In the secret factory, Jerry checked the steel gate at the entrance to make sure it was locked before sitting down.

It has been a month since he quietly promoted to a believer in the Holy Light Library.

In the space of a month, the flow of mana in his body, which was once too strong and somewhat uncontrollable, was completely stabilized.

This is mainly thanks to the guidance of the gray-robed old man, he doesn't really need the meditation methods of those priests, because he himself can absorb magic elements from heaven and earth at any time and eventually replenish them into magic power. But the side effect of running the meditation method, mainly the calming effect, helped him a lot.

In particular, he found that this method had the same effect as the meditation method taught to him by Old Harry at the beginning, and even complemented each other, so he became even more obsessed with this originally redundant cultivation method.

Exactly two hours had passed, and Jerry opened his eyes and finished meditating.

His gaze was clear and bright, and he looked full of energy. However, there was a hint of worry hidden in it, because there was one thing that had been weighing on his heart.

He never stopped thinking about his future, but the final results did not make him optimistic.

If he wanted to carry on such a path of dual cultivation, it would be almost impossible for him to completely surrender to the temple and worship the gods.

But asking him to do so would be tantamount to forcing him to die, and he couldn't believe in his heart that he could reach the top with the help of someone else's strength, even if that "man" was actually a god on high.

Unless he can find a new path that never existed, a path that would allow him to reach the strongest without the help of divine grace, but there is no such path or profession in this world.

And the idea that he had had a moment at that time was repeated countless times in the course of a month.

If the ancients could create a system with their own strength, if they could achieve so much in a time when the temple had never existed, why can't they themselves!

Since there is no path that can meet his requirements, and there is no career that will allow him to achieve his wishes, why can't he find a new path and create a new career on his own!

The thought lingered in his mind like a tempting candy.

But he also knows very well that once he chooses to go down, his future will be completely shrouded in fog.

No one knows if he will succeed or how many times he will succeed.

Even if he only wanted to succeed in the first step, such as the idea of creating a god-level magic that did not require divine grace, the hope of success was slim.

But even if he succeeded in creating alternate magic, he could exert a certain amount of power without the need for divine grace, how could he guarantee that he would also succeed in creating the next level of divine magic when he advanced in the future?

He can't guarantee that once he chooses that way, all he can do is take one step at a time, one step at a time, and grope for it.

"Whew-"

Jerry took a deep breath, closed his eyes and immediately opened them.

Even if his heart was in turmoil, he didn't let his established rules and arranged things be disrupted, so he had already sat in front of the pile of chain mail as usual.

It's really a lot, and although the chain mail looks very light because of the reduced material, this lightness is also compared to normal armor.

No matter how light the chain mail is, it can't be like a piece of paper or a piece of cloth, and the whole thirty pieces still look spectacular in front of you.

"Let's get started!"

Just as Jerry reached out to begin his routine, he suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart, as if he had overlooked something, and as if a pair of eyes were staring at him.

However, Jerry looked left and right, and there was no living creature other than him in the empty secret factory.

Jerry shook his head, thinking that he might be too nervous and a little anxious.

However, when he was ready to start again, the same feeling reappeared, this time apparently no longer hallucinating.

"Huh?"

Jerry's heart moved, but it didn't show it on the surface.

His hand touched the chain mail, like a normal craftsman checking his target, calculating where to start.

Then, without warning, Jerry turned behind him and activated the True Eye!

"True Eye!"

[Physical condition: ???]

[Strength Status: ???]

[Intelligence Status: ???]

[Agility Status: ???]

As soon as this unclear information came to his mind, Jerry felt that something was wrong.

Really......

Crackling!

The sparkling electric sparks were like ice crystals flickering with light, and the sound and light and shadow were not at all possessed by nature, only the elemental chaos when the magic was broken.

Right in front of Jerry's eyes, even less than half a meter away from him, the Holy Maiden Catherine opened her mouth in shock, slightly pale and at the same time with a strange flush, her face was delicate, and her eyes were staring at Jerry, completely dull.

Not even in the temple knew that Catherine's magical strength had reached the ninth level of the sage, and she could be regarded as a great master in the temple and even on this continent.

With her strength, the stealth technique is so powerful, even if you walk into a place like the Holy Light Library, as long as you avoid the magic array, you are not afraid of being discovered by the polymaths inside.

But now, her invisibility technique was inexplicably broken, or in the strongest way and instantly, so that she didn't have any time to react.

Pity such a powerful Holy Maiden, Her Highness was immediately stunned, and her head was instantly chaotic.

On the one hand, she didn't understand how her stealth technique could be inexplicably broken, and on the other hand, she was nervous and ashamed, because she had never done such a voyeuristic thing before.

Although she decided to find out how Jerry could do something that even Master Jerome couldn't do, she was still nervous and embarrassed to do it for the first time with invisibility.

This is also part of the reason why her face is still solidified, and the other part is much simpler, she was discovered by someone for the first voyeurism, what could be more humiliating than this?

Jerry was also shocked that there was a person in front of him, but it was not as serious as Catherine.

He actually thought of all kinds of possibilities when he felt the gaze for the second time, the most unlikely is that Catherine's rivals found this place, but this possibility is extremely unlikely, because this place is too hidden, and it is deep in the station of the Paladin Legion, and ordinary people can't approach it at all.

Another possibility is that Catherine herself is here, although Jerry thinks that he can't do such a thing as a saint, after all, this is people's own territory, if you want to come, when can't you come, why sneak around.

But there is no doubt that putting aside the identity of the saint and judging only by Catherine's character...... Don't look at it, the situation in front of you says it all.

Jerry was about to open his mouth to ask why Her Highness had sneaked up here when he heard Catherine let out a scream.

Almost at the same time as this scream, Jerry couldn't say anything, he decisively shook off his legs and quickly retreated, and rolled over and hid behind the chain mail hill.

Thanks to his timely reaction, he saw countless ice lotus flowers suddenly appear in front of Catherine, and the icy aura instantly filled the entire secret factory, and then those ice lotus flowers shot out aimlessly.

Bang Bang Bang!

Seeing that the surrounding steel walls were marked with white marks, Jerry was in a cold sweat.

And look at him again, okay, such a big "mountain of chain mail" was directly cut off the mountain, thanks to him lying directly behind, otherwise it would still not be spared!

"This chick is too fierce!"

Jerry kept slandering in his heart, but he didn't dare to show his head at all.

Who knows when Her Highness will be angry, in case he just drills out and another ten thousand lotus flowers will bloom......

However, lying behind the chain mail that was already like a small dirt bag that had been broken, Jerry's mind inexplicably flashed a strange scene.

He just lowered his head slightly, why didn't he seem to see Catherine's clothes......

Boom!

There was a dead silence after the sound of the door slamming shut, and Jerry waited a few more moments for really no movement before he got up.

Looking at the traces left around him, as well as the chain mail that had obviously turned into scrap metal, he was now in a state of inexplicability:

"What......'s going on? Is she wearing any clothes?"