Chapter 564 If Your Life Is Bad, Don’t Start a Cult

Although Hao Ren was very curious about Yzaks' "soul interrogation" process, out of the perspective of protecting his three views, he did not dare to follow him to watch the excitement. Instead, he went with others to Betsy's house to see off the elves and receive them. Get some information about the return sect. After he led the others back to the royal city, the interrogation process had just ended.

With Ofra leading the way, everyone went directly to the cathedral and met the Pope and several bishops in a simple but very spacious room. The pope's spirit still seemed a little weak, and the assassination incident that happened today was still a big burden on him, but after all, with the support of divine magic, he recovered quickly. And Mr. Yitzhaks and his wife were also standing in the room. It seemed that the "work" was completed.

When the little girl Elizabeth saw Hao Ren, she immediately rushed up to say hello: "Uncle Ren! It's done! The Rune of Pain is so easy to use!"

Hao Ren patted the delicate little horn on the little girl's head - after a period of contact, he knew that this little devil liked others to touch her horn, which was a sign of intimacy - and then looked up at Yzaks: "Old Wang, is it really okay for you to let your daughter learn these things?"

Yzaks also nodded in agreement: "It is indeed a bit late to learn soul extraction and pain runes at this age. However, this child has impure blood after all, so he should learn demonic magic later than demons of the same age."

Hao Ren: "...That's not what I meant. Forget it, I can't figure out the worldview issues with you two. What did you ask?"

"The monster is a 'Fusion Corpse'. The Returning Sect used a 'divine magic' they call 'God-given power' to create it. It is somewhat similar to undead magic, but what is created is a living creature, and it is not They are afraid of all kinds of sacred powers, so I suspect that the Returning Sect really has some knowledge related to divine magic, but it is just being misused by them."

Isaacs sat on the wide-backed chair next to him as he spoke: "In addition, the Returning Sect does not know the true situation of the banquet held in the palace today. The Glory Sect has carefully kept the secrets about the eldest son and the foreigners from the beginning. , and deliberately guided them during publicity, and also released false information to some suspicious people, so the Returning Sect mistakenly thought that today's imperial city feast was just an ordinary noble banquet. Their assassination plan had been planned for more than two months, and even penetrated Some of the royal guards and high-ranking monks chose to take action today because the king and the pope were both present, and some of the soldiers on duty in the imperial city happened to be under their control. More importantly, they got some kind of " The artifact'—that's the scroll. But they were unlucky. They didn't realize that the banquet was actually to entertain a bunch of alien supermen, so it failed in a confused way."

When Lily heard this, she felt that she had made a great contribution, and she wagged her tail happily: "So I'm pretty good, right?"

"Okay, okay, you're awesome, you're awesome," Hao Ren pressed Lily's head to stop her from jumping, "How about you recall that sour taste again?"

Before Lily could say anything, Vivian hit Hao Ren hard on the back: "You took advantage of the meal to take revenge on society, right?"

Ofra's expression was extremely serious: "The royal guards and high-ranking monks have been infiltrated? How could those cultists do this?"

"Because they are good at controlling spiritual power," Yzaks replied. "They got many evil spells from an evil god. These cultists are very patient and did not sit still and wait for death when you were pressing them step by step."

"The evil god should be the 'Voice of Dominance'," Hao Ren immediately thought of the information he just learned today, "Then what? Have you dug out the list of infiltrated personnel from that monster's soul?"

A white-robed archbishop next to him shook his head: "There is no list. The monster is just an assassin. He doesn't know anything too detailed. And even if there is a list, it is useless. After the assassination, we went to track down the guards on duty, but we found that Many guards have disappeared. We found the bodies of some guards near the outer wall of the palace. It seems that the death posture was suicide, but it is possible that they were forced to commit suicide under mind control. The fate of other missing soldiers should be similar. Those heretics have the power to control people's hearts, which makes every move they make watertight, and there is almost no problem of being caught alive and leaking secrets or having poor communication - except this time, we successfully tortured the souls of the heretics."

Hao Ren touched his chin: "In other words...are all the infiltrated personnel dead?"

The Pope sighed: "Caught none."

At this time, Lily suddenly interrupted: "But how do you know that there are no controlled people among the remaining guards?"

Hao Ren didn't react for a moment: "Didn't all the mind-controlled guards run away?"

"Let some of the abandoned ones run out to attract your attention, and pretend that everyone has evacuated after the incident is exposed. Then naturally not many people will suspect the remaining guards. At most, it will be a routine check." Lily shook her head gently, "But God knows how many of the remaining guards are under control."

Vivian looked at this Erha in surprise: "Okay, big dog, I didn't expect you to have such a scheming mind?"

Lily hugged her arms and shook her tail vigorously: "Nonsense, I have a background in writing novels anyway, so this logic still exists. And what do you think those spies did when the country was in chaos and fighting? I've seen a lot! I Let me tell you, those guys from the Central Command and the Military Command back then..."

Hao Ren quickly pressed Lily's mouth: "Don't talk about things that have nothing to do with the topic... don't bite my hand!"

"In short, all soldiers and church monks must be investigated," Ofra put her hand on the hilt of her sword and said in a deep voice, "The situation is far from being as good as we think. But fortunately this time, the problems have been exposed, otherwise it would be like this again If it continues to develop, something big may happen."

"Have you found the lair of those cultists?" Hao Ren waggled his fingers and looked at Yzaks.

"People ran away," Yzaks shrugged. "They are spiritually connected."

Vivian then asked: "What about the information about the scroll? Where did the scroll come from? Who sent it? What was it originally used for?"

"This is a bit interesting," Yzaks laughed. "In the soul memory of the fused corpse, the scroll comes from 'outside the sky'. It was brought by a 'great' creature from the goddess and handed over to the Returning Sect. They Call that great creature the voice of something..."

Hao Ren reminded: "It's the voice of the Lord."

Yzaks patted his bald head and said, "Oh, yes, the voice of the Dominator, I'm just saying that it's definitely not the voice of the campus... By the way, you also know that?"

"It seems to be similar to what I guessed," Hao Ren chuckled, "A giant brain has come to this planet, and it also has the ability to bring things from its hometown. But it must not be easy, so I returned to the sect. So far, we have only obtained one scroll, and the peripheral sects can only stir up the atmosphere by summoning the descending clone of the giant brain."

At this point, he raised his head and glanced at the Pope and Ofra: "I speak more directly - you can handle this matter yourself, right?"

"This is the responsibility that the people of the goddess should bear," the pope nodded slightly, "just let us handle these ourselves."

"Then I have to say goodbye and leave," Hao Ren stood up. "After all, I have to deal with something more troublesome than a group of cultists - those two knots of steel wire balls dug out from your planet. .”

After leaving the cathedral, the group will go to Tanagus through the portal in the basement of Betsy's house. The whole basement was filled with the aroma of wine: it was because the elves accidentally knocked over a small wine rack when they came over. The mercenary girl looked at the treasures in the wine cellar with a worried face: "I have to have someone dig another wine cellar nearby. It's too unreliable to put the treasures at the exit."

"It's better that you keep an eye on things here," Hao Ren told Betsy before leaving, "You are also a noble now and can directly participate in many things. If there is any progress in the investigation of heretics here, remember to inform me as soon as possible . In addition, Big Beard will stay here. You two will take care of each other. Safety first. If you really can’t beat him, just give up..."

Betsy nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, I'm good at this."

Hao Ren: "..."

(I need to go out to do errands tomorrow, and I don’t know how long I will be busy, so I asked for leave in advance. I won’t be able to update at noon, but it shouldn’t be delayed at night. Well, that’s the theory.)