"He should be the priest of the local church." Sylvia said as he looked at the maggot team's departure.

"The atmosphere here is a bit strange." Leo's focus was on those around him whose faces began to dissipate. He could feel that these people would fall into a state of fanatical worship when the maggot appears, and the emergence of this state was mixed with some extraordinary power.

Leo wanted to turn on the spiritual vision and see what was going on, but his intuition told him that if he turned on the spiritual vision, something very bad for him would happen, which also made him suppress his curiosity and shift his attention to other places.

Sylvia signaled to him at this time, and when the two of them walked into a less eye-catching corner, they said, "The maggot priest looked very much like the priest of the Mother of Defiled."

"Mother of Defiled?" Leo was stunned for a moment when he heard the name, and soon found the corresponding content in the brain database, and said in surprise: "Is it the Mother of Defiled in the First Dynasty?"

Sylvia nodded, and the expression on her face looked very serious.

There has always been a debate in the academic community about whether the First Flan dynasty should be called a dynasty. This statement only appears in the official historical documents of the Flan Empire and is not recorded in academic books.

On the academic level, those scholars prefer to call the First Flan dynasty the period of the Great Tribal Alliance, or the pre-city-state period.

During that period, the Fran Empire was still in an alliance state with large tribes as its core and small tribes as its vassals. These tribes of all sizes built city-states on the Weilun Continent, and each city-state had independent judicial, taxation, army, etc. If the area was not looked at, these city-states could also be regarded as small kingdoms.

Under such a political system, each city-state has its own beliefs, which all come from the most primitive Black Forest Tribal beliefs. At that time, there was no church of true gods or evil gods. It is now regarded as a blood sacrifice of living people in the rituals of evil churches, and so on at that time, they were also normal religious sacrifices.

Even the latest excavations and inheritance materials show that even the Lord of the Sky and the King of the Hill, which regarded himself as justice, often held sacrifices for living people at that time, but they all offered sacrifices to living enemies, and most churches even their own believers were also regarded as sacrifices.

Due to the influence of the city-state system, for a long time, no church in the entire Weilun continent was able to grow to a level that was strong enough to suppress other churches. All churches are about the same strength, so their faith is extremely chaotic.

It was not until the Mother of Defiled Church that the religions of the entire Velone continent showed signs of integration for the first time.

According to all the documents and antiquities that can be found now, including documents preserved by the tower wizard, it is impossible to verify how powerful the Mother of the Defiled Church was at that time, but all those who study religious history have a consensus that the influence of the Mother of the Defiled Church was far greater than the influence of the three major churches of the Orthodox Church. For a period of time, all the city-states in the continent of Veeron must be believers of the Mother of the Defiled Church.

The specific doctrine of the Mother of the Defiled Church has long disappeared with the destruction of the First Dynasty, but there are still some things related to the Mother of the Defiled Church, such as the church structure, the class division of clergy, etc. In many underground churches classified by the Orthodox Church, there are more or less shadows of the Mother of the Defiled Church. The Mother of the Nests even claim to be the orthodox heirs of the Mother of the Defiled.

Among all known information, the identity of the senior clergy of this church has always been an argument that religious researchers cannot reach consensus, because in the textual materials that can be found, the clergy of the Mother of Defiled is called the Maggotman.

In the eyes of most religious researchers and church scholars in Orthodox churches, the claim of this maggot man is actually a manifestation of his belief in the future of the Mother of Defiled, because the Mother of Defiled was born in the most filthy place, and maggots were also mixed in the filthy, so those senior clergy of the Mother of Defiled will call themselves maggot man and think that they are one with the filthy.

However, as a mom of defilement altar building with some remaining buildings was discovered on the edge of the Lower Black Forest, some religious researchers and Orthodox church scholars who know the underground world believed that the maggots refer to the maggots, because in the altar ruins, they saw a man-faced maggots holding a scepter representing the senior clergy. In their opinion, the senior clergy who claimed to be maggots were obviously all family members who had been eroded by the power of the mother of defilement.

Now it seems that scholars who think that the senior clergy of the Mother of Defiled is the Maggots family are correct.

After confirming that this place has something to do with the Mother of Defiled, Leo and Sylvia have obtained much more information from various details around them.

For example, the shape of this castle is not a square castle of the Second Dynasty, nor a star-angled knight castle of the Third Dynasty, but a round castle of the First Dynasty.

This castle is a cylindrical shape, with three walls stacked up layer by layer, and each floor has some fortifications. In the early days, when the castle was not very crowded and had few siege methods, it had very strong defensive power. It was not until the emergence of siege chariots at the end of the First Dynasty that the defensive weaknesses of this castle were exposed, and eventually became one of the important factors for the demise of the First Dynasty.

At present, the lord castle of Lyon is a very standard round castle. Because it has been renovated and repaired many times, the materials used to build this castle are no longer visible from the appearance, but from some still preserved city wall statues, it has a large number of styles of the First Dynasty.

From this we can judge that this castle is probably very old, so old that it may have been left over from the First Dynasty, and was later reused by the people of the Second Dynasty.

In addition, on the exterior walls of the castle and all the buildings in the surrounding vassal villages, there are a large number of religious reliefs related to the Mother of Defiled, such as the badge of the Mother of Defiled, etc.

It's just a little strange that there is no statue of the Mother of Defiled and legends related to the Mother of Defiled are engraved on it like other churches. Although it feels strange, Leo and Sylvia subconsciously believe that this may be the difference between the ancient church and the modern church.

In the past few hundred years when the modern church, especially when the gods retreated and miracles were not revealed, the church will repeatedly remind the greatness of the gods in its heart. Among them, building miraculous church buildings, making exquisite religious artworks, and engraving various legends of the gods on the church's architecture is also one of the methods.

But in the era of the First Dynasty, gods were extremely active, and it can even be said to be an era when humans and gods live in harmony. What gods need is not to show various legends and stories. What gods need is only to show miracles at some point, and then hide them to maintain a sense of mystery. Because only with enough mystery, the stronger the believers believe in gods. Because for people at that time, all beliefs originate from fear, and all fears originate from the unknown.

"It seems we have to change our appearance before we can enter the city." As Leo's attention was on all the things related to the Mother of Defiled, Sylvia observed the situation at the entrance of the castle, and after a while, he said.

Leo turned to look at Sylvia.

Sylvia explained: "It seems that only people with obvious changes in their bodies are eligible to enter the castle, and no other normal people can do it."

After hearing Sylvia's words, Leo also looked at the direction of the city gate and nodded. Then he found a corner of the house that no one saw. He thought about it and suppressed all other powers of the body, only retaining the power of the Abyss Snake on his body. When he stimulated the power of the Abyss Snake to be on the surface of his skin, a layer of crystal-like scales immediately grew, and his eyes also turned into a pair of snake eyes, and a flame-like pattern grew on his forehead, but the flame was not red, but black.

Feeling the power of the abyss from Leo, Sylvia did not feel any discomfort, but became closer and closer. She also began to use the power of the abyss demon dragon in her bloodline. Coincidentally, the mutated appearance she used her power to activate was very similar to Leo. Both her body was covered with scales and her eyes were snake eyes. The only difference was that the scales on her body were black, just like obsidian.

The reason why Leo chose to use the power of the Abyss Snake is because according to the information left by the tower wizard, the Mother of Defiled is likely to come from the Abyss, because in various languages ​​of the ancient Black Forest tribe, the word Abyss means a filthy land. Therefore, since the Mother of Defiled is called this name, no matter how you look at it, she should have more or less relationship with the Abyss.

When Leo and Sylvia completed their respective abyss transformation, everything around them immediately became different in their eyes.

First of all, they could feel that the surface of the castle was covered with a very light abyss power, and from time to time they could see some black oily substance seeping out of the gaps in the city walls and then evaporating and disappearing.

In addition, the people around them have become different. They can see that each family whose body has obvious mutations has a mass of abyss power. It is obvious that their mutations all originate from the abyss, which also confirms from one aspect that the Mother of Defiled originates from the abyss.

"These abyss powers are a bit unusual." Leo, who was extremely sensitive to energy fluctuations, quickly realized that whether it was the black oil seeping out of the city wall or the power of all the clans, although they were all the powers of the abyss, they were not all.

To say they are the powers of the abyss, because the energy fluctuations generated by these forces are exactly the same as those of the powers of the abyss, this is like genes that cannot be faked, but to say that they are not the powers of the abyss is because he cannot feel the most important thing for the power of the abyss from these forces, that is, the breath of chaos.

Whether it is the power of the Abyss Serpent controlled by Leo or the power of Sylvia's Abyss Demon Dragon, there is a chaotic atmosphere hidden deep in their power. If it is shrouded in this chaotic atmosphere for a long time, then any person's mind will be affected by it and some bad thoughts and thoughts will be produced.

But these forces that originate from the Mother of Defiled and are very similar to the power of the abyss do not have the chaotic and disorderly aura. Instead, they are very similar to the divine powers referred to by Leo, orderly, regular and stable.

Leo almost doesn't need to make too much guessing to be sure that the final mutation result of these people who contain the power of the filthy mother will be the kind of maggot man, and the mutation caused by the real power of the abyss is unpredictable and uncontrollable. Even if it is the same force, the final mutation result will be completely different.

Under Leo's reminder, Sylvia also saw some details of the power of the abyss. Although her understanding of the power of the abyss is far from comparable to Leo, she has two fragments of abyss knowledge contained in the blood of the abyss. These fragments of knowledge helped her easily determine where these abyss powers are unusual.

"How could this happen?" Sylvia said in surprise: "This is impossible?"

No wonder Sylvia was so surprised. Leo was not unfamiliar with the transition between disordered energy and order of energy because of himself. Therefore, the appearance of such ordered abyss power in front of him surprised him, but he was able to accept it.

But Sylvia is different. Most of her knowledge about the abyss comes from the inheritance of blood power. Among these knowledge from the abyss demon dragon and the faceless person, the disorder of the abyss is eternal and unchanging. Obviously, everything she saw in front of her violated the common sense she knew, which made her unable to understand for a moment.

"There is no need to think too much. Go into the castle first and look at the altar of the Mother of Defiled Maybe you can find the answer." Leo said, then suddenly fell silent, and said, "I think this may not be the power of the abyss. Think about it, if this is the power of the abyss, how could the Lord of the Black Forest allow it to exist."

Hearing Leo's analysis, Sylvia was stunned and nodded in agreement.

Although the Lord of the Black Forest is extremely mysterious, and there is not much relevant information even in the Orthodox Church, among all the information that can be seen, the Lord of the Black Forest is a real god without exception.

The two of them did not stop outside the castle anymore, put down their hoods, exposed their disguise, and walked towards the entrance of the castle.

As they guessed, the mutated appearance was the best proof of identity, so the guards at the entrance of the castle just looked at the two of them and put them in the castle without any blocking action.
Chapter completed!