On the frontier, An Su had already encountered children of darkness—they had almost been made into sacrificial offerings for the achievements of Kavensis.
Now, they were being raised on the Chenxing family estate.
Every year, nearly ten thousand infants tainted with dark talents were born in the Empire, despised by the Radiance from birth, and most were abandoned, seen as ominous omens; some provincial governments even regularly purged the Dark Sons, at the same time sentencing the families that hid these children to the stake.
The fate of these children of darkness, other than starvation, was to become sacrificial offerings for the Esoteric Sect Followers, for the Mother Goddess of Life favored these children alone.
As the rank of Esoteric Sect Followers increased, so, too, did the quality of the witch hunts by the saints, forming a cyclical industry chain—this phenomenon was somewhat better in central areas, but in some remote churches, it had become an unwritten rule!
