No, that's not an illusion, there must be another meaning, Talos thought.

The crux of the question is, what exactly is Maeve implying about?

Talos could say with great certainty that Princess Mermaid wasn't the third Soulfire holder, as she didn't feel the killing intent that boiled over her at the first sight of Bruce, nor did she feel anything like primordial desire.

Thinking about it, Thomas raised his wand and pointed at Maeve, the tip of the wand flashing with a spell aura of red, yellow and blue, which was his signature spell Malicious Transfiguration.

"I'm curious how you know something that even ordinary church leaders don't have access to, tell me obediently—" The bald mage smirked, "How about turning you into a fish and putting it in the snow and ice to make a frozen fish?"

Ten points at Thomasga, and Talos put the question aside, applauding his threat in the bottom of his heart.

The bald mage's words were a typical provocation, a humiliation to the mermaids—and perhaps the fishmen.

Despite some of the characteristics of fish, members of the United Kingdom do not consider them to be equal creatures to fish, which are in fact a food that sea tribes such as naga and mermaids cannot avoid in any way.

Therefore, in some special contexts, describing mermaids as salted fish, dried fish, or deliberately emphasizing that they are eating fish in front of them, will be regarded as a personal insult and a racial attack.

In the same way, deliberately eating a snake in front of a Naga or telling a minotaur that beef sauce is a dish that everyone loves is more than nine out of ten likely to start a fight.

Talos remembers that there was a post on the Magic Web forum titled "The 100 Most Vulnerable Words and Actions When Adventures in a Foreign Land", which has been visited all year round, and is one of the must-read posts for many novice adventurers and mercenaries.

Sure enough, the shark man beside Maeve glared angrily, and a giant mace more than a person tall appeared in his hand, and the other mermaid warlocks raised their arms and pointed at Thomas, their fingertips flashing with magic aura, and they would besiege Maeve at the first order.

However, Maeve's reaction was beyond Talos's expectations, as she waved her hand indifferently and looked at Thomas and Barty very calmly, as if what she had just shouted was not a secret that belonged to the Illuminati alone, but common sense that everyone in the main material plane knew.

But apparently, the mermaid princess knows far more than Thomas is curious.

"The search for truth is a difficult thing, and people are usually deceived by the appearance of things and stay in the most primitive and wrong stage, just like the 99.99% mortality rate during the truth initiation ceremony. If one can get to the bottom of the essence, the truth enlightenment is not as terrifying as imagined. ”

Talos, Dolores, Mular, Bruce, the Frogman Priest, ......

Everyone, with their ears pricked up, receives a new message from the mermaid princess.

"Truth initiation is first and foremost a ritual, and the purpose of a ritual is often to please something that is above the person who holds the ritual, such as Windra, the Lord of the Storm, and Mira, the goddess of illusions—"

Maeve took the opportunity to promote the mermaid deity, causing Mular's eyes to sharpen, followed by a loud sneer.

"In this way, special powers cannot be grasped by the individual himself. ”

Bruce nodded thoughtfully, removing the part about mermaid gods, Maeve was not wrong, rituals did have the meaning of pleasing gods and other powerful beings in the beginning, and even the magic circle in the magic realm represented a similar meaning at the beginning.

"If we follow this line of thought, we will soon be able to get the question, who is the object of the Enlightenment of Truth?"

Demon!

An answer immediately popped into Talos's mind, although he regarded the mermaid princess as the enemy second only to Bruce, it did not affect the tide Naga to temporarily admire the other party's clear thinking and exploration direction.

If there is anyone who the Illuminati worship, it is the evil gods, a powerful being that exists in the ancient world and can compete with the gods!

No one knows whether the gods are individual or a group, how many they are, or where they live, and the fact that the Illuminati can re-emerge and return to the main material plane five or three times is enough to explain a lot.

So......

Talos followed Maeve's train of thought just now, the Truth Initiation Ritual is actually a kind of sacrifice and sacrificial ritual that the church often conducts, in order to attract the power of the evil god to Sainth?

Is the Truth Enlightenment Ritual tantamount to the power of evil gods?

More questions tumbled up in his mind, and the one that caught Talos' attention the most was the question - if the "Sonata of Truth" was played by the power of the evil gods, then what was the operating principle of the "Seven Days Bible", which originated from the same source as the "Sonata of Truth", and was he also using the power of the evil gods to fight the enemy every time he recited?

But he obviously didn't feel anything, and he didn't pay any price.

While Talos pondered, Maeve continued to explain, though not answering the question of who the Truth Initiation Ritual pleased.

"Rituals are rituals because of the special and rarity that they are born with and that other things do not have. Once there are more times, the ritual ceases to be a ritual and suffers a depreciation. What's more, power is never born out of thin air, and if you want to get something, you have to pay the price first, so-"

The corners of Maeve's mouth curled up in a shallow arc, with a hint of smugness: "If the Truth Enlightenment Ceremony of Bolingham hadn't been held by you that day, I could try to believe the threat just now." If so, let me see, there are five fourth-order professionals here, and I don't think even the famous members of the Illuminati will have a chance to survive, right?"

"A very brilliant analysis. Batty ignored Maeve's threat to fight back, and reached out a pair of chubby hands to applaud softly, "Now I'm starting to wonder what else you know? Don't be stingy, even though I won't mind Thomas and I at all if you say it." ”

"Far more than you think, and, don't be stupid, don't be tempted, I'm not a member of the Illuminati, you don't have the qualifications yet. ”

"Really?" Talos roamed Maeve with a scrutinizing gaze, "I thought it wasn't the Mermaid and the Princess of the Merfolk United Kingdom standing in front of us, but the heir supported by the Illuminati?"

He was a pure slander, but throwing dirty water on Maeve as soon as he seized the opportunity was part of Talos's revenge plan.

"There have been so many contradictions between the Naga Kingdom and the United Kingdom over the centuries, and it is not surprising that you have such thoughts, Tár, and I can understand your feelings very well. ”

Maeve's response made Talos feel a little depressed as he felt like he was punching the cotton.

Equally depressed is Thomas, a mermaid princess of the main physical plane, who recounts secrets that artificially only members of the Illuminati — and perhaps the gods of the outer planes and other old gods — know.

Several thoughts fought in his mind, and the one who won was put into action, and with a flick of Thomas's wrist, he unleashed a group of malicious transfiguration, and the aura of the spell that showed the three primary colors exploded like fireworks, enveloping all the people on Maeve's side.

There were also two fourth-order professionals on the United Kingdom side, the Mermaid Grand Karcist raised a curtain of water, and the Dao Spell aura fell on it and splashed ripples, while the Shark Grand Knight roared angrily, his body was twice as strong, and his legs kicked on the ground and pounced on Barty.

Bloodline Specialty - Whale Shark Enhancement!

Combat Specialty - Heavy Attack Master!

Rumble!

A cobweb-like crack appeared on the high-level magic shield, and Barty blinked, a little surprised, knowing that he was a fourth-order archmage who specialized in the protection faction.

He knew that he should have placed another energy absorption spell on the high-level magic shield, a high-level protection spell that could absorb and store the energy generated by physical attacks and release it when necessary.

The shark-man roared, the mace slammed down again, and the battle that had just been suspended by the mermaid's arrival continued.

Sitting away from the battlefield on the magical flying carpet held by Dolores, Talos held an Eye of Illusion in his hand, which accurately reflected Maeve's true strength, and like him, it was a third-order.

What bothered him was Maeve's profession, Magic Sizzer, who had an extraordinary talent for magic while awakening the blood of the sea djinn.

The bloodline of the royal family of Coppola in the United Kingdom is famous in the entire main material plane, the sea djinn, an elemental creature and a divine creature!

Elemental life is clearly divided from the first order to the fifth order, the first order element, the second order elemental leader, the third order elemental elder, the fourth order elemental troll, and the fifth order elemental lord.

The sea djinn is the transformation of the fifth-order water elemental lord after gaining divinity, which is between the fifth-order and the divine realm.

With the powerful bloodline from the sea djinn, the royal family of Coppola has already killed the three dynasties of the central Yangnaga Kingdom, and the Tis dynasty is the fourth.

Just as Talos was thinking about how to fight Maeve, the dragon veins transformed by the black dragon suddenly trembled, and immediately after, an unprecedented blizzard appeared out of thin air at a speed that even a fourth-order professional had no time to react.

When the blizzard stopped obscuring his vision, Talos found himself standing alone in the ice and snow, whether it was Dolores, Mular, the United Kingdom, the frogmen, or the members of the Illuminati, all of whom were gone.

"Ice and snow, ice and snow half-plane ......"

Talos had a flash of inspiration, remembering the scene he encountered when he entered the treasure space of Urban I on Black Dragon Island that day, and as soon as this idea was born, various subsequent clues were automatically connected.

"Could it be that the place I am in now has something to do with the dragon veins that the black dragon has transformed, or the Frost Holy Crown?"

Talos hurriedly sank his mind into the Ring of the Magic Web and tried to send a message to Dolores and Mular, but the text on the interface did not respond at all.

This situation is not unfamiliar to Talos, he has encountered it in the Table World, the Afaron Plane and the Terra Plane, which means that there is no magic net coverage in the place where he is, in modern colloquial terms, there is no signal, he can only consult the information stored in the magic web ring, but he cannot get in touch with other people in time, and he also cannot use location services.

Sitting on the magic flying carpet, Talos walked aimlessly, ten minutes had passed since he arrived, except for the snow-capped mountains that stretched to the end, there was no living thing in the process, and the entire ice and snow half-plane was particularly silent in the wind and snow.

"Hey, what's that?"

Suddenly, Talos was overjoyed to spot a figure creeping upwards on a mountain peak in the distance.

However, joy did not blind Talos's behavior, and he still drove the magic flying carpet carefully and cautiously, and no one was sure whether they were friend or foe until they saw the other party's true face.

A minute later, the answer came out, it was an Iron Knight.

It's the enemy.

At the same time, over the Caspi Sea, a magical airship is rapidly approaching from the direction of Mount Rocky.

The airship is emblazoned with a striking emblem: a fist with silver iron gloves and a golden shield in shading.

Sainz, any professional or intelligent creature with a little knowledge, will not be unfamiliar with this symbol, the emblem of the powerful divine power order and the god of knights!

Obviously, this is a magical airship that belongs to the Temple of Order and Knights.

On the bow of the ship stood a middle-aged man dressed in a majestic but sumptuous priest's robe, without a trace of wrinkles, with neatly combed chestnut hair, neatly and meticulously in every part of his body.

Half a step behind the middle-aged man, a man and a woman in armor stood side by side, the men's armor faintly glowing with the blueish color peculiar to the sky, and the women's armor pure silver.

According to the tradition of the Temple of Order and Knights, the former represents the Templars, the latter represents the Paladins, plus the middle-aged man who represents the priest, which is the most complete configuration of the Church of the Gods itself for the adventure party.

The magic airship tore through the clouds and went full speed, soon reaching Mosanhoek Island, where it stopped 100 feet above the ground, suspended in the air.

The eyes of the Templar Knight with a hooked nose were also as sharp as an eagle, looking down condescendingly, and a flash of surprise flashed on his face: "According to the calculation of the three of us based on the blizzard just now, the source is here, but there is no one nearby?"

"I don't believe that there weren't any professionals nearby when the snow broke out. The female paladin shook her head and pointed to the dragon vein to express her opinion, "Look, the traces left over from the battle have not yet been completely covered by snow, and the Black Dragon Marcus and the Frost Holy Crown must also be nearby, and they can't run far." ”

"Galen—" The Templar knight set his gaze on the middle-aged man.

In the Church's standard adventuring party consisting of priests, paladins, and Templars, the priest has always been the leader.

"Somebody's coming. ”

The middle-aged man, Archbishop Galen, did not respond to the Templar's suggestion and looked at Caspi, where a magical ship was approaching at a fast pace.

On the sail, a huge holy emblem was printed, and a huge golden torch in the shape of a scroll bloomed with dazzling and brilliant light.

"The priest of the God of Knowledge has come. ”