Tome of Blood

Huge memories flooded into his mind, and Charlotte's vision suddenly shattered.

No, shattering is not vision.

In reality, she closed her eyes.

What was broken was actually her perception.

After a ray of light, Charlotte came to a magnificent world.

More precisely, it is a dream world.

She found herself standing in a long floating hallway, surrounded by darkness, with countless shattered lenses floating on either side.

Each fragment exudes a faint halo, like a slideshow, playing one independent picture after another.

Some are bright, exuding soft light, quiet and peaceful.

Some are bloody and have a cold breath, just looking at them brings strong discomfort.

Charlotte chose the one closest to her.

In the next moment, her vision changed, and she saw a cute little girl, giggling, sitting in a dilapidated house celebrating her birthday with her plainly dressed parents.

On the simple wooden table, the food is not rich, just some simple black bread, and a small piece of dry cheese cake that I don’t know how long.

However, looking at the innocent and bright smile of the girl, and the doting and soft eyes of the parents, one can truly feel the small and easily satisfied happiness of a family of three.

But the next moment, the picture was engulfed by flames.

Amidst the wailing, the girl's parents fell into a pool of blood. The Gorefiend cultist in black robe grabbed the girl's hair and roughly stuffed her into a cloth bag...

The screen continued to flicker, Charlotte saw the girl being imprisoned, seeing the girl being auctioned in the Drunken Dream Salon, seeing the bewildered and terrified girl's face...

She saw the girl being violated, saw the Gorefiend cultists chasing and killing the girl after the Drunk Dream Salon, and saw the girl slowly dying in pain and fear.

Charlotte quickly withdrew from the memory fragments, and the despair and pain she experienced made her feel chills.

After a little perception, she judged that it only took a moment for her to browse through her memory.

Although she saw a lot of pictures, the huge amount of memory information actually flooded into her consciousness in an instant.

After hesitating for a moment, Charlotte looked at the next memory fragment...

The vision changed, and a new girl appeared on the screen.

This is another girl's memory.

Still happy and beautiful.

However, the ordinary happiness was soon swallowed up by blood and despair again.

Charlotte once again saw the appearance of the Gorefiend cultists, saw them abduct the girl, saw them use the girl as a sacrifice amidst the cries of despair, and pushed her down the abyss of death...

Charlotte soon exits the memory fragment again.

Her heart grew heavier.

Looking at the countless fragments around her, she knew that each of these fragments represented the girl who died.

The memory here is the deepest memory in their short life.

Memories of happiness, memories of fear...

Painful memories, desperate memories...

Even in death, their memories survived as remnants of their souls.

Charlotte was a little hesitant to read on.

The sense of desperation that was there made her feel chills and her soul shuddered.

But she knew that she had to watch it.

The secrets of the Gorefiend Cult are likely to be hidden in these memory fragments.

She continued to look towards the fragments of the next moment...

One after another……

Charlotte didn't know how many memory fragments she had seen.

All she knew was that she saw one happy family after another being broken up, and one innocent girl after another being swallowed up by despair...

She saw the evil and ferocity of the Gorefiend Cult, and she saw the depravity and darkness of the nobles.

Watching, watching, she felt that she was going numb.

All that remained in her heart was her disgust and anger towards the Gorefiend Order and the fallen nobles.

After looking at an unknown number of memories, Charlotte suddenly froze and stopped in front of one of the memory fragments.

In this memory fragment, she actually saw an acquaintance.

Chief Captain of the Boulder Witcher, Kara!

However, this is not Kara's memory fragment.

This is for a little girl.

The little girl and Kara are 70% similar, and Kara in the memory fragments has no scars on her face.

Not only that, but Kara in the memory fragment is quite young.

She looked eighteen or nineteen at the most.

It was a beautiful memory of a pair of sisters.

As a mercenary, the older sister takes care of the younger, cute younger sister.

They depend on each other and live happily. Although they are not rich, they are warm and happy.

The beginning of the memory is still plain and beautiful.

But when the gangster showed up, everything changed.

She saw the girl being taken away and Carla was seriously injured.

Seeing the female knight leave a hideous scar on her face, she awakened her extraordinary power in despair, but she could only watch her sister be taken away.

Um?

gangster?

etc……

Not a Gorefiend cultist?

Charlotte froze.

And the subsequent development of memory images is even more different.

Charlotte didn't see Drunken Dream Salon.

Instead, firelight.

The monstrous flames.

She heard countless dim voices praying and chanting.

She heard someone praising the abyss and darkness, she heard someone praising depravity and decay.

She heard a fanatical voice, shouting the title of Grand Duke Gorefiend!

She saw the girl in the cell and more girls hugging each other, looking through the window in fear at the tall figure burning with flames in the night outside...

Ferocious goat head, blazing flames, deafening roar!

That is a terrifying Balrog!

Charlotte suddenly realized.

This memory fragment is even older, ten years ago!

What she sees now is the scene of the Balrog disaster ten years ago!

This little girl who is suspected to be Kara's sister was not snatched by Drunken Dream Salon these few years, but was taken away by Earl Broglie ten years ago!

After enlightenment, doubts quickly flooded into Charlotte's heart...

etc.

If she remembers correctly, the Balrog ritual ten years ago originated from Earl Broglie.

According to records, all the underage girls who were kidnapped during the Flame Demon Disaster eventually died in the sacrifice.

As for the Drunken Dream Salon, it gradually appeared after the Calamity of the Balrog.

But here is the Drunken Dream Salon again...

If Kara's sister had been taken away ten years ago, how could her memory fragments appear here, in the ritual sacrifice place of Drunken Dream Salon?

wrong.

In memory, the girl saw the Balrog.

This shows that she was not dead at the time.

Not only that, but none of the girls in the cell died.

So... what happened next?

Charlotte was full of doubts.

But soon, her doubts were answered.

With an angry hiss, the Balrog disappeared into a brilliant light.

After an unknown amount of time, the dark cell was smashed open with a bang.

The dazzling light descends, pierces the darkness of despair, and brings reassuring warmth.

A figure in a holy white robe appeared in the girl's field of vision.

It was an old priest.

His expression was full of exhaustion.

After seeing the girls in the cell, he was slightly taken aback.

Soon after, he showed a kind smile.

He stretched out his hand and gently stroked the little head of the girl closest to him.

An old and gentle voice slowly rang in the girl's ears:

"Son, you are saved."

His smile is extremely kind and gentle.

So soft, even a little fake, it makes people shudder.

That priest is none other than someone else.

It is the highest clergyman in the Duchy of Boulder, High Priest Linus.

I'm too sleepy, I think a lot when it comes to how to follow up the plot, and the writing of this chapter is much slower than I imagined... There is no third update tonight, and I will continue to add more tomorrow! _(:з」∠)_