fate

after waking up, morzerk was in a daze, but the butterfly of the goddess hurt him again, making him flinch in pain

he had a whole week free but wasn't allowed to go anywhere, whenever he thought of going anywhere his head would hurt like hell

so he just wondered what he should do, in his bore he opened his phone and noticed an array of massages, mostly from epilla

"epilla : it has been a month, are you okay?

epilla : brother, answer

epilla : hey bro it has been 3 weeks

epilla : why arent you answering?

epilla : are you okay

epilla : ...

..." 

there were a lot of texts, epilla even explained what had happened to him in his recent times, but there were mostly asking him if he was fine

with a sigh he looked at the butterfly for a few moment, he wasn't sure to feel glad for it stopping him from going outside or be enraged at himself for forgetting to check on his brother first

after shaking his head he started to write to his brother, he first apologized for not answering for so long, and responded to each of his massages, epillas response came out right away

as they started to talk to each other time passed and the sun fell, being replaced by the shining light of the ats(artificial moon station) before morzerk even realized it was time for the sleep schedule meant by chruch, so after saying goodnight to epilla morzerk went to sleep, or he thought

his head hurt again, meaning the butterfly wasn't too pleased with his choice

with a puzzled expression he looked at the butterfly, which somehow transmitted it intent to him

'follow me' so with a shrug he wore his priesthood clothing's and followed the butterfly that was flying Infront of him, and after following it for a while he realized they were going back to the forest of corruption

after entering the forest he undid his glove just incase, he was still locket on the mark of corruption so the forest wasn't hostile to him

with a sigh he followed the butterfly deeper into the forest, and was startled by the sound of people

after realizing the butterfly wanted to join them, he revealed himself to them, and they were hostile to him at first but were relieved after he showed his mark to them

due to it being dark and his outgrown mark being restricted they didnt see they small blurred outgrown marks and thought he was a factionless like them

so after the butterfly hid in his robe, he joined them 

the group was made out of four people, each wearing everyday clothing's, as order of corruption didn't have a set clothing unlike other faiths, and they were waalking in a certain direction for some reason, morzerk didnt talk much when they were conversing, that was untill one of them asked him a question

"yo, newb, why are you wearing a mask and light of orders priesthood clothing? you gave us a fright" the one who asked him was name jack

it was a question everyone seemed to want to ask, but jack beat them to the race

morzerk scratched the back of his head, wondering if he should lie or tell the truth, so he just decided to tell the truth

"they were mine, i just recently became a priest of corruption and didn't have anything else to wear" he answered, which made the others nod in understanding

"yep yep, it would make sense, but start wearing less flashy clothing's for next gatherings newbie, the leaders might get a little vexed if they see you in those" jack warned him

but after hearing the word gathering morzerk was puzzled, gatherings? there were such things?

not thinking much of it he asked them about the gatherings which made them make puzzled expressions

the buff guy named Antonio started patting him in shoulder "oh you poor soul, to think you didn't even know of the basics in the faith, how harsh must it have been for you" 

which made morzerk even more confused, he knew everything about order of corruption, like how they... or...

than the realization hit him, he had forgetting about mostly everything he had written, he even forgot his name and the name of his old family members, his face behind the mask was full of dread

'its the butterfly, my memories that can become an advantage to me were erased' heck he even forgot the name of the galaxy he came from, the name of the planet he was from, it was a wide area purge

but the others didn't realize this and started to explain

"usually we are called priests of corruption, but most priests are deacons(factionless) and for example the gavanhorn has only 25 real priests who we call either the outgrown or thorn people, and 5 leaders, or bishops in traditional sense, with this whole gavanhorn having only one archbishop, any questions?" Antonio told him

"so what are the gatherings actually?" morzerk was confused

"gatherings eh? oh right that's where we are going, you see every month a bishop and their five priests hold gatherings where everyone can join and either exchange, sell, buy, and even talk about information, the leader might give us bounties as well" Antonio answered in a good mood

"oh but remember you shouldn't ever tell anyone your real name, or done a mask like you are doing right now" Antonio explained, which made morzerk more confused

didn't they all just reveal their identities to him? than his senses tingled, these guys

they were the priests weren't they? that meant that he the 6th priest(albiet restricted) was walking with most of the top dogs without them knowing

it was a long shot, but after staring at their right hands for a while the priests gave him a knowing smile, while nodding as if telling him he was right

oh morzerk was shitting his pants right now, as a light paladin he a small amount of experience with dealing with mindless beasts, but with humans, and specially priests of corruption who could raise armies? he didn't have a single clue, and he was walking with 4 of them

so he just tagged with them until he reached the gathering, they even explained more of the things he that he had forgotten

fidgeting with his fingers due to great stress they finally reached the site of gathering, it was a area without trees, and there were many chairs, the 4 priests said farewell to morzerk before leaving, morzerk was really stressed out so he just sat on the chair and became mush on spot

the other masked people eyed him for a bit, after realizing his whole right arm was corrupted they didn't think much of it, believing he was wearing the robes of light priests as way to mock them, or be able to infiltrate them

nobody really paid him any mind, other than the curios few

waiting for the gathering to officially start he picked up the butterfly from his robe and stared at it for a few seconds, the butterfly was unmoving, and morzerk couldn't help but have complicated feelings about his sainthood while staring at the butterfly

and he questioned it in his mind, he understood why it would erase memories related to the book he wrote, but why did it erase memories related to his previous life, what kind of edge could he have with his name and the name of his old home?

was this world in a way connected to earth?

yet the butterfly didn't answer, nor did it hurt him, he couldn't do anything but put the butterfly back into his robe as gentle as he could

he couldn't recover what was spilled anymore, he just had to flow with whatever came up

after a while the bishop came, it was an old man clad in beggar clothings, and morzerk couldnt help but to stare at him in fear

it was the same beggar that he stared for whole minutes before the butterfly took his power

'what kind of sick joke is this'

the bishop also noticed him and sneered at him, with made morzerk shiver visibly

anyone who was there could tell that morzerk had fucked up in a way, yet all of their attentions went back to the bishop

"seeing so many new members makes me happy, and it seems we have some people people, with a curious sense of fashion" the archbishop said while staring intently at poor morzerk, but seeing that he was visibly shivering he stopped staring at him

and he than started to look at crowd of the people

"after many months, finally i can proudly commence this information, our goddess herself has said that humans will shortly awaken their new power, corresponding to urnos, as our faiths were considered a power of begas, this new power is directly related to cybernetics, weapons, and what we are really familiar with, parasites"

he than smiled seeing the murmurs