The same story may sound different to different people.
Everyone thought that the previous Pope was dead... or in the story told by the new Pope, he was dead. But in fact, he was not dead. Instead, he was secretly imprisoned in this filthy and forgotten place by the new Pope. No one knew he was here, and even if someone knew, they would not be able to come here to save him.
Because this is not a place that mortals can reach, this is hell that exists in the mortal world.
The extraction of secret blood is based on demons. The powerful blood is sublimated, and the waste and useless flesh and blood are thrown into the sublimation well. There are countless corpses of demons stored here. Some of them are not even dead yet, and they live by feeding on the bodies that were also thrown in. This has been going on for nearly a thousand years.
Therefore, too much madness and weirdness have accumulated here. As the depth of the well decreases, the erosion intensity also increases. At the deepest bottom of the well, only demon hunters can reach here with sanity. Mortals will become alienated and crazy on the way to the deep well.
The new Pope was pleased with his method; it was a perfect prison to punish those he hated.
Hundreds of meters below the ground, the air is full of a fishy smell and all around is pitch black darkness. Nearly a thousand years of "filth" from the Gospel Church is piled up here. The old Pope has survived in such darkness until now. It is hard to imagine how he managed to survive this crazy and lonely night.
"I have no idea… "
The old Pope was like a fool, repeating these words from his dry throat, but it was not a satisfactory answer.
It was difficult to discern any expression on the new Pope’s ferocious face. He lowered his head and looked at the confused old Pope, then slowly let go of him.
"Why? Why don't you want to say anything?"
He was full of doubts and confusion.
"If you had said it then, you would probably be in some luxurious soft bed, holding a woman and drinking fine wine... I promised you that if you were willing to tell me everything, I would ensure that you would live the rest of your life in peace."
The voice became angry, and the spiked sword was pulled out and stabbed down, repeatedly piercing the old Pope's body. The tattered body was cut repeatedly, and the wounds were hideous, but no blood flowed out, and the damaged body healed in a very short time.
The old Pope seemed to have become numb to the pain. He felt nothing and just kept saying "I don't know".
The new Pope's brutal rampage soon came to an end, and he knew that this kind of suffering was nothing to the old Pope, but if he thought about it carefully, the new Pope didn't have any new ways to torture him.
The old Pope was once a noble believer, and he also hated the power of the secret blood. But the funny thing was that he still needed this power, so the new Pope also gave him this demonic power, injected him with the secret blood, watched him suffer, and threw him into this hell.
The believers of the Kingdom of Heaven were now covered in filth, and their wings became heavy, like rocks, unable to move.
“Kill me!”
The old Pope suddenly showed a crazy look, his emotions changed drastically. In this dark torture, he had already fallen into madness.