Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 502 Golden Shade
This time, Milo didn't just crush the arthropod that was wildly flailing its claws and tentacles to death. Instead, he stuffed it into the large lunchbox he was carrying and locked it up.

"I hope it's not what I'm thinking."

He glanced at Isabel's body.

Wendigo hopped over, pointed at the corpse with its short, stubby paws, and then at its own mouth.

“Listen, this is the old days, so it’s necessary to raise our standards a bit, you know what I mean?” Milo earnestly instructed Wendigo.

The latter blinked its big, round, purplish-red eyes, shaking its head as if it understood but not quite, neither nodding nor shaking its head. Sometimes Milo even wondered if there was something wrong with the original humanity that the Supreme Mother Goddess had given birth to, but then he thought that it was a "premature baby" after all, and he let it go.

"Let's go see what's going on... It can't be that the abyss has spread to the real world, can it?"

Milo turned and left the Star Clock Tower, waving for Wendigo to follow.

Wendigo clearly understood Milo's words, because when Milo spoke the second half of his sentence, especially when he mentioned the "Abyss," a very real and profound sense of panic appeared on Wendigo's hairy face.

It quickly shrank its neck and stood there motionless for a while.

Only after realizing that Milo had left its sight did it flutter its four paws and scramble after it.

……

Isabel's situation served as a wake-up call for Milo.

This led him to feel that anyone he saw in the church might have bugs crawling on them.

Strangely, just like in the prayer square, there has been no sign of any choirs or deacons in Milo so far. The only people you can occasionally see in the church corridors are clergy members who are responsible for teaching.

So where did the choir and the secretariat go?

Milo had assumed these people had disappeared into some dark, unseen place, but in the end, at the entrance of the Great Cathedral, Milo finally saw the familiar figures of those grey-robed men.

This is another church-style building located deep within the church complex.

Just like when Milo first passed through here, only a few very thin rays of light shone into the interior of the Great Cathedral through the cracks in the windows. This caused the shadows of the huge stone pillars on both sides to occupy most of the cathedral's area. And because the candles had been extinguished, even during the day, the atmosphere inside the Great Cathedral was no different from that of a silent night.

Once again, Milo heard a faint prayer coming from the location of the golden tree sculpture at the deepest part of the building:
"In search of the blood of the ancient gods..."

Let us pray…

Let us pray…

Anyone who prays sincerely can receive Holy Communion.

Let us participate in the Holy Communion and partake of the blood of the Old Gods…

Our thirst for blood satisfies us and soothes our fears.

Seeking the blood of the ancient gods…

However, we must be wary of human weaknesses: their will is weak and their minds are immature.

Blasphemous and filthy beasts will offer honeyed bait to lure docile souls into the abyss.

Beware of human weaknesses… their will is weak, their minds immature…

If not for fear, death would go unmourned.

……

It's still the same old rambling. But if we summarize it in simpler terms, it's not hard to see that these proverbs are warnings from the first generation of contract scholars to their descendants. They even pointed out in the prayers that the divine blood from the unseen land has drawbacks. Furthermore, the beastification disease that only broke out in this generation can also be traced in the proverbs.

It's not hard to imagine that Tutis Crow and other early contract scholars were aware of all these hidden dangers. Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to split the original bloodline in two, stripping away the tainted gray blood, which indirectly evolved into the later Cainhursts.

However, it is clear that this method of separation is flawed due to technological limitations.

Or rather, the malice carried in the blood of the Old Gods cannot be removed by physical means.

According to Milo, since the higher beings in the pantheon do not have concepts of good and evil, the blood they leave behind is simply a handful of blood. Good and evil, right and wrong, are merely concepts that humans have attached based on their own civilization and interests.

Just as a weak soul can descend into madness upon encountering evil scriptures.

The fusion of a frail body with high-sequence blood inevitably triggers a series of consequences known as curses and disasters.

...

This kind of fusion is contrary to the laws of nature.

Therefore, those centipede-like insects may be a byproduct of such illogical environments.

Just like how clairvoyants are to humans...

...

Standing before the dimly lit cathedral, Milo squinted and peered inside, spotting several familiar faces at the far end.

Both Dillah Shaw and Daisy are there.

However, the "young bishop" whom they had seen once before was nowhere to be found.

Namilo couldn't figure out whose mouth was coming from those low, murmured prayers he was hearing.

Of course, there's also the incessant crying of babies.

But now Milo's attention is more focused on the Grand Cathedral.

Besides the choir, who were said to never be able to leave the clock tower but have now left, and the deacons, there were also many elderly people in the cathedral dressed in white and blue academic uniforms.

These guys are clearly members of the Contract Organization.

Most of them, like Daniel Defoe, spent half their lives studying the doctrines of the Golden Tree, tempering their will in this way, until they were promoted to the Contract Order in their later years, gaining access to those ancient texts unknown to the world. By this generation, scholars who live to old age are very few, and similarly, young scholars like Isabel are also rare.

……

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Milo vanished into the shadows as he entered the Great Cathedral, and the clerk closest to him was completely unaware that a living person had walked right past him.

Only Daisy, deep within the Great Cathedral, slowly raised her head and nodded very slightly to Milo.

...

In his shadow form, Milo easily made his way to the front of the Great Cathedral and saw what was happening in the center of the crowd.

This location is directly below the Golden Tree sculpture in the Cathedral, in the shade of what is commonly known as the Golden Tree.

In the doctrine of the Golden Rule, this position is generally the kneeling position of religious leaders, and it belongs to the area closest to the blessing.

But now, in this place where the bishop should be kneeling in worship, there is a very gruesome crack...

(End of this chapter)