In the Empire, there are three categories of people.

The first is the people who can be seen everywhere, citizens, hawkers, neighbors on the streets, and so on.

The second type is the people who can only be met with a little effort, starting with those nobles who live in large estates, to the popes of the major dioceses, and even if they try their best, it is not impossible to talk to the current emperor.

As for the third type, that is the person who will never be seen.

The old god envoy in front of him is one of them, maybe some people want to see the advance army general in front of the gate of hell, or the expedition leader General Patton, and there is a probability of one in a million, but the old god envoy does not even have a probability of ten million, one in ten thousand.

In the whole church, except for the disabled servant, no one knew what the old god made the Lord look like, so when they saw the huddled object covered with golden cloth, they couldn't believe it.

The Supreme Justice of the Trial Court stood up, his name was no longer important, in the past few decades, few people had called him by his name directly, and even his most satisfactory students would only call him a teacher, so the title "Justice" was enough to represent his status.

I saw the judge walk towards the flat car that was pushed over, and bowed slightly with a clear sense of respect: "Thank you for coming." ”

The curled up flesh on the flat car did not speak, but trembled slightly, and if you listened carefully, you could hear a small moan coming from under the golden cloth.

The Chancellor's voice was raised slightly so that the entire church could hear it clearly, "I have certainly considered the connection between the target and the Light, so I will not blindly carry out the target capture plan until this is resolved. ”

The people around them fell into a kind of silence, they didn't quite understand the judge's words, if the Holy Light deliberately favored someone, how could this problem be solved?

"So, I contacted the Temple of Light a month ago, and. I've reached some sort of consensus with the old god envoy. At this, the Chief Justice of the Trial Chamber took a deep breath, as if the next words required a great deal of determination to be able to speak:

"Throughout the Sacred Calendar, the Holy Light is undoubtedly standing in the perspective of all mankind, protecting us and watching us, no individual can be favored by the Holy Light at no cost, and the life of a single individual can never affect or even change the decision-making of the Holy Light, even Lord Dante, who saved the world, has never been actively communicated by the Holy Light.

But Sherlock. Holmes was an anomaly, and he could influence the Light's judgment to some extent.

The Light is an all-knowing and all-powerful being, how can it be changed by the mind of an ordinary human being.

Even three months ago, Sherlock had committed a sin in the Temple of Light that could never be forgiven, but the Light had not punished him.

This is not the normal Light.

Therefore, the old god made the adults speculate for a long time in absolute panic, and finally got an explanation for this phenomenon.

That is———— Holy Light is polluted! ”

“.” The whole church was silent just now, but at this moment, the silence above the silence was completely reflected, and the people suddenly stood or sitted, motionless, with unprecedented horror in their eyes, and their ears felt that the whole world was filled with their own heartbeat, so that they were deafening.

"The Light is polluted."

"Holy Light! It's polluted! ”

From under the golden cloth, there was finally some whispering murmur, and the withered flesh used all its strength, but it could only make such a sound, and in the voice was incomprehensible pain, he was wailing, like tearing his heart.

"That man, polluting the light! He is a demon, the most terrible demon! ”

The old god envoy trembled, as if he wanted to change his curled up posture, and raised his head with difficulty, and several divine servants pushing the flat cart on the side realized this, and immediately stretched out their hands to lift the golden cloth a little.

By the light of the church, the rest of the people saw a terrible scene that had never been seen before.

The body under the cloth is white and boneless. It literally means that there is not an inch of skin on the already dry and unseemly body, all of which has been cleaned alive, and the dry and slender muscles are weakly attached to the bones, but there is not much blood flowing out, only the muscles that are constantly spasming because of pain, which is the source of the subtle tremors.

However, as if this pain was not enough, the old god made the leaking white bones be embedded in the unknown number of nails, how many iron chains, just like that, through the internal organs and bones, the bone marrow flowed out between the cracked bones, and the sight gave people a piercing pain.

"I'm guilty! The servants of the Light are questioning the Light, and I am guilty! Because the cloth was lifted, the cold wind easily blew through the unprotected bones and marrow, bringing him even more unbearable pain, and also raising his voice a little higher again, and the listener was furious:

"But the Light is polluted, and it is up to us servants to take responsibility for purifying the Light, and all the sins I have borne in the meantime, and I have voluntarily suffered the most in the world in my life, and I have fallen into the Infernal Hell after death. I only wish I could kill the demons and purify the holy light! ”

The roar may have been the voice of the old god who had exhausted his nerves for an unknown amount of energy, and he was not explaining anything, but convincing himself with piety, and perhaps praying a painful prayer to the light, after which he curled up again weakly.

The divine servant beside him put the cloth on his body again with an expressionless face, and let him immerse himself in the extremely cruel criminal law, and a divine servant stepped forward, bowed to the chief judge, and said, "From now on, the Holy Light Temple will fully cooperate with Your Excellency in arresting the evil demons. ”

The miserable prayer of the divine envoy had pulled some people's hearts back, and they frowned, not quite understanding how the Temple of Light would cooperate with their own arrest of Sherlock.

The servant seemed to have thought of the doubts of the people, and then took out a small black brick from his cuff.

"This is.?" The justices wondered.

Although he was the highest position in the Imperial Government and the Holy See's judiciary, he had never seen anything like it.

"This is the branch of the Light." The servant explained, and then pressed a button next to the object in his hand, and a piece of turquoise light instantly lit up on the rectangular thing, and countless incomprehensible green characters kept changing, and if you looked closely, you would even have a certain sense of vertigo.

"That's what we're laying out in the Antarctic expedition." The servant explained, "It is through these branches that the Light spreads, and no one can explain this mode of transmission, but according to the records in the Temple of Light, at the beginning of the Sacred Calendar, the first servants of the Light buried these branches throughout the empire until the entire Divine Light covered all continents.

And now we have decided to cooperate with the capture of the evil god Sherlock. With Sherlock Holmes as the ultimate goal, shut down the branch of the Light at his location, thus blocking its connection to the Light.

Of course, this kind of behavior is undoubtedly an offense to the majesty of the Holy Light, so after capturing the target and successfully executing him, all the divine servants of the Holy Light Temple who participated in this plan, as well as the divine envoy himself, were all sentenced to death, and we are willing to die to capture the evil god! ”

It is estimated that they have been in the Holy Light Temple for too long, and when these divine servants talk about this, their tones are extremely calm, but when they hear the ears of others, they don't know how many monstrous waves have been set off.

The Temple of Holy Light is the most sacred existence in the Empire, and the Divine Servants or Old God Envoys are also the most noble people in the Empire, and these people will die collectively because of the goal of this mission.

Well, no matter how ridiculous this may sound, the facts are already in front of you, some people wipe the sweat from their foreheads, some people exhale slowly, and some people simply choke on the saliva they haven't had time to swallow for a long time.

There is no precedent in the entire history of the Holy Light to be turned off within the Empire, and almost no one even knows that the Holy Light is transmitted through such a small black box, and no one knows that such a thing can be turned off.

However, since the old god has made up his mind to die, how the Holy Light should be turned off, how long it should be closed, how much it will be closed, whether it can be turned on in real time after it is closed, and whether it will trigger a large-scale demon invasion during this period, etc., should have been carefully considered.

"On behalf of the entire Empire, I would like to thank the Temple of Light for your dedication, and you will play an important role in the bright future of mankind." The Inquisition Judge said sincerely, "But here I still have to make sure that the temple can really guarantee that there will be no irreparable danger while cutting off the connection between Sherlock and the Holy Light?" ”

"The main branches of the Holy Light are in the mountains below the Temple, we will only turn off the Holy Light within a certain range around Sherlock, during this period, there may be some void cracks formed, and there may also be a situation where the third-order Great Demon directly invades the hinterland of the empire, but this probability is very small, if there is, then the army can only be called in to suppress it. Regardless, as long as the target can be killed, these losses are acceptable. ”

"As long as the target can be killed, these losses are within the acceptable range"

In a certain abandoned building complex on a street on the edge of a certain city, Sherlock leaned against the bald wall, looked at these conversations in the form of words in front of him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "What are these guys doing, talking and talking, as if they have defined me as an evil demon without authorization." ”

The voice did not fall

"If the existence that threatens the entire human race is defined as an evil demon according to the primitive understanding, then it seems that they are right to call you that."

In his ears, a crimson voice sounded calmly.

"Come on, I didn't get to this point on my own initiative."

"But I suspect that if you had taken Dante's advice, you would be a thousand times better off now."

"Yes, but how can I be like Dante and his old man, spend the rest of my life in a small town, and I will be suffocated." Sherlock shrugged and said, "Okay, don't you worry about it now, listen to your servants, they seem to think that you have been bewitched by me, and are ready to shut you down." ”

"I need to correct your words, first of all, I won't be shut down, they can only manipulate the signal transmission switch connected to the artificial sun console to briefly turn off the connection between me and the transmitter, and it will not affect me in any way.

Secondly, it is you who should be worried, because if you are in the location, the signal connector is turned off, then you will no longer be able to get any help from me, and at the same time, you will no longer be able to summon any demons.

At that point, you will once again be alone, and your opponent will be the entire empire. ”

(End of chapter)