Versatile: Alternate World

Chapter 640 The Truth Behind The Abductions

With the swift execution of all the Angels who attacked, we disposed of their bodies by burning them in flames. We took this chance to look for any survivors hiding from the ruins of the buildings but we ended up searching for naught as most of them either died from the collapse of their houses or buildings that they were in or perhaps they died from the hands of the angels themselves.

Alain insisted that we gather all of the dead bodies and give them a proper burial instead of letting them rot there so we asked a few people back in the village to help with the mass burial. That day, we buried 150 families that died in the incident. The family who survived are crying in front of the graves. This was quite a lot of deaths and having personally helped on burying them, I don't even know whether this is still a game or just another reality I am relieving.

After the silent burial of the families, the family who survived decided to stay with the rebels. As much as they wanted to go back to the village to rebuild it, there is no longer any point if most of their neighbors are dead.

Due to the current situation that is arising after the angels are doing their thing, Alain considers expanding the village a little bit more. It might just be a small village but for an entire village to house all rebels and victims of the crimes the church is doing, it cannot be helped that the number of people will expand.

Of course, this topic is beyond my understanding so Harmless Sparrow and Sigma took over the discussion. As for me, I wanted to gather more info. Now that there are some quite questionable activities the church is doing, I needed a valid reason to launch an attack that would damage the anti-rebellion a lot and cripple most of their firepower.

I already have some ideas of which areas are best to cripple them but because I have limitations on which areas to attack and I can't just act rashly as Alain is the one who will be issuing orders, gathering intel, and giving it to Alain will open up more choices for me and more quest that will allow me to attack the said places will appear as well.

My first idea of gathering intel was none other than the kidnapped slaves. Although they are slaves, they are not branded slaves which is why they can immediately return to society once they recover a little bit and dress up differently.  Since they were taken and captured, there should be a place where they were gathered at some point. I have some guesses but they are not accurate so it's better to go and check out legit info than attack blindly. The only problem is finding the one who has the right information.

"Master, are you perhaps looking for someone to talk from these people to aid you in finding clues? I can feel your mind is thinking about who to choose from them," Lucia suddenly started speaking

"You knew? Do you have a mind-reading ability?'

"Who? Do you mean me? Haha, that would be nice but unfortunately, that is not one of my abilities. If I have one, that would have been nice. But I can actually feel the genuine feelings of some people and some of their emotions. Then based on that, I would start putting the pieces together and make a conjecture. If you are asking me if I have the ability to read minds while I was just guessing made me happy that at least this ability and my intuition are in sync."

"Haha, indeed. I am looking at these victims on who to talk with. They are mostly resting but I needed good info on how they end up becoming abducted. That way, we can start breaking those works the church is doing so that we can finish up and return to the mainland as soon as we can."

"Then perhaps you can talk over on that kid over there. It seems he is thinking about something and his mind is in shambles. Perhaps he can give you some info?"

I looked around and soon spotted one boy who is awake compared to the others. He is looking at the bandaged wounds on his arms and legs. He had a frown on his face and just like what Lucia said, this kid seems to be thinking something.

"You alright kid?"

The boy was surprised and instinctively backs away but when he saw that it was me, he returned to his composure. "Oh, it's you."

"How are you feeling? Are your wounds fine now?"

"These are just scratches, it doesn't hurt as much as my body hurts."

"Looks like the effects of the drugs you have taken still aren't gone just yet. You needed to rest a little bit more to recover faster."

"I can't sleep," he shook his head, "The pain in my body is still there but thinking about the other kids I was with who is not here made me a little bit worried."

"Other kids?" I frowned.

"Yes. You thought these amount of people here are the only ones that are abducted? Nope, we are numerous and I must say that it was so bad that we are even treated like we are just nothing but items by those church bastards. I will never believe any of their fabulous words ever again!"

"I am wondering but can you tell me how you and the other people here got kidnapped? I also seemed to see that you are somewhat aware of what will happen to you for some reason. Is it alright for you to tell me what it was?"

"I don't trust you completely but since I have seen that you are all against the church guys and you all rescued us, I guess I can say something about them. But I will hold back for a bit on saying other things. I will tell you some crucial information about the church though so if that is what you are after, I will be willing to share it. Perhaps if I do, you might locate the others and rescue them before they get turned into mindless puppets."

"Wait, wait, what do you mean by puppets?" I frowned.

"You heard it right. Puppets. We are taken by these church guys so that they will harvest our souls and use them to power up their golems and make them move. They are basically capturing us to make our lives as fuel for their golems that would soon capture others and keeps the cycle repeated. And because the soul is harvested, that also means the body dies."

As expected, it was indeed for that reason they are kidnapped. For the sake of harvesting their lives and using them as fuel. However, to think the golems that the angels use are the ones powering them up, then this is so f*cked up. To continue using the golems, the church has to harvest life from others and kill them just to make a golem move around. Once the fuel is exhausted, they will be using another essence once more, hence, turning into a commodity to make the golems work.

"I can see why you are disturbed. I was too when I first find out. I wasn't even expecting I would also be a candidate to be also harvested and when the time they put us inside the cargo, I shut down my mind and think that this is it, I will be dying and my measly life will soon become fuel. But if you guys haven't saved me, I would be dead by now, as well as everyone else."

"Alright. That's a piece of good information on why you all are abducted. So can you tell us if you remember any places that you all are taken with? It's alright if you don't know the place, just describe the locations you all are being kept with and I can probably locate it."

"For sure I am 100% confirming that the place we were being held at is the facility for creating golems. Still, I heard from the adults that we would not be killed there and had our souls taken but we are just taken there so that the church can immediately know which of us are good sources of fuel and which bad sources. I think they call it sorting. Anyways, its a massive factory but I am not sure which one was it since according to my friends who wanted to work on one said there are at least three of them that makes golems"

"Then can you describe the surroundings?"

"Not really much, My mind is a little bit hazy on that."

"Even a small detail? Like a symbol that caught your eye or something?"

"A symbol huh? Then perhaps the big tree in the middle of the factory grounds counts?"

A tree huh? Then that only settles down to one place. Alright, that's good to know.