Chapter 1024 The Big Secret

When Hao Ren returned to Corpus space, he was warmly welcomed by Lily.

The husky girl grabbed his arm and chewed it for at least seventy or eighty times, until the rigid shield was gnawed and golden light came out randomly, and Lily's toothache was so painful that she couldn't bite anymore.

"Landlord, can you please be more steady!" Lily put her hands on her hips and glared at Hao Ren, "You're going to scare me to death if you suddenly run out with such a big black thing in your arms! Do you know that this is the same as holding a hug? Is charging with a nuclear bomb a concept?”

Hao Ren was stunned by Lily's attack. He never expected that he would be taught such a lesson by this husky girl. Normally, he always felt that this bastard only slept and ate, and was completely heartless, but he didn't expect this. At this critical moment, the girl really missed her landlord. He was quite moved and quite depressed: "Well, I'm sorry...but do you think that as a husky who has given up, you are qualified to teach me a lesson to be more careful?"

Lily screamed on the spot and almost rushed forward again. Fortunately, Hao Ren blocked the girl back in time with a handful of spicy sticks.

Later, he figured out why Lily cared so much about people - in fact, the reason was very simple. A loyal dog protects its owner, and her instinct kicked in...

After losing the energy supply, the magic reaction in the ceremony hall has calmed down, and the powerful mana fluctuations have turned into a slow trickle flowing in the rune array, and have been absorbed and dissipated by the demonic runes set by Yzaks. The unpleasant oppressive aura has also disappeared, and even if the life-support collar is removed, it will no longer be affected in any way. Hao Ren took a look at the situation in the hall and found that there was a large scorch mark on the ceiling of the hall, and cracks almost covered the entire roof: the powerful dark energy even almost penetrated the palace of the Goddess of Creation.

But when he thought about an entire star exploding instantly under the influence of dark energy, Hao Ren felt that the cracks on the roof of the hall were childish.

The black god-killing sword was still suspended in the center of the room, spinning quietly in the air as if nothing had happened.

"What's the status of this sword now?" Hao Ren asked the terminal monitoring the data, "Didn't it cause any trouble again?"

"After you transferred that ball of energy away, the magic reaction in the hall lost its support, and everything was over in a few seconds," the data terminal rarely reported seriously, "Now the sword has calmed down, I From the moment we monitored the machine until now, we haven’t found any continued communication with the outside world.”

"But you said this thing is still 'alive.'" Hao Ren recalled the words mentioned in the communication by the data terminal.

The data terminal shook its body: "Yes, there is something running inside it, and it has not stopped from just now. Our destruction of the entire magic formula seems to have just ended its current task thread, but It had no effect on the sword."

Hao Ren carefully came to the God-Killing Sword and stopped only two meters away from it. He observed the wonderful shape of this sinful weapon. The God-Killing Sword was like a fragment of the universe. When it slowly rotated, the tiny "stars" on the sword were fixed in a certain position and did not follow the sword. Move, so this thing looks like a crack leading to another world.

Maybe it really is some kind of fragment, a fragment that fell from the "universe". Maybe the stars on the sword are real?

At this time, Vivian's voice suddenly came from the communication channel: "Can I go in?"

Hao Ren quickly stopped him: "Hey, wait a minute! I'll put this thing away first!"

The God-Killing Sword went berserk just now because it sensed Vivian's pure divine blood. At this time, for the sake of safety, Hao Ren decided to complete the recovery work first. He opened his personal space, took out a silver-white metal box specially used to seal dangerous items, and then released two autonomous machines to recover the murder weapon.

The two autonomous machines came to the side of the God-Killing Sword. They carefully touched the strange dark sword with their mechanical tentacles. Everyone around them was prepared for the unexpected, but in the end nothing happened: The autonomous machine easily took out the black sword from the suspension force field and placed it in the recycling container without any incident.

After closing the container, setting the lock, activating the energy barrier of the metal box and storing it in the portable space, Hao Ren sent a message to Vivian: "It's ready, come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a flash of lightning suddenly light up at the door of the ceremonial ceremony hall, followed by a loud thunder that struck his head.

A large group of little bats flew into the hall in a dense mass, and transformed into the form of Vivian in mid-air. The latter put her hands on her hips and glared at Hao Ren: "You usually can't be a little calmer? How can you charge with a nuclear bomb? ?!”

Hao Ren suddenly felt that this statement sounded familiar, and then quickly pointed to Lily who had just finished eating snacks and was busy licking her fingers: "She already bit me just now. Why are you still hacking me?"

Vivian continued to put her hands on her hips: "Nonsense, you can listen to a few words of a husky's lecture to you! And you blocked this guy back after just one pack of spicy strips!"

Lily smacked her fingers: "It's half a bag - the landlord is really stingy."

Everyone: "..."

"Okay, okay, let's not pursue this issue first?" Hao Ren let the bat and the big dog stare at him, and quickly changed the subject, "At least this matter has been resolved safely. Now that the source of the accident has been recovered, right? Can the Corpus incident be considered over?"

Bai Huo and Tutanin had complicated expressions on their faces at the same time - there was relief that the incident was finally settled safely, there was also belated exhaustion and emotion, and of course there was concern about the future of the demon hunter clan after such a disaster. However, Vivian suddenly interrupted everyone's thoughts: "There is one more thing."

"What's the matter?" Hao Ren suddenly didn't expect that there was anything missing. Now that the culprit who caused the civil war has been safely recovered, and the war in Corpus has subsided, the remaining finishing work and post-mortem investigation are not what he needs to do now. It can be completed, and he feels that his work here is gone.

"The First Saint," Vivian said slowly, her eyes falling on Claude and suddenly becoming a little sharp, "Now that the biggest trouble has been solved, we can talk about this."

Claude has been standing aside since just now, keeping a close distance from Hao Ren and the others. This outstanding demon hunter, the attendant and herald of the First Saint, has been in the whole scene just now. He maintained commendable composure during the thrilling process, but after the incident, he remained silent until now, as if waiting for someone to call him.

Hao Ren also suddenly realized that in this mess of events, a very important person had been ignored.

The first saint of witchers.

During the "Corpus Rebellion", twelve saints performed strange rituals and then died tragically. The Presbyterian Order was involved in the war in a strange and fanatical state, and then suffered a tragic defeat. There was a "voice" behind the scenes that guided all this. , and commanded the entire war in the ceremonial hall in the name of the Saints Group, and this voice is still shrouded in mystery.

However, in the whirlpool of all this chaos, a guy who was supposed to be the most important role was ignored by everyone as if he was invisible.

What is the First Saint doing?

There were eleven piles of ashes in the ceremony hall, and in the banquet hall, Bedolis also left his remains. Only twelve of the thirteen saints had their whereabouts confirmed, but the first saint did not even show his face. In the past, Hao Ren and the others were busy with various affairs and had no time to take care of this matter, but now that the dust has settled, Vivian felt it was necessary to let the first saint come out for a walk.

Claude remained silent after hearing Vivian's question. There seemed to be no emotional changes on his always calm face. Lily was an impatient barker, so she could not help but say: "Yes, oh, yes." Oh, where is your supreme commander? What is he doing about such a big thing?"

Bai Huo and Tutan Yin also looked at Claude with curious faces. Although they were both medium-sized cadres of demon hunters, they had never seen that legendary-level adult, but they often heard about it. The legend of the first saint, or the oral instructions of the first saint from the mouth of a "herald" like Claude.

"If it is the 'First Saint' you are referring to, I have never seen him."

Claude finally spoke, but his answer was shocking.

"What are you talking about?!" Hao Ren stared, "Aren't you an attendant of the First Saint?!"

"None of the attendants in the past have seen the First Saint. We just stood outside that door and pretended that there was someone inside." Claude suddenly let out a sigh, as if a heavy burden could finally be put down. He looked at the mess. The ceremonial hall, especially the piles of ashes in the corner of the hall, "The Saints Group has become history, and I feel that this secret cannot be kept: the First Saint does not exist, and has disappeared for thousands of years, almost in The Witcher This organization disappeared when it was first formed.”

You can hear a needle drop in the ceremony hall.