Talon City.
This used to be one of the few big cities in the south. However, due to the prevalence of corruption, the law gradually became a tool for the rich and powerful. Gradually, the city began to show signs of decline and decay. More and more merchants avoided this place where they needed to bribe to do anything. However, the decline of Talon City also meant the rise of some other forces. They were the forces that belonged to the gray area and the churches of many evil gods.
At this moment, in an underground prison.
A group of people in cloaks were kneeling in front of the altar, praying. Standing in the middle of the altar was a beautiful girl in revealing clothes. She held a long whip in her hand, and after praying for a while, she suddenly whipped herself violently. This time, she used almost all of her strength. A bloody whip mark appeared on the beautiful girl's back. At this moment, the other people under the altar also took out their whips and whipped themselves. Then, they knelt on the ground and prayed. Many of Lauvita's believers and priests specialized in using whips. It was just like how many of Søren's believers were good at using machetes. These were all changed because of the preference of the god.
All of this did not end quickly.
After a period of self-abuse, the believers began the next step of the prayer ritual.
This special ritual was called [Flame of Candlelight].
The believers first chanted hymns and danced around the burning candles. Then, under the guidance of the priest, some beautiful girls began to appear. They kept burning their bodies with the flames of the candles. At the same time, they asked other believers to drip the candles on their bodies. The whole process lasted for a while until the ritual was completed. The high-grade priest extinguished the candles with holy wine.
At this moment, the ritual reached its climax.
When all the believers were covered with whip marks and candles, a divine radiance appeared on the altar. Then, a hazy figure of a girl appeared.
Then, everyone began to pray passionately. The priest even sang hymns loudly.
The whole ritual lasted for about two hours.
When everything was over, the girl on the altar gently waved her hand. A breath that made people feel peaceful and happy appeared.
At this time, the priests also began to cast divine spells to heal flesh wounds. Under normal circumstances, they would only heal minor injuries. Occasionally, there would be believers who would hurt themselves badly to please the goddess.
The Maiden of Pain, Lauvita, was an aggressive, domineering, and fearless goddess. She protected all the torturers, sadists, and bullies on the continent.
The Maiden of Pain was obsessed with inflicting pain (whether physical or psychological).
Laurita's church usually had a huge influence in large cities that were in decline (because the corrupt bureaucracy in the cities usually turned a blind eye to their corrupt behavior), and the people in power in the church were all female humans or half-elves. The church usually recruited new members from the rich and powerful of the city. Her priests were unrelenting in their tortures, or in their feigned love with the young noblemen, and then in their cruel abandonment of them; and they endeavoured to destroy all affections and friendships, and then to flirt with their victims with pretended intimacy, and then to ridicule them.
For the believers of the Maiden of Pain, excellent acting skills and beautiful appearances were very useful tools.
The Maiden of Pain's alignment was [Lawful Evil].
Under normal circumstances, evil gods of this alignment acted like devils, and most of them had a plan.
This could be seen from the teachings of the Maiden of Pain.
Judging from the church's rituals, the Maiden of Pain wasn't much different from other evil gods. But if you read her teachings, you would realize that this goddess wasn't simple.
The teachings of the Church of Pain were long.
If you simply picked out a few, you could summarize them into the following few.
"This world is full of pain and suffering, so the only thing we can do is to face the inevitable pain, and pay back more pain to those who caused our pain." – Article 1 of the Doctrine
"Mercy is the best companion to pain and pain, because only mercy can deepen the pain of torture. Remember that endless cruelty and torment will only make the abused rise up in revolt, and so it is necessary to stop the torment occasionally (on a whim) and give them unexpected comfort and healing, so that they may not understand the will of the Goddess, and thus the foolish people will all the more thirst for the mercy of the Maiden of Pain. "— The Second Doctrine of the Church.
"The whip, the flame, and the cold are the three useful tools given by the goddess to her believers." – Article 6 of the Doctrine
"No matter when, when we inflict torture and punishment, we should preach the teachings of Laurita. Pain is a comprehensive trial, it can strengthen the mental resilience, and let those who have survived the ordeal gain true joy. Only those who know the rules of the goddess can inflict real punishment and abuse. "– Article 9 of the Doctrine
"Wherever there is a whip, there will be Goddess Laurita. Fear Laurita and desire her grace. "– The last paragraph of the Doctrine.
The teachings of the Maiden of Pain were very interesting.
Especially in the last paragraph, pain is a comprehensive trial, it can strengthen the mental resilience, and let those who have survived the ordeal gain true joy.
This was the highest realm of masochism!
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Modor City. Council Hall.
When Søren decided to deal with the Maiden of Pain, all the information about her was secretly sent to him by the spies in Modor City. Søren's church did not have many things, but there were a lot of Rogues, and the efficiency of collecting information was several times better than other churches. The information from the Goddess of Joy was very important, but Søren still needed to deal with the Maiden of Pain, and her church still needed to be dealt with by Søren's church. In this way, he must first know the internal situation of the abuse church.
The other things were relatively ordinary.
After reading a lot of information, Søren became a little interested in Laurita's teachings.
Very surprised!
Søren actually saw a little bit of positive energy in Laurita's teachings, even if it was just a nice way to put it.
But.
If this point was used to convert, it would be of great use.
Treat pain as training!
If he could grasp this point and convert it, then there would be no problem with Vivian's clergy! A pure abuse clergy was still too low-end! Søren's initial goal to deal with Laurita was the [Pain] clergy. As for the other tortures, torture, whipping, and so on, they were completely unpresentable.
Pain, pain, and suffering.
These were the real useful clergy. It could be applied to the gods of the evil alignment, and it could also be applied to the gods of the good alignment.
The priesthoods of Vivian and Lillian were to be chosen between them!
That's right.
Søren thought that the clergy could be extended in two directions. Lillian was obviously in the evil alignment, and Vivian was definitely in the good alignment.
If [Pain] was the starting clergy, both of them could be considered.
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