If scholars study the secret history of belief in the gods in the future, they will find that starting from 1235 in the Valley Calendar, the people of the North began to believe in the dark gods, especially the sadistic goddess Lovita, which became increasingly common.

In later generations, many temples about this goddess in the north were built one after another during this period.

No one knows the exact reason, but many mages and scholars have put forward a bold hypothesis after studying the history of the North:

They believe that this should be related to the largest orc tribe in history that swept the entire Sword Coast in 1235.

It was also that year that civilians from places like Yatta, Sanzhudi, Red Pine Town, and the Golden Wasteland all flocked to Jishui City, the largest city in the North, with their families to take refuge.

Relying on the endless wall of trolls, Jishui City has been able to survive several disasters in its thousands of years of history and have repeatedly averted danger.

So people also believe that it will be the same that time.

History proves that their belief is indeed correct.

With the united efforts of the people of the North and various city-states, the people of the North indeed repelled the largest orc invasion in history.

But it also paid a heavy price. Before the orc tribe was repelled, it had besieged Jishui City for three full months!

Due to the missed harvest, the food, drink and eating of nearly two million people immediately squeezed the logistics supply capacity of Kaishui City to the limit, even though there were ships from the south that continuously transported food from Amn in the south to the sea.

Even though it was shipped here, it was still difficult to supply such a huge amount of consumption.

During that time, there were so many bad news caused by the shortage of food that Yi Zi's cannibalism could even be regarded as a relatively restrained behavior.

Pain, despair, jealousy and various negative emotions spread in the city.

The military power of Jishui City and the priests of Zhengshen must also devote most of their energy to facing the continuous and fearless siege of the orcs, and they have no time to care about it.

All of this has almost become a perfect breeding ground for the priests of the dark gods and even the believers of the devil and evil gods to spread their doctrines.

And the biggest winner among them is undoubtedly the sadistic goddess Lovita.

This aggressive, domineering, and fearless goddess protects all torturers, sadists, and bullies on the continent of Coriel.

Her nature is both cold and calculating. She is keen on inflicting physical and psychological pain. She can always accurately hit the gap in the victim's belief. Unlike most bullies who use violence to make people surrender, she is perfect.

She uses human selfishness to further her plans.

During that time, her priests took advantage of the selfish psychology of the nobles and some gray forces to incite their hatred towards the foreign asylum seekers.

It is said that it was precisely because of the refuge of this group of outsiders that they attracted the siege of the orcs, which occupied the living space that originally belonged to them, and even their food began to be in crisis.

Therefore, during that period of time, we could often see some nobles in Jishui City taking advantage of the privileges they had been given by their lords to 'assist in maintaining order in the city', and in the name of 'stealing', 'robbery', etc., to commit crimes and many others.

Innocent refugees were captured, executed in public, and inflicted various tortures to satisfy the nobles to vent their stress and negative emotions, and to please their god Lovita.

The people most favored by Lovita are those believers who can understand the psychology and nature of the common people, because they know what to do to make the ignorant people fall into the deepest pain and then lead them to destruction.

In their teachings they declare:

This world is full of all kinds of pain and suffering, so the only thing we can do is to face these inevitable pains and respond with more pain to those who caused us pain. Kindness is the best companion of harm and pain.

, because only kindness can deepen the pain of torture, but never-ending cruelty and torture will only make the victims rise up to resist, so occasionally we have to stop the torture on a whim and give them unexpected comfort and healing, so that they can

The will of the goddess cannot be grasped. In this way, the ignorant people will thirst for the mercy of the goddess even more. They must try their best to show their temptation, let those who crave torture get what they want, and let those who deserve it bear it.

Those who deserve it should also be allowed to suffer the most profound pain.

Whip, fire, and cold are the three most useful tools the goddess has given to her followers. Whenever we inflict torture and punishment, we should preach Lovita's teachings.

Pain is the most comprehensive trial, it can build mental resilience and bring true joy to those who survive it.

Only those who know the goddess's rules can inflict real punishment and abuse.

Wherever there is a whip, there is the goddess Lovita.

Reverend Lovita and long for her grace!

When Levi first learned about the teachings of this sadistic goddess, he vowed to stay away from this sect that was full of sluts and masochists.

I even wonder if this goddess traveled from Blue Star and directly used the Stockholm Effect as a teaching.

As for why he knew the teachings of this strange goddess, he had to start with the book [Prayer and Meditation] that he got from the Nese magic ship.

Since she still has a mark of divine grace from Tiamat, the Evil Scale, God knows when Tiamat will suddenly remember the dragon copper she tried to refine, and then make harassing phone calls to him.

The patience of the gods also has its limits, especially for Tiamat, who is "eager to love talents", how can she tolerate her own investment "meat buns fighting dragons".

Levi was even sure that if he tried to link the Faith Channel to him next time and was ignored by him again, it would probably arouse Tiamat's alert, so he would not rule out the use of some simple heuristics.

For example, using the location of the mark of divine grace, he sent the dragon believers closest to him to confirm the true situation.

However, eight years have passed since the last contact, and Tiamat doesn’t know whether she has forgotten this incident or decided to be more ‘patient’ and wait until Levi grows up.

Since then, Li Wei has become interested in the "Prayer Meditation Method" and has collected and researched books on the beliefs and doctrines of many gods in case of emergency needs.

But there is some hesitation about the last step in the "Prayer Meditation Method", which is also the most critical step: that is, the step of condensing the false soul body in the mind and giving it a corresponding personality.

Be prepared to wait for substantial progress and effect feedback from Desana before we can actually take this step.

However, he obviously did not expect that at this moment, the priest, one of the gods he respected the most, was committing atrocities in the alley less than two hundred meters away from their Hogg workshop.

And I don’t know how long this bloody and cruel torture lasted. The bruised Angus sat in a daze in a dank and dark corner in a daze, staring at the crazy thief mentor with numb and desperate eyes, his lips trembling constantly.

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At this moment, he has lost all his toenails and teeth, and has many soft tissue contusions on his body.

Obviously, as a priest who abused the goddess, his mentor was also well versed in torture, so his abuse was not fatal but painful enough.

The reason why his fingernails were preserved is probably because this crazy female thief thought he was quite talented and didn't want to destroy his foundation as a thief - his ten delicate and flexible fingers.

But Angus felt he had reached his limit.

At this moment, he just wants to die.

But at least, before his death, he finally maintained his bottom line of kindness.

He never betrayed Luo Jiali until the end.

However, what made him a little uneasy was that even so, his mentor, the priest and female thief who abused the goddess, was looking at him in a strange way.

Facing the failure of the torture, not only was she not discouraged or angry at all, but the look in her eyes became more excited and enjoyable.

Looking at Angus, who was determined to die, the female pastor showed a cruel smile:

"Little Angus, do you feel that you have survived the most difficult stage, and do you think that I will angrily kill you after this to vent my anger?

In Angus' increasingly desperate eyes, he could see the scarlet lips opening and closing constantly, uttering the cruelest words:

"Where is this? I just used the basic torture method for children. But if you deepen the torture method, it will cause irreversible damage to your physical fitness.

"You are the child I value most in this generation. How could I let you die so easily? I still hope that you will inherit my mantle in the future.

"Little Angus, listen to me. As a mentor, I am going to teach you the most important lesson today.

"That is, physical torture often has its limits. The real pain lies in spiritual despair."

Hearing this, Angus, who was already on the verge of his spiritual limit, instinctively widened his eyes and curled up.

The next moment, he saw the female thief once again take off the nine-tailed whip from her waist that had previously caused him endless pain.

Ignoring this time, the female thief showed a joyful and pious look in her eyes, and whipped her body with the long whip.

When the long whip hit, the skin and flesh were immediately torn apart, but not only did the female thief's eyes show no pain, but she seemed to be enjoying the whipping, and her body could not help but tremble with excitement.

While smoking, I prayed to a certain being:

"Ah, my god Lovita! Give me the power to see clearly the secrets hidden in the hearts of ignorant people!"

"My God, pray for me!"

Just when the female thief's body and spirit broke through some shackles at the same time and reached the peak of the unknown realm, she saw an invisible wave twisting above her head.

Then her eyes suddenly opened, and a divine light flashed through her eyes. At the same time, the long whip in her hand began to wrap around a gray mist like an innocent soul.

Facing all the unknowns, Angus, who was afraid, could only open his eyes wide with horror, and couldn't help but squirm backwards with the support of his limbs, begging in his mouth:

"No, no, mentor! I've told you everything I know! Let me go!"

"No! You didn't. My intuition is telling me that you are hiding something important from me. But it doesn't matter. Soon, your honest soul will tell me everything, hahaha, hahaha

Ha ha."

The female thief held a nine-tailed whip and approached the poor and helpless child step by step. She smiled crazily and twisted, raised the long whip with divine power high, and swung it towards Angus's raised arm.

go!

Snapped!

Angus's whole body was bent into a lobster shape, and his two bloodshot eyeballs seemed to bulge out of their sockets. His mouth was wide open, but the pain was so extreme that he couldn't make any sound. There were only tears, snot and saliva.

Constantly flowing out, mixed together, constantly flowing down.

That kind of pain seems to be magnified a thousand times in the soul, as if the soul has been torn apart.

Then, with each stroke of the female thief, streams of gray mist kept rising from Angus's seven orifices, forming distorted pictures above his body.

When he was young, while his mother was cooking in the kitchen, she put some grasshoppers and rice worms she caught from the fields in a pot and fried them until they were golden and stuffed them into his little mouth that couldn't help but drool.

Because he was covetous of the pony toys in other children's hands, he wanted to beg his father to buy him one, but was rejected. As a result, his father used a knife to carve a wooden pony for him the next day. Although it was a bit ugly, it was still

The other children laughed at it, but Angus regarded it as the most precious gift.
To be continued...