At this point, the heat was already enough to instantly kill the average person, and forest fires had begun to appear.0

However, they still had to continue onward because countless bodies belonging to both humans and animals had to be buried. Otherwise, with the temperatures so high, the unburied bodies would be sure to give rise to a plague.0

Furthermore, the roads still had to be repaired. Otherwise, they would be like insurmountable ravines to the average person.0

They had traveled for several hundred kilometers without seeing a single living person.0

There was one particular village situated in a valley between several volcanoes, and it had truly been decimated, with not even a single resident managing to escape.0

The more they saw, the more their resentment toward the Church of the Self-Righteous grew.0

They had laid waste to vast stretches of land and taken countless innocent lives, and all for what?0

Regardless of what their purpose was, this was...0