What made the Crimson Executioners most terrifying, of course, was their numbers!
Yes! Their numbers!
Unlike Fear Knights, weapons of war that required an enormous cost to create, Crimson Executioners were not expensive to produce—at least, not for the Church of Bane. Their church was vast, and competition within it was fierce. Every year, large numbers of failures from churches across various regions were remade.
This resulted in an enormous number of Crimson Executioners. Moreover, aside from time, their transformation required few resources, so the Church of Bane treated Crimson Executioners with exceptional brutality.
They used them as hard as they could, then made more when they were used up!
That was what made the Crimson Executioners truly frightening: they simply could not be killed off.
They were powerful, capable of divine magic, and cheap to produce. Was that not terrifying enough?
Thus, having Serilef and Loris lead the assault was more than enough. The Crimson Executioners' divine magic was not particularly formidable to the two of them, and their melee prowess was even less worth mentioning. The only thing to worry about was their utter disregard for death.
These people really dared to die together with their enemies. They were more fucking terrifying than terrorists.
Solam did not actually care much about these people. What concerned him more were the others—the shadows hidden among the ghosts and slaughter, the terrifying blasphemous priests!
Among evil fallen ones existed even more evil blasphemous priests!
The profession of blasphemous priest had emerged a very long time ago. At first, however, its practitioners specialized in opposing the gods. Their power came from the gods, but they did not gain it through faith. They stole it!
The core ability of this profession was deception—deceiving the gods! They tricked divine magic out of them!
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