Dim light fell from the dark dome, like countless withered petals, or like soft and light feathers. They fell on the hideous body, softening the hatred a little. He half-knelt in front of the dark well, leaning on the mottled sword blade, like a tombstone covered by a sea of flowers.
"So... Is this why the old pope has been preventing us from finding the truth?"
The new Pope murmured in a low voice, he slowly raised his head, his resolute eyes became cloudy, and even his iron will showed some cracks at this moment.
Faced with such facts, anyone would be shaken, their mind would be shaken, and their cognition of everything would become blurred.
"What are you going to do? What can we do?"
The new Pope spoke somewhat weakly, his eyes fixed on the deep well below. All the emotions in his heart at this moment were mixed into an indescribable weirdness.
"I don't know... But at least we know why the old pope refused to tell us these things. It seems that we are a group of lunatics and heretics, and the old pope is the one who sticks to his faith."
The voice sounded behind him, and Watson slowly walked to the deep well, and the scene of the old Pope's death appeared before his eyes.
She successfully invaded the old Pope's [Gap], crushing his will while also learning the secrets buried deep in his memory.
"I'm beginning to understand. Ignorance is bliss."
Watson also felt depressed and painful for the first time in a long time. This was different from before. Although she felt depressed in the crises she encountered before, she knew that she had the power to resist. But this time, facing the deep darkness, all she could feel was a deep sense of powerlessness.
There was nothing I could do but watch it all happen slowly.
The so-called resistance is also a meaningless act. No one can escape from this rising wave.
"So this secret is only known to successive popes? After all, if such a secret were made public, it would only bring panic and disputes. People's understanding of the world would completely collapse, and they would fall into even more terrible despair."
For some reason, Watson began to sympathize with these popes.
They used up all their life's strength and finally reached the pinnacle of power, but what awaited them was not some great gift, but this cruel "truth". Some people went completely crazy in the face of this cruel "truth", some became decadent and just waited for death to come, and some tried to resist, but in the end still failed to change anything.
The popes alone possess this unspeakable secret and are tormented by this deep fear.
In an instant Watson understood the crazy actions in church history.
"The Crusades, witch hunts, religious wars... the Black Death."
Looking back at the history of the church, it can be found that their shadow is more or less present in every major human casualty event. Now all of this is connected by secrets. Watson only feels that the whole world is shrouded in the dark night sky, without a trace of light.
The new Pope shook his head wearily. He recalled the last scene in the Well of Ascension, where the old Pope’s dying will spoke to him with difficulty.