Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 566: Erecting the Stake

For Perfect, dealing with the evil cult was just a side job.

Although her fundamental purpose of returning to Langton this time was to solve the problem of the evil god sect, and even to try to see if she could kill the gods, all this was still not her fundamental purpose.

After all, her purpose from the very beginning was to save the world, save humanity, and allow more people to survive.

To achieve this goal, she could abandon the empire's homeland, its colonies, the entire old world, and even everyone else except the humans she saved.

In order to achieve this goal, she also abandoned some unnecessary sympathy and emotions, and even forced herself to become an iron-fisted and cold-blooded ruler.

But along the way, everything she did was still in service of the greater goal of saving humanity.

The empire's homeland was abandoned because it could not be preserved, and the construction of the northern border was to paint on a blank sheet of paper to eliminate all interference.

With such dedication and hard work, the North can be said to be thriving today.

Although the lives of the people cannot be compared with the prosperity of the empire before the disaster, at least every northerner can work hard with his own hands to earn three meals a day and a life without worries about food and clothing, unless he is lazy and gluttonous.

It was precisely because she had managed to keep the people in the North basically alive that Perfectcot had the energy to think about how to save Langton and the empire.

But before saving the empire's homeland, she needs to remove the obstacles of the evil god sect that prevent her from saving Langton.

This is not an easy task, and it can even be said to be an almost impossible task.

Not to mention that the doomsday disaster itself was caused by the old gods, just dealing with the evil cults that are now rampant in the outer city is not an easy task.

Although the project initiated by Perfect in the lower city made many people return to the arms of the empire and choose to abandon the belief in evil gods, more people still had no choice.

They can only choose to rely on the evil god sect to survive in today's world.

If they had refused, they would have starved to death long before Perfecto returned to Longton.

Perfect knew this clearly, so she was very tolerant towards those people who believed in the evil cult, and did not demand the death of all heretics like some crazy guys.

She simply arranged for church judges to conduct an investigation and identify all the people.

Those who worship evil gods just for survival are still worthy of saving and have value to be saved as long as they are willing to reform themselves and return to the right faith.

Only those who are hopelessly believing in evil gods will be sent to the stake.

Although Perfect felt that these people were more or less innocent, she still set up the stake without mercy, and burned a bunch of people at the stake, throwing new firewood in before the previous pile was burned out.

So much so that dozens of stakes were burning at the same time in the lower town of Langton, and the rising thick smoke almost blackened the entire Langton sky.

But for the people, this is not unacceptable.

After all, what the evil god sect is and how they act are things that are visible to everyone. It is not that the evil god sect can cover up and deceive by disguising themselves as good people and giving everyone some relief food, or playing some deceptive tricks.

The most obvious fact is that it costs money for the evil cult to deceive people. If they can gain a believer by feeding him a mouthful of food to keep him from starving, why bother to brainwash him?
In the past, when they could not carry out activities openly, they really needed to value every believer they could develop and ensure that they would not inform on the church.

But now there are a lot of believers waiting for them to choose, as long as they have food, these believers can get as much as they want, so naturally they won't bother. This also means that most of the people can still be saved, and only a small number should be burned at the stake.

So when the stake was raised, a large number of people gathered around it. In addition to using the stake to keep warm, they were also cheering for the burning.

After all, the most crucial reason why the Evil God Cult is called the Evil God Cult and not some Old God Cult is because of their "evil".

Compared to the All-Father who did not need to sacrifice the flesh and blood and lives of his believers, the Old Gods actually required living believers to be sacrificed.

And depending on the old gods, they have different requirements for sacrifices.

Some want pure virgins under the age of eighteen, some want babies under three months old, some prefer strong warriors... and so on.

The Death Cult is an extremely rare exception among them.

So one can imagine what kind of attitude the evil cult has towards the people who have thrown themselves into their arms.

They did not treat those people as human beings, but as livestock they kept in captivity, and when the need arose, they would select those who met the requirements from among them for sacrifice.

And as the date of the White Star's arrival approaches, the scale of their sacrifices becomes larger and larger, and the demand for sacrifices naturally increases as well.

If their lives and deaths were not in the hands of others, these people would have rebelled long ago.

But the bloody reality is that people will sell anything for a bite of food that can keep themselves or others alive.

The elder sister went to the altar for her brother, the mother was willing to have her heart cut out for her child, the father was willing to fight like a beast for his family...

The evil cult has committed too many sins in the outer city area.

The people have already lost hope and even fallen into despair.

They no longer hoped that anyone would come to rescue them.

But when Perfect returned to Longton and began to try to save the city, these people still burst out with a strong will to survive.

They are eager to live.

After all, no mother wants to see her child being sacrificed on the altar, wailing in agony of death in a huge meat grinder, then being crushed into a bloody mass and eaten as a meal.

Not to mention that some people were skinned alive, had their limbs cut off, or had their eyes gouged out.

There is no way to survive if they can't, but now they have the hope of survival, so they are naturally unwilling to let go, and are even willing to pay the price of their lives to protect it all.

So when the stake was lit, it also ignited the fire in the hearts of these people.

That is the hope of survival.

(End of this chapter)