Later, to prevent any more Heretics from slipping into the crowd, Brunkel simply ordered that Holy Water be forcibly mixed into all food supplied to the refugees. Only those who drank the Holy Water and underwent a Holy Water bath were qualified to enter the temporary camp; otherwise, they would be treated as traitors.
Long lines formed at the food distribution points. No one dared refuse to drink it. The several thousand refugees were quickly screened, and quite a few died as well, because they had already been weak to begin with. High-Grade Holy Water carried inherent Holy Light properties; it was not something they could endure.
One had to know that High-Grade Holy Water was generally only used on those deeply afflicted by Contamination or gravely ill and near death, and even then, it had to be made into a prepared medicine. Brunkel's method was tantamount to directly condemning ordinary people who were physically weak but had not suffered the slightest Contamination.
Of course, there was no denying that it was highly efficient.
This batch was the last one.
These refugees had some ties to the nobility, with complicated connections that made them difficult to handle. They had been placed on a high mountain far from the Northern Territory Tribal Alliance. The tribespeople had carved out part of a cave halfway up the mountain and turned it into an Isolation zone, allowing them to undergo a brief Isolation inside to avoid any accidents.
This group had already passed the first round of screening without any issues. According to procedure, they would undergo a second round, after which the whole process should have been complete.
But the Blue Knight did not see it that way, because she had received troubling news: among this group was someone whose family had an