"I thought you had a few months to come back, how does it feel to be at the end of the world?"

"It's not good, if I can, I hope to change you next time. ”

It was still the same huge dome, the stars were clearly visible in the dark night, and Arthur sat at one end of the old round table, looking at the papers on the table, while the man on the other side was talking to him.

"Heaven and earth are endless pure white, there is nothing but themselves, it is such a lonely place, even the most optimistic people will despair about it. ”

The man spoke slowly, with the weariness of the journey.

"What happened during my absence? I see that our knights are all badly wounded, and even the Dawn is not in the dock. ”

"There's a lot going on, I thought you knew a rough idea. ”

"Vaguely, I want you to tell me more than I hear other people say, and I also heard that communication just now, so you agreed, that Lorenzo Holmes is not some kind of fuel-efficient lamp, aren't you afraid of any accidents?"

The man seemed to be aware of Lorenzo's identity and was worried about it.

"Actually, wasn't it a series of accidents from the beginning?"

Arthur slowly raised his head to look at the man at the other end of the round table, he was wearing a gray robe, which completely covered his whole body, and even his appearance was completely obscured by the hood, and only a blurred darkness could be seen.

"After you left a few months ago, we accidentally received information about the Demon Hunter Order, an Evangelical freighter that sank in the waters off the Viking kingdom of Nobido, containing a mysterious object called the Sacred Coffin. ”

"You should know how hard it has been to get to this day, we have established our dominance with the steam engine at the end of the Radiant War, but in the darkness demons are still a mortal threat, and the Evangelical Church threatens us to trade steam technology for the protection of the Demon Hunters. ”

Arthur smoked a cigarette, and the corners of his eyes were full of scratches from the years.

"We have won the war for a hundred years, and we will not submit to anyone, let alone those fanatics, so we made a deal with the distant Jiuxia, so the general named Zuo Zhen came with the Kuilong fleet.

The Evangelical Church thought that they had no power to fight the demons, but they did not know that in the deeper darkness the purification mechanism had appeared. ”

"It looks like that thing is very important. ”

The gray-robed man's business was hoarse, and he sounded like an extremely old man, but the sleeves were slightly exposed, and the back of his hands was white and young.

Arthur nodded and continued.

"The purification mechanism was established in secret, and with the technical support of Jiuxia, it has the initial ability to fight against demons, but this is not enough, compared to Jiuxia's armor technology, the secret blood of the Demon Hunting Order is the most advanced, and the sacred coffin is the core of the secret blood technology. ”

"Core?"

This aroused the interest of the gray-robed man, and he was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect the legendary secret blood to be so close to him.

"From what we know, that sacred coffin has a very special religious significance, and we don't know more specifically, after all, the Demon Hunting Order was disbanded six years ago. ”

"Disbanded?

The gray-robed man had never had a gaffe, and his voice couldn't help but rise.

"Yes, the six-year-long high-pressure closure of the Seven Hills has finally ended, our intelligence has been accumulating in that damn little city for six years, like a mailbox full of letters, most of the information has lost its timeliness, the Holy Coffin is the only one of the few useful pieces of information, the Evangelical Church seems to want to dispose of this thing, but it sank halfway. ”

A long silence ensued, and neither of them under the dome spoke until the gray-robed man broke the silence.

"What's really going on inside the Evangelical Church?"

"I don't know, but the problem now is the Sacred Coffin, after you left, Lancelot took over the mission, we searched for the shipwreck in the northern seas, but we were preempted, we don't know who these people are, but they have a connection to the demons and can be identified as enemies. ”

Arthur went on to explain what had happened after the Grey Man had left.

"Since then we have been in pursuit of the Coffin of the Holy Spirit, the enemy is bigger than we thought, countless demons have poured out, demons have appeared every day in the entire territory of Invig, the knights are exhausted, and even say that Galahad has fallen. ”

"Now is the Shrike chasing the Sacred Coffin?"

"Delay, to be precise, the real pursuit is in charge of Lancelot, who carries the armor of original sin, and only he can keep his sanity before that sheer fear. ”

The gray-robed man fell silent, as if in thought, and after a long time he asked.

"How many more people do we have. ”

"There are no more, and no matter how many others there are, if they can't resist the erosion, they will only be sent to death, so I agree that the shrike will take that damn Lorenzo on a mission. ”

Arthur said slowly, losing the Demon Hunting Order, and the only torch to eliminate the mechanism in the flood of demons.

"And there were many other reasons that prompted me to make this decision, according to Berau, Lorenzo seems to be a witcher. ”

"A witcher?"

"Maybe we can get more information from him, after the sudden lockdown of the Seven Hills six years ago, until now, Lorenzo is the first living witcher we have come into contact with, there are too many mysteries, and secondly, Eve is there. ”

Speaking of Eve, Arthur's steely expression was finally shaken, and he rubbed his tired eyes as he continued.

"I failed to protect her, and the connection between her and the gap was finally reconnected, and the demons discovered her, and no one could control the situation except the mysterious witcher. ”

"That's the fault of all of us, and you don't have to take it alone. ”

Footsteps sounded, and the gray-robed man walked slowly, barefoot, like an ascetic, his exposed skin engraved with obscure symbols and incantations.

Coming to Arthur's side, he comforted the old friend, and Arthur turned his head to him and said.

"I've been waiting for you to come back, we need you to preside over the development of the Original Sin Armor, the leap in technology can only make our basic strength able to compete with it, and it is not enough to hunt down those powerful demons.

What we need is not a huge legion, but one abomination after another. ”

Arthur looked at the gloomy look under the gray robe.

"Now that the Demon Hunter Cult has been disbanded, presumably those secret blood techniques will be difficult to reproduce, even if we get the key information, we can't do it in a short time, and the Original Sin Armor is the only way out for us now. ”

Open Pandora's box and unleash endless calamities for that glimmer of hope.

“...... I got it. ”

The gray-robed man nodded, let out a long sigh, as if he had made some heavy decision, and looked up at the endless night sky.

"Sometimes I feel like we're pathetic...... Like a pack of rats lurking in the shadows, the darkness is full of unknown monsters, and the desperate cries of our kind can be heard at night. ”

"Sometimes I even feel that everything we are doing is in vain, just like the theorem of nature, the tiger preys on the deer, we are destined to be the one to be hunted, and now all the sacrifices are just meaningless rebellion. ”

"But at least we resisted!"

Arthur said in a deep voice, with unyielding and angry.

"We are still different from others, compared to those who never thought of resisting, we have at least done it, if doomed hunting is an iron law of a theorem, we have at least broken this iron law and taken the first step. ”

He looked down at Arthur's angry face and sighed.

"It's nice that you're still so active. ”

"It's just that I have to, just like I decided to set up the purification mechanism in the first place, and we can't live in fear anymore. ”

The old man's cloudy eyes hid steel and fire.

"Absolutely not. ”