Voices of the past (8)

Lured by the mysteries of the scroll, Yang Qing gulped as his eyes glistened with excitement and anxiousness about what happened next.

"The burial sites were some distance from the frontlines and the locations chosen were those that held little value to either the White Mulberry Kingdom or the Purgatory black tiger cult. 

To ensure they had a lot of volunteers along with the forcibly conscripted, the royal family of the White Mulberry Kingdom promised purifiers would be exempt from fighting on the front lines and the locations would be protected from the war.

From the way the Wang patriarch described it, the war back then even at the earlier stages was truly horrific, especially with the torturous arts of the cult. As the war continued, citizens were left to fend for themselves with the kingdom only stepping in when the dead reached a certain number, and even then they only stepped in to take care of the corpses.