After the massacre of the army, I marched forwards. I did not bother to search for any hidden army, Garmille can handle that much, my role is only to wreak havoc and cause chaos in this country''s cities. It really brings me back to the time I could play video-games, Imperion and I would sometimes go raid cities, truly fun times. Although I can''t call it fun nowadays since actual people are dying, though I''d say that as usual, I am showing no emotional response, at least no negative ones. Something wich fuel, even more, my desire to isolate ourselves from the races, I can''t even imagine how their lives used to be when the war between the Vermillion and the Dragons was still raging on, it must have been terrific to them.


    Not that it matters anymore since the war has come to an end long ago but I should ask my father about that. Anyway, I shouldn''t be blabbering about that and should just enter this city. Since I don''t want to make a fuss I can''t enter by the front gate, I mean I could but I just think that sneaking in would be a much interesting experience than using just strength. Although using brute force is much easier and would save me a lot of time but I have enough of it to fool around for a few days.


    I could jump above the walls but the guards would spot me, I could use magic to hide myself but it is far from my area of expertise, Eali would be better for that kind of situation. I can''t sneak in as a merchant, my armor, and my height would give me away. I could blast a portion of a wall but then it wouldn''t be sneaking in anymore. I doubt they have underground protection so this would be the most efficient way to infiltrate the city but then again I am no Dwarf and underground orientation is not my forte. Well, it is still the best solution I''ve come up with so I think I''ll go with it.


    I''ll have to do it with the cover of the night, that will give me the opportunity to start the tunnel far closer than if it was during the day. Therefore I won''t have as much distance to cross before getting behind the walls. I had to hide a bit far away from the city otherwise patrols could have found me out. luckily there was a small cave a few kilometers away from the city, from the smell of it I''d say it is inhabited, surely by bandits judging by the many wealth that shouldn''t be here, but they don''t seem to be here at the moment. Well if they don''t come back I guess it is their luck.


    |NO !! LET US GO !!! PLEASE !!!|(Woman)


    Only a few hours had passed until cries were heard coming towards me. I did not delve deep into the cave because I needed to see where the sun was at, currently, it wasn''t even setting and yet the bandits were returning, surely with spoils of an earlier raid. They must be amateur since no one was on watch duty while they were away. It took them a few moments for them to come into my sight, I couldn''t leave, they would have seen me either way.


    |Shut up woman, ye and yer family should be grateful to have the honor to be the nutrient of the great Tytan.|(Man)


    ... Tytan worshippers ... not bandits ... well, this sure has become complicated. Since the Dragons worship is the official religion those who believe in the Tytans are heavily discriminated, that is to say, executed on sight and it''s not like those idiots are helping it either, kidnapping innocent and sacrificing them. While sacrifices are a great source of power for a divine entity since you are gifting them a soul it is still a truly barbaric method. I am not against sacrificing something to a god, I am against sacrificing people to the gods. I''ve not dealt with their cults since I did not bother but since I''m going to encounter some right now maybe making them understand that such a thing is not our way of doing things would be a good thing to do.


    Since Mineferos had the good idea to put a stretching enchantment on the armor I will be able to manifest my Tytan heritage rather easily. Since they still hadn''t seen me I called upon my Tytanic blood and grew to over ten meters tall. I had to sit down to even be able to fit in the cave.


    |In me name, what in the world is that ?!|(Tytan worshipper 1)


    My eyes fell on them, four worshippers and three civils, a woman and two kids. Out of the three of them, only the woman was awake, she was crying and hitting the man that was carrying her. The leader was wearing a rough leather armor, like all the other, what surprised me was that they were all wearing adventurer cards around their neck. Well, that''s a new thing to me, an entire group of adventurer composed of only Tytan worshipper. I could see how that would work but it wouldn''t be a very trusted group because of the failure of the escort missions from which they take their sacrifices.


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    |Wait wut ?!|(Tytan worshipper)


    Speaking in a more archaic way will make them think I am an older entity than they are, therefore already installing superiority over them using only speech. That in addition to my gigantic size I make them understand that I am a being they worship.


    |Inocent being such as them, should not be sacrificed to us. The Tytans are not the monsters the Church has made you think we are.|(Apocalypse)


    They were obviously confused, first, they witness a being that is holy to them and then said being tell them their way of worshipping him is wrong. It''s like if Jesus went to see a Catholic during the crusades and said: "Hey mate, sorry but my religion never agreed to you slaughtering Muslims.". It should be obvious but to them, it isn''t. Even Lucifer''s way isn''t destruction contrary to what everyone thinks, no, Lucifer just wants a world where Humanity doesn''t worship any god, himself included.


    Finally, after a brief moment, the leader spoke. He was clearly the most experimented in dealing with an unexpected situation, also that poor man was bald. Such a sad thing really, hair are what makes a man and yet he had none. He cleared his throat and wiped the sweat from his face.


    |O ye mighty Tytan, we are blessed with yer presence, what do ye ask of us ?|(Tytan worshipper 1)


    |Put those people down but do not let them go away. I''ll have to teach you exactly what worshipping us is like.|(Apocalypse)


    They hesitated for a few seconds but as soon as I glared at them they compelled right away. As soon as she hit the ground the woman grabbed the kids under her arms and darted towards the exit. The Tytan worshippers were taken aback and couldn''t react in time, however, I had predicted that and when she was about to leave the cave, she hit an invisible wall and fell on her butt, she tried to leave once more after getting up but soon realized she had no way of leaving. She started to panic, shaking and sobbing, trying to shove her children behind her in a futile attempt to protect them.


    The worshippers has gathered themselves up and taken up their weapons but I stopped them from doing anything. My plan isn''t to kill these people after all.


    |Do you understand what is wrong now ?|(Apocalypse)


    |... yer holiness, we don''t.|(Tytan worshipper 1)


    Sigh, they aren''t the brightest. It is pretty obvious, even for a cult it isn''t a good thing if people flee from you at sight ... she might be scared because of me though, yeah I hadn''t thought about that. I sighed and removed my helmet. I know that my face as a Tytan is more or less the same as when I am in my most Human form but my teeth turn into fangs and my eyes become red. It can be terrifying but it should be better than seeing a giant armored figure. I put the helmet on the ground and slowly moved my hands towards her.


    |Do not fear child, I mean you and your family no harm.|(Apocalypse)


    She couldn''t move as my hand drew closer to her so I grabbed her and her kids before taking my hand next to my face. I opened it so the palm would look at the ceiling. With my current size the three of them can stand up in my palm without falling off, then I noticed that the reason the kids were so silent was that they were unconscious. Well, at least I won''t have to listen to their ear-deafening cries. The woman though was sobbing but still tried to look tough, something I respect dearly, protecting your family even in the face of imminent doom.


    |I admire your courage mortal, even if it is not needed.|(Apocalypse)


    |...Wh-what ?|(Woman)


    Through the sobbing and the cries, I was able to discern what she had said.


    |I mean you no harm mortal, I am just here to right the wrong of our believer. Their errors have gone too far for us to allow them to keep doing as they please.|(Apocalypse)


    Still shaking she mustered her strength and started to ask me questions to which I answered truthfully, she did not ask very relevant questions, she is an uneducated commoner, after all, she doesn''t know how the higher world works. The worshippers also asked me questions about their "religion" and what they were doing wrong. I explained to them that in no way should innocent people should be sacrificed, only criminals of the highest order. Helping those in needs is also something they have to do. All of that for one reason, if the world sees them as useful then the Church will have a harder time getting rid of it since more people would join them, although the Dragons and the Vermillion are in conflict their believers should not follow the same path for obvious reasons.


    When the sun set they all seemed to have understood what was the point of religion. I also secretly instructed the worshippers to create an organized association so I could back up their rise as a true Church, I do intend to give strength to my people and having people believing in them is a good way to do that. The woman and her kids couldn''t leave I can''t trust them to keep silent about what they heard so I ordered the worshippers to keep them here until they have gained enough influence as a Church and became untouchable.


    I finally left and went back to my normal height. The night had finally fallen and could offer me some cover. I could see the guards doing rounds on the walls, I observed them for several hours to spot a weakness and when I found one I exploited it, I started to dig using magic, it''s not really hard I just had to make sure the hole closed itself behind me and that the tunnel wouldn''t collapse on me, not that it would be a problem since a simple swing of my fist would send the earth flying. It''s only when I got to the other side of the wall that it hit me. I could have flown above the city and bombed dropped myself on the castle.