Chapter 41: Descending the Mountain

Roth's strategy is to keep a position that he can strike at any time without having too much impact on the past, so he needs to maintain a moderate presence, which is why he chose to speak here.

A person standing in the morning sun and shouting that he is a vampire would be a normal person who would complain about it.

This kind of innocuous words that Sister Jieli will say without saying it herself is the most suitable for the current situation...... That's what Roth had thought.

Then he saw that Jieli with that timid expression was facing Lijielit, which was a holy light technique!

Didn't she just insist that Lijielit was her savior?

Fortunately, Lijielit didn't smoke and scream in the holy light, she just shivered, covered her mouth with her hand and said, "Hey, what are you doing all of a sudden! I'm still nauseous just now......, and I haven't recovered yet!"

Jieli breathed a sigh of relief, folded her hands and said, "Great! Miss Lijielit is really not a vampire!"

Wait a minute, this is something that has really happened in the past, right?

Roth was also shocked, he didn't think that Jieli's action had anything to do with his presence, he could only say that she did it in the original past......

Were the clergy of the past so reckless?

Lijliet stopped retching and said angrily, "I said I was a vampire!"

"But Miss Lijielit is neither afraid of sunlight nor holy light, so how can she be a vampire?" said Jieli, shaking her head.

"Well, what do you say I am?" asked Lijlit, hugging her chest.

Roth felt the need to push the conversation so that they wouldn't get tangled up, and asked, "Miss Lijlett, do you know why you're buried in the cemetery?"

"I don't know, I'm supposed to sleep in my castle, but what about my castle?" said Lijlitt.

Jieli raised her hand and said, "Ah, I know a little bit about this, this chapel is now in charge of me." That was decades ago, before I was born, and it is said that the corpse of a woman floated in the river at the edge of the village, and it seemed that she had only been dead for a short time, and she was dressed in noble clothes, and the villagers thought that the daughter of a nobleman had drowned. In order to wait for her family to come to her, the villagers placed her in the village chief's house, but no one came. After a few more days, the villagers, who were worried about the decomposition of her body, first buried her in the village cemetery. ”

Ligeret looked at the lonely chapel and cemetery built on the hill and asked, "Why do you like to bury people in the hill? ”

Jieli's raised hand was half retracted by this beat: "That, I haven't finished talking yet......"

"Oh, you go on. Lijielit crouched down, one hand supporting her face and said to Jieli, who was still sitting on the ground.

Jieli took a deep breath before speaking, "Actually, there is a cemetery in the village, in the northwest of the village, where the villagers buried the female corpse. After a while, however, strange movements began to be heard in the cemetery, and some people claimed to have seen corpses crawl out of the grave in the middle of the night and wander around, returning to the grave before dawn......"

"This kind of thing still needs to be claimed, the corpses have broken through the ground, and the traces left behind must be visible the next day, right?" Lijielit unceremoniously picked at the thorn.

"I don't know, the elder didn't talk about that...... Well, the incident became more and more troublesome, and the villagers dug up the female corpse again, and found that she showed no signs of decay at all! The villagers were frightened, so they buried her and all the corpses in the cemetery on the hill at the edge of the village, and built a small church next to it, hoping to comfort her with the power of the god of light......

The god of light, Roth speculated on this point in time based on this title.

Just as in the culture of the Qin and Han dynasties, the true god appeared as the holy master and left the requirement of "respecting ghosts and gods and staying away", in the Western cultural circle, the true god did not directly let his people believe in himself.

He spread specious beliefs among different races and nationalities in many incarnations, and even the churches in the United Kingdom today cannot tell what the purpose of God is in doing this, only that people should not speculate on God's will.

Among them, the belief in the [God of Light] was still the mainstream of the Western world until a thousand years ago, and the direct belief in the true God and the formation of the current United Kingdom Church [Pastism], [Presentism] and [Futureism] slowly rose after that, spreading their own teachings under the names of [Valhalla], [Hand of God] and [All-Seeing Eye], among which [Valhalla] and [All-Seeing Eye] were even suppressed as cults for a time.

It was only after the appearance of filth that began to erode the world that the three sects quickly merged and succeeded in integrating all other religions after the appearance of the true God.

So this was at least a thousand years ago? That's too long......

Lijielit felt strange: "Your village is too good at tossing, so you didn't try to burn me?"

Roth was silent: "Do you know she's talking about you?"

"Normally, it's easier to burn it, right? I'm thinking from the perspective of a villager. "Lijliet is right.

Jieli looked at Lijielit cautiously and said, "Although the elder didn't mention it, I guess I tried to burn it...... Miss Lijielit, you are not afraid of the sun, or even the Holy Light, so the flames may not be effective against you......"

"How could the flames not work for me, and I'm not a magma lizard!" said Lijlit, "but if it's a flame without the blessing of supernatural power, it may not work...... It's good that it wasn't burned, otherwise it might have been a few hundred years before it woke up!"

Lijielit patted her chest, as if she was a little afraid, Roth (omitted below)

"Hey, Rot, you're not a local, do you know where my castle is?" said Lijielet, not caring if Roth dared to look at herself.

Roth kept his sight on and asked, "What does your castle look like?"

"Huh...... Are you a traveler?, that black castle as high as a mountain, a black castle where the greatest vampires live, how could a traveler not know?" said Lijlitt.

Is it the greatest...... If she's a vampire, then a vampire who can walk in the sun and feel disgusted by the light might be worthy of the title if she doesn't take into account her personal temperament.

But she is the owner of the black castle that stopped the adventurers in the city? Obviously, in the information she bought, those adventurers who directly attacked the black castle said that the shadow of the city lord was [full of majesty], [the aftermath of the battle was erased by her/him with her eyes], and [felt a shuddering evil].

Although the adventurer's report was not particularly reliable, it was not so bad......

Jieli was surprised: "That castle!?Isn't that the castle of the devil?Legend has it that it was brought directly from hell by the devil to the world, the most terrible demon cave in the world...... How could that be Miss Lijielit's castle?"

Hearing this, Lijliet was furious: "Nonsense! Do you know how much effort I have spent for that castle! I spent hundreds of years accumulating building materials, and then sealed off the entire area to prevent others from disturbing it, and I spent decades building it by myself! Who, who dares to say that it is not my castle!"

Personally...... Roth didn't know what to say.

As for demons, the essence of demons is the same as angels, they are all dependents of the true God, which is common knowledge in the church of the United Kingdom now.

Seriously, whether it is for the Qin and Han dynasties or for the Western countries, the harm that the true god has brought to civilization in this world is actually not much lighter than the filth that pollutes the world, right?

As a person born in the United Kingdom, Roth had not thought about it from this perspective before, but the more he thought about it now, the more outrageous it felt.

But aside from that, the demon is indeed more in line with the adventurer's description of the owner of Castle Black.

"Miss Lijielit, you ...... Would you like to come to my house and take a break?, Mr. Rot, I want to repay you for saving your life!" Jieli was also stunned for a moment after hearing Lijielit's words, then stood up and bowed to Lijielit and Roth.

Roth suspects that Jaely is actually trying to say that Lijliet has been buried in the ground for too long and that her brain is broken, but there is no evidence.

Lijielit sniffled and said, "The smell of this blood...... I should be able to wake up thanks to Jieli, which means that you don't owe me anything, but I owe you a favor. As for that Roth, he just wanted to save you, and I wasn't the one who actually killed the zombies and those three men!

Roth was dumbfounded: "You are really a genius at settling accounts!"

Only then did Jieli notice that her wound was still oozing blood, and she quickly prayed.

The light enveloped her body, and the few skin wounds recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although this ancient miracle indirectly mobilizes the power of the true god by praying to the God of Light, after all, the true god has not fallen into a deep sleep in this era, and its effect seems to be much more intuitive and faster than the divine magic of the United Kingdom Church.

After treating her wounds, Jieli worked hard to tidy up the nun clothes that had been cut out with many cuts, and said with a slight red face: "It was really rude before, please allow me to invite the two of you to my house again to rest, is it okay?"

Roth asked, "It's still morning, is it okay for you to go back to the village just after you came to church?"

Jieli said: "Now that the cemetery has become like this, the meaning of this small church on the mountain may no longer be there. Besides, there are bandits near the village, so I'm sure I'll have to go back to the village as soon as possible to report it. ”

Roth nodded, originally he asked this nonsense to maintain a sense of existence.

Lijielit thought for a moment and agreed: "Okay, I haven't recovered my strength now, and if the bastard who occupied my castle is a demon, then I really can't get it back now, so let's go to your house first." ”

Jieli asked cautiously, "Miss Lijielit, you said you want to regain your strength, so are you going to suck human blood?"

"It doesn't have to be human blood, as long as it is something that carries vitality, it's just that finding people is the highest in terms of efficiency. Who told you to be weak and multiplic, and the quality is relatively good!" Lijielit said with her teeth exposed, "But I won't do anything to anyone you know, Jieli." ”

Jieli obviously had a lot of questions to ask about Lijielit's speech, probably because she thought it was not good to stand here and ask questions all the time, so she put up with it, "Let's leave these things for later!

Even if it saves your life, is it really okay to bring a woman who has just been swindled into the village and a man with a weapon from an unknown source?

Roth felt strange in his heart, but did not say it.

Considering that this is a combination of nuns who take the light of light without saying a word and suspected vampires who think very differently, it is possible that no one really cares about this kind of thing, and if they ask a question like this, it may change the past they have experienced.

You should pay attention to what you can say and what you can't say.

But what's going on over there with Lista?

He seems to have fought with Lijliet, and maybe he has entered a completely different development now, maybe even if he can see his shadow, it is not worth reference, right?

Just as Roth was thinking this, he actually saw the phantom of Lista reappearing.

He was talking and laughing and going down the mountain with Jieli and Lijielit!?

How did this happen? Can it be forcibly reversed even after the fight has started? Could it be that this past cannot be changed, and even if it makes an outrageous move, it will be forcibly corrected back?

But if that's the case, there's no reason why Lista would be so happy, and it should be a scary sight for what is happening in front of her to be forcibly reversed.

Rot's move of following Lista's phantom who was one step ahead of her seemed to be interpreted by Jeri as observing the path down the mountain, and she asked Rot, "Mr. Rot, do you see any of the bandits' accomplices?"

Roth came to his senses and replied, "I don't see it." Do you think they have accomplices?"

Jieli said distressedly: "I don't know, there were no bandits here, our lord has always protected us, this mountain road should be safe." ”

Roth wondered, shouldn't the castle where the demons live be around here?

The previous village's illusion was only the size of a village.

Although this black castle is far larger than an ordinary village in size, the scope of the illusion formed should not be too outrageous.

I don't know how long the past span is repeated by this illusion, and that village is a day, but there must be more than that.

Luckily, Ligeret asked the hard-to-judge question, "It's safe here, which means my demon-infested castle isn't around here, where's the river on the edge of your village?" ”

"We call it the River of Flowing Flowers, because the river is upstream in the realm of the Elves, and flowers often flow down the river. Jieli said.

"Liuhuahe? It's a nice name, but it's not just flowers that will flow down now, aren't you?"

Are you talking about her own corpse (?) drifting?

"If it's you, it can be considered a flower. Roth said.

Jaeli and Lijliet looked at him together and didn't speak.

Roth can't wait to give himself a mouthful, what did he suddenly say, embarrassing or not?

Why did you suddenly have a brain twitch?

Fortunately, they didn't hold on to this sentence, but ignored him neatly.

"Well, that, let's hurry down the mountain!" Jieli hurriedly led the way down the mountain.

As if nothing had happened before, Lijielit continued: "But the elves will definitely not get together with the demons, if the upper reaches are the elf kingdom, it will be much easier to find the place where I fell into the water, and the search scope can be narrowed." ”

"Yes, that's right!" said Jieli.

Roth slithered after the two.

On the bright side, I definitely don't have a sense of existence, and I haven't had much impact on the development of this past......

The mountain is not high, but it is subtly steep, and it is only possible to barely see the outline of the half-obscured village by walking along the winding mountain path to the edge.

Is it to avoid seeing the taboo cemetery from the village?

It will not be too easy for the villagers to open this mountain road or build a small church.

The mountain road can also be considered to be built by the village by the way, and it is not easy to build that small church on the top of the mountain, considering the time and the manpower and material resources consumed, it is impossible to think that it was only done to house the corpse of Lijielit.

With this question in mind, Roth followed them to the vicinity of Jieli's village.

Where the entrance to the village could already be seen, Roth stopped with a frown.

Lijlitt looked back and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with that village?"

“...... No, just a little weird feeling. Roth replied.

"Traveler's intuition? It's better to pay attention. Ligeret also stopped.

Jieli noticed the strangeness of the two of them, and said strangely: "Huh, what's wrong?"

Roth knew that his actions might affect this past development, but what he saw made him feel that it was better.

The Phantom of Listana, who was one step ahead, had been ambushed, and among the ambushers was a transcendent who possessed the ability to fight both Lista and Ligeret on his side.

Roth knows his roots, in terms of his own combat power, even if he does not use the wheel of divine power he snatched, he will be slightly stronger than himself, if this is an ambush that can make Lista into trouble, then it may be a crisis for Roth.

Rather than solving the illusion of this black castle, it is more important to maintain this past development, and it must be your own safety.