"Buzz ......"

The heavy metal door slowly opened, and the Knights of Divine Punishment and Archbishop Mars, led by a knight, walked into the depths of the Privy Cathedral.

And Yelena and Lilia, who were far away on the outskirts of the royal capital of St. Fuye, also held their breath at this moment.

In the team of the Divine Punishment Squad, the eyes of the three Divine Punishment Knights were in a trance for a moment, but they quickly returned to normal, and among the 10 witches who were escorted, 5 of them were deep in their hair, and shadow creatures that were difficult to see with the naked eye quietly opened their eyes.

Behind the door of the Privy Council Classroom is a splendid prayer hall, gorgeous with brilliant paintings and wallpapers, which can be called works of art, and the sunlight reflected in the color windows reflects the hall in a golden red and peaceful light.

The group of Cuiyu Province walked on a red carpet paved avenue, and when they looked up, they could see the Huihong statue standing in the depths of the hall dozens of meters high and almost reaching the dome.

The face of the idol is blurred, there are no specific facial features, and even the hands and feet are defective, if it were not for the faint golden light around its body, I am afraid that no one would think that this is the god that the temple has believed in for hundreds of years.

Looking at the idol, Archbishop Mars's eyes were in a little trance.

He still remembers that decades ago, when he first joined the temple, he also learned a lot of religious knowledge related to miracles, but then for some reason, the propaganda about miracles in the temple became less and less, and now, many of the newcomers who have joined the temple in the past ten years do not even know the names of the gods believed in the temple.

Mars didn't understand what was happening, but he knew that something had quietly changed over the decades.

Shaking his head, retracting his thoughts, and without further thought, Mars walked in silence as the group entered through a side door next to the giant idol.

As soon as you enter the side door, the light in the environment suddenly dims, and the deeper you go, the more the light fades, and in the end, only the candles on the walls on both sides of the passage provide little light.

The Privy Cathedral, Mars is also only a second visit.

The first time, on the day he was ordained archbishop, he held a solemn ceremony in the large prayer hall, and when the ceremony was over, he was asked to leave the Privy Council.

The second time is today, after more than ten years. Mars could feel that the passage he was walking on had a downward angle, which meant that the place they were about to go was deep underground.

Underneath the Privy Basilica, there is another space?

The thought crossed Mars's mind, but he didn't dare to think too much about it, and just walked and walked in silence.

I don't know how long it took, maybe half an hour, maybe an hour, during which the knight led the group, and the group turned around, and finally, a brightly lit exit appeared in front of them.

"It's finally ......"

The people of the Cuiyu Provincial Cathedral Shrine breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Walking in this oppressive underground passage, they feel a lot of pressure, and now they just want to hand over the witch as soon as possible, and then return to the Emerald Feather Hang.

Walking out of the dim passage, the sudden light made everyone's eyes squint subconsciously, and only after the pupils adapted to the change of light did they see the scene inside.

This is an incomparably large underground space, with a height of hundreds of meters, and there are dense anthill-like holes on the surrounding rock walls.

In the center of the huge underground space, there stood twelve silver metal pillars that were more than 100 meters high, each with a radius of ten meters away. These twelve silver metal pillars formed a circle, and between each two metal pillars, a golden energy light curtain was connected, making it impossible for outsiders to see the specific appearance inside.

On the formation of the twelve metal pillars, there was a golden eyeball several meters long and closed.

“……”

Staring at everything in front of him, Mars's eyes were completely filled with shock.

From the magic circle composed of twelve metal pillars, he felt the vast energy fluctuations like the vast ocean, compared to which he was like a drop in the ocean, so small.

I'm afraid that even if it is a demigod, before such a wave of energy, I am afraid that it is as small as dust, right?

The thought crossed Mars's mind.

Looking away from the twelve metal pillars, he looked at the second thing that caught his attention.

It was a black wooden cross with dark red stains on the surface of the twelve metal pillars, and on these black wooden crosses hung a witch whose head seemed to have passed out.

The number of blackwood crosses was close to a thousand, and almost two-thirds of them were now hung with witches.

This situation shocked Mars's heart.

Are these all witches sent from all over the empire recently? No, perhaps, to add the "stock" of the Privy Council over the years.

Not only Mars and his party were shocked, but Yelena, Lilia, and Latiyi, who saw the scene of underground space through mind control and shadow creature projection, were also shocked and speechless.

At this moment, in the underground space, the golden eyeballs closed above the twelve metal pillars seemed to feel something, and suddenly opened, and the pale golden pillars of light enveloped the people of the Emerald Feather Province, and several of them were darker golden pillars of light, which fell on the few Divine Punishment Knights controlled by Irina and the witches with "black flies" in their hair.

"Not good! Disconnect the talent! ”

The sudden change made Latiyi's face change, and she said busily.

There was no need for Lathi to remind them, the moment the pillar of light fell, a great terror of being locked in Yelena and Lilia's hearts appeared, and the golden eyes that opened seemed to penetrate the distance and layers of rock and soil, and fell on them.

A blue streamer rose from the Privy Cathedral and flew precisely towards the place where the three women were, and its speed was so fast that it was close to the terrifying Mach 10!

"Let's go!"

Without hesitation, without hesitation, Latiyi took the hands of Yelena and Lilia in her left and right hands, and in the next moment, the space rippled, engulfing the three of them.

Ultra-long-distance space teleportation, on!

Just three seconds after the three of them left, the azure streamer fell violently, the earth shattered layer by layer, and the suburban forest within a radius of nearly a kilometer turned into a frost hell.

A figure slowly stood up from the deep pit, and the chief of divine punishment stared at the place where the three girls disappeared, his face was extremely ugly: "It's like this again...... Spatial capability? ”

"Space...... Space...... Witch Society, Vice President, Space Witch Latiyi...... It turned out to be you......"

"You guys, you're looking for death!"

The Chief of Divine Punishment had a gloomy face, but when he noticed the many eyes cast from the direction of Wang Cheng, he still suppressed the anger in his heart for the time being, turned into a blue streamer, and returned to the Privy Council.

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Blackstone Collar, Lord's Mansion, Hidden Place.

On the bed, Shanika slowly opened her eyes, cold tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, she stared blankly ahead, and it took a long time before she came back to her senses.

It was only then that she found herself holding her right hand tightly by a pair of large, rough and warm hands.

Shanica turned her head to meet a pair of eyes full of worry and pity.

"I'm here, don't worry."

The familiar voice flowed into his heart, dispelling the shrouded sadness, looking at Roy beside the bed, Shanica whispered: "I'm sorry, Master Roy, I'm worried about you......"

"It's okay, it's okay, you can come back safely, it's more important to me than anything else." Roy comforted him gently, and gently hugged Shani into his arms: "Did you encounter anything in the talent evolution space?" ”

"I saw the Mother Tree of Life in the world engulfed in endless black mud, and I saw the ......world that was destroyed in one fell swoop," Sanika's voice carried sadness that could not be dispelled:

"The endless erosion of original sin and iniquity, the world is falling step by step into endless darkness......"

"The Mother Tree of Life in the World sacrificed itself and slowed down the process of the collapse of the world......"

"He divides His power into three parts......"

In Shanica's sad narration, Roy learned the whole process of Shanica's talent evolution, and gradually understood why Shanika was sad.

It turns out that the name of the pitch-black supernatural giant tree is the mother tree of life in the world?

Roy was silent.

By now, if he didn't understand what the scene of Shanica's talent evolution space was, he would be a fool.

More than 500 years ago, the Battle of the Blood Moon, or even earlier, the erosion of the Abyss came silently.

As the Mother Tree of Life in the World, He was the first to notice the anomaly.

However, the terrible thing about the erosion of the abyss is that even if you know about it, you can't stop it.

I can only watch the world be impregnated little by little, until finally, completely sinking.

That's how it was supposed to be.

It's just that the Mother Tree of World Life, as the "Arya Consciousness" of this world—or "Heavenly Dao", "World Consciousness", etc., all mean the same thing, and He stood up and paid a huge price that Roy didn't know, sacrificing himself and knocking down the energy level of the entire world, thus forcing the erosion of the abyss to be directly interrupted, which is why there is a world that is still alive today.

For a long time, Roy had speculated that Shanica's "healing" talent was not simple, but he never imagined that it would be so big.

Come to think of it, in the more than 500 years since the Battle of the Blood Moon, the "healing" talent, to be precise, has awakened more than once in the huge continent, to be precise, the "life healing" talent, but there has never been a witch who has awakened the "life healing" talent to the point of the peak of the crown and the evolution of the second talent.

It turns out that this world has suffered such a thing......

"The Seventh Realm of Original Sin - The Realm of Lust" Roy, who had personally experienced the invasion of the Abyss, knew very well how remarkable it was that the Mother Tree of Life in the World was able to stop the erosion of the Abyss.

Even the god of lust, the Demon God of Lust, Tiran, failed to stop the invasion of the Abyss in the "Seventh Realm of Original Sin: Realm of Lust".

The World Life Mother Tree was able to do this, even if it paid an unimaginably heavy price, its strength during his lifetime was at least the same level as the god of the Demon God of Lust Timor.

But what makes Roy wonder what the Mother Tree of Life meant when it said to Shanika was "the erosion of the abyss and original sin". He knows it, but what about the original sin?

Is there some kind of relationship between the abyss of sin and original sin? And what role does original sin play in this?

Speaking of original sin, Roy remembered the [Original Sin Rubik's Cube] in the deepest part of his soul. What does its existence have to do with original sin?

There was so little intelligence that Roy couldn't analyze it.

"In other words, if you want to further evolve your talent, the other two fragments of the heart of the Mother Tree of World Life are what you have to absorb, right?"

In the face of Roy's inquiry, Shanica, who had calmed down her emotions, nodded slightly:

"Yes."

"I can sense the general location of these two fragments, one is in the far north, and the other is in the far east, but with my current strength, it is estimated that I will not be able to absorb it, and I will have to wait until the third stage of the Great Witch Realm to be eligible to absorb and digest."

"I'm not in a hurry to look for them right now."

Roy nodded: "Don't think about this yet, you have just completed your evolution, and you still need to take a good rest." ”

Shanica nodded submissively, and in Roy's warm arms, she closed her eyes, and her breathing gradually calmed down.

Looking at Shanica, who was still unable to stretch her eyebrows after falling asleep, Roy sighed in his heart.

He knew that this time the process of talent evolution brought indelible memories to Shanica, on the surface her emotions were calm, but the turmoil in her heart did not know when it would subside.

When Shanica was asleep, Roy gently put Shanica on the bed.

After getting up, he was about to practice the Flame Breathing Method, when suddenly, he felt something, his figure flashed, and he silently rushed out of the hidden place and came to the small courtyard.

As soon as he stepped inside, Roy saw the three daughters, Latiyi, Yelena, and Lilia, who had fallen from the ripples of space, panting.

Arriving earlier than Roy was the Duke of the Border.

The demigod's perception ability was stronger than Roy's, so he sensed the strangeness of space one step before him.

And it was Roy and the Frontier Duke who arrived a little later than Fuma and the witches.

"What happened? Are you alright? Why is this in a hurry......"

Roy stepped forward and asked with concern.

"Whew...... Whoop......"

Lilia took a deep breath and waited for her breathing to be steady before she spoke, "Lord Roy, we see the scene in the depths of the Privy Cathedral!" However, we were also noticed by a strange golden eyeball inside, and we left in a hurry before a terrifying knight arrived......"

"It's the Chief of Divine Punishment." Lathiyi, who was on the side, added.

"Don't worry, it'll be safe when you come back, you guys talk slowly." Roy said in a deep voice: "What is the situation in the depths of the Privy Cathedral? ”

"I'll tell you." The fox ears on Irina's head were erected with agitated emotion: "It's a very large underground space, with twelve silver metal pillars hundreds of meters high...... Nearly a thousand black wooden crosses, two-thirds of which were tied to witches......"

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