Sinful demons bred in the shadow of God, so under the magnificent Cathedral of St. Naro, mortals built a shadow kingdom called the Temple of Stasis, where demon hunters who fought against the demons stopped.
"Are you familiar with the Night of the Advent? As the new Patriarch, you must know something about the history of your order, Anthony... Patriarch?"
"Please call me Father, Your Majesty."
The priest shook his head. He did not know the full picture of the Holy Night and was afraid of the name of the Patriarch.
The melodious music in my ears gradually became louder, and the red light in the steel gap became brighter and brighter, but the elevator still did not reach the bottom and continued to dive. In this claustrophobic darkness, the Pope's voice slowly sounded.
"The Night of the Holy Visitation."
He murmured and sighed.
“The Holy Night of Advent…
If heaven really exists, that night was probably the closest we ever got to it.”
The priest remained silent. From that moment on he had a strange feeling, as if the man next to him was no longer the Pope, but another strange thing had replaced him and was talking to the priest here.
"You should know that we have captured the last demon, sealed it with hot holy silver, engraved holy words on it, and the priests prayed day and night, trying to purify that sinful soul."
The voice became faint, telling the old story in this dark abyss that gradually descended.
"We classified that demon as Messiah-level, codenamed the Holy Grail. According to the records in the Book of Revelation and our analysis, it is the source of demons. As long as we completely destroy it, the concept of demons will no longer exist."
The Pope said this, but he still had doubts in his heart: would the strange demon really die like this
"But... humans are greedy, Father Anthony. If we were really so holy, then why would we need a so-called God to save us?"
The cold iron surface reflected red light, and the lines on it were like winding blood lines. The priest stared into the darkness under the eye sockets, and the ancient and most evil secret was just a hair's breadth away from him.
The priest's breathing became rapid.
"We have been fighting demons for so long that we have almost become another demon... It can be said that everything in the Gospel Church is built on the secret blood technology of the Book of Revelation, on the demons."
"If we kill the last demon, does that mean we will also lose this evil and powerful technology?"
The Pope asked the priest, then took off his iron mask, hid his face in the darkness, lit a cigarette and started smoking. The light illuminated the surroundings but not his face.
The Pope no longer has any dignity, he is just a sad man.
“Of course, no one knows whether this will happen. We don’t even know whether the concept of demons will really disappear. After all, everything changed during the Holy Night.
To be honest, the timing of our capture of the Holy Grail was really not very good. If we had captured the Holy Grail a few hundred years earlier... or captured it during the Crusades, it would have been a perfect era. Everyone wanted the demons to die, the Knights Templar bulldozed city after city, and everyone was full of faith. Even if we lost all the technology related to the demons and died like this, everyone would agree. "