Unblinded Faithful
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  • Reads 113
  • Votes 26
  • Parts 9
  • Time 46m
Ongoing, First published Mar 26, 2024
Mature
On the continent of Yulin, the land of magic and divinity, where the worship of deities dictates everything from the traditions and habits of the common folk to the fighting styles of knights and magicians of high kingdoms and empires, a young boy from the city of Thalia discovers a clearing in the middle of a forgotten forest, hidden away from sight behind a shroud of mist. Not only is the clearing abnormally free of the mist covering the forest, it also holds something else far more abnormal. The avatar of a god... but, the boy Aide knows not of this fact, and simply thinks of the mysterious woman holding a war scythe as some weirdo stuck in a forest, and continues to visit the clearing on a regular basis for fun's sake. As the years go by and Aide learns more about the dark history of the cloaked deity, will he still blindly believe that she is not evil, or will he decide to turn his blade against his divine companion?
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