Huo Village.

This is the real Huo Village, the Huo Village of the real world.

The people of the Sanctuary and Iris have all withdrawn from the Secret Realm, and the space inside, which is no different from Huo Village, has changed beyond recognition, as if it had suffered a great war, and the environment has been completely destroyed.

The passage has been opened.

Now, people from outside don't have to look for a key to get there.

Previously, Father Corrado had to borrow Malti so that he could break through the Void Passage and enter the Realm.

Now, you don't need a marti to come and go as you please.

It's like a door, you need a key to unlock it, but if that door is violently damaged and completely destroyed, it is equivalent to breaking a big hole in the wall.

Keys, you don't need them!

In the previous battle, Father Corrado borrowed the power of the Holy Son John in the Secret Realm and performed the Divine Descent Technique, capturing the breath of the core area of the Secret Realm, and at the same time, also cutting off the connection between the core area and the surface space of Huo Village.

It was as if two Hercules were in a tug-of-war, and the surface space of the Trick Realm was the spoils hanging in the middle of the ropes.

Now, the transcendents of Noah's continent have won a temporary victory, pulling the rope closer to themselves, allowing the loot to get closer to their territory, and they also want to pull the enemy Hercules on the other side of the rope to get more loot.

However, the tug-of-war is still ongoing.

In the end, it is not yet known who will win and who will lose.

Despite the victory, the Templar paid a price, with a black-clad priest and a dozen or so cathar knights dying in the operation.

As for the irises......

Because it was an auxiliary force, there were not many participants, and everyone returned safely and without injury.

The only loss of Ryan Charles.

He was temporarily excluded from the operation, and instead of returning to Iris's camp, he was escorted to the Templar's camp, where he was imprisoned in the Thorn Quarter, commonly known as the Chamber of Atonement.

Of course, this is not to say that Ryan is a demon, a source of pollution, and a prisoner of the order.

This is only some kind of temporary measure.

At the beginning, Father Brown used such a dangerous method as exorcism, but he failed to prove that Ryan Charles was enchanted and contaminated by a strange aura.

However, his suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, and another monitoring is required.

At this time, it should be Cardinal Father Corrado who should intervene.

A gifted person like Ryan, who has not yet stepped into the threshold of transcendence, is more than enough to dispatch a big man like the Cardinal to identify him.

However, after performing the Divine Descent, Father Corrado also entered a state of retreat.

His soul has been irreparably damaged, and although a containment item like the Holy Cross is known as a holy relic, in fact, it is also a product of the Secret Realm, even if it has the blessing of holy light, it still can't stay in the real world for a long time, and it needs to be contained in a special way.

Father Corrado had to be in charge in person in order to seal off the Holy Cross.

What's more, at this time, it is very critical, the Templar side is already dispatching troops to punish generals, not only from the Rock Village, but also from the Lance City side to seek reinforcements, and the headquarters of the Franc Templar located in Bahrain, the imperial capital of the French Empire, has also received information, and should react, even if it is the Templar, it cannot ignore an intact secret realm.

So, no one cares about Ryan Charles.

And he was put into the place of thorns.

The reason why the atonement room is called the place of thorns is very simple, staying in it, it will make people uncomfortable, just like the confinement room for errant soldiers on the Aqua Blue Star, leaving you in the dark, no one to communicate with you, and you can't feel the passage of time, just like a person being banished to an island with no one, isolated from the world, it is difficult to find a ray of light.

This place of thorns is greater than the confinement chamber.

Entering it is at least ten times more lonely than being in a confinement room.

Originally, it was a place for ascetics to practice in order to sharpen their will, to purify their souls, to purify their faith, and to seek a breakthrough in order to gain God's approval and gain divine grace.

In this era, there were fewer and fewer ascetics.

The reason why there are fewer and fewer is because the road is not easy to walk, and the priests who can cross that threshold can be described as very rare, and the vast majority of them are silent in the place of thorns, either dying or going mad.

Pay for one's whistle!

So, with the exception of a very small number of people who were allowed to enter the temple, most of them were denied permission by the temple to embark on the path of asceticism.

Later, this thing evolved into a punishment.

The punishment of priests who are unclean in heart and whose belief in God is not pure is the origin of the Atonement.

At the same time, this thing can also temporarily trap some suspected human beings, here, there is the breath of God, God is unique, with exclusivity, even if the mysterious breath is hidden very deeply, as long as you stay in this thorny place for three days and three nights, there is no way to continue to hide, in the end, it can only turn into a ball of white light, purified by God's divine power.

As for the innocent suspect, who could not bear the invasion of loneliness and became insane, such a result is still within the scope of the Templar's endurance.

After all, it is the duty of all people to make sacrifices for the Lord.

Dark!

There is darkness without a trace of light!

It was so rich that it seemed like the darkness of the night of the whole world condensed into a cloud!

Ryan stayed in the darkness, stretched out his fingers and raised them in front of him, even if he raised them to a centimeter or two in front of his eyes, there was no way to see that his visual organs had lost their function in this environment.

Fearing a severe blow to his visual organs, Ryan closed his eyes.

Lonely!

The all-pervasive aura of loneliness permeated him and enveloped him tightly......

Ryan didn't care about that.

At least, he didn't care for the first ten minutes of being locked up in the Thorn Place.

What happens over time?

That's another story!

He paced his breathing, slow and deep, almost nothing.

I don't know how long it took!

In Ryan's estimation, an hour should have passed, and according to the rhythm of his breathing, it should be, even if there were not many mistakes, of course, if he continued, he might not be able to estimate the time correctly.

After all, the human body has limitations.

An hour passed.

Nothing has changed in the slightest.

At the same time, the golden book in the sea of knowledge does not have a disturbing reaction, that is, for the time being, their own safety.

A thought pierced through the void along the invisible passage and made contact with the distraction on the Tower of Babel, which was still on the Tower of Babel, undetected by the being.

Ryan didn't dare to stay long, and quickly retracted his thoughts.

Subsequently, he began to meditate.

The mental power has skyrocketed, and other aspects need to keep up.

During this time in the Thorn Place, it is just the right time.