"Did you undress them enough? It's the first time I've seen this style of interrogation."
I might not have the guts to talk to Raven like that when she's in reaper mode, Mia doesn't seem to have this problem, Raven's current state happens automatically when she's in the presence of an evil being, and I say it's because I saw her getting just like when she faced a monster known for its cruelty in one of the times, we explored dungeons.
"Do you think taking the rest of their torn clothes off and hanging them up in public will improve our chances of getting the truth, Lightning? Or you just want to see a naked man since you can't get a boyfriend."
Raven's cruel comments get pretty aggressive when she's interrogating someone.
"Stupid bitches the great god Whiro will burn your souls as your bodies will serve him in his immortal army!"
The package of her threat disappeared when Raven used her boot to close the death mage's mouth. But I found it strange that he used the term burn in his threat, as far as I know Whiro has nothing to do with the element of fire and necromancers can shatter, split or turn souls to dust, but they cannot burn souls.
"Trash, your god may be powerful but he can't do anything to save you, these black currents are piercing your core and body preventing you from controlling your mana or elemental energy completely. Even a blue core mage would be useless, you can pray, scream and cry to your god crying out for help and nothing will happen, your god has the right to your soul but your body belongs to me now."
"The only way you can return to your god is to cooperate with me, resist and you will only find your god when you die of old age with various healers prolonging your suffering until the final moment of your long and pathetic life full of suffering."
The death mage and plague mage's face turned white when they heard Raven's creative threat, this is the first time I've seen someone threatening another person with a long-life pain may be involved but the main element to put fear in them and make them stay alive for a long period of time.
It is far more creative than simply burning them in the purifying flames of the goddess Helena, which are so strong that they can break the chains that bind the souls of these two cultists. With the mark destroyed their souls will return to the shekel of reincarnation and not their god's domain, this is usually the biggest threat against a cultist depriving them of their eternal rest serving their god and the greatest fear of most of them.
But to my surprise the plague mage finally spoke as her colleague still appears to be processing the terror of staying alive.
"Your threat is useless, as long as we live our god will guide our brothers to save us, keep us both alive and the same as insulting all our brothers and sisters. The great and deadly god Whiro will not allow this insult he will come to gather our souls and it will be his kingdom that will suffer the wrath of our god, the blood of thousands of innocents will flow through the cities."
This is a real threat, it looks like the plague mage might be second in command, but she seems more competent than the death mage. But from the wild smile I can hear in Raven's voice she doesn't stop being intimidated by the plague mage's response, I think interrogating people when you're masked hinders more than helps in the intimidation area, the masks we wear are all common and not of terror.
"You greatly overestimate your little plague mage brothers and sisters, cowardly cultists like you only have courage when the initiative is on your side and can flee into the shadows of society to preserve their pathetic lives. You two will be trapped in a temple of the goddess Helena for the rest of your pathetic lives, your brothers won't have the courage to attack a trap like this, because if they do it will be their blood that will spoil the city's floor after their souls are cleansed. by the golden flames of the goddess Helena."
"Your threats are useless; the cowardly priests will not let us be imprisoned for the rest of our lives. We may be in the good gods' area of influence, but that doesn't stop your entire city from being drowned in death by our god's champions, keeping us alive is a heresy and what your allies don't dare to do, we'll face the flames of that bitch goddess, but our souls always returned to our god even though our souls were tainted by the flames of that bitch goddess."
This plague mage is really crazy, this kind of fanatical and really troublesome Raven cultists won't be able to get anything useful out of this plague mage. But on the other hand, the death mage seems pretty shaken up, he shouldn't be as fanatical as his companion, he can be useful.
"Whiro's whore is useless to us, her brain has been completely corroded by her faith that she cannot logically weigh. Damn, take her away and make her suffer a little, this whore seems to be very proud of her beautiful body and face, I doubt anyone on our side wants to have fun with her, who knows what kind of disease can be contracted from her body, but you can hand her over to the smugglers, they might want to be fun with her."
"But warn them that ala must not die or lose any members, the twin goddess paladins will want to torture the cultists who dared to insult their goddess. I wouldn't doubt that some archbishop or Templar inquisitor wouldn't want to prepare a special flame to 'purify' this psychopathic lunatic."
"Okay."
A chain of weak rays tied the plague mage and pulled her from the tree no matter the damage done to her, the plague mage started screaming in pain as her skin was burned by Ana's rays, even though they are still weak. they are lightning bolts touching the unprotected flesh of a mage.
Mia dragged the plague mage who was screaming in agony to the place where the smugglers were gathered to tend to her wounds, I can't say I feel sorry for this woman because of course she is a cruel bitch who must be responsible for hundreds if not thousands of people. deaths and other nefarious crimes. A plague mage serving a god who fears the poison element in her domain must be the conduit for innumerable deadly poisons and diseases being used by cultists to inflict pain and death on the common dark core people of various nations.
The death mage who only recovered after hearing his mate's screams of agony is completely terrified, he is most likely a descendant of the third or fourth generation of cultists. Lots of money spent on him, but no overwhelming faith in his behavior—pain and fear are suppressing whatever indoctrination he suffered growing up, and as he should be a legacy among them there was no need to try to program his mind.
An entire family of cultists wrapped around him, where would he be able to flee? During Raven's classes she identified this type of target as the best opening to get information. The contracts and oaths made by these types of cultists tend to be vaguer because figures they serve and may end up replacing their masters' positions in the future are cult politicians and strategists that type of figure avoids being tied to too many restrictions.
"Now only you are left my friend, I hope you choose a different fate than that whore. Although there are few women in the smugglers' camp, I wouldn't be surprised that some men show interest in you, even if they choose to torture you to vent their anger you can be sure that you will get so dirty that even the cleansing fire of the goddess Elena will not. be able to clean you completely."
"You're going to want to talk to me about the base you guys have in Misfus, or you're going to want me to drag you to the smugglers' camp."
As the even paler death mage stared into Raven's deadly eyes from behind the black mask she wears, he hears a cheering sound from where the smugglers were.
"Looks like they liked the half-naked whore, they'll probably like you too."
"No! I say, just promise to kill me before the templars arrive."
"Okay, I don't have a problem letting your soul go into your god's fucking domain, but I'll only do that after I've destroyed your base in Misfus and captured as many cultists as we can. Only after that I will decapitate you, relax, I will not make your death painful and your corpse will be thrown in a cemetery in Misfus so he doesn't come back as a living dead."
"You have to promise in the name of your goddess! Swear an oath and I'll tell you anything you want."
He's not a complete idiot.
"I swear, I will fulfill my end of the bargain if your information is able to help us. If not, I'll hand you over to the templars, I swear it in the name of my god. Happy now?"
"Yeah, but before I start could you get me some new clothes, I don't feel good this way. I'm not going to ask you to take the chains off, but I don't want to be walking around with my ass hanging out."
"Of course, that's not a problem, we're all civilized people."
How unlucky, Raven never prayed to a god or goddess. She can't be bound by an oath like she just did, I understand why the cultists were tricked by her it's very hard to find someone like Raven in the world where everyone is basically tied to some gods.
I wouldn't be able to swear an oath like Raven, my mother was blessed by the goddess Helena so that makes me have a bond with that goddess. If I tried to break an oath like what Raven did now, I would be burned by the flames of pain, the goddess Helena wouldn't kill me, but she wouldn't let me get away with it.
I was quite surprised when Raven told me about how divine oaths work, she did it so I wouldn't worry about her or have the idea of imitating her if she hadn't warned me that the goddess Helena would punish me, I believe that somewhere at this point in my life I could end up getting burned by her.
In my opinion that it is irrelevant to the gods I don't follow any of them, but unfortunately reality disagrees with my opinion.