Unknown Knight

Velen looked at Aix in front of him with scrutiny. When he was not forcibly taken to the island last year, some elders even suggested that he send missionaries to Aix's territory, because the newly-assigned territories were generally poorly controlled and had unstable foundations, and it was easiest for the religion to gain a foothold in such places.

It was only because his physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse that this measure was not implemented in his hands. The new person who replaced him seemed to have implemented the plan immediately.

Now, it seems that Moros is still a naive novice. Not only has he not made any decent progress, but he has also offended others. Now they have come to him directly.

Moreover, he was now in a gloating mood, because even when he was seriously ill and imprisoned in the prison on the island, he did not give up his belief in the religion of God. However, the notes James took out directly broke his defense, or it should be said that it broke the belief that he had held on to for a lifetime. It seemed that the doubts in his heart had been true.

It turns out that this so-called carrier is actually a kind of reincarnation similar to Tibetan Buddhism, and each carrier is actually the nominal Dark Pope.

It's just that their carriers are not reincarnated after death, but they find many reserve carriers while they are alive. These reserve carriers are usually not very old, but all of them are talented teenagers or children.

They are usually trained in isolation on If Island since childhood. When the previous carrier is about to die, the five elders will examine these prospective carriers and select the most outstanding one as the successor.

Finally, the previous carrier will perform the so-called initiation and inheritance ceremony. After the inheritance ceremony, the most outstanding candidate carrier will become the new carrier.

It is said that the soul of the Dark Pope is immortal and can be transferred to the new Pope through a ritual. This so-called initiation and inheritance ceremony is a ceremony to infuse the soul of the original Pope into the new Pope, which is like the possession of another's body in the fantasy world.

But at some point, this initiation ceremony changed. One of the recipients even questioned the initiation ceremony because he did not feel anything unusual after the ceremony, as if the ceremony did not infuse the eternal soul of the Pope into his body. The recipient also recorded this conjecture in a notebook.

Perhaps due to negligence, this letter sandwiched in a thick book was not discovered by others, but was seen by the knowledgeable and hardworking Velen, which planted the seeds of doubt in his heart.

And later he slowly discovered that, whether it was to conceal the truth or intentionally, since the failure of the uprising of the fifth Pope Purius, the five elders unanimously decided to replace the title of Pope with the name of Bearer.

And after Velen succeeded as the carrier, he discovered a problem with his doubts. Since Prius, every carrier would lose some items of the religion more or less. For example, Prius lost the religion's pentagram necklace and the Pope's seal ring.

Moreover, each bearer will have a life record similar to a biography. The life records of these popes or bearers, starting from Prius, will always have more or less missing details, inconsistent content, or are obviously textual cover-ups that make things more obvious.

This is why Velen buried his notes. He also suspected that if his successor Moros could find the notes, it would mean that the soul of the Pope's eternal lineage would be passed on and the secrets of the religion would be preserved.

On the contrary, it means that the religion is fooling all believers, and all its doctrines are castles in the air and are lies. In Velen's eyes, such a religion should not exist and it might as well be destroyed.

Unfortunately, he now saw the latter situation. The career he had been fighting for all his life was nothing more than a fictitious fantasy bubble, and he himself was just a puppet being fooled.

One can imagine how frustrated he was at the moment. If he hadn't had the rage in his body, he might have died of anger.

After taking a deep breath, Velen looked at James meaningfully and said:

"I can give you the artifact, and I also have a way to cure your lord, but you have to promise me something."

Upon hearing what Velen said, James touched his chest excitedly and said:

"As long as you can cure my Lord Aix's illness, not only me, but all 20,000 people in Tangquan Fortress will obey your orders!"

Velen was very satisfied after hearing this. He didn't expect that the territory of Aix was so powerful. In his impression, the fiefdom of Aix was a sparsely populated and cold place.

However, this also increased his confidence. The only motivation for him to stay alive now was to personally destroy the Dark Cult that he once nominally led.

Velen thought for a while and asked Tata, who had been leaning against him and licking the chicken bone in his hand:

"Little Tata, are the Fifth Elder and his few ascetic followers the only ones on the island now?"

Tata nodded seriously and pointed to Bestur not far away.

"It was that big brother who subdued the five elders. Now they are all locked up in the warehouse."

Velen nodded and said to James:

"My first request is: help me interrogate the Fifth Elder and his disciples."

Everyone came to the courtyard of the five elders and the ascetics. These frail ascetics were staying obediently in the room, as if they were submissive to everything, without any desires or demands, just waiting for the coming punishment.

Seeing Velen with anger on his face, the fifth elder seemed not to be afraid at all, and said weakly:

"I understand the anger in your heart. I knew your temper when I taught you the teachings of the Divine Religion. But everything we did was forced upon us. Now, I don't expect your forgiveness. Each of us has sinned deeply and deserves death, but..."

The Fifth Elder seemed to have thought of something when he said this. He looked around and saw the little Tata hiding on the side. Then he smiled with satisfaction and said:

"I just hope you can spare little Tata's life. He is the most pitiful and innocent among us."

"Think about yourself first. I know you are a fanatic believer of the Divine Religion, but as one of the five great elders, don't you understand that everything in the Divine Religion is an illusion?

You deceived me so much. You caused me to be separated from my family since I was a child. For the sake of your so-called religious cause, I have worked diligently and traveled everywhere all my life, even until I was about to die, and I was willing to do it.

But I didn't expect that I would be deceived by you all my life, and even in the end I was useless and was ruthlessly abandoned by you.

I hate you so much, I wish I could kill all five of you with my own sword. You better tell me the truth, or I will let you experience all the cruelty in my profound knowledge!"