The name Alice Belmont pulls Leo's memories back to the island of James, and some images that are fixed in his mind quickly come to mind.

Leo remembers Alice Belmont very deeply, even more than his own descendant William Dodd, who may have come from the future and become a new victim, and the reason why he is so impressed is because Alice Belmont is the first psyker he has ever seen from the world of Velon.

Later, Leo also thought of Alice Belmont because of Sylvia's affairs, because he was confused by Alice Belmont's power, it stands to reason that with such a strong bloodline power of the Belmont family, even if Alice Belmont obtains extraordinary power, he should be based on his own bloodline power like Sylvia, but Lovely Lisi Belmont's power is mainly psionic energy, which is really a bit abnormal.

And there is also the fact that Alice Belmonto is a psychics with a split personality, and his danger and growth are far beyond those of ordinary psionics.

At that time, when he returned to the world of Veron, Leo thought about finding Alice Belmont's whereabouts, but from Sylvia, he learned that Alice Belmont had disappeared a long time ago.

Now in this Black Forest world, he was a little surprised to hear about Alice Belmont again.

"Yes, my ancestor, Alice Belmont. Sylvia nodded and replied in the affirmative.

"Are you sure?" said Leo, still in disbelief.

"Absolutely. Sylvia spoke, walked to the hotel window, closed the curtains, and then pointed to a huge hologram billboard not far from the window, and said, "In the family manor, there are portraits of the members of the Belmont family for generations, and I have seen it since I was a child, and I have not even recognized the appearance of my ancestors." ”

I saw that the content of the hologram billboard that Sylvia pointed to was religious propaganda, and the leader of this religion appeared in front of the public in the form of a hologram, and this religious leader was Alice Belmont, and what was even more interesting was that this religion turned out to be the Church of the Afflicted.

Of course, Leo knew what the deity of the Victim had to do with Alice Belmont, even if the current Victim was not the Victim in Alice Belmont's heart.

Sylvia looked at the hologram in the distance with a puzzled expression, and couldn't help but ask: "This is really strange! Why did the Church of the Victims appear here, why did my ancestors become the popes of the Church of the Victims in the Black Forest?"

It's no wonder that Sylvia is so emotionally disturbed, in addition to Alice Belmont, the ancestor of the Belmont family, the Church of the Sufferers, a church unique to the world of Velon, is also an incredible thing to appear in the Black Forest world.

When they were in the public area, Leo and Sylvia knew something about the gods of the Black Forest and the Church of the Gods, the gods here are real, they each occupy an area of the Black Forest, and then fall into a deep sleep, waiting for them to wake up when they can leave, some gods will still respond to their believers even in their sleep, but the vast majority of gods will not give any believers a response, but will only infect the creatures in their area through the power they inadvertently exude, making them their own dependents.

Because of this, almost all the churches in the Black Forest that have come into contact with the city of Lanxi follow the fundamental principle that there is a church where there is a god, and only intelligent beings who truly feel the power of the spirit will establish a church for it.

But now, the Church of the Victims who appeared in the lower city of Lanxi City obviously did not follow this basic principle, and the god of the Victims was able to show some miracles in the world of Vilun and give some divine power to the members of the Church, so that the god was definitely not trapped in the Black Forest, and naturally could not give any support to the Black Forest Church, so it was impossible for the Church of the Victims in the Black Forest to have miracles.

But as things stand, it seems that the Church of the Afflicted is still quite influential in Lanxie, otherwise it would not have been possible to have such a large hologram advertisement.

Leo also became interested in the Church of the Afflicted, and asked Sylvia, "What are you going to do now?

"I'm ......" Sylvia was about to say something when there was a knock on the door of the hotel room.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, they had asked the innkeeper not to send someone to disturb them, apparently the person knocking on the door outside had nothing to do with the inn.

After opening the door, Leo and Sylvia saw a clergyman in the robes of the Church of the Victims standing outside, smiling at the two of them, then saluting them, placing the two invitations in their hands, and then turning away without saying anything.

"It's the tongueless. Looking at the figure of the clergy leaving, Sylvia did not rush to open the letter in her hand, but revealed the identity of the other party, and sighed: "I didn't expect the Church of the Victims here to choose to follow the ancient way of suffering." ”

At this point, Leo's face also showed a little surprise.

In fact, the Passion Faith exists in all churches, because the faith becomes stronger when any intelligent creature is struggling in extreme hardship, and the Passion faith of the Church of the Afflicted is the most difficult of all the Passion beliefs, and the ancient Way of Passion is the most of them.

Depriving human beings of external perception is only the first step, and then they must also suffer all kinds of physical and psychological suffering in this situation without external perception, and finally complete the transformation of consciousness and synchronize with the consciousness of the victim, the deity, so as to obtain the divine power indoctrination of the victim and become a divine favorite.

It is precisely because this way of suffering is the most difficult that there are many believers of the victims who died on the road, and finally the church of the victims of the world of Vilun stopped believing in the way of the crucifixion, and instead divided the way of crucifixion into various crucifixion rituals in the city.

Leo opened the beautiful invitation in his hand and said, "It doesn't have to be the tongueless one in the Way of Suffering, maybe it's just an ordinary silent suffering. ”

Sylvia shook her head and said, "No, it's the silent one in the Way of the Passion, I have seen in the Church of the Victims who believe in the ancient Way of the Passion, and that person just now has a special mark on the same person as those who believe in the Way of the Ancient Passion. As she spoke, she saw Leo looking at the invitation and asked, "What is written in it? Did some of my actions just get their attention?"

"It's not. Leo shook his head and said, "They just treated us like ordinary senior scholars and invited us to a banquet hosted by the Church of the Afflicted. ”

"The banquet of the Church of the Afflicted?" Sylvia also opened the invitation letter in her hand and looked at it, and saw the identity of the academic certificate category used in disguise on the above line, and then smiled and said: "It seems that the Church of the Afflicted is developing very well here, and two strange senior bachelors are here, and they can get the news as soon as possible, obtain the information related to the academic certificate, and then send out the invitation letter." With that, she looked at Leo's dress and said, "It seems that we need to prepare a suitable set of clothes for the tangled banquet." ”

After deciding to attend the banquet hosted by the Church of the Victims, Leo and Sylvia immediately bought a set of Lanxi banquet attire at a ready-to-wear store near the hotel, and then hired a hovercar from the hotel to go to the address written on the invitation.

Interestingly, after seeing the address of the invitation, the driver of the hovercar showed unusual enthusiasm and kept saying good things about the Church of the Victims, and the respect and love for the Church of the Victims was overflowing.

Sylvia's attention was originally focused on the hovercar, even though she had seen other similar high-tech objects, but she was still very interested in the hovercar, and it was only when the driver was talking about the good things about the Church of the Afflicted that she turned her attention to this aspect, and asked, "Are you a member of the Church of the Afflicted?"

The driver hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, we are not believers, we are different from those spiritual churches outside, we are not believers, we are just members, just like joining a member of a reading association." ”

"Not a believer?" Sylvia was stunned and asked, "Then don't you have to pray to the sufferers?"

"Victim prayer?" This time, the driver couldn't understand Sylvia's question, and he looked dazed, but soon he realized the problem, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Madam, you may have misunderstood, the victim is not a god, it is just a thought, all of us have been suffering since birth, we need to stagger and sneak through all kinds of tribulations, strive to transform ourselves, and finally overcome all disasters and achieve physical and mental sublimation." Although we are called the Church of the Afflicted, we do not have a god of faith, only a thought, so we don't need to pray, because the tribulations we encounter every day are the best tests. ”

After listening to the driver's explanation, Sylvia had an incredible look on her face, because in her common sense concept, it was clear that there was no such church that only had doctrinal ideas and no belief in gods.

However, for Leo, this situation is very understandable, as there are so many similar churches in the Earth Federation.

"Can you tell us about your pope?" asked Sylvia as she returned to normal.

"Our Pope is a good man. The driver gave an unusually simple answer, and then had no further thoughts.

Sylvia, of course, was not satisfied with such an answer, and she said in a guided way: "I heard that she seems to be from the Belmont family. ”

"The Belmont family?" The driver looked at Sylvia with a completely blank face, and asked rhetorically: "Where did you hear this ridiculous rumor, the relationship between the Pope and the Belmont family is extremely poor, it is the only thing that everyone in the city has come to, if it is not for the guarantee of several senior scholars, the Pope is afraid that he has been captured by the Belmont family and their minions and thrown into the abyss, just like the Belmont family treats his enemies." ”

At this time, Leo and Sylvia heard the driver's words, and couldn't help but be stunned, and after glancing at each other, Leo asked in a deep voice: "Is the abyss you just said really an abyss, or is it a synonym for a certain prison?"

"Of course it's the abyss! what prison would be so stupid to use the abyss as a substitute. The driver also looked at Leo and Sylvia in confusion, and then showed a sudden expression, and said, "The two bachelors should be the first time to come to Lanxi, or even the first time to come to the realm of the Mother of Filth, right? Yes, for people elsewhere the abyss is a terrifying unknown, but for us, the abyss is something that needs to be faced every day, and there is nothing to make a fuss about. As long as the fortress of war does not disappear, even if the abyss infiltrates the city, it will not be very serious. In terms of safety, don't worry, it's definitely much safer to walk in the inner city than in the Black Forest. ”

As he spoke, the hovercar sensitively shuttled through the ground floor block, and then followed a guide light strip into the middle block, drove past several high-rise buildings, and finally stopped at a huge platform, at the edge of which was a building that was out of step with the surrounding architectural style.

Compared to the angular and technological buildings around them, the building in front of Leo and Sylvia is much older, all of them are wooden structures, and a plantation has been built around it, I have to say that it is inexplicably comfortable to see some natural breath in a steel jungle.

In Sylvia's eyes, the manor-like building in front of her made her feel inexplicable, because the style of this building was almost the same as the Belmont Manor in Fran, it was almost like a replica of the original, the only difference was that there were two annex buildings missing.

However, the absence of the two annexes is less incomprehensible when it comes to the idea that the buildings in front of you may have been built by Alice Belmont after Alice Belmont's disappearance.

As the two stepped down from the hovercar docking platform, a man from the attendant waiting at the door immediately stepped out and saluted Leo and Sylvia, then demanded that they show their invitations.

After checking that the invitations of the two were correct, the attendant immediately led the two of them through a forest plantation to the garden of the main building of the manor.

At this moment, there were already a lot of people gathered in the garden, judging from their clothes and speech, most of them were the low-level people of Lanxi Inner City, it seemed that it was not the first time they had come to participate in this kind of banquet, they all behaved very naturally, gathered in groups of three or five, chatting about the recent events in the city.

On the contrary, in the small garden near the manor, the atmosphere was completely different from other places, and it felt that everyone was very restrained, no one wanted to speak, and they were all calmly drinking the wine in their glasses.