Chapter 40: The Mystic of Blood

It is a long history, hidden in the dark side of the world, and everyone who understands its meaning will remain silent, and will only pass on the secret when it is gone.

"The first to fight demons was the Evangelical Church, to be precise, the Demon Hunting Order, a secret organization under the Evangelical Church. ”

Lorenzo begins to tell the history that should have been forgotten, and his eyes are vaguely visible to those who raise torches and expose themselves to the darkness of the night.

"In the beginning, humans could not fight against demons, the only way to defeat them was to rely on human life, it was the darkest and most difficult time, we could only hide behind the fortress and shiver, or sacrifice our own kind to quell the demon invasion, it was a bloody time, until one day someone said that he received the will of God. ”

Eve was drawn to Lorenzo's story.

"God's ...... Will?"

Lorenzo nodded and continued, like all mythical grotesques, there is always one person who has pioneered everything.

He said that he had received God's will that there was a divine in the north that could be free from demons, so he gathered a group of people who believed in his word, and that group of people should be the first believers in the world, who had crossed the dark earth, sailed out of the kingdom, and traveled through an unknown number of years to the frost-covered north, and set foot in the uninhabited ice fields. ”

"Many years later, everyone forgot about them, and the only ones who remembered thought they died on the way, but suddenly one day the men returned, carrying bronze jars sealed with gold and holy silver, on which there was a process far beyond what was possible with the technology of the time, as if gods and demons were imprisoned in the metal, and they were hideous and guarded the knowledge within.

There were books written in ancient scripts, which could only be understood by the believers who had gone with him except the man who had received the will of God, and who had translated them after many years. ”

As Lorenzo whispered, the connection to the strange became more and more profound, and Eve felt like she had arrived in a new world.

The melodious sound of the harp and the muffled prayer echoed through the room, and the two of them realized that there was a city church nearby, as if there was something going on today, and the organ played a brilliant repertoire, and the congregants murmured prayers.

And they named that book the Gospels, and the Evangelical Church was born, and it was built on the seven hills, and the seven hills rose from the barren land, and then the expansion of the faith, and the Holy Gospel Papal States rose from the map of the world. ”

This is the reason for the emergence of the ancient group, with a mythological and epic color, which for a while made Eve forget her anomaly.

Of course I don't believe that, it's just a story, anyone can make it up, but what is certain is that the Gospel is not that simple, and there are actually two of them, the first is the Gospel that everyone knows, which preaches God and faith, and the other is only circulated within the church. ”

Picking up a cigarette, Lorenzo smoked hard, and the smoke rose, which was where the secret really came in.

"The other book is called "Revelation", just as the "Gospel" established the evangelical church, and in the darkness "Revelation" founded the demon hunting order, there is no god or faith, and there is only knowledge about demons in that book. ”

It was the most mysterious knowledge in the depths of the world, but now it was casually said by Lorenzo, and it was obviously the wealth obtained by countless people with blood, but it seemed worthless in Lorenzo's mouth.

"After having faith, the Evangelical Church integrated the vast majority of the people at that time and established the kingdom of God in the dark world, but this was not enough, not enough to fight demons. So the believers at that time opened the Book of Revelation in the name of God and established the Demon Hunting Order. ”

"In the face of the threat of death, humanity is far more terrible than we realize. ”

Lorenzo laughed again, sarcastically.

"Abandoned ethics and morality, without any bottom line, just to live. ”

“...... What did you do?"

Eve felt a little uncomfortable, her body was cold, as if a swarm of snakes were wrapping around her, the cold scales scraping her skin.

"If you want to kill a demon, you have to be a demon first. ”

It was a bell-like speech that struck Eve's heart, and she felt it, the feeling of deepening connection, that eerie feeling that could not be explained but was clearly visible, that there was something more in this world for her, like a hell of a machine, before she was just an ordinary operator, but now more functions were open to it.

"Demons are very strange, their vitality is surprisingly tenacious, they don't need to eat too much, they can easily tear through their armor, and they have the ability to erode our wills, we can't kill them with a sword blade with a fire incineration, and humans are so fragile compared to them......"

Eve stared at Lorenzo, her breathing rapid, her heartbeat reverberating in her ears.

The door opened, the dark door.

"You ...... You ......"

Eve guessed something, but she didn't dare to say it, and an emotion called fear rose from the bottom of her heart, like words, and she felt that when she said that terrible truth, that fact would become a reality.

Lorenzo smiled slightly, as if he didn't expect Eve's reaction to be so fast, he said.

"This technique is called 'secret blood'. ”

"We kill those demons, go through a series of intricate processes called alchemy, extract blood from them, and then take it, which makes us as powerful as demons, but full of uncontrollable. According to the Order, the first people who consumed the secret blood were disposables, and their sanity could only last for a few minutes before they fell into darkness and became one of the demons. ”

"Although the side effects are huge, at least we won one time from the demons, and then there is a long experimental phase, the test subject is locked in an iron cage, dozens of people are pointing iron spears at him, and if he fails, he will be killed immediately......"

"This ...... It's crazy!"

Just listening to Lorenzo tell Eve could feel the dark despair, she nestled in the couch like a frightened little animal.

"Can you accept this?"

"These costs are so cheap compared to the fact that humans can no longer live in fear. ”

Lorenzo said lightly, that dark history is not something anyone can judge at will.

"This experiment lasted for hundreds of years, until the first generation of stabilizers appeared, they could control the power of demons but still maintain their sanity, they were the qualified ones of the secret blood, and they were also the first demon hunters, and it was the first time that humans had the power to fight demons head-on. ”

Raising his hand, the wound on Lorenzo's arm was slowly healing, and he looked at Eve with a smile.

"Sabo died only because he wasn't a qualified person, his body couldn't withstand the pressure of the secret blood, and you're different, Eve I guess you became a qualified person a long time ago, but you don't know it. ”

That's why Lorenzo thinks that Eve is also a qualified person with secret blood, but she has lived for so long and has never realized it.

"How is that possible!"

Eve screamed, she couldn't figure out how she could have been involved with such a thing, the memories of the past kept looking back in front of her eyes, the past was so familiar but now covered with a layer of illusion.

"This is the only result, just like the mathematical formula, no matter how outrageous the result is, but the formula does not lie, that is the only correct result, just like you, you have the secret blood, you are still alive, and you have lived healthily for so long, if it were not for everything tonight, your secret blood may be immersed in your body forever, and it will not wake up until the day you die. ”

The great detective speaks his reasoning like a cruel doomed fate.

"You must have been in contact with it at some point in the past, and you have been connected to the darkness ever since......"

As he spoke, he stopped suddenly, and a cold sweat flowed slowly, and Lorenzo looked up at the patterned ceiling, his gaze seemed to penetrate the substance, and when he reached the heavenly vault, he tried to see the man, the man who controlled fate.

There seemed to be some unknown being, perhaps a god or something, that was secretly manipulating the threads of fate, and Eve had been in touch with the darkness for a long time, and the darkness had never let her go, but only until now.

In a way, it was not Lorenzo who found Eve to start this crazy night, but that long-term connection that made Eve find him, just like the Kungunir of fate, which was thrown with Eve's fate many years ago, and has been running through this crazy night until today.

This is a predestined fate.