Solomon stood quietly in the pitch-black void. He stared at the geometric mask and recalled exactly who these people were. He had read extensively about the Church and their Holy Empire during his years of research.
They easily surpassed the cruelty of the angel he had fought in the Eden kingdom. Uriel merely killed for a reason. The Church specialized in prolonged, agonizing eradication.
He remembered the Silk Valley incident. Official records claimed a village succumbed to the sin of greed, prompting the heavens to curse them to weep tears of gold until they died. In reality, Inquisitors suspected a minor demon might be hiding there.
They cast a grand miracle that transmuted the villagers' tears into boiling metal. The liquid burned right through their skulls. The Church then harvested the resulting gold to fund a new cathedral, praising the tragedy as a bountiful offering from repentant sinners.
