No one knew what happened; they just suddenly saw people dying while praying, turning into a pile of rotting flesh before their eyes.
But it was this unknown that made them even more terrified.
They didn't know if they would be the next to suddenly die?
And this fear of not knowing when they would die but feeling like they would die soon was sometimes harder to bear than knowing for certain that they would die the next moment.
"It must be a divine punishment from the gods; the church has already started to act against us. I said at the time not to worship any evil gods. Retribution has come, retribution has come…"
"We will all die, we will all be killed by the adults of the church…"
The villager who had previously questioned the village chief out of panic looked at the rotting flesh on the ground, unable to bear the fear in his heart, and screamed hysterically at the crowd with a look of collapse.
