Chapter 384: The Day After
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[Day 187]
Yesterday we did something, burying the bodies of Cassim's village members that had died in the incident. I remember seeing some of their souls, but their appearances were very faint, I couldn't identify any of the people there.
I don't know if one of them was Cassim's father, but if he was there, he might have gone out in peace. I am sure of it.
I didn't want to revive them into Undead because I knew they just wanted to rest in peace. When souls roam the corpses of their bodies, is because they died in some painful and impacting way that made these souls remain here looking for a way to have a proper burial.
Eventually, these souls still go away or end up turning into Undead naturally, so it was better to set them off before anything else were to happen. I didn't want to see them suffer any longer.
Making them into Undead would have been hard, even more recovering their bodies into living conditions as I did with Benladann's parents, which took me a very long time to get done even with everything I had.
I thought it was fair to simply let them rest, even if it was painful for Cassim to see them go away… Well, he wasn't able to see their souls, but I was sure that he sensed something around, and this probably made him cry even more than before.
Today in the morning I received some news from Belle, it seems that she has been barely able to gather any personal info on things, but she had gathered info from spying in the scene directly.
She had arrived in the Winter Lotus sect territory, where many camps around the walls closed into the internal sect territory. Despite how beautiful the white residences and the main palace were, there were many damaged parts, and even the palace had several damages, large holes over the ceiling, and more.
While inspecting inside, she found out that the Winter Lotus Sect Members were still inside guarding themselves and surviving however they could, while the Dark Shadow Sect members were nowhere to be seen.
She didn't know why but it seemed that perhaps a large amount of the population had died out, leaving most families that had yet to reach a high level of cultivation and only a few Elders and probably the Sect Master holding everything together inside the walls, while the camps around the walls were made by the surviving mortal people that were not sect members, who were massacred the most because the scumbag sect didn't shelter them and used them as living meat shields to buy time.
Nonetheless, most of their military power was down, and although there were no Dark Shadow Sect Members, they were probably going to come back eventually to annoy them one way or another, after all these bastards fended them off several times, according to Belle's speculation.
By hearing the words and conversations of the people, she discovered that the Sect Master and her family were fine… this made some of the sect members relieved, but many expressed their discontent of how they handled the mortals that live outside, leaving them all to die only made up tremendous bloodshed, many of the younger sect members were still left with enormous mental scars as they were forced to see such bloodshed and do nothing over it.
The corpses of the people were apparently taken away by some of the Dark Shadow members after their strongest group members were beaten down by the Elders after they had their fun with the poor and weak people that didn't belong to the sect, some speculate that they use the bodies and souls of people for rituals that grant them their Dark powers that let them summon Shadow Beasts…
Shadow Beast is this monster the sect is using for everything, this monster which they use for all the beating down and conquering, using it as a filler unit for their armies to slaughter their enemies, they're fast and deadly, and often have high levels of power comparable to Rank 2 and 3, and even 4.
From what Belle discovered, these Shadow Beasts are neither spirits nor familiars or anything of the sort, they're merely summoned by some method and that's it, and their power is superb. Due to such a strange ability to summon these beings, many of the Winter Lotus Sect members began to wonder what kind of demonic technique the Dark Shadow Sect was using to bring forth such terrifying and strong creatures… certainly, it was pretty fishy.
Whatever method they used, it seems way too awful, if they're truly absorbing the souls and corpses of innocent slain people to fuel their power, then they're even more dangerous than vampires at this point.
Belle hasn't gotten into the Dark Shadow Sect territory yet, but I suspect that they're doing something very strange to acquire this power, even if the two other sects were fighting against one another, this sect was said to be weaker than the two, it shouldn't have been possible for the little manpower they had to actually overwhelm them to the extent they did, it felt actually quite unfair for the other sects, as the Dark Shadow Sect always remained passive due to their weak members and a small number of soldiers, but out of the sudden, they acquired a massive army of Shadow Beasts… although their members were few, they also grew stronger and could summon more Shadow Beasts as well, they were mostly abusing this power to get through most things, using Shadow Beasts as both shields and weapons.
The Winter Lotus Sect was left devastated, another attack and they will probably not be able to hold on for longer… the Dark Shadow Sect was actually approaching this very moment towards them too, as Belle saw a large group of shadows moving slowly several kilometers in the distance, crossing through the green forests.
We are getting closer to this sect too… Should I offer my hand in help? Maybe this could be a good opportunity to pretend to be heroes and ally this sect in the process.
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