This woman looks tall and slender, with a plump figure, black curly hair, and is wearing a modified black and gray nun's uniform. This nun's uniform is more close-fitting and shorter than the normal style. She has a pair of brown eyes, and her expression is very peaceful.
"Sister Vanya, this is Sister Faith, a nun sent by the Secret Court. She has been active in the Buserit area. Bastis is her main base of operations. She can tell us about the recent situation in Buserit."
Phil introduced the nun beside him to Vanya. Vanya knew that the so-called Secret Court was one of the most important institutions within the church. Like the Court of Salvation where she was, it was directly under the control of the cardinal. It was the church's intelligence agency, sending spies all over the world to collect all kinds of intelligence for the church, both overt and covert. These people mainly appeared in marginal areas where the church had little influence or even no influence at all, naturally including Buserit.
"Ah...it's Sister Faith, please take a seat...you've been wandering in this desolate place for a long time, it must be hard." Vanya said with a smile to the nun in front of her. This was not the first time she had come into contact with the Secret Court. When she first went to Addus, she had come into contact with members of the Secret Court lurking in Addus. It was they who told Vanya all kinds of intelligence about Addus at that time, including Shadi's detailed history of rise to fame.
"I've heard for a long time that Sister Vanya, who has been very popular recently, has a gentle personality and treats people kindly. It seems to be true... It really makes me miss her." Hearing Vanya's words, Faith also sat aside with a smile. After listening to Faith's words, Vanya tilted her head curiously and asked.
"Nostalgia? Sister Faith, do you think I feel nostalgic?"
"That's about right... I've lived in a remote area for so many years, and I haven't seen anyone from a regular Holy Church for a long time, especially someone who agrees with me to believe in the Virgin Mary... To be sent to such a dangerous place to perform a mission, one must either believe in the Father or the Son. Now I finally meet someone with whom I can share the same faith..." Faith continued to speak with a gentle smile as she sat on the carpet. Her words surprised Vanya a little.
"So, Sister Faith is a believer of the Virgin Mary? It's really rare that a person working in the prison secret court actually has the Virgin Mary's way in his heart. Wouldn't the Virgin Mary's mercy affect your mission?"
"No... I just need to always remember, 'temporary sacrifice is for greater redemption, minor cruelty is for grand love' and I won't be disturbed by this. My faith is the driving force of my work rather than an obstacle." Faith said this after waving her hands, and Vanya nodded with interest after listening to her words.
"'Tiny cruelty is for the sake of grand love'... I understand. It's not easy to persist on this land and now make continuous contributions to the Holy Church. I would like to pay my respects to you here..." Vanya said this, and then she bowed lightly to Faith and continued to speak.
"We came to Bastis for the purpose of providing relief, but the current situation here is slightly different from what we knew before. The people here seem to have been misled by some slanderous words. Do you know the specific situation, Sister Faith?"
Getting to the point, Vanya asked Faith, and Faith immediately answered.
"It was the Priory of Rot. The Priory of Rot in the south took action. This wave of 'Plague of Exhaustion' that spread throughout Buserit was created and deliberately spread by the Priory of Rot. This plague officially appeared about two months ago, and then spread rapidly in Buserit, and soon spread to Bastis.
"Bastis was infected very quickly. The heretics who were originally controlling and preaching here actively treated the plague at first, hoping to further win over the hearts of the people and spread their heretical ideas. At the beginning, they achieved good results.
"Because of the activeness of those heretics, the spread of the Bastis plague has slowed down. Because they have some extraordinary people on the Path of the Holy Mother, they are very fast in dealing with these plague patients. The speed of plague infection is not as fast as their speed of treatment. At the beginning, the Bastis plague was in great danger of being directly wiped out by these heretics."
Faith spoke to Vanya attentively, and Vanya frowned slightly as she listened to Faith's words. In her impression, this kind of plague was not so incurable.
"I originally thought that those heretics would handle the plague in Bastis, but surprisingly, the heretics were getting slower and slower in handling the plague. People who could have been cured at once now needed more time to be cured, and the time was getting longer and longer, so that the plague that was about to be eradicated was revived in Bastis. The plague spread rapidly at a more violent speed than before. Not only did people who had not been infected before get infected with the plague, but even people who had been infected and cured before became sick again.
"During this period, the number of patients in Bastis began to grow explosively, exceeding the upper limit of the processing capacity of that group of people. During that period of time, the entire Bastis suddenly lost its order and fell into chaos. As a result, those heretics lost control of Bastis.
"During that period of chaos, someone from the Priory of Rot came. He was the bald man you saw before. His name was Jawadin, and he was from the Priory of Rot... or according to more local sayings, he was a subordinate of Amyaba, one of the chieftains of the Elder Cult. He brought his people to Bastis during the most chaotic period, and began to spread their faith in evil gods in the name of healing. The plague that the heretics could not solve was difficult for Jawadin to easily alleviate the suffering of the patients. Therefore, the influence of the Elder Cult quickly expanded in Bastis and soon surpassed the heretics.
"During this process, the conflict between Jawadin and the heretics continued to intensify, and eventually broke out in the form of armed conflict. As for the result... I think Sister Vanya has seen it, right at the gate of Bastis..."
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Just as Vanya was listening to the information brought by Faith in her tent, the sun in the sky completely set as time passed. After dusk, darkness enveloped this ancient oasis desert.
The cold evening wind was howling in the desert. At this moment, in a forest in the oasis, a tall and thin man wearing a northern black robe was standing here. The corpse Edric stood in the deserted and cold forest, with his hands behind his back and looking around, as if waiting for something.
Suddenly, the bushes beside Ed shook. Ed turned his head and saw a figure walking towards him through the bushes. Looking closely, he saw that it was a masked man in a robe, carrying another figure on his shoulders.
After coming to Ed's side, the masked man put the man he was leaning on his shoulder to the ground, stood up, took a long breath, and spoke with the real voice of Nefernis.
"Huh...finally done, take a look."
Listening to Neveu's words, Dorothy controlled Edfu's body to carefully examine the figure lying on the ground. She was a young woman wearing a tattered Salvation robe, with a livid face and closed eyes. She was one of the Salvation members who was nailed to the wall of Bastis before.
"Hmm... As expected, she is not dead yet. It seems that the auxiliary cup has given her a breath. She has not been tortured to death yet..." Looking at the woman in front of him, Ed said in a deep voice. Dorothy did not rush to do more for this rescuer woman who still had a breath. Instead, she drew a puppet mark on her first, and after turning her into a puppet, she checked the condition of her body.
"As expected... there are parasites in it. We can't just bring it back. We have to get rid of the parasites..." Dorothy thought as she checked the body condition of the rescue girl in her tent far away.
Afterwards, along with Dorothy's spiritual mobilization, a slender, materialized red spiritual thread extended from the fingertips of Ed's hand. After circling in the air like a snake, it extended directly downwards, passing through clothes and skin, and entered the body of the rescuer woman who was in a deep coma.
Dorothy carefully controlled her spiritual threads to move inside the woman's body, and quickly found the various parasites living inside. These parasites of various shapes and sizes were immediately turned into living puppets by Dorothy after being touched by her spiritual threads. Dorothy directly ordered them all to commit suicide, and even the developing parasite eggs were not spared.
After a short while, Dorothy had cleared the woman's body of all the parasites she could find.
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