"I have a question for me, Mr. Leo. As Leo was about to leave, a young scholar finally couldn't hold back the confusion in his heart and asked, "How did you know this knowledge......?"

Leo replied calmly, "I'm not from Lanxi, these are just very esoteric for you, but for me, it's just ordinary knowledge. ”

A senior scholar also spoke at this time: "I don't know if Your Excellency Leo can stay in Lanxi ......."

Before the other party could finish speaking, Leo shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to leave when I'm done with another thing, because I have an agreement with a certain being in the Black Forest." ”

The senior scholar couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, although he didn't attend the previous meeting, he had also heard some news, knowing that Leo and the Lord of the Black Forest had a contractual relationship, and their status was extraordinary, no matter how much they coveted the knowledge that Leo mastered, they didn't dare to risk offending the Lord of the Black Forest and forcibly leave Leo behind.

Leo, Sylvia, and Alice strode out of the control room, along with a few sergeants, while the rest of the maesters and most of the sergeants remained in the control room.

The Bachelors seemed intent on reading Leo's record on the bracelet storage device right away, and getting familiar with how to operate those things as soon as possible.

When Leo and the others returned to the defense zone from the same way, Alice suddenly used the divine power on her body to create a closed barrier, isolating the voice, and then asked, "...... about the possession of the High Abyss race you mentioned earlier?"

"Prepare for the worst. Leo said bluntly, "We're almost certain that Priest Luther and Sergeant Tyrrell are possessed. ”

Alice's face was a little ugly, because the identities of these two people were very special and could not be handled casually.

"You haven't told Lancey about this yet, have you?" said Sylvia, who asked tentatively, as Alice's look made Sylvia aware of it.

Alice didn't answer, just smiled awkwardly.

Sylvia opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she didn't say it, after all, Alice's identity was there, and she was not easy to speak up as a junior.

However, Leo didn't have those scruples, and said directly: "You'd better discuss a result with the above as soon as possible, while Sheeny and I are still here, to help you solve this trouble, otherwise we will leave, and you will have to rely on yourself to solve these troubles, and there may be more unnecessary casualties at that time." ”

Alice frowned when she heard this, and did not speak for a long time.

She wasn't disgusted by Leo's words, even if Leo's words sounded like underestimating the power of Lanxi City, what she really felt a headache was how to talk to Lanxi's administrators about it.

As she said, the identities of both Priest Luther and Grand Commander Tyrell are not ordinary, and more importantly, her relationship with these two is somewhat delicate, and if she suggests to the management that the two of them may be possessed by the High Abyss Race, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of others that she is the armed force that wants to control the area of the defensive position.

The armed forces of the Abyssal Defensive Position are now mainly composed of three forces, and the strongest one is the Dreadnought Mecha Sergeant, who is the main defensive force when the Abyss Tide arrives, and they are always the first line when the battle appears.

After that, there are the gods and dependents, clergy, and fanatics sent by various god realms, these people are mainly auxiliary dreadnought mecha sergeants, but they will also serve as the main attack force when necessary, and the leaders of these attacks are often the priests of the Mother of Filth, because the Mother of Filth has a strong restraint effect on the power of the abyss.

And the weakest of the three forces is the Holy Cult Army of the Church of the Suffering, they usually stay in the rear, as the logistics of the first two main forces, only when the first two forces are completely defeated, they will go to the battlefield, and the purpose of their battle is not to defeat the monsters rushing out of the abyss, but to delay as much time as possible to provide sufficient preparation time for the defensive area behind.

Because of their different roles on the battlefield, their status is also different, and even sometimes the Holy Army of the Church of the Afflicted will be called as slaves, so Alice has been trying to improve the status of the Holy Army.

Now, if Alice proposes Archcolon Tyrell and Luther Priest to the administrators, then the administrators will only think that Alice is deliberately framing those two in order to drag them down from their respective positions, so that her position in the defense area will become the highest one, and she can naturally intervene in the two forces of the dreadnought mech sergeant and the god priest, forming a monopoly situation.

Alice also has this concern, so she just mentioned it to the people in the management who have a good relationship with her, and although those people don't think that Alice wants to seek power, they are still a little suspicious of Alice, and she doesn't have any substantive evidence, so in this case, it is difficult for her to gain the trust of the management.

"Do you have any evidence there?" asked Alice in a deep voice, adding, "Substantial evidence is required, not conjecture." ”

"Nope. Leo shook his head, then turned to look at Sylvia.

Sylvia thought for a moment and said, "We can try to lure out the Lifestealers from them, as long as Lanxi's administrators see the Lifestealers, then it will definitely be ......"

"No," Leo interrupted Sylvia, reminding us that "our approach doesn't have to be 100% effective, and if it doesn't, what will the managers of Lancey City think, they won't give us a chance to try again." Even if it works, it's not certain that both Lifeeaters will be lured out, so the remaining one will probably be let go by the administrators here, so what the consequences will be, I guess I can't guess what the consequences will be. As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Alice and said, "I can tell you with great confidence that they are possessed, either we will help you solve them completely, or you will solve it yourself, I have no interest in proving anything, you must know that this is your business, not mine." ”

Hearing Leo's decisive words, Alice couldn't say anything more, she could only think carefully of a reasonable reason to convince those managers, if it really didn't work, she could only give up letting Leo and Sylvia take action, and instead spy on herself, looking for a chance to find evidence.

Sylvia didn't seem to want to see Alice embarrassed, so she thought for a moment and said, "Actually, there is a way to find out if one of them is possessed. ”

Leo turned his head to look at Sylvia, as if he knew what Sylvia was trying to say, and said, "You said that person is Luther Priest?"

"Yes. Sylvia nodded and said, "Since Priest Luther is the priest of the Mother of Filth, you can ask Priest Luther to preside over a sacrifice, you must know that the divine power of the Mother of Filth has a restraining effect on the power of the abyss, and if he is possessed, it is impossible to successfully complete the sacrifice ceremony of the Mother of Filth." As she spoke, she looked at Alice and said, "You can use this method to test whether Luther was possessed, or you can use this as evidence to convince the administrator." ”

"Yes, that's a good idea. Alice smiled when she heard this.

Leo next to him reminded: "If you do this, then you must pay attention to the monitoring of the Luther priests." Although after experiencing a possession, especially possessing a clergyman who is full of the divine power of the Filthy Mother like Priest Luther, no matter how strong the power of the Eater of Souls is, it will definitely be greatly damaged, and it will take a long time to cultivate if he wants to possess others, but this situation is not absolute, if he finds that he is in danger, he may risk breaking away from Luther's body and possessing others. ”

"Get out?" Alice was stunned and asked, "Will Priest Luther be able to get rid of ......?"

Without waiting for Alice's question to speak, Leo asked rhetorically, "Have you ever seen anyone who has been eroded by the power of the abyss and still been able to get rid of it?"

Alice didn't say anything more.

Soon the platform was back in its defensive position, and after sending Leo and Sylvia to the fort where they lived, Alice left in a hurry, but before leaving, she asked Leo and Sylvia to spy on Archarch Tyrell and Priest Luther until she returned.

Afterwards, Leo and Sylvia were not idle, and they took advantage of the permission given by Alice to go to the observatory and settle down, which was closer to the entrance to the abyss and could better monitor Archarch Tyrell and Priest Luther.

Judging from the situation in the past two days, Archsan Tyrrell and Priest Luther did not seem to have any problems, and they made their rounds of the various observatories as usual, and performed some simple religious ceremonies.

But Leo and Sylvia could both feel that the abyssal aura on the two of them had become much stronger, but because they were near the entrance of the abyss, the abyssal aura on their bodies was mixed with the abyssal power around them, and it was difficult to distinguish them.

In addition, the careful Leo also found through his extraordinary vision that the Titan mecha on the Tyrell Grand Commander had been modified, and the Holy Word Prayer on the surface to resist the erosion of the abyss had all been changed, but a small change was very slight, that is, there was an extra circle or an extra scratch similar to a certain symbol, but the effect was very obvious, which directly caused the resistance of the Titan Mecha to the power of the abyss on the surface to be weakened to the extreme.

This also makes Leo suspect that inside this Titan mech, the Tyrell Grand Commander may have begun to dehumanize and mutate.

Normally, Leo and Sylvia would stay on the top floor of the observatory, and only when Sylvia needed the power of the abyss to raise her bloodline and help the fetus form, she would go to the edge of the entrance to the abyss accompanied by Leo.

Although at the time of the early entrance to the abyss, the people of Lanxi City built a platform and parapet wall with the hardest stone on the edge, and used a large number of holy prayers and divine powers on it to stop the spread of the power of the abyss, it is no exaggeration to say that every stone taken out here is enough to be worshiped as a holy object by the corresponding church.

However, with the continuous erosion of the power of the abyss, these platforms and parapets have also appeared a lot of damage, although these stones still contain powerful divine power, but the blocking effect of the power of the abyss is far from comparable to when it was first built.

In order to prevent accidents, Leo did not let Sylviath get closer to the entrance of the abyss, but instead walked to the edge of the entrance to the abyss and looked down at the abyss, which was covered in black fog below.

Although Leo saw no change in the black oil mist, whether it was supernormal vision, spiritual vision, or real eye, and he couldn't see what was in the mist, Leo could feel that something was looking at him in the mist.

"Abyssal Serpent?" Leo looked calmly at the situation below, thinking of the looming serpent body he had seen on the observatory earlier.

If it were an ordinary person who looked directly at each other with the abyssal higher races, or even just directly observed the situation at the entrance of the abyss, I am afraid that the spirit would also be unknowingly infiltrated and polluted by the abyssal power in this situation, but for Leo, the abyssal power that invaded the body was like a piece of food, and was sent to the crystallized serpent's body, and part of it was integrated into the eyes of the abyss serpent, and more abyssal power was invested into the fire of sinful karma.

This is something that Leo discovered by accident, when he asked the crystallized serpent to absorb the power of the abyss that had infiltrated him, he discovered that the power of the abyss could be used as firewood for the fire of sin, helping the fire of sinful karma to improve the quality of the flame.

It's just that this method of ascension is very slow, and if you want to make a qualitative change in the fire of sinful karma, I am afraid that it will not be possible to complete it without continuous burning for nearly a thousand years.

Now Leo wants to take this opportunity to familiarize himself with the method of using the fire of sin, because he feels that he may have more and more contact with the abyss in the future, and it is also very good to be able to master a method that can restrain the power of the abyss, the only flaw is that this fire of sinful karma is not a harmless power, if it is not used carelessly, it is easy to backlash like using the power of the abyss.

Leo and Sylvia's actions also attracted the attention of the rest of the observatory, after all, no one had ever been able to stay so close to the entrance of the abyss without any protection, and Leo's behavior of staring at the abyss for a long time made the dreadnought mechs and clergy think that he was crazy, and even wondered if he was infected. The clergy and others tested the two of them in various ways, and after confirming that there were no problems, they were a little relieved.