Jacob looked at the clergy in the hall and asked in a low voice, "Who of you will try?"
The church clergy looked at each other, and fear appeared on their faces as they all backed away.
Jacob muttered a curse under his breath, then winked at the knight captain behind him.
Soon, the church knights marched forward, grabbed ten unfortunate men from the crowd, and brought them before Jacob and the throatbone.
Looking at the 'volunteer' being escorted to him, Hougu took out a handful of strange insect eggs that looked like black date pits from his pocket.
A young church deacon assistant, around sixteen or seventeen years old, noticed something wriggling faintly inside the black object and cried out in fright, "Sir, please spare me!"
Jacob stood up and shouted angrily, “You are all servants of the Father, and to be able to offer everything for God is the glory of your humble and insignificant lives! It is the joyful gospel from heaven!”
The throat bone stuffs the insect eggs into the victims' mouths one by one, then laughs as they frantically dig into their throats and tear their chests like madmen.
It felt as if thousands of tiny knives were cutting into my muscles inside my body; it was a pain that defied description.
A victim, convulsing on the ground, screamed in agony as he clutched at the ankle of a church knight, pleading, "Please...kill me..."
"Let go of my hand! You...!"
Before the knight could finish speaking, he was so frightened by the horrifying scene before him that he screamed in terror.
The victim, who was lying on the ground, tilted his head back, and his originally bloodshot and bulging eyeballs suddenly burst open. Two black parasites, as thick as a child's arm, crawled out of his eye sockets and twisted incessantly in the air.
Immediately afterwards, his body felt like rotting flesh infested with maggots, as countless black parasites bit through his skin and crawled out of his body.
In the blink of an eye, the ten victims turned into parasite-infested monsters. Like living corpses, they lost the ability to speak and think, and were left only with a craving for the flesh and blood of the living.
"This is a demon! This is a demon from hell!" The knights cried out in terror as they retreated. "Almighty Lord! Please send down a miracle! Guide our souls!"
However, in this very temple of the Father, the knights' prayers went unanswered, and no miracle occurred.
Faced with the ever-approaching undead monster, one knight finally mustered his courage, swung his longsword, and slashed at the enemy before him.
With a dull thud, the knight's longsword plunged deep into the monster's skull.
After only a moment of joy, the hope in the knight's eyes vanished in an instant. The monster, whose head had been shattered, pounced on him, and like a tidal wave of parasites, it instantly overwhelmed him.
Amidst the ear-piercing sounds of flesh being gnawed and screams, the remaining knights began to retreat.
A knight wielding a flail swung his weapon toward the monster's chest, hoping to create distance between them.
The black parasites were flung everywhere by the massive blows, some of their juices and fragments landing on the attacker's face. The knight casually wiped them away with the back of his hand, only to be horrified to discover that these black parasite fragments had actually burrowed into his eyeballs from the corners of his eyes.
A black worm egg, the size of a grain of rice, swam around in the knight's eyeball. After a few seconds, it grew to the size of a tadpole. A few seconds later, the parasite burrowed directly into his brain.
Dropping the flail, the knight knelt on the ground, clutching his head and screaming in agony, blood flowing from his mouth and nose.
Soon, the black adult worms that emerged from the gaps in the helmet marked that the victim had been completely transformed into an undead monster.
This battle... this massacre lasted only three minutes.
Throughout the entire Father's temple, there was blood and black worms everywhere.
Bishop Jacob, the sole survivor, slumped to the ground, his lower body already soaked in urine.
He stared at the scene before him, which resembled hell, and was so terrified that he lost his mind and became incoherent.
The man with the throat bone slowly walked up to him, squatted down, and said with a smile, "Sir, are you satisfied?"
“Devil! Black devil!” Jacob covered his eyes with his hands and screamed hysterically, “Away from me! My soul belongs to the Lord!”
The man with the throat bone shrugged and said, "Open your eyes and look, you're safe."
Jacob looked ahead, trembling. The undead monsters that roamed the hall were like headless flies, wandering around without showing any desire to attack.
The throat bone said, "Although this weapon is dangerous, there are ways to control it. As long as you don't act recklessly, everything will be safe."
Jacob, his face deathly pale, shook his head and cried out, "This is not a weapon! This is a curse! This is a plague! This is the greatest blasphemy against the Lord!"
The throat bone laughed and said, "When the sun rises tomorrow, the army under that Holy King will occupy this courtyard of the Father beneath our feet. At that time, the God you worship will be defined as heretic, everything about him will be completely erased, and his name will be swept into the corner of history and forgotten forever."
Jacob was stunned.
The thought of the enemy army arriving tomorrow caused a slight wavering in his heart.
The man with the throat patted Jacob's face, gesturing for him to look ahead: "Do you see that chair that belongs to the Pope?"
Jacob nodded mechanically.
"Soon, that chair will belong to the king you hate most..." The voice from the throat bone was as sharp as if it came from hell: "He will release all the prisoners you have imprisoned and overturn all the laws you have made. On that day, what do you think your fate will be?"
Jacob's body stiffened, his pupils filled with terror as he foresaw his tragic future.
After a long while, Jacob slowly said in a dry and hoarse voice, "Whether it is a sword or a bow and arrow, as long as it can destroy evil, it is a righteous weapon given by God."
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