Before Fester came up with it, building a fortress was something that Holmes had never thought about.

What a fortress capable of accommodating 200 million superpowers and able to break through spatial barriers would look like, even Holmes couldn't imagine.

The fortress was designed by Feist, and Homs only had to follow the design drawings.

In fact, as early as hundreds of years ago, Feist completed the design of the fortress, but all this time, there were no basic conditions for the manufacture of the fortress. When he got the design, Holmes even felt that the church existed to create this monster at some point.

Because it was so massive, the fortress had to be made separately in various places.

As a creature made up of single-celled organisms, it is not difficult to assemble the parts, all you need is a large enough place and a suitable environment.

This bay is big enough.

The bay is located in the south of the Old Continent, with the mainland to the west and north, a narrow peninsula to the east, and a narrow outlet to the south. Because the fortress will lift directly into the air after completing the assembly, and then enter a transfer orbit around the Earth, there is no need to take into account the size of the exit.

A smaller outlet can also make it easier to change the hydrological environment in the bay.

The fortress was divided into three parts, two of which were built on the Northern Continent and the United Continent, but the last to assemble them was here. During the construction of the sections, Holmes arranged for the Church to block the bay, build a levee slightly above sea level at the southern exit, and install a thousand sets of seawater purification units on the dam. It took four years for the purified sea water to enter the bay and make the bay suitable for the fort to survive and to be able to assemble the fort inside.

It's just that it's not enough.

The average depth of the bay is less than 100 meters, which is not enough to assemble a fort, so in the past four years, the engineering team of the church has dug up a large amount of silt from the bay and even increased the average depth of the bay to 2,000 meters by blasting the seabed.

The mud and rocks that were brought out of the bay piled up a mountain nearly 5,000 meters high on the land to the west.

It can be said that this is a project of astonishing scale.

The bay, which has been built and renovated, has become a giant biochemical petri dish, with an environment that allows single-celled life to thrive.

Of course, no one knows what happened here, and no one knows the secrets that Lu Dao hides in the bay.

For more than four years, under the control of the four elders, no one outside the church could enter the bay at all, and they could not approach it, so naturally they did not know what the church was doing here.

As for the fortress, it is the biggest secret of the Church.

A fortress is both a creature and a machine.

Inside this biological machine, there is an environment where superpowers can survive and gradually increase their abilities during the long space voyage. Of course, this is an environment where ordinary people simply cannot live, and there are not many living facilities set up.

Feist wanted an army, not a group of refugees.

In addition, the fortress itself has the ability to modulate, and is able to modulate the superpowers who enter, and it is modulated according to Feister's consciousness.

Holmes knew that Feist wanted the strongest men.

By Fest's standards, even the patriarchs of the Church, even Holmes, were not powerful enough to confront the Adventists.

There is only one way to become stronger, and that is to achieve the most recalcitrant evolution.

Although Holmes does not agree with the use of the word "evolution", because after mastering the laws of evolution, human development has nothing to do with nature, and evolution is the result of natural evolution, to be precise, it should be self-reinforcing, but in order to meet Feister's standard, it is necessary to make the most radical changes to the self-form, so that human beings have unimaginable powerful abilities that only gods previously possessed.

At that time, people will no longer be human in the traditional sense.

If we take the morphological criterion as the standard, after this step, human beings no longer exist, and in their place are a completely new species.

A species similar to the Advent!

This is not the result of natural evolution, but it is an inevitable consequence. If humanity does not take this step, then the only outcome is perdition.

In the coming great era, the weak have no right to survive and no room to live.

Humanity can only survive by becoming stronger, and the only way to become stronger is to change the face of humanity through technology.

It is in this way that the members of the Church, including Holmes, are absolutely loyal to Feist.

Perhaps Feister's intentions were selfish, and perhaps the Church's approach was a bit extreme, but at least it proposed a way to make human civilization strong and overcome other civilizations. No matter how lofty and great the ideals of that guy named Chu Tianjiang are, everything he has done is nothing more than to draw a big pie for the desperate human race, and let the remaining human civilization perish with slim hope.

Does he have a way to save human civilization?

Holmes couldn't see it and couldn't think of it. All he did was undermine the foundations on which the church had worked so hard to build and preach ideals that were impossible to achieve.

"Doctor's ......"

Holmes turned his head and looked at Uma behind him, a woman who was absolutely perfect in appearance and figure, a senator concocted by Feister himself.

She is also the second patriarch of Feist's concoction after Holmes.

Although she was the youngest in the church and the last senator, Holmes knew that she was the most powerful being besides Feister.

This is exactly what Fester did to concoct her.

In that battle on the northern continent a few months ago, Homs had lost two senators, including the twelfth senator he had orchestrated. Although Feist did not reproach him, after all, he met Chu Tianjiang, but Feist was obviously seriously dissatisfied with the Sakya concocted by Homs. In fact, this can't be blamed on Holmes, he has done his best, and his ability can only concoct the Sakya patriarch.

As a result, shortly after Homs returned to the Old World, Uma arrived at the temple.

When he first met Uma, Holmes knew that Fester had created a senator who was very close to him in terms of ability.

Holmes couldn't figure out why Feister wanted to create such an existence.

Of course, it didn't take long for Uma to prove her worth with her actions. During the invasion of the United Continent, Uma single-handedly destroyed the Privy Council of the Doomsday Empire, killing the five founders and allowing the Church to take Doomsday City with little to no loss. What surprised Holmes even more was that Uma relied on his mental power to control the 200 million residents of Doom City, making them give up resistance.

Such a powerful superpower both surprised and frightened Holmes.

Although Holmes later found out that Uma did not control the entire Doomsday City by himself, but used the modulators in the church whose spiritual power was strengthened, but under the same circumstances, it was absolutely impossible for Holmes to control 200 million people with mental power like Uma did.

You must know that a quarter of these 200 million people have superpowers.

What frightened Holmes was that Uma's appearance showed that he was no longer the most powerful spiritual patriarch in the church, except for Feister. In fact, the appearance of Uma shows even more that a veteran like Holmes could be eliminated at any time.

In the Church, as in the outer world, strength is everything.

Fester has absolutely great strength, so he has an absolutely lofty status. If Holmes is no longer the most powerful being outside of Fester, then his position in the church will be affected, and he will even be replaced by another elder at some point.

It's just that nothing like this has happened yet.

Regardless, Holmes still has a price to pay. Until the fort is completed, there will be no one to replace him unless Feist himself intervenes.

"There was a patrol to the north that was attacked, and all eight modulators died."

Holmes was stunned and looked over to Uma.

In order to keep the bay secret, Homs set up a cordon 150 kilometers wide, so three senators were needed to guard different locations. Uma's spiritual perception ability must have exceeded one hundred and fifty kilometers, otherwise she would not have known what was happening outside the Dao.

"Lombador has passed." Uma didn't seem to notice the way Holmes looked at her.

In fact, during all this time with Homs, Uma never took him into account, only nominally following his commands.

"What's the situation?"

"It should be the same as the previous attacks, the raid on the patrol was a modulator, and it was not controlled by our psychic power."

"Let's go, let's go and see."

Uma finally turned her gaze to Holmes, who seemed to think that Holmes was making a bit of a fuss.

Of course, Holmes didn't take Uma seriously either.

The defeat on the northern continent had already caused Fest's displeasure. The fort was about to be built, and Homs didn't want an accident at this time. If it's not the modulator who attacks the patrol, but the haunted guy, the defenses have to be redeployed.

Fest can tolerate one mistake, but not a second time.

Besides, the construction of the fortress is well underway, and there is nothing to do here for the time being. If this attack had not occurred, Homs would have left the bay long ago. His base is not here, but in the temple, where more important things await him.

When Homs and Uma arrived, another patriarch, Lombador, had already arrived.

The scene was chaotic and bloody, and as in the attacks of the past few months, all the patrols that were attacked were dead, and they were completely dead.