146. The Fake Sage

To summarize what happened, it went like this.

This village had been continuously exploited by the blood cult for a long time.

The villagers had once tried to fight back, but after failing several times, they had completely given up on resisting.

They had been surviving by following the advice of the Sage who served as the village's leader and offering several villagers as sacrifices.

But the Sage was actually an underling of the blood cult, and this village was, in truth, an entire human farm.

I had no idea what chain of events had allowed a blood cult mage to establish himself in the village as a Sage.

In any case, he'd used that method to make the villagers give up resisting, slowly reducing them to livestock.

Those who had begun questioning their situation were probably the first to become sacrifices.

“You little bastards sure know how to use those tiny brains.”

-Crack, crack...