Chapter Ninety-Six: The Return
The light and dark magical energy in the air had been consumed in large quantities, and the disturbed weather gradually returned to normal, thunder and lightning ceased to appear, and the rain began to lighten.
On the roof of a building, two petite creatures yawn as they watched the scuffle below.
"Aren't these humans tired all day long? ”
"Luna, don't the dark elves in the underground like to fight and kill?"
"Well--what do you say? The dark elves look good in a fight, like butter with caviar. Like these humans and dogs, there is no beauty at all. ”
"Those weren't dogs, they were werewolves. ”
"Wow, werewolf? ”
"Werewolves can't eat it, but they eat us like bread. Two thousand years ago, Beth was almost eaten by a werewolf. ”
"That doesn't sound fun at all. Luna likes to eat, but doesn't like to be eaten as food. Bes, I knew the surface world was so boring, so I wouldn't come back with you. ”
"Don't do that, Luna, if you meet Sophia, you won't be bored. ”
"What is Sophia?
"It's not. ”
"That's vanilla truffles?"
"Not really. ”
"Haha, it's definitely better than these two combined. Bess, bring Sophia here, Luna is going to drool. ”
"Please, Luna, Sophia can't eat it, she's a human girl. ”
"You can't eat it, what's the fun about that. Luna was disappointed. ”
"Sophia was a lot of fun. You can pull her hair and listen to her scream, and you can deliberately say that she underestimates her boobs and looks like she is thundering, haha...... It's funny to think about. ”
......
Two "evil" little ones "squeaked" and quarreled, their voices drowned out by the noise around them, but even if anyone heard their conversation, they probably wouldn't notice the two winged humanoids who were only a foot tall.
Sister Oldai worked hard to lead her students to send the civilians of the vault out of the city one by one through the gap in the northern wall. If the fact that she and her students were rescued at the last moment was because God in the Light heard her prayers, then the return of the Holy Maiden of Radiance was a mercy and gift from God.
When St. Angel and her companions, a female assassin, a dwarf, and two magical beasts, the Thunderbird and the Rainbow Phantom Butterfly, descended from heaven to repel the wolves besieging her and the schoolgirls, Sister Aldai could not believe her eyes, and she even thought for a moment that they were hallucinations in heaven, but the gentle eyes of the Holy Maiden told her that this qiē was real.
"Dean, please don't blame yourself, it's not your fault that the seminary was destroyed. ”
"Holy Maiden......"
"Now we have more important things to do than to feel sorry for ourselves. See, the werewolves have joined the war, and the inhabitants of the city have been evacuated to shelters, but now shelters are no longer safe. The garrison of the Holy Army was no longer able to protect itself, and they could not count on it. Dean, please lead the students and send those refugees out of the city. ”
"Yes, yes...... Obey the commands. ”
A word needs to be clarified here.
After the old friends said goodbye to their friends, they continued to stay in the underworld to help Elena and the dark elves resist the invasion of the strange Gu swarm, and with the help of the Black Dragons, the swarm was gradually repelled. And while fighting against the Alien Gu Clan, the old friends also had unexpected gains. They came to the Underworld with another mission: to be commissioned by the Elven Archon to collect three more pieces of the "Sky Goddess Set": a robe called "Cacathy's Judgment", a magic wand called "Cacahy's Punishment", and a necklace called "Cacahy's Mercy".
During the battle to clear out the Alien Clan, the "Cacahy's Judgment" was discovered in the ruins of a former swarm that had been infested as a base for advancement, and later, a dark elf family, the "Ghost Heavens", returned their collection of "Cacahy's Punishment" to their old friends as a reward for the surface dwellers to save their family. However, the whereabouts of "Cacathy's Mercy" are still unknown, and according to Elena's personal investigation, it appears that the necklace was brought to the surface world by members of the "Nightmare Awakening" family, and eventually fell into the hands of the Central Church.
Look for "Cacathy's mercy" - this is the reason why the old friends have returned to the surface and are in the papal dominions. In fact, two weeks ago, they had already set foot on St. Pope's Island, and in order to avoid alarming the Holy See, they had been secretly investigating, and their whereabouts were very mysterious, and no one had found out. But just yesterday, they investigated a village in the north of Holy Pope Island and stayed in the village, but in the middle of the night, they felt a large number of magical reactions coming from the direction of the Holy City, so the old friends rushed to the Holy City with the help of two spatial white tigers and rainbow phantom butterflies.
Looking at Sister Oldai, who was busy, Spiruk Iron Furnace, who was in charge of the guard, yawned exaggeratedly: "Why do we have to work for these humans? ”
Yun Di next to him rolled his eyes and said, "Why are you talking so ugly, am I not human?"
"I mean the bastards of the Bright Court. At first, I thought we would take our things and leave, but I didn't think we would get involved in such a fight. "The dwarves are still haunted by the fact that hundreds of years ago, the Central Church formed a crusader army to invade the kingdom of the dwarves.
"Sister Angel and Puternin are also from the Bright Court, don't you call them bastards too?"
"It's not the same. Angel Chick is not a member of the Holy See, and Puternin has long since left. ”
"Alas. Yun Di sighed. She couldn't figure out if it was just Spiruk's personal personality or if all the dwarves were so rigid. A small contradiction with Tismu can make Spiruk ignore him for a whole year, and make him accept the fact that "there are good people in the Holy See", I am afraid it is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
Unlike several other old friends and their juniors, Yun Di did not have much aversion to the Central Church, after all, she grew up in an orphanage founded by the church, but she was lively and active by nature, and she couldn't stand the rules and regulations of the church organization, so she escaped from the orphanage to find a way to survive, instead of taking the path of a clergyman like other orphans raised by the church. Although Yun Di has seen many dark sides of the Church in her upbringing, and has had more than one head-on conflict with the Central Church, she is still grateful to the Church.
"Okay. We don't mention this. Angel chick threw the job at us, and ran away by herself, where did that little bastard of Tismu go? Spiruk was rude, but not careless, and he saw Yundi's displeasure and changed the subject.
"It's not good to speak ill of people behind your back. A voice suddenly came from the void, and the space was split open.
Riding the white tiger, Tismu jumped out of the spatial rift, and the two juniors followed only him.
"Huh, a few seniors are here. When Joyka saw Yundi and the old dwarf, she hurriedly asked Tismu, "Teacher, what the hell is going on?" ”
"You're getting more and more verbose. The half-elf gave his unangry apprentice a blank look, and then his gaze fell on Ray, and he asked, "Hey, you kid, why are you still carrying this vampire woman behind your back?"
"No! I just have a lot to ask her. Ray blushed and denied. He saw that all the predecessors and powerhouses were there, so he put down Melissa behind him with confidence.
"How's it going?" Tismu didn't dwell on the two juniors for long, and asked Yundi succinctly.
"Sister Angel asked us to escort the evacuation of these civilians, she said that there were some things to go to the Pope, and she left first. ”
The half-elf frowned, "Alone to find the Pope?" ”
At this moment, there was a wolf howl of "whining" all around. Hundreds of werewolves smelled the umami of a large amount of human flesh and surrounded them from all directions. The old friends also stopped chatting, ready for the onslaught of the werewolves.
If people are controlled by power and selfish desires, they often forget the most basic feelings: family, love, and friendship. As he pursued more and more frantically in Vanity Fair, the more power he wielded, and the more exalted his position, the more indifferent his feelings became. However, when this person suddenly loses his grasp one day and falls from a high position to the bottom in an instant, it is often the feelings that return first.
This was exactly the case with the pope at this time. The Pope is also a human being, and he also has the seven emotions and six desires of ordinary human beings, and he will not completely abandon all his emotions just because he has become a Pope, and over the years, the Pope has just suppressed his feelings in his heart.
The Pope is the head of the Cult of Light and, once elected, holds office for life and cannot be removed. But that's not absolute, there's one thing in the world that can remove the pope, and that's the scepter of the priesthood. Before the death of the first pope, he gave the staff of the priesthood to the second Radiant Saintess, and instructed her to use this scepter to supervise the popes of later generations, and once the pope was found to behave misbehavingly and violated the light, the saint could use it to remove the pope. More than 1,700 years ago, after the outbreak of civil war between the papal and holy women, the staff of the priesthood was lost. Although the papal family won the final victory, they have not been able to find the whereabouts of the cleric staff for more than a thousand years, which has become a problem for successive popes.
When St. Angel took out the staff of the priesthood and announced the removal of Frio I from the papal priesthood, abolishing his magic of light, the pope lost a qiē. The strong sense of loss made his inner defense collapse in an instant, and his feelings were like a flood without embankment.
The Pope now held a letter in his hand, handwritten by Puternin himself, handed to him by St. Angie. The Pope's eyes were closed, and tears were in his wrinkled face. This face, which had been hidden under the color mask for decades, seemed to finally feel the breath of freedom.
"His Majesty the Pope:
No, you should be addressed as Father-sama. Don't be surprised, I already know where I came from. There is a treasure called the 'Mirror of Time and Space' on the Demon Continent, which allows people to see the past and the future, I have seen what happened in the past, I know who my biological father is, I know the truth about the murder of my adoptive father and adoptive mother, and I also know the so-called 'angelization plan'. Perhaps, you think that I should gladly accept this qiē, as you have paved for me in the past, step by step to the altar of the pope, and then continue to repeat your boring and sinful life.
But I really can't do it, I can't accept the road to heaven paved with someone else's life. If I can't even do it well, why should I become an angel? If you read this letter from me, maybe I'm long gone. Please don't hold a grudge against anyone. This is my destiny that I have foreseen.
Puternin
November 20, 1662. ”