Chapter 359: Chapter 223 Who will co to save …
Why… must you treat this way?
As she felt the weakness in her body and the nun supporting her departure at her side, Tiya’s heart plumted into an abyss, bit by bit.
This was the second ti in just a few days that she had experienced a similar despair.
The last ti was because of Lynn.
And this ti, it was due to the betrayal inflicted upon her by the Church she had always trusted so deeply.
No.
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Even though it was betrayal, the look in Sister Gretel’s eyes seed to only contain spontaneous disgust when laid upon Tiya.
Just as she had said.
In the eyes of the nun and all those in the Church who were in the know, Tiya’s existence was always considered a mistake, one that should not have existed in the first place.
And this ti, this face-to-face interaction that could be called a confrontation allowed Tiya to feel as if the other party had voluntarily removed her own mask, for the first ti engaging in a conversation with the vulgar soul hidden within this shell of a body.
The term “Holy Daughter” that they used to address her seed, for Sister Gretel and the others, to be more out of respect for this shell of a body.
After all, right from the start, Tiya had vaguely sensed sothing off about the people around her.
She even harbored fear for the so-called Moonlight Holy Scripture and the Divine Descent Ceremony.
That fear stemd from a dissonance deep within her soul, as if she was nothing but a rootless duckweed, liable to vanish from this world at any mont, her existence unknown to anyone.
Looking back now, perhaps that feeling was a harbinger.
The so-called Divine Descent Ceremony was not actually a duty that needed to be fulfilled by generations of Holy Maidens at all, but rely a ceremony for the “Bright Moon Consciousness” ntioned by the nuns to select a vessel.
Given the exceedingly long lives of the divine, the Moonlight Holy Scripture, which only happened once every five years in human terms, was rely the briefest of monts for the Goddess.
Was such frequent selection of vessels ant for resurrection?
Did it an that the Goddess was not in a good state currently?
After suffering back-to-back spiritual lashings from Sister Gretel, Tiya felt her mind heavy and muddled at this mont, completely drained of strength throughout her body.
Therefore, even her most fundantal thoughts beca hazy, as if she were on the verge of losing consciousness.
But she knew she could not pass out.
If she gave up now, upon waking up again, she would likely hear news of Louise and that person’s death… No, in the end, just as the Church’s sudden change of attitude towards her, the Goddess would surely place great importance on the vessel that was supposed to be prepared for her.
Perhaps, after fainting here, there would be no chance of her being revived again.
A greater likelihood was that her body would be taken over by the consciousness of the Goddess, causing her to completely lose her self-identity.
Wasn’t this another form of death in its own right?
Actually, to Tiya, death was not scary.
Just as when she had confronted the King of Cruelty in the Tomb of the Dead Silence head-on.
If she could die aningfully or save the innocent, she would not hesitate to offer up her life.
Even with her reverence and devotion to the Goddess, if the Church had directly revealed the truth and ordered her to offer up her body, Tiya would likely have complied.
Using her body for the resurrection ant that the Goddess’s control over the human realm would be unprecedentedly strengthened, thus blessing her followers.
Such an outco was sothing she could hardly wait for, so how could she refuse?
Of course, the premise was that there was none of the complicated experiences she had undergone during this ti nor that being deep within her heart that she wanted to save no matter what.
The originally pure-hearted Tiya, and the current Tiya with a heart filled with all sorts of emotions were, in a strict sense, completely different.
Rather than blindly following the Church’s commands, the Tiya of the present seed to have learned to think independently.
Co to think of it, there was sothing very strange.
Just like in those storybooks, the tragic heroine discovers that the fate she had endured all her life was manipulated by soone behind the scenes, and even her marriage and happiness were not of her own choosing, like a canary trapped in a cage.
How similar was that scenario to her current situation?
The difference was, it seed hers was far more tragic.
Tiya Yohusti wasn’t even an individual with civic rights but rely a “mistake” that had arisen within the vessel.
Or perhaps, like a virus parasitizing this body, a robber occupying soone else’s ho, her very existence was negated from the root.
“…let go…”
Tiya said in a low voice to the nuns who had followed her into the cold and profound tunnel.
However, the response she received was only indifference and solemnity.
As if nobody cared about the soul inside this shell of a body.
They were following Sister Gretel’s instructions, bringing Tiya to a mysterious facility within the Silent Church’s underground.
The Divine Moon Gap.
This was the destination of their journey.
Upon erging from the tunnel, the steps of the nuns gradually ca to a halt, and then they slowly raised their heads.
Even after witnessing it countless tis, every ti they saw the magnificent sight before them, that seed like a divine miracle, a sense of uncontrollable reverence and devotion erged within everyone’s heart.
It was a place reminiscent of the Divine Battle Ruins, where the earth was devastated by a vast and mysterious force, only the vague remnants of ruined structures remained, ancient and peculiar, like a place where ancient ancestors worshiped the Divine.
Besides, at a glance, countless giant stones floated high in the air, as if they were the pathways and nodes of a matrix, outlining a vast open area right in the center.
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