After entering the interstellar age, the Earth Federation has divided the higher intelligent beings in the earth into four levels: alpha, beta, gamma and omega.

Among them, ordinary humans are regarded as the lowest alpha level, humans with extraordinary intelligence and super strong bodies are regarded as beta levels, and psionic people are gamma levels, as for the identification range of the omega level, most people think that they can interfere with the operation of a planet with their own behavior, which can be counted as the omega level, and the most famous of them is the will of the planet, which is also known as the will of Gaia.

Now Leo has found a piece of the remains of an omega-level high-level species from the ashes of a monster, such a thing will definitely become big news in the world if it were placed in the Earth Federation, because the value of this wreck in his hand alone is enough to buy a fourth-level resource star.

Of course, Leo didn't think that the monster he burned to death with fire would be an omega-level higher creature, but he thought that this monster appeared because of the wreckage in his hand, and if he hadn't miscalculated, there were more than forty such wreckage, and this discovery also made his breathing a lot thicker.

At this moment, Leo's contemplative state and the slightly changing expression on his face made Catherine, who was already suspicious next to her, notice. It's just that she obviously misunderstood what Leo was thinking, but because of Leo's two inexplicable unrelated questions before, she thought that Leo had found something related to her, such as why the stone pendant in her hand was here, etc.

Although it was just a misunderstanding, I had to admit that part of Catherine's misunderstanding was guessed, so I saw Catherine also say to Leo very seriously: "You also said just now, if we want to cooperate, there are some things that cannot be hidden, so I also hope that you can tell me what you have found now." ”

Hearing Catherine's inquiry, Leo frowned slightly, looked at the stone pendant that Catherine was holding onto, and immediately understood why Catherine said this.

So he was silent for a moment, and said with some seriousness, "Do you really want to know? You must know that some things are not better to know as much as possible, and sometimes knowing too much will lead to ......."

"I want to know. Catherine was not only not persuaded, but was even more curious about what Leo had found, and said with great certainty.

Seeing this, Leo concealed a little, and did not say anything about the remains of this omega-level higher creature, but only his speculation that the forty-five original founders of the Church of Arknaya had become monsters.

"No way! this can't be!" Catherine did not hesitate to deny Leo's speculation, but the look of pain and sadness on her face and the look in her eyes at the pile of ashes showed that she had believed the speculation in her heart.

While Leo was telling her speculation about the forty-five founders of the Church of Aconaya, she was also observing Catherine's expression and emotions, and although her emotions were entirely in Leo's speculation, it was a little strange that she accepted Leo's speculation so quickly.

"Unless my speculation has something to do with something she knows?" Leo said as he looked at Catherine, a vague guess in his mind, and waited until Catherine's mood had stabilized a little, "Don't you have anything else you want to say, like, what made them the monsters they are now?"

"What do you know?" Catherine looked at Leo with suspicion in her eyes.

"What do you think I should know, like how these monsters came about, Martin you know should know, and the three high priests of the Church of Arknaya should also know, as for you?" Leo said, leaning his head close to Catherine, the two of them almost close enough to feel each other's breathing, and looked at each other for a moment, as if to see her heart, before slowly letting go of his body and saying with an affirmative expression, "You may not have known before, but you must know now." Do you think I'm right?"

Catherine didn't respond to Leo immediately, but looked down at the stone pendant in her hand, sat in the pile of ashes, and was silent for a while before she said slowly: "We accidentally discovered the catacombs back then, and found some ancient books from the catacombs, knowing that we are probably the descendants of the slave kingdom back then. And we also find out from other more ancient ancient texts that the slaves who overthrew the French Empire were not slaves in the first place, they had their own countries and civilizations, they were the Nilgardians. ”

Leo pointed to the surrounding houses and said, "The people who live in this underground city?"

According to the ancient language of the French language, Vilon, the Nirgaard means to live underground. Catherine explained a little and continued: "The Nirgardians built this underground city and formed it into a city-state kingdom, which is as prosperous as the legendary city-states on the ancient continent of Veron. According to ancient texts, an evil force later arose from the ground and affected the patronus of Nirgaard, corrupting him and turning him from a patron saint to a god of destruction. ”

"Patronus?" Leo froze.

"During the ancient city-state period, each city-state would find a guardian god for itself, for example, the earliest patron god of Lanxi was the god of killing and gladiatorial fighting. But most of those gods are symbolic, not really gods. Catherine said this, and she was a little lacking in confidence, obviously what had just happened to her had a great impact, and she couldn't help but doubt her past cognition.

However, she soon recovered, and continued: "Although the Nirgardians eventually defeated the corrupted Patronus and divided his body into countless pieces, using the power of the earth to completely suppress his remains, the corruption of the evil forces was not spared, so the Nirgardians were forced to leave the place where they lived and go up to the surface to live like everyone else. ”

Hearing this, Leo's grip on the remains of the higher creatures tightened, and he thought that the wreckage in his hand might come from this corrupted Patronus.

"The later rise of the Fran Empire destroyed the city-states built on the ground by the Nirgardians, and built Lancy on the ruins of the Nirgardian city-state, turning all the surviving Nirgadians into slaves. Catherine stopped at this point, sighed, and said, "Later, it will be the dynastic history of the French Empire." ”

Leo now had a vague understanding of why only four of the forty-nine people who encountered the anomaly at the same time survived, and even gained some paranormal powers similar to psionic energy as a result, and the rest were all genetically broken and turned into monsters, because not all the descendants of slaves were Nirgardians.

At this time, Jason, who was listening very attentively, couldn't help but ask, "What does the history of the Nilgardians have to do with the creation of this monster?"

Catherine hesitated for a moment before she said, "We found in the catacombs the notes left by some of the people who took refuge here before the fall of the slave kingdom. In the note, it is written that the king of Yasin, that is, the great gladiator who defeated the French Empire, was able to defeat the elite troops of the French Empire because he found the remains of the patron saint in the ruins of the ancient city of Nilgard, and created a group of warriors with the power of the gods through the power of the remains. It was only later that these warriors were corrupted by evil forces and turned into monsters, which quickly weakened the later slave kingdom. ”

"Do you believe these things?" asked Leo.

"I don't believe it! At least not at the time, because I don't know who wrote the notebook, and the text behind it is some gibble of graffiti, so we think the notebook is the nonsense left behind by the man's madness before he died. Catherine responded honestly, looked at the pile of ashes and the stone pendant in her hand, and said a little confused: "Now...... Now I can't tell. ”

Catherine paused for a moment, then continued, "Martin, they should believe this statement, because according to the note, if you want to create a warrior with the power of the gods, you need to sacrifice on the altar where the remains of the corrupted guardian gods are banned, and the sacrifice needs to be a person with the blood of the gods. I think that's why Nielsen was going to be targeted, and I had inadvertently mentioned Nielsen's background to Martin, so he ......"

Catherine, full of guilt, said no more, and Leo was silent for a moment, as if digesting the information he had just received.

Then Leo said to Catherine very seriously: "Now the development of things has deviated from the purpose of our original visit to the catacombs, and it is no longer to collect evidence of any cases, and I even suspect that those cases were committed by Martin Luther or the church. It could be dangerous and there might be something you don't want to see, and if you want to leave now, Jason and I will send you away and then come back to the doctor......"

Before Leo could finish speaking, Catherine immediately responded, "No, I'm a man of the cage city, not as fragile as you think." ”

"In that case, let's find the doctor first, and then think about the rest!" Leo made a decision, he chose not to go to the area that was likely to be the laboratory of the Church of Arknaya, hunt down those monsters, and obtain the remains of other higher creatures, but chose to join Nelson first.

Although he was still very interested in the remains of high-level creatures in the bodies of the dozens of monsters, there were some things that were not easy to do when Catherine was around, and the other was that he didn't know what to do with the remains of high-level creatures for the time being.

According to the practice of the Earth Federation, it is natural to directly extract genes from the wreckage and cultivate them into gene stocks, or try to clone higher creatures, but as a warrior, Leo doesn't understand these things at all, and even if he does, he can't do anything without the assistance of those high-tech tools, so now this wreckage of higher creatures is like chicken ribs to him.

After making the decision, Leo also adjusted his equipment slightly, he asked Jason to reload the crossbow's arrow magazine, including a special arrow with a fire effect for every five normal arrows, and he also picked up and reloaded the flintlock cannon's ammunition at any time after it was used.

After getting ready, Leo led the two of them to chase down the route taken by Nelson and his party.

Not long after Leo left the subterranean settlement, two teams of priests of the Church of Arconaya, who lit torches, arrived from the other two underground passages in the subterranean settlement.

If Leo was still here, he would have known that the two groups were from the Garrison Clergy of the previous settlement and the Priest of the Laboratory area, respectively.

He would also notice that the clergy's clothes had the coat of arms of the Church of Arconaya on the front, but on the back were the chaotic symbols he had seen on the walls of the diocese.

Except for the badge symbol on their clothes, which was different from the one on the ground, each of them wore a mask, and the exposed parts of their bodies were completely covered by clothing, and even their heads were hooded, giving them a mysterious feeling.

Among these priests, there are also experts who are proficient in tracking and exploration, which makes them quickly find the place where Leo and the monster fought just now, find the ashes, and even through the surrounding traces, barely piece together the process of the battle, have a rough assessment of Leo's strength, and finally judge from the footprints on the ground how many people were here at that time.

It's just that when they judged the state of people from the depth of their footprints, they mistakenly described Leo, who was carrying a heavy flintlock cannon, as a big fat man.

Then, from the group of priests who came from the laboratory area, a man who appeared to be the leader came out, and he was seen to give a few words to the other priests, and then the two groups split into three.

A team stayed in the area and continued their search, apparently trying to find out why Leo and the others had infiltrated here silently, which was the secret passage.

The other team returned to the previous area, presumably intending to block the passage and prevent anyone from escaping.

As for the last team, which was also the largest team, they followed the footprints left by Leo and others on the ground, all the way, but they didn't know that the footprints they found were deliberately left by Leo.

Leo, who is proficient in special operations, has hundreds of ways to cover up his footprints and make them untraceable, but he doesn't, and he even expects the people of the Church of Aknaya, alarmed by his gunfire, to follow, so that he can borrow these clerics against the group that brought Nelson here.

Although the team that caused chaos in the shelter should have no ill will towards Nelson from various data sources, Leo, who has always liked to put things in the worst-case scenario, has a habit of making some pre-arrangements for responses.

It would be better if there was no problem with that team, and he could unite with the pair to solve these priesthoods.

If there was a problem with that group, he would be able to use the power of these clerics to create chaos and save Nelson, and by the way, solve them together when the two gangs were almost fighting.