Chapter 1321 The Truth About the City of Gods

Seeing the skinny old man in front of them, Hao Ren and Lily immediately exclaimed: "It's you?!"

The other party was none other than the mysterious old man that everyone saw after encountering the ancient phantom at the monitoring point!

At that time, the old man said a lot of incomprehensible things, but just when Hao Ren and his party wanted to catch up and ask for explanation, he disappeared out of thin air - no one expected that they would meet him here, under such circumstances. other side!

The old man sitting on the chair was not surprised when he saw Hao Ren and his entourage. He stood up slowly. His body, which looked as skinny and weak as a piece of wood, was as solid as a rock without any sway: "I saw you in my dream. Come and welcome you, guests from afar.”

"Dream?" Hao Ren repeated the word, "What we saw before was..."

The old man nodded slightly: "This is a world of nightmares. There is no boundary between dreams and reality, so don't pursue it in detail."

"Are you the Pope?" Carathius finally couldn't help but say, "The Pope I know is His Majesty August VII. I have never seen you! Who are you?"

"You've seen me, you've seen everyone of me," faced Carathius's doubts, the old man who claimed to be the Pope just smiled, and his words were as mysterious and obscure as ever, and as his words , his appearance began to change continuously, turning into old and middle-aged people with different appearances one after another. His voice also gradually changed, as if countless people spoke together and turned into a complex sound, "I am Charles I , I am also Harold III, I am August VII, and I am St. Ivan... I am each of them and all of them... I am the Pope, every pope you know."

Carathius's eyes widened. In the constant changes of the old man, he saw familiar faces - those faces had appeared in the corridor of saints in the Palace of the Icons, and were painted into portraits as tall as one person, neatly arranged. Floors hung on both sides of the corridor. He had walked through that corridor again and again since he was the assistant bishop, and he knew the faces of every pope by heart. He also saw August VII. That was the last change in the old man. The familiar voice and smile only lasted a few seconds, but it made him tremble from the bottom of his heart!

"You...you..." Calasius pointed at the old man tremblingly, but was speechless.

"Are you a collection of past popes?" Or Hao Ren is more familiar with similar situations. He looked at the old man in front of him curiously, "Then what are those corrupt creatures we encounter in the real world? The one in Asuman What happened to August VII who blocked the road?"

"Lok Marton thought it could easily corrupt a saint, but he didn't know that people in the saint have never had the habit of surrendering," the old man said lightly, as if what he was about to say happened to others, "For the sake of faith, We can abandon our bodies, tear our souls apart, and destroy everything except one obsession. But in the end, all Rock Marton can corrode is an empty shell. If we really have no choice, we would rather choose self-destruction. , I came to this world to die with the minions of Chaos, and I will never give in."

Hao Ren vaguely guessed the truth of the matter, but there were still many things that needed to be explained: "So those in the real world are just corrupted bodies? Wait a minute... We encountered a very strange nightmare monster, which claimed to be... "

"Benedict III made a noble sacrifice in order to spread the news to the outside world." The Pope assembly shook their heads gently. "Originally, he had failed and lost his self-awareness before the news was spread, but we did not expect that he would When he met you, he met the alpha wolf, and through a combination of circumstances, he still managed to convey some news."

"So you...you have been controlling the situation?" Carasius's voice was trembling, "Your Majesty, why didn't you tell me?"

In the first half of his sentence, he was talking to a group of popes, but in the second half, he was obviously asking August VII.

"Because Rock Marton monitors everyone's dreams, these secrets have always been known only to the sleepless dead," the Pope Assembly explained. "After the death of all popes, they were buried under the Icon Palace, and the Popes of all periods Saints, sages, and living saints were also buried in tombs throughout the Holy City after their deaths. Some of these heroic souls were summoned to enter the eternal battlefield of the Forgotten Abyss, and fought with the Warden Army against Rock Marton's influence on the real world. Erosion, the other part is connected together to become the will of the dead that protects the living..."

Gordon, the king of mountains and rivers, nodded: "It is true."

The collective of popes nodded to the King of Mountains and Rivers and continued: "After the wardens fell into chaos, we realized the changes in the situation and deduced the worst situation. The early plans started at that time. However, no one expected that Lockmarton would escape so quickly. It not only continued to pollute the Forgotten Abyss, but also penetrated into the real world through the contaminated Warden Corps - the remains of the saints first Eroded, followed by the soul...

"We realize that this kind of pollution is irreversible, and if we are trapped in the real world and only rely on passive resistance from the Chaos War once every hundred years, then mortals will never be able to fight against the power from the nightmare world, let alone counterattack, this is not even called It is an effective defense.

"However, the door to the Forgotten Abyss is sealed. To break through it, we must obtain the power of the gods or find the crucial key, neither of which we have...

"But a turning point came when we didn't expect it. It's not appropriate to say it's a turning point, because it's not only our opportunity, but also Rock Marton's opportunity - a few months ago, a powerful weapon containing The fragments penetrated time and space and hit Asuman."

Hao Ren couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this: "Wait a minute, are you saying that you used the power of that crystal to teleport in the City of the Gods?!"

The Pope shook his head: "We were unable to use the power of that fragment, but only slightly borrowed the 'oscillation' caused by it. The impact destroyed Asuman's function and caused a loophole in the seal that locked Lockmaton, but it also created a loophole for us. A passage was opened, a passage that only the dead could see, and the plan that had been prepared for thousands of years was finally implemented. When the power of Rock Marton found August VII, the time was ripe, so August VII The world sacrificed its own body and became one of 'us' as the last member. When Rockmarton thought it had finally succeeded in corrupting and occupying a pope, its connection with the Icon Palace also became We chased its beacon, although it was very vigilant and immediately cut off its connection with the real world, but we still came... to pay for its blood debt!"

When the old pope said this, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and finally showed some emotion on his face, which was an expression of pride and determination.

Gordon, the king of mountains and rivers, was shocked by this grand and decisive plan. He couldn't help but stare at the Pope and looked at it carefully for a long time: "You always surprise people... I didn't expect that a mortal can actually do this..."

The Pope looked at Gordon quietly: "We are mortals, but mortals also have backbone."

"I admit, I never thought you could have this kind of power," Gordon shook his head. Although this broad cathedral could accommodate a giant like him, it still seemed narrow to him, and he couldn't stay there for too long. Still a little awkward, "But you also need to know that Rock Marton is an evil god, and it is not easy to deal with - even though you have transferred the most powerful armed forces of the Sanctuary and the souls of saints accumulated over tens of thousands of years to this world, But the combined strength of these forces may not necessarily destroy Rock Marton."

"At least we can attack it hard and let the world of future generations enjoy peace for at least thousands of years," the old pope said. "We have no choice. Instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it is better to strike to the death and die like a Sanctuary." "

Such a decisive speech touched everyone present, and Lily couldn't help but step forward: "Well said! Don't worry, old man, we are here to help!"

The Pope nodded: "I know - it seems that the goddess is still protecting us after all, and sent a powerful reinforcement at the darkest and most critical time. I just don't know what your plan is?"

Hao Ren stepped forward: "I have the most powerful attack method. If you are right, I should be the only person here who can truly destroy Rock Marton."

Yzaks continued: "But first we need to find the true form of Rock Marton and understand some of its properties - such as the circumstances under which it can be destroyed, and whether it has a back-up plan to hide or resurrect. How strong and in what form can the counterattack force it can mobilize."

"And more!" Lily also joined in, and she became very energetic when talking about this kind of open topic. "If Rock Marton is killed, what will happen to this nightmare world? We have to Prepare for backup, right..."

"That Locke or something, does it have a hidden ultimate move? Does it drop any good things after it dies?" The little girl Elizabeth also jumped out. When she heard it, she knew that she had been playing games on the Giant Turtle Rock Platform for the past month. .

"Ask one by one," Hao Ren quickly waved his hand to calm everyone down, and turned to look at the Pope, "Let's first talk about where to kill and how many to kill."

Seeing that the group of people in front of him had finally concluded a precise question, the Pope nodded slightly: "Across the Scorched Earth Plains, there is a spiral hill on the border of the Sea of ​​Confusion. It was once a node of the prison where Rock Marton was imprisoned, and it was also the first The node of collapse is where Rock Marton is now entrenched."