Chapter 253 Demonic Dying
Jason is a worker working in the Candle Factory of Valedo’s Fifth Parish. Although he leads a hard life of working 16 hours a day, his family is considered happy.
He has a gentle and amiable wife Miria, a pair of naughty twin sons Barry and Lyndon, and an adorable little daughter Gloria.
Family is the most important pillar of his difficult life.
Although he lived a life of eating coarse bread and bitter herbs, Jason still maintained his firm belief in the emperor. He would bring his family to pray before every meal, and he would worship every week regardless of rain or shine.
This is something engraved in the DNA of the Valedians. They feel satisfied and honored to be born in a holy world, because here the Emperor's radiance can save them from many sufferings in the dark galaxy...
But now I don’t know why, life is getting more and more difficult. First of all, the beloved archbishop suddenly issued a strict piety decree a year ago, forcing everyone to go to church every day to listen to the prayers of priests. Immediately afterwards, a large number of disappearances occurred in various parishes.
Although the patrol frequency of law enforcement officers has been significantly increased, they are few in number and weak in strength, and cannot take care of other areas except the first parish, so believers need the emperor's blessing even more.
During dinner, the twins also mentioned that they had heard a rumor.
New corpses were found on the street, with their eyes gouged out and covered with bugs...
Jason angrily scolded the twins and asked them not to scare his little sister. Miria told another story to dispel the gloomy atmosphere.
A blind Imperial Guard veteran who had been begging on the streets for many years suddenly regained his sight, but Jason wondered where the veteran would get the money to replace his bionic eyes.
Miriya told her husband that the old soldier had not changed his biochemical eyes, but that his blind eyes had recovered. This was a miracle.
The veteran said he saw an angel in his dream and his blindness was cured.
Jason told his children that the emperor looked after everyone, and as long as they prayed sincerely, their sincerity would be rewarded.
The couple then rushed the children to bed. Miria also read the story of the saint Sebastian Sol to the twins, while Gloria hoped that his father would pray for him.
Jason smiled and said:
"The Emperor is everywhere. As long as you are willing, you can pray to the Lord of Humanity at any time."
But he still prayed for his daughter.
Every day after that, Jason had to drag his exhausted body to work, because the continuous disappearances led to fewer and fewer workers, and the fewer workers, the less efficient he was in completing the targets. His own food rations were also affected.
The factory where Jason works is responsible for producing candles for the entire parish. As a parish with more than 200 churches, tons of candles are consumed every day, so his daily work is extremely heavy.
When he was a child, his mother disappeared and his father committed suicide during interrogation. He came to work in the factory from the age of thirteen.
He knew that he would be a worker all his life and would probably die in a factory, but he felt very proud to be able to serve the emperor, and the emperor had given him such a perfect family.
What else can I be dissatisfied with?
Just going to church every day to pray and listen would give him the illusion that something was whispering to him, but he never heard the content of those whispers clearly and thought it was caused by being too tired. hallucination.
In his daily work, he couldn't help but talk to his colleagues. When they talked about how many percentage points they were behind the schedule, the exhausted colleagues said that only a miracle would happen to them to catch up.
Jason felt that there were not necessarily no miracles. He told his colleagues that a blind veteran who was begging on the street suddenly regained his sight after dreaming of an angel. Isn't this a miracle?
Then the colleague looked at Jason strangely and told him that the veteran was dead.
One day after regaining his sight, the veteran suddenly went crazy, shouted that he had killed someone, and then ran and was hit by a car.
Jason retorted at that time, because he knew the character of this veteran when he was a boy, and he could not kill anyone.
While the two were still talking, there was a sudden vibration on the ground and everyone stopped.
Then there was a big explosion in the factory, and Jason was involved.
When Jason opened his eyes, he found that he had become a child and returned to his home.
A familiar figure appeared in front of him, leaving Jason stunned - that was his mother, with the same appearance and clothing as when she disappeared from home.
Jason was in disbelief and his mother told him not to panic because he was safe.
After thinking about it, Jason told the figure in front of him that his mother was dead and the person in front of him could not be his mother.
The figure told him that his mother was not dead, but had gone to another place, and that he was sent by the emperor.
Then, the other party exuded a dazzling aura, and he recalled the local chapel. The emperor's justice and revenge were incarnated on the church's stained glass. The other party seemed to read his thoughts, and the image in front of him bloomed with a divine light. of brilliance.
It was an angel, with a magnificent and holy appearance.
Jason was so excited that he witnessed a real miracle, an angel really appeared. The angel told him that through the emperor's power, he was unscathed.
However, the emperor did not save him for no reason. Jason had a task that must be completed.
Jason said that he was just a nobody, how could He De win the favor of the emperor?
The angel told him that all the emperor's saints were nobody in the beginning.
Can the emperor make mistakes?
The angel then told him that the world was about to be destroyed, and only if he stepped forward could he be saved from destruction, and then Jason saw a vision.
Shadow monsters lurked in the darkness. People fled for their lives in a hurry, but were torn apart by something from the inside.
The diocese fell into ruin, rivers of innocent blood flowed, the sky dyed red, and mountains of bones piled up.
He saw his wife crying in a nightmare, and his twin sons had their eyes gouged out.
After that, he saw his little daughter, and some monsters were approaching her.
The illusion ends here.
The angel told him that if Jason wanted to stop what was about to happen, he must make a sacrifice to the Emperor.
Jason told the angel excitedly.
“I would give anything to prevent destruction from happening!”
The angel responded.
"The offering is the heart of his favorite child."
Jason was stunned. He stammered that he couldn't do it. It was impossible for him to kill his favorite child.
The angel responded without emotion:
"The emperor asked for more things to be donated, because power comes from sacrifice. If there is no sacrifice, how can the emperor have the power to protect the galaxy?"
Jason still refused, and the angel warned him that the crisis was imminent. Jason could only make a choice between washing his soul with his daughter's blood or sitting back and watching his family collapse. He had one night to think about it. .
Afterwards, Jason returned home in despair, telling himself over and over again that he had to do this and had no other choice.
Every time he blinked, he would see scenes of destruction, hear the screams of his family members dying, and angels whisper in his ears...
He recalled When his father committed suicide, his father was so drunk that he couldn't hear what his father wanted to tell him.
Mireya was shocked to see Jason come back and told him that the whole family thought he was dead and everyone was praying for him, especially Gloria.
Jason replied mechanically, this is a miracle.
Soon, he was out of the house with the hearts of his wife and daughter, shouting for the angel to appear, he had completed the emperor's task.
A voice appeared from behind him. This voice no longer came from a 'distant place'.
The angel told Jason that he had done far better than imagined and that the world would now be saved, but Jason didn't know why. He didn't see any divine signs or manifestations.
He asked almost crazily:
“When can we see it!”
The angel told him that when the world becomes a river of blood and corpses cover the clouds, salvation will come.
Jason, who was stained with the blood of his beloved wife and daughter, turned his head and saw the figure behind him.
It was a twisted creation wearing his mother's human skin.
Then the thing that had been his mother embraced him, and he felt his mind fill with maniacal laughter and warp screams, bringing more horror than he had ever seen before. The illusion is infinitely more terrifying.
His former mother told him that now, they were finally reunited forever.
(End of this chapter)