A group of young women in priestly clothes came from the foggy street, and everyone wore black blindfolds like Aya. This blindfold showed their identities—the Holy Fire Virgins of the Dragon Ant Queen.
"I sensed that someone is here, so it's you, Aya." The leading Holy Fire Maiden stepped forward and smiled at Aya.
"Priest Nacha." Aya stood up straight and saluted in fear.
"Exactly, we need manpower, come here, and follow us to the holy fire in the ground." Priest Nacha nodded slightly, and turned around arrogantly, but didn't think that Aya hadn't followed.
"I... my companions are still here, I have to tell them." Aya said with a trembling voice.
"No need." Priest Nacha said coldly.
Another Holy Fire Virgin next to her whispered in the ear of Priest Nacha: "Take them too, the sacrifices are not enough."
Priest Nacha paused, then turned around again, and said to Aya, "Alright, then bring your companion along."
"You... what are you trying to do?" The word "sacrifice" aroused the deep fear in Aya's heart, she swallowed, and asked fearfully.
"Instead of caring about others when you have time, you might as well take care of yourself." Priest Nacha "looked straight" at Aya, as if seeing the fear on the girl's face through the black gauze in front of her eyes, "Be obedient, or I will sacrifice you too." sacrificed."
Aya flinched, and said in a low voice: "No, virgins are not allowed to kill virgins, otherwise all the injuries I suffer will be reflected on your body; you must not steal my blindfold, otherwise your blindfolds will also be lost. fall."
"The precepts are memorized very well." Priest Nacha "looked" at her with a sneer, stroking the necklace hanging on his chest with his left hand, which was a lifelike eyeball, "It is true that I cannot steal your blindfold, but I I will let you take it down obediently and by yourself, and become a ring breaker, reduced to the lowest honey ant. Come and hang her up!"
Aya tried to struggle, but she had just joined the team of Holy Fire Virgins. She had only learned the precepts and could not borrow a single bit of the power of the Dragon Ant Queen. How could this group of seniors be so experienced? The opponent of the virgin, she was hung on the beam in a short while, screaming weakly: "Let me down, you let me down! What are you going to do?!"
"I'll give you one last chance. Are you willing to give up everything you have as a virgin of the Holy Fire, abandon the tyrannical dragon ant queen, and surrender to the power demon king, and live in a carefree utopia from now on?" Nacha asked solemnly.
Utopia
This term is almost the origin of the tragedy of her life. When she was young, her father abandoned his wife and son to pursue the legendary utopia. But just as bewitching. Aya thought for many years, is that illusory dream world really better than this world? In other words, human nature is so weak that even a sliver of good hope is enough to make people struggle to escape the reality of suffering and run to heaven or hell.
And her? Does she... too
Should he join this group of Holy Fire Virgins and become a believer in the Utopia, or should he fight to the end
"Poor child, I'm afraid you don't know how cruel fate is, so let you experience it a little bit." Priest Nacha said softly, and took the skin from another holy fire maiden. Whip, she holds the whip with her right hand, holds up the eyeball hanging on her chest with her left hand, puts it on her lips and kisses gently, "My master, my majesty, please grant me the strength to endure."
Following her prayer-like spell, she raised her right hand high and slapped Aya's thigh with a whip.
With a crisp sound of "pa", Aya screamed, and a hideous bloodstain appeared on her thigh.
Priest Nacha shook slightly, and an identical bloodstain appeared at the same position on the same thigh, but unlike Aya's misery, she didn't seem to feel the pain, and picked up the whip to whip Aya's body again. There was a second welt.
Aya cried and struggled and twisted, but her body was firmly suspended. No matter how she tried to escape, the whip was still whipped on her body.
In the dark room, the torture continued. The whip hit the flesh, tearing the girl's skin, leaving bloody wounds one after another.
"How is it? Have you thought about it clearly?" After a dozen whips, Priest Nacha raised his face and asked.
Aya drooped her head in a dying breath, not saying a word.
This kind of resisting silence made Priest Nacha frown displeasedly, and raised her arm to teach her a lesson, but the holy fire maiden at the side stopped her: "Come with someone else, you also have injuries."
Priest Nacha stroked the wound on her body. Under the protection of the token, she felt no pain, but the wound still existed.
But she didn't care about these minor injuries. With the token of the power demon king, it was only a blink of an eye to heal these wounds.
She held up the eyeball on her chest again, and kissed the dry eyeball with her lips. The eyeball emitted a faint light and rolled over her body, and she healed within a few breaths.
"Aya, what are you still hesitating about? The holy fire is about to be extinguished - we all know the way to extinguish it - the dragon ant queen is also dead, the existence of this field is meaningless, why don't you stop your obsessive footsteps, turn around How about walking towards the great Utopia? From now on, we can take off our blindfolds without being punished, and we don’t need to serve the ever-weaker holy flame with trepidation, for fear that it will go out one day, and we can even freely share our love. Isn't all this beautiful? Isn't it worth looking forward to?" Nacha asked, with a dreamy smile on his face.
Aya lowered her head, the wound made her every breath feel like a torture, during the uninterrupted torture, she was dazed and unconscious.
"So, you betrayed the queen?" Aya asked weakly.
"Betrayal? It's loyalty under violent oppression, so what's the point of betrayal?" Priest Nacha chuckled, "I never wanted to be a virgin, I hated such a boring life, and I hated myself too ! Why should I waste my youth in vain here, why should I watch over this doomed flame!"
"No one forced you to do this, take off the blindfold and be an ordinary person again, are you willing?" Aya asked back.
Priest Nacha choked, and they all knew what it meant to take off the blindfold.
It means that they will become a ring breaker, not to mention the piercing pain when taking off the blindfold, after taking off the blindfold, there will be runes around their eye sockets that indicate their status as a ring breaker, and from then on they will never be able to Enjoying everything about being a virgin of the holy fire, but living in a dark nest like the group of honey ant girls, offering fresh blood to the dragon ant queen, and dying of exhaustion within a few years.
This kind of fear hangs over their heads day by day, so that the group of holy fire virgins who betrayed the Dragon Ant Queen dare not take off their blindfolds rashly—this is a fear they cannot overcome.
"Of course I don't want to. Human beings have the recklessness to betray, but they don't have the courage to face everything squarely. It's ridiculous." When the little girl's voice came, the Holy Fire Virgins in the room were all startled, but no one noticed it. her arrival.
The little queen looked at the group of people calmly, with a touch of disdain in her eyes: "Good evening, betrayal cowards."
Priest Nacha's chest was rising and falling in anger, she asked Aya with a smirk, "This is your companion? That's great..."
As she said that, she appeared behind the little queen and strangled her neck with a whip: "She is not the virgin of the Holy Fire, so kill her first!"
"Blood is still useful, don't let the blood out, hang her!" Another Holy Fire Virgin reminded.
"Of course." Priest Nacha smiled strangely, stroking the little queen's face with her fingers, "Poor little thing, where did you come from? This is not a good place."
"Stop! Don't hurt her!" Aya screamed.
"Then take off your blindfold!" Priest Nacha ordered.
In the darkness, Aya actually couldn't see anything, the blindfold blocked her sight, but she seemed to be able to see the figure of the little queen in the dark, and she also saw the girl who hadn't put on the blindfold at the time and was facing the Dragon Ant Queen. Kneeling to swear allegiance to herself.
Before she knew it, tears had soaked through the blindfold. In just a few seconds, her heart was tormented as if she was being roasted. She took off the blindfold, and let the runes symbolizing breaking the precepts be engraved around her eye sockets. From then on, I will no longer enjoy all the glory of being a virgin of the Holy Fire...
But she always remembered that she swore to be loyal to the Queen.
To be or not to be
Aya recalled the day when she became the Holy Fire Virgin, the aged Dragon Ant Queen stood on a high platform, overlooking the group of chosen girls: "From today onwards, you are my Holy Fire Virgin. Farewell You have left your parents and clansmen, you will live underground forever, and you will never see the sun again. You will serve the holy fire all your life and protect it for eternity. I will give you glory and chains, but all of this is your own choice. Now, swear Go ahead, swear to be loyal to me, to the holy fire, to the commandments, and to the underground ant city."
On that day, her heart was full of excitement, and she recited her vows for the beautiful life she was about to have.
Suddenly she had a choice.