Chapter 556 I Forgive You

In the morning, just as the sky was slightly bright.

Janice went to the twenty-first ring with some trepidation.

The higher the country went, the narrower the ground became and the fewer people there were. The twenty-first ring was like a huge palace... and this was the place where the candidate saints were raised.

After verifying her identity, showing her token, and registering her blood and soul fluctuations, Janice put on a special gem brooch that could record the whole process, and under the guidance of the two pope's guards, she went to the agreed location along the prescribed route.

Each candidate saint would undergo various closed-door studies here until they learned the ability to communicate with the Nine Pillars and cultivated all their abilities, or were eliminated because any data did not meet the standards, and then they would be released.

The training of saints was extremely strict. No failure in any assessment was allowed.

Under this high elimination rate, any qualified girl would be recruited here after meeting the age limit - the recruited saints could be eliminated at any time.

The reason why there are only women is because the top inheritance of "Eternal Saint" requires the inheritor to be a pure, indifferent and quiet young woman. Although the Saint "Pure White" is active outside, there are at least 20 to 30 candidate saints here.

Those who are not eliminated will be regarded as candidates. As long as the current saint encounters an accident, the best will be selected immediately.

The cruelest thing here is that even if you meet all the standards, even if you have not made any mistakes, even if you are the best in all the assessments... but if you eventually wait until the age is exceeded, you will be eliminated on schedule.

In order to ensure that the thinking is pure and will not be polluted by other thoughts, thus causing the path to deviate... The people that the candidate saints can contact in different stages of learning are limited and investigated, and the conversations of any visitors are closely monitored. Spreading abnormal thoughts to the candidate saints will be sentenced to the highest level of crime in the Church.

As a temporary visitor, Janice is of course not allowed to talk to any candidate saints. Therefore, she will not meet anyone on the road she passes.

All this is planned.

Janice walked in the solemn and quiet corridor of the church, and the sound of the uniform footsteps of the two Pope's guards rang in her ears. The footsteps echoed in the empty church - the corridor of hundreds of meters that could allow more than 20 people to walk side by side, now there were only three of them.

In the extremely silent environment, even the footsteps of two people echoed in the pure white corridor, sounding like thousands of troops.

A thought suddenly popped up in Janice's mind:

Gray found Ms. Blue Rose as a mentor for Gloria, which may be the right thing to do.

Because if Gloria was still studying in the 21st ring, Janice would never see her. The atmosphere here might have made Gloria condensed into amber long ago. Fortunately, she was sent down to recuperate... She might have lived so long.

Mercedes lived here for a long time because she refused to admit defeat. Although she did not condense into amber, she also joined the controlled fire.

Controlled Fire is a faction that opposes the inheritors, and the only inheritor Mercedes has ever come into contact with is the Eternal Saint.

Presumably, during her years of asceticism, she has long hated the inheritance system of candidate saints.

The surrounding pure white corridors have almost no decorations... no sculptures, no paintings, only completely consistent, protruding flame reliefs and lighting.

Pure white candles, pure white flames, infinite loops. It seems endless, as if it is going to the end of the world - and the slightly upward slope will bring a sense of fatigue. The corridors here are all structured like this, and are called "infinite corridors."

The 21st ring has no road signs, no devices to mark time.

There are no clocks and clocks, and the sun, moon, and stars cannot be seen.

In this situation, the saints must remember and judge the current time at all times through extremely regular lives, their own states, and even their heartbeats and breathing rhythms. If the biological clock is disrupted because of this, they will also be eliminated.

This itself is also one of the ascetic practices that gradually wears off the anxiety of the candidate saints, but it makes Janice anxious.

The road never came to an end, and she was anxious.

When she turned the corner and finally saw Gray, Janice shouted and went to meet her:

"--Gray!"

This looked like a huge chapel, but there were no seats for spectators.

The red wooden floor was like dried blood. The ceiling was dark red, and the room was full of white candles of different heights-thousands of candles were burning quietly, and the room was filled with a faint, sacred scent of incense.

The pure white saint was wearing her wedding-like white robe, kneeling in front of the nine statues.

She clasped her fingers in front of her chest, and her eyes were covered by ribbons. From a distance, she looked like a blooming lily.

The two papal guards stopped at the door and let Janice walk over.

Janice was still very anxious, but she gradually calmed down after smelling the incense. Her hurried footsteps also slowed down.

"Gray, why did you..."

...Choose this place to meet?

Janice wanted to ask this question.

But Saint Pure White just turned her head and said calmly: "I wait for you like this every day, Janice.

"Every day in the infinite loop, I don't know if tomorrow will change. But I can only go on... I can't be anxious, I can't regret, I can't give up.

"You only walked like this for an hour, and I walked for 195 years."

Anis fell silent and speechless.

She stood three or four meters away from the saint, but didn't dare to step forward for a moment.

She was silent for a long time before she whispered: "I don't know... you will wait for me."

"Because I believe in you."

Gray replied: "Anis will not lie to me, she will definitely come back.

"So I'm waiting here... This is my practice.

"You are my infinite corridor."

The saint replied calmly.

Her voice was cold and calm. There was no anger or anxiety.

It seemed that all emotions had been smoothed out by the infinite loop, leaving only obsession.

"...I'm sorry."

"Apologizing is meaningless, Janis. I want to hear your explanation."

"——That kind of thing is good in any way! "

Jannis couldn't help the emotions in her heart - guilt, repentance, anxiety, and fear mixed together. The extremely complex emotions made her feel tormented, and she wanted to take her heart out of her chest and carve acrostic poems with a brush.

When she was promoted to the fifth energy level, became a well-known strong man in this world, and was respected as a master by people, she had never had such a vulnerable moment.

She even thought that she had grown up and would never be afraid again.

But now, Janis found that it was just that she hadn't touched the things she cared about. It was just because she had She was strong enough to no longer lose her treasures so easily.

She clenched the gem brooch on her chest and made up her mind to speak. She told Grey the secret of the wine of immortality and the tears of time, and told her the secret of the theft of the tears of time.

- If this will lead to Freya being held accountable, then she will take responsibility - send her to a safe place at all costs. Janice has made up her mind.

She has already felt sorry for Grey, and now she must tell Grey about this.

Hearing this, Grey was silent for a long time.

"So you care about me so much."

She ignored the anxious Janice, and just whispered: "Then why don't you come back?"

"... Because of my cowardice."

This time, Janice finally gave her answer: "I couldn't face the first mistake... so I made a mistake on top of a mistake."

Finally, Grey got up from the ground.

She turned around and said calmly: "Kneel down. "

Agnis knelt in front of Gray without hesitation.

Gray stretched out her hands and gently stroked Janis's cheeks. She lifted Janis's face and let her look into her eyes.

Agnis didn't understand at first, but after keeping this posture for a while, she suddenly seemed to realize something - her pupils suddenly dilated.

Gray's mouth corners slightly raised.

"Then I forgive you, Janis."

Gray's cold and calm voice echoed: "In the name of pure white, I forgive your sins."

At that moment, Janis felt that something heavy in her heart suddenly disappeared.

But she couldn't wait to breathe a sigh of relief for herself, but looked directly at Gray, with fear in her eyes: "Could it be..."

"-I'm not afraid of that kind of thing."

The Pure White Saint said, untying the white cloth tied on her eyes: "Because I can no longer succeed the Pope. Once it is exposed, the impact on the church will be too bad.

"All the cardinals know about this. In this case, I am less likely to be attacked... because that would cover up the fact that I spontaneously condensed into amber, which would have a worse impact on the attacker."

She slowly opened her eyes.

Her left eye was a beautiful sky blue, while her right eye was a gorgeous black like the starry sky.

Her eyelids were partially damaged, and her right eye could no longer be completely closed or opened. It looked like a prosthetic eye like a glass bead.

"... You have condensed into amber."

Jannis's face turned ugly: "Is it because of... me?"

Although there is no detailed research, the color of amber is basically related to the path.

And black is the color of the path of love.

"Don't be so self-indulgent. It's not that I can't live without you, Janis."

Pure White closed her eyes again and tied the silk layer by layer. Janis immediately stood up and walked behind her to help her tie the straps.

"I was just thinking... that's all. A deserter like you wouldn't understand."

The saint was about to say something, but after "looking at" Janis finally gave up.

She reached out and crushed the gem brooch on Janice's chest: "These conversations may cause trouble for you and Master Freya. So don't hand this thing over... If you ask, just say that we had a fight and I broke it for you."

"... Is it okay?"

"As a saint, I still have this power."

Pure White replied.

"Oh, right."

Hearing Freya, Janice remembered another thing: "Aiwas's dates - do you still have them?"

"Yes. I only took them twice, and then I didn't take them again."

The saint nodded: "If I eat them, it may be possible to cure amber syndrome. But after taking them twice, I feel that the amount is not enough.

"I don't know how long they can be preserved, and I don't know if they can continue to be born. In this case, it is better to save them and leave them for future generations... It may be useful to the elves in the future. So I prayed for the Amber It’s okay to preserve them for at least a few hundred years.”

"It's a good thing you didn't continue taking it..."

Yanis was a little scared, and then explained Freya's theory.

Chunbai was silent for a while, and finally shook his head: "Don't worry too much, that's just a theory.

"However, since Master Freya is here... let's leave them to professionals."

As she spoke, she took out a blue gemstone ring: "They are inside."

"What about... what about Cardinal Loki?"

"The investigation is ongoing and the results are relatively optimistic."

The corners of Pure White's mouth raised slightly: "The side of the Eighteenth Circle has been able to confirm that Bram's giant power comes from Cardinal Loki. The evidence has been fixed. Regardless of whether I can eventually succeed the Pope, he will definitely not be able to. "

"……What?"

Hearing this, Yanis was stunned: "Cardinal Loki is the wildfire giant?"

She thought of Aiwass who was going to see Cardinal Loki alone, and became nervous: "Wait a minute, then you go with me first -

"Aiwass went to find Cardinal Loki!"