After retreating, they came after them

Chapter 85 Simon's New Vision: Fallen Gods
Entering the first compound, there are two huge demon sculptures standing at the door of a high cathedral.

The body of this church is white, but the white walls are a bit dirty, which does not meet the usual standards of the Church of Our Lady—pure, flawless, holy, and compassionate.

There are thirteen steps in the center, the main door is open, and there is light shining from inside. It is the people of the Church of Notre Dame releasing the holy light inside to sweep away the unclean atmosphere in this compound.

"The first courtyard is controlled by the Church of Notre Dame, and [-] wild monster rooms have been opened for adventurers to spawn monsters freely.

"The yard itself was formerly the Devil's Church. The Church of Our Lady bought it from another adventure group back then. The original black walls were changed by the church to what it is today, with white paint on it."

Simon explained and described the predecessor of this church. Its existence desecrated the sanctity of the Church of Our Lady, so it was transformed into what it is today.

It looks pure white on the outside, but the white layer cannot bear a closer look, and there is a greasy dirty feeling hidden behind the white paint surface, secretly peeping at the passing people.

Bai Tang, a nun from the Church of Notre Dame, looked at the wall and subconsciously held the cross.

She felt a strong sense of disgust from the wall itself.

After listening to Simon's introduction, she realized why this church disgusted her so much.

Because it is unholy in itself.

The Church of Our Lady paints unholy things white, but it still hasn't changed its essence, it's still unholy.

At this time, looking at the demon sculptures on both sides of the door, Bai Tang's eyes seemed to be dazzled. The eyes of the two demon sculptures turned and stared at her, as if they were saying: Welcome, the church is different.

Bai Tang clenched the silver cross on his chest, and did not refute the devil's whispers loudly.

Because she is indeed an outlier in the church and no longer believes in the Virgin Mary.

In fact, Bai Tang didn't dare to go back to church anymore, she was afraid that the priest would find her after she went back and send her to the stake on the spot.

"What's wrong?" Simon noticed that the nun beside him looked uneasy.

"I seem to see them looking at me." Bai Tang explained in a low voice, feeling that it was quite scary.

"Is there, isn't the sculpture looking ahead?" Simon looked up.

"No, it's really looking at me." Bai Tang bit his lower lip slightly, moving his steps lightly.

The demon sculpture's eyes moved with it, leaving no doubt that it was alive.

Simon looked at the sculpture again, and really didn't see his eyes move.

Perhaps, this is sugar's fantasy.

"Why didn't the church destroy these unclean things?" Bai Tang was puzzled.

Bai Tang doesn't believe in the Virgin, but that doesn't mean she likes demons.

"They tried it. After destroying the sculpture, the sculpture itself will automatically recover." Simon shook his head.

Speaking of this, Simon's heart moved.

Yes, the sculpture itself is indestructible, so the hallucination Bai Tang saw might also be real.

And what Baitang gave him at the moment was fear.

Although it is not scary, it is indeed a very intuitive fear and disgust.

"Well, besides death, I can also imitate scary things in my dreams." Simon thought.

Creatures like BOSS are scary enough.

But wanting to leave people with mental damage is still a little tasteless.

If a real demon descends, the impact on the clergy is still quite large.

Clerics who are not in a firm mood may break their defenses in front of the devil, and their mentality will collapse.

This is also a good idea.

However, is the devil the best choice?

Simon felt that his idea could be bolder, such as fabricating the fallen god "Virgin Mary" to descend in front of the clergy to see if their reactions would collapse.

It's just that it's one thing to have an idea, but it's another thing to be able to reproduce the original flavor.

If the pinch is not real enough, the ability to empathize will be much worse.

Wait a minute, it seems unethical for me to do this.

Anyway, they are in the profession of curing diseases and saving lives, and Simon feels that he should give due respect to the medical profession.

Even if you want to target adventurers, you should start with the gods of fighters, archers, heavy shields, support, and warlocks.

Then, with such thoughts in mind, Simon stepped into the main entrance guarded by two demon statues and entered the main hall of the first courtyard.

The interior of the Demon Church has been decorated several times by the Church of Our Lady. The pure white gold-rimmed dome, the mural of Our Lady of Mercy is printed in the center of the top, and there are twelve glazed windows next to it. The colors are very bright and colorful.

Whenever the holy light rises in the hall, the glazed windows will reflect dazzling colored light, adding a bit of beautiful and moving color to the interior of the hall.

There used to be wild monsters here in the hall, but the mother body has been liquidated by the Church of Notre Dame, so there will be no more wild monsters in the main hall.

There are more than 80 rooms in the first courtyard that are unique to the Church of Notre Dame, and the remaining [-] rooms are public resource areas allocated by the church for adventurers.

Except for the first courtyard, the same is true for the other courtyards of Scarlet Castle.

The private domain and the public resource area are mixed together and closely connected. The public resource area is basically the resources leaked from the fingers of the top forces.

The truly scarce top-level resources have been monopolized by big forces.

Simon's trip to the first courtyard was not to fight the wild monsters in the room, but to go to the underground Gorefiend Prison.

Inside the Gorefiend Prison, there is a black blood river running through the entire prison.

The Black Flame Gorefiend is an elite monster in the Black Blood River, and its number is smaller than that of ordinary wild monsters.

Simon secretly hoped that the newly born elite monsters had not been divided up by everyone.

Simon led everyone into the path on the left with ease. Bai Tang walked at the end and glanced back at the nun and male priest in the main hall.

They formed a choir, sang the deeds of the Virgin Mary, and sent down the holy light to sweep the gloom in the nave.

But isn't that weird?

Obviously the mother body has been killed, and the personnel of the Church of the Holy Mother are needed to purify the darkness in the main hall at all times.

Perhaps, the mother body was not killed?
In other words, this devil church itself is alive, and its inner evil is a permanent evil that cannot be removed by church personnel.

Bai Tang fell into deep thought.

"Bai Tang, follow up."

Simon's voice came from ahead.

"Here we come." Bai Tang, who was wearing a nun's attire, looked away and quickly followed.

After Bai Tang left, a nun in the main hall glanced at the direction where Bai Tang disappeared, and murmured, "Isn't that Bai Tang? Why is she here?"

"Aurel, don't be distracted, keep singing." A feminine male voice called out.

Aurel's heart trembled, and she quickly said, "Yes, Holy Son."

After a while, the singing in the main hall continued, purifying the lingering unclean atmosphere in the main hall.

This is the task of some clergy of the Church of Notre Dame, who regularly go to certain places to do prayer, purification and other work.

And these clergy who do work on a regular basis generally do not attach to external adventure groups, but hang on to adventure groups independently established within the church.

Relatively speaking, the configuration of the adventure group inside the church will be higher than that of ordinary adventure groups.

Aurel and Bai Tang were born at the same time.

However, Aurel was promoted to a full-time job early, with a high purity of faith, successfully passed the internal assessment, and entered the queue of the reserve team.

Bai Tang has not been promoted to a full-time job for a long time, and Aurel is quite worried.

Now seeing Bai Tang appearing in the Scarlet Castle on the eighth floor, Aurel doesn't know how Bai Tang was abducted here.

Waiting for a change of shift, she wanted to go and see this silly Baitian, she didn't know if she was sold by someone else.

(End of this chapter)