Chapter 195: Darkness Descends

Hearing the exclamations of the three old women, Leo's mind also appeared with the relevant information provided by the auxiliary brain system.

Compared with the priesthood of the Holy Maiden, in the Church of the Lord of the Sky, the priesthood is more ancient, and can even be traced back to the beginning of the founding of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

In the history of the development of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, there have been a total of four transformations in the priesthood, which are also called changes in clerical authority, and the name of the priest has also changed slightly because of the four transformations.

Originally, priests were seen as teachers, teaching mortals how to touch the bodies of the gods and listen to their teachings. The priest was then seen as a shepherd, responsible for caring for his flock on behalf of the gods. Later, the priest was regarded as a substitute, a projection of the gods on earth, which was the pinnacle of the priesthood of the Lord of the Sky. In the current world of Velon, priests are only regarded as administrators, responsible for managing some of the cult properties of the Lord of the Sky Church.

The word priest whom the three old ladies now call in Gamoree has a curly tongue ending, and this pronunciation occurs only in the title of shepherd priest. Later, after the Reformation and the Church of the Lord of the Sky became the state religion of the Ancient Rus' Empire, the pronunciation of priests was followed by a flat suffix, and its meaning was changed. In other words, judging from the pronunciation of the priests, the three old women were at least the characters who appeared between the first three hundred and seventy-six years of the Vilun calendar and the seventh year of the Viren calendar in the Vilun world.

It's just that before Leo could explain his identity, the three old women said in unison: "No, you are not a priest!"

Leo didn't intend to disguise himself as a member of the Sky Lord Church, so he said truthfully: "I am indeed not a priest of the Sky Lord, I just know some things about the Sky Lord Church, are the three elders the Holy Lady of the Sky Lord Church?"

"Holy Lady, Lady Saint!" the three old women laughed when they heard Leo call them, and the laughter produced by the hoarse voice sounded very harsh, like the sound of rubbing glass.

Leo was a little puzzled why the three old women showed such strong disdain and contempt for the title of Holy Lady, but he also knew that it might not be a good choice to ask, so he looked at the three of them in silence.

The old woman sitting in the middle said to Leo, "We are very happy to meet the guests from the main world, you can stay here at night! ”

Leo looked up at the gradually darkening sky, felt the rapidly changing psionic energy fluctuations around him, and asked in a deep voice, "Will it be dangerous after dark here?"

"Death hides in the dark, and only the light of fire can make people warm. As she spoke, an old woman reached out and grabbed it in the air beside her, and there was a dry corpse in a red robe on her empty hand, and then she saw her throw the dried corpse into the flame container in front of her, and the dried corpse burned like firewood, making the faint light of the fire a lot stronger.

Leo, who was standing next to the brazier, could clearly feel that when the flames intensified, the increasingly chaotic psionic energy around him seemed to be injected with a stabilizer, gradually calming down, and the psionic energy outside the firelight continued to change.

It wasn't whether it was the enhanced flames that had a stimulating effect, Leo felt that the sky around him was getting darker faster, and the thick dust on the ground was also lifted up and floated by an invisible force, and glued together with each other, forming patches of dust, falling on the surrounding builders, and those twisted buildings also began to change, gradually changing from twisted and strange shapes to normal architectural forms.

At the same time, Leo felt the horned dagger in his hand emit a scorching heat, and the surface of his bones began to change to keratin, and gradually reddened, like a red-hot soldering iron. If it weren't for the twin gloves blocking out most of the heat, perhaps he would have been so hot that he threw away his dagger.

However, the change of the dagger did not last long, and soon its temperature stabilized, and the texture completely changed from bone to, and the sky was completely darkened at this time, and there was no light except for the fire in the church.

At this time, Leo felt that there seemed to be other people around him besides the three old women, which reminded him of the white shadow he had seen near the arch before. So he immediately turned on his vision and looked around.

Sure enough, in addition to him, there were several vague humanoid white shadows sitting around the brazier, judging from the overall shape of the white shadow, it should be Charles Langke and a few of them, but he did not find the puppet possessed by Peter Alcott from the white shadow.

"Can you see them?" Although Leo's psionic skills did not have any psionic fluctuations leaked out, and his eyeballs did not change at all, his purposeful act of looking around also attracted the attention of the three old women, one of whom asked in a deep voice.

Leo didn't hide it, nodded and said, "Yes, I can see them, they should be in the overlapping plane, right?"

"Are you a disciple of the True Eye?" asked the old woman again.

"It's not. Leo replied simply, looking a little absent-minded, because he noticed that among the white shadows, the white shadow representing the black-robed wizard Liser was also looking around, and could feel the other party's gaze on him.

"He is a cultist of the True Eye. The three old women seemed to see what Leo was thinking, and said.

Leo realized at this moment that these three old women and this brazier were not just staying in a parallel plane like him, they should be in all the parallel planes created by this demon library, so the three old women were able to see Charles Lanco and them, and Charles Lanco and they were able to come to this brazier when it was dark.

"Ahh Just when Leo was about to ask the three old women about something, the three old women suddenly said to Leo as if they were seeing Leo for the first time, a stranger: "Guest, you can rest here for a while, it is safe here, as long as the embers are not extinguished, the darkness cannot come in, please rest assured." ”

After saying that, the three old women took out some needles and threads from their bosoms, sat down here and began to weave clothes.

Although the three old women do not look abnormal on the surface now, Leo can feel that the current three are different from the three just now, the current three are not angry at all, and their behavior is more like some kind of programmed robot, only repeating a fixed cycle of movements.

At that moment, there was a sudden noise outside the church, and among these strange noises were heavy footsteps and a harsh sound of metal rubbing, and Leo turned his head to look outside.

At this moment, it was no longer pitch black outside, and there were some red lights floating in the darkness, these lights were not strong, but they contained a magical power, which made people want to walk over and catch the light.

However, Leo was not lured by these lights, and his psychic skills contained night vision, although he could only see the situation from a few hundred meters away, it was enough for him to see the situation outside the church.

I saw that those rays of light were actually all eyes, they came from some demons that were more than three meters tall and burly in shape, and judging from the hideous and twisted appearance of these demons, they should have been transformed by the demon heads that Leo found in those rooms before.

Although the various energy fluctuations on Leo's body that were incompatible with the surrounding environment did not leak out due to the isolation effect of the ember light in the church's golden container, the route Leo had taken before pointed straight to the church like an obvious guiding path.

Not long after the demon heads were transformed back into complete demons under the influence of the dark power, the demons followed Leo's walking path to the outside of the church and gathered there.

Among these demons, there are several demons with very peculiar images, several of them are very huge, more than five meters, and the horns on their heads are incomplete, it seems that they should be the demon skeletons that Leo used the sacrificial knife to cut off the horns before.

Despite the isolation effect of the ember light, the demons could still sense the location of their lost horns, and from time to time they stood at the door of the church, roaring at Leo, who was hanging and holding the demon's horns, and his cry was full of anger and anxiety.

Finally, one of the demons, who was not very tall but had flaming eyes full of cunning, grabbed the other demon next to him with one hand, threw it through the wall towards the church, and fell to the ground.

However, before the demon could rise from the ground, the light of the embers set it on fire as if it had lit a torch, and in the blink of an eye, it burned to ashes and reverted to its original skull.

It's just that this demon head is different from the demon head that Leo saw before, and there is a small flame in this skull that seems to be extinguished at any time, and it is burning with difficulty.

At the sight of the flame, Leo suddenly felt a strong feeling of hunger coming from his stomach, and this hunger prompted him to feel the urge to eat the flame.

Although this hunger is extremely strong, it is still under the control of Leo's will, and he calms down, activates the perfect control skill, and uses the paracerebral system to analyze the situation in his body.

At first, Leo thought it was the cause of the chaotic stomach because of the hunger sensation from the stomach, but as the parabrain system analyzed various parts of the body through the perfect control skill, he found that the hunger came from the blood in the body, and it was the blood in the body that affected the chaotic stomach pouch and made it hungry.

"Unknown bloodline?" Leo couldn't help but open the personal data interface after seeing the results of the analysis, and his attention stayed on the unknown bloodline that was still a series of question marks.

A day ago, the value behind the unknown bloodline was already at the full value of one hundred points, according to common sense, the bloodline should be opened and become a recognizable bloodline, but in fact, the bloodline did not show any signs of opening.

Now, the hunger caused by the influence of blood is undoubtedly a reminder to Leo that the flame inside the demon's skull can activate the unknown bloodline in his body.

Leo walked over to the demon head, crouched down, and picked it up, but did not touch the flame in the skull.

Unlike before, Leo doesn't gain any knowledge from the skull when he touches it, just like a normal skull.

"Is this alive?" Leo took a closer look at the flames in his skull, and found that the flames emanated the feelings of intelligent beings, such as fear, anger, killing intent, and so on.

"Soul fire, this should be soul fire!" Leo suddenly thought of an object that had been mentioned by various religions, whether it was the Earth Federation or the Velen World, and that was the soul.

Although the concept of the soul has existed for a long time, and almost all intelligent civilizations know what the soul is, no religion or type of science can clearly explain what the soul is, even those omega-level higher beings in the universe who are close to immortality cannot explain the soul.

When he was in the Earth Federation, Leo didn't believe in the existence of souls as a cyborg, but since he became Leo Dodd, he began to change his concept, and now he sees this flame in the demon skull, and feels some emotional consciousness transmitted from the flame, he almost didn't go through the analysis of the parabrain system, and he felt that this flame should be a form of soul.

"Vicebrain, activate the psychics!" Leo thought for a moment, and instead of following his body's instinctive reaction to swallow the flame immediately, he activated the psychic skill and formed a communication with the consciousness within the flame.

At the moment of communicating the flame consciousness, a large amount of chaotic knowledge, memories and other information poured into Leo like a torrent, and along with these knowledge and memories, there were also some chaotic consciousnesses, trying to transform Leo's consciousness.

However, Leo had already prepared for this, using psychism to communicate the flame consciousness, and at the same time, he also activated the mechanical consciousness, allowing himself to enter an absolute state of sanity, and at the same time used the auxiliary brain system to stuff all the transmitted information into a newly established archive.

This flood of information came and went quickly, and in less than five seconds, this flood of information stopped.

Although it stopped, Leo did not turn off the mechanical mind, but used the mechanical mind to cooperate with the auxiliary brain system to sort out the chaotic information collected.

Leo's cautious approach soon took effect, and the information that was collected in the temporary archives was mixed with a large amount of chaotic consciousness that affected the minds of ordinary people, and Leo actively attracted these chaotic consciousnesses and used mechanical consciousness to erase them, thus helping the auxiliary brain system to speed up the sorting of materials.

After about ten minutes, a completely organized archive of memories and knowledge was presented to Leo, and after reading this file, Leo also obtained some important information about this demon library and how to survive.