Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 366 Possibility

In a specially vacated empty house, Ron met the pastor again, who had not yet escaped from hunger and cold.

"I want to protest against your actions," seeing Ron coming, Shadow Spirit Yelena muttered weakly while sitting on the edge of the bed. She put the empty porridge bowl and spoon aside to make room for Ron and the others. "It's fine if you insist on letting her live in my house, but why do you want me to take care of her? I'm a warrior after all, right?"

"Who told you to be absent from work every day? Evander told me that you only spend two hours in the office in a week!"

"That's because I have another employer! You know I can't refuse that employer's job."

"Miss Yelena, didn't you just say that you have escaped from the Shadow Underworld?" After treatment and drinking a bowl of oatmeal porridge, Pergrand was obviously in better spirits. For a shadow spirit, the natural master is of course the Raven Queen. But if Pergrand had not had auditory hallucinations just now, Yelena should have said that she had escaped from there.

"Which god do you believe in?"

"If I must say, I am also a member of the Order camp." Facing an unfamiliar priest, Yelena certainly couldn't directly say that she had a contract with Gracia, so she just vaguely said, "Sir Ron, you should take care of your business first."

Perglen looked at Ron, and her heartbeat began to speed up involuntarily: "Lord Ron, where are Old Lei and the others?"

"Are you going to give me..." The pastor made a gift gesture.

"I'm sorry," Ron spread his hands. "It would be difficult for me to send you off now. They have already left. At least you should be safe until your archbishop arrives."

"Really?!" Perglen was hit by the sudden happiness and fell headfirst, "God... Thank you! I——"

"You should thank me instead of God, ma'am. Your God doesn't seem to have expressed any opinion at the moment. As for me," Ron looked into Perglen's eyes, "I don't mind taking you in, but the prerequisite is that you have to tell me the truth."

"Raymond Aron mentioned that you stole confidential information from your order. What exactly is that? You can choose to refuse to answer, but in that case—"

"No! Lord Ron, I will tell you everything I heard! In fact, this is exactly why I came here!" Perglen interrupted Ron and told him everything she knew in one breath.

"Sir Ron! I never thought that the Order would be corrupted by the devil one day! The obsession with fighting against the abyss has distorted the faith of the Archbishop and others, allowing them to abuse the rules to do whatever they want and use any means necessary. The target of their next plan is you!"

"I can't accept this kind of behavior. I have to run away and tell on them!"

Ron and the others exchanged glances, and they could see the shock in each other's eyes.

On the one hand, they were surprised that Purgatory could erode the Molten Iron Cult so deeply; on the other hand, they were surprised at Pelgrand's faith and righteousness, and he was willing to take such a risk to report the evil deeds of his colleagues and superiors. Of course, this might be the difference between lawful good and lawful neutral. The latter only maintains the rules, while for the former, demons and devils are equally evil. The only gentleness that Reverend Tyr gave them was to allow them to choose a way to die - sometimes there was not even this degree of "humanity".

But, Bishop Pelgrain, how do you know that there is no contact with the devil here?
Yelena turned her head away and almost covered her ears, pretending not to hear what Perglan said.

"Do you know which Nine Hell Lord they are working with?" Ron asked nervously, praying that it wasn't either of the two most dangerous ones.

If they cooperate with Gracia, it means that the Queen of Devil may try to change the person in charge, and they will face unprecedented challenges; and if Molten Bastion cooperates with Asmodeus, will they be involved in the conflict between father and daughter? That is worse than the first possibility!

"I didn't dare to listen any further," Perglen smiled bitterly and shook his head, "but my guess is that it was either Zariel or Dispater."

"Zariel was once an angel, but her temperament and love of war led to her downfall. After she herself fought and died in the bloody battle, Asmodeus resurrected her to fight against the Abyss. She must have been very passionate about the cause of the Order."

"Although she is powerful, she is not good at manipulating people. There are many people in the Nine Prisons who oppose her and covet her position because of this." Yelena turned around and interrupted, "Besides, she is at the forefront. How can she have so much energy to be diverted here?"

"Ms. Yelena is familiar with Purgatory?"

"There are soul dealers in the Shadow Spirit who specialize in doing soul business with the Purgatory Abyss," Yelena nodded slightly, "I have heard about some things in this regard."

"So according to my judgment, Dispater is more likely to intervene. The ruler of the second layer is a manipulator and conspirator who is used to hiding behind the scenes," Yelena mainly explained to Ron, "The most important point is that he is the chief arms dealer of the Nine Hells and perhaps the largest weapons supplier in all planes, and here we are..."

Those deep silver fell into Gracia's hands. For the Grand Duke, who had suffered from severe paranoia since Zariel came to power, this was simply a precursor to overthrowing him. He was indeed one of the most likely candidates to provoke trouble.

"Of course, we can't rule out other possibilities," Yelena added. "In fact, if we only talk about motivation, there is almost no Grand Duke without motivation: Zariel is eager for war, Dispater is worried about conspiracy, Mammon is very calculating, Firna and Belial are addicted to infighting, Levistus intends to escape, and Baalzebub is good at fraud... Corrupting a mortal cult is nothing to them."

"In fact, I am even a little worried about your archbishop, Miss Perglen," Shadow Spirit raised his hand to stop the priest from speaking. The latter was about to ask her why she didn't mention Gracia. "Is it possible that your archbishop, who is already in his seventies, is so old and confused that he was deceived by a high-level devil instead of truly serving a Duke of Hell?"

"This..." Perglan was confused by Yelena's words. After a long while, he managed to utter: "It should... not be..."

She tried to explain the priests' faith to these people, saying that people of the archbishop's status would be difficult to be swayed by ordinary deception and deception because the gods' blessings protected them all the time.

But when he thought about it carefully, the hairs on Perglan's back stood on end - hadn't the Archbishop released any divine magic in many years?
If he had actually lost his favor a long time ago, where did the "oracle" against the Delusion Land come from a few months ago? !

(End of this chapter)