Stars for the good Warhammer.

Chapter 32 The Last Hope
  Shortly after the attack, guards found Raya unconscious in a utility room. Fortunately, she seemed to be fine.

The guards who arrived immediately sealed off the dormitory where the attackers were staying. When a team broke open the door and entered, they were immediately greeted by strange symbols painted on the walls and ceiling, as well as profanity-filled words. caught everyone's eyes.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor."

"How blasphemous is this"

Not surprisingly, the servant was indeed a heretic, and the reason why he kidnapped Raya, the governor's adjutant, was obviously for some ulterior motives.

When Otto rushed to the scene, and after taking a general look at the situation in the house, he saw that the same word was densely written in Low Gothic on a wall near the closet in the bedroom.

——[Sculptor]

On the desk not far away, a strange-looking humanoid statue with no head or hands suddenly attracted everyone's attention.

"Burn everything here, and remember to dispose of the body as well. Don't leave anything behind."

"In addition, we will strictly investigate everyone who has contact with her, do you understand?"

After giving such instructions to the guard captain beside him, Otto hurriedly left the scene without waiting for a response, as if something was urgent.

For a moment, after returning to the office alone, Otto locked the door.

With an anxious mood, he concentrated again and called up the system panel.

[Follower: Raya]

[Current corruption stage: 0 (no blessing yet)]

[Do you want to consume faith points to accelerate the corruption of this follower? 】

[Current faith points: 3]

Looking at the content on the panel, Otto felt that his brain was in chaos at this moment, and at the same time, a bad premonition suddenly arose again.

Depraved
  Blessing
  Only then did Otto truly understand the full function of this panel.

Unfortunately, his initial concerns were correct.

The faith points he collects through the emotional fluctuations of others can actually directly affect his followers.

This can corrupt them, or even exchange them for the blessings of the Warp.

At the same time, faith can also be used to exchange knowledge from another dimension, that is, the worldview of "Stars".

Although it is still unclear how the two are connected, various signs seem to indicate it.

What appeared in front of him now was not so much a system panel common in online novels, but rather a highly deceptive altar used to enshrine faith.

As for the objects it worships, they are naturally those terrifying things in the highest heaven.
  The moment he realized this, he seemed to hear the laughter of a group of demons echoing in his ears.

Thinking of this, Otto leaned his back weakly on the door panel, raised his head and looked at the painted dome with the emperor's image again.

The man in the painting just stared at himself calmly without making any response.

Just then, without warning.

Suddenly there was a crisp jingle sound in the originally quiet office.

Looking towards the source of the sound, I saw a strange-looking dagger appearing on the ground not far away. It probably fell from the top of the bookcase near the wall. Judging from the extremely gorgeous handle inlaid with crystals, it seemed to be an expensive handicraft.

At first, Otto didn't care. After all, the Sellers family had too many collections. However, the moment he got closer, he suddenly realized that this was the weapon used by the maid before to attack him. .

Why does it appear here?
  Shouldn't it have been thrown away by the guards?
  But when Otto realized this, the gorgeous dagger was already held in his hand with the blade facing down.

In a daze, he seemed to see the gem in the center of the sword hilt turn into a magic eye, looking at him with a hungry look.

His intuition told him that this was a magic sword that longed for souls.
  Such a strange scene made Otto throw it aside as if he was electrocuted. However, as the sword blade clanked on the floor, an even more bizarre scene appeared in front of him.

Time seemed to be frozen at this moment. Otto found that there were five blazing flames beside him at some point. Through the center of those flames, he seemed to see another world.

Soon, a hoarse voice came out of the blue flame. It was an unfamiliar word, but Otto could vaguely understand its meaning.

【Son of Change】

This seems to be an evaluation?
  Immediately afterwards, a second lazy and kind voice came from the dark green flames.

【The child who went astray】

Before Otto could react, a roar echoed in the room through the red fire mist. He could feel as if the surrounding space was trembling as the angry voice roared.

【Challenger】

As for the fourth cloud of sparkling purple-red smoke, Otto was the first to smell a sweet smell that felt particularly familiar to him. He remembered that the same smell had appeared in Raya's bedroom.

【Seductive Soul】

This was the evaluation made by the fourth voice for himself. From the tone of that unknown existence, Otto could hear the endless hunger and thirst, as if he wanted to devour his soul.

And when Otto cast his sights on the fifth gray flame, he could not hear any sound from it at first, until the time around him started to flow again, and the moment before this fantastic and illusory scenery was about to fade away.

Finally, a tired whisper came from the side.

【My last hope】

After an unknown amount of time, when Otto opened his eyes again, everything had disappeared.

It seemed as if everything I had experienced before was just a dream.

At this moment, the sound array skull located in the room floated on the bookshelf to Otto's side, and began to play a message on its own.

"Sir Otto, the team has entered the lower nest according to your instructions."

That was Turayan's voice, and it seemed that the killing team assigned by him had already begun action.

At this time, Otto had obviously not been able to recover from the previous illusion.

And when he lowered his head, he realized that the strange magic sword had returned to his hand again at some point.

think for a moment
  Otto finally chose to put the gorgeous ceremonial dagger into the drawer of his desk.

　Huh, there is another chapter in the evening. My father’s health has not been very good recently and he always has to go to the hospital. He is very worried, so that he is thinking about these things while typing.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)