"This!!! Let's leave this dilapidated and rotten neighborhood! Get rid of the disgusting name 9-3!"
"The power of revenge against those who exploit us! those who oppress us! those who despise us!"
The words are fanatical and resolute, and are full of strong incitement. The man standing on the high platform has an exaggerated posture, like a mentally disturbed patient.
But after the miracle they had just witnessed, everyone below was immersed in it, raising their arms and shouting in agreement!
Witnessing such a scene on the steel beam, I originally thought that it was just a group of people at the bottom of society who happened to obtain something related to the night battle and committed evil deeds.
But the moment I heard Osphia say the name ‘witch’,
Fangran found that things began to go beyond his expectations.
Instinctively, he thought of that dark and mysterious figure, and for a moment he seemed to understand the source of the throbbing just now.
Then at this time, several middle-aged men who looked like the upper class were tied to the shelves and pushed up, their faces pale and trembling.
His body was wrapped in bloodied cloth, and everyone around him held up the fire in his hands and screamed, as if they wanted to burn him alive!
It makes people think they have gone crazy.
Yes, already crazy.
The malice to harm others surged out like stagnant black mud. I suppressed the urge to rush in and save people now. I felt uncomfortable with such a cult image.
Fangran frowned slightly and said in doubt:
"What are they going to do?"
"Black magic is one of the most dangerous branches of ability in the mysterious side. Ordinary people who come into contact with related things without authorization are extremely easy to be contaminated by the spirit of their owner. That person is no longer normal,"
Osphia looked at the leading 'black sheep' on the high platform, as if looking at a dead man with half his foot in the abyss.
"His current hatred and jealousy towards the wealthy class has been combined with the residual mental influence of the witch herself on that item."
"My... mental influence, then why does it become like this?"
Hearing Fangran's surprise and glance at him, Ophia spoke slowly and quietly:
"Witch hunting broke out in European history, also called witch trials."
Her blue eyes looked at the 'cultists' surrounded by several men holding flames below, as if she saw a microcosm of that era, except this time the men and women were reversed.
"In that era when there was no scientific concept, witchcraft was generally considered to exist and be evil. Those in power feared that it would threaten their rule and ordered killings, which formed a wave of witch hunts centuries ago,"
"Due to jealousy, persecution from the upper class, ignorant fear, and even coveting beauty and wanting to see who looks like one without clothes, innocent women are easily slandered as witches, brutally forced to confess, pushed to the stake, and face the horrific ending of a miserable death."
That's why...it became like this?
Looking at the darkness illuminated by torches, they seemed to be burning heretics to death. In the underground mine where the sun was not visible, I questioned whether these people were irrational.
Fangran felt that there was something beyond 'maliciousness' in this scene. He frowned and asked after hearing Ao Feiya's words:
"Didn't anyone care about it at the time?"
"At that time, not every place had a sound court system. At that time, some places had secular courts,"
Osphia looked at the irrational prayers of the people below, and was ready to save people at any time. She spoke in a low voice:
"Even using a baseless book as a basis."
Book....?
His black eyes were hidden in the darkness and he stared down. Those people who had gone crazy were still carrying out 'prayer' activities. Fangran listened to Osphia's voice calmly ringing in his ears,
Listening to her retell the contents of the book, it was like reciting the darkness of that era with her own words.
"If she is afraid during the interrogation, she is obviously guilty, and her conscience betrays her; if she remains calm, she is undoubtedly guilty, for witches are accustomed to lie shamelessly;"
"If she has the strength to withstand the torture, it means that the devil has made her able to do so, so she must be tortured more severely;"
"If she couldn't bear it and died, it meant that the devil asked her to die to prevent her from revealing the secret."
Absolutely ridiculous.
Just listening to it makes me feel ridiculous, but when I think about such a ridiculous fallacy, people believed it to be true in the past and launched a hunt for so-called "witches".
Fangran couldn't help but feel cold for a moment. While he couldn't believe that this was a historical fact,
It is even more unimaginable that these are things that figure has experienced...
I kept searching the entire underground mine, but found no suspicious clues or traces of participants' activities. I had already concluded that the cult incident here had nothing to do with the association.
Thinking that this was indeed just an ordinary incident, Osphia relaxed a little and then looked at Fangran.
"This is witch hunting."
"Even if the official attitude of the church has always been that witches do not exist at all, stop these superstitious and ignorant behaviors immediately,"
Describing the darkness of that era, through the scene of the cult in front of us, in this dark corner hidden underground in modern civilized society,
Osphia saw that these people were as ignorant and superstitious as history.
"But it doesn't mean that every local church, secular kingship, and ignorant people in remote villages think so."
Ever since I first heard her mention the horror and cruelty of witch hunting, I was speechless and stunned, thinking about the figure that had been my salvation more than once,
Fangran learned about the witch's past for the first time.
"The background left by the Black Death, the persecution of the royal aristocrats out of profit, the private actions of some black sheep in the church, and more happened in remote villages,"
"Lynching of ignorant people by ignorant people, due to various complex reasons born in the social period,"
Looking at the cultists below who have begun to kneel down and pray, they think that by burning those people to death, they can obtain the protection of the 'witch' and leave the swampy bottom of society.
The striking similarity between ignorance and superstition, like history repeating itself, made Osphia whisper solemn words.
"The so-called witch hunting... was the dark side of humanity in that era."
The dark side of humanity...
The moment I heard her say this, I suddenly realized what I had just felt in the picture in front of me was beyond 'malice'.
Then at this moment when he was about to say something!
The prayers of the cultists below came to an end. Hidden on the steel beams supported by the underground mine, Fangran and Osphia suddenly saw the leader showing the thing they were worshiping.
A jet black spherical crystal.
Incredible moment where I was stunned!
The black eyes suddenly widened, Senna-Saint-Denis, the cult incident, the reason for the fall of the royal court, the dark energy crystal, the association's plan in reality, and the dark side of human beings that I just heard about,
All kinds of irrelevant fragments of information are inexplicably swarming into my mind, and I feel as if there is some kind of relationship that can connect them.
Then the next second,
He saw a drop of dark liquid appear out of thin air,
Fill the last void inside the dark energy crystal.
