just different for each region?”
Food, clothes, and behavior are different. Usher didn’t seem to realize anything more than that. Then Jeremiah shook her head.
“For humans, culture is play and study, daily life and rules.”
Do you remember what I said about the thing we saw earlier?
“You said it was culture.”
“That’s right. Even for those who are dissatisfied with this situation, it will be natural.”
What is obvious is bound to feel even greater dissatisfaction when it is not taken for granted. Even if they leave this place, will it be different?
“No, it’s still natural. Humans don’t change easily.”
Damn it. He let out a sigh of hers and looked at the woman who had been quietly watching them from a distance until now.
“Above all, I’ll teach you why it doesn’t matter if we talk about it openly. She’d be happy if you told her to spread her legs right now.”
Suddenly, she turned her head at the sound of someone coming from the front, and even though the woman who had heard Jeremiah’s story had not been directly ordered, she opened her legs and opened a crack on her own. Usher turned her head away, impatient with the white liquid dripping from her gap.
“No need. It’s just that you haven’t heard anything.”
“I will follow.”
This time, she did not hide her regret at his words. A house full of silence. Jeremiah glanced out the window at her and opened her mouth.
“It’s going to be completely dark now.”
She followed him and looked out the window and frowned as she saw that the ground in the center of town was wet at first glance with the light getting dim. That’s because it was a place where people got entangled with each other earlier. However, I saw butterflies flapping their white wings gathering in such places.
“What about that butterfly?”
Butterflies seemed to have been seen everywhere. They gathered, but they didn’t sit on the ground, watching them fly over it as if they were hovering over it, Jeremiah replied.
“Occlusi, too, are monsters with a hobby of sucking out human eyes.”
“…I think I’ve seen that in the Holy Land.”
It looked like an ordinary butterfly, but I didn’t expect it to be such an eerie monster. After all, this place was similar to the basement of the Holy Land. I don’t know if it’s because they’re in the same basement, but the two are very far apart. A little bit curious, I put my hand on the glass window and watched it.
“Yuri, why are you so neat?”
Usher had never touched glass so flat and neatly made. It was rare, but there were bound to be some curves or protruding marks. It wasn’t even the slightest bump. This place seems to be living only by building houses with trees and farming, but how the hell did they make these windows?
“If it was made in the Tsushima era, can’t you explain it? Because this place is the ruins.”
She listened and understood what he had to say, but wondered how on earth she had remained so.
“First of all, go to bed early. I have to go early in the morning.”
Eventually, upon hearing Jeremiah’s words, Usher lay down on the floor. It was a hard wooden floor without any futons, but it seemed like I fell asleep right away.
-Kiik
Suddenly, I woke up to the sound of trees creaking in my ears. I wanted to go back to sleep because my body was swollen on the hard floor, but I remembered the story that I had to get up quickly and opened my eyes.
‘Why this person?’
Somehow, I was surprised to see a woman who had been far away hugging Jeremiah, and my sleepiness ran away.
-Kikkik
When he suddenly raised his head at the sound he heard again and looked around, Usher was startled.
“…!”
Because there, her man, carrying a crude axe, was stealthily walking this way. The moment our eyes met, he immediately rushed at him while frowning, but he wasn’t aiming for Usher.
– Kkaaang!
Usher immediately held up the shield he had fallen asleep in an embrace and blocked the ax he was swinging at Jeremiah earlier.
“Mister! Wake up!!”
– Kaang! Caang!
It was the moment when he shouted while blocking the ax that was swinging at random in excitement when the attack was blocked.
“Ha, you seem to be much more sensitive than I thought.”
She was surprised to see Jeremiah standing up and talking as if he had just fallen asleep, so the feeling of tapping his shield disappeared. When I glanced over the shield to see why, I saw a man with a pale blue face.
‘This person is…’
It must have been the man in the clothes made of wood fibers who had an affair with the lady of this house yesterday. He turned around as if he was trying to escape, but he couldn’t escape.
“Omg?!”
There, the woman who had just been lying next to Jeremiah was staring at him with her arms crossed. Then he became a man who trembled even more. He remembered that his power was as high as the area of his clothes was wide, but why? He was so frightened that even the ax he was holding thumped to the ground.
“I will deal with those who dare to harm the apostle.”
At her words, her man immediately evaded her and ran out of her door, though.
“Oops!”
Shortly thereafter, a man’s scream was heard.
“Whoa, let’s go out too.”
“Yup, ugh!”
When they followed him outside, the man was crawling on the floor with his ankle pierced by a harpoon.
“Apostle, the ungodly has been captured!”
And the men who seem to have subdued him, wearing clothes with a smaller area, are standing next to him. Jeremiah waved her hand in annoyance as Usher was dazed at the incomprehensible sight.
“I’m busy with work, so take care of it yourself.”
“All right.”
The woman answered and they decided to leave the village behind and head back to the sanctuary.
“Aaaaa!!!”
Even though I was quite far from the village, the man’s scream gave me goosebumps.
“I’m sure you didn’t say that the wider the area of the clothes, the higher the power?”
He was wearing the widest clothes there.
“Ha, first of all, the fact that she tried to harm the apostle is the biggest problem, but the next thing is that the woman’s power has increased.”
“Why all of a sudden…”
Usher recalled. Didn’t she say that the apostle’s concubine was in the form of ruling the village? Although she couldn’t follow her words, Jeremiah seemed to notice.
“Yeah, anyway, she told her to count her sleeping with an apostle.”
That man seems to have enjoyed that power because his mother was the apostle’s concubine. As they progressed silently, at some point they realized that the distant wall was getting closer.
“You’ve finally arrived.”
Jeremiah glanced over the bush and said. Usher was hiding in the bushes with him. There was a large door that was twice as tall as a man. But what stood out more than that was the presence of watchmen guarding both sides.
“Gargoyles…”
There, gargoyles were guarding the gate, tied to chain collars.
“First of all, throw a stone from side to side to attract attention.”
“But you’re still noticing?”
“It’s only a matter of time before they get caught anyway. You just have to protect me with your shield while I insert the key and open the door.”
I wanted that to happen, but I couldn’t help it. Because right now it was best to get orders.
– Tuk-tuk!
“Kyaaak!”
“Grunt!”
When Usher and Jeremiah saw that the stones thrown from side to side had knocked them a little out of each other’s door, they ran straight for it.
“”Shaaaaagh!!””
As Jeremiah thinks, they hear them running towards the door and turn back.
‘We have to stop! I have to stop it!’
Watching Jeremiah insert the key she had obtained from him into her door, Usher raised her shield and prepared to use her magic. It was so ferocious to see them running towards them. The moment I tried to use magic with a shield in front of the guys who were approaching right in front of me.
“‘Any pain…’?”
“Kiriik?”
“Kreuk?”
The ferocious spirit disappeared in an instant, and I couldn’t finish the spell without realizing it. I was sorry for that, but it was only for a while.
“Kiwoon! Keung!”
“Uh, uh?!”
Among them, a gargoyle that appeared to be a woman clung to her tail and began licking his cheek with her tongue.
“Greuk.”
Even the male gargoyles were sitting quietly watching them.
“You can’t believe it?!”
“Grrrrung.”
When I realized that they were the guys I met at the place where I was with Kane, I heard Jeremiah’s voice.
“…I didn’t expect this.”
He, too, was looking at Usher and them as if bewildered.
