Chapter 78: The queen's heritage (seventeen)

A group of young women in priest costumes came from the streets in the mist. Everyone was covered with black eyes like Aya. This eye mask showed their identity-the Virgin of the Fire Queen.
"I sense someone here, it turns out it's you, Aya." The virgin headed by the flame stepped forward and smiled slightly at Aya.
"Priest Nacha." Aya stood upright and gave a salute in fear.
"Just right, we need manpower, come here, and follow us to the flame of the seam." The priest Nacha nodded slightly and turned proudly, but did not want Aya to follow.
"I ... my companion is still here, I have to tell them." Aya said with a shaking voice.
"No need," said the priest Nacha indifferently.
Another virgin beside her whispered softly in the ears of Priest Naza: "Take them too, the offering is not enough."
The priest Naza paused, turned back, and said to Aya, "Okay, then bring your companions."
"You ... what do you want to do?" The sacrifice evoked the deep fear in Aya's heart. She swallowed and asked in horror.
"Instead of caring for others, it is better to care about yourself." Priest Nacha "looked directly" at Aya, as if she saw the fear on the girl's face through the black gauze in front of her, "be obedient, or I will offer you Offering. "
Ayase flinched and yelled, "No, the virgin must not kill the virgin, otherwise my injuries will be reflected on your body; you must not steal my blindfold, or your blindfold will fall off as a result. drop."
"The precepts are very familiar." The priest Nacha sneered and "looked" at her, stroking the necklace hanging on her chest with her left hand, and it was a lifelike eyeball. "I can't steal your blindfold, but I You will be obedient and take it down yourself, be a broken ringer, and become the lowest honey ant. Come, hang her! "
Several flame virgins rushed up, Aya tried to struggle, but just joined the group of flame virgins, and only learned the commandments that she could not borrow a star from the power of the dragon ant queen, how could this group have deep qualifications? The opponent of her virgin, she was hung on the beam of the house soon, screaming weakly: "Put me down, you put me down! What are you going to do ?!"
"I give you one last chance. Would you be willing to give up everything as a Virgin of the Flame, betray the tyrannical dragon ant queen, and go to the devil of power, and live in a carefree ideal country from now on?" Nacha asked sternly.
Ideal country?
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 ideal country, and never returned. The ideal country at that time did not belong to the devil of power, but It's just as deceptive. Aya thought about it for many years. Is that dreamless world better than this world? Still, human nature is so weak, even a faint glimmer of hope is enough to make people struggle to escape the reality of suffering, to heaven, or to hell.
And she? Does she ... do the same?
Is it true to join the group of virgins of the flame, to become believers in an ideal country, or to resist in the end?
"Poor boy, I'm afraid you don't know how cruel fate is, so let's experience it a little." The priest Nacha said softly, and took the skin from the other virgin flame. With the whip, she held the whip with her right hand, held up the eyeballs hanging from her chest with her left hand, and kissed gently beside her mouth, "My master, my majesty, please give me patience."
As she prayed for a common spell, she raised her right hand high and slammed Aya's thigh with a whip.
With a crackling sound, Aya screamed screamingly, and a blood mark appeared on her thigh.
The priest of Naza shook slightly, and the same blood spots appeared on the same thigh. However, unlike Aya's misery, she did not seem to feel the pain, and took a whip and drew it on Aya. Under a second whip mark.
Aya cried and struggled and twisted, but her body was hung firmly, no matter how she escaped, the whip was still drawn on her, and this piercing pain made her wantless.
In the dark room, the torture continued, the whip hitting the flesh, tearing the girl's skin and scraping wounds.
"How? Have you considered it clearly?" After a dozen lashes, the priest Nacha asked, looking up.
Aya bowed her head in a breath, without saying a word.
This reticent silence made Fr. Nacha frown unpleasantly, raising her arms to teach her a little lesson, but the virgin flame on the side stopped her: "Come on for another, and you are hurt."
The priest Naza stroked the wound on her body. Under the protection of the token, she could not feel the pain, but the wound was still there.
However, she didn't care about these minor injuries. With the token of the Devil of Power, it was only a blink of an eye to heal these wounds.
She held up the eyeballs on her chest again, and put a kiss on her dry eyeballs with her lips. The eyeballs radiated a faint light, rolled over her, and he was cured in a few breaths.
"Aya, what are you still hesitating about? The holy fire is about to be extinguished-we all know how to extinguish it-the dragon ant queen is also dead, the existence of this field is meaningless, why don't you stop obsessive , Turn around and walk towards the great ideal country? From then on we can take off the blindfold without punishment, and do not need to tremble to serve the increasingly weaker torch, fearing that one day it will go out, we can even freely and Is n’t all this good with the people we love? Is n’t it worth looking forward to?
Nacha asked, a dreamy smile appearing on her face.
Aya bowed her head, and the wound made her every breath like a torture. During the continuous torture, she was confused and unconscious.
"So you betrayed the queen?" Aya asked weakly.
"Betrayal? Originally loyalty under violent oppression, what about betrayal?" Priest Nacha chuckled, "I never wanted to be a virgin. I hate such a dull life and I hate myself. Why do I waste my youth here for nothing, and why do I guard this flame that is destined to extinguish! "
"No one forced you to do this, take off your blindfold, and become an ordinary person, would you?" Aya asked rhetorically.
The priests Naza froze, and they all knew what it meant to take off their blindfolds.
It means that they will become a ringbreaker, not to mention the painful pain when removing the blindfold. After removing the blindfold, there will be runes around their eyes that show their identity as a ringbreaker. From then on they will never be able to Enjoy everything as a Virgin of the Flame, but live like a group of honey maidens in a dark lair, give fresh blood to the Dragon Ant Queen, and die out within a few years.
This fear is hanging high above their heads day by day, so that these flame virgins who betrayed the dragon ant queen did not dare to take off their blindfolds-this was their fear that they could not overcome.
"Of course I don't want it, human beings. It's ridiculous to have the recklessness of betrayal, but not the courage to face up to everything." The voice of the little girl came, and the flame virgins in the room were all surprised, but no one noticed it. Her arrival.
The little queen looked at the group of people calmly, with a slight disdain in her eyes: "Good evening, betrayal cowards."
The priest's chest continued to rise and fall in anger, and she smiled and asked Aya: "This is your companion? That's great ..."
Then, she appeared behind the little queen, holding her neck with a whip: "She is not a virgin, so kill her first!"
"Blood is still useful, don't bleed it, hang her!" Reminded another Virgin Flame.
"Of course." The priest Nacha smiled strangely, and stroked 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.
"Take off your blindfold!" The priest Nacha ordered.
In the dark, Aya could not see anything. The blindfold cut off her sight, but in the dark she seemed to be able to see the little queen, and she also saw the original blindfold, facing the dragon ant queen. She knelt and swore allegiance to herself.
Unconsciously, tears had soaked in the blindfold. Within a few seconds, her heart was tormented as if tortured, and she took off the blindfold and let the rune symbolizing the broken ring burn around her eyes. From then on, you will not be able to enjoy all the glory of the Virgin of the Flame ...
But she always remembered that she vowed to be loyal to the queen.
Is it survival or destruction?
Aya recalled the day when she became the Virgin of the Holy Flame, the elderly dragon ant queen stood on a high platform, overlooking the selected girls: "From today, you are my virgin flame. You say goodbye Once you are a parent, you will always dwell in the ground, and you will never see the sun again. You will serve the flame of fire and protect it forever. I will give you glory and give you shackles, but all this is your own choice. Now, swear Now, swear to be loyal to me, to the flame, to the commandments, to the underground Ant City. "
That day, she was so excited that she took out her vows for the good life she was about to have.
She suddenly had a choice.