"You are to... eradicate the demons."
042's voice was trembling. To the boy, what the old man desired was so terrifying. In his opinion, fighting against the demons was difficult, let alone eradicating them.
"Is this what you have been aiming for all along?"
Many people did not understand what Lorenzo Medici was trying to do. He never revealed his purpose to others and remained silent. No one knew what was in his mind.
"Yes, those people in the church are really pathetic, extremely pathetic. Do they think I have failed because I am old? No, on the contrary, I am about to succeed."
The old man was very excited and told 042 everything he had conceived. These things had been piled up in his mind for too long. He was like a dancer on the stage, but the audience seats were blank, until today, many years later, when he welcomed 042.
It feels really great to express my unknown greatness, even though the only audience at the moment is a child who knows nothing.
"You know what? 042, I didn't become the Pope, but I became a more terrifying existence than the Pope. I want to end the history of demons and usher in the golden age. But I know that it is meaningless to keep fighting like that idiot. Killing one demon will result in two more. They are endless... I want to kill the demons at the source."
The desserts on the small table were eaten up, and the old man leisurely picked up the wine glass. Under the dim light, the liquid in the glass looked like scarlet blood.
"I secretly controlled the Pope and even the entire Florence, and searched the entire past of the Gospel Church, trying to find the source of the demon in the history of the church."
"Did you find it?"
042 was also inspired by the old man's words. If he could find the source of the demons and the beginning of all this, with the ability of the old man in front of him, he might really be able to end it all.
“No, but I found a lot of interesting things… History is continuous and logical, but the history of the evangelical church is different. The records I found have many contradictions and loopholes. There are a lot of doctrines mixed in. You can feel that there is a problem here.
I spent a lot of time sorting these out, and from those fragmented clues, I came to the conclusion that the history of the evangelical church has been revised. "
"Changed?"
"Well, someone is deliberately hiding something. For example, the origin of our Gospel Church. No matter how I look for it, our origin is full of myths and has no sense of reality. I know this very well. There are some things that the people in power don't want the public to know the truth of, so they use religion to cover it up... Some people don't want us to know our origins and the things they are deliberately hiding."
The old man kept stroking his fingers, as if he was wiping some invisible treasure. As he spoke, 042 could clearly feel that his expression was wavering between madness and rationality.
"But the strange thing is, why didn't anyone discover these loopholes? Or did they discover them but didn't pass on the information?"