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Late at night on August 1.
These had been very difficult days for the Intis garrison on the Southern Continent.
Ever since word had arrived from their homeland far away on the Northern Continent last month that the great Eternal Blazing Sun had died and the notorious evil god, the True Creator, had become the new Sun God, everyone had felt as though they had lost their parents. Garrison troops served for around ten years. After leaving their homeland for this savage, bloody, dangerous land, faith had become their only spiritual support, and they grew more devout than before.
Especially at this unsettling moment, when they sought comfort in their faith, they were told that the elderly Assistant Priest, the most devout and kindhearted man in the church, had shut himself in the confessional and followed the Eternal Blazing Sun into death late at night.
This elderly Assistant Priest had enjoyed a certain reputation even throughout the colony. He had treated the colony's lower classes as equals, generously funded local education and charity, and helped everyone as fellow believers in the Eternal Blazing Sun. His death only deepened the panic among the colony's Sun believers and local garrison.
Over the past month, the troops had first waited fearfully for orders from their homeland and the new church, but Intis seemed to have forgotten them, or perhaps was still considering how to handle them. Then they gradually grew numb as they waited day after day. Confident that their homeland would never abandon its precious colony, however, they set their minds at ease and returned to their old, carefree pleasures.
In any case, their ethics as professional soldiers meant they could not surrender.
The best possibility was to be withdrawn to their homeland and replaced by another contingent. The lunatics in