"No, death is definitely death."

The holy crow flapped his flaming wings and circled around the Pope's skeleton a few times, "There is no soul breath left, this Pope's soul must have been burned by the mad fire, so death is definitely dead, but there must be something special about his skeleton to survive the burning of the mad fire...... Well, could it be that the Pope transformed his own body or something before his death? ”

"Whew!"

Suddenly, the demon armor on the surface of Qi was rippling, and then from the shoulder armor, a purple-black slime tentacle was quickly thrown out, stretched out to the side of the Pope's skeleton, and gently stroked the skeleton frame.

"Xiao Soft, what are you doing?"

Irena watched in amazement.

The demon armor on Qi Lin's body was transformed by the mimic demon soldier Blue Soft, so the slime tentacles that stretched out from the demon armor at this time were naturally also stretched out by Blue Soft.

“……”

The slime tentacles slowly retracted, returning to the demonic armor.

Then, Qi Lin received Lan Soft's vague thoughts.

- Like-minded.

- This, yes, my, kind, corpse.

"Huh?"

"Huh?!"

After Qi Lin got this thought, he was stunned at first, and then shocked.

Similar?!

Xiao Soft said that this skeleton of the Pope is its own corpse?!

The Pope he just killed was a mimic demon soldier?!

"No......"

Qi Lin looked at the Pope's skeleton, his eyes full of disbelief.

A story suddenly occurred to him.

It was the story he told him when he first met the old blacksmith of the Blood Raven Tribe.

——

More than eighty years ago, Zabkul, the last lord of the Blood Whale Tribe, discovered and subdued a mimic demon soldier on the Demon Soldier Island.

Then, Zabkul took this mimic soldier to the inland side, and made the mimic mutiny take the form of the previous pope, trying to loot all the treasures of a cathedral without bloodshed by means of a false oracle.

But the plan failed.

The previous pope happened to be in the town near the church at that time, so he directly exposed Zabkul's lies and killed him on the spot.

As for the mimic soldier, he was crushed and killed by the Pope on the spot......

——

This is the old blacksmith's version of what Qi Lin said.

Is it possible that the old blacksmith learned that this version of the story was not entirely correct?

For example, the mimic demon soldier back then didn't actually die?

For another example, after the mimic demon soldier was killed by the previous Pope, the previous Pope took its corpse to conduct research, and finally came up with something strange?

"Wait!"

Suddenly, the voice of the holy crow interrupted Qi Lin's thoughts.

"There's a magic seal on the skeleton......"

The Holy Crow retracted his flaming wings, stepped on the Pope's bones, and slowly closed his eyes, "This should be a blinding seal, give me some time, I'll try to crack it......"

"Got it!"

Within two seconds, the crow opened its eyes.

"So fast?!"

Seeing this, Irena couldn't help but say something.

"Hmm."

The holy crow nodded lightly and said lightly: "Because I have seen all of Joshua's memories, and Joshua is a blood demon archmage, proficient in all kinds of mage knowledge, including the knowledge of various formations and seals, so I just need to use this blinding method seal and compare it with those blinding seals that Joshua has seen, and it is easy to find out the similarities and crack them." ”

"So you're done cracking?"

Qi Lin glanced at the pope's skeleton that was motionless, and asked hesitantly.

"I just said that I figured out how to break the seal, and I didn't say that it was done." The crow's voice was calm, "I know how to crack it, but I can't do it empty-handed, and I lack materials. ”

"And what materials do you need?" Irena wondered.

"Hey, little one."

The Holy Crow turned his head and looked at the demon armor on Qi Lin's body, "Throw a little dander to me, a little bit is enough." ”

“……”

Blue Soft Soft ignored it at all.

"Do you need a little bit of the body of the mimic demon soldier as a material?" Qi Lin was surprised.

"Because this blinding method seal is used to cover the true face of the mimic demon soldier!" The Holy Crow said in a deep voice.

"Huh?!"

When Qi Lin heard this, his heart sank suddenly, and then said, "Xiao Soft, give it a little dandruff." ”

"Smack!"

As soon as the words fell, a piece of blue slime popped out of the demonic armor on Qi Lin's body, and it stuck to one of the Pope's ribs with a "snap".

"Teng!"

The Crow then cast a spell that burned the blue slime.

After a few seconds, the blue slime completely vaporized, turning into a pale blue vapor.

Then, under the control of the Holy Crow, this water vapor gradually condensed into a pale blue rune, which landed on the Pope's skull and quickly merged into the skeleton.

"Hum—"

In an instant, the skeleton deformed, turning into a pool of purple-blue slime.

"Huh?"

Irena couldn't help but feel a little confused when she saw this change.

"It's a broken alchemical artifact."

The Holy Crow looked at Qi Lin and said in a deep voice: "The alchemy product is the true face of the Pope you just killed, that is to say, the so-called Pope you just killed is not actually a human being, but an alchemical creation, and the raw material of this alchemy creation should be the mimic demon soldier." ”

"So this Pope that Qi Lin killed is fake?!"

Hearing this, Irena couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

"Hmm...... Probably, right? ”

The Holy Crow thought for a moment, and then said: "This alchemical creation that uses mimic magic soldiers as raw materials has the effect of transforming at will like mimic demon soldiers, but because it is an alchemy creation, the refiner also uses other materials and rune magic circles to make this alchemy creation have high wisdom.

In this way, this alchemical creation can learn and imitate to make its words and deeds become normal people, so that no one will notice anything abnormal.

But does that mean it's a false pope?

Of course, there is such a possibility.

But not necessarily.

For example, could it be that the contemporary pope was this alchemical creature from the very beginning? This possibility also exists.

But it doesn't matter. ”

Speaking of this, the crow looked at the golden gem in Irena's hand, "I'm not sure if this pope is real or not, but I'm pretty sure that this gem can't be fake, this gem is real, it's Joshua's space gem, so humans, your goal today has been achieved, as for whether the pope is dead or alive?" Anyway, I don't think it matters. ”

"Suppose, the Pope I just killed is fake, then it means that the real Pope doesn't know where to hide......"

Qi Lin said as he slowly turned his head and looked at the southern area of the royal city.

I saw that there was gunsmoke everywhere, all kinds of magical light flowed one after another, and the sound of explosions was endless.

The islander army led by Andrei and the main force of the Holy See were still engaged in fierce offensive and defensive battles there, but the balance of victory had already tilted in favor of the islander army.

Because the scene where he had just knocked down the Golden Giant, dug the Pope out of the Golden Giant's head and burned him to death, had already fallen into everyone's eyes.

The Pope is dead.

It's a scene that everyone sees.

At this moment, the morale of the islander army has skyrocketed, and the Holy See is leaderless, and the morale of the army has long collapsed, so defeat is inevitable.

But is the Pope really dead?

Assuming that the alchemical creation that Qi Lin had just killed was a fake pushed out by the True Pope, then it would mean that the True Pope had run away.

Why run?

Because you're scared?

The Pope knew that he was not Qi Lin's opponent, so he directly left the Holy See and the royal city and ran away?

But Qi Lin is going to leave this world after all.

Without his deterrence, will the pope make a comeback?

If this is the case, then the islander kingdom established by André will not be able to rest easy in the coming days, and it will need to be constantly on guard against the Pope's comeback and assassination......

"Qi Lin, what are you thinking?"

Irena stood on top of Qi Lin's head, her left hand clutching the golden gem tightly, and her right hand gently patting his large purple horn.

"It's nothing, let's go, take the gem, let's go meet Andre, and by the way, tell him about the true and false popes."

Qi Lin flapped his wings of blood flame and flew towards the southern theater of the royal city, preparing to join Andre's army and completely end this siege battle.

(End of chapter)