25 Holy Church.

The scene before his eyes displayed a totally unkown to him place, if not for the fact the map was pointing this as the right place he woudn't believe this was the place in his memories, the place were Habib born.

Unlike the backward town he remembered, now a small city was placed there and from where he was standing, the city walls were visible along with the top of a few building that didn't exist in his memories either. From town to city, it was a huge change but he couldn't be surprised legends often spoke about city appearing overnight, so this was a small matter.

When the sight was something which would normally cause people like him to stare, after all this was his birthplace, he didn't even took a second look and spread his Spiritual Sense all around the city. The bad premonition he had before suddenly became intense pain as the city entered his sight, the message was clear 'something bad was about to happen'.

His Spiritual Sense sweep the city throught the city quickly and the 'sight' was something that could made people thought of paradise, in mid of this world full of chaos, this place was full of clear and pure souls, but still there were some black spots. Akin neither had time of thinking about this, when his face lost all color and an intense pain filled his heart, a pain so intense that made him kneel, before two streak of tears started falling from his eyes.

The spiritual energy around him quickly distorted and the air around seemed to twist as the heat in the zone increased crazily with every passed moment, and even a breath of time passed, flames were coming out of Akin body.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH". Akin screamed in pain before punching the ground with both hands.

The flames around him began changing color from blue to orange, from orange to deep crimson, from deep crimson to black, pitch black. With each color the heat and qualities from the flame seemed changing too, from a a gentle flame to a scorching one, from a scorching flame to rampant and destructor one, from rampaging flames to flames which threatened with absorbing everything.

Since the moment Akin fell to ground the always 'playing' Amon and Botis stopped right away and their face showed a solemn expression, before madness overtook their faces and their entire aura changed as their bodies also started changing.

Amon size quickly enlarged and he was now as tall as Akin, a dark fog appeared coming out of his fur, his eyes turned deep red crimson,his fangs protrude out of his jaws, his claws looked as sharp as sword and flames where coming out of his nostrils with every breath.

Botis, changed from a cute little snake to a few more than 3 meters long monster, the fire burning at top of his horns, his deep red eyes and the blazing red patterns over his body toguether with his lustrous black colored scales gave him an fearful look.

"Give us your command". Both said at the unison, they were like soldiers waiting for their general's orders, eagers for blood, eagers for the incoming slaughter.

"Kill". Was the only word which came out from Akin's mouth, but the voice wasn't his nor Habib's, rather was a very ancient voice, a voice which could make the heart and body of people tremble, a voice which compulsed veneration or fear.And when he finished saying the word they weren't around anymore.

As Akin raise from the ground the black fire around him contracted seeming like a full body armor, leaving his red eyes as the only uncovered place, then he took a step forward and also dissapeared from sight.

(Moments ago,inside the abbot's office).

"From the initial 285 apprehended evildoers, 282 has been judged already, 271 had been deemed guilty and 11 had been found innocent.There are still 3 on whom we don't have definite evidence nor they had wanted to confess." Reported the priest.

"Little matters, they can't hide from the Lord, if innocent they are innocent they will be deemed, if guilty they are guilty they will be deemed. Whatever the case, they are at the mercy of the Lord". Said the abbot with a calm face."How is progressing the town?". Asked the abbot next.

"Everything is going smooth, the fields are filled with crops, the wells have plenty water, the number of worshipers has increased the same as the population by a grat margin, no more evildoer has been found lately, and the construction of the abbey has finally ended" Stated the priest.

A little smile was seen the face of the abad had been a couple of year since he was sent to this backward town, and in such small amount of time, he was able to clean the town of evil, increase greately the number of worshipers, develop further the town into a small city, establish an organized and fair society and built an abadia as splendid as those in the medium size city.

All those actions seemed simple but in a foreign and faithless place, being able to gather the townspeople and made them work for the common good, being able to built a majestic abbey with few resources and without help from the central headquarters , show the townspeople the greatness of the Lord and bring them to the faith, being able to end the barbary and evilness around, even when the force was needed it showed that his talents weren't meager .

This time he had made a great deed it wouldn't be a surprise of his name appears in the list of candidates to bishops.

After a brief silence, the abbot continued.

"Good work, now..."

His words died as he sense the Spiritual Sense scan, his years of experience weren't for naught, he was clear that an envoy or any ally wouldn't do such a things even if feared an ambush inside the town because they had especial means to communicate, and thus they could now when things weren't right.

Furthermore he wasn't notified over any high level member making a visit, and even if that member was before in some sort of undercover mission after disclosing himself a message should had followed.

In other word, this was the enemy scouting and the moment he used his ring to scout back he felt three increasing auras outside the city, auras which gave a feeling akin to that of a holy envoy, but this were bloodthirties without a doubt.

"Quickly, go and assemble the inquisitors team and also tell the paladin teams to prepare themselves, we may be under a demon attack soon". Said the abbot with a stern expression.

Even thought normal believer mostly call 'demon' to almost anybody out of the Holy Empire, or rather any who didn't want to follow the Lord's doctrines, he was very aware of the difference between human with demonic powers and true demons. As the difference was the same between them and the holy envoys, even when both could and use the same powers the might of the holy envoys was very above of the any human in the same level of power.

"But this may be a good thing, none of those demons had reached yet the level of a holy envoy, if i could attain victory, me being a bishop then would be a fact".Said mumbling the abbot with a feeble smile.

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