Chapter 1138: The Wrong Direction of Suspicion
These words in the crowd were not unfounded speculation, for in the past, there had been more than one confirmed instance of a monster among the mutated monsters that could restrain the power of a certain god, and even that monster had used the power of that god as food, almost causing the fall of that god, and that god was one of the gods of the swamp.
Although anyone who knows a little about theology knows that a few of the swamp gods believed in by the Hannover League are demigods, the others are only powerful, supernatural beings with extremely high intelligence, and they are recognized as gods by the Orthodox Church because of their perennial belief and the fact that they have never performed any evil sacrifices.
It's just that, except for those demigods who have real god names, the other swamp gods only have a unified name for the swamp gods.
Although the Swamp Gods are in the True God camp of the Orthodox Church, some of them are not worthy of the name, and they can only rely on the believers of the Hanover Alliance to barely support the façade, and the church cannot spread to other continents like other gods and spirits at all, and even except for the Hannover Alliance region, the Church of the Swamp Gods cannot spread in other parts of the Viron Continent.
But in the eyes of the people of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, no matter how unbearable the swamp gods are, their true god essence will not be reduced by the strength of the church and the gods themselves, and their power is still the divine power of the gods.
Among the mutated monsters, since one monster can form the power to restrain one of the gods of the swamp, then the monster that restrains the power of other gods will inevitably appear, and the only question is when it will appear.
Although the people of the Church of the Lord of the Sky were reluctant to believe that there were monsters that could restrain the power of the Lord of the Sky, what they saw now made them have to make some associations.
After all, a bishop with several protective magic skills on his body died silently in such a close place from the outpost camp, and the whole process can be said to have no resistance, and even the distress magic that can be released with just a finger has no chance to be released, until the last divine magic that remains in the body and dies with the enemy spontaneously erupts to alarm everyone, otherwise, everyone present may not know that the bishop has had an accident.
This made the people of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, who knew the strength of the bishop, have to consider whether the monsters that targeted them to believe in gods have appeared.
"Could it be that guy?" said a templar guard.
The guy in the mouth of the Templar guards was the target of their hunt, the monster that could disguise itself as a high-ranking clergyman of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and after hearing this suspicion, everyone, including the hunters and mercenaries, was led to the wrong direction of thinking that had nothing to do with the real situation, and everyone seemed to think that this suspicion might be right.
The reason why everyone has such an idea is because that monster can perfectly disguise itself as a high-ranking cleric of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and can even cast some magic of the Lord of the Sky.
There are only two possibilities to be able to do this kind of thing, either that monster can imitate the divine power of the Lord of the Sky, or this monster can absorb their divine power by devouring high-level clerics, either of which possibility means that this monster has the power to target the divine power of the Lord of the Sky.
Everyone instantly sensed that something big was about to happen, and some sensitive hunters and mercenaries even sensed a strong killing intent from several clergymen, and quickly understood that the killing intent against their own people was because these clergy wanted to silence them, lest the news of this damage to the prestige of the Lord of the Sky spread.
The hunters and mercenaries immediately put their hands on their weapons and motioned to their companions, and although they didn't understand for a moment why their companions should be wary of these clergy of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, they still reacted instinctively and gathered among their companions, while the others gathered together as if they sensed something, and put their hands on their weapons.
For a moment, the atmosphere in this forest immediately became extremely tense, and no matter how dull people were, they could guess the reason.
After a while, someone couldn't stand the tension and began to try to evacuate, but his evacuation did not cause anything to be feared, and the whole process was careful and fast.
Seeing that some people had already evacuated, and everyone else had evacuated from the place, it was as if the people of the church had become some kind of terrible monster.
However, until the last mercenary left the forest, those people from the Church of the Lord of the Sky did not make a move, which made some hunters and mercenaries wonder if they were wrong to blame the people of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.
In fact, they didn't know that until the last mercenary disappeared from the church's view, the church was considering whether they could leave all those who knew about it in the forest.
However, no matter how they deduced the battle plan, the result was the same, if the hunting party was fully manned, the leader of the hunt was not killed, and the two holy warriors were not unconscious, perhaps they could still have done it.
But now, the three people with the strongest combat power in the team have all had accidents, and although the remaining two are also senior clergy at the bishop level, their strength is only auxiliary bishops, and the divine arts are mainly auxiliary divine arts, and they can't form enough combat power at all.
Moreover, now that the hunters and mercenaries are aware of it, and there is also a guard from the Fire Dancer Caravan involved, and the person who easily knocked down the two holy warriors is in the Fire Dancer Caravan, if they do it again, they will be on the weaker side, and it is impossible to stop the Fire Dancer Caravan from spreading the news, so they can only watch these people who know about the blasphemy leave safely one by one.
Now all they have to do is to report this matter to the General Templar of the Church immediately, and the best way to contact the General Templar is to use the Vision of God, but now the problem is that the Vision of God has been lost with the death of the leader of the bishop, and they can't contact the General Templar at all now, which instantly puts them in a dilemma
Just when the people of the Sky Lord Church were thinking about what to do next, Leo on the other side also used his fastest speed to sort out the memory fragments he extracted from the bishop, and learned about some of the Sky Lord Church's plans for Sylvia, and the originally somewhat anxious mood was also slightly eased at the moment.
The reason why Leo's mood changed in this way was because he already knew that Sylvia was safe for the time being, and although the assassin parlor of the Church of the Lord of the Sky sent the assassins to assassinate Sylvia, they obviously did not know that there were Sylvia's eyes and ears among the assassins they sent.
From the bishop's memory fragments, Leo obtained a list of the Assassins sent out by the Assassin's Chamber, in which Leo saw several familiar names, all of which had appeared in one of Sylvia's secret notes, which recorded some of Sylvia's secret agents.
If there were no surprises, Sylvia probably already knew that the Church of the Sky Lord planned to use some extreme but effective methods against her, and even with what he knew about Sylvia, she might have prepared a trap waiting for the people of the Church of the Sky to jump in, and then she would be able to use this incident to get the benefits she wanted from the Church of the Sky Lord.
Leo did not doubt the authenticity of the list provided in the bishop's memory, because he knew that even if the bishop was not in the inner circle of the Church, he was a student and confidant of the First Cardinal of the Church of the Lords of the Sky, and when the Pope of the Church of the Lords of the Sky or the High Priest of the Archsanctuary died, the First Cardinal would inevitably take his place and become one of the two saints of the Church of the Lords of the Sky, and then the bishop would inevitably enter the inner circle of the Church, so it was not surprising that he now knew some secret things。
The reason why this bishop offered to lead the team to hunt the monsters that desecrated the church here this time was to accumulate merit and prepare for reducing the resistance to entering the inner circle in the future, but he could not have imagined that a monster hunting trip that seemed simple to him would cause him to die here.
In addition to knowing that Sylvia was not in danger, Leo did not immediately set off to meet Sylvia with Odorin, also because he did not want to implicate the Fire Dancer caravan.
The death of the Bishop of the Church of the Lord of the Sky will soon be discovered, and he has had conflicts with the Church of the Lord of the Sky before, and has also shown strong enough strength, so he will definitely be the first to be suspected.
If he suddenly leaves quietly at this time, then it will be confirmed that he is the murderer, and if he can't catch the murderer, the Fire Dancer Caravan will definitely become the target of involvement, which is not what he wants to see.
However, his fear quickly disappeared with the return of the hunters, mercenaries, and fire dancer caravan guards who had left the camp from the forest, because these people who came back could not wait to spread the word that the bishop had died at the hands of a monster who restrained the divine power of the Lord of the Sky, and in a short time it spread throughout the entire camp, and even the logistics staff of the Fire Dancer caravan were able to tell the whole story as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
Later, the people of the Lord of the Sky Church, who also returned to the camp, were very angry when they learned what happened in the camp, but there was nothing they could do.
They knew very well that the reason why the guards of these hunters, mercenaries, and fire dancer caravans did this was to let more people know about it, so as to reduce the danger on themselves, and at the same time put pressure on these people in the Church of the Lord of the Sky to not dare to make any moves.
Although the method was simple, it was extremely effective, and the people of the Church of the Lord of the Sky saw that it was no longer possible to hide it, so they did not bother to stop the spread of the matter, but shifted to how to spread the news to the General Church as soon as possible.
The result of their discussion was to leave here as soon as possible and return to the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the New Porta district, and pass the news to the main church through the secret technique left in the idol of the Lord of the Sky.
So, having made a decision, the people of the church immediately asked the two auxiliary bishops to use forbidden magic to wake the two holy warriors from their deep coma, because without the two holy warriors, the forest in the middle of the night would be very dangerous for them.
The magic cast by the two auxiliary bishops was indeed very effective, and it was easy to dispel the spiritual energy that Leo had deliberately left on the heads of the two holy warriors, awakening them from their slumber.
After understanding the situation, the two holy warriors who woke up also agreed with everyone's decision, immediately packed up their things, prepared to leave overnight, and rushed to the church church outside the mountain.
As for Leo, although the two holy warriors were suspicious, after all, Leo had the absolute strength to kill the leader of the bishop in the entire camp, but they were only suspicious, because they didn't think that a small conflict would allow Leo Dodd to kill the bishop and the Lord of the Sky church to death.
The conversations of these members of the Sky Lord Church in their camp were all captured by Leo's spiritual network, and I don't know if it was because they panicked God, or because none of them would block similar divine arts, all in all, these clergy did not do anything to talk to each other, and Leo easily understood the plans of these people.
Leo knew very well that these people from the Church of the Lord of the Sky seemed to know their identity, but they certainly didn't know that their church had sent someone to assassinate Sylvia, otherwise, they would have bound to link the two and determine that Leo was the one who killed the bishop of the leader, instead of placing the object of suspicion on the monster they were hunting this time as they did now, and even suspected that the monster had the power to restrain the divine power of the Lord of the Sky.
In fact, after hearing their speculation about that monster, Leo felt a little ridiculous, because these devout followers of the Lord of the Sky actually equated the object of their faith with the imaginary gods of the Swamp Gods, believing that what appeared next to the Swamp Gods would also appear in the true god of the Lord of the Sky, or the Omega-level higher life forms.
Although Leo's understanding of the gods is only scratching the surface, he knows the omega-level higher life forms very well, and he knows very well that for the omega-level higher life forms, only the same strength can restrain each other, that is to say, if there is a force that can restrain the power of a certain omega-level higher life form, then this power definitely belongs to the omega-level higher life forms.
As for why there are monsters with the power to restrain the gods of the swamp, it is because the gods of the swamp are not gods yet, they are not omega-level advanced lifeforms, and no matter how close their divine power is to the divine power of the gods, it is always just close, not really divine power, and it is not an incredible thing that the power of restraint appears in this situation.
After making sure that the people of the church did not doubt themselves for the time being, Leo also decided that after the people of the church left, he also left the camp and went to Odoline.