In the open space in front of the rest area on the hillside of the holy mountain, dozens of people are ready to go and don't want to stay here for a moment.
Several of the Asian soldiers, led by several officers and a witcher, had gone to the stable area at the foot of the mountain to manage their pack horses.
In a room in the rest area, Neillo met alone with a tall and thin priest who was sent for help.
During this period of time, Neillo had been sleeping in the open air and had lost a lot of weight. In addition, the Sword Saint would occasionally give guidance to the people in the team, so Neillo had also become a lot stronger and no longer showed any signs of obesity.
"Is that so, is that what the Archbishop said?"
Neillo's voice was somewhat bland, not at all what the senior priest had imagined.
"Mr. Bishop Neillo, don't you realize the seriousness of this? You may be labeled a heretic by the Holy Mountain!!! Then the churches all over the world will not recognize you..."
"Yeah, is that so?"
Neillo now understood why the Sword Saint always spoke so calmly. Just like himself at this moment, he had experienced a lot and had become more open-minded about many things.
"Okay, thank you for telling me this. I will tell Leit about this. Let's say goodbye now. Unless something unexpected happens, I will not come back to the Holy Mountain."
Neillo had little interest and did not want to find out whether this high-ranking priest was really reminding him because of their past friendship or whether he was sent by the archbishop on purpose.
This senior priest was a friend of Neillo's who he had worked with before. He stared in a daze as Neillo walked towards the door, where others were already waiting outside.
"Nillo! Have you really abandoned your faith?"
This obviously stern question made Neillo, who was already at the door, pause. However, he still did not turn around. Instead, he turned his head and glanced at his old friend out of the corner of his eye.
"On the contrary, Hagen, on the contrary... I once doubted my faith and fell into depravity in Fanet, but now, I have never been so sure of the correctness and firmness of my faith."
"Then go and explain things to the Archbishop! The Archbishop has already told me that as long as you can explain things clearly and repent, the Holy See will forgive you, and the God of Light will also forgive his believers!"
This time Neillo didn't stop, he just walked out of the room.
"Perhaps you should ask the Archbishop what the Church of Light is... and what Light is! See you again when there's a chance, Hagen."
There's nothing to be nostalgic about.
Outside, a group of people were waiting for Neillo. He composed himself and returned to the Sword Saint Degni.
"Let's go, Master Sword Saint."
Qin Xiaoxia looked at the room in the house. The priest there had already left. Then he turned his head and looked at Leit on the side.
This guy is worthy of the reputation of "Hand of Punishment". He doesn't even have a good friend in the Holy Mountain. Of course, there may be people who consider Leit as a friend but it is inconvenient for them to come because it is daytime after all.
…
More than twenty minutes later, somewhere in the garden area on the top of the Holy Mountain.
"Is this how Neillo replied to you? That group of people have left?"
"Yes, Your Excellency the Archbishop."
Hagen didn't say much, nor did he ask the questions that Neillo had asked before. He just bowed respectfully.
"Did he say anything else?"
The archbishop was somewhat unwilling to accept this. He thought that Neillo and the others must know something that he did not, but now there was no room for them to get any information.
"No more Archbishop!"
"Okay, go down."
After sending the priest away, the archbishop sighed. Things should not have turned out this way. He felt that he had missed an important opportunity.
…
He came and left in a hurry. To be honest, Qin Xiaoxia was quite disappointed with this trip to the holy mountain.
Due to his habit of giving people multiple-choice questions, he originally had two plans in place.
Although unlike his previous appearances as a mysterious entity, Qin Xiaoxia actually gave the Archbishop of the Holy Mountain two choices.
The first is that during the Vatican's church council, the archbishop was able to first say that he was "inspired" by the strange gospel and found the crystal. When he took out the crystal, the Sword Master, Neillo, Leyte and others "astonished" to recognize the crystal.
After a series of coincidences and puzzles, the possibility of the voice heard by Sword Saint Archbishop Cop gradually led to the origin of the God of Light.
Under normal circumstances, the Archbishop heard the "good news" as soon as the Sword Master and his party arrived at the Holy Mountain. He should have connected the two together. Even if he was originally planning to do something bad to Neillo and Leit, he should have slowed down. The first possibility is more likely.
Who would have thought that the Archbishop would start the trouble from the very beginning in order to consolidate the power and majesty of the Holy Mountain first, and he had no intention of handing over the crystal.
In this way, although Qin Xiaoxia did not have time to get to know the Archbishop's character for a long time, he could basically see that the high-level people in the Holy Mountain were basically very self-centered and arrogant. Well, Qin Xiaoxia was confident that he could reform such a person, but... forget it. Why bother with so much trouble.
So the swordsman Degni sensed the crystal from the other world and took the initiative to attack, because there is no creation without destruction.
…
In Asia, the former city of the Gunningsen Empire, something like ash was still falling.
There are not many living people in the city now, instead there are some monsters with red bodies.
“Crack…Crack, crack, crack…”
A teeth-grinding sound continued to be heard, and the head of a ridgetop man was being chewed in the mouth of a tall monster.
This kind of monster has no hair or scales on its body, and its muscles are extremely developed. Some are like wild beasts, and a few, like this one, have limbs with two feet and two hands.
With a "crack", blood splattered everywhere.
The body of the ridgeback man in the monster's hand could still twitch, and the upper body was bitten off directly.
“Creaky, creaky, creaky…”
Blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.
"Humph... Did the powerful Nelliel Savannah escape here... What a pathetic stray dog! But..."
The monster stood up from its squatting position. Its already very tall body reached a height of six or seven meters. Under its red skin were muscles as strong as steel.
"Pah~"
The tail behind it swung and shattered several stone slabs on the ground.
It looked up at the sky, and above the clouds was where the ashes fell.
"This world is really a bit dizzy. I always feel like something is wrong... Let's stay in the gray area for now."
Looking down, I saw that only the lower half of the body of the ridgetop man was left and blood was still dripping from his body.
“The taste is so-so, but a little astringent.”
With a word of disdain, he threw the lower half of the body far away.
“Woo…” “Woo roar…” “Hiss…”…
The corpse was still in the air, and roars were heard in the distance. Many monsters, at least six or seven monsters, jumped up and rushed to grab the half corpse.
“Roar~” “Kacha…” “Get out!!” “Roar!!”
The monsters were still jumping in the air, attacking and fighting each other over such a small corpse.
"A bunch of idiots..."
The tall humanoid monster whispered and glanced in another direction.
Several gangster thieves who were hiding there were holding some valuable treasures, their bodies trembling constantly. The moment the monster's gaze swept over, these greedy gangsters all froze and felt the temperature around them suddenly dropped.
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