Chapter 195 Darkness Comes
Hearing the exclamations of the three old women, the relevant information provided by the accessory brain system also appeared in Leo's mind.
Compared to the position of saint, the position of priest in the Church of the Lord of the Sky is more ancient, and can even be traced back to the beginning of the founding of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.
In the history of the development of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, the priesthood has undergone a total of four changes. These four changes are also called changes in ecclesiastical authority, and the name of the priest has also changed slightly due to the four changes.
At first, priests were regarded as mentors, teaching mortals how to touch the body of the gods and listen to the teachings of the gods. Later, the priests were regarded as shepherds, responsible for taking care of his flocks for the gods. Later, the priests were regarded as agents, but
The projection of gods in the human world is also the pinnacle of power of the priests of the Lord of the Sky Church. In the current world of Velen, priests are only regarded as managers, responsible for managing some of the religious properties of the Lord of the Sky Church.
The word "priest" used by the three old women in Gamorei now has a retroflex sound, and this pronunciation only appears in the title of shepherd priest. After the religious reform, the Church of the Lord of the Sky became the Ancient Rus Empire.
After becoming the state religion, a plain suffix was added to the pronunciation of priest, and its meaning changed accordingly. In other words, judging from the pronunciation of priest, the three old women were at least 376 years old in the Velen world.
Characters who appeared between the year and the seventh year of the Velen calendar.
However, before Leo could explain his identity, the three old women said in unison: "No, you are not a priest!"
Leo had no intention of pretending to be a member of the Lord of the Sky Church, so he said truthfully: "I am indeed not a priest of the Lord of the Sky. I just know some things about the Lord of the Sky Church. The three elders are saints of the Lord of the Sky Church."
Aunty?"
"Aunt Saint? Haha, Aunt Saint!" The three old women all laughed when they heard Leo calling them. The laughter caused by the hoarse voice sounded very harsh, like rubbing glass.
The sound is the same.
Leo was a little confused as to why the three old women showed such strong disdain and contempt for the title of Aunt Saint, but he also knew that asking questions might not be a good choice, so he looked at the three people in silence.
The old woman sitting in the middle said to Leo: "We are very happy today to meet the guests from the main world. You can stay here at night! The embers here should be able to sustain it."
Leo looked up at the darkening sky, felt the rapidly changing spiritual energy fluctuations around him, and asked in a deep voice: "Is it dangerous here after dark?"
"Death is hidden in the darkness, and only the light of fire can keep people warm." As an old woman spoke, she stretched out her hand and grabbed it in the air. There was a mummy in a red robe in her empty hand.
Then he saw her throwing the mummy into the flame container in front of her. The mummy burned like firewood, making the weak fire even more intense.
Leo, standing next to the brazier, could clearly feel that the moment the flames intensified, the increasingly chaotic spiritual energy around him seemed to be injected with a stabilizer, gradually calming down and settling down, while the spiritual energy outside the fire light
Still continuing to change.
Regardless of whether the intensified flames had a stimulating effect, Leo felt that the surrounding sky was getting darker faster, and the thick dust on the ground was lifted up by an invisible force, floating, and bonded to each other.
Together, they turned into large pieces of dust that fell on the surrounding builders, and those twisted buildings also began to change, gradually transforming from twisted and weird shapes into normal architectural forms.
At the same time, Leo felt the long-horned dagger in his hand emitting scorching heat, and the surface of the bone began to transform into horny, and gradually turned red, like a red-hot iron. If it weren't for the twin gloves that isolated the big
Partially due to the heat, he might have been so burned that he dropped the dagger.
However, the change in the dagger did not last long. Soon its temperature stabilized, and its texture completely changed from bone to horny. At this time, the sky was completely dark, except for the firelight in the church.
Apart from that, there is no more light.
At this time, Leo felt that besides these three old women, there seemed to be other people around him, which reminded him of the white shadow he had seen near the arch before. So he immediately turned on his spiritual vision and looked around.
Sure enough, besides him, there were several vague humanoid white figures sitting around the brazier. Judging from the overall shape of the white figures, they should be Charles Longco and the others, but he did not follow the white figures.
Among them is the puppet possessed by Peter Alcott.
"Can you see them?" Although Leo's psychic vision skills did not leak any psychic fluctuations, and his eyeballs did not change in any way, his purposeful behavior of looking around also attracted the attention of the three old women.
One of them asked in a deep voice.
Leo didn't hide anything and nodded: "Yes, I can see them. They should be in overlapping planes, right?"
"Are you a believer of the Eye of Truth?" the old woman asked again.
"No." Leo answered simply, seeming a little absent-minded, because he found that among the white shadows, the white shadow representing the black-robed wizard Rise was also looking around, and he could feel the other person's eyes on him.
The process of looking at yourself.
"He is a believer of the Eye of Truth." The three old women seemed to see what Leo was thinking and said.
At this moment, Leo realized that the three old women and the brazier were not just in a parallel plane like him. They should be in all the parallel planes created by the demon library, so the three old women could see
Only after Charles Longco and the others were able to get to the brazier when it was dark.
"Ah! There are new guests here." Just when Leo was about to ask the three old women something, the three old women suddenly spoke to Leo as if they were seeing Leo, a stranger, for the first time.
: "Guest, you can take a short rest here. It is very safe here. As long as the embers are not extinguished, darkness cannot come in. Please rest assured."
After saying that, the three old women took out some needles and threads from their arms and sat here to start knitting clothes.
Although the three old women didn't look abnormal on the surface now, Leo could feel that the three people now were different from the three people just now. The three people now were not angry at all, and their behavior was more like some kind of
Like a robot controlled by a program, it will only repeat a fixed cycle of actions.
At this moment, some strange noises suddenly came from outside the church. Among these strange noises were the sound of heavy footsteps and the harsh sound of metal friction. Leo turned his head and looked outside.
At this moment, it is no longer pitch black outside. There are some red lights floating in the darkness. These lights are not strong, but they contain a magical power that makes people want to walk over and catch the light.
However, Leo was not tempted by these lights. His spiritual vision skill contained night vision ability. Although he could only see clearly a few hundred meters away, it was enough for him to see clearly the situation outside the church.
I saw that those lights were actually eyes. They came from some demons that were more than three meters tall and huge. Judging from the ferocious and twisted appearance of these demons, they should be those that Leo found in those houses before.
transformed into the heads of those demons.
Although due to the isolation effect of the ember light in the golden container of the church, Leo's various energy fluctuations that were incompatible with the surrounding environment did not leak to the outside, but the route Leo had taken before was like an obvious guiding path.
Pointing straight towards the church.
Not long after those demon heads turned back into complete demons under the influence of dark power, these demons followed Leo's walking path to the outside of the church and gathered there.
Among these demons, there are several demons with very strange images. They are all very huge, more than five meters tall, and the horns on their heads are not complete. It seems that Leo used sacrifices before.
The sword chopped off the demonic skeletons with horns.
Although there was the isolation effect caused by the light of the embers, the demons could still feel the position of their lost horns. From time to time, they stood at the door of the church and shouted at Leo, who was hanging and holding the devil's horns.
The voice was also full of anger and anxiety.
Finally, one of the demons, who was not too tall but had cunning eyes with flames, grabbed the other demon beside him with one hand, threw it from the wall into the church, and dropped it to the ground.
However, before the demon could get up from the ground, the light from the embers ignited it like a torch. In almost the blink of an eye, it was burned to ashes and returned to its original head.
appearance.
However, this demon head was different from the demon heads that Leo had seen before. Inside this head, there was a small group of flames burning with difficulty that seemed to be extinguished at any time.
When he saw the flame, Leo suddenly felt a strong sense of hunger coming from his stomach, which prompted him to have the urge to eat the flame.
Although this feeling of hunger is extremely strong, it is still under the control of Leo's will. He calms down, activates the perfect control skill, and uses the accessory brain system to analyze the situation in the body.
At first, Leo thought the feeling of hunger was coming from his stomach, so he thought it was due to the chaotic stomach sac. However, as the accessory brain system analyzed various parts of the body through perfect control skills, he discovered that the feeling of hunger originated from the body.
The blood in the body affects the chaotic stomach pouch, causing it to feel hungry.
"Unknown bloodline?" After seeing the analysis results, Leo couldn't help but open the personal data interface, and his attention stayed on the unknown bloodline that was still a series of question marks.
One day ago, the value behind the unknown bloodline was already at the full value of 100 points. According to common sense, the bloodline should be opened and become an identifiable bloodline, but in fact there is no sign of the bloodline being opened.
Now, the hunger caused by the influence of blood is undoubtedly this unknown bloodline, reminding Leo that the flame inside the demon's head can activate the unknown bloodline in his body.
Leo walked up to the demon head, squatted down, and picked up the demon head, but did not touch the flame in the head.
Different from before, now Leo will not gain any knowledge from the head when he touches it, just like an ordinary skull.
"Is this alive?" Leo carefully observed the flame in his head and found that the flame actually radiated the emotions of intelligent creatures, such as fear, anger, murderous intent, etc.
"Soul fire, this should be soul fire!" Leo suddenly thought of an object that has been mentioned by various religions, whether it is the Earth Federation or the Velen world, and that is the soul.
Although the concept of the soul has existed for a long time, and almost all intelligent and civilized creatures know what the soul is, no religion or science can clearly explain what the soul is, even if the Omegas in the universe are close to immortality.
Advanced creatures of the G-level are also unable to explain the soul.
When he was in the Earth Federation, Leo, as a cyborg, didn't believe in the existence of the soul, but after he became Leo Dodd, he began to change his mind. Now he sees the flame in the devil's head and feels it.
He almost didn't analyze some of the emotional consciousness conveyed in the flame through the accessory brain system, and felt that this flame should be a form of the soul.
"Vice-brain, activate the necromantic technique!" Leo thought for a moment, and instead of following his body's instinctive reaction to immediately swallow the flame, he activated the necromantic technique and communicated with the consciousness within the flame.
At the moment when the flame consciousness was communicated, a large amount of chaotic knowledge, memory and other information poured in towards Leo like a torrent, and along with this knowledge and memory there was some chaotic consciousness, trying to transform Leo's consciousness.
However, Leo was already prepared for this. While using psychic skills to communicate with the flame consciousness, he also activated the mechanical consciousness, bringing himself into a state of absolute sanity. At the same time, he used the accessory brain system to process all the transmitted information in one go.
Stuffed into a newly established archives room.
This information torrent came and went just as quickly. In less than five seconds, this information torrent stopped.
Although it stopped, Leo did not turn off the mechanical mind. Instead, he used the mechanical mind to cooperate with the accessory brain system to sort out the collected chaotic data.
Leo's cautious approach soon worked. Among the information recorded in the temporary archives, there was a large amount of chaotic consciousness that affected ordinary people's minds. Leo actively attracted these chaotic consciousnesses and used mechanical consciousness to erase them.
removal, thus helping the accessory brain system to speed up the sorting of data.
About ten minutes later, a completely organized memory data and knowledge file was presented to Leo. After reading this file, Leo also obtained some important information about this demon library.
Chapter completed!