Captain Balivian was placed on the sofa in the captain's room. When Luo Ling pointed at him in mid-air, he woke up.
When he saw Xiao Chen and the others in front of him, he was startled at first, then he hung his head dejectedly, looking as if all was lost.
Xiao Chen asked, "I find it strange why you are so resistant to communicating with us. To me, you seem like an educated and rational person. You should be able to see that if you are willing to communicate, we will not use magic to subdue you."
Captain Balivian looked very resistant and kept his mouth shut, refusing to say a word.
Xiao Chen said, "There are only us and you in this room. There is no one else here. No one will hear you if you say anything. How about we talk? I know you are actually panicking and want to know what is going on right now, right?"
Balivian glanced at Xiao Chen, then glanced at the other people in the room, then closed his eyes and repeated two sentences: "Faced with the devil's gaze, I should turn a blind eye. Facing the devil's words, I should keep my mouth shut."
Xiao Chen listened, and these sounded like two commandments. He said, "If we are not devils, you naturally don't have to do this. But if we are really devils, do you think the devil will let you go just like that?"
He walked over to his photo and said, "You have a seemingly happy family, a beautiful wife, and three lovely children. I guess you would like to see them again, right?"
"You, you want to kill me?" Balivian finally asked.
"No!" After making a seemingly threatening remark, Xiao Chen changed the subject and said, "We are not demons, and I will not kill you. I am just telling you that there is no benefit in not wanting to communicate."
"No one wants to have anything to do with the power of the devil. No matter where you come from or why you come, as long as you have the power of the devil, you are the source of disaster. I just want to protect myself." Balivian raised his head and said with frustration, "You don't understand. On this continent, anyone who has anything to do with the power of the devil has committed the most taboo evil. What's more, you look much more powerful than those sneaky wizards on the continent. If I had communicated with you, who knows what they would do to me? Anyway, I will definitely not be able to be a captain, and my life is over."
"It's no longer an 'if'. It's an established fact now." Luo Ling said.
Balivian sighed again.
"Who are they?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Of course it's the judicial authorities." Balivian said, "If anyone offends the judicial authorities and is arrested, there's no way back."
"What kind of organization is that?" Xiao Chen asked again.
Balivian said: "The Inquisition is a group of people under the Saint who are specifically responsible for dealing with demonic forces. They don't care about anything else, but if they hear that someone has come into contact with the power of the devil, they will appear there and arrest or execute those wizards directly. I have seen them several times. They all wear masks and black clothes with the Saint's mark tattooed on their clothes. These people are cold and ruthless and will not let go of anyone who has contact with wizards. And they all have some special abilities. I heard that they can catch people without using their hands or feet, can block bullets with their bare hands, and can even kill enemies with their thoughts."
"Who is the saint?" asked Mei Tiantian.
"Saint? How dare you ask such a question? The Saint is the leader who leads mankind to resist the devil. The entire continent is under the management of the Saint, but she will not ask about general political affairs, but will only lead the general direction of human progress. General government affairs are managed by the Sage Council. The sages are those respected people elected by various regions. Of course, most of them are members of local big families. The Saint will only intervene in these matters when she thinks that the policies formulated by the sages are problematic, but such situations are rare in history. But these people cannot replace the Saint's position in our hearts. After all, all of us grew up with the precepts given to us by the Saint."
"Like 'Faced with the devil's gaze, I should turn a blind eye. Faced with the devil's words, I should keep my mouth shut.'" Xiao Chen asked.
"Yes. These are commandments three and four. The Saint passed down thirty commandments, twenty of which are about the devil. They are at the top of all the commandments."
"But where did the Saint come from?"
Balivian: "The Saint? The Saint has always existed. She is eternal and immortal."
"Eternal immortality? Could it be a new god?" Umeda asked.
"No! Of course not!" Balivian was actually a little angry when he heard the word "god". "The first rule of the Saint is that the Saint is a human, not a god, and she was reincarnated to protect mankind. In the eyes of the Saint, all gods who want to be above humans are demons in the name of God. They call themselves gods not to benefit people, but to enslave people. Those poor people on the continent across the Devil's Sea were turned into slaves by these gods.
The Saint exists for everyone, but she will grow old, get sick and die just like humans. However, every time the Saint gets old, she will be reincarnated into a newborn baby. Now the Saint is only sixteen years away from her last reincarnation, and she looks like a young girl. "
Luo Ling asked: "If this is true, does it mean that the Saint is a soul?"
Balivian said: "I don't care if you are devils or not, but please don't talk about the saint, otherwise, I won't say another word to you."
Xiao Chen said: "Don't get excited, we won't say such things again."
He pointed to the books on the bookshelf and asked, "Are the stories in these books, such as "The Burning Queen", true?"
"Yeah. Do they really burn witches?" Umeda asked.
"Well... that witch was indeed a rebel leader in history. But the plot about her bewitching men was all made up." Barivian seemed a little embarrassed. "This is a novel. Witch novels have become popular on the mainland recently. But there really was a wizard rebellion, and in the past, witches and wizards were really burned at the stake."
"And now?"
"Now... they will disappear. Actually, this ending is not necessarily better than being burned to death, right? After all the wizards were arrested and thrown into the Demon Prison of the Judiciary, there was no news of them anymore. Their families would also be moved away from their local area and sent to the Demon Suppression City, which is specially built to manage the families of wizards. Anyway, this family is doomed."