Jeanne naturally had no idea what Mephistopheles's message meant, but Li Wei had no way to resolve that issue for the moment either. He immediately contacted Military Intelligence Section Seven and reported that he had found Jeanne, along with everything that had happened afterward.
After reading Li Wei's report, the Old Butler was stunned and hurriedly called to ask for details.
"You mean that Holy Maiden, one of the Twelve Knights appointed by Emperor Arthur all those years ago, is still alive?"
"It's a little different from the immortality you're imagining..."
Li Wei had also learned the truth about this. This Holy Maiden was actually a "Homunculus" created by the original Holy Maiden-the kind mentioned before, made by fermenting horse manure, adding a pile of herbs, then feeding it blood to shape it into a human.
The Holy Maiden had modified that technique and created one. When demons invaded the fortress castle, she banished the Demon Lord and was left barely clinging to life herself. She then transferred her consciousness into that "Homunculus," only awakening many years later.
After waking up, the Holy Maiden followed the same process to make another backup, then went out to pick a fight with the Holy Lord Church.
She was subsequently branded a witch and burned to death, but her backup remained. It had stayed dormant until Cront's recent invasion of Francis activated it.
As for why the Holy Maiden had not made more backups, the reason was simple: the materials needed to create a "Homunculus" were extremely rare. Many had been rare plants even in her era and were now completely extinct. Creating this duplicate had exhausted all the materials stored in the Saintess's Castle, which was also why the Holy Maiden had wanted to send the castle crashing straight into the enemy