Angel's words are well-founded, because she has seen two other contaminated Sequence 2 characteristics in the Memorial Hall below "Dream City" City Hall. Quantified by the size of the red light that represents the pollution of "Mother Goddess of Depravity", the pollution levels within the characteristics of "Planeswalker" and "Barren Matriarch" are exactly the same.
This means that the contamination transferred from the inside of "Duke of Entropy" to the body of Nast is very likely to have the same amount.
The pollution of "Great Mother" in the forty babies that were Angel Petrification and destroyed just now is far from enough. At least 80% of it is still in other places, maybe still in Nast's body, or maybe in more mutated babies.
Thinking of this, she quickly glanced around the surface of the house that had been reduced to ruins and the superstructure had almost completely collapsed. She explored every corner with the help of the few remaining mirrors, but found no other enemies.
Bernadette frowned on the side and repeated with some confusion:
"One-fifth... you mean, there are four times as many of these monsters hiding near the village?"
"The greater possibility is that Nast, and he may have received early warning before, or may have left the village earlier, leaving only these... children of 'Great Mother' believers."
Angel replied in a guessing tone.
She originally wanted to say "Nast's children", but recalling the moment she saw these babies before the battle, she felt that they looked nothing like the black-haired, black-bearded, burly Nast. Instead, they had different shapes, as if each one came from a different "parent."
Thinking that after Nast came to the village, he would hire some young people to help and work deep in the forest from time to time, Angel couldn't help but have a terrible guess.
As for how to make men have children, this is not a very important issue in the field of occultism, especially since the real name of "Great Mother" has the segment "Filthy Mother Nest", which represents "Moon" and "mother" Pathway. This Sefirah is very likely to control the power of fertility and reproduction.
"Those babies, from the villagers here?"
Bernadette's complexion also changed a little. She turned her head and looked in the direction of the village, as if she saw countless contaminated "Great Mother" believers through the dense forest.
Although she didn't know "Outer Deity" and "Sefirah", she could get a glimpse of the source of the pollution from the name Great Mother and guess the corresponding authority and power.
According to her experience, once you recite the Honorific Name of these evil existences, devote yourself physically and mentally to it, and change your beliefs, everything is irreversible.
Even if you repent and return to the faith of "Eternal Blazing Sun" or other righteous gods, it will not help. You may die in various strange ways at any time, and it will affect other people around you.
The principle is clear to both Angel and Bernadette. It is the invisible connection formed by "prayer". They can use this prayer connection to transmit power and respond to prayers. Can't "Great Mother" do it?
Premonition of the fate of these villagers, the two looked at each other, both feeling helpless.
"Let's search the scene first. Maybe we can find some other clues..."
After a moment of silence, Angel spoke first.
Above the ruins of the collapsed house, invisible threads appeared out of thin air. Like invisible hands, they separated various wood fragments and stone wall edges and returned them to their original positions, barely reassembling the original shape of the house.
Bernadette recruited an invisible "Invisible Servant" to shuttle through the crumbling house and quickly search every corner.
Soon, the servant returned to the two of them holding some valuable items.
Among them are charts depicting Fog Sea southwest of Intis, some books recording the glorious history of Roselle, and many corpses hidden in the basement.
Angel recognized at a glance that they were also deformed babies, but they had already died and the pollution in their bodies no longer existed.
"It seems that Nast has done a lot of 'experiments' in the past month here, and then used Great Mother's pollution and some means to create the babies just now... After that, he left Belon Village and went to other locations to continue to complete his 'mission'..."
Looking through the found items, Angel made a preliminary judgment.
"The sea charts and these books may be able to point to his true purpose... Could it be that he still has not given up completely on becoming 'Black Emperor', and is even looking for the tomb of Emperor Roselle?"
She still remembers that one of the secret mausoleums used by this time traveler to advance to "Black Emperor". The key mausoleum that even steam and Sun Church cannot find is located deep in the Fog Sea!
As if she thought of this at the same time, Bernadette's eyes became hot. She glanced back and forth on the chart, but did not find any marks.
"Are you suspecting that Nast is looking for the tomb of Emperor Roselle with the help of these contaminated babies and the weird worship ceremony just now?" Angel pointed out her thoughts, "But does he, who was completely contaminated by 'Great Mother', really still retain his desire?"
After hearing this, Bernadette, who was continuing to control Invisible Servant to search for nearby areas, shook his head and said:
"Not all believers of the evil god are Lunatic who have completely degenerated and given up thinking. Many of them don't even know that they have been contaminated. They just think that they heard Great Existence's ravings or have received some kind of 'apocalypse'. As long as they follow the guidance of this power, they can meet all their needs."
Just like Old Neil who wanted to resurrect his fiancée and sought a way to resurrect him, but was eventually contaminated by "Hidden Sage" without knowing it. Old Neil still thought he was on the right path... Angel's eyes dimmed, and he immediately thought of Hidden Sage Moses Ascetic Order controlled by is the mortal enemy of Bernadette and her "Element Dawn". Presumably the eldest daughter of Emperor Roselle has encountered many similar incidents before summarizing this information.
Just when her mind drifted back to Tingen a year ago, Bernadette's expression changed again and she said:
"The grave of Savini Solomon has been found."
To Angel's surprise, the contaminated Nast actually built a tomb for his father who passed away in "Dream City". Not far behind the restored building, it was almost destroyed by the power of Angel's "Calamity".
Like most tombs in Intis, a hole is first dug in the ground, the coffin or urn is placed in it, buried with soil and stone slabs, and finally a tombstone is erected.
Since Savini only has a handful of ashes left, the size of the tomb is not large. However, the two sides of the stone slab covering the tomb are strangely asymmetrical, with one large and one small, one thick and one thin. The inscriptions on the tombstone are majestic and contain hidden majesty. They were obviously written by Nast.
In addition to Savini Solomon's name and date of birth and death, there is also a brief epitaph engraved on it:
"Death is not the end of the journey."
Seeing this sentence, Angel did not hesitate to use invisible threads to lift up the tombstone and the stone slab below.
Bernadette understood, and Invisible Servant quickly moved away the lower soil until the new soil, which was clearly distinguished from the hard soil layers on both sides, was piled around the tomb.
But they still haven't found an urn or coffin.
The tomb is empty!
Why am I not surprised at all? Is it because I, Klein and even the captain all have a similar tomb? Of course, we are either not dead or resurrected, and Savini has been dead for more than a hundred years, and there are only a few left. Pounds of ashes are unlikely to pop out of the grave on their own... Angel muttered in his heart and tried to enter "Mirror Person"'s field of vision, ruling out the possibility of "Mother Goddess of Depravity" contamination around him.
It seems that he was not resurrected by the power of "Great Mother". Maybe Nast didn't bury his father in the grave at all, but took away his ashes... What he desires most in his heart is not the same as Bernadette, is to resurrect his father?
Thoughts kept coming to Angel's mind, and he looked at Bernadette as if seeking confirmation. The latter thought for a moment and said:
"In so many years, I have never heard of rumors that the 'King of the Five Seas' is obsessed with finding his father. This may be some kind of desire buried deep in his heart, which was then distorted by the pollution of the 'Great Mother'. This mentality prompted him to conduct other experiments, such as creating deformed babies, such as spreading more beliefs about the 'Great Mother'."
This was similar to Angel's speculation, but there was a lack of conclusive evidence, so the two could only restore the tomb, bypass the three-story building that collapsed again due to lack of invisible silk thread support, and walked towards Belon Village outside the forest.
Angel plans to first use the personality of "City of Calamity" to observe all the villagers one by one to confirm whether they are affected by "Great Mother", that is, "" Mother Goddess of Depravity" pollution, and then decide whether the next step is to notify Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun or wait for the arrival of Grounded Angel and Bornova Gustav from Church of Steam.
In any case, to "dispose" Intis Republic's people in large numbers, it is best to let Steam or Sun Church come forward, even now that the two countries are at war.
After all, whether it is "Eternal Blazing Sun" or "God of Steam and Machinery", they are different from God of Combat. There is no essential conflict with Evernight Goddess, and they are a party that can be won over and cooperated with.
Bernadette followed Angel, frowning from time to time, as if he was lost in thought.
Wouldn't she still be concerned about the sea map left by Nast? Could it be that the dark red altar in that building, the prayers of forty contaminated babies, and the last pale white mist are all related to the tomb of "Black Emperor"?
Angel As soon as this thought came to his mind, he felt that the sunlight above his head became fierce, as if he had just emerged from the shadows and came under the scorching sun of July or August.
She looked up in response.
Although it has set to the west, next to Sun, which is emitting scorching sunlight, a female figure wearing a white robe with gold threads, a beautiful appearance and a holy temperament slowly emerges.
Her long golden hair was flying, her green eyes were calm, and her whole body seemed to be outlined by sunlight, which was translucent, but exuded almost as much brilliance and heat as Sun.
Being illuminated by this scorching sunlight, the meditative Bernadette also raised his head. As soon as his eyes touched the dazzling figure, his pupils shrank and his expression became serious.
"He is... the Grounded Angel, Saint Viève of the 'Eternal Blazing Sun' church!"