Side Story Chapter 178: Paradise (8)
Twelve pillars of light surged upward as if chasing away the darkness. The people walking out of the pillars of light had white hair and skin. They were wearing white ceremonial garments and a golden Libra scale necklace.
They were the Apostles of Light, those who worshiped Akart and carried out his will. They had crossed the Sun Stairs from the Temple of Truth and appeared in Luceo Pure.
“Hmm.”
Forty-eight apostles had come out from the twelve pillars of light, a group of four in each pillar.
“I expected an epidemic to have broken out in Luceo Pure, but…”
The apostles looked around with narrowed eyes. Their first guess about the drastic decrease in the number of residents heading to the Temple of Light for work was the spread of a severe illness. It was only natural since the reduction had been so sudden as if they had planned it.
“That doesn’t seem to be the case,” said a woman looking around with narrowed eyes.
Since none of Luceo Pure’s houses had doors, they could see what every resident was doing. None of them seemed ill— all they saw was the ordinary and joyous paradise they were used to.
“Hmm, if it’s not an illness, what could it be…?”