"You want to ...... Eradicate demons. ”

042's voice trembled a little, for the boy, what the old man longed for was so terrifying, and in his cognition, it seemed very difficult to fight the demons, let alone eradicate them.

"Is that what you've been here for?"

Many people did not understand what Lorenzo Medici was trying to do, and he did not reveal his purpose to others, and remained silent, no one knew what was going on in his head.

"yes, those people in the church are really pathetic, pathetic, do they think I'm going to fail when I'm old? No, no, on the contrary, I'm going to succeed. ”

The old man was very excited, and told 042 about everything he had conceived, which had been in his mind for too long, he was like a dancer on stage, but the audience was blank until he ushered in 042 many years later.

It's a really great feeling, to tell the unknown greatness of yourself, even though the audience at the moment is only a child who doesn't know everything.

"You know what?042, I didn't become a Pope, but I became a more terrible being than the Pope, I want to end the history of demons and usher in a golden age, but I know that it is pointless for that fool to keep fighting, killing one demon will appear two, they are endless...... I'm going to kill the demons from the source. ”

The dessert on the small table was eaten, and the old man leisurely picked up the wine glass, and the liquid in the glass was like scarlet blood in the faint light.

"I secretly dominated the Pope and the whole of Filenal, searching the past of the entire Evangelical Church, trying to find the source of the demons in the history of the Church. ”

"Did you find it?"

042 was also cheered up by the old man's words, the source of the demon, if he could find the beginning of all this, with the ability of the old man in front of him, he might really be able to end it all.

"No, but I found a lot of interesting things...... History is continuous and logical, but the history of the evangelical church is different, and there are a lot of contradictions and loopholes in the records that I have found, and there are a lot of doctrinals mixed in, and you can feel that there is a problem here.

I've spent a lot of time sorting it out, and in the midst of those fragmented threads, I've come to the conclusion that the history of the evangelical church has been revised. ”

"Revised?"

"Well, someone deliberately hides something, like the origin of our evangelical church, no matter how I look for it, our origin is full of mythology, without the slightest sense of reality, I know this too well, there are some things in power that don't want the people to know the truth of the matter, so they use religion to embellish it...... There are people who don't want us to know where they came from, and what they deliberately hide. ”

The old man kept stroking his fingers, as if he were wiping some invisible treasure, and with his words, 042 could clearly feel his expression hovering between madness and reason.

"But it's strange why hasn't anyone discovered these vulnerabilities, or have they found out, but haven't passed on the information?"

The old man then asked.

"042 You're a smart kid, might as well guess, why is this happening?"

042 was stunned, he seemed a little hesitant, but with the encouragement of the old man's gaze, he said slowly.

"Excluding all kinds of impossibilities, the only remaining result, no matter how bizarre and absurd, is the only truth. ”

"Well, that's good, I like it, it sounds a bit extreme self-recognition, but it's not going to be easy, there are so many things in this world that can mislead us, sometimes we have to get paranoid," the old man praised 042, "Go on." ”

"Is that okay?"

042 glanced at the old man, and then spoke out his guess.

"If there are people who are deliberately hiding something, from the beginning of the evangelical church until now, then they really exist, it should be an organization similar to us, and more hidden than we are, even saying that they exist in our evangelical church, and they are in our upper echelons, and only then can the record be modified. ”

042 said and became afraid, if what the old man said was true, then what did these people want to do? They are all in power in the Evangelical Church, what are they trying to hide?

"Yes, at first I came to the same conclusion as you, that there were some damn guys at work within us, and in order to get them out, I became a cardinal, ruling over different puppets, and dismantling the power of the entire evangelical church little by little, and then putting it in my hands. ”

The old man was also puzzled, and his voice was puzzled.

"The Pope has become my puppet, and Lawrence has also controlled the Demon Hunters with my support, and those families that refuse to submit have been destroyed by me, and potential enemies have also been quickly eliminated by me......

My power has reached its peak, I am the Pope in the shadows, I am the Emerald, the Evangelical Church, and even the Holy Evangelical Papal States!"

He gripped his glass, blue veins wrapped around his arm like a viper.

"But strange things happened, I ruled everything, but I never found those guys, as if they didn't exist, they were invisible.

After that, I thought about it for a long time, I felt that I would not be misled, and I would not make a misjudgment, and I was puzzled by this for a long time, and I didn't solve these problems, but then I didn't care about these things anymore and moved on to solving the problem of demons. ”

After taking a sip of wine, the old man moistened his throat and continued.

In the dim darkness of the underground, only his voice echoed slowly, the witchers standing like sculptures, and sometimes 042's afterglow could see through the shadows, and beneath the hood were a pair of closed eyes.

"I put these anomalies aside and re-planned the history of the evangelical church in later times...... No, to be precise, it's the history of humans and demons, listen carefully, 042, there aren't many history lessons like this. ”

The old man called out to 042, calling his wandering gaze back.

"Under my classification, the history of humans and demons can be roughly divided into four ages, the Dark Age, the Silver Age, and the Golden Age.

Don't you understand? Actually, it's good to understand it this way. ”

After seeing 042's somewhat confused eyes, the old man continued.

According to the Gospels, human beings and demons coexist in the world, but human beings have no power to resist demons at all, and they live in darkness, which is a time of despair, a dark age, but with the establishment of the Gospel Church and the emergence of demon hunters, human beings have the power to fight demons for the first time, and the silver age has arrived. ”

The old man smiled as he said this, and there was a bit of narcissism in his tone.

"But ah, in the Silver Age, we were only evenly matched with the demons, until I appeared, I integrated those scattered powers together, we were more powerful than ever, and the demons gradually disappeared under our purge, this is the golden age, my age. ”

042 was not surprised by the old man's narcissism, and he asked.

"But you're talking about four eras, and that's only three. ”

"yes, I just...... Some of them could not confirm the existence of that era, so I named it the Age of Traceability. ”

The old man became serious, and took another sip of fine wine, a little red liquid remaining on his beard, like a bloodthirsty beast.

"Have you ever thought so?042, neither humans nor demons can appear in this world out of thin air, we need a starting point, and with the power of demons, they can easily destroy humanity, we may not wait for the Silver Age to come, we will perish.

But we survived, and that's not right, isn't it?

And then there is, where did the Book of Revelation come from, and although the Gospels say that the priests got it in the north, when did it appear, did man create it, or was it God?

It's funny, right, the more you trace back to the source, the more you will find holes in this world...... Holes that those guys want to deliberately hide. ”

042's gaze was a little glazed, he seemed to be unable to accept so much information for a while, and his mind was chaotic, like a sticky chaos.

"After studying for a long time, I came up with the hypothesis that before the Dark Ages, humans and demons existed in the Age of Origins, but at that time there was a ...... between humans and demons It was probably a close match, until something happened, the dark ages came, and all the technology was broken by the ravages of demons...... This explains the mystery of the Baptism of the Divine Favor and the Silver-Binding Bolt, doesn't it? These things are far beyond our current understanding, and they are difficult to reproduce.

Doesn't that make sense?"

The old man looked at 042 with a bright light in his eyes and rejoiced.

But this sounded so unbelievable to 042, a little unacceptable, and his voice trembled.

"Is that really the case?"

The old man's expression suddenly declined slightly, but rose again.

"I don't know, it's just my assumption, but I still have a chance to prove it. ”

Putting down the wine glass, the old man smiled kindly, and the slight footsteps sounded, and at some point the demon hunters opened their eyes, drew their sharp nail swords, and they circled and marched, their eyes seemed to be looking at some empty nothingness, and then a blazing white firework rose from under their eyes, reflecting everything underground.

"Not only that, 042, but I also found those guys, the guys who deliberately hid their history. ”

The old man said again, drawing 042's mind back.

"I found those guys, or those guys found me.

Yes, it all makes sense, although I think I'm a ...... Aha, I'm a little narcissistic, but ah, in this long history of the evangelical church, in this long silver age, there must be someone like me, isn't it?"

The old man suddenly grabbed 042's hand, his rough palm gently rubbing against the young body, as if he were wiping a treasure.

"Yes, there must be people like me who have discovered these loopholes, but why, why didn't they pass on the information? It's actually very simple, because they are all dead, and these deliberately hidden histories are cursed knowledge, and they touched the cursed knowledge, they touched the [boundary], so they were killed, killed by those guys who guarded the secrets. ”

The old man laughed hoarsely, and with his laughter, the rising blazing flames shook violently, and the eyes of the demon hunters swept back and forth, as if they were looking for something, but there were only the old man and 042 in the underground.

042 felt a slight sense of fear, which he couldn't tell, but it was terrifying, as if something was staring at him in a corner of the shadows, and it slowly squirmed until it crawled out of the darkness.

"They're coming to kill me...... When I saw them, I understood everything, it was the mortal mind that limited me, and the world was a thousand times more complicated than we imagined.

But sadly, I am Lorenzo Medici, how could I die so easily?

The old man seemed to be mentally affected, unable to control his emotions, sometimes like a madman, sometimes quietly like a sculpture.

"Who are they?"

042's pupils constricted, and his heart pounded violently.

The old man's words paused, and he asked.

"Those who will die, and those who touch [the border] will not die well. ”

042's face turned pale, and he could feel that he was only one step away from the truth of this world, and as long as he reached out his hand, he could lift the soft curtain, but he also felt the extreme fear.

The old man was right, this was the Boundary, and once he understood all this, 042 would touch the Boundary as well, and he would burn and flicker in the darkness, watched by all the weirdness of the potential darkness.

But 042 couldn't bear it, he knew that when he asked this sentence, it would be the beginning of disaster, but he was so curious that no one could refuse all this, he asked again.

"What the hell are they!

After a brief moment of silence, the old man let out a hoarse laugh as he reached out and rubbed 042's head vigorously as if he were stroking some cute animal.

"Ah...... There are so many selfish desires of human beings, and I am too old, when I was young, I could still hold these tightly in my hands, but now that I am old, those people have begun to rebel against me, and even Lawrence finally chose to betray.

I found that human beings need a unified will, a strong will, only in this way can the golden age continue, and we can drive out the demons and exterminate them, instead of being content with the status quo as we are now.

I met the new pope once before the retreat, and he was very confident, after all, he was the first pope to break away from my control in so many years, and I had the same conversation with him in the Basilica of Saint-Narlo, and I tried to tell him this, but after listening he refused to resist and refused to continue fighting.

I thought they would understand me, build the perfect era together, and banish all the demons, but they refused, they were afraid of the truth, they were afraid of death.

That's when I realized that these people couldn't lead the Golden Age, they were just pigs who were content with the status quo, and no matter how many demons there were, as long as the demon hunters still existed, they couldn't shake their status...... Just like me at the beginning, I can eat and drink, who cares if I am a demon or not?"

The old man said terrible things in a relaxed tone.

"Your Excellency. ”

Suddenly, the witcher's voice interrupted the conversation, and he stood beside the old man, reporting to him.

"011, what, has anyone seen them?" the old man asked.

"Yes. 011 replied.

"How much longer. ”

"There are about five minutes left. ”

The old man nodded, and continued.

"Can you Chanda-chan witchers already see this far into the future?"

"It's only temporary, the blood of the Holy Grail is about to burn out, and when it's all consumed, you can see the future in a few seconds at most. 011 replied.

"Really......"

The old man sighed and muttered to himself.

"Sometimes I wonder what kind of future Lawrence sees, after all, he has used so much of the blood of the Holy Grail, and I wonder what the future is like that would make him choose to betray me. ”

The old man turned his head to look at the face under the hood, and asked again.

"Will you betray me?011, you know, you Shangda Witchers, it's very difficult to get here without alarming the Demon Hunter Order. ”

"No, we also yearn for that golden age. 011 said.

The old man looked at his face and smiled.

"That's good, they're all good boys......"

"But...... My lord, you pre-loaded those chalice blood on us, plus the part of the grail blood he used," 011 said, his gaze falling on 042's body, "what about you? you don't have any chalice blood to use. ”

"Don't worry about that, go get ready and greet our guests. ”

As he spoke, the old man picked up the pocket watch on the small table, twisted it slightly, and timed it.

Five-minute countdown.

"Let's go back to what they are and what they want to do, but before we do that, I'd like to tell you a mythological story that will make it easier for you to understand. ”

The old man looked at 042 again, clutching the delicate pocket watch in his hand, and he could feel a slight tremor as the machine turned, like spilled dust, time slowly passing in his hand.

"You know, Wild Hunt?"

"Wild Hunt?"

042 vaguely remembers this thing, he likes to read, and he also reads a lot of books about mythological stories.

"Yes, the Wild Hunt, a legend that has been passed down in the Western world, whether it is Lebber, or Invig, or even the Viking countries, it has its records, although the specific image is not the same according to the region, but they have a common description. ”

The old man suddenly told a mythical story.

"They are beings who bring death, and those humans who look directly at them join them in their safaris, chasing and hunting in the darkness of the night. ”

"Think about it, 042, don't look at it in a mythical way, think of it as an actual existence that can be understood...... Let's talk about it. The old man encouraged.

"A group of unknown beings with extraordinary powers...... They're going to hunt some kind of hunt, hunt a certain kind of people, and hunt everyone who sees them, and they exist in multiple territories?" 042's description was dry, and he didn't know how to describe it all.

"Well, I learned about this myth by accident, but later, when they came to kill me, they linked it to the Wild Hunt, and found that all the stories were complete. ”

The old man's expression was no longer excited, but extremely calm.

"They're beings like the Wild Hunt...... No, it is possible that they are the mythical 'wild hunt', but people do not understand what they are, so they can only be called 'wild hunt' and deified. ”

"What are you talking about, sir? 042 became more and more incomprehensible to his words, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense, even turning into boiling fear.

"Yes, that's right, the 'Wild Hunt' is the guardian of the [Border], and all those who touch this cursed knowledge will be targeted and hunted by them, and the history of the Evangelical Church has been deliberately modified by them to protect the [Border]. Those who are on my side by side can also realize that these people have been killed by the 'wild hunters'.

That's it, not only the Evangelical Church, but also in Lieber, in Invig, and in the Viking countries, there have been people who have discovered the source of demons and discovered the [Border]. ”

The old man ignored 042's questioning, and he seemed to be completely immersed in the beauty of self-weaving.

I'm glad that the old man is not lonely, and in the past there have been people who have stood in the same position as him, and he clenched his pocket watch, and then whispered.

"Look, they're coming. ”

For a moment, it seemed as if something was caressing 042, it seemed to be a group of snakes, they were entangled in 042's body, coiling along his neck, he could clearly feel the cold touch, and then the fear boiled to the extreme.

All thoughts were violently torn apart at this moment, and all that was left in his mind was empty chaos, and the sharp sound of the wind whistled by, as if countless nail swords were slashing above the metal armor, bringing dazzling sparks, and also setting off chaotic string sounds, all of which slammed into SCP-042's eardrums, followed by blood spilling from the ear canal.

"Welcome!

Lorenzo Medici raised her head and welcomed them with open hands.

The fireworks rose at this moment, and the witchers swung their spiked swords and slammed into the pulsing arc. The Chandal Hunters unleashed their powers here until they saw them in the future.

Countless black arcs of light danced, shattering stone walls and matter, and under the light were angels that had not yet taken shape, with broken wings behind their backs, and the witchers had already seen their arrival, and at the moment of their indeed, they delivered a fatal blow.

The mangled body then fell, falling before the eyes of Lorenzo Medici, whose delicate countenance lay blank on the unsettling old man, who picked up the glass and pressed it against its hideous wounds, scarlet blood gushing and filling the glass.

"Don't you think there's a new Holy Grail Blood?"

Lorenzo Medici said cheerfully, then drew his nail sword and pierced the angel-like existence in front of him, and above his head, with the death of the first angel, dozens of black arcs burst out one after another, and the evil light reflected everyone.

Under the shadow of that erosion, the abominable divine descended.