Chapter 1017: The End
The death of a large number of mutant monsters guarding the gate will inevitably be sensed by the divine power domain that envelops the entire mountain stream, but before the core of the divine power domain reacts, Leo has already rushed out of the abyss of the mountain stream.
After leaving the realm of divine power, Leo stopped, looked back at the entrance to the chasm, and had some guesses in his mind, and also revised some decisions.
Originally, Leo was going to find a way to tell the church of the Lord of the Sky about what was going on in the abyss of the mountain stream, so that the church of the Lord of the Sky and the god of eagles who might be parasitic would start a conflict on the surface, and even attract the various churches of the entire Velen Continent to this conflict, lest these churches be idle and have nothing to do, and focus on those bullshit legends of the world destroyer.
But when he found out that many of the mutated monsters might be high-ranking priests of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, his mind changed a little, because he felt that the Nephites' usurpation of the bishop of the sky through the God of the Eagle might not be just a unilateral secret act of the Nephites themselves in the abyss, as he thought, and it was likely that the high-ranking members of the Church of the Lord of the Sky had colluded with the Nephites a long time ago.
The higher-ups of the Church of the Lord of the Sky not only sent the necessary manpower and material resources to the Nephites, but even sent the clergy of the Church to serve as sacrifices or experiments, which led to those monsters and so many Betuls.
If this is really the case, Leo just went directly to the upper echelons of the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the Dibia Mountains, which is likely to be a self-defeating move, because the upper echelons of the Dibia Mountains are likely to be one of the internal responses, and the salvation will be arranged here is obviously regarded as an outcast, after all, such an uncontrolled and trouble-making department is in anyone's hands.
As for why the upper echelons of the Church of the Lord of the Sky are willing to become internal responses, it is nothing more than because of things like miracles of the gods.
With the retreat of the gods, the miracles displayed among the believers also saw very quickly, and even later had to let those god-worshippers display divine magic to pretend to be miracles, coupled with the suppression of the clerical power by secular power, the power of each church shrank rapidly, less than one-tenth of its heyday.
In this case, the remains of the Eagle God, which can help the Church of the Lord of the Sky to show various miracles at any time, naturally become a lifesaver for the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and more importantly, the God of the Eagle is the predecessor of the Lord of the Sky, so using the remains of the Lord of the Eagle to show the miracles of the Lord of the Sky is not a violation of faith, at least logically makes sense.
Therefore, Leo has reason to suspect that there is a core clergy of the Lord of the Sky Church who has already colluded with the God of Eagles, and the evidence is undoubtedly the miracle records of the Lord of the Sky Church on the Veron Continent.
You must know that when this god retreated, all the churches, even those underground evil god churches, rarely had some miracles in religious ceremonies, but only the Church of the Lord of the Sky, or the Church of the Lord of the Sky on the Vilun Continent, often had miracles at religious gatherings, which also made the faith of the Lord of the Sky Church in the Vilen Continent spread very quickly, and finally became the head of the three major churches in the Vilun Continent.
Although the Lord of the Sky is definitely a powerful god among the gods of the Velen world, he will definitely not be much stronger than the gods such as the King of the Hill and the Lord of All Things, since neither the King of the Hill nor the Lord of All Things can often perform miracles when the gods are retreating, then he will definitely not be able to do this, so it is very likely that the miracles displayed by the Lord of the Sky Church in the past did not come from the Lord of the Sky, but from the remains of the God of the Eagle.
If this speculation is true, then the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the Velen Continent has probably been corrupted.
As for why the Holy City of the Sky Lord Church of the Moisan Continent didn't care about this, and even gave the Sky Lord Church of the Velun Continent a certain degree of autonomy, I am afraid that it was also because they felt that this matter would do more harm than good to them.
Because no matter who caused the miracles, for the believers and for the general public, it is the divine power of the Lord of the Sky, and the name of the god they pray for is also the name of the Lord of the Sky, and the ultimate faith will also fall on the Church of the Lord of the Sky itself, which can be seen from the influence of the Church of the Lord of the Sky in Moissan, which has expanded several times because of these miracles.
Leo pondered the ins and outs of what had happened, and as he walked towards the village built by the Society of Salvation, he stopped and looked at the ruined village below as he climbed over a small hill to see the full view of the villages in the valley.
As he had predicted, under the influence of his potion, all the members of the Salvation Society in the village mutated, lost their minds and attacked each other, and finally died together, leaving only the stumps and severed arms scattered throughout the village.
Leo routinely checked the situation in the village through the spirit network, he knew very well how effective his potion could be, and he didn't think that there would be survivors, but things often came unexpectedly, because his spirit network quickly found a survivor, a survivor who controlled the mutated body.
I saw that in the pile of corpses, a senior priest of the Lord of the Sky with a myriaped lower body and a human body with an upper body was trying to control his big hands like pincers to change back to the appearance of human arms, but his method seemed to be flawed, and after the arm changed back to its normal shape, it quickly changed back.
After trying back and forth several times, knowing that his method would not succeed, the senior priest looked frustrated, and as if he had made a decision, he quickly moved to the side of a completely mutated monster corpse, hesitated slightly, and took out a heart directly from the corpse's chest, and then ate the heart like this.
After eating the heart of the mutant monster, the high-ranking priest's body turned red as if it had been steamed, and it took a long time for it to fade back.
At this point, the High Clergy once again used his method of controlling the mutated limbs, and as a result, the large hand that took the mutation quickly changed back to his normal form under his will, and did not change back again.
Leo was a little surprised and surprised when he discovered this, because this high-level priest's method of improving the ability to control mutation gave Leo an inspiration, and he realized that the mutation potion he made did not fail, but succeeded, and the reason for those failures was that the drug was too strong and too good for normal people to bear, and it was necessary to dilute the effect of the drug by other methods, and then gradually increase the concentration of the mutation potion in the user.
The High Priest ate the hearts of his mutated colleagues, a way of diluting the effects of the drug.
In this way, under Leo's surveillance, the high-ranking priest mastered the mutation power in his body little by little by eating the hearts of his mutant colleagues, and transformed himself back into the form of a normal person.
The high-ranking priest who had returned to his normal human form did not show joy because of this, he sat on the ground and stared blankly at the corpses of the mutated monsters around him, and finally passed out from the double fatigue of body and spirit.
Leo walked down the hillside at this time, came to the ruined village, and came to the front of the senior priest, he did not wake up the unconscious senior priest of the Salvation Society, nor did he arrest him, but just carefully checked the other party's physical condition through the spirit net, and then took some blood from this person, and turned to leave.
It had been nine days since Leo returned to Randall, and the reason why it took so much more time to come back than when he went was because all the cities in the United Kingdom were under martial law, and every train had to undergo various inspections, although there was no rumor about the reason for the national state of siege, Leo felt that it had something to do with what he had done in Hanlock.
It's just that this kind of martial law is obviously more like an attitude to the outside world, and it's not really artificially that this kind of martial law can catch the person who causes the speaker of the House of Lords and other high-ranking officials to go crazy, in fact, the person who issued the decree is also very aware of this, so those inspections are not particularly strict, Leo didn't even change his appearance, just showed the documents of the intelligence department staff that Sylvia got there, and was released.
On the way back to Heicheng Bo from the train station in the suburbs, Leo did not hide any whereabouts, and those who were hiding in the shadows to spy naturally also saw the scene of Leo coming back from outside, and for a while, all kinds of information were sent to the hands of people everywhere from secret channels.
At the same time, the news of the accident in the temporary village of the Salvation Society in the Dibia Mountains also began to spread among the churches in the world of Veron, and many smart people compared the time and then the railway line, and it was not difficult to guess what Leo had done these days.
It's just that, even so, they can't do anything about Leo, because everything they do is just speculation, and there is no evidence.
But there are others who care more about Leo's silence than about what Leo is doing, and how to cause the Speaker of the House of Lords and others to go crazy, and how to cause the group of members of the Salvation Society to mutate.
If it were an ordinary person, these people with a heart might have taken action directly, kidnapped Leo, and then slowly forced those methods from the other party's mouth, but Leo is not an ordinary person, no matter the strength he shows, or the vindictiveness, it is enough to be in awe of any force, if it is not necessary, no one will be an enemy of Leo, or more accurately, Leo and Sylvia.
Before Leo returned to Castle Black, the news of him had already reached the castle, and the servants in the castle thought that Leo was staying alone in the laboratory to conduct experiments, so they all thought it was just a rumor and didn't take it to heart until they saw Sylvia carrying little Tolan and little Irene to the castle gate, and they didn't know that this rumor was true.
The carriage passed through the castle gate and stopped not far from Sylvia, and when Leo got out of the carriage, Sylvia greeted him and smiled and asked, "It's back!"
"Well, it's back. Leo nodded in response, then took the two little ones from Sylvia's hands and teased them as they walked towards the main castle.
After the two returned to their room, Leo changed into a simple suit of clothing under the servants' service, and then ordered the servants in the castle to leave, and then carefully told Sylvia what he had experienced during this time.
Sylvia didn't show too much surprise at first hearing Leo's actions in Hanlock City, and then she was calm when she heard Leo's handling of the Salvation Society, because when she received the news about the Salvation Society's village, she could guess how Leo used to destroy the village.
However, when Leo later spoke of his exploration of the abyss of the mountain stream and discovered the plan of the Trinity of Nephites, the God of the Eagle and the Lord of the Sky, her face became more and more serious.
"What kind of being is that Nephitan?" Sylvia asked after Leo finished speaking.
"They come from the stars. Leo pointed to the sky, thought for a moment, found a suitable analogy, and said, "It's like a herd of deer in the Black Forest." ”
"Divine Clan?" Sylvia confirmed.
"No, it's the Protoss. Leo corrected himself and said in Gamoriel.
"Protoss?" Sylvia, who also understood Gamorei, was stunned for a moment, and a trace of confusion appeared in her eyes, because there is no word Protoss in the Chinese languages of the Veron world, but there is the word Protoss in a few ancient languages such as Gamorei, but the linguists of the Veron World have equated the Protoss and the Divine Dependents, so Sylvia did not understand why Leo repeated her words for a while.
"It's the Protoss, not the Divine Family. Leo emphasized.
"Protoss, does it mean anything else?" Sylvia looked at Leo with some confusion.
Leo thought for a moment and explained: "The Protoss is a race of gods, and the gods come from this race, and anyone in this race has the opportunity to become a god. ”
Sylvia couldn't help but gasp when she heard this, and stared at Leo for a long time in amazement, not knowing what to say.
Leo's words had a great impact on Sylvia, because in the religious view of the world of Veron, any god is unique, so the gods can only have their favored families, and there can be no other kindred.
Now Leo tells her that there is a race that has the potential to become gods, a notion that is far beyond her previous knowledge.
It took a while for Sylvia to recover from the shock, she suppressed the abnormal emotions in her heart, calmed herself down as much as possible, pondered for a while, and said, "What do they want to do?"
"I don't know. Leo shook his head, was silent for a moment, and then added, "But, according to what I know of them, if they succeed, then we will all become their slaves." ”
Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia also seemed to understand what Leo meant, picked up the bell on the table and shook it, and after the butler walked in, she quickly wrote a few invitations, handed them to the butler, and ordered him to send them to a few places immediately, and then continued to play with little Tolan and Eileen as if she had forgotten about it.