Not A God

Chapter 29 - The Broken Reality

Del quickly finished the books in his hand, he found nothing wrong and had to keep searching, this study must hold his father's secrets, or at least, clues to the missing teenage girls!

As Del searched, his younger brother Evel was nearby, watching curiously as his brother searched through the books, he too helped, and soon handed him a black notebook with an odd design, an amorphous cloud of lines standing in the middle of a small city. The first second he saw the cover, Del was in a trance. It was as if a million fragments of memory flashed before his eyes, piecing together a vast and infinite figure, the fog, the glimmer of a star, the chaos and darkness, all annihilated in the amorphous cloud.

"Brother? What's wrong with you?" His brother Evel looked at his dazed brother and woke Del with a voice.

He didn't know what he had just seen, but he was tired. To reassure his brother, he indicated to Evel that he was all right, and then opened the notebook.

The notebook did contain his father's plan to sacrifice the thirty young insect boys and girls he had purchased to the evil gods on God's Day. The method was extremely cruel, first draining their bodies of blood, then cutting off their skin, using a container made of insect skin to hold the blood, cutting off their heads, soaking them in the blood, and placing them on the altar of sacrifice three days later.

Del looked at the notes with a look of dismay, he could not imagine that his father could still use such a barbaric and cruel method of sacrifice now that we had entered the age of civilisation. This insect sacrifice, which had only been popular in the distant days of the barbaric empire, had actually been inherited in its entirety by his family.

Del continued to flip through his notes, and many of the pages that followed recorded the exact way the gods were summoned, how the spell was drawn, and how the spell materials should be configured, with various precise recipes more formal than an alchemist's alchemical recipe, down to the proportions, the grams of each ingredient. It was as if, having already tried countless times, someone had finally arrived at such a precise and perfect method of summoning, a thought that gave Del some chills. He dared not look through it any more closely, skimming through it, and at the end of the page, Del finally learned the name of this god. Talos, the Faceless God.

This god with no face was the evil god that his father had been believing in.

Del closed his notes and looked gloomy, knowing the unforgivable sins his father had committed, and from the various notes made on the pages next to the bloody sacrifices, it was clear that his father had tried countless times before, and had even written these notes with some knowledge.

As his father's child, Del was deeply ashamed of the blood he carried, and he prayed to the God of Light in his heart for his father's sins, embracing his brother at his side, that the God of Light might forgive them. After rescuing the young boys and girls tonight, he would go to the magistrate and expose his father's crimes, for the sake of a family stained with the blood of sin to sink no further into hell. Evel hugged his brother back, and after a few moments of warmth the two brothers set off again, ready to head for the entrance to the cellars at the back of the garden, where Del had learned from his notes that his father had kept the sacrifices, and he had to rescue them!

So the two men walked out of the study and prepared to walk out of the small multi-storey building and head for the garden, but who knew that just as they walked out they would bump into his sister with a knife. Del dodged out of the way and pulled his brother forward, not noticing that as his sister drew nearer, the darkness ahead became deeper and deeper, and the next instant, Evel was devoured by a malevolent spirit in the darkness, followed by Del being stabbed through the chest by his sister.