His slightly lazy eyes suddenly widened.
The purple eyes that were originally lighthearted and indifferent...
At this moment, the pupils suddenly contracted and trembled violently.
Where she was staring, a line of neat and bold lead-printed titles stood out:
《Justice has finally arrived! ——The criminals who robbed the Empire's northern caravan four years ago were captured by the Empire's citizens outside the country! 》
And below this line of title, a black and white rubbing image is clearly printed on the paper.
He was a middle-aged man wearing a wizard's robe, with a slightly hunched back and a lazy and tired look on his face.
"boom!"
There was a sudden violent vibration under my feet. It turned out that the wheelchair had accidentally hit a row of bookshelves.
The harsh sound seemed extremely abrupt in the quiet library, causing many people to subconsciously look up.
All they saw was a thin, pale-skinned young woman with long purple hair, sitting in a uniquely shaped wheelchair with her head lowered so that her face could not be seen.
The thin shoulders were shaking imperceptibly, and the skinny fingers were clenched tightly, with the joints turning white.
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There will be another chapter later, but it may not be ready before midnight.
There are so many things going on this month, it's really overwhelming.
Winter vacation will start after New Year's Day, and I may have a lot of free time then... Anyway, please understand me, QAQ.
Chapter 288 Letter to Heaven (Part )
Three poles in the sun.
The brilliant sun hangs high at the zenith.
The dazzling golden sunlight, carrying the steaming heat waves, enthusiastically splashes on the practical and simple sloping roofs, forming a dazzling coating.
The Templar Empire, East Woshu, Stio City.
In the center of the small town adjacent to the Great Forest of the East, there is a completely renovated church.
Behind the altar in the lobby, at the core of the entire church, is a spacious and luxuriously decorated bedroom.
Except for the door, there are no holes on the four walls connecting to the outside world, and there is not even a window.
The room had no ceiling and no lights. Above it was a huge space dozens of meters high. Countless extremely complex mechanical structures were ticking away in it, as if they would never stop.
The sun's rays penetrate through countless tiny mechanical gaps, providing the only lighting for the room.
This is right below the big clock in the church tower.
It is also the residence of the church pastor.
If the bells were ringing, this would be the place where you would experience the loudest sound.
The surging and pure sound of the bell is enough to cleanse all the filth in the soul.
A hand with delicate skin pressed on the desk in the corner of the bedroom.
The owner of this hand was wearing a white monk's robe with gold patterns and a seven-pointed priest's hat. On the left chest of the clothes was embroidered with gold thread the holy emblem of the "Goddess of Grace" Perrinne, the "Left Hand of the Law".
His face was young, his expression was indifferent, and in his eyes there was only deep indifference and pure piety.
The Cardinal of the Holy Church of Grace, the angel of the Goddess on earth, the "Emissary of God" closest to the Holy See of the Pope——
"Apostle of the Law".
This "messenger of God" who possessed a trace of divinity and authority from the goddess of grace Perrinne sat at the desk with a blank piece of letter paper in front of him.
"Um……"
After pondering for a moment, he raised his hand into the air and a golden feather pen appeared between his fingers.
Then, he tapped the tip of the pen and began to write on the paper without any pause.
The brushstrokes are so smooth that they don’t seem human, but more like a machine operating according to a program:
"Your Majesty, the Great Pope, His Holiness Garcia Lu."
After writing the head, he slightly raised the tip of the pen, moved his arm, started a new line, and continued writing without any hesitation:
"I have been serving my Lord in the Goddess's kingdom recently. Is everything going well?..."
After a brief greeting, he got down to business:
"With the help of several colleagues, I have conducted a detailed investigation into the divine incident that occurred in East Woshustio..."
He continued writing quickly. The golden feather pen had not been dipped in ink once, but it did not seem to be dry at all. It slowly produced evenly thick black handwriting:
"So far, the evidence collected at the scene is as follows. The order of evidence is not based on any criteria and is not necessarily related to this incident. It is just a list of pure facts:
"First, in the center of the incident, in the ruins of the Lionsmith's mansion, I discovered two types of 'connected ashes' belonging to different authorities, namely the 'ordinary world' in the 'moon' realm, and the 'panacea' in the 'star' realm.
“Second, the bell tower of the Stio Church has suffered unusual damage. It seems that some object of considerable size broke through the dial from inside the bell tower with absolutely irresistible force and flew to an unknown place.
“Third, a few days before the incident, the tower clock broke down, and the church priest and the knights claimed that the mechanism inside the bell tower was stuck.
"Fourth, on the morning before the incident, the 'Ritual of Resilience' inside the church, which was used to drive away the alien species in the Great Forest of the East Territory, was temporarily ineffective.
"This caused a pure spirit alien species, the Swamp Monster, to rush out of the forest and attack a pagan caravan from the Empire camped in the eastern suburbs, killing six people.
“Fifth, a few minutes before the incident, a large number of alien species rushed out from the Great Forest of the East Territory, forming an extremely large beast tide.
“Sixth, according to some eyewitnesses, at the time of the incident, someone saw an inconspicuous small object rushing towards the ‘black cloud’ from the direction of the church…
"…10. A young woman who called herself the 'Mochitsuki Valley Demon Fighter' was very active in the city a few days before the incident. Her main deeds are as follows…
"…It is difficult to determine the exact level of this woman's strength. It is initially speculated that she is a magician and psychic warrior...
"...According to the testimony of the pagan caravan, it was this woman who destroyed the 'beast tide'. Her names include 'Qi Ji' and 'Xue Lun'. It is not yet known whether these names are real names or whether there are other pseudonyms.
"...Fifteen, the priest of the Stio Church, Rosago, and seven knights of the church were all killed in the line of duty. The last time the eight of them appeared in people's sight was...
"…20. A large number of residents in the city heard a prayer at the time of the incident. After summarizing, the complete content of the prayer was… (this paragraph was deliberately written in a sloppy manner, as if it had been specially encrypted)…
"...The person reciting the prayer, judging by his voice, is most likely a Stio noble, Baron Augustus the Lionsmith...
"…Twenty-five, there is evidence that Baron Lionsmith has been in contact with some mysterious unknown groups for a long time in recent months. The detailed evidence and intelligence are as follows…"
"…Twenty-eight, in the core pit, an obsidian ornament was found. It contained special pigments, but it did not possess any extraordinary properties. The specific composition analysis results are as follows…
"…Thirty, inside the damaged church bell tower, a very small amount of 'Moon' domain 'Connected Ashes' was detected…"
"..."
“…The above is what I and several of my colleagues have concluded, and it is evidence that can be believed to be true.
"Based on this, Saint Cosman, Archbishop of East Woshu Cathedral, made the following inference:
“A battle between divine beings once broke out here, but the intensity should not be high, otherwise there would be no survivors in this city.
"The 'black cloud' represents a certain divine being from the 'moon' realm, and the 'starry sky' that appears at the end is the divine being from the 'star' realm.
“From the final result, the latter won.
“The above conjecture is very obvious, but it does not stand up to scrutiny in the face of some actual evidence.
"According to the records of the first group of clergy who arrived at the scene, the 'starry sky' that eliminated the 'black cloud' covered a very large area, so much so that it could be seen clearly from more than ten miles away.
"This scale of 'Connected Ashes' is far beyond the ability of any demigod to release. Only a god who has transcended the mortal realm can do this.
"Secondly, the practitioners in the Star Realm have not appeared since the chaotic and brutal Fifth Epoch ended due to the efforts of the great first pope Trista Lu.
“Whether it’s the human world, or foreign races like the vampires and orcs, no one has ever witnessed the emergence or birth of the power of the ‘stars’ except for unconfirmed legends.
"If there were no reliable records proving the existence of the power of the 'panacea' during the fourth century when the gods walked the earth, then it would be easy for us to prove that it did not exist.
"Under the current reality that practitioners in the Star Realm are so scarce, it is too difficult and far-fetched for us to believe that an extremely powerful Star Demigod suddenly appeared without any warning in the border town of Stiou and fought against an equally rare Moon Realm Demigod.
"In summary, the inference that 'two divine beings clashed in Stio' is not very credible under the current conditions and evidence."
Having written here, the "Apostle of the Law" suddenly stopped writing.
The tip of the golden feather pen hung on the white letter paper covered with neat handwriting for a long time.
His indifferent eyes stared silently at the half-written letter paper, and remained frozen for a while.
Chapter 289: Letter to Heaven (Part )
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
Until the huge and complex mechanical mechanism above his head suddenly erupted with a deafening, clear and transparent metal collision sound, which lasted for twelve times in a row. This cardinal, who was second only to the emperor and above ten thousand people, and was known as the "Left Hand of the Pope"...
Then he pressed the pen tip again and slowly wrote:
"Unfortunately, due to the strong divine aura, almost all the spiritual or divination media in the entire Stio have been invalidated. We are unable to restore or simulate the original scene through these means.
"Based on the existing intelligence and details, I believe that the following speculation may be closer to the truth, at least, it is more credible than the former.
"A week to half a month before the incident, passers-by near the church witnessed someone transporting some large objects into the church in the middle of the night when the church was closed.
“Three days before the incident, that is, the night before the tower clock malfunctioned, an adventurer living in the North District near the Central District vaguely sensed unusual spiritual fluctuations coming from deep in the Central District.
"Can we assume that the clergy in the Stio Church, for some unknown reason, obtained a container with the divinity of the 'Moon' realm through some unknown channel, and tried to conduct some research on it privately?
"Due to errors or accidents in the experiment, the divine container released a force that was beyond the experimenter's expectations. This force caused damage to the mechanism inside the tower clock and damaged the church's 'precision ceremony'.
"Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was a deliberate arrangement by some being. At this moment, a demigod from the Moon realm attempted to take that blasphemous step, transcending the mortal world and reaching the realm of the gods.
“Although we do not know the specific details of the ascension ceremony for the authority of the ‘Moon’ realm, that is, the ‘Ordinary World’, we can at least confirm one thing, that is, one must obtain enough divinity in this realm in order to master the supreme authority.
"And for the blasphemer who attempts to ascend to godhood, the divine power container of the 'Moon' realm in the Stio Church is one of the easiest targets to obtain.
“So, He made a series of arrangements, including winning over the corrupted Baron Lionsmith and teaching him the evil ritual of summoning Himself. The reason He took such a long detour instead of directly attacking the church with His tentacles was that He was unwilling to confront the sacred edge of our religion.
"Finally, one morning, the completely corrupted Baron Lionsmith secretly held an evil blood sacrifice ceremony to summon the demigod's 'Ashes of Connection' into reality.
"The church's divine container was attracted by the connected ash, which also contained a large amount of divinity from the 'Moon' realm. It flew out on its own, forcibly breaking through layers of barriers and merging with the 'Black Cloud'.
"If everything goes well, the divinity of the 'moon' in this container will be absorbed by the demigod, bringing him one step closer to fully controlling the authority of the 'ordinary world'.
“But at the most critical stage, something unexpected happened.
"That is, it is not just the divinity of the Moon realm that is attracted to the Ashes of Connection.
"We are unable to restore the specific situation for the time being, but one thing is certain: a trace of divinity from the 'Star' realm was sucked into the 'Black Cloud' along with the divinity container in the church.
“This was completely beyond the demigod’s expectations and led to the failure of his ascension ceremony.
"That piece of 'starry sky' was originally the ascension ceremony for the demigods in the 'moon' realm, but after the impurities of the 'star' divinity were mixed in, the energy imbalance and disorder caused the abnormality.
"The above is my initial conclusion on this incident.
"Admittedly, this conjecture still has many flaws. For example, it cannot explain where the container that contains the divinity of the authority of the 'Ordinary World' came from. In addition, some details are just pure reasoning, which can only be logically self-consistent, but cannot find strong evidence in reality.
"But this at least gives us a direction to further advance the investigation. For example, we should focus on searching for the mysterious organization that has many connections with Baron Lionsmith, in an attempt to track down the possible 'Moon' demigod behind it.
"And where exactly is the source of that trace of 'star' divinity? It has not appeared in the human world for nearly two thousand years."
"Wow!——"
After writing this paragraph, one side of the letter paper was completely filled.
The Cardinal "Apostle of the Law" raised the tip of his pen, grabbed a corner of the letter with his other hand, gently lifted it, turned it over, and continued to write:
"Based on the on-site inspection and investigation, we have reason to believe that the trace of external divinity from the Star Realm that was beyond the expectations of the Moon Demigod and destroyed the ascension ceremony came from the mysterious black-haired woman who called herself the Magic Warrior of Moon Valley, Sharon Qiji.
“Regarding this woman, some colleagues believe that she died in the incident, just like the eight clergy of the Stio Church.
"But as I said before, the alien species in the Great Forest of the East Territory had formed a beast tide because of the complete loss of control of the church's 'Ritual of Reincarnation' and tried to attack the city. However, before they could leave the East Suburb Plain, they were annihilated by the woman's large-scale offensive spell.
"I have investigated the East Suburb Plains. The remaining spiritual traces there indicate that this is a spell from the 'Star' realm.
"That is to say, the woman is most likely a magician in the Starry Sky realm. At the very least, she has some spiritual items of that nature on her.
“This is a very valuable entry point. Regardless of whether she is still alive or not, one fact cannot be denied: she has a great deal of connection with the failure of the demigod’s ascension ceremony.
"We must conduct a detailed investigation on this person, including intelligence gathering on other countries and regions of other faiths. The detailed plan is as follows..."
He wrote several pages of plans in one breath, turning a "letter" into a thick report.
Finally, after using up more than a dozen sheets of paper, the messenger of God stopped writing.
