Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 125: Machine for Transforming the Power of Faith

After obtaining the information he wanted, Sunan killed the remaining Spark Cultists without hesitation.

Su Nan let Hidden Dragon and Double-Blade Spider guard outside to prevent the gray-robed man from making a surprise attack, and then entered the building.

At the end of the silent corridor, there was only a tightly closed metal door.

Just as the Spark Cultist said just now, the gate and the walls are made of refined steel, which is much harder than black stone iron.

Not to mention the first-ring legendary knight, even if the second-ring legendary knight comes, he won’t be able to break through here in a short time.

But it’s not a big deal for Sunan at all.

He walked straight to the metal door, looked down at the lock on the door which looked very sophisticated, and used the unlocking technique directly. Immediately, there was a click and the door lock opened.

Although lock picking is a zero-level spell, it is very practical.

No matter how sophisticated and complicated the lock is, as long as it is not a secret lock or a magic lock, a lock picking technique can solve it.

This secret room designed by the Spark Cult can only block knights and ordinary people, and is useless to wizard apprentices who have mastered the art of lock picking.

Pushing open the heavy metal door, the scene behind the door soon appeared in Su Nan's eyes.

The entire secret room was empty, without any furniture, only the cold metal floor, walls and ceiling.

A figure was lying alone in the middle of the room.

It was a man in his forties, wearing a gorgeous star-pattern robe, lying motionless on the ground, with a jewel-encrusted crown and a golden staff beside him.

Is this person the Pope of the Spark Cult?

Su Nan stood at the door and observed for a while, and a strange expression gradually appeared on his face.

In his spiritual perception, the soul of the man lying on the ground had completely dissipated, and he could not sense any soul breath at all.

But the strange thing is that he is not dead, and his body still shows signs of life.

Like a living corpse!
This strange situation made Sunan very confused.

He released a weakening ray at the man, but when the spell landed on him, it was offset by a strange force.

This power gave him a very familiar feeling.

"God's grace!"

Su Nan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he hesitated for a moment, but he remained alert and walked towards the man cautiously.

Even when he got closer, the man still didn't react.

Seeing this, Sunan went straight to check.

After a moment, he finally confirmed that the soul of the Pope of the Starfire Church had completely dissipated.

The remaining body was only supported by the divine grace within it, so it did not completely stop its life activities and rot and die.

What surprised Sunan was that although the amplitude was extremely weak, so weak that it was almost unnoticeable, the divine grace in the man's body was indeed slowly increasing.

"I see."

After a little thought, Su Nan quickly understood.

The Pope of the Spark Church has actually turned into a "machine" that can receive the power of faith and convert it into divine grace.

He had no independent consciousness, and was even unable to move. He only relied on God's grace to support his life, lying in the secret room day after day to transform the power of faith.

This is why the people of the Spark Cult rarely see the Pope appear, because their Pope is actually dead, and what is left is just a physical body.

The one who truly controls the entire Spark Cult in secret is their high priest Ovijiu.

This also explains why Ovijiu can control so many divine favors.

It turns out that the entire Starfire Cult's grace has been taken by him alone.

But the problem is that humans are unable to transform the power of faith into divine grace. The Pope of the Spark Church can do this, so there must be other reasons hidden behind him.

Thinking of the divine bones that the gray-robed man had just mentioned, Su Nan had some vague guesses in his mind.

He carefully examined the body of the Starfire Pope and soon discovered something unusual.

On the right hand of the Pope of the Spark Church, the ring finger is completely different from other parts and contains more divine grace.

After using his mental power to perceive, Sunan quickly determined that this ring finger did not belong to the Pope himself, but was sewn on later.

The key is that this finger is ridiculously strong.

Sunan used the blade condensed from the magic pattern core to cut with all his strength, but couldn't leave even a white mark.

Even with the factor of divine protection, its strength is still far beyond that of a first-ring legendary knight.

This is definitely not an ordinary human body part.

Obviously, this ring finger is the so-called divine skeleton.

"I don't know whether to say you are brave or ignorant for fusing the divine skeleton into yourself."

Sunan couldn't help but sigh.

Gods are beings that are countless levels higher than humans, and their level of life essence completely crushes ordinary people.

Even if it is just a part of the corpse of a god, it is equivalent to a very scary "source of pollution" for ordinary people.

Even official wizards don't dare to fuse the divine bones into their bodies. For a mere legendary knight to dare to do so is simply seeking death.

The Pope's soul was probably destroyed by the impact brought by the fusion of the divine body. His consciousness and thoughts all disappeared, and his body was subtly transformed by the divine body into a tool for absorbing the power of faith and transforming divine grace.

This body is being transformed by divine grace every moment, transforming into a life form that is closer in nature to the divine bones.

In time, if the Xinghuo Sect expands in size and the power of faith increases dozens of times, and continues for tens of thousands of years, perhaps this body can be completely transformed into a divine body.

By then, the real Star God will be resurrected from his divine body!
This is the terrifying thing about gods!
Even if most of the divine body is destroyed and only a small part remains, it can still be revived as long as there is enough power of faith and time.

The key gods can also gradually distort the will and cognition of creatures that come into contact with the divine bones, turning them into their believers, and spontaneously working hard for the revival of the gods.

From this point of view, in fact all gods can be called evil gods.

"Something weird."

"I wonder what the wizard apprentice of the Immortal Society wants this for?"

"Do they also have the means to purify divine energy?"

After thinking for a while without any results, Sunan shook his head and turned his attention back to the body in front of him.

He grasped the divine finger and gently pulled it out. He immediately felt the divine grace in the Pope's body surge rapidly, gathering in the ring finger as if it had life.

Sunan seized the opportunity, condensed a silver knife, and decisively cut towards the part where the divine remains and the Pope's body were connected, successfully separating the two.

Get the Divine Skeleton Finger!

Sunan concentrated and sensed that there was not much divine grace contained in his ring finger, perhaps because it was extracted by Ovijiu.

But even so, it is more than ten times the amount of divine grace contained in the Book of Stars, so it should be no problem to increase my mental power by two or three points.

Coming back to his senses from his joy, Sunan directly put his fingers into the Rubik's Cube.

Although this thing has vitality, it has no independent consciousness, so the Rubik's Cube can be stored.

Looking at the Pope again, as the divine remains separated, his body began to decay at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing pale bones, and eventually even the flesh and bones collapsed piece by piece.

Before long, only a faint gray mark remained at the spot.

"It's over." Su Nan whispered.

Without the tools to convert the power of faith, even if there are still members of the Spark Sect left, they will no longer be able to create holy objects and divine blood. Without the means to quickly increase their strength, this sect will soon fall apart and no longer pose a threat.

After today, the Spark Cult will be history.

After doing all this, Sunan left the secret room and rushed to the warehouse and Ovijiu's residence respectively.

Both locations were obtained through interrogation of the Spark Cult members.

If there are any good things in the Spark Cult headquarters, they are most likely in these two places.

As expected, Sunan found a large number of gold coins and jewelry in the warehouse. The preliminary estimate of the total value was at least over 50,000 gold coins.

The amount is not much, but for a church that is in its development stage, it is not bad to have such a large cash flow.

"Enough to create two or three second-ring legendary double-blade spiders."

Unfortunately, nothing was found at Ovijiu's residence, only some secret records and other documents were found.

Originally, Sunan was hoping to find one or two holy objects.

After doing all this, Sunan left Ju Nan City without stopping.

After destroying the Spark Cult, his mission for this trip was basically completed.

Next, it’s time to go back and deal with the divine remains properly.

Red Leaf Province, Starry City.

Deep in the palace, Duke Fanxing walked on the silent and deserted corridor. His expression was filled with fatigue. Against the backdrop of his head of graying hair, he looked even older and more haggard.

There is more and more unfavorable news coming from the front line.

The army sent by the royal family was unable to defeat the army of the Marquis of the White Tower and was dragged into a quagmire of stalemate.

However, the rebels were advancing rapidly on the battlefield in Zizhu Province with great momentum.

Marquis Zizhu sent one letter after another asking for help, but the royal family had no extra troops to send for support.

If this continues, Zizhu Province may not be able to hold out for even a month before falling into the hands of the rebels.

The situation has deteriorated to an extremely bad level!
"Why did it become like this?"

Duke Fanxing sighed wearily, and thought of the wizard named Sunan whom the Spark Cult had once mentioned.

He knew more about wizards than most people.

After all, the royal family originally worshipped a wizard.

However, although that wizard was very powerful, he was not good at making golem puppets, let alone forming a strong army like the Golem Legion and the Black Rock Cavalry Regiment.

I have never heard of any wizard who can do this and influence the direction of a large-scale war by himself!
It is this misjudgment that has led to the current situation.

While thinking, Duke Fanxing had already arrived at the door of the secret room at the end of the corridor.

He stopped, straightened his appearance, then knocked on the door gently and said respectfully:
"Uncle."

There was silence.

After a long time, a deep voice came from behind the door.

"Come in."

Duke Fanxing breathed a sigh of relief, pushed the door open and walked in.

The secret room was simply decorated with only a bed, a table and a chair.

Apart from that, there was not even a picture hanging on the wall.

A man with ordinary features, who looked to be only about forty years old and dressed simply, sat on a chair and looked over calmly.

Looking at that familiar face that had remained the same for decades, Duke Fanxing's heart trembled slightly, and he couldn't suppress a surge of jealousy.

Looking at Grand Duke Fanxing, the man showed a complicated look, sighed and said: "You shouldn't cooperate with the Spark Cult."

"There is no free lunch in the world, and the so-called gods are not benevolent and charitable. Relying on the gods' gift to gain immortality must have a huge price to pay. Even if you do extend your life in the end, you will probably become a puppet of those crazy people."

"You did a bad job this time."

Duke Fanxing smiled bitterly and said in a bitter voice:
"Granduncle, this is all my fault. I was blinded by greed."

"But now that the Spark Cult has been destroyed, the rebels are coming with great force and will soon arrive here. I really have no other choice but to come and beg you."

The man asked calmly, "What do you want me to do?"

Grand Duke Fanxing said quickly: "Please ask my uncle to kill Sunan. As long as Sunan dies, I will have a chance to defeat the rebels!"

The man was silent for a long time, then asked, "If Sunan dies, are you 100% sure you can suppress the rebels?"

Grand Duke Fanxing's expression froze for a long while before he gritted his teeth and said, "Even if I can't win, I will fight to the death and will never let the Kessler family be humiliated!"

This time the man remained silent longer.

Just when Duke Fanxing was feeling uneasy, the man finally spoke.

"Okay, I'll go find Sunan."

"Thank you, great uncle!"

Duke Fanxing was overjoyed when he heard this.

My great uncle was already a three-ring legendary knight fifty years ago. With his help, there is a great hope of killing Sunan.

In fact, if that damn Spark Cult hadn't tempted him with immortality, with his great-uncle around, he wouldn't have cared about the threat from the Spark Cult at all, let alone cooperate with it.

Who could have thought that the Spark Cult was so useless? They usually acted in an arrogant manner, thinking of themselves as shepherds, but in fact they were so vulnerable.

Before he could even hold on, the Xinghuo Sect was destroyed by Su Nan!

It's really despicable!

In any case, as long as my great uncle is willing to help, there is hope that this crisis can be resolved.

Seeing his great-uncle waving his hand, Duke Fanxing said goodbye and left tactfully.

But when he turned around, he didn't see the meaningful look his great uncle gave him.

Astral Calendar Year 1254, the Autumn Month (October).

The Shining Army conquered Zizhu Province and completely incorporated it into its territory.

He then marched north to join forces with the army led by Baron Starley under his command, and captured the entire Lakeland Province in just one month.

So far, four of the seven provinces of the Principality of Stars have fallen into the hands of the Shining Territory.

Another White Tower province is also led by the Shining Alliance.

The only two provinces still in the hands of the royal family were Hongye Province and Ranshuang Province.

Among them, the Ranshuang Province has not yet recovered, and its combat power is almost negligible.

The only province that still has the strength to fight is Hongye Province.

With the war having progressed to this point, even the most optimistic people would not think that the royal family could turn the tide.

Astral Calendar Year 1254, the month of frost (November).

The Shining Army and the White Tower Army gathered at the border of Red Leaf Province, and war was about to break out.

(End of this chapter)