"We used to think we were doing everything right, but it wasn't."

Maria sat back in her chair and closed her eyes.

"You have seen, Stranger, the dark and sinful side of the Church, but the origin of all this is the greed of human nature itself. Those people, they are addicted to the blood of the old gods, they crave what humans don't deserve........."

"I see."

Fang Zheng put down the book in his hand, and then looked at the woman in front of him. From Maria, Fang Zheng finally learned what was going on with Yanan.

According to Maria's description, Fang Zheng finally completed the whole incident.

First of all, the Byron Weiss College excavated the ruins of the Sumerian civilization, from which they learned that the Sumerian civilization used to be slaves of the old gods, and that the Sumerian civilization had tried to elevate itself by injecting the blood of the old gods to become the same gods as the beings they served.

But the Sumerians failed, which ultimately led to destruction.

Attracted by this secret, the Byron Weiss Academy began to take over the remains of the Sumerian civilization and re-study the secrets of becoming gods, and then they discovered the Daughter of the Universe in the depths of the Sumerian ruins, Ibetas——— an ancient god who did not leave this world, and they brought this old god back to Byron Weis, trying to obtain the secrets of the old gods through it.

Unfortunately, their experiment failed as well. Although the blood of the ancient gods obtained from the Daughter of the Universe did increase their power at first, with more and more blood injections, the experimenters of the Byron Weith Academy almost invariably mutated, resulting in a series of collapses from soul to heart.

Under these circumstances, Master William decided to suspend his studies, but his protégé Lawrence was clearly not willing to stop there, so the two sides parted unhappily.

Before Lawrence left, Master William finally told him the truth ——— the old man, who had gained the wisdom of the Old Gods by his own strength, and that the reason why humans could not fully become the Old Gods was that they lacked one thing.

Third umbilical cord.

This is something that only infant ancient gods have, and it connects the brains and spiritual vision of the gods, which means that without the third umbilical cord, no matter how hard humans try to infuse the blood of the ancient gods, they will not be able to become gods as human beings.

But Lawrence apparently did not give up, after leaving Byron Weis, he built the Church of Healing, and then began to conduct two experiments——— on the one hand, Lawrence tried to obtain the third umbilical cord, and on the other hand, he chose a second different research route, that is, he tried to control the beastialization caused by the excessive injection of the blood of the old gods through human reason. After all, in Lawrence's opinion, his mentor William can do this, then he will definitely be able to do it too.

Of course, the latter was only a backup in Lawrence's view, and if he could, he still longed for a third umbilical cord to fulfill his wish to become a god.

Eventually, Lawrence's research progressed dramatically, and through the "Holy Grail" excavated from the Sumerian ruins, they were able to connect with the ancient gods who existed beyond the Void and attempt to perform a ritual known as the Blood Moon.

All the superiors have lost their children, and they are all seeking children.

Only the blood of the filthy gods can cause this mysterious intercourse.

Therefore, in order to be able to make the old gods and humans intermingle, so that humans can conceive the children of the old gods and obtain the third umbilical cord. Lawrence initiates the ritual of the Blood Moon. It will attract the Old Gods to the earth and mate with personalities who harbor filthy blood, thus impregnating and giving birth to children.

However, Lawrence's ritual failed.

A Cainhurst man burst into the ceremony, slashing all the guards and taking the blood of the gods. Led to the failure of the ritual, and after the failure of the ritual, the wrath of the old gods covered the entire Old Yanan, causing the entire Old Yanan to become a land of monsters. In desperation, Lawrence had to put an end to it by burning the entire Old Anan to ashes and closing the passage between the church town and Old Anan.

After the failure of the ceremony, an enraged Lawrence sent a group of executors led by Logarius the Martyr to Cainhurst's castle in an attempt to reclaim the blood of the gods that had been stolen by the Cainhurst, and to take revenge on the entire Cainhurst people.

Logarius the Martyr never returned, and no one knew exactly what had happened.

But Lawrence didn't have time to care about it, because at this time, there was another split within the Healing Church.

As a result of the deprivation of God's blood and the failure of the ritual, Lawrence's quest for a third umbilical cord to become a god was almost frustrated, and in this case, another school of thought within the healing church began to rise——— that was the Mansis school.

Their claim is that "we don't need to pray to the old gods to complete the ritual, we can make our own old gods". Therefore, although Lawrence's Blood Moon Ritual failed, for the Mansis School, they found another opportunity——— and that was not to give birth to the children of the old gods, but to create a true god directly from the hands of humans.

Naturally, the Mansians and Lawrence were not on the right track, so the two sides soon parted ways again. But Lawrence also had signs of bestiality due to the excessive injection of the blood of the ancient gods at this time, and he had to find a way to obtain the third umbilical cord, otherwise, not to mention his research, even Lawrence himself may be completely finished.

And just when Lawrence was desperate, he suddenly learned the news.

Not far from Yanan is a small fishing village where the people worship an ancient god called Kos. Not only that, but most importantly, perhaps due to Lawrence's previous Blood Moon ritual, the ancient god named Kos became pregnant and was about to give birth! And right now, the Kos believers in that fishing village are preparing to pray that their god will give birth to this god son smoothly!

It's really hard to find a place to step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!

An ecstatic Lawrence immediately gave orders to the hunter troops, asking them to go to the fishing village, destroy the monsters, and kill Kos, and get the unborn baby and its third umbilical cord in Kos!

As an excellent hunter, Mary naturally went with her.

In the beginning, the battle against the fishing village went very smoothly, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it——— and the fishermen who believed in Kos had long since turned into half-man, half-fish monsters, so in the eyes of the hunters, they were no different from those monsters of Yanan. And there is obviously only one thing these hunters have to do, and that is to kill!

In the face of the hunters who are good at fighting, the fishermen of the fishing village are almost defenseless, and the entire battlefield presents a one-sided slaughter. The hunters cut the fishermen and killed them before rushing into a cave behind the village, where Kos was on the verge of production.

Any creature is the most vulnerable when it is pregnant, even the Old Gods. Kos struggled to resist the wolf-like hunters, but in the end, she could not escape the clutches of the hunters, who brutally killed Koss and cut open her belly, removing the unborn child along with the third umbilical cord.

However, no one could escape after killing the gods, but the hunters, who had fallen into ecstasy, did not hear the curse and anger of Kos before he died.

"Curse those demons, and curse their children, their children, and their children, and suffer for all eternity."

The ecstatic hunters left with their prey, and only Maria stood there, staring at the corpse of Kos in front of her, who could also feel the pain and anger of Kos before she died. As a hunter, Maria could raise a butcher's knife against those monsters without mercy, but as a woman, she couldn't accept the heartbreaking scene in front of her. People killed a mother for their own desires and took out her child.........

Perhaps, we came here, it was a mistake.

Maria threw her weapon into the well of the fishing village and vowed never to fight again, but that didn't change anything, and Kos's curse had spread. The hunters who had participated in her hunt disappeared almost overnight, and they were mercilessly imprisoned in this nightmare, mad, tyrannical, and suffering from soul to body.

There was nothing Mary could do about it.

"Kos's curse has trapped us in this nightmare."

As she spoke, Maria pulled out a planetarium from her bosom.

"We have no peace in life, and we cannot be liberated in death. We can't change all of this, because we did it ourselves, but you, stranger, may be able to lift the nightmare and let this nightmare end forever. “

With this, Maria raised the astrological disk in her hand and pointed at the huge clock on the wall in front of her, and soon, the huge round clock began to turn slowly, and then a gap was revealed.

"Come, stranger."

Maria nodded at Fang Zheng and the big chin beside him.

"I'm going to show you the root of all these nightmares."