Chapter 1888 Sylvia's Dilemma
"I am the savior in your oracle?" Sitting on the airship returning to the Holy City of Redemption, Leo muttered with a little doubt after listening to Melina's story.
The reason why he was confused was not because he was confused about his identity as the savior, but because he was confused about why Sylvia did this.
Based on his understanding of the current situation in this world, Sylvia did not need to intervene at all. The Redemption Order she established was enough to deal with those abyss vines. Even if some abyss races came to this world, she did not need to do it herself. With clergy like Melina and artificial warriors like the Holy Knight of Divine Grace, as long as they were not the upper races of the abyss, there would be no problem. Therefore, it was completely redundant to give him the identity of a savior and let him help the Redemption Order to complete the Great Recovery Plan.
Moreover, Sylvia's own personality determined that if she did not encounter something that she really could not solve, she would never take the initiative to ask him for help.
But if she was not looking for her help, there was no need to give him the identity of a savior, let alone send someone to find him. Sylvia could contact him alone.
Melina nodded and said, "Yes, the Holy Priest and the Priest of the Three Goddesses have received the oracle that you are the Savior."
"Wait, you said the oracle came from the Three Goddesses," Leo seemed to have noticed something and asked in a deep voice, "What about the Lord of Redemption?"
Melina immediately explained, "My Lord did not give the oracle, but the Three Goddesses and My Lord are one, and the oracle of the Three Goddesses represents the oracle of My Lord."
Leo listened, with a thoughtful look on his face. He could vaguely guess why Sylvia would give him the identity of the Savior so abruptly, and sent someone to contact him in vain instead of contacting him directly.
"She may be trapped by something!" Leo guessed in his heart.
Although Melina said that the Three Goddesses and Sylvia were one, Leo, who knew the gods very well, knew that the two could not be equated. The Three Goddesses were the Lord of Redemption, but the Lord of Redemption was not necessarily the Three Goddesses.
If Sylvia had no problems, then the one who gave the oracle must be Sylvia herself, the Lord of Redemption, rather than the three goddesses formed by the embodiment of her three powers.
However, even though Leo discovered that Sylvia was very likely to be in some trouble now, he was not worried about Sylvia, because if Sylvia really had a big problem, then the three goddesses as the embodiment of her power would not be able to frequently show up in this world, and could not even directly impart knowledge and grant power to the clergy, so Leo would guess that Sylvia might be trapped by something and could not get out to contact him.
Thinking of this, Leo became more curious about what he had experienced in the lost memory, because in his opinion, Sylvia's current situation was definitely related to what happened in the lost memory.
"Excuse me, is there any problem?" Melina sensitively noticed that Leo was thinking about something important at the moment, so she tried to ask.
Leo recovered from Melina's questioning, he shook his head, said nothing, and then looked at Melina thoughtfully.
Melina followed Leo's line of sight and looked at herself in confusion, with a puzzled look on her face. Although she did not see anything unusual in Leo's eyes, she had a feeling of being seen through that she had never had before. This kind of seeing through was not seeing through the surface of the body, but everything inside, including the soul.
Just as Melina felt, while looking at the other party, Leo also scanned the other party's physical condition through the mental network, and the results of his scan surprised Leo.
Melina had introduced herself just now. He knew that although Melina had a lot of power in the Redemption Order and had a very high reputation, she was not a formal clergyman, which meant that she had never been baptized as a monk. People in the order also knew this, but they all ignored it.
However, even Melina, who was not a formal priest of the Redemption Order, had her body transformed by Sylvia's power. Melina could no longer be regarded as a human being, but more like a special life of half-human and half-energy. More importantly, Leo found three powers belonging to Sylvia in Melina's body, and these three powers were also fused into a kind of divine power under the influence of certain world laws. Undoubtedly, this divine power should be Sylvia's unique divine power.
It is not difficult to guess from Melina's physical condition that Sylvia should want to completely transform Melina into her own family, and the kind of family that can receive her power and become her incarnation.
However, the transformation of Melina was not completely completed, but stopped halfway. As for the reason for the stop, Leo was not clear for the time being, but it was definitely not because Melina had a transformation problem. In Leo's opinion, Melina's body transformation was very perfect, and even if he did it himself, he might not be able to achieve such perfection, so he guessed that Sylvia was very likely to have encountered something in the middle, so he temporarily stopped the transformation of Melina, and this stop, it never started again.
Thinking of this, Leo felt that Melina might be hiding clues that could help him discover Sylvia's current situation, so he asked Melina very directly: "Can you tell me about your past experiences?"
"My past experience?" Melina was a little surprised. She felt that Leo didn't seem to be interested in her past experience, but wanted to find something through her past experience.
Although Melina felt very uncomfortable telling her past experience to a stranger she just met, and even wanted to refuse directly, but when she thought of Leo's identity, she still suppressed the discomfort in her heart, recalled seriously for a moment, took out those long-sealed memories from her mind, sorted them out quickly, and began to narrate.
But when she just opened her mouth, Leo interrupted her narration and said, "You don't have to start from your childhood, start from the disaster."
Melina, who has always been strong, couldn't be tough when facing Leo's request. She thought about it for a while, and then started to talk about what she experienced in the year when the disaster occurred. I don't know why, the vague memories that had been in the past for decades gradually became clear as she narrated and recalled, and she also experienced what happened during that period of time again as if she had returned to the past.
Leo listened very carefully and did not interrupt Melina's narration. Although Melina's narration was about things she had experienced, most of these things were related to the Order of the Redeemer, and could even be regarded as the history of the Order of the Redeemer. If they were sorted out, they might be regarded as a gospel.
Although Leo did not ask, he remembered many doubts in Melina's narration and was ready to ask them one by one after Melina finished her narration.
Melina's narration was not very fast, and the content was very complicated. It took more than three hours to talk about what happened during the period when Saint Mariannelia died.
"Stop, that's enough!" Leo suddenly raised his hand to interrupt Melina's narration, and then asked Melina very seriously: "Please describe the appearance of Saint Mariannelia when she died."
Melina was stunned when she heard this, and didn't understand why Leo had such a request, but she didn't say much, but wanted to describe the scene when she last saw Saint Mariannelia according to Leo's request.
What surprised her was that this memory, which should have been unforgettable, became very vague. However, it was not quite right to say that it was vague, because everything else in the memory of that scene was very clear, except for the appearance of Saint Mariannelia, which was very vague, as if someone had deliberately smeared the appearance of Saint Mariannelia in this memory, and it was not smeared cleanly.
"What's going on?" Melina was surprised, but also realized that Leo must know something, otherwise he would not ask such a key question abruptly, so she asked Leo for advice, saying: "Savior, do you know something?"
After hearing this, Leo nodded slightly and said: "God cannot be seen."
After hearing Leo's words, Melina did not understand what he meant for a while, but soon she thought of something, looked at Leo with an unbelievable look, and said: "Are you saying that Saint Mariannelia was a god at that time? Is it my Lord?"
Leo nodded again, and the doubts on his face not only did not disappear, but became stronger.
Before Melina had completely recovered from the shocking news brought by Leo, Leo asked her all the questions he had accumulated while listening to Melina's story.
Melina was able to answer Leo's questions quickly at first, but as Leo asked more questions, her speed of answering questions began to slow down. Many times, she needed to think over and over again before she could answer a question. Moreover, she seemed not very satisfied with her answers, and she was completely confused at the end. For example, when Leo asked her and Santa Maria purifying a city together, a mysterious symbol appeared in the sky, and what shape that symbol was.
It was also because of these questions that Melina found that the memories she thought were very clear were actually incomplete and unclear. Many memories had gaps, and in her subconscious, those gaps should have been there.
When Melina asked about her incomplete memory, Leo answered very seriously: "Illusions, those are just your illusions. In fact, you don't have that memory at all. Everything is an illusion created in your mind by some extraordinary power."
"What extraordinary power? Are they those evil heretics from outside the world?" Melina asked again.
However, Leo shook his head and said: "It's not from outside the world, but the gods that exist in the world itself."
Melina denied repeatedly: "Gods exist in the world itself? This is impossible. I know very well that before the disaster, before our Lord came to this world, there were no gods in this world, nor any extraordinary power."
"God cannot be seen." Leo said the absolute rule again when he answered before.
At this moment, Leo has vaguely understood what Sylvia did in this world and what happened in this world.
Through the experiences narrated by Melina, Leo keenly discovered that before the disaster befell this world, there were gods in this world, and the gods secretly controlled everything in this world, including the so-called scientific experiments conducted in this world, and the various data obtained from those experiments, as well as the various technological products manufactured through the experiments, all had gods behind them.
Leo didn't know why the gods of this world did this, but he was sure that this catastrophe that affected the entire world, starting from the energy crystals and sweeping the world with extreme cold, was more like helping the people of this world get rid of the control of the gods, and the person who did all this was most likely Sylvia.
However, with the subsequent changes, Sylvia seemed to realize that this world needed gods, so she replaced the original gods of this world and became the only god of this world, and that Saint Mariannelia should be the family she created specifically to accept her will, and Melina was a substitute.
When Saint Mariannelia died, Melina couldn't remember Saint Mariannelia's appearance because the consciousness in Saint Mariannelia's body was Sylvia at the time, and Saint Mariannelia acted in this world as the incarnation of the gods possessed by Sylvia's consciousness most of the time before her death. From this point of view, the Redemption Order can be said to be founded by Sylvia.
This is why the first pope of the Redemption Order, Saint Maria, clearly received the most gifts and blessings from the gods, but her life span was only a few decades, while Melina was able to live to this day and still remain young.
Although Sylvia can be said to be the only god in this world now, from all indications, her throne as the only god is not stable enough, otherwise, the extreme cold that has lasted for decades should have ended, and the abyss vines entrenched in the lost cities should have been solved, which also made Leo understand what he should do to help the Redemption Order complete the Great Recovery Plan.
Obviously, the abyss vines entrenched in various cities, no, it should not be said that they are abyss vines, but those energy crystals. These energy crystals are the most threatening to Sylvia. On the contrary, the abyss vines are more like limiting the power of the crystals, and it is more likely that Sylvia deliberately planted them.
Although Leo is not sure what kind of help these crystals can bring to the gods who have been driven out of this world by Sylvia, he can be sure that the target of the Great Recovery Plan is those energy crystals.