The Mage Who Started a Revolution
Chapter 857

Tragic Past

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"I once had a younger sister. She was very devout, and every morning she would go to church with me for worship. But for some reason, after the service ended, that priest at the church always liked to keep her behind alone and take her into a room to study the Bible. My parents thought my sister had received God's favor, and the whole family was delighted. Until one day... one day, she still hadn't come home long after her usual time. No one thought much of it—they felt that praying a little longer only showed greater devotion. So I secretly ran to the church and hid inside the confessional. A few minutes later, I saw... I saw my sister covered in blood, not even wearing clothes, being furtively carried out by that beast. Three days later, my sister's body was found outside the village. Everyone said it had been a wild beast attack. Only I... only I knew what had happened, but I didn't dare say a word."

"Ten years ago, I was a Paladin apprentice. I entered The Church filled with boundless reverence, wanting only to serve God. Yet on just my third day in The Church, I was forced to kill an entire family of helpless commoners with my own hands. They were the Green family from Koria Village. I even remembered what every one of them looked like. Because they had offended the local priest, their whole family was slandered as mages. But... I was the one who did it. I knew perfectly well that they didn't even know what magic was! After that day, the Holy Light in my heart went out. I... did a great deal of dirty work for The Church. Then one day, I could bear it no longer and fled from

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