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Chapter 631 Removal

Chapter 631 Removal
Milo clearly remembers the saying that there is something beneath Nanwei City that even the gods fear.

It is older than the Sumerian civilization and was one of the reasons for the fall of that civilization.

The ultimate goal of the fraudster Imnar's so-called foolish god plan was precisely the "thing" underground.

Even the covenants made between the gods in the dream world are related to this so-called "thing".

...

Now that such a large area of things that are neither animal nor plant has emerged from the bottom of the canal, it's hard not to think of that ancient legend.

But he quickly denied this speculation.

Because at this moment, the continuous mountain range was filled with the giant butterflies that had released the red light earlier. They had folded their membranous wings and, like trees, taken root in the mountain surface, maintaining a strange posture with their forelimbs pointing upwards, as if they were "begging" the heavens for something. Milo sensed a rather unfriendly familiarity from these giant, strange creatures.

They and the mountain range that isolates them from the night do indeed originate from underground, but definitely not from the deepest layer. Rather, they come from the ruins of a previous civilization, the entire Pumeru world buried beneath the altar centered on the Unseen Land.

As for the familiar feeling that Milo sensed, it actually came from the unseen land.

At that time, the Knights of the Temple of the Golden Law crossed realms and all perished. Especially when Blade was beheaded, many undead in the unseen lands, who had lost their soul essence and were left with only empty shells, were still grieving for Blade, because those people were essentially believers and servants of the Golden Tree, and they died on one side of the worship pit.

The worship pit is where the golden tree was burned and devoured, so the scattered, ownerless will can also be understood as the martyrs of the golden tree.

That familiarity came from the giant butterfly and the unclaimed will.

But the two are clearly very different.

The giant butterfly emerged from beneath the canal, bursting onto the surface and devouring everything around it, while the church building situated atop the unseen land remained perfectly intact.

It is not difficult to understand that in the ancient Sumerian civilization, even people of the same race could have completely different beliefs.

...

The unseen lands and the Sumerian peoples outside of them are clearly not entirely the same.

Just like the origin of the Golden Rule Church, the Covenant Organization also saw the emergence of radical and hardline factions like Monsis due to disagreements over the study of blood, and their beliefs turned away from the Golden Tree and towards the "Moon".

As is widely known (not really), the Sumerians artificially created the divine child Mego through their research on blood, but before Mego was even born, they incurred the ultimate malice of the gods, and the Blood Moon never descended in that era.

Don't forget that there are many remnants of ancient and even external gods in the Unseen Lands, including the living blood of the ancient gods collected by the Contract Organization, which actually came from one of the not-completely-corrupted corpses.

Perhaps the people of the Golden Tree in the unseen lands do not support the Blood Moon.

The will of the Sumerians who truly supported the Blood Moon has, millions of years later, evolved into these butterfly-like life forms with enormous membranous wings growing on the mountains.

……

"The Inspiration of the Moon".

A man carrying a briefcase emerged from behind Milo in the dead of night.

He gazed with a hint of awe at the mountains that had completely replaced the canal, and after a long silence, he said:

Their name is 'Pilgrim Butterfly'.

The speaker was C, an investigator from Miskatonic University.

To be honest, Milo didn't find it strange that C was the first person to arrive at the scene, but C being able to name those giant butterflies was a bit unexpected.

The two stood on either side of the edge where night met the red world.

Milo turned to look at C: "You got this?"

C shook his head: "We've seen this form of organism in the Miskatonic basin, or more precisely, a simplified model of it, an unformed embryo."

"and then?"

“That’s what the embryo told us,” C replied.

“Alright.” Milo didn’t question the seemingly sloppy story, but instead asked, “Why the pilgrimage? For whom?”

“I thought you knew.” C looked at Milo with a hint of surprise. Milo shrugged. “They didn’t tell me.”

“Of course, it’s to make an early pilgrimage to the approaching moon,” C said.

Milo blinked, paused for a moment, and then nodded:

“That makes sense.”

In that case, the pilgrimage butterflies should represent the will of those in the Sumerian civilization who hoped for the arrival of the blood moon.

"But didn't the gods plow through the entire Pumeru and bury it underground? Was the plowing not thorough enough? How come so many strange and wonderful things have emerged?"

Milo didn't know what the real Sumerians looked like, but he guessed they couldn't have been born with that giant butterfly shape. It must have been the result of the ancient Sumerians' will evolving underground over millions of years.

“This is outside my area of knowledge.” C shook his head blankly and then said, “But I can tell you with certainty that the unformed pilgrimage butterfly embryo was born in the laboratory of Xinmi University.”

"New Milo University? What about the old Milo University? Wait, didn't you go back? Why are you here?" Milo asked, puzzled.

"As the place where the movement of stars and the song of the heavens were first noticed, madness and disaster began to erupt and spread from the school's astronomy department. The entire Miskatonic basin, all the way to the Severn Valley, has fallen. People have either degenerated into beasts or degenerated into empty shells, manipulated by some simple will."

C said this very calmly.

It was as if he was describing something very ordinary, not a disaster that affected the entire county.

His words made Milo's expression gradually become serious.

As it turns out, just like the Pohnpei Peninsula overseas, the disaster was already rampant from the very beginning.

...

Although Milo still didn't understand the part about the new and old University of Michigan.

But he knew that C must have crawled back to Nanwei City from a pile of corpses.

Because of the presence of the shadow of devouring fear, the people of this land and the surrounding areas have not yet been affected by the Song of the Blood Moon, or rather, the impact is not so severe.

……

In fact, if we really want to speculate on the true will of the Pilgrim Butterfly, we might analyze it from the death of the Blood Saintess.

She was silenced by the Pilgrim Butterfly after telling Milo about "forgetting her real name".

And these rising red mountains isolated Daisy and the entire church on the other side of the night.

It seems that we can deduce something from both of these perspectives.

Those who "knew the truth" are being removed from Milo's side one by one.

That's a correct understanding, isn't it?

Saintess Daisy received a warning from the hounds.

The Blood Saintess was killed directly by the Pilgrim Butterfly.

Are there more people who will be taken away inexplicably next?

...

Thinking about this, Milo suddenly realized something.