Tome of Blood

  Chapter 103-102-Buried Memories

  Huge memories flooded into my mind, and Charlotte's vision suddenly shattered.

   No, shattering is not vision.

  In reality, she has her eyes closed.

   What was broken was actually her perception.

  After a ray of light, Charlotte came to a magnificent world.

   To be more precise, it is a dream world.

  She found herself standing in a long floating corridor, surrounded by darkness, with countless broken lenses floating on both sides.

  Each fragment exudes a faint halo, like a slideshow, playing one independent picture after another.

  Some are bright, exuding soft light, quiet and peaceful.

  Some are **** and have a cold breath, just looking at them brings strong discomfort.

  Charlotte chose the one closest to her.

  The next moment, her vision changed, and she saw a cute little girl giggling, sitting in a dilapidated house celebrating her birthday with her plainly dressed parents.

  On the simple wooden table, the food is not rich, just some simple black bread, and a small piece of dry cheese cake that I don’t know how long.

  However, looking at the innocent and bright smile of the girl, and the doting and soft eyes of the parents, one can truly feel the small and easily satisfied happiness of a family of three.

  But the next moment, the picture was engulfed in flames.

  Amidst the mournful cries, the girl's parents fell into a pool of blood. The Gorefiend cultist in black robe grabbed the girl's hair and roughly stuffed her into a cloth bag...

  The picture continued to flicker, Charlotte saw the girl being imprisoned, seeing the girl being auctioned in the Drunken Dream Salon, seeing the bewildered and terrified girl's face...

  She saw the girl being violated, saw the Gorefiend cultists chasing and killing the girl after the Drunk Dream Salon, and saw the girl slowly dying in pain and fear.

  Charlotte quickly withdrew from the memory fragments, and the despair and pain she experienced made her feel chills.

   After a little perception, she judged that it only took a moment for her to browse the memory.

  Although she saw a lot of pictures, the huge memory information actually flooded into her consciousness in an instant.

   After hesitating for a moment, Charlotte looked at the next memory fragment...

  The field of view changes, and another new girl appears on the screen.

   This is another girl's memory.

   is still the beauty of happiness.

  However, the ordinary happiness was soon swallowed up by blood and despair again.

  Charlotte saw the appearance of the Gorefiend cultists again, saw them abduct the girl, and saw the desperate cries, they used the girl as a sacrifice and pushed the girl into the abyss of death...

  Charlotte quickly exits the memory fragment again.

  Her heart grew heavier.

  Looking at the countless fragments around her, she knew that each of these fragments represented the girl who died.

  The memory here is the deepest memory in their short life.

  Memories of happiness, memories of fear...

   Painful memories, desperate memories...

  Even if they died, their memories survived as remnants of their souls.

  Charlotte was a little afraid to read on.

  The immersive sense of despair made her heart tremble and her soul tremble.

  But she knew that she had to read on.

  The secrets of the Gorefiend Cult are likely to be hidden in these memory fragments.

  She continued to look towards the next fragment...

One after another…

  Charlotte doesn't know how many memory fragments she has seen.

  She only knows that she has seen one happy family after another broken up, and she has seen one innocent girl after another being swallowed up by despair...

  She saw the evil and ferocity of the Gorefiend Order, and she saw the depravity and darkness of the nobles.

  Looking, watching, she felt that she was going numb.

  In her heart, only the disgust and anger towards the Gorefiend Cult and the fallen nobles remained.

  After looking at an unknown number of memories, Charlotte suddenly froze and stopped in front of one of the memory fragments.

  In this memory fragment, she actually saw an acquaintance.

  The chief captain of the Boulder Demon Hunt, Kara!

   However, this is not Kara's memory fragment.

   This is for a little girl.

  The little girl and Kara are 70% similar, and Kara in the memory fragments has no scars on her face.

   Not only that, Kara in the memory fragment is quite young.

  She looks at most eighteen or nineteen years old.

  That is a beautiful memory of a pair of sisters.

  As a mercenary, the older sister takes care of the younger, cute younger sister.

  They depend on each other and live happily. Although they are not rich, they are warm and happy.

  The beginning of the memory is still plain and beautiful.

   But when the gangster showed up, everything changed.

  She saw the girl being taken away and Kara was seriously injured.

   Seeing the female knight leave a hideous scar on her face, she awakened her extraordinary power in despair, but she could only watch her sister be taken away.

Um?

   Gangster?

and many more…

  Not a Gorefiend cultist?

  Charlotte was stunned.

   And the development of memory images in the following is even more different.

  Charlotte did not see Drunk Dream Salon.

   Instead, firelight.

  Monstrous flames.

  She heard countless dim voices praying and chanting.

  She heard someone praising the abyss and darkness, she heard someone praising depravity and decay.

  She heard a fanatical voice, shouting the title of Grand Duke Gorefiend!

  She saw the girl in the cell and more girls embracing each other, looking through the window in fear at the tall figure burning with flames in the night outside...

   Ferocious goat head, blazing flames, deafening roar!

   That is a terrifying Balrog!

  Charlotte realized instantly.

  This memory fragment is even older, ten years ago!

   What she sees now is the scene of the Balrog disaster ten years ago!

   This little girl who is suspected to be Kara's sister was not snatched by Drunken Dream Salon these few years, but was taken away by Earl Broglie ten years ago!

  After enlightenment, doubts quickly flooded into Charlotte's heart...

and many more.

  If she remembers correctly, the Balrog ceremony ten years ago originated from Earl Broglie.

   According to records, all the underage girls who were taken away during the Fire Demon Disaster eventually died in the sacrifices.

  As for Drunk Dream Salon, it gradually appeared after the Balrog disaster.

   But here is the Drunken Dream Salon again...

  If Kara’s sister had been taken away ten years ago, how could her memory fragments appear here, in the ritual sacrifice place of Drunken Dream Salon?

   Not right.

  In her memory, the girl saw the Balrog.

  This shows that she was not dead at the time.

   Not only that, but the girls in the cell were not dead.

   So... what happened next?

  Charlotte was full of doubts.

  But soon, her doubts were answered.

  With an angry hiss, the Balrog disappeared in a brilliant light.

   After an unknown amount of time, the dark cell was smashed open with a bang.

  The dazzling light descends, penetrating the darkness of despair, bringing reassuring warmth.

  A figure in a holy white robe appeared in the girl's field of vision.

   That is an old priest.

  His expression was full of exhaustion.

  After seeing the girls in the cell, he was slightly taken aback.

   Soon after, he showed a kind smile.

  I saw him reaching out his hand and gently stroking the little head of the girl closest to him.

  An old and gentle voice slowly rang in the girl's ears:

   "Son, you are saved."

  His smile is extremely kind and gentle.

  So soft, even a little fake, it makes people shudder.

  The priest is not someone else.

   It is the highest clergyman in the Duchy of Boulder, High Priest Linus.

   I’m too sleepy, I have to think a lot when it comes to the follow-up plot, and the writing of this chapter is much slower than I imagined... There is no third update tonight, and I will continue to add more tomorrow! _(:з」∠)_

  (end of this chapter)