Until Raphael's urgent call for help, the Solan Cult did not really take this strange curse incident in the northern part of the Southwest Desert as a major event.

On the continent of Ares, under the suppression of the light faction led by the Solan God Cult, as early as the middle of the Douqi Era, those large sects with the belief of the dark system as the core doctrine or part of the core doctrine have disappeared from the continent. Since then, the believers of darkness who have been buried in their faith and spiritual destiny have added a new mission to their original missionary work, which is to take revenge on the destruction of a world that is in harmony with the doctrine of light.

The most direct and chaotic way of reporting is undoubtedly indiscriminate violence, which is exactly the same on the earth of Cheruth's homeland and on the continent of Arales. In this world where magic and fighting spirit are the mainstream of civilization, due to the preciousness of magicians, it is obviously impossible for the newspaper members of the dark faith to use their magicians as bomb droppers to fight on the front line of the newspaper career, they are more inclined to give full play to the characteristics of dark faith and dark magic, and use curses, which are slow to work but more subtle and more troublesome to deal with, to cause trouble for the Cult of Light.

Of course, although the Dark Faith has always survived so tenaciously in all corners of the continent and persistently sneaked out at every opportunity to add some blockage to the Sect of Light, the religious strangulation of the Cult of Light led by the Cult of Solan God that lasted for nearly a thousand years was still fruitful. Curse incidents caused by the Dark Cult are almost the most frequent among the intelligence departments of Solan Holy City, and thousands of reports can be received every year from the area covered by Solan's Light Faith alone, but in fact, there are only a few dozen cases that are really worthy of the Holy City sending Templar Knights and the core light priests of the sect known as Solan Saints. There are even a lot of cursed events, albeit genuine. But the root cause is not the dark cults, but some other people and things that have nothing to do with religious disputes.

The civilians who seek help from the church don't know that much. Finding the Cult of God with a Curse is one of the specific benefits that the Solan Cult promises to these sects in addition to spiritual sustenance when preaching, and if it is not dealt with, it will damage the credibility of the Cult, but if it is to be dealt with...... After all, even if the curse is not operated by the dark believers behind the scenes, most of them will be related to the conspiracy of various large and small forces, and if one is not careful, it can even involve a small force behind the scenes. If you don't handle it well, you are likely to get into trouble with the forces behind it.

The Southwest Desert is a typical area where this kind of thing happens frequently, and this is the territory of the Orc Lothar Alliance, and nearly half of the hundreds of large and small orc tribes in the Lothar Alliance have their own ancestral heritage. There are countless cursed and psychic suggestive spells that lie outside the fringes of the elemental magic system.

Which two tribes have made a feud today, one has cursed the other, and tomorrow which caravan has secretly engaged in the slave business and has been avenged by some small tribe that has been violated...... Sometimes the high-ranking members of the Solan Cult even want to set up a sign in this area - when can you take revenge, please use a knife directly for revenge, and everyone is fine if you don't play curses...... Don't look for the Cult of God even if you play.

This time, Rook Town was attacked by sand bandits, and because of this, a mysterious curse appeared, and it stands to reason that this kind of thing that sounds like a shady thing at first glance is most likely to be treated coldly, but because Rook Town is a relatively large and important supply depot and trading base on the trade route of Free Harbor, after the branch church in Rook Town asked for help, the Freedom Port side also informed Solan Holy City in the name of the Free Council.

The Freedom Council didn't have much of a serious plea for help, but it was really just a matter of whether to send someone over and deal with it or to line up a queue of people with real abilities to deal with the curse and the troubles that might exist behind it. Naturally, the top brass of the Solan Cult sold the face of the Free Council and sent the candidate Saint Raphael and her guards who were traveling around the trial.

Received a command from the Holy City. The Virgin-in-Waiting Raphael and her personal guards marched along the southwestern trade route from the vicinity of the port of Liberty as soon as the incident occurred, and finally arrived in the town of Ruk in the habitual disappearance of the Virgin-in-Waiting, and began the investigation afterwards. The Cult leaders of Solan Holy City were also relieved after receiving the news that Shuai Ke had arrived in Rook Town and was investigating the source of the curse and the whereabouts of the lost Saintess Candidate, and did not continue to pay attention to the matter.

Although the incident in Rook Town attracted more attention, it was mainly due to the panic and anger among the merchants of the Free and Hong Kong who dared to attack the trading town by sand bandits. As for the curse that was brought to the town of Rook with the wounding of the bandits, the priests of the branch church only believed that it was some unknown curse secret technique passed down from the bandit tribe itself by the high-ranking people in the Holy City.

Although the Shuai Ke squadron is known for its strong hand-to-hand combat combat, there are also many excellent light priests accompanying the team, and as the main leader, Raphael, who is the most optimistic among the candidates of the Holy Maiden of this generation of the Divine Cult, has reached the strength of a five-star magician at the age of only eighteen with his own efforts and perception and understanding of the light element, even among the saints of the past generations who have produced many talents. In particular, there is a talent for purification and protection in the magic of the light system, which makes the Pope sigh, and it should not be a problem to deal with the curse caused by a group in the middle of nowhere.

However, just three days after receiving the news that Shuai Ke had arrived in Ruk Town, the Philosopher's Stone, an emergency communication specially set up for the Holy Maiden Candidate who was trained abroad, received a message from the Saint Candidate who had been entrusted by the Cult leaders to ask for help.

"The curse is weird, and the Nolan have appeared. 」

Neither the content nor the style of the message looked like a message from Raphael himself—more than ninety-five percent of the time the Lady Candidate used emergency communications, asking for directions from the correspondents of the Holy City when she was lost—but rather from Raphael's personal guard captain Shuaike.

The message of asking for help immediately caused a sensation in the upper echelons of the Holy City, and just one Nolan clan was enough to make the high-level leaders of the Solan Divine Sect who knew the truth about the extermination of Nolan back then exert 100% of their energy to deal with it, not to mention that Shuai Ke was one of the existing law powerhouse candidates in the Divine Cult. With his seemingly reckless but calm and measured personality, he put the curse before the Nolans in the report, and used the adjective "weird". It shows that this curse, which was underestimated by everyone before, is even more threatening than the Nolan clan in the eyes of Shuai Ke, the peak Dou Qi master.

The Solan Cult was quick to respond. One of the four archbishops in the upper echelons of the Church, Archbishop Ella, who is now a guest at the Solan branch of the Prud Empire, immediately set off after receiving a magical summons from the Holy City, leading a group of elite Templars and Saints stationed in Kells to the southwest.

Archbishop Ella is the original saint sixty years ago, and there are some additional bonds and connections with Raphael, so Archbishop Ella has always had a heart of love for Raphael, a talented descendant, like his own granddaughter. Therefore, when she learned that the Nolans might threaten the safety of Raphael, who was away from home, Ella could be regarded as a rare relive of her worried and anxious mood for more than ten years.

The reason Ella was in Prud was because of the Nolans, who had been in the Kells Rebellion two years earlier, long before Prime Minister Butler's rebellion. The current Prince of Hoth I discovered the fact that the Nolan tribe was in rebellion in the country, and asked for the help of the Solan Cult, and in the subsequent counterinsurgency campaign, when the royal army under the leadership of Hoss I and Marshal Walker attacked the rebel occupation of Kells, it was attacked by the Nolans and an armed force they had secretly developed in Prude.

Fourteen years after the extermination of the Cult of Solan, at least that's how the Cult of Solan understood it, the handful of survivors of the Nolans on the run have been a constant problem for the Cult's hierarchy. And in that Prude's rebellion, not only did at least two genuine Nolans appear, but they even quietly raised a team in Prude that could compete with the regular army of the Empire, which was undoubtedly a signal of great anger to the Solan Cult.

Pope Solan rarely summoned all the core high-level members of the church to discuss countermeasures at the first time, and finally sent her, the youngest archbishop, and the second-in-command of the Inquisition of the Faith, who has always been responsible for secret activities in the Cult, to give up the opportunity to ask the newly enthroned Hoth I for political bargaining chips. I only hope that Hoth can support them to let go and search the territory of Prude for the whereabouts of the Nolans and their subordinate forces.

Ella was promoted to the rank of Law Powerhouse eight years ago, and thus became the youngest archbishop in the Church. Before that, she was just a high-ranking light priest among the Solan Saints. Although her status is not low, she is not qualified to participate in the most core secrets of the sect, so she doesn't know how the Pope and the three archbishops with old qualifications confirmed the identity of the demon descendants of the Nolan clan fourteen years ago, but to be able to make these people so jealous at the same time, this alone is enough to make Ella raise the greatest vigilance about the name "Demon Descendants Nolan".

This time, after learning from the contact from the Holy City that Raphael had actually encountered the Nolans in the Southwest Desert, Ella almost immediately left her job behind, thinking that she could get to Rook Town as soon as possible.

It's a pity that the law powerhouse stands at the top of this world's strength, but he is not a true almighty god. As a seven-star sage, Ella is also a light magician with red roots, not a space system. Although the light system is formed by using the fusion of the basic elements of fire, feng and shui, if it is a short distance, even if Ella is not a magician specializing in the wind system, he can still use the wind magic to exert a super fast rush speed with a thorough understanding of the essence of magic and a top-level magic reserve, but the distance between Kells and Rook Town is too far, and Ella's magic can hold on, but the combined speed will never be as fast as a short sprint.

Eventually, Ella borrowed the two-winged wurm, the fastest long-distance travel mount on the continent, from the Seagull Chamber of Commerce in Kells, and set off on her own. It took only two days for her to travel alone from Kells in the northeast of the desert to a small trading town in the northwest of the desert. (To be continued.) )