Five hundred kilometers is really nothing to Cross.

As the patriarch of the Church and now the commander-in-chief of the occupation zone, Cross has a transcendent status and experiences that no one else can even imagine.

Like the other Patriarchs, Cross was once an Elder of the Shadow Alliance, and a Veteran Elder.

More than a thousand years ago, Cross came to this world and possessed superpowers, and then worked for the Shadow Alliance for a long time. It's just that disaster that changed Cross's fate and made him a different person. Almost overnight, the Shadow Alliance collapsed. In the face of a powerful enemy, Cross did not stop resisting, but led the personnel of the branch to fight to the rear.

As a result, Cross became a legend of the Shadow Alliance.

In the eyes of those few survivors, Cross died heroically. He fought to the last of his life, until his life was taken by a merciless enemy.

However, Cross did not die.

When he came back to life, he not only had stronger superpowers, but also retained his full consciousness.

From then on, Cross began to work for the church and became the fifth patriarch of the church.

Cross threw himself into the arms of the church, not because Holmes brought him back to life, nor because Holmes gave him greater superpowers, but because he had a clearer understanding. In his last life, Cross had never doubted the ideals upheld by the Shadow Alliance, but when he gained life again and saw what Holmes had shown him, his perception changed a hundred and eighty degrees.

This is not coercion, but completely voluntary.

The point is, what is the value of human existence?

Cross didn't want to think about the past, and he rarely did. He only knows that as a person, a person with great strength, he must have a certain value when he lives in this world, and he must realize this value in order to perfect his second life.

This value is to make human beings stronger.

Close firmly believes that the Church led by Fester can make humanity stronger, and that humanity can become the master of the universe in the process of self-evolution.

Although this value has not yet been realized, four years ago, when Holmes launched the conquest plan according to Feist's instructions, the Church has already dominated the earth, dominated all the Anthropocene realms, achieved the great unification of human civilization, and laid the foundation for the next grand plan.

For this reason, Cross came to the Northern Continent and became the commander-in-chief of the eastern region of the Northern Continent.

According to Homs's arrangement, the four continents were divided into ten occupation zones, except for the old continent, which was directly ruled by Homs, the other three continents were divided into three occupation zones, each of which was directly led by a patriarch, and all occupied territories fought for the same goal.

During this period, the church added a patriarch.

As far as Cross knew, Holmes was still concocting the last Patriarch, and most likely the most powerful.

Of course, like the other patriarchs, Cross was unimpressed.

Although the senators had different superpowers, in the church, the status of the senators was the same, and all the senators were loyal to Fester.

Aside from Fester and Holmes, the Patriarch is the most powerful being.

Close is no exception, he has a superpower that far surpasses that of the others, and it is an extremely rare and extremely special superpower.

It's just that the incident five years ago gave Cross other ideas.

What happened that day made Cross realize that there was an extremely powerful presence outside the church, and that this existence was capable of challenging the patriarchs of the church.

Although Holmes blocked all news after that day, he did not erase the memories of the other senators.

That person, the strength he showed, even if he did not surpass the patriarch, was definitely not worse than the patriarch, and he was even able to escape from Feister's palm.

You must know that even in front of the patriarch, Feist is a supreme being.

Among other things, in Cross's memory, Fester only appeared twice. Once, when he was still an elder of the Shadow Alliance, Fester led Holmes and two other elders to attack the headquarters of the Shadow Alliance, and killed all the elders of the Shadow Alliance overnight, and Cross was no exception. The other time was five years ago, against the guy who controlled Dom.

Although five years have passed, Cross knows that the guy is not dead.

The sudden disappearance of Feister, and the fact that Holmes continued to carry out the plan to capture the city before leaving, was enough to show that the existence of that person had affected Feister.

It's just that, for five years, nothing happened, making everyone let their guard down.

Until this moment!

As a veteran, Cross has a very strong mental power, even if it is not comparable to Homs, he can control all the modulators in the occupied area, and establish spiritual connections with all the officers and soldiers of the occupation army, including the commander, and obtain information from them.

Of course, the connection is not very close.

The main thing is that during the four years of occupation of the northern continent, nothing unexpected happened. Although the flies-like resistance fighters are still moving around, their resistance is getting weaker and the damage they cause is getting weaker, and it has not had much impact on the occupying forces. Every now and then there may be a convoy attacked, an occupying force slaughtered, and a transport of energy bodies snatched, but many more resistance fighters will die as a result. Transporting energy bodies by ground vehicles was originally a tactic against the resistance. If it is directly airlifted, it can ensure the safety of the energy body, but it will not be able to lure the resistance out of the forest.

The relatively safe environment made Cross let his guard down.

When Lagarde's connection to consciousness was abruptly broken, Cross was not alarmed, as something similar had happened before. If Lagarde wanted to do something shady, he would minimize his mental power and not let Cross sense it.

It wasn't until the commotion in the Rising Sun City expanded that Cross knew that something was wrong.

By the time he arrived, the situation was almost out of control.

Tens of thousands of occupation officers and soldiers have almost completely lost control without a commander, and some have even turned into slaughtering civilians within the loss. This led to more serious conflicts, and the civilians who had been modulated were transformed to respond to the threat from the occupying forces.

After summoning the commanders of several nearby cities and bringing the situation under control, Cross found Lagarde.

Lagarde's corpse, to be exact.

To Cross's horror, Lagarde was in a different place, but he didn't transform!

That is, Lagarde was killed before he could transform.

The person who killed Lagarde had definitely no worse than the patriarch, or even stronger. The reason is that even if Cross personally intervened, if he didn't use his mental power to control Lagarde, he would not be able to make Lagarde's body change before he transformed.

It is important to know that Lagarde is a commander, not an ordinary modulator.

In the Church, the Commander is second only to the Commander-in-Chief, the highest being in a city, and has superpowers second only to the Senator.

To be able to kill him so easily, that guy must be very powerful.

Of course, there is one point that Cross overlooks. If he controls Lagarde with his mental strength, he can also finish Lagarde before he transforms. If the person who attacked Lagarde had the same strong psychic power, he would be able to stop Lagarde from transforming and then kill him.

The problem is that in Cross's opinion, no one has such a strong mental power except for the patriarch.

Obviously, it is absolutely impossible for the one who attacked Lagarde and killed Lagarde to be the senator.

Not to mention anything else, the elders had already established a spiritual connection with each other, and when the other elders came to Cross's territory, Cross was able to perceive it in the first time.

Besides, there was no reason for the other senators to kill Lagarde.

Combining these, Cross thought of the super-powerful being five years ago.

If the guy who gave Fest a headache was still alive and here, he would have been able to take out Lagarde with ease.

What's more, there's a good chance that guy is even better than he was five years ago.

You must know that compared with five years ago, Cross's strength has increased a lot. That guy was hidden for five years, and it was impossible to waste five years. He suddenly appeared at this time, attacked the modulation center of Sunburst City, and killed Lagarde, there must be a very important reason.

What the hell is he trying to do?

Cross was annoyed.

He wasn't afraid of that powerful existence, because he was also stronger than before, and his current strength, even if it wasn't as good as Feist, wouldn't be much worse than Feist five years ago. What gave him a headache was the responsibility for this, that guy appeared in the area controlled by Cross, if he was allowed to slip away and make trouble somewhere else, Holmes would definitely be held responsible, and Cross would be held accountable for it.

Of course, taking responsibility is a small thing.

The important thing is, if that guy is really allowed to slip away, where will Cross's face remain?

At least in the eyes of the other patriarchs, his status and ability would be questioned, and this would even affect Holmes's perception of him, thus causing him to suffer a loss in the church, in the eyes of Feist.

Cross is the highest level of existence in the church, and he would never allow such a thing to happen.

Now that that guy has attacked Sunburst and killed Lagarde, Cross is going to find him and kill him so he can disappear forever!

Disposing of Lagarde's body, Cross returned to Sunburst City.

The situation has been brought under control, order has been restored to the city, patrols have resumed with the occupation forces and several commanders who have arrived in an emergency are doing their best.

Cross was in no hurry to leave Sunburst City.

That guy must be hiding near Sunburst City, and he didn't run away, and he must use this opportunity to find him and settle his troubles once and for all.