With the abilities that the heroes possessed, there really wasn't anything that the villagers could hide from them.
It turned out that the kid taken by the Black Tide had suffered quite a bit at the hands of the villagers.
In a village like this, there were all kinds of strange religious beliefs that could form.
There would be things like false gods that would rule over these villages.
This was one of those villages that worshipped a false god.
It turned out that the reason that the kid's parents had died was because of their worship of the false god.
They had been the unlucky ones that had been sacrificed in the name of the false god, though they never knew about this until the very end. When they were being sacrificed, they had asked the villagers to let their son go.
However, the villagers had raised that kid to become the next sacrifice.
