The defeated saint is also on the way to tame the evil god today

"We will meet again."

......

After leaving the court, Xingmo and his group took a carriage to the Holy Spirit Church.

She had some more questions to ask her mentor before he was imprisoned forever.

After asking Aurora to wait in the lounge, Xingmo followed Alice through the secret passage behind the church and walked through the dark corridor.

As they walked, Alice suddenly spoke:

"What do you think of what Isabella said before?"

Xingmo turned to look at the senior student beside her and found that the latter looked a little worried.

"What do you mean..." Xingmo asked tentatively.

"It's obvious that she wants to fight your little ancestor," Alice frowned slightly. "You should have figured out the matter of bombing the church, right?"

"I've figured it out." Xing Mo nodded.

It was obvious that Isabella's actions at the time were intended to destroy the "Star Sea Spring" and its affiliated faith connection, leaving Aurora isolated and helpless.

In that case, even if Xingmo found Aurora that night, he would not be able to help her regain power.

The power of faith is the foundation for accommodating the Godhead.

"I don't understand what she's thinking," Xing Mo shook her head. "The Xinghai Church should be the guardian of the Academy..."

“Perhaps the truth is darker than we imagined,” Alice sighed.

As they were talking, the two turned left at the end of the dungeon and entered the permanent cell.

Lucius was locked in a cage, and several priests were carving string arrays on the floor around him, making final preparations.

Once the sentence of permanent imprisonment is confirmed, he will be sealed inside the cage by the string magic circle and will never be able to take a single step out of the string magic circle again.

"..."

Xingmo and Alice walked to the cage and looked at Lucius who was imprisoned in the cage. The eyes of the three of them met for a moment.

"Thank you for your efforts for me, Xiaomo..."

Lucius smiled and broke the silence:

"I did something like that, and yet you're still able to excuse me. That's very noble and kind."

"I just hope you can be judged fairly..." Xingmo whispered.

"But excessive kindness can lead you to make mistakes," Lucius said, changing the subject. "What I did may not be noble, but I will never regret it."

"Even if so many people have to die?" Alice frowned.

"In my heart, my daughter is more important than all of them." Lucius smiled.

He raised his head, looked through the cage, and looked at the black ceiling:

"I live in the past," Lucius said. "Without Miriam, I can't move forward."

After saying this, he lowered his head, his lake-blue eyes sparkling in the darkness:

"But you have to look forward, Xiaomo, Alice. A bigger storm is coming."

"Is there anything you can tell us?" Alice took out the notebook.

"Nothing new," Lucius said calmly, "If I heard correctly, Prince Austin was still captured alive, but half of his body was amputated, right?"

"That's right." Xing Mo nodded.

That night, after the "Superstring Array" was shut down, the North City Police Department found Austin on the street.

He was bathed in a pile of corpses, his legs were cut off, and the guards around him were almost all unrecognizable.

The police station interrogated him, hoping to learn from him who was responsible for this incident. After all, anyone who could move freely within the "Sweet Rain of the Great Tree of Rebirth" must be no ordinary person. That person might be even more dangerous than Prince Austin.

But so far, Prince Austin has not spoken.

He was silent as if he had lost his soul. At this moment, he was in the cell next to Lucius, and needed someone to take care of him to stay alive.

Epilogue) Moon (Part 3) - 6k2 chapters - (Three in One)

When Austin's miserable condition was mentioned, a hint of cruel pleasure ignited in the depths of Lucius's eyes.

He cleared his throat and continued:

"The Golden King will soon send an ambassadorial delegation. War is inevitable. Don't try to refute me. All of this is part of the Supreme Being's script. What is to happen will inevitably happen."

"The Most High?" Xing Mo recalled a name. "Are you talking about... 'Cain'?"

Hearing this name, Lucius was startled, then smiled helplessly:

"Knowing too much...is not good for you...really..."

"I don't know enough yet," Xingmo said firmly, "and then what?"

"And then? My advice to you is to get out as soon as possible and not get bogged down in this situation," Lucius said. "The Kingdom of Messina to the west is a good place to go, away from the flames of war. Sooner or later, the Citadel will burn because of the games played by those ambitious individuals."

"The secrets of the White Tower will eventually be revealed to the world. At that moment, the world will be transformed."

After Lucius finished speaking, the three of them fell into silence for a short while.

After a while, Xing Mo whispered:

"I just wish it were the same..."

"We can't go back any longer," Lucius smiled. "Since the night Miriam left, nothing can be undone."

Lucius lowered his head, hiding half of his face in the shadows.

"Xiao Mo, I want to advise you to stay away from anything related to the name 'Garden of Redemption' from now on. Because anyone who gets involved with them will never have a good ending. I am an example of this."

"But I know you won't let those people go unpunished. Even if it means your own death, you will track them down."

"So, I will show you a way."

Lucius said, waving to Alice.

Alice understood what he meant, so she tore off a piece of paper, wrapped it in a pen and handed it to Lucius behind the cage.

Lucius took the pen, drew on the paper with difficulty using his handcuffed hands, and then handed the paper over.

Xingmo took the paper and saw a scribbled map of the continent of Vesta with a point marked in Machiavelli's territory.

That point, if Xingmo remembered correctly, should be located in the desert.

"This is..." Xingmo murmured.

"This is the place of the Golden Sun, or rather the tomb of the god..."

Lucius narrated:

"When the current 'Golden King' Ugaen Tukakankion was still a slave, he found the shrine alone in the desert and saw the bones of the god."

"He inherited the power of the sun and led the enslaved Golden People to overthrow the Kingdom of Garo in the oasis and establish the Golden Empire, which is now the Machiavelli Empire."

"That shrine contains many secrets, including the truth of Genesis, but I didn't see it with my own eyes..."

"From that place, you can trace back to the origins of the 'Garden of Redemption' and get a glimpse of their true nature."

Lucius finished speaking and sighed deeply:

"That's all I can say. I've done my duty."

At this moment, the priest who was setting up the string array stood up and gestured to Alice.

Alice closed her eyes, as if mourning something, and finally looked at Lucius:

"Teacher, I never thought the ending would be like this."

"Who could have thought of that?" Lucius laughed.

His eyes swept across Alice and finally stopped on Xingmo.

At this moment, something seemed to surge out of those lake blue eyes, making Xingmo feel more grounded than ever before.

She felt strange at first, but soon realized why it felt familiar - during the days and nights when she was studying at the Nefera Beta Magic Academy, Lucius watched her grow up with the same eyes, step by step to where she is today.

"The truth awaits you," Lucius murmured. "Go, Xiaomo, go through that blizzard."

......

"Zi-"

In the endless darkness, a green light appeared.

The green light split in all directions, gradually forming a complex string magic circle, constantly leveraging the ubiquitous string power in nature.

Gold, blue, red, silver, and other colorful lights kept lighting up and going out, repeatedly outlining the object in the center of the magic circle.

It was a pool of water, filled with dark liquid and countless bubbles surging on the surface.

When each bubble expands to its maximum, it will turn into a hideous human face. Those faces will open their mouths wide, as if they are about to howl, but they will burst before the first character is spit out, and black juice will splash everywhere.

In the intervals between the flickering beams of light, something seemed to briefly float to the surface of the black pool - a silver skeleton, a pale blue heart beating in its chest, and even the black pool could not completely block its light.

That is the other half of Star Foam that was torn away in "Motiheim", the half that symbolizes the blue star.

In the darkness, someone whispered:

"The moon is about to rise again..."

"Tonight..."

......

After leaving the dungeon, Xingmo has been absent-minded, always feeling like there is a stone blocking his chest.

I feel like there are more and more things going on right now...

Isabella is clearly going to go against the followers of the Tree of Life...it's only a matter of time before she gets into trouble...

The mentor was imprisoned forever, and I probably won't be able to see him again...

The Golden King is about to start a war. This is the most suffocating thing...

Xingmo rubbed his forehead and felt more and more tired.

Alice, who was standing beside her, seemed to notice her emotions and patted her on the back.

"Okay, cheer up, we're going to hold a celebration party for you tonight."

"A celebration banquet?" Xing Mo looked up. "There's a celebration banquet? How come I didn't know about it?"

"I just made a last-minute decision...haha..."

Alice smiled faintly:

"Well, actually, it's because Vivian is clamoring for meat. She said I haven't been with her since that night, and she wants some compensation. So why not just invite more people and have a good meal?"

"Is that so..." Xingmo felt warm in her heart when she thought of the party. "Then...can I invite all the children from the port area?"

"Of course, no problem," Alice nodded. "By the way, you can arrange for some of the children to work as maids in my house. If it has anything to do with the Pushet family, that woman will have to think twice before taking action."

The "woman" she was referring to was obviously Isabella.

Indeed...if

"Won't it cause trouble?" Xing Mo hesitated.

Alice winked at Xingmo:

"Why are you being so polite to me? It's just a matter of repairing another building. It's a small problem."

Okay... I always forget that she is actually a rich girl because of her friendliness...

Xingmo smiled awkwardly, then followed Alice around the corner in the corridor and into the church hall.

The two went to the room on the side of the church and pushed open the door of the lounge.

As soon as they opened the door, they witnessed a tense scene.

Vivian and Aurora's faces were very close, and there seemed to be lightning flashing between their eyes, as if a war would break out at any time.

On the table between them was a plate of dessert, not much, just enough for one person.

"..."