The first thousand two hundred and ninety-seven chapters
"This floor is ready to be used!" As he left, Leo spoke to the prison guards waiting on the first floor. Then, without waiting for the prison guards to ask questions, he ordered the prison guards to lead them to see Cassi Talli.
Hearing Leo's instructions, the prison guards didn't think much, and did not take Leo's words seriously. They still closed the metal door on the floor as they were before, and then led Leo out of the building and headed towards another relatively independent four-story building.
The reason why it is relatively independent is that all the buildings in this prison are connected. Even if the main body of the building is not connected together, the two buildings will be connected by an overhead channel. In short, it seems that the prison is composed of dozens of buildings. In fact, if it really counts, they only have four or five buildings, and the other buildings connected together can be considered one.
However, the building that the prison guards led Leo and Sylvia to was a separate building. It is not difficult to see from the appearance of the building that was originally built was a dormitory building, which should be for prison guards and other prison administrators to live in. After all, it takes too much time to return to the city from the island, so generally, as long as it is not on a rest day or a holiday, the prison staff will spend it in the prison.
However, the dormitory building has now been completely converted into a prison, and it is a completely enclosed prison. All the windows of the prison were completely sealed by bricks, leaving only one door for entry and exit. The prison was not equipped with the latest lighting equipment, but was illuminated with very primitive torches, which also made the entire prison particularly gnarling and dark.
As he headed to Cassi Talley's cell, Leo looked at the prison gate with metal plates around him and asked the prison guards beside him, "What prisoners are there in this prison?"
A prison guard turned his head and looked at Leo and Sylvia with a hint of awe, and replied, "They are all fools who cannot understand the doctrine. They lock them here to get rid of the disturbances of the real world and better understand the doctrine of the goddess."
Leo and Sylvia paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then Leo asked, “Are you a believer in the church founded by Cassi Talli?”
"Yes." The prison guard honestly admitted, and pointed to the other prison guards around him, saying, "The others are, in fact, except for a few extremely vicious prisoners and clerks with rigid thoughts, the others are almost all believers of the goddess."
"Does the warden just ignore this?" Sylvia frowned and said, "You must know that it is a very serious problem for civil servants in the Federal Republic of Otto to believe in a certain church or a senior church."
"That's other places outside. This is the prison island, the most dangerous place in the Utd Federation. Ordinary regulations cannot be enforced here." Another prison guard took the conversation and said, "You know, before the Goddess Church appeared, prisoners were injured and killed every day. At least four prison guards were assassinated by prisoners every month. The prison guards on the prison island can be said to be the most dangerous profession in the entire Utd Federation. But now with the baptism of the Goddess Church, all the prisoners' personalities have become peaceful, the fight has almost disappeared, and the prison guards have no more casualties. Since there are such benefits, why should we ban it?"
Sylvia raised her eyebrows, pointed to the direction of the playground disdainfully, and said, "Pinghe? Are you referring to these guys? I couldn't see where they were peaceful just now!"
The prison guard immediately thought of the prisoners who had seen before, who were still moaning on the ground, swallowed their saliva and said, "The church will only calm their emotions and cannot control their instincts."
"If this is the case, it's my fault!" Sylvia said coldly.
The prison guard who felt the inexplicable pressure couldn't help but beat him up and didn't dare to say anything more. The other prison guards also walked with their heads down, not daring to look at Sylvia at all, for fear that when they saw Sylvia's beauty, they would show any expressions they shouldn't have on their faces, and they would become the target of the other party's power.
The group came to the room on the innermost side of the top floor. This room was a little different from other rooms. It was not just because there was an unsealed window on the wall of the corridor next to the room, nor because there was no metal door installed in this room, but because the door of this room was not locked, and there was a key board on the wall next to the door. The keys for each room in the entire prison building were hung on the key board. It felt like it was specially prepared for the owner of the room so that when he wanted to meet with a prisoner in a cell, he could directly use the key to open the door and enter the cell.
"What's going on?" Although there was already a guess in my mind, Sylvia still pointed to the key board and asked.
And the prison guards seemed to be deaf and had no intention of answering. Instead, they knocked on the unlocked door of Cassie Talley and said, "Teacher, there are two people from the city who want to see you."
"Let them come in! I know who they are." A slightly hoarse voice came from the room.
The prison guard pushed the door open and signaled to Leo and Sylvia.
Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and walked in separately.
Just like the situation outside the room, this room is different from other cells. This room has a large floor-to-ceiling window, and a piece of valuable glass is embedded in the window. The room is not as closed and narrow as other cells, but very spacious. It should have been demolished from the two rooms and converted into a room after the walls were removed.
The interior of the room was very neat, there was nothing extra, there was only a small bookshelves, and it was also worth noting that the exquisite patterns painted on the walls were painted with special paint. Leo and Sylvia easily saw the church emblems of the ladies in the lake in these patterns.
"Please sit two people, I've been waiting for this day for a long time." A Cassie Talley, wearing a cloak and a hood on his head, sat on the chair in the middle of the room. He did not look up, his eyes were always looking at the books on his legs, pointing to the sofa opposite, but murmured in his mouth, "The goddess has foreshadowed the arrival of both of them."
"Goddess? Which goddess?" Although he knew who the goddess was mentioned by the other party, Sylvia still asked knowingly.
At the same time, Leo's spiritual network also unfolded in the room, scanning everything around and the energy fluctuations contained therein. The information returned by the spiritual network surprised him a little.
"The one you and I know." Cassi Talley raised his hand and pointed to the woman in the lake wearing on Sylvia's hand.
When Sylvia was about to ask the other party about the lady in the lake in the world, Leo grabbed her, and then Leo asked inexplicably, "Why did you become like this?"
Sylvia first showed a puzzled look, but soon realized something and looked at Cassi Talli in surprise.
Cassi Talley was silent for a moment, then slowly took off her hood, exposed her face under the hood, and said to Leo, "It seems that you are very familiar with the other one, otherwise it would be impossible to see my current situation so easily."
After seeing Cassi Talley's face, before Leo could react, Sylvia couldn't help but say "God descended!"
I saw that Cassi Talley himself was very old, as if he was almost a hundred years old, and his face was covered with cracks, but the cracks did not shed any drop of blood, but instead emitted a burst of light. These lights appeared on his face a blurred woman's face, which looked like a light and shadow mask was put on Cassi Talley's face.
Perhaps it was because of Sylvia's scream, or perhaps because the characteristics shown by Cassi Talley were too obvious, and relevant information immediately appeared in Leo's mind.
In Viron, the magic of divine descending is one of the highest magic of almost all churches. Its function is very simple, which is to allow part of the consciousness of the gods to possess humans, and allow the possessors to exert some power that can only exert.
However, not everyone can withstand part of the consciousness of the gods. Only through special training and those with the most firm beliefs can do it. The divine subjugation technique cannot last too long. Otherwise, it will cause irreparable damage to the body and soul of the possessor. For example, the cracks that appear on Cassi Tali's face are holy marks produced by the divine subjugation technique for too long. However, holy marks like Cassi Tali are so dense that they can be comparable to wrinkles on the face. They have never been seen in Leo's information, and I believe Sylvia has never seen them.
The person who was talking to Leo and Sylvia was not Cassi Talli, but part of the real god consciousness of the lady in the lake of the world. In this way, some of the doubts about the Prison Island were easily resolved.
For example, why did the church established by Cassi Talley gain a foothold on Prison Island and spread it smoothly, gaining the faith of so many people, and even the management of Prison Island was influenced and became a believer.
Now it seems that these questions are not questions. Ms. Huzhong personally came to establish a church and spread faith, and what other reasons are there to fail?
"How did you become like this?" Sylvia frowned and asked, looking at Cassi Talli's body that could collapse due to powerful divine power at any time.
Cassie Talley or the lady in the lake smiled bitterly and said, "I also want to know. I just remember that I was sleeping, and then a force awakened me and pulled me into the body of a mortal, and then it became what I am now."
"Did you wake up at Monte Manor?" Leo asked.
The lady in the lake said helplessly, "I know what you want to know. Yes, I woke up at Mont Manor, and there were other people around me, some of whom were also sent to God in their sleep like me."
Leo said with a serious expression, "What do you mean is that there is an altar of divine descending rituals in Monte Manor. Through this altar, someone constantly awakens the sleeping gods in this world?"
The lady in the lake seemed to have some concerns, and did not say a word to confirm Leo's guess, and just nodded.
Leo wanted to ask again when the lady in the lake interrupted him and said, "Don't ask for it now. I'll wake up some of my reason through another ring left for you. It won't take long for this little reason to disappear. You should listen to what I want to say first." As he said, he pointed to the lady in the lake ring in Leo and Sylvia's hands, and said, "You raise your hands."
Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and both raised their hands.
The lady in the lake ignored the two of them's little thoughts and focused all on the rings in their hands. He reached out and touched the lady's emblem on the ring with his index finger.
Leo and Sylvia both felt some power injected into the ring, but did not feel any harm.
"I can't feel where my body is now, but I can feel that His state is not good. I hope you can find Him." The lady in the lake said slowly. "I left something on your ring. When you approach my body, the ring will make you feel and know the exact location of the body."
Sylvia asked in confusion, "How close should the ring be to the road before it can react?"
The lady in the lake said disapprovingly, "Don't worry about this, you will definitely approach my original body at some point in the future, because we have directly bound, which is the bond of fate, just like I could have predicted your arrival a few years ago." As she said, she said seriously, "You think you have already felt something is wrong in this world! I can't tell you too many things, because I don't remember many things. I can only tell you that there are gods in this world, and those gods still exist, but they just fall asleep in a certain state. It is best not to wake them up, because they wake up, which will lead to the destruction of the world."
"Where are you? Why are you sleeping too?" Leo asked.
The lady in the lake said blankly, "I don't know either, but I can feel that this world is assimilating me."
When she said this, her illusion face became a little unstable, flickering and dispersed, as if it would disappear at any time.
Seeing this, Leo immediately asked another question, saying, "What did you see after you were awakened at Monte Manor? Who else is around you?"
However, at this moment, the lady in the lake seemed to be very difficult to speak normally. Her mouth opened and closed several times without making any sound. Finally, he reached out and tapped Leo's forehead. Then the face dissipated, leaving only some scattered light.
At this moment, an image appeared in Leo's mind. The image should be in the basement of the manor. The surrounding altar was complete, not as cleaned up as Leo saw it.
In the basement, there were more than a dozen people, eight of whom stood on the altar like Cassie Talley, whom he represented in the image, but there were very obvious mutations in the eight people, and only Cassie Talley was intact.
People around him seemed to think that Cassi Talley had failed, and the eight who had mutated were successful, and they lowered their heads to communicate with each other. Although these people were all wearing hoods, Leo could still see clearly what those people looked like. It happened that one of them knew Leo, who was a very high-ranking person in Belluk City.
Chapter completed!