After Adolf fell, Lin Qiu did not break away from the illusion world for the first time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info was observing the world in a soul-like state when Info asked Deep Sea - he tried to push open the locked door with his hand, but easily passed through. According to Deep Sea's words, Lin Qiu "disappeared" for nearly an hour.

"Deep Sea, do you know the Divine Bird Sect?"

Lin Qiu didn't have much hope for this question, because even the Holy Maiden didn't seem to be aware of this long-established religion. If the abilities of the disciples of the Divine Bird Sect were all obtained in this way, this religion would be too terrifying. Take advantage of a method similar to sacrifice to gain some of Phoenix's abilities.

"I don't understand. ”

By the time the deep sea reconnected with Lin Qiu, the firebird made of flames had flown away, leaving only three charred corpses and a farm reduced to ashes. Celt slowly got up, and after the firebird disappeared, the flames that swirled around him gradually dispersed, but there was no sadness in his eyes, and he still walked towards the two charred corpses in ignorance.

"But churches like this have always existed. After observing everything around him, Deep Sea continued, "The destruction of Akalando was not a process of sudden change, and before the final battle between Lord Gosya and her sister, the kingdom experienced several catastrophes, and during a period called the Black Death, some remote areas gave rise to corresponding religious ...... In extreme cases, these religions can turn some people's suffering into gifts. ”

"Like, 'Our bodies are dying, but our spirits will live forever'? Don't get me wrong, these were the last words of Selt's parents. ”

"I don't know the teachings of the Cult of the Divine Birds, but at the end of the Black Death, the pagans called it a clarity of the gods to mankind, and they said that on the day the Black Death dissipated, the gods would bless all who had suffered so much. In their teachings, the Gosyathians were heretics—but they were not useless, and there were some people in the Church who had acquired some strange abilities because of the Black Death, and these abilities were their way of winning people's hearts. ”

Celte didn't mean to stop when he walked in front of the two charred corpses, he just lowered his head, glanced at the corpses that were no longer faceless, and then looked again in the direction of the firewood room—more precisely, Lin Qiu's location.

The boy could see him.

The voice of the deep sea also sounded: "Just like this child." His mana fluctuates thinly, he doesn't have what it takes to become a knight, children like him are the majority, and these 'rituals' can redefine their talents—the faith of the cultists is not vain, it's like making a deal with a demon. ”

As he spoke in the depths, Celt had already come to him.

He looked up at Lin Qiu and asked exactly the same words as when they first met: "Excuse me, are you a knight?"

It's just that this time the attitude is much better. Lin Qiu nodded.

"So, can you help me find it?"

"Why are you looking for it?" Lin Qiu always felt a little weird, shouldn't Celt be full of pathos at this time?

"Because it's calling me. ”

Lin Qiu was shocked to realize that the direction in which the Firebird flew seemed to be the Kingdom of Talen, and this ritual not only gave Celt the ability that did not belong to him, but also guided him to Phoenix's side in this way. It seems that they were mistaken from the beginning - Celt was not looking for the knight to avenge his parents, but to follow in the footsteps of Phoenix.

"You don't know it's an enemy?"

"Enemy?" Celt was puzzled, "What enemy?"

"At least indirectly killed your parents. Lin Qiu thought about the wording, strictly speaking, Celte's parents voluntarily sacrificed themselves.

"I don't understand, Mom and Dad aren't dead, aren't they here?" Celt lowered his head and pointed to his heart, and he put on a look of listening, as if someone was really talking to him, "They said they would always be with me, huh...... They also say you won't understand. ”

Even Lin Qiu was puzzled at this time.

He wasn't even sure if what Celt said was true, that the death of the body and the immortality of the spirit would never have been possible in the age of science, but if it had been possible in a world where power could really be gained through sacrifice.

And he was sure that Selter's parents were not special, and that most poor families would probably do such a thing. In this respect, Herutia is the same as the Byron Empire, the more remote the area, the weaker the knights stationed there, and there are many areas like the Kingdom of Talon, where the knights of the silver emblem can dominate.

This means that farmers are at risk of encountering monsters and dying while plowing their fields, so once these people are convinced that this method works, many will follow suit.

This is a wavering of faith.

When the Holy Maiden they had always believed in was far away in the Imperial Capital and could not solve the C-class monsters that could attack them at any time, their faith had already begun to loosen, and they would flock to it once there was a new and more "effective" way to change everything.

"Master, you are right to be worried. If it weren't for the fact that the Black Death had lasted longer, the new churches would have been more and more vigorous. Shenhai said.

It's just that at that time, Lord Gosya was struggling with her sister, and she had no mind about the disease that was raging in the remote areas. And after all this time, when she repeated it with the Holy Maiden, she was shocked to find that Mistress Gosya had changed so much - compared to the time of Akarando, she could even be described as desireless now.

The deep sea doesn't know what happened during the time she sank to the bottom of the sea, which caused Lord Gosya to become like this. But she understands that this is not a good thing. The Church had far less control over Herrutia than it did in the time of Akarandu, and was even more laissez-faire towards some kingdoms.

"So, will you help me find it?" Seeing that Lin Qiu didn't answer for a long time, Celte asked without giving up.

"No, it won't. ”

Lin Qiu's answer was very decisive: "Because the knight Adolf you can see is dead." ”

He was at least sure that no matter how bizarre the world was, he shouldn't have been on the Twilight Farm at this point in time. Adolf, the knight in Selt's memory, fell silently in the locked wood room, and this ending was actually not essentially different from Selt's father wielding a hammer at that time.

"Selt, you're waiting for a very, very good knight. ”

"How good is it going to be?"

"Hmm...... It's almost powerful enough to single-handedly take on all the monsters in the forest. ”

Celt nodded incomprehensibly.

......

At the same time, the hostels of the town.

Eli sat in the lobby of the hotel, muffling his apple pie, which had long been cold, and in a moment someone sat down across from him—the beautiful woman who had been with the boy earlier. It seems to be called...... Helena? That's the name.

"I'm sorry I lied to you guys. ”

Eli smiled self-deprecatingly: "Adolf's leg is not broken, he just went hunting the bear monster and has not come back yet." ”

Of course, this "temporary" has been a bit longer.

"That's a long task, isn't it?" he sighed, swallowing the apple pie stuffed with the most.