Jason is a worker at a candle factory in Valedo's Fifth Parish. Although he leads a hard life of working 16 hours a day, his family is happy.
He has a gentle and amiable wife Miria, a pair of naughty twin sons Barry and Lyndon, and an adorable little daughter Gloria.
His family is the most important support in his difficult life.
Although he lived a life of eating coarse bread and bitter herbs, Jason still maintained his firm faith in the emperor. He would bring his family to pray before every meal, and he would worship every week regardless of weather conditions.
This is something engraved in the DNA of the Valedians. They feel satisfied and honored to be born in a holy world, because here the Emperor's radiance can save them from many sufferings in the dark galaxy...
But now, I don’t know why, life is getting more and more sad. First, the beloved archbishop suddenly issued a strict piety decree a year ago, forcing everyone to go to church every day to listen to the prayers of priests, followed by various dioceses. A large number of disappearances occurred one after another.
Although the patrol frequency of law enforcement officers has been significantly increased, their numbers are sparse and their strength is weak, and they are unable to take care of other areas except the first parish, so the believers need the emperor's blessing even more.
During dinner, the twins also mentioned that they had heard a rumor.
New corpses were found on the street, with their eyes gouged out and covered with bugs...
Jason angrily scolded the twins and asked them not to scare his little sister. Miria told another story to dispel the gloomy atmosphere.
A blind Imperial Guard veteran who had been begging on the streets for many years suddenly regained his sight, but Jason wondered where the veteran would get the money to replace his bionic eyes.
Miria told her husband that the veteran did not have biochemical eyes, but that his blind eyes actually recovered. This was a miracle.
The veteran said he saw an angel in his dream and his blindness was cured.
Jason told his children that the emperor looked after everyone, and as long as they prayed sincerely, their sincerity would be rewarded.
The couple then rushed the children to bed. Miria also read the story of the saint Sebastian Sol to the twins, while Gloria hoped that his father would pray for him.
Jason laughed and said:
"The Emperor is everywhere, and you can pray to the Lord of Mankind at any time if you wish."
But he still prayed for his daughter.
Every day after that, Jason had to drag his exhausted body to work, because the continuous disappearances led to fewer and fewer workers, and the fewer workers, the less efficient he was in completing the target? Along with his own rations also been affected.
The factory where Jason works is responsible for producing candles for the entire parish. As a parish with more than two hundred churches, tons of candles are consumed every day, so his daily work is extremely heavy.
When he was a child, his mother disappeared and his father committed suicide during interrogation. He came to work in the factory when he was thirteen.
He knew that he would be a worker all his life and would probably die in a factory. But he felt very proud to be able to serve the emperor. Moreover, the emperor had given him such a perfect family.
What else is there to be dissatisfied with?
Just going to church every day to pray and listen would give him the illusion that something was whispering to him, but he never heard the content of those whispers clearly and thought it was an illusion caused by excessive exhaustion.
In his daily work, he couldn't help but talk to his colleagues. When they talked about how many percentage points they were behind schedule, the exhausted colleagues said that only a miracle would happen to them to catch up.
Jason felt that there were not necessarily no miracles. He told his colleagues that a blind veteran who was begging on the street suddenly regained his sight after dreaming of an angel. Isn't this a miracle?
Afterwards, the colleague gave Jason a strange look and told him that the veteran was dead.
One day after regaining his sight, the veteran suddenly went crazy, yelling who he had killed, and then ran and was hit by a car.
Jason retorted at the time, because he knew what this veteran was like when he was a boy? He couldn't kill anyone.
While the two were still talking, there was a sudden vibration on the ground? Everyone stopped.
Then there was a big explosion in the factory, and Jason was involved.
When Jason opened his eyes, he found that he had turned into a child and returned to his home.
A familiar figure appeared in front of him, leaving Jason stunned - it was his mother, with the same appearance and clothing as when she disappeared from home.
Jason was in disbelief and his mother told him not to panic because he was safe.
After thinking about it, Jason told the figure in front of him that his mother was dead and the person in front of him could not be his mother.
The figure told him that his mother was not dead, but was somewhere else, and that he was sent by the emperor.
Then, the other party emitted a dazzling aura, and he recalled the local chapel. The emperor's justice and revenge were incarnated on the church's stained glass. The other party seemed to read his thoughts, and the image in front of him bloomed with divine brilliance.
It was an angel, with a magnificent and holy appearance.
Jason was so excited that he witnessed a real miracle, an angel really appeared.
The angel told him that through the emperor's power, he was unscathed.
However, the emperor did not save him for no reason. Jason had a task that he had to complete.
Jason said that he was just a nobody, how could He De win the emperor's favor?
The angel told him that all the emperor's saints were nobody in the beginning.
Can the emperor make mistakes?
The angel then told him that the world was about to be destroyed, and only if he stepped forward could he be saved from destruction, and then Jason saw a vision.
Shadow monsters lurked in the darkness, and the people hurriedly ran for their lives, only to be torn apart by something from the inside.
The diocese fell into ruin, rivers of innocent blood flowed, the sky turned red, and mountains of bones piled up.
He watched his wife cry out in a nightmare, and his twin sons had their eyes gouged out.
Then he saw his little daughter, and some monsters were approaching her.
The illusion ends here.
The angel told him that if Jason wanted to stop what was coming, he would have to make a sacrifice to the Emperor.
Jason told the angel excitedly.
"I would do anything to prevent destruction from happening!"
The angel responded.
“The offering was the heart of his favorite child.”
Jason was stunned. He stammered that he couldn't do it. It was impossible for him to kill his favorite child.
The angel responded without emotion:
"The emperor asked for more things to be dedicated, because power comes from sacrifice. Without sacrifice, how could the emperor have the power to protect the galaxy?"
Jason still refused, and the angel warned him that the crisis was imminent. Jason could only make a choice between using his daughter's blood to cleanse his soul or sitting back and watching his family ruined. He had one night to think about it.
Afterwards, Jason returned home in despair, telling himself over and over again that he had to do this and had no other choice.
Whenever he blinks, he sees scenes of destruction, hears the screams of his family members dying, and angels whisper in his ears...
He recalled that when his father committed suicide, his father was so drunk that he couldn't hear what his father wanted to tell him.
Miria was shocked to see Jason back and told him that the whole family thought he was dead and that everyone was praying for him, especially Gloria.
Jason replied mechanically that this was a miracle.
Soon, he was out of the house with the hearts of his wife and daughter, shouting for the angel to appear, he had completed the emperor's task.
A voice appeared from behind him. This voice no longer came from 'far away'.
The angel told Jason that he had done better than he imagined and that the world would now be saved, but Jason didn't know why. He didn't see any divine signs or apparitions.
He asked almost crazily:
"When can I see it?"
The angel told him that when the world becomes a river of blood and corpses cover the clouds, salvation will come.
Jason, who was covered in the blood of his beloved wife and daughter, turned his head and saw the figure behind him.
It was a twisted creation in his mother's human skin.
Then, the thing that was once his mother hugged him, and he felt that his brain was filled with crazy laughter and subspace screams, which brought horror countless times more terrifying than the illusions he had seen before.
His former mother told him that now, at last, they were reunited forever.
