Another World: The Failed Magician

As the group passed through the dimly lit passage, a vast space appeared before them.

The surrounding area was filled with stone statues of various shapes, and in the middle was a huge stone coffin.

Li Mengyu keenly sensed that the strange and oppressive aura was coming from the stone coffin.

Just as everyone was observing their surroundings in confusion.

Lu Xuan looked at the saints of the church and spoke.

"Does the church tell you that your power is a gift from the God of Light?"

Isabella nodded slightly, confirming that Lu Xuan was right.

"How can you be so sure that this ability was bestowed upon you by the God of Light?"

The saintesses were about to answer the question, but after thinking about it carefully, they kept quiet.

After careful consideration, they all discovered a problem: their special abilities were bestowed upon them by the God of Light, something the church had told them.

But Lu Xuan said that the church had deceived them, so what the church said could not be taken as evidence.

The saintesses were all taken aback.

At this moment, Elise stepped forward.

"Isn't this ability something important that the God of Light gave us? I've already used it to save many people. And we've always had a good life in the church. So what if it wasn't a power given to us by the God of Light?"

The girl's words actually expressed the sentiments of many of the saints present.

But everyone couldn't help but look at the elderly man at the front of the line.

That's the Pope of the Church of Light.

What Elise just said was undoubtedly an offense to the God of Light.

But after a while, everyone noticed that Howard seemed very calm, as if he hadn't heard what had just been said at all.

Lu Xuan continued calmly.

"If your actions don't affect anyone, then of course there's no problem."

Elise immediately panicked upon hearing this.

"Who have I affected? I'm clearly helping other people, okay?"

The other saintesses also looked at Lu Xuan with unfriendly expressions.

Yes, they were living perfectly fine when this person forcibly took them away, claiming he was going to tell them the truth, and now he's saying they're affecting others. It's utterly absurd.

Lu Xuan remained remarkably calm in the face of the somewhat angry girls.

"Do you think your abilities are reasonable? Such powerful abilities, don't they have any side effects? And do you even know what those side effects are?"

These words caused the saintesses present to fall silent.

They had thought about this issue, but after using it for a long time, they didn't find any problems, let alone any side effects.

At this moment, Lu Xuan looked at Howard.

The old man took two steps forward and came to the stone coffin in the center.

Then everyone heard the old man's heavy voice.

"First of all, your abilities could not have been given to you by the God of Light."

He said this without giving anyone a chance to refute him.

The old man reached out and gently patted the stone coffin.

A heavy aura emanated from the stone coffin.

Upon sensing the familiar aura, Charlotte, along with all the saintesses present, showed expressions of great surprise.

Even Isabella, whose expression had remained unchanged throughout, showed a look of surprise.

Li Mengyu was a little confused about what was happening.

She could sense the aura emanating from the stone coffin, which was ancient, gentle, and powerful, but why were they reacting so strongly?

Thinking about it, she looked at Mo Yun beside her.

Mo Yun waved her hand, indicating that she didn't know what had happened either.

Lu Xuan seized the opportunity to speak.

"As members of the Kingdom of Light, you should be able to sense what this aura represents."

All the saints present fell into a brief silence.

They were all too familiar with that aura.

This is the aura of holy light magic.

Moreover, the aura of this holy light magic was terrifyingly pure.

It was even purer than the aura of holy light magic they sensed from Pope Howard.

But whose holy light magic could be purer than that of the current Pope?

An answer came to their minds.

But for a moment they couldn't believe it.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Howard's aged voice came again.

"What lies inside is the God of Light, or rather, the corpse of the God of Light."

Although everyone probably expected it, they were still surprised when they heard it.

"Your abilities could not have been bestowed upon you by the God of Light. It suffered irreparable damage in an ancient war and fell into a deep slumber. It has not regained consciousness until now, so your abilities could not have come from the God of Light."

"But...so what?"

Elise looked at the old man timidly and asked.

Lu Xuan was speechless.

Where's your imposing manner from before? So you're only this imposing towards me now?

Howard offered no explanation.

He simply took out a crystal from his spatial ring.

With a wave of his hand, the old man made the crystal appear in mid-air.

The crystal then transformed into a curtain of light.

A scene unfolded before everyone's eyes.

The screen is divided into two parts.

One half is a village filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, while the other half is a dilapidated ruin.

When Elise saw this scene, she was stunned, and then a feeling of fear arose in her heart.

She recognized the village, a place filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, which was a village she had recently visited to provide medical treatment.

The scene shifts to Elise in a village filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers. The villagers are lined up in neat rows, receiving Elise's treatment one after another.

Just as one person was being treated, in another scene amidst the ruins, a teenager suddenly started screaming wildly.

Then, terrifying spots spread all over the boy's body, and in just a moment, the boy lost his life.

The people around were indifferent, as if they didn't care about what had just happened. Everyone's eyes were filled with numbness and despair.

Elise bit her lip hard.

In one scene, another person is healed, while in another scene, in the ruins, another innocent person dies, their body covered in spots.

Ignoring the blood at the corner of her mouth, Elise stared blankly at the scene on the screen.

"Why...why is this happening?!"

The saintesses also fell silent as they watched the content of the image.

They hoped it was all a lie.

Seeing that Howard had no intention of speaking, Lu Xuan could only sigh and then said, "This is the price you pay for using your abilities. Every time you heal someone in this place, someone in another place far away in the Kingdom of Light God will immediately be infected with an incurable plague and die instantly."

When Isabella saw this, her expression turned somewhat unpleasant, but she still looked at the old man seriously and asked him a question.

Are all of these true?

Howard said calmly, "Why would I need to lie to you?"

"Then why don't you stop all of this?"

Howard sighed.

"When this strange plague struck, I searched through all the ancient books, and all the high-ranking members of the Church of the Light tried every possible method, but none of them could find a solution to this plague. We didn't even know how it broke out."

"If it weren't for a coincidence that led me to discover the Church, and the miraculous awakening of my abilities that made me feel there was a strange connection between the two, I wouldn't have discovered this matter. Moreover, the Church is more troublesome than I imagined. I used all the power of the Church of Light and only managed to find a few of you saintesses."