Chapter 921: The Secret of the Holy See
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"Howard, what the hell did you do in there!" Mina didn't notice Howard's abnormality, but even if she did, she wouldn't pay attention to it.
Shuina didn't expect that Huohua, a guy, would sacrifice tens of thousands of disciples for the sake of an angelic holy city to create such a gorgeous city built with human life and flesh, which was beyond the bottom line that Shuinai could recognize.
Mina would rather fight on the battlefield with these priests who have been petrified into angels than see them treated like this, which is out of humanitarianism and at the same time a recognition of Mina's recognition of the world.
"You...... Found out? I didn't expect to be discovered by you so soon! The corners of Howard's eyes and mouth had been cracked by Suina, and his head was covered in blood.
If Howard didn't use magic, he would be just an old man with a decent physique, and Mina was a violent mage with hundreds of points of power.
"Sure enough, you did it, tens of thousands of lives, and it was ruined like this, do you know?" Mina threw his fist again, but at this moment, his heart sank, and he kicked Howard's body, leaving his original position.
And as soon as he left, an arrow composed of golden holy light flew in front of his eyes.
When Mina and the others looked back, they saw that the seraphim named Jason was retracting his left hand, and on this left hand, an energy bow composed of holy light was slowly dissipating.
"It is the duty of the saints to contribute to the gods, and it is also their honor!" At this point, Jason obviously knew what Mina was talking about, and he didn't think much about it.
"What's the matter, tens of thousands of lives?" Yan Xin saw Jason stop suddenly, so he stopped, and now he had to rest.
This Seraphim Seraph's combat power is very strong, and what is even stronger is that it can maintain the same strength of combat power from beginning to end, without a trace of fluctuation at all, which makes Yan Xin a little uncomfortable. After all, although Yan Xin has been promoted to the god rank, the time is still short, and he is essentially an old man who is too old to forget his age.
"There are nearly 10,000 statues of angels in the Holy City of Angels, and these statues ...... It's made of people. When Mina thought that she had smashed an angel statue, it was as if something was blocking it.
He remembered very well that the prototype of the angel statue he had destroyed was only a teenager at best. And what made him even more unacceptable was that he actually blew it to pieces, and he didn't even have a chance to put it back together.
As soon as she thought of this, Mina felt that this girl had killed herself.
Mina may have killed the enemy NPCs, but she was not allowed to slaughter the unarmed NPCs herself. Because he thinks of this world as a real world, and every creature here should have its own meaning of existence.
"What!" When the surrounding non-Holy Empire personnel heard this, everyone was shocked, and almost at the same time, all those who heard Shuina's words returned their eyes to the Angel Holy City.
For them, although the Angelic Holy City is dilapidated, it cannot affect their sight.
As Minai said, there are nearly 10,000 angel statues in the entire huge and gorgeous Angel Holy City, and there are still some places that have not been erected and are deliberately left empty.
If it is really as Mina said, then at least nearly 10,000 believers of the Holy Empire here have been made into this kind of guardian angel statue.
That's already more than half of the Holy Empire's non-player population.
At the same time, they finally understood why this angelic holy city had become like this, but there was no one who appeared, and they dared to feel that this had become a dead city!
"Howard, are you crazy? Living sacrifices have long been forbidden, and you actually do them again! The old pope was the first to react, he looked at the stone angel statues below, and looked at the faces that could no longer show real smiles, and he only felt a pain in his heart.
Among these people, there were people he knew, although these people did not choose to stand on his side in the end, but he did not expect that these people would actually become living sacrifices of the God of Light.
Living sacrifices are nothing new to the Holy Light Sect. However, in the past, living sacrifices were often done by some wicked people, and their meaning is no longer clear. However, such living sacrifice rituals have long since been abolished.
No one had ever been as crazy as Howard, not only using his own disciples to sacrifice alive, but also on a scale like him that time.
This is no longer a living sacrifice, but a red one. Bare. Naked killing!
"I ......" Although Howard is a person with great ambitions, he has not reached the point of madness, so in the face of the Pope's anger, he did not refute it.
Seeing Howard's dodgy eyes, Yan Xin and the Pope were obviously shocked, because they couldn't believe that Howard had actually destroyed his foundation like this. You must know that the Angel Holy City itself does not have many personnel, and it is impossible for Howard to do so even if he wants to rebel against the Human Empire.
And more importantly, Howard didn't have the ability to do it in such a short period of time. After all, before this, all the believers in this angelic holy city were alive.
"It's a good thing you did! Mind control, you actually used mind control to control the believers in the Angel Holy City! "The Pope quickly understood everything.
"Howard, be sober, you've been controlled, are you going to live in this kind of pain all the time?" The Pope saw some struggling looks in Howard's eyes, and quickly thought of this.
As for Howard, the Pope watched him grow up, although the ambition and arrogance in his heart were a little greater, but it was impossible for him to kill his own disciples because of this. I believe that as long as they are normal people, it is impossible for tens of thousands of believers who believe in themselves to be sent to death like this.
"Sure enough, it's a demon who betrayed the gods! To God, human beings are sacrifices. The meaning of your life is to worship the gods, and this is your natural mission. And to be a saint chosen by the gods is the greatest honor of their lives......"
"Great your sister! There is a kind of self-contribution for you! "At this time, the thief also drove the black dragon and broke into this airspace.
He already knew the cause of the incident, and he didn't expect it, let alone accept that these tens of thousands of people actually died at the hands of his own people.
“…… My life has been consecrated to the great gods, my body has become the sword of the gods, and my heart will always follow the guidance of the gods, and I will die, you lost sinners! The Seraphim Seraphim Jason was obviously also stolen, and he choked on this foul language that did not belong to this world, and only after a pause did he understand.
I saw that the holy light on the six-winged seraphim was blazing, and a golden holy sword stabbed at the thief and the black dragon with all his might.
"Damn, it's a sneak attack!" Although the thief had already made Xiao Hei retreat sharply, the speed of this holy sword was much faster than his.
Just when the holy sword was about to cut off the thief and the black dragon, Farr appeared in front of the black dragon, and with a random sword, he directly cut off the holy sword composed of holy light energy.
"Than a sword? Then let me try your sword! When Farr saw Jason's move, he didn't care about the statue.
For a time, the holy light and the sword qi indulged. The battle was almost unfolding, and at the same time, Flame Heart also cooperated with Farr to kill this Jason with all his might.
"Howard, I wonder how much you're involved in it!" The Pope didn't care about the Seraphim at this time, he was now more concerned about the secrets of this Angelic Holy City.
Because he knew that this living sacrifice was not as simple as consecrating people to the gods, it was one of the ways through which the gods of light drew strength from this world. When the living sacrifice has not been abolished, in order to achieve the conditions of the living sacrifice, the easiest thing is to have extremely strong strength, and only the soul of such a person can meet the conditions for the gods to draw power.
In order to deal with some of the problems of doing so, the living sacrifices of the Holy Light Church are very low-key, and at the same time, they will also declare to the outside world that these people are some heinous people.
However, even so, it was discovered and rebelled by many people. After all, it is not easy to find a strong person who meets the requirements of the God of Light, and the result of wantonly hunting a strong person is to cause everyone's disbelief and inhibition of the Holy Court.
Among them, the Magic Guild is the best example, after learning that the strong man he cultivated was actually killed as a sacrifice by various means, he resisted almost the moment he knew it.
However, what really made this activity officially abolished was that a pope himself hundreds of years ago said that it was abolished and strictly forbidden to live sacrifices, and that this living sacrifice was included in the list of demonic forbidden arts.
And this pope was the first to discover the true face of the God of Light, and the reason why the God of Light issued this oracle that was completely inconsistent with the previous God of Light was actually to weaken the number of powerhouses in this world.
He did this with several meanings, one was to prevent someone from flying from this world to the god realm and competing with him for the god position, after all, the resources of the heavenly realm were also limited, and it was impossible to support so many gods. Second, he also had to use this to control the number of strong people in this world and prevent his divine power from being affected by the rise of the strong. Thirdly, the souls of these sacrifices will be directly transformed into the combat power of the Heavenly Realm by the God of Light with divine magic.
These three points are the secrets discovered by the greatest pope, and at the same time, he deduced the true intentions of the god of light based on these three secrets. It turns out that this current god of light has always raised humans as animals. The God of Light needs the power of human faith to gain greater power, and in order to ensure this, then it is necessary to ensure the supremacy of the divine right, never waver, and must make all people worship its great existence.
And in any case, these strong people are often the ones who influence his plan, so it is naturally impossible for him to let them grow freely.
This secret has always been the core secret of the Holy Light Church, and it has been passed down from generation to generation. Only one person in the whole world can know, and once this secret is known by the next pope, it means that the previous pope is dead.
And after his own living sacrifice was forbidden by that pope, the entire Holy Light Sect began to slowly decline, and the oracle never appeared again.
Actually, it's not that the God of Light didn't send down the oracle, but that none of the popes who had the power to receive it were willing to do what they did.
Moreover, they themselves are the ones who know the true origin of this god of light, and it is even more impossible for them to act for the tiger anymore. If it weren't for the existence of the Undead Empire and the Dark Camp in this world, these Popes who understood righteousness would probably have directly dissolved this unworthy Holy Light Sect.
It's just that this action was stopped by the environment and some well-intentioned people.
At the same time, without the living sacrifice of the Holy See and the worship of the God of Light, its influence on the world is getting weaker and weaker, and its power is declining.
Until the last time I finally paid a lot of money to come to this world, intending to find a suitable agent to regain the past "glory" of the Holy Court, before I really took action, I was directly injured by the most powerful old mage at that time, and had to return to the heavenly realm to recuperate.
However, the bane also appeared at that time. Since then, the seeds of schism have been planted in the Holy See. Some high-ranking personnel who blindly believed in the gods began to question the historical pope, and at the same time, under the provocation of some relevant people, the civil war in the Holy See almost triggered the civil strife in the human empire.
This is the deepest secret that the Holy See has ever hidden, a secret that only the Pope can know.
"I'm ......" Howard thought for a moment, but didn't say much, he just held his head and howled in pain.
"Alas, the God of Light is actually a demon, he may be more like a demon than those filthy, evil creatures of darkness, you have been deceived by him!" The Pope sighed deeply.
Although Huo Hua established the Holy Empire, he did not know the true face of the God of Light at all, and he was just a poor man whose ambitions were controlled by the God of Light.
The Angelic Holy City created by himself was destroyed in his own hands for no reason and for no reason, and it was impossible for anyone to accept it, let alone forgive himself like this.
What's more, Huo Hua had obviously been partially controlled by the God of Light, otherwise he wouldn't have shown this kind of contradictory expression that knew but was painful.
The Pope knew that in fact, the magic of the Holy Light system also had the ability to control the mind, but it was much more subtle than the dark one, and it was not as powerful as the dark one.
The current Howard has actually been blocked by the God of Light for part of his memory, and at the same time has controlled part of his mind, and that part of himself can't accept and forgive himself for such a heartbreaking thing. Only in this way can Howard continue to complete the mission of the God of Light.
At the same time, because this kind of thing is only known to the God of Light and Huo Hua, this is equivalent to forcing Huo Hua into a dead end, even if he is already disgusted in his heart, he can only continue to cooperate with the God of Light.
That's why Howard replied to Mina just now, Howard himself was involved, maybe he only made a small amount of living sacrifice at the request of the God of Light at first. But as the living sacrifice progressed, Howard's sanity was controlled by the God of Light again, and at this time, the rebuke and guilt in his heart, his cowardice and evasion, let himself sink deeper and deeper into this abyss, and the result became what it is now, out of control.
"So are you guilty now, Howard, I want to know how you really feel in your heart." The Pope looked at Howard with pity, the successor he had once favored.
"I ...... I do not know...... I don't really know. At this time, Howard was clearly fighting against the power left in his body by the God of Light, and now his mind was even more unclear.
However, there is one thing that the Pope knows, that is, Howard did not want to do this, otherwise he would not have resisted this memory so much, let alone burst into tears like now.
However, the Pope himself felt sad for Howard at the thought of all his cronies and followers disappearing into this angelic holy city.
"Howard, you have done something wrong, now is no longer the time for you to run away, you have to make up for the mistakes you have done, you must be responsible for your mistakes." The Pope suddenly remembered that this was how he preached to Howard a long time ago.
At that time, Howard was just a young man, and Howard didn't know who he was......
However, just as the Pope was recalling, he suddenly felt a heat in his chest, and a long sword glittering with golden brilliance pierced into the Pope's body.
"Don't ......" Mina and the thief also have a way to quickly discover the mutation here, and immediately rushed over.
"Howard, you...... No, you're not Howar, hehe, I didn't expect that I would see you at this time, the 'God of Light' I believe in! The Pope was visibly incredulous at first, but he soon saw something wrong in Howard's eyes, and his tone changed with infinite contempt and contempt.
In Huo Hua's left eye, a phantom figure glittering with holy light appeared.
Hearing that Mina and the thief here also had a way, they immediately withdrew the skills they were going to attack, and they were all a little overwhelmed.
Now Huo Hua's expression was a little stiff, and his expression was sluggish, completely different from the painful expression just now.
"Hmph, lowly ant, how dare you speak to a god in such a tone!" The phantom in Howard's eyes was visibly irritated by the Pope's disdainful tone.
"Mole ants? Then what are you, if you don't have the following sacrifices, you don't even have the qualifications to come down! After the Pope finished speaking, the index and middle fingers of his right hand were like swords, and the golden light of the tip of the sword flashed, and it stabbed into Howard's left eye fiercely.
"Ahh
"Ahh
Two screams of pain came from Howard's left eye and throat, and Howard's left eye socket splattered with a wisp of blood, but it was clear that he had escaped from the control of the god of light.
At this time, the energy sword inserted in the Pope's body also dissipated directly, and several blood arrows sprayed out directly from the Pope's body.