(The Light Race Situation) Dark Humans

In the Elia Holy Kingdom, there are 480 Inquisitors.

Inquisitors are created by brainwashing children with rare constitutions who can detect even the slightest darkness, born only in the Elia Holy Kingdom, and training them with numerous elixirs and combat education over a long period.

The parents of these children are given enormous wealth as a condition for entrusting their children, so most of them agree.

The Inquisitors only worship Goddess Elia and accept the Pope’s orders only because he is the representative of Goddess Elia.

The Inquisitors travel around the Elia Holy Kingdom, and if they discover even the slightest dark energy, they capture and torture the people around them to identify the source of the darkness.

The number of dark wizards and necromancers killed by the Inquisitors in the Elia Holy Kingdom was countless.

Due to this fanatical tendency, Inquisitors were forbidden from entering the Hamel Empire and could only enter the Hamel Empire for missions when requested by the King of the Hamel Empire.

When King Madhan of the Hamel Empire requested the Pope to investigate the possibility of Tentacle-infected individuals who are not detected by Scan Body, the Pope decided to send Inquisitors.

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Roshan, the leader of the Inquisitors, led 400 Inquisitors and departed for Bilan City, the capital of the Hamel Empire.

Roshan was a man in his late 20s with straight bangs and short black hair, wearing a priest’s robe on his slender 174cm body.

Roshan’s main weapon was an Adamantium thread made by a dwarf artisan a long time ago by refining Adamantium, a metal that can never be destroyed.

Roshan departed from Morian City in the Elia Holy Kingdom and spoke to Vice-Captain Umakant with an angry face while coming to Bilan City.

“Darkness over there! Darkness here! Ugh! I want to kill them all!”

There were many things in the Hamel Empire that emitted dark energy, such as dark wizards, dark magic amulets, and devices.

Umakant was a muscular giant with a bald head and a height of 183cm, and used a Claw with three thick blade nails as a weapon.

Umakant said with a serious face.

“Captain-nim. Didn’t the Pope say not to kill without King Madhan’s permission? Enduring this is also a trial given by Goddess Elia to carry out a more important mission.”

“You’re right. Killing those Tentacle bastards is more important~ Hehet!”

“That’s right. Hahaha.”

When Roshan and 400 Inquisitors arrived in Bilan City, King Madhan’s aide greeted them and gave them a building that could be used temporarily.

That night, Roshan and Umakant met with King Madhan in the king’s office in the royal palace.

Around King Madhan were Prime Minister Sunwook, Lion Knights Commander Tara (female, swordsman), and Tiger Knights Commander Pranap (male, spearman).

Sunwook summarized everything and handed it over to Roshan.

Roshan read the summarized content and said.

“Hmm. It’s a more dangerous situation than I thought. Can’t I just kill them all?”

Tara shouted.

“What are you talking about! The Empire has its own laws. Are you kidding in front of His Majesty?”

Roshan tilted his head and said with an incomprehensible expression.

“Huh? I only worship Goddess Elia. And isn’t it natural to eliminate all possibilities that threaten Goddess Elia?”

At that time, Umakant hurriedly said.

“Captain-nim. In the Empire, people can only be killed according to the Imperial law.”

“That’s difficult because it’s different from the Holy Kingdom~”

While everyone in the Empire was making astonished expressions, Sunwook said with a serious face.

“If you bring us clear evidence that humans are infected with Tentacles, you can kill them as you wish.”

“I can tolerate that much. Hehet!”

“First, I will give you data that summarizes the refugees from the Gayle Kingdom in order of class. They are all people who have not been detected by Scan Body. Please investigate from the commoners first.”

“Why? Everyone is equal before Goddess Elia, right?”

Sunwook endured his throbbing head and explained kindly.

“If you investigate the families of the powerful, you will face strong resistance. First, investigate the commoners to find clues and publicize it throughout the Hamel Empire to move public opinion.”

“Well, that makes sense. I’ll do that.”

Sunwook gave additional precautions.

“This is a war against Tentacles. Please do not indict them simply because they are dark wizards or necromancers. Please focus on finding clues of Tentacle infection.”

“I have that much brain too!”

King Madhan added with a solemn face.

“Inquisitor Captain. The Empire has its own laws, so unless there is a danger to your safety, report first and do not harm the Imperial citizens. If you do not follow this, my knights will not stand still.”

Lion Knights Commander Tara and Tiger Knights Commander Pranap each reached for their swords and spears to threaten him, and Roshan smirked and replied.

“Okay~ Hehet~ Amen!”

As Roshan and Umakant left, Tara said in a worried tone.

“Your Majesty. In my opinion, they only look like fanatics with mental illness. Is it right to bring them in?”

King Madhan replied in a troubled voice.

“The situation where Tentacles have entered the Empire is more dangerous. The benefits of the results they bring are greater than the problems the Inquisitors will cause. I will order the Information Knights to secretly monitor them.”

Tara advised.

“Inquisitors are strong, so they will notice the surveillance.”

“Roshan will also realize the surveillance I sent. But if there is a watcher, he will be careful in his actions.”

In this way, the Inquisitors began to secretly or directly investigate the dark energy of commoner families from the Gayle Kingdom who were refugees.

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Roshan paired the Inquisitors into groups of 10 and sent them to various parts of the Hamel Empire to investigate on their own.

Roshan was heading to the home of a commoner family from Bilan City with Umakant and 8 Inquisitors.

Umakant asked Roshan.

“Captain-nim. Assassins are following us from the 5 o’clock and 8 o’clock directions, should we just leave them alone?”

“King Madhan sent them. I don’t feel any darkness, and even if we shake them off, they’ll catch up again, so let’s leave them alone.”

Roshan’s group arrived around the home of the commoner who was a refugee, and then hid in various places and watched the activities of the wife, husband, and child while waiting indefinitely.

After investigating for a day, the 10 people gathered.

Umakant said with a serious face.

“Captain-nim. Those commoners are not dark wizards, but they have dark energy in their heads. Something is strange.”

“There’s something there. Hmm. Let’s investigate the other guys too~”

The Inquisitors could feel even the slightest dark energy, but they could not know what it was.

A few days later, the Inquisitors gathered the results of their investigations from various parts of the Hamel Empire, and Roshan came to a conclusion.

“Most of the commoners who are refugees have dark energy in their heads. And some, but not all, of the Hamel Imperial citizens they married have dark energy in their heads. It doesn’t make sense that commoners have little chance to come into contact with dark magic, but they have dark energy in their heads.”

Umakant added his opinion.

“If they created parasitic Tentacles in the form of imitating the human brain, everything would be explained. In the case of the families of refugee infected people, some had the opportunity to infect them, and the rest did not have the opportunity to infect them.”

Roshan delivered the report of the Inquisitors’ investigation to King Madhan.

King Madhan discussed it with his aides and then announced it to the entire Hamel Empire through the royal newspaper.

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Dark energy has been found in the heads of humans, and they are called Dark Humans.

This is the result of an investigation by the Inquisitors of the Elia Holy Kingdom at the request of the Hamel Empire’s royal family, and Inquisitor Captain Roshan guarantees the results.

One year ago, the Tentacle army of the Dark King occupied the Gayle Kingdom, and people who fled to the Hamel Empire had dark energy found in their heads even though they had no contact with dark magic.

The Gayle Kingdom’s royal family suspects that this is a brain-parasitic Tentacle that is not detected by Scan Body, and the reason is…etc.

]

This announcement caused a huge stir throughout the Hamel Empire.

People everywhere were discussing Dark Humans.

Various arguments arose, from the claim that Dark Humans should be accepted as a new race to the claim that Dark Humans are the vanguard of the Dark King and should be killed.

Additional information was released afterward.

The news that a brain identical to the human brain was found in the head of a Dark Human who died supported the Dark Human advocacy theory.

The suspicious circumstances that the members of the dark magic club at Hamel Empire High School and the students who were caught by Tentacles in the ‘Forest That Eats Humans’ were Dark Humans supported the Dark Human discrimination theory.

Dark Human advocates argued that the dark magic club members used dark magic and dark medicine, so dark energy was naturally present.

Dark Human discriminationists claimed that the dark magic club members were infected.

The number of Dark Humans exceeded 600,000, and since they came to the Hamel Empire and spent more than a year having happy times with the Hamel Imperial citizens, most of the Dark Humans’ families advocated for Dark Humans.

The highest group that preached Dark Human advocacy was Marquis Iosap and the nobles around his territory.

Marquis Iosap was not infected, but he supported his daughter because he had happy memories and loved her for a year.

Marquis Iosap claimed that his family members also had some dark energy because they had received the blood of the succubus queen, a dark race, and preached that Dark Humans were just a new race that had recently become stronger in dark energy.

Dark Humans had already taken root in various parts of the Hamel Empire, so the pressure from Dark Human advocates was so strong that the Hamel Empire’s royal family was embarrassed.

The Hamel Empire’s royal family could not suppress Dark Humans for fear of civil war.

To make matters worse, a large number of Elves began to flee from the Elf Forest in the west to the Hamel Empire.

These were Elves who had fled to the Hamel Empire when the God of Darkness led an army and surrounded Vite City, the capital of the Elf Kingdom, and occupied the south and east of the Elf Kingdom.

When investigated in the Hamel Empire, it was found that the God of Darkness had invaded the Elf Kingdom with a huge army of Slimes, Orcs, Giant Ents, Kobolds, and Tentacles, killing two ancient Dryads and occupying most of the Elf Kingdom.

An even more shocking fact was that he had become the God of Darkness, not the Dark King.

The God of Darkness was a being who had returned from the evil god Kamaite in mythology a thousand years ago, called himself Kyle, and had his loyal Seven Deadly Sins with him.

The Hamel Empire was worried about how to treat the Elf refugees.

The Elves had lost their spirit power, so they were not a great force, and their culture was very different.

The Hamel Empire first ordered the nobles in the west of the Hamel Empire to give Imperial citizen status to those who wanted it among the Elves and to take care of the rest.

As the news that the God of Darkness had almost occupied the Elf Kingdom, which was the same light race, spread throughout the Hamel Empire, extreme discriminationists emerged who claimed that Dark Humans, who were immediate risk factors, should be eliminated.

Dark Human advocates and discriminationists held demonstrations and clashed with each other in various parts of the Hamel Empire.

King Madhan was still confident in the war against the God of Darkness.

The Hamel Empire’s royal family had been secretly conducting research to develop weapons to counter the God of Darkness, and all those involved were hardcore Hamel Imperial citizens who had no contact with Dark Humans.

In addition, the Hamel Empire was also raising a Hero to counter the God of Darkness.

The Inquisitors, including Roshan, decided to receive support from the Hamel Empire and stay in churches throughout the Hamel Empire to monitor Dark Humans.

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This is Gotica City, northeast of the Mermaid Sea.

Around the city hall of Gotica City, Dark Human advocates and discriminationists were divided on both sides, holding pickets and shouting at each other, demonstrating.

“Dark Humans are also humans! Humans!”

“The vanguard of the God of Darkness, Dark Humans, must be killed! You are being deceived!”

Claudio, a restaurant owner, stopped by the market with his wife, Generosa, and passed by the protesters on his way home.

Generosa was from the Gayle Kingdom refugee camp and was marked as a Dark Human by the Inquisitors.

Generosa hugged Claudio tightly with a fearful face and said in a trembling voice.

“Honey. I’m scared.”

“Trust me. I won’t let anyone touch you.”

Claudio had been married to Generosa for a year and loved his wife very much.

Claudio was hugging Generosa tightly and going home when a man saw Generosa and shouted.

“Hey! That’s the bitch the Inquisitor said was a Dark Human back then, right? Kill her!”

Claudio shouted in anger.

“Don’t talk shit to my wife! Do you want to die by my hands!”

The man ran up and tried to grab his wife, but Claudio grabbed the man’s wrist and punched him in the face, and with a Peo-uck sound, the man was hit in the face and fell.

The man who was hit in the face cursed.

“You minion of the God of Darkness!”

“You’re the crazy one for attacking the same human!”

The advocates and discriminationists heard the sound and approached, then cursed at each other, charged, and a brawl broke out everywhere.

Peok pak kwang. Shit! Get lost!

Generosa screamed in fear.

“Kyaaak! Honey! Save me!”

Claudio hugged Generosa, lowered his head, quickly escaped the chaos, and was able to arrive home.

Claudio said, panting.

“Those bad guys. My wife Generosa has been so kind. Generosa. This city is dangerous these days, so stay home from now on.”

“Yes, honey. Sniff sniff.”

Claudio was looking out the window when Generosa slowly approached, hugged Claudio tightly from behind, buried her face in his back, and asked.

“Honey. If I were a Tentacle, would you still love me?”

“What are you talking about?”

“I was just asking. Even if my personality was the personality of a Tentacle, could you still love me?”

Claudio pondered for a moment and asked.

“Do you love me?”

“Yes. I love you no matter what I am!”

As there are irregularities everywhere, Generosa was a brain-parasitic Tentacle, but she truly loved Claudio, so she did not make Claudio an infected person and protected him from other infected people.

Claudio said in a determined voice.

“Then I love you too.”

“Honey… Thank you.”

“You’re all I need.”

As Claudio turned around, his wife Generosa raised her toes and kissed Claudio on the lips.

Claudio and Generosa hugged and kissed each other, then went to the room and made love.

It felt like they could overcome all the worries and anxieties of this world if they were together.

If the personality of our beloved is the personality of a Tentacle that parasitizes the brain, which should we choose, the shell or the personality of our lover?

If removing the Tentacle from the brain completely erases the personality and memories of our lover and turns them into someone else, can we remove the Tentacle?

This will be a really difficult problem.