When "Great Mother" is mentioned, Priest Raymond's expression is completely different from when he praises "Eternal Blazing Sun". The latter has a hint of sanctity and fanaticism, as if he is looking directly at Sun, while "Great Mother" is like Raymond's real mother, whom he admires and feels intimate with.
A Priest of Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun actually recited the name of another being loudly deep in the church, calling it great!
However, such blasphemy did not result in any punishment, and Raymond seemed to have expected this result. His expression calmed, he stood up from the chair, faced the only window in the room again, looked at Sun, opened his arms, and chanted again:
"Great Eternal Blazing Sun..."
Then, together with the robe on his body, he turned into a gray stone statue in the sun.
The expression of the stone statue is still sacred and fanatical, with its mouth slightly open and its arms spread out, like a stone cross.
The sunlight in front of it dimmed, and a figure appeared in front of the glass window. It was Angel who had left Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun for the forest to the west.
The door behind him was opened from the outside. Bernadette, wearing a women's shirt and tight-fitting trousers, slowly walked into the room. Looking at Raymond who was completely Petrification and without a trace of life, he said with a serious expression:
"I didn't expect that power to have penetrated into the church of Blazing Sun. No wonder it has been more than a month since the incident happened, and there is no news from the outside world... I am afraid that a similar situation has happened to the administrator of this village, and it is even more serious because there is no need to worry about being discovered by the church."
Then, she looked at Angel, who was staring at the stone statue in silence, her expression softened, and she asked:
"'Great Mother', is it the source of pollution you mentioned?"
She did not use "starry sky" to refer to it, fearing that she would accidentally "cross the line" and know more accurate information.
"It should be, but there is no pollution on his body, and Petrification did not cause him to precipitate Beyonder Characteristic... He is just an ordinary person, at least for now."
Angel replied, his eyes flickering, switching between his own vision and the gaze cast by "Mirror Person" with the personality of "City of Calamity", but he did not find the red light.
As for "Great Mother", there is no doubt that it points to "Mother Goddess of Depravity".
It can't be Earth Mother. He is a "local god" through and through, and one of the righteous gods. There is no need to engage in such small tricks to snatch believers... Angel muttered, "Petrification"'s power restrained, turning Raymond's gray body into a puddle of stone powder. Before it fell to the ground, it was flipped into the mirror and sprinkled over the entire Mirror World, completely destroying the corpse.
Both she and Bernadette knew that using Raymond as a medium to divine "Great Mother" was undoubtedly an act of seeking death, so no one mentioned it.
Seeing Priest, a Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun, disappear without a trace in his church, Bernadette casually searched the room, but did not find many valuable documents. He immediately looked at Angel and said:
"What's next? Should we notify Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun and let Purifiers handle it, or should we go to Belon Village's administrator's house to have a look?"
The fall of one Priest was enough for Sun Church to use his own armed forces to quickly solve all this.
But...
"However, Purifiers will not only deal with possible contamination, but there is also a high probability that the entire village will be 'Purification'. Regardless of whether the villagers here are contaminated or not, they will be imprisoned in the Tribunal and treated cruelly. The entire village will also have all traces wiped out." Angel looked at the small holy emblem on the table and said slowly. "This is why I want to investigate first instead of directly informing Intis's official Beyonder."
"But before coming to Beron, you asked me to tell Bornova about this? Is it because the behaviors of Church of Steam and 'Machinery Hivemind' are not so extreme and intense, or is it because of the relationship between me and Him?"
Bernadette asked.
"Both. I have cooperated with 'Machinery Hivemind' in Loen. I know that their methods are quite restrained, and telling him is equivalent to letting that God know that if something goes wrong with our actions, there is a backup plan... The most important thing is that I see humanity in Bornova, not complete divinity."
Angel said, pushing open the window and jumping directly over the window edge to the cemetery behind the church, Bernadette also followed.
"I also see humanity in you, and it is stronger than any Angel I have ever seen." The Beyonder who became Demigod more than a hundred years ago said, "The vast majority of Beyonder are possessing divinity and becoming After Sequence 2, they will gradually lose their humanity... Oh, this does not mean that they will do evil. In mysticism, human nature does not mean good. There are also evil human natures, such as enjoying depraved behaviors, being bloodthirsty or full of destructive desires. But in general, the loss of human nature will make them no longer consider the thoughts of ordinary people, and act more recklessly and recklessly."
It sounds like she is commenting on Emperor Roselle's later years... Angel thought with insight.
She is aware that she is still "full of humanity" and does not think this is a trait worthy of praise. After all, she has only been Angel for a short month, and because she has two poles: Klein and Mirror Person As a stable anchor, he left many legendary deeds in advance as "Golden Queen", and the "The Great Pirate Angelica" series of novels are widely spread. In the eyes of others, he is still a person who has a clear distinction between love and hate, and his actions tend to be on the "good" side that is considered by the public.
Although it is unclear whether this state is an advantage or a disadvantage compared to other Angel, Angel hopes to keep it like this.
Walking among vineyards and houses of different heights, sizes and layouts, Angel and Bernadette soon came to the forest to the west of Belon Village.
They did not go to the local administrator's house on the other side of the village and coax and coax to get more information like they did to Priest Raymond. After all, Priest had already prayed to "Great Mother" before being Petrification. If time dragged on for too long, Nast might get more revelations and sneak away, leaving them in vain.
Therefore, Angel adopted the most straightforward plan: immediately go to the forest to find Nast's former residence.
Entering the depths of the forest, which obviously exceeded the density that should be achieved in winter, Angel soon discovered a three-story house that looked extremely dilapidated, but had signs of renovation everywhere. It was located on a flat land in the forest, with a small garden. One and a half floors were embedded underground, making it appear to be lower than an ordinary three-story building.
Half of the garden periphery has been surrounded by thick wooden boards that have been re-erected, seemingly made by the young people Priest Raymond said they hired to build the fence.
Standing in front of this repaired house that was still somewhat ventilated, Angel used a nearby mirror to start investigating, but soon found that the entire house was shrouded in a gray fog, and her proud "Magic Mirror Divination" showed no reaction.
She turned her head and glanced at Bernadette beside her. The latter also shook his head, indicating that his prophecy ability did not detect anything unusual.
And this in itself means that divination and prophecy are interfered with by a certain force.
Taking a deep breath, Angel's figure returned to normal after a moment of blur. Her body had hid in "Mirror World", leaving only a lifelike avatar that could convey the power of herself and Mirror Person in Physical World.
Bernadette used his fingers to outline star-like words in the air, summoning the muscular man Angel had seen whose upper body was wrapped in white cloth, and Spirit World Creature whose lower body turned into a whirlwind to lift his body.
He handed a diamond-encrusted forehead ornament to Bernadette, who took it and put it on his forehead. His whole body immediately exuded an aura full of Wisdom but rather indifferent.
This is "Sage Diadem", a "0" level Sealed Artifact, which allows the user to turn into a pure information flow creature at any time, avoiding most physical attacks, including even pollution that requires direct contact to be transmitted.
In this state, Bernadette dared to follow a Angel into a building that was likely to contain "Great Mother" pollution, instead of just staying outside and waiting for the results.
After making all preparations, Angel's Mirror Substitution came to the door, stepped back with one foot, and stabilized his body with the other.
The next moment, she raised her retreating foot and kicked forward, smashing the wooden door into pieces, and rushed into the room first.
I've wanted to do this for a long time... Angel of Mirror World was a little excited. She used the position of "City of Calamity" to look around the avatar as if overlooking a flat picture album, alerting her to possible attacks from any direction.
But as the two entered the building, a scene full of evil and filthy atmosphere appeared in front of them like an abstract painting in a museum.
The living room of the entire house was opened upward, and the three floors were connected together. The first floor that was half buried underground was sunken inward. In the center was an altar made of dark red wood. Its main body was round, with a hollow interior, and many strange-shaped branches extending around it, like new offspring on dead wood.
Around the altar, circles of short creatures are regularly arranged in three concentric circles, close to the ground, kneeling in the direction of the altar. They have the same hands, feet, necks and heads as humans, but they are smaller, like babies...
No, they are real babies!
Mirror Substitution of Angel immediately saw the situation inside the room clearly through Dark Vision, and felt a chill rising from his heart.
Therefore, she immediately noticed that the humanoid creatures lying on the ground, numbering at least forty, were real humans. However, they had just gained freedom from their mother's arms. Not only did they not have time to grow, they could not obtain enough nutrition. Therefore, their limbs were as thin as poles and their heads appeared to be abnormally sized.
Hearing the sound of the door being kicked, the babies lying on the ground raised their bodies in unison and looked at the two people at the door.
Angel Forty faces with different shapes but common characteristics also appeared in front of him.
Their faces are dry and wrinkled, their eyes protrude from the sockets, and the inner pupils are Pure Black. The corners of their mouths are stretched to both sides due to wrinkled skin, revealing an interior filled with mucus and long sharp fangs.
This... they are not babies, they are obviously deformed monsters!
Angel, who had seen many cult scenes and strange creatures, was temporarily stagnant in her thinking under the gaze of these evil creatures. The next second, another identical picture covered her eyes, which was transmitted by "Mirror Person", looking at the reality in the person of "City of Calamity".
Superimposed on the forty weird babies were wisps of blood Red Light. Although they were dim, they shrouded the babies' bodies unswervingly, as if they were dyed with a layer of red gauze.
That is the pollution of "Mother Goddess of Depravity"!
The moment this was confirmed, all the babies in the room swooped in as if they had received an order, and then bumped into the Black Flame that suddenly appeared in the air. Their bodies were ignited with raging fire. Then, the gray-white color representing Catastrophe and death replaced the black of the curse, causing the flames in the air to crash to the ground with a muffled sound.
In an instant, all the weird babies, along with the Black Flame that burned them, turned into stones and lost their lives.
At this time, Bernadette had just stepped through the door, and his eyes had just focused on the dark red altar.
Is it over? As expected of the "Demoness" Angel, which ranks at the forefront of the twenty-two Paths of the Divines in terms of destructive power... Her eyes moved from the altar to the stone statues on the ground. As soon as the thought flashed through her mind, she found that all the stone statues were squirming, cracking countless gaps, and the interior was flashing with blood-red light, as if blood-colored flowers were planted on the stones.
The eerie color is reminiscent of the color the sky sometimes turns to, Blood Moon that makes all Beyonder and Beyonder Creature Spirituality soar.
This is the reality of the pollution of "Great Mother"!
The bloody flowers with pollution were like eyes. The invisible sight immediately locked on Bernadette, whose expression had changed, making her ears, eyes, and mouth have their own thoughts and lives. She heard and saw information that did not exist, and recited unknown words.
Without hesitation, Bernadette's body began to blur, decomposed into streams of complex and pure knowledge, and became a disembodied information flow creature. This effectively prevented her body from mutating and allowed her to recover from some kind of madness.
As if it was clear that there was nothing that could be done against this information creature in a short period of time, the invisible sight of the blood-colored flowers on the surface of the rocks turned to Angel, and the pollution containing maliciousness poured into her like a pattern, trying to "activate" everything on her body.
But what greeted them was the actual aura of destruction that emerged from Angel's Mirror Substitution.
The Angel from "Mirror World", the Mirror Person from "City of Calamity", the Calamity and the power of destruction from Sefirah, which is far higher than Sequence 2.
The invisible hand swept across the entire building in an instant. The already dilapidated and incompletely repaired house seemed to have experienced another hundred years, decaying, collapsing, and turning into floating ash.
The cracks on the surface of the forty stone baby statues in the living room expanded to both sides and connected to each other, leaving the gray-white surface covered with lines of varying thicknesses. The blood-red light inside wandered and flickered among them, as if they were avoiding something extremely scary.
But as the power of destruction lingered and covered them, the stone statues were shattered one after another, and a trace of blood-red aura escaped from the inside. Some of them tried to fly into the air and escape from here, some wanted to enter the dark red altar and continue to hide, and some gathered together and floated towards Angel in an attempt to make a final struggle.
But as Ice Mirror appeared in the air, accurately "catching" the red aura and dyeing itself crimson, these escaped pollution quickly attributed to "Mirror World", reflecting back and forth between countless mirror images of each other, as if they were endless, and finally shrouded in a deep black shadow, unwillingly disappearing into the depths of Mirror World.
This is the first time Angel has used the power of "Sefirah" to crush the pollution belonging to "Great Old One".
The effect was quite good, and the pollution from Outer Deity was not allowed to flow to the outside, but... As soon as a thought flashed through Angel's mind, he heard a sharp, somewhat frustrated roar from the only dark red altar that was still intact around him.
Then, the altar shattered and collapsed in front of her eyes, and a wisp of pale white mist floated from it, quickly dispersed into Spirit World, and disappeared.
What kind of power is this...
Angel looked thoughtful as he looked at the sky where the pale white mist broke through the distance between Spirit World, so that gaps were visible to the naked eye.
Behind her, the information-based Bernadette Reassembly came out of her body, covered her ears that were almost separated from her body just now, quickly took off the "Sage Diadem" on her forehead, and handed it to the Spirit World servant who appeared again.
"That was the pollution of 'Great Mother' just now?" She looked around at the ruins crushed by the force of destruction, looked at the broken baby stone statue, and asked with lingering fear, "Have they all been cleared away?"
"If you mean pollution here, that's all taken care of.
Angel answered slowly, recalling in his mind the Beyonder Characteristic of "Planeswalker" and "Barren Matriarch" seen in "Dream City" Partis Underground Memorial Hall, as well as the blood-red smell of pollution inside them.
"But if you are talking about the pollution carried by Nast... then the residue here is only one-fifth of it."
PS: I have been very busy working overtime these days, so I had to rush out this chapter, so I didn't stop at night.
I have been very busy working overtime these days, so I had to rush out of this chapter, so I didn't stop at night.