The abused merchant’s daughter – 47 | Sousaku – 創作

Chapter 2, Episode 1: Prologue

Despair.
It ruled over the holy city of Kardiana.

On the last day of the ceremony of the Sunlit Moon, when Kardiana sleeps. That's when the tragedy happened.

The incarnation of a horror that occurred 500 years ago. The emergence of ghouls and the rebellion against the sacred tree due to the forbidden curse.

Angry shouts and screams echoed in the square in the center of the royal city.

"Run away!! Ghouls!! The ghouls are here!!!! "

Suddenly ghouls appeared in many places and began to attack people.
It was a bizarre sight to see the figure of what was thought to be an ordinary person suddenly begin to agonize, then roar and change to a pale blue color.

Gradually, the skin of those turned scaly and pale, and fangs sprouted, transforming them into the very ghouls feared and dreaded in the Bible.

The ghouls were more than 500 years old.
A forbidden spell created by humans to oppose the sacred tree.
A forbidden magic used to try to steal Faralina's power in the past.
A relic of the past, a story in fairy tales and folklore that people would only see in picture books and the Bible―― or so it was supposed to be.
Those very legends were coming to life, appearing in this very city, and slaughtering the people.

Nobody in the city ever learned the truth.
The Darsha worshipers, who had once been destroyed by Faralina, were now turning into ghouls and attacking people all over the place.
The ghouls appeared without any apparent reason, and the people had no choice but to run away from them.

"Come!! Let the royal city of Kardiana fall, let mankind meet its demise!!
We must take revenge on the humans who forced us to challenge the sacred tree alone and persecuted us as soon as we were defeated!!!! "

At that moment, the Darsha worshipers shivered with joy as they watched from the top of the tall clock tower as the fleeing people scattered below them and their own men turned into ghouls and began to attack the people.

Zugogogogo.

With a tremendous sound, it appeared.

A giant tree, surpassing the holy tree Kardiana, suddenly appeared in the center of the royal city of Kardiana.
Looking over there in a panic, one could see a blonde-haired girl with red eyes standing in the tree tops.

"What!? No way, is that the saint!? "

As soon as the girl smiling with her golden hair fluttering in the moonlit night raised her hand,

Zash!!!!!

――The countless trees throughout the kingdom of Kardiana pierced only the ghouls and continued to hurt them until the ghouls' recovery power could no longer keep up with the damage.

Vines flew toward the ghouls as if to assist the fleeing people, and the ghouls were being destroyed.

Those creatures, still in their original human shape, were mercilessly crushed, cut up, and splattered with blood.
"It can't be!!!
A mere saint can use such power!?
You were in the middle of the sunlit ceremony where the sacred tree sleeps, weren't you!?
The Holy Tree didn't possess the Saint, so how can she attack in such a wide range!?
I've never heard of a saint being able to use such power………"

It was when one of the heretics screamed.

――What are you trying to comprehend with mere human knowledge?
I believe you got carried away because of your success with Faralina, but…… ――

At that moment, a cute voice directly echoed from somewhere in their brain, causing the heretics to widen their eyes.
A girl looked at them.

She smiled and laughed lightlyーー then, her mouth moved.

"Found you."

――She mouthed.
At the same time, the voice echoed in their head again.

――Sorry ☆ My saint is the most powerful and out of the ordinary ☆――

Those were the last words the wicked heard.

Their bodies were pierced by tree ivy.

The evil people understood. That this girl was Sonia, the Saintess of Kardiana.
And that the owner of the voice directly in their head was the holy tree Kardiana.

This is the story of the struggles of humans at the mercy of a saint who is too powerful and uncaring, and a holy tree that has no intention of controlling her at all―― probably.