An out-of-control nest...

After a moment of silence, Bud Wendell realized what the other party was referring to.

"It's underground in the eastern part of the Holy Spirit Plain..." He raised his head and looked at Gowan and Viscount Andrew, "It seems that you have found its entrance?"

"The 'entry' issue is no longer important. The entire Solinburg area has been occupied by a huge plant that spreads from the ground. That is probably a product of some kind of out-of-control technology," Gao Wen said bluntly, "and your only chance now is to confirm the situation there and come back alive."

Bard Wendell closed his eyes slightly: he didn't seem to have any other choice.

"I get it," he lowered his head, "I accept this opportunity."

"Very good," Gao Wen glanced at Viscount Andrew, then nodded to Bud, "Then relax now, at least at this moment, you can temporarily escape from the prisoner's identity. Next, I have something to ask you."

The attendant soon brought a chair and asked Bud to sit down in the middle of the room. Viscount Andrew left the room for official business. When only Gao Wen and the former General Tifeng Wolf were left here, the atmosphere became dull for a moment until Gao Wen took the initiative to break the silence: "Actually, I have always been curious about what the wolf general, who had once had a future, had experienced to become a deceased churchman and even extraordinary profession, changed from a god-fellow knight to a dark druid."

Bard sat straight on the chair, perhaps because he had something to do, or because he was facing the ruler of the "enemy country", his decadence seemed to fade away a lot. Hearing Gao Wen's question, the man who had hidden many secrets was silent at first, but after a few seconds, he sighed softly.

Some things he would never intend to mention again, but when he saw the news of Gao Wen's crown in the newspaper and the huge skull processed into a throne, no matter how much he insisted on it, it became insignificant.

"Your Majesty, have you ever believed?" he asked in Gao Wen's eyes.

Gao Wen smiled slightly: "If you take a certain belief as a belief, I have it, but if you refer to a specific god, I don't."

"Then you must not understand what a person's belief collapses instantly," Bud shook his head with a wry smile, "especially when experiencing life and death..."

"Although I really want to correct your narrow perception of 'faith' now, I'm more interested in your 'faith collapse'," Gowan adjusted his seat, leaned on the back of the chair, and looked at the wolf general who fell from a devout believer of the God of War to a dark druid. "Let me guess what...the truth of the god? Did you find that the God you believe in is dead, or did he find that He is just a man-eating monster?"

Bud suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Gao Wen: "Why are you..."

"Do you think you are the only one who faces the so-called truth and carries the so-called mission? The world is so vast, why is it that all the truth happening to be in the hands of a dark sect?"

Bud breathed quickly, and it took a long time to finally calm down. He closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly on his face: "Then we are such a joke..."

"This joke is quite destructive," Gao Wen shook his head, "Tell me, how did you become like this?"

Bud closed his eyes tightly, and the scenes of memories flashed through his mind.

He remembered that it was a cold winter, and the confrontation area of ​​Winter Wolf Castle-Changfeng Fortress was covered with ice and snow. It was the coldest winter he had ever experienced. It snowed almost every day for nearly half a month.

He remembered that the Knights patrolled the border in the snow and ice that day. The sudden wind and snow disturbed the vision, and the soldiers shifted their routes while looking for shelter...

He remembered that it was near the Paramel Heights, and the soldiers and the Knights of Ansu briefly encountered each other. The fierce battle in the wind and snow lasted for a short time. After realizing that the situation was unfavorable, he led his subordinates to break south and tried to detour from the hilly areas at the end of the dark mountains to return to the side of Tifeng...

He remembered the sudden attack. At the end of the dark mountains, near the wasteland of Gondor, the exhausted Knights were sneaked up by monsters like flesh and blood. Monsters kept pouring in from the direction of the wasteland. The Knights were outnumbered. He killed one monster after another until the sword shattered, and until the last comrade next to him fell...

He also fell down, a fatal injury that penetrated the heart, which was theoretically impossible to survive. However, he still opened his eyes again. When he opened his eyes again, he lay in a place like a magic laboratory with a catheter inserted into his body, half of his body was soaked in the solution, and around him were walking around, and someone shouted that the experiment was successful...

"...I've been one of them since that day," Bud had opened his eyes and said while recalling, and then in front of Gao Wen, he pulled open his clothes on his chest to reveal the price of his resurrection, "This is the 'gift' they gave me."

Gao Wen frowned. He saw that Bud Wendell's chest was covered with a steel plate, with an ugly scar on the flesh and blood on the edge of the steel plate, and several suture marks spread in the direction of the artery extension, which looked quite creepy.

"I had to undergo an inspection when changing clothes in prison. This thing scared the soldier. I explained that this was the consequence of the magic experiment accident, but he had not seen the more terrifying thing..."

Bard laughed and gently tapped the steel plate with a special method. With the click of the mechanical lock opening, the steel plate opened, revealing the more amazing structure inside: a layer of transparent flexible substance wrapped around his chest, as if some kind of vesicles were stored in it. A heart mixed with flesh and metal parts floated in the solution, beating regularly. A series of auxiliary pipes and magic runes could be seen next to the heart. The glimmer light emitted by the latter illuminated Bard's entire chest.

This set of things should have been running for many years, and it seems that they will continue to run.

"They implanted an artificial heart for you?" Gao Wen frowned. He was not surprised by the biochemical technology of the end of everything. After all, it is an organization that can create artificial gods. It is not surprising that he masters the manufacturing and transplantation technology of artificial organs. Even in the secular extraordinary organization outside the end of everything, similar technologies exist.

Some old mages and extreme druids will prolong their lifespan through various biochemical transformations or extraordinary rituals, and princes and nobles will not refuse to use implants to improve their declining physical functions. After all, the upper-level technical level of this world has never been low, and the only problem is popularity and cost.

What he was puzzled was that Bud Wendell became a dark druid just because of this heart?

"Are you paying back this kindness?" Gao Wen frowned and looked at Bud, "I'm afraid that's more than that?"

"...They implanted more than this heart into my body, and there are also the 'knowledge' that flowed into my mind with this heart," Bard indeed shook his head. "Ordinary hearts cannot drive the bodies of high-level extraordinary people, so they used something called the 'god ecstasy factor' to create it, and these ged ecstasy factors... carry the knowledge of the gods.

"From that day, I spent three years in the underground palace where all things ended up dead, accompanied by darkness and nightmares. I looked directly at the indescribable monsters in the nightmares. I called the god of war I believed in, but I could only let myself fall deeper in the nightmares. I saw their malice, their madness, and they calculated the moment of the end of the world in the false and chaos palace...

“At the end, I thought I was dead, dead in severe physical and soul rejection. The priest who was responsible for taking care of me even dragged me to the lab to wait for my death for an autopsy, but at the last moment, I woke up from my nightmare.

“I lost my faith in the God of War not only from my inner level, but from the inside out, all the talents and powers that were once blessed by the God of War disappeared.

"And then, I became a priest who died in all things, just like you see."

Bud's memories ended, Gao Wen frowned, digesting the amount of information in the other party's words.

He vaguely guessed what the purpose of the experiments of the deceased monks on Bard.

Those shoe believers used surgical operations and mental transformation to forcibly destroy Bard's "spiritual seal"! They snatched a "god favor" from the realm of the God of War!

This genius and devilish experiment reminded him of those disobedient people and the persistent "ghosts" mentioned by Veronica.

Judging from the information currently available, he could almost certain that there were disobedient figures moving deep in the end of the world.

Gao Wen put his hand on the table, and his index finger subconsciously tapped the tabletop. His eyes swept across the beating artificial heart in Bud's chest, and he suddenly felt a little moved.

The person in front of him should have been just an "experimental product" in the eyes of all the believers of the end of life.

The completely crazy shoe cultists and the disobedient people who have lost control will not care about what kind of identity a person has in the secular world. They chose Bud Wendell, probably just because they value the latter as experimental material. If they had to say what significance Bard's identity as a "wolf general" has in the eyes of those shoe cultists, it may have led to the deterioration of the relationship between Tifeng and Ansu, and even added fuel to the subsequent increase in internal pressure within Ansu and the outbreak of conflicts.

After considering the conspiracy, Gowen suspected that Bud Wendell and his subordinates had an aberration attack near the Dark Mountains. The arrangement of those shoe believers to be the ultimate death of all things and the wasteland of Gondor. The only surprise is that they had the ability to drive some aberrations away from the magnificent wall so many years ago... Perhaps, the attack that Bud Wendell encountered was the first attempt to destroy and penetrate the magnificent wall?

This is really a huge, complex, secret plan, and the span of time and space is surprising, but if this plan was formulated by one or several "disobedients", then Gao Wen would not be very surprised.

They can plan a thing for thousands of years and do it for thousands of years.

"A disobedient..." Gao Wen took a light breath, his eyes as if they were falling in the distance, "What a group of terrible ghosts..."

...

Veronica or Ophelia Norton, now standing in the square of St. Lu'an's Cathedral, staring at the nuns gathered in front of him with expressionless expression.

After completing the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Holy Light and assisting the White Knights in taking over the Northern Church, she came to the South with the second "migration team" and came to the White Knight's training base, which was the former headquarters of the South Diocese.

Her first purpose was to observe the training process of the White Knight and the new Holy Light equipment. The second purpose was to take a look at the nun group that the Southern Church had just completed and promote nuns who comply with the New Doctrine to other dioceses of the Empire.

The former disobedient, today's saint princess, slowly moved her sight. The young nuns raised their chests in her sight, with serious expressions and serious expressions. They were wearing uniform white priest skirts. Their clothes obviously made some improvements to facilitate movement. They held a metal staff that was almost one person tall in their hands. The metal staff had strange mechanical and rune structures at both ends, which were obviously a type of new magic equipment...

In addition to the essential staff of the clergy, each nun’s arm is equipped with lightweight magic terminal arm guards and mechanically wrapped fist gloves. A prayer book and potion bottle are hung around his waist. Of course, as a priest, the holy emblem is also indispensable, and the holy emblem is printed on the combat backpack of every nun.

"The combat backpack is lightweight and has aesthetics and comfort in mind..." Wright said beside Veronica.

"So..." Veronica said slowly, holding the Platinum Scepter, "Is this the nun group that has just completed training in the South?"

"The official name is 'Armed Nuns', and the leader of each combat echelon is called 'War Nuns'," Lait nodded. "They are indeed just finished training, but they are already reliable priests. Every girl is a determined and brave warrior of the Holy Light, and should be able to faithfully spread the gospel of the Holy Light and the new order of the empire."

Veronica felt that her emotions that had not fluctuated for hundreds of years had fluctuated: "...Is the thing in their hands the tool they use to spread the gospel?"

"Yes, the tentative name is 'Golic Angel'," Wright nodded proudly, with a smile on his face. "When you don't fire the gun, you can act as a staff that can release the healing spell of the Holy Light."

You can use it as a staff when you don't fire it...

Veronica/Ophelia took a light breath and closed her eyes slightly.
Chapter completed!