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The reason he and Lani were unharmed was mainly due to their powerful divine physiques.

These substances don't have much effect on them.

The strange thing Zicomo sensed earlier wasn't the mist, but a power different from magic.

This force is somewhat like the prayer force of the border region, but he is not particularly familiar with prayer, so he cannot draw a conclusion.

The three continued on their way, and after walking for a while, they came across a simple, ancient medieval church.

Unlike churches built in cities, this one has fortifications on its perimeter, as if it had been the site of some kind of war.

However, judging from the overgrown weeds and vines covering the church, it must have been abandoned for a long time.

I don't know why a church that needs believers would be located in such a remote mountain forest.

Zicomo scanned the fortifications with his mental energy and discovered that some of the trigger traps on them were still in operation.

He tried to trigger one, and a series of arrows glowing white light shot towards him.

He calmly set up a defense and deflected the arrows.

Zicomo then picked up the arrows that had fallen to the ground, and from them he felt a power similar to that of prayer.

This must be the power used by the people in that church.

But why had he never heard of the church possessing such power?

Could it be that it has been lost to time?

Zicomo shook off his thoughts and decided to go in and find out.

He led the two women around the traps on the ground and arrived at the church door.

A sign stood beside the gate that read: "No one who is not devout to God may enter."

Zicomo tried to touch the door, but a white light, the same as the one from the arrow, flashed and knocked Zicomo's hand away.

This time, he directly felt this power, which contained an aura of holiness, purification, and dominance.

This greatly surprised Zico 4.5. Could it be that the so-called Jesus really existed?

Otherwise, why would this force so closely match the descriptions given by those Christian clergy?

If that's the case, why are they currently unknown on the mystical side, and why hasn't even Zicomo heard of them?

Faced with this unfamiliar force, Zicomo was unable to break it with clever tactics.

He gestured for the two women to step back, then pulled out his magic shotgun and fired several shots at the door.

In the end, the power on the gate was exhausted, and it was blasted to pieces by Zicomo.

Hermione, who was standing nearby, noticed that the weapon in Zicomo's hand looked familiar. She couldn't help but ask, "Cousin, is that the weapon in your hand from 'The Ace's Edge,' from '20 Minutes Before Dawn'?"

Zicomo nodded in agreement.

"Cool! Can I play with it for a bit?"

Zicomo never expected that Hermione, upon learning of its origin, would not inquire about its origin but instead demand the weapon from him.

He thought for a moment, realizing that there might be danger inside, so it would be good for her to have some for self-defense.

Zicomo handed over the shotgun, reminding him, "Be careful, don't point it at your own people."

Hermione nodded obediently and took the shotgun to examine it carefully.

The three entered the church and found that it was not much different from the churches in the city.

The domed ceiling is decorated with various murals depicting the religious life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, the floor is paved with gray and white marble, and a statue of Jesus is placed in the center.

However, almost all the surrounding tables and chairs were destroyed and scattered messily on the ground.

Chapter 116 The Secret History of the Middle Ages: Zicomo the Creator?

On the contrary, some knights' armor, having withstood hundreds of years of wind and rain, still stood bright and clean in front of the church pillars.

Zicomo felt increasingly uneasy as he looked around. The church hall was in complete disarray, so why were all these armored figures standing there unharmed?

Zicomo gestured for Hermione to look at the armor, and Hermione understood, raising her shotgun and firing a shot at one of the suits.

The armor collapsed to the ground with a thud, smashed to pieces, revealing the desiccated corpse inside.

The next instant, as if some mechanism had been triggered, all the armor creaked and groaned, and the armored figures raised their weapons and walked towards the three of them.

Even the body on the ground was struggling to stand up, but unfortunately it had already been broken into dozens of pieces.

Zicomo remained calm and even had the leisure to chat with Lani, who was standing next to him.

"They look like the dead."

Lani nodded; they did indeed resemble the dead beings from the borderlands.

In fact, the birth of the Dead Ones is somewhat related to her.

As another victim of the Night of Conspiracy, along with Lani, the dead prince Godwin had his soul killed.

His body was then thrown under the roots of the Golden Tree, which continuously repaired his body, causing it to multiply and mutate.

The corpse of the dead prince contaminated the roots of the golden tree, preventing the creatures of the borderlands from returning to the tree normally. Their souls remained in their bodies after death and came back to life in a distorted way, thus giving birth to the Deadborn.

To put it bluntly, they are a group of undead who still have physical bodies.

These armored, mummified corpses before us are such examples.

Zicomo thought for a moment, then waved his hand and used magic to bind the undead together.

The next instant, their armor glowed with that white light again, blocking Zicomo's magic.

Zicomo: ? ? ?

What happened to the undead being said to be afraid of Holy Light?

You bunch of dead souls using the Holy Light of the Church of the Cross, aren't you afraid of being purified?

With another wave of his hand, Zicomo caused the marble on the ground to rapidly deform, transforming into chains that bound the undead together.

He refused to believe that physical attacks could be completely blocked.

This time, the armor did not glow white again; the chains bound them, and no matter how much they struggled, they could not break free.

Seeing this, Zicomo took out materials from the system space and began to draw a magic circle.

He planned to refine these dead souls into soul crystals; since they were church members in life, their souls must be of good quality.

The magic circle activated, and beams of blue light flew out from the heads of the undead, converging above the magic circle and finally condensing into a pale blue gem.

Then the spirits fell silent.

"What is this?" Hermione asked curiously when Zicomo finished his work.

Zicomo handed the Soul Crystal to Hermione, saying, "The Soul Crystal, as the name suggests, is formed from their soul power. Adding an equal amount of life force will turn it into the Philosopher's Stone you are familiar with."

Zicomo's words startled Hermione: the Philosopher's Stone was forged from life force and soul together?

She looked at the magic stone necklace around her neck. Didn't that mean she was essentially carrying several lives on her shoulders?

Hermione's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

Zicomo noticed Hermione's actions and reassured her, "Don't worry, it doesn't necessarily require human vitality and soul."

Although the scar on her neck was indeed made with human lives, it's still better not to tell her the truth.

Hermione breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

Lani, standing to the side, glanced at Hermione with a disdainful look.

The little girl's resilience was so poor. She even had a hunting finger knife made from a corpse in her hand. Did she say anything?

After dealing with the spirits, Zicomo approached their corpses, attempting to glean some information about the church from them.

He found a diary inside a suit of armor that was clearly belonging to a leader.

So why is it a diary again?

Who would write a diary if they were serious?

However, this one was a bit smarter than Mr. Voldemort, as he carried his diary with him at all times, so he wouldn't have to worry about it being discovered.

The three of them huddled together, flipping through the diary, which recorded some of the things that had happened here back then.

The events took place in the seventeenth century, when the witch hunts initiated by the church were nearing their end.

To be precise, it was forced into the final stage.

The church wanted to eradicate the wizards, a group they considered heretical, but they underestimated their power.

The clergy draw strength from prayer, and the wizards' magic is no joke either.

The church's actions enraged the wizards, and wizards from all over the world united.

Although the church had methods to suppress the wizards' magic, it was still repeatedly defeated by the wizards.

Ultimately, an extremely fierce battle ensued, in which the church was completely annihilated.

Only a few scattered teams were regarded as a source of inspiration by the church and withdrew from the battlefield before the war.

The church here was built by one of the groups that fled to this place.