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Not far from Carne Village, a man stood with his eyes tightly shut.
He was a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, with no particularly outstanding features aside from a scar on his face.
At that moment, indistinct waves of magic power rose and fell around his entire body. He was clearly using some sort of magic.
Around the middle-aged man, people dressed like priests stood at the ready, seemingly waiting for him to lead them.
Anyone familiar with the matter would be able to roughly guess their origins just by seeing their priest-like attire.
—The Slane Theocracy.
A nation with a strong religious atmosphere that worshipped gods.
The gods worshipped by this nation were the Six Gods who had descended upon this world several hundred years ago.
Because there were so many gods being worshipped, the people within the Theocracy naturally each believed in different gods, causing the nation to split into multiple factions.
Within the Slane Theocracy, there was a special intelligence force known as the Six Scriptures.
These special intelligence units mainly carried out various indispensable tasks closely tied to national policy.
The priest-like people gathered here now were one of the Slane Theocracy's Six Scriptures—the Sunlight Scripture.
The primary task of the special intelligence force called the Sunlight Scripture was to exterminate demi-human villages.
Because the Slane Theocracy advocated human supremacy and called for the extermination of all races other than humanity, the Sunlight Scripture had the most opportunities for combat among the Theocracy's six special intelligence units.
Yet this special intelligence