Chapter 101 Ancient Books and Relics (Part 2)

What does it mean? Roland rubbed the row of handwriting, did the owner of the ancient book fight those monsters in the wild land? He moved his eyes down—

"There are more and more devils, but we are getting fewer and fewer. A novel

"The God's Stone of Retaliation is also powerless to stop their attack. With that incomparable monster power alone, even if they don't rely on magic power, they are ferocious and terrifying enemies."

"The holy city of Taquila has fallen, and we are fleeing in all directions."

"Cross mountains, cross rivers, escape as far as you can from the gates of hell."

"But next time, where else can we escape?"

"But it's not something I need to think about anymore, I'm dying, Natalya."

"The power of the devil is corrupting me and no medicine will work."

"I'm writing this because I want to ask you something."

"Acharis' trial of God's Punishment Army is coming to an end, and the experiment was very successful. Fan's warriors will not be defeated even in the face of the devil. But she forgot that even if God's Punishment Army wins in the end, this victory does not belong to us."

"That's right, God's Punishment Army will only bring us destruction."

"Go and stop her. Only you can do it."

This text is not long. After Roland scanned from beginning to end, he closed his eyes and meditated, trying to put himself into Hakara's perspective.

Assuming she doesn't know the existence of the devil, if the devil is replaced by a witch, this description can easily be imagined by her as the church army retreating steadily under the attack of the witch. Then combined with the widely circulated rumors—witches are the minions of the devil, and the magic power comes from the gates of hell, it is very likely that Hakara believes that the church actually wants to conceal the truth: the so-called gates of hell are the entrance to the holy mountain. For hundreds of years, witches have been going to the holy mountain one after another, where they gained eternal life. So there are more and more witches, and fewer and fewer warriors in the Church.

Of course, there are many loopholes in this guess. For example, the note mentioned that the other party has a strange power far beyond ordinary people, which is obviously not a characteristic of a witch. Another example is that the witch can still defeat the church army under the influence of God's Stone of Retaliation, which seems too bizarre. So what made Hakara decide to go to the wild land, he still doesn't know. Was it because her urgency affected her judgment, or was there a part of the scroll that she hadn't peeked at that was the real cause?

Roland preferred the latter.

At least he knew now that the devil described in the last page of scribbled notes was not a witch, but a real alien race.

But this did not reduce his doubts at all, on the contrary, it made more unknown problems.

When on earth has the church ever fought the devil?

Roland searched through the fourth prince's poor mystic knowledge, but couldn't find any relevant content. Since the end of the War of Faith, the Church has established its headquarters in the north to resist the evil beasts that invaded the interior through the Great Gap. Later, they simply built a majestic fortress city on the Hermes Plateau and called it the New Holy City. These two cities connected together, one high and the other low, are used to fight evil beasts, not devils. Besides, the place name Taquila has never been heard of before.

If these facts are true, there is no reason for the church to keep them secret. In the books that record the history of the church, every major victory in successfully resisting evil beasts and fighting witches will be described in detail, as if they are afraid that others will not know their achievements. But fighting against the devil is more worthy of a special mention than evil beasts and witches.

The last question is God's Punishment Army.

Obviously, this church member did not want to see the God's Punishment Army appear, and entrusted others to stop the person in charge of the experiment. It seems to be a success? Roland only knew that the Church had the Judgment Army, but had never heard of the God's Punishment Army—of course, the fourth prince's ignorance could not be ruled out.

However, if they can really cultivate powerful warriors who can face the devil head-on, it will only greatly increase the strength of the church. Why does the owner of the notebook think that the God's Punishment Army will bring destruction?

What Shujuan thinks is inconceivable should refer to the latter two points.

"Do you know where you got the ancient book that led Hakara astray?" Roland looked up at Nightingale.

"When I joined the Mutual Aid Society, my sisters had already embarked on the road of seeking mountains." Nightingale chewed on the dried fish, and said in an inarticulate voice, "However, Wendy mentioned that the Mutual Aid Society was not called the Mutual Aid Society at first. It was just a few witches from Haifeng County who got together by chance, including Hakara, Wendy, and Scroll. Later, they found a hidden place in the Eastern Forest not far from Haifeng County as a secret meeting place. It turned out that there was actually an entrance to an underground ruin." She swallowed the snack in her mouth and licked her lips, "But except for Hakara, no one has gone down to explore."

"Is the ancient book found in the ruins?"

"Anyway, that's what Hakara claimed," Nightingale curled her lips. "Later, there were more and more witches at the party. Maybe someone accidentally leaked their whereabouts during a certain meeting. The church sent a large group of judges to surround the forest. More than half of the witches escaped. It was then that Hakara decided to go to the Impassable Mountains to find the Holy Mountain. So they called themselves the Mutual Aid Society, and set the search for the Holy Mountain as the highest goal of their members."

After listening to it, Roland fell into deep thought. It is such a troublesome thing to add too little mysticism. Anything that involves history and legends is basically blank in his mind. The ancient book did not mention the specific number of years, and he did not know whether this war was recorded in other history books. The first party was dead, so it would be great if he could go to the ruins to investigate, he thought.

But Roland also knew that this was basically impossible. The eastern forest was too far away from him. Compared to a trip across the entire Graycastle, expanding the territory was his main task.

Walking to the window, Roland looked at the garden at his feet through the floor-to-ceiling windows. The witches are carrying out ability training according to their orders. Now that he had twelve witches under his command, it was time to form an organization.

In his vision, the organization didn't need a program or guidelines. It is set up for the convenience of managing witches and rationally exerting their abilities, and its function is similar to that of later guilds.

The rules of the organization are as simple as possible, with only two rules: Do not use abilities to violate the laws of the territory. Do not use power to escape the accountability of the law.

At first, Roland also wanted to imitate the Three Laws of Robotics, restricting witches from using their abilities to harm or attack ordinary people, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was redundant. To them, ability is like a gun in the hands of ordinary people. When encountering danger, there is no essential difference between using a gun to fight back and using abilities to fight back. Moreover, deliberately emphasizing the difference between witches and ordinary people will only increase the gap between the two groups.

Therefore, not breaking the law and not avoiding responsibility is also the most concise expression that a science and technology dog ​​can think of.

As for the name of the organization, Roland had already considered it.

This brand new group is called "Witch Union". (To be continued.)