Chapter 183: Unclean Maria
Drum woke up from his hotel room to hear a noise outside, people excitedly talking about something.
She opened the window and listened carefully, and the breeze wafting through her ears faintly brought words such as "apparition of the Virgin", "mute", "healing" and so on.
Thinking of the "Raven God" who saved him before, Drum has some respect for the gods of religious belief, after all, if there is a crow god, why can't there be a Virgin.
She woke up Hades, who was still sleeping, and took him with her.
The two passed through the crowd, and through the descriptions of the people around them, Drum had a general idea of what had happened before.
A mute woman named Alice was suddenly inspired by Our Lady in church this morning and regained her ability to speak.
According to her, she felt the will of Our Lady and was asking the priest to gather the people of the town together to pray to Our Lady and bathe in the mercy of Our Lady.
The fact that this priest can stay in Cheng County shows that he really has no level and is not qualified to be recalled to the Papal State, so he can only stay in the Lighthouse State to "preside over the overall situation of Cheng County".
In fact, it was abandoned.
But although his ability is not good, he still has a little knowledge.
According to the news in the church, God did come in the Papal States, so isn't it normal for Our Lady to appear in my Chengxian church?
Thirty years in the east of the river, thirty years in the west of the river.
When you went back to the Papal States, you ignored me, and soon I will make you people fall on the streets!
The priest is already thinking about how to build a new shrine in Cheng County to compete with the Papal States and become the largest religious leader in the Lighthouse State.
The priest, who was addicted to fantasy, buried his head in the church.
Outside the church, not long along the gate, it turned out to be the dead tree that the white-robed woman prayed for yesterday, and Alice was yesterday's white-robed tree.
Many residents had already gathered here, and people looked at Alice suspiciously and whispered.
Alice is also a local resident, and many people know that she is deaf and mute.
An old woman who had a good relationship with her asked hesitantly as Alice passed by, "Alice, can you really hear me?" β
Alice tilted her head to look at her, "Of course, Grandma Hanan, you see, I'm fine now." β
Alice's response confirmed that she had indeed received the mercy of the gods, and people began to bow their heads in prayer, marveling at the gods' mercy and might.
Alice parted the crowd and walked over to the dead tree, placing her hands on the dry trunk.
The believers followed her at a distance, approaching there, looking at her in awe.
Alice hugged the dead tree, closed her eyes, and raised her head.
A woman glowing all over her body appeared in mid-air, looked at her benevolently, opened and closed her mouth, and said a few words.
Except for Alice, the others could only faintly see a milky white light in the air, but they didn't know what it was.
After a few seconds, Alice said to the sky with a satisfied expression, "Thank you." β
Then she turned around and came to a child in a wheelchair and asked softly, "Do you believe in miracles?" β
The little boy had been paralyzed for a long time, and he looked up at the big sister and nodded.
Alice crouched down, looked at the little boy, took his hand and asked, "Do you have faith in Maria?" β
The boy in the wheelchair nodded and said, "Yes." β
"Then stand up and walk." Alice said.
The little boy said with a bitter face, "I can't do it." β
Alice firmly encouraged, "Maria instructed you to get up and go. β
The little boy refused again: "But I can't." β
Alice stood up, looked down at him with a determined gaze, and commanded, "Trust Him." β
The people around looked at each other with concern and curiosity, and the parents behind the little boy looked sad and helpless, but there was a faint look of expectation in their eyes that they couldn't believe.
The little boy took off the blanket on his lap and imagined what it was like to walk, but his unconscious legs really reacted slightly.
He continued to exert force, and the two legs actually lifted under his control and moved to the ground.
Everyone looked at this scene in disbelief, and they didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of scaring the child.
In the silence, the boy lifted himself out of his wheelchair with both hands, step after step, with difficulty, awkwardness, but with determination.
The onlookers gasped and fell to their knees, thanked Our Lady for her kindness, and prayed: "Hail Mary, full of love, the Lord is with you, you are the gospel of women, bless your womb Jesus, holy Mary, Mother of Christ, pray for forgiveness for us sinners." To this day, and when we return to heaven, Amen. β
While the crowd was praying, two lines of blood and tears flowed down the face of the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church.
The fanatical believers surrounded Alice, and their eyes fell on her in awe and admiration.
The priest squeezed out of the crowd, looked at Alice, and nervously asked, "What did he say?" β
"Maria wants us to perform a ritual in the Holy Land."
The so-called holy place is here.
Another voice asked, "What does He need?" β
Alice turned in the direction of the voice and said, "Our faith." β
At this moment, Drum also followed the flow of people to the scene.
She had been here in the evening yesterday, but she couldn't see her surroundings clearly, and now she walked near the clearing and realized that this was the strange place she encountered last night.
Her face changed, and she was about to turn back and leave with Hades, when suddenly her eyes were drawn to a burst of light, as if she were watching by a gentle and loving god.
Drum involuntarily looked up at the dead tree.
It was a woman with a halo all over her body, dressed in a flowing white robe, shining like the sun in the morning mist, and her loving expression was like that of the Virgin in the church.
Although he was in the form of the Virgin Mary, seeing this woman, Drum seemed to vaguely see the incarnation of the "crow" god, as if he had found a home, and his limbs turned uncontrollably to join the crowd, following the people to join in the worship of the Virgin.
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Luke, who had just returned to Cheng County, asked the crow to bring the surviving boy out of the mirror world, and since he answered the prayer and reaped the benefits, Luke was naturally responsible for the end.
The words of this child to his parents are not very reliable, after all, even he can only enjoy the mother's love within three days, and the mother's love will deteriorate once it is overtime. And the old couple has a good life, and it is a bit inappropriate to add a seven or eight-year-old strange child to come in.
He thought about where the kid would go, and finally decided to give him to Brett and let the Golden Crow Church raise him to be a man.
Then, he began to check the harvest with a smile, although this trip to the "Wanhua Mirror" did not increase much in experience points and divinity, but the newly obtained "Prayer Merger" was also a good harvest.
It seems to have been transformed from the soul of the woman who was killed by the Mother of Darkness, and floats around the Tree of Ability like a tiny speck of light.
By the time he got it, Luke knew all of its abilities.
First of all, the initiator does not have complete thinking ability and self-awareness, it is more like an automated machine that produces high-quality faith power, and the power of faith produced is as pure as that of a saint.
Secondly, the conjugator is also a purifier of the power of faith, just like a water purifier, which can help Luke purify some mixed power of faith, so that the speed of divine condensation can be effectively increased.
Luke thought about it, and at present, he already has five divinities: mirror, spider, crow, fear, and flame, but the thunder divinity has not yet been condensed because the power of faith of comic book fans is too low, so he simply assigned the "merger" to the "thunder".
The "Merger" is very efficient, and a large amount of mixed faith power is continuously absorbed, and then the impurities are left behind, and the pure faith power flows out.
After a while, however, the glimmer of light emitted by the "Merger" dimmed and stopped purifying, as if the impurities had absorbed too much and needed time to digest.
But even during breaks, the "Prayer Maker" still continues to produce a high-purity "Thunder" faith, which is almost like the best employee of 007, working 24 hours a day and occasionally wiping the butts of his colleagues.
It will take about 12 hours for the purification function of the "Merger" to be restored, and according to this progress, after about four or five days, maybe the first wisp of "thunder" divinity can be successfully condensed.
Luke happily took his perspective away from the "Invoker", and was about to go out to find his mother to ask about the Asmo family again, and then the ability tree trembled slightly, giving a hint that the power of faith seemed to be a little wrong.
He was shocked in his heart, and carefully observed the roots of the power tree formed by the transformation of his divine nature, and after looking at it for a long time, he found the clue.
The "crow" divinity, a small part of which is still a fairly firm belief in the power is slowly draining.
It's not that you don't believe in yourself, but it's a bit like someone secretly opening a small hole in the river of faith and stealing water.
Faith thief!
Damn, I've always been the only one who took advantage of others, and someone stole it from me!
Luke took out the "Wanhua Mirror" and followed his perception of the power of faith to observe forward along the line of fate.
The scene is a group of people kneeling on the ground.
And the end of the thread of fate is implicated in the woman who was saved by using the "Wanhua Mirror" for the first time, called Drum, a witch born with telekinesis, and the "iron wall" characteristic of her telekinesis comes from her.
She's in
Luke uses occult connections to determine the distance between the two.
Yourself and her are 5 kilometers away?
So close?
This girl has come all the way to find it by herself?
And I also found it so accurately, and it was directly located to my own home.
I'm afraid she's going to open it.
But looking at the way she knelt on the ground in a daze, it shouldn't have been opened, probably by coincidence.
Luke roughly understood the situation, this woman should have let some monster fool, that monster should still have the ability to steal the power of faith, it seems that the people on the field were all fooled together.
He withdrew his thoughts from the "Wanhua Mirror", [Shifting Shape] to Halpiere's back, and flew in the direction of his perception.
Just a few minutes after flying out, I saw the church on the ground, as well as the dead trees in front of the church and a large number of people kneeling down.
Of course, the monster suspended in mid-air and invisible to ordinary people was also discovered by Luke for the first time.
It looked similar to the Holy Mother in the church, and exuded an aura similar to the "Holy Light Talisman" in Luke's hand, much to Luke's surprise.
O God!
Maria: Hey!
Stealing the power of someone else's faith?
Isn't this equivalent to Jianlin's wife running to my school commissary to steal sanitary napkins?
It's a little too magical.
Even if the demon from hell didn't lie before, God really overdrew too much power by throwing the old gods into the abyss, causing him to be unable to make ends meet.
But not so much.
With such a little power of faith, what is enough?
Luke is confused, and the ability to identify gives the answer.
γBlack Witchγ
Witches who believe in Satan are given the power to blaspheme and be born again.
γSkillsγ
[Mental power]: The standard configuration of the witch clan.
[Resurrection]: Under the influence of Satan's evil power, the Black Witch has the ability to resurrect in the bodies of other witches, and the resurrection requires a lot of faith and the full acceptance of the possessed object.
[Blasphemy]: The Black Witch can influence and steal the power of faith from other gods.
[Evil Flame]: The Black Witch's telekinesis can be transformed into the Infernal Flame, burning the soul and body of the enemy at the same time.
[Madonna Appearance]: The Black Witch wore the mask of the Virgin when she was executed, and the mask blended with her after death, allowing her to perfectly pretend to be the Virgin Mary.
Satan doesn't know if it's still there, this black witch in front of him still dares to come out and stir up the wind and rain, in this era of extraordinary recovery, that is, the capable priests have been recalled to the Papal States, otherwise I'm afraid that if I can't wait for Luke, she will be turned into an active merit by the parish priest first.
After all, exorcism, and a monster pretending to be the Virgin, seems to be a great achievement.
Now that the situation is very clear, the Black Witch is trying to resurrect the witch by impersonating Maria and collecting a large amount of faith power.
According to the position of everyone, Luke easily locked on the girl Alice who was standing in front of everyone and kneeling directly below the Black Witch, she should also have the blood of the witch clan and was the resurrection candidate chosen by the Black Witch.
In the face of a monster in the soul state of the Black Witch, the magma is not as good as the evil flame brought by the "Light Flame Candlestick".
The other party happens to use the "Evil Flame", so compare them to see if the evil does not prevail over the good, or if the Tao is one foot higher and the demon is one foot higher.
The enemy is in the light, and I am in the dark.
Luke very reluctantly got down from Halpier's body, let a few crows carry mirrors and slowly approached, and he took out the "Light Flame Candlestick", ignited the evil flame, and then multiplied and expanded this pure white flame with flame divinity, surrounding his body.
After the crow flew forward slowly for a distance, there was no way to continue to get closer, after all, who was serious The crow had nothing to do and grabbed a few mirrors and flew in the sky, and there was a problem at first glance.
Luckily, Luke has a backup plan.
He took out the "Wanhua Mirror", and by finding the thread of fate connected to Drum, and gently flicked it with divine power, Drum instantly woke up from his frenzy.
Before she could make a move, she suddenly received a sudden message.
"It's me"
Luke's voice and appearance appeared abruptly in Drum's mind.
Seeing the familiar figure, the messenger of the Raven God, Drum's heart settled.
Luke continued to say in her heart, "Next, I need your help. β
(End of chapter)