Swell's wisdom is not bad, otherwise he would not have become a cardinal with the status of only the Cardinal of Ishtar in the Holy See Branch, and he would not have been tacitly considered by the Holy See Branch as the first candidate in line for the next Cardinal Archbishop. Awakened by Mr. Zero, Swell could almost immediately imagine the uproar that would ensue if he disappeared.

The sudden outbreak of the cataclysm itself has already made the Holy See branch anxious, and the Holy See branch has temporarily lost contact with the Holy Mountain headquarters due to the cataclysm, and there is no sign of recovery. The dire situation forced Cardinal Ishtar to take charge of the imperial capital in person to deal with any changes that might arise, and had to send Swell to the front lines of disaster relief.

Swell understood Istta's choice very well, after all, the imperial capital now gathered the four major army corps of the empire, and more than ninety percent of the entire empire's troops were gathered in the imperial capital at this moment. Although the Empire claimed to be the first to ensure the stability of the imperial capital before the catastrophe came, no one could say whether the ambitious Rey III would take this opportunity to suddenly attack the Holy See branch.

In order to prevent the worst situation and avoid the Holy See branch being stabbed in the back, Cardinal Ista could only stay in the imperial capital.

On the one hand, Estar can use his connections and prestige to make Rey III jealous and not act rashly, and on the other hand, Estar needs to reconnect with the Holy Mountain Headquarters as soon as possible, and the hope of contact lies in the prayer tower in St. Jessica's Cathedral.

The prayer tower is the cathedral of St. Jessica, which was cleverly designed at the beginning of its construction, which can resonate with the renovated astrological platform of the Holy Mountain Headquarters, and through the wonderful resonance between the two buildings, it can allow communication across tens of thousands of kilometers of the eastern and western continents in the shortest possible time, avoiding the disconnection between the Holy See Branch and the Holy Mountain Headquarters due to information delay.

The prayer tower in the Cathedral of St. Jessica is the brainchild of the Holy See and the highest masterpiece of architecture on the continent of the Eliyat for nearly two thousand years. When the construction of the prayer tower and the renovation of the astrological platform were completed at the same time, the Holy See once made a great deal of publicity about it as a sign of the revival of the Holy See, claiming that as long as the two buildings were not destroyed, the connection between the Holy See's Holy Mountain Headquarters and the Imperial Capital Branch would be unbreakable, and no force could stop it.

Since then, the headquarters of the Holy Mountain and the branch of the Imperial Capital have stood on the eastern and western continents respectively, keeping watch over each other, which has indeed reinvigorated the prestige of the Holy See, which has begun to decline.

However, the sudden cataclysm completely shattered this architectural "myth" that the Holy See talked about, and after the catastrophe, no matter how hard the people of the Holy See branch worked, they could no longer communicate with the astrological platform of the Holy Mountain headquarters through the prayer tower, and I don't know how much hair Ishtar lost because of this.

Swell didn't know how the situation was going, but when he last contacted Ishtar not long ago to report on the disaster situation, efforts to reconnect were still not encouraging, and there was no progress.

It is conceivable that in this case, if Swell, who is in charge of directing the disaster relief, suddenly disappears, it will inevitably cause a huge turmoil, and the Holy See, which is overwhelmed, will definitely not give up, and perhaps in order to divert the internal anxieties and contradictions that may arise from the inability to contact the Holy Mountain Headquarters, the spearhead of Swell's disappearance will be pointed at an imaginary enemy, which will make the situation on the continent, which was already chaotic due to the sudden cataclysm, even more complicated. This is a scene that Swell absolutely cannot accept and does not want to see.

After thinking everything through, Swell took a long breath and muttered, "It seems that you and His Majesty Gyllenhaal have already thought of a countermeasure, please tell me what to do." ”

"I'll answer your question later, we have three days to prepare anyway, don't we?" Mr. Zero's words show that he and the former Pope had already foreseen the three-day deadline for Swell and Treville.

"Whatever you do, this matter must be properly resolved before the three-day deadline arrives, otherwise even if there is an edict from Gyllenhaal, I will withdraw from this plan and return to the front line of disaster relief to avoid causing further trouble. Swell warned.

"It's natural, rest assured that the host has already arranged everything. I'm going to tell you all the ins and outs of Project X, and there's no better time to solve this problem. Mr. Zero stretched out his hand and led Swell towards the metal door.

Swell took a deep breath and followed Mr. Zero towards the metal door, outside which he had been standing for so long, not stopping to guess what was going to happen behind the door, and now it seemed that the mystery was about to be revealed.

"Please place your palm on the disc-shaped stone next to the door, where your breath needs to be verified before you can enter. Mr. Zero said, pointing to a raised stone next to the gate.

"Is it like this?" Swell, confused, gesturing his palm over the stone.

After Mr. Zero bowed his head to indicate that it was right, he gently put his palm up.

Swell felt a slight pain in his palm, as if he had been stung by something, and just wanted to pick up his palm from the stone, but Mr. Zero stopped him: "Please wait a few seconds, certification takes a short process, there may be some discomfort, please be patient." ”

Swell gave Mr. Zero a deep look after hearing this, and the sensation coming from the palm of his hand told him that things could never be as simple as Mr. Zero said. He felt not only divine power, but also his own blood flowing rapidly from the stung place. The most strange thing for him was that there was no feeling of blood flowing on the stones, and the blood that flowed out seemed to be absorbed by the stones along with the divine power that flowed out with them.

The sensation lasted for about three minutes, and it wasn't until Swell started to feel dizzy from the blood loss, that Mr. Zero broke the silence and said, "Now you can take your hand away." ”

Hearing this, Swell quickly turned over his palm and looked at it, only to find that a bean-sized blood hole appeared in his palm, and I don't know how much blood flowed out of his body from this hole that was stung out of something, and was absorbed by the stone. Even the stone, which was originally indistinguishable from ordinary cyan rock, took on a strange red color due to the sucking of his blood, and everything was indescribably weird.

"What kind of stone is this, and it can absorb my blood and divine power?" Swell asked, shocked and angry, feeling like he was being placed in the hands of Mr. Zero again.

"This is a vampire stone from the Bloodline. Mr. Zero pulled a stiff smile.

"What do you mean by that?" said Swell, startled. As a branch of the demon clan left in the main space of the continent, although the blood clan is one of the three major races in the continent, its reputation has always been very poor, and it can almost be regarded as the embodiment of evil in the continent. Swell didn't expect to be involved with the Blood Clan in this way.