The King of Elden does not die alone!

"Let's go inside and take a look."

Mia didn't see anything suspicious around her.

With a sword in one hand and a staff in the other, she approached a house.

The door was not locked and was ajar.

Frowning slightly, Mia pushed the door open with the tip of her staff.

The furniture in the house was knocked over and debris was scattered all over the floor. It seemed that there had been a fierce fight here not long ago.

There are blood stains on the ground.

However, apart from this, there is no door-opening kill that will scare people.

Following the bloodstains into the house, I found a man covered in blood lying beside the bed.

Mia crouched down and moved closer to him, noting that the source of his blood was from several puncture wounds.

"Is he dead?" Altria also saw the man sitting in a pool of blood.

"No," Mia shook her head.

Although there were dozens of knife wounds all over his body, at least there was still a wisp of breath left.

The girl stretched out her hand and a golden light appeared.

This was the first time that Altria and Kai had directly seen Mia display her golden power.

Under the nourishment of that light, the wounds on the man's body were healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The skin that had turned pale due to excessive blood loss regained its color, and the breathing gradually became steady and strong.

Then he opened his eyes.

The moment he saw Mia, he was stunned for a moment. After gradually regaining consciousness, he trembled and asked, "Am I dead?"

"No." Mia comforted him: "What happened?"

The man was stunned: "Where is he?"

The man inquired, and Mia asked him back, "Who's there?"

There was silence for a few seconds. After his mind came back to life, the man hugged his head and let out a cry like a boiling kettle from his throat.

"Oh God, what did I do? Did I want to kill him? I wanted to kill my brother..." He held his head and lay on the ground in pain.

Just as Mia was trying to comfort him, he suddenly grabbed Mia's legs and begged with tears in his eyes: "Kill me now, please, any Christian with a conscience should kill me! I am a sinner!"

"Can you tell me what happened first?"

"I was deceived by Satan," the man cried bitterly, choking and speaking incoherently, "For a ring, I wanted to kill my brother. This is my sin. I admit my sin. Please let me go to hell!"

He rolled on the ground in pain.

From his vague words, Mia roughly understood what had happened.

Some existence influenced his mind and made him commit the heinous crime of fratricide. Judging from his extremely sad appearance, he was the first to commit the crime, and then was seriously injured by his own brother.

Is this man's brother also affected by that existence?

Merlin smiled bitterly. "That is the power of the 'comparison' beast. The beast of disaster that feeds on the jealousy and regret among humans... Oh, it looks really hard to deal with."

"But, as long as you dare to try, you can always achieve it, right?" He ignored the man who was still holding his head, deeply trapped in guilt, and cheered everyone up cheerfully.

Suddenly, Kai's shout came from the door: "Hey! Come and see!"

He stood at the door, staring at something anxiously.

Fire appeared in the distant night sky, and the distant building had been burning at some point.

"Stay here!" Mia patted the man who was still curled up on the ground, stood up and walked quickly towards the door.

"Hmm..." Merlin glanced at Mia, then at the person on the ground.

Then, he raised his staff:

'Boom! '

He hit the man hard on the head.

The man's curled up body straightened up and he immediately passed out.

"Merlin?!" Altria looked at him in surprise.

Not only that, the crisp sound was enough to fill the entire room.

'Good start'

"It's for his own good," Merlin said seriously. "If a devout Christian realized that he had committed such a crime, he might commit suicide."

According to Catholic teaching, one cannot go to heaven if he or she commits suicide.

But if he has committed a crime that even he himself cannot accept, and it is impossible for him to go to the heaven of faith, is there any guarantee that he will not end his suffering in this world early and go to hell to atone for his sins?

"..."

That makes sense.

"What a powerful kindness..." Artoria exclaimed.

It's powerful in every sense of the word.

That man probably won't wake up for a few hours.

"Well, so-called goodwill is basically a forced sale, right?"

Mia looked at Merlin with a slight pause.

Such a metaphor would probably only come from the mouth of Merlin, who does not understand human emotions, right?

"Although I think this statement is a little wrong, now is not the time to discuss this kind of thing."

Mia shook her head: "Let's go to the direction of the fire!"

No one told her, but she had a gut feeling that the others were in that direction.

The rest of the people thought so too.

Leaving the sleeping villagers behind, the few of them quickened their pace.

The direction from which the flame appeared was in the north.

Deeper on the island, in the center of the village.

Mia looked up at the flames as she hurried along.

The gray-black smoke column was illuminated by the flames, like a twisted tree growing under the night sky.

The flames were spreading rapidly along the thatched-roof houses in the village.

When Kai discovered the flames, they were perhaps already burning brightly, illuminating half of the village as bright as day.

The village, which was peaceful just now, seemed to have entered another world.

Before entering the burning area, Mia saw people appearing on the road in the village, lying on the ground, dying or already dead.

"Go to the center of the fire first and find Cathy Palug!" Mia knelt down in front of a villager who was still breathing, and while praying to heal her, she shouted to Altria and others.

"and you..."

"I have the ability." Mia said without hesitation.

By now, the outcome of the incident seems clear.

The villagers, influenced by the principle of "comparison" held by Cathy Palug, are killing each other out of jealousy.

Mia placed her hands on the villager in front of her.

She had to find a way to save the villagers from life-threatening situations, but at the same time, she couldn't wake them up immediately. This would take some time.

If we don’t want the disaster to spread further, the only solution is to split our forces into two groups.

Mia held the golden light in her hand and pursed her lips.

If the wound is merely repaired to the point where it will not get worse, the person will neither come back to life on the spot due to full recovery, nor will he die from excessive blood loss or shock.

She can do it.

But such detailed operations are much more complicated than simply restoring and photographing it.

"Melina, help!" Mia yelled.

Melina also has a hand in prayers that heal people.

"Keep them out of danger, but don't let them wake up for now. Can you please?"

Melina nodded decisively.

The two of them identified those who were still breathing and pulled them back from the brink of death.

With the idea of ​​saving as many people as possible, the two of them slowly moved forward along the street.

As long as you are on a dirt road, you will not be affected by the spreading fire. The slightly damp dirt road in the village is the best fire-prevention isolation zone.

The fire can only spread along the buildings on both sides.

There was no one in those buildings.

Everyone gathered towards the starting point of the fire.

Turning over another villager, she was an old woman with three parallel puncture wounds on her abdomen. Mia immediately imagined a pitchfork.

Mia stood up, following the method she had used several times before, treating the villagers to the point where they would not wake up immediately but would not continue to deteriorate.

I don't know when I entered the fire scene.

The surrounding buildings were all burning, with only one street littered with human bodies.

Leading to the distance.

far away...

What's in the distance?

Why is it just pitch black like the abyss?

"Melina?" Mia called over her shoulder.

no respond.

However, the surrounding flames were not the blazing orange-red color, but red mixed with black.

'environment?'

Mia held the weapon in her hand, and in just two breaths, Mia realized her current situation.

Feeling something's gaze on her, Mia looked up.

On the house covered with black and red flames, there crouched a wild beast covered in black.

The beast seemed to be a shadow existing in space, looking at Mia with its head tilted.

"Do you really want to save people?"

The beast inquired.

The voice appeared directly in Mia's mind.

"Yes."

Mia admitted.

Although this was the first time she had seen it in such a posture, Mia already knew the beast's real name.

Cathy Parug.

"Well, let's compare them."

Cathy Parug's voice is neither male nor female.

Neither old, nor young.

The scene in front of Mia changed, and two iron cages placed on a pile of wood rose from the ground.

There is a puppet placed in each iron cage.

A faceless puppet based on Melina, with scarlet hair and wearing a black robe.