What does it mean? Roland rubbed the row of handwriting. Has the owner of the ancient book fought those monsters in the wild? He moved his gaze down—
"There are more and more devils, and less and less of us."
"The Stone of God's Retaliation is also powerless to stop their offensive. With their unrivaled power alone, even if they don't rely on magical power, they are ferocious and terrifying enemies."
"The holy city of Taquila has fallen, and we are fleeing in all directions."
"Climb over mountains, cross rivers, and escape as far as you can from the gates of hell."
"But next time, where else can we escape?"
"But that's not something I need to think about anymore, I'm dying, Natalya."
"The power of the devil is corrupting me, and no medicine will work."
"I'm writing this because I want to ask you something."
"Acaris's God's Punishment Army experiment is nearing its end. The experiment was very successful. Even if the extraordinary samurai faced the devil, he would not be defeated. But she forgot that even if the God's Punishment Army wins in the end, this victory does not belong to us."
"Yes, the God's Punishment Army will only bring destruction to us."
"Go and stop her. Only you can do it."
This text is not long. After Roland scanned it from beginning to end, he closed his eyes and pondered, trying to put himself into Hakara's perspective.
Assuming that she didn't know that the devil existed and replaced the devil with a witch, this description could easily be imagined by her as the church army retreating under the attack of the witch. Then combined with the widely circulated rumors that witches are the devil's minions, and the magic power comes from the gate of hell, Hakkara is very likely to think that the church actually wants to hide the truth: the so-called gate of hell is the entrance to the holy mountain. Over the years, witches have gone to the holy mountain one after another, where they gained immortality. So there are more and more witches, and fewer and fewer warriors in the church.
Of course, there are also many loopholes in this guess. For example, the notes mentioned that the other party has a strange power far beyond ordinary people, which is obviously not the characteristics of witches. Another example is that the witch can still defeat the church army under the influence of the God's Stone of Retaliation, which seems too bizarre. So what exactly made Hakara decide to go to the Wilderness, he still doesn't know. Was it her overly urgent mood that affected her judgment, or was there a part of the scroll that she hadn't seen secretly that was the real incentive
Roland prefers the latter.
At least he knew now that the devil described in the scribbled notes on the last page was not a witch, but a real alien race.
But this did not reduce his doubts at all, but made more unknown problems.
When has the church ever fought the devil
Roland searched the fourth prince's poor mysticism knowledge, but couldn't find any relevant content. Since the end of the war of faith, the church has established its base in the north to resist the evil beasts that invaded the mainland through the big gap. Later, they simply built a majestic fortress city on the Hermes plateau and called it a new holy city. These two connected cities, one high and one low, are used to fight against evil beasts, not devils. Besides, the name Taquila has never been heard before.
If these facts are true, there is no reason for the church to hide them. In the books that recorded the history of the church, every major victory they successfully resisted against evil beasts and fought against witches was described in detail above, as if they were afraid that others would not know their achievements. But fighting against the devil is more worthy of a book than evil beasts and witches.
The last question is the God's Punishment Army.
Obviously, this church member did not want to see the God's Punishment Army appear, and entrusted others to stop the person in charge of the experiment. It seems to be successful? Roland only knew that the church had the Judgment Army, but had never heard of the God's Punishment Army—of course, the reason why the Fourth Prince was ignorant was not ruled out.
However, if they can really train powerful warriors who can fight the devil head on, it will only greatly increase the strength of the church. Why does the owner of the notebook think that the God's Punishment Army will bring destruction
The inconceivable things that the book thinks should refer to the latter two points.
"Do you know where you got the ancient book that led Hakara astray?" Roland raised his head and looked at Nightingale.
"When I joined the Co-Aid Association, the sisters had already embarked on the road to find the mountains." Nightingale chewed the dried fish, her voice muffled, "But Wendy mentioned that the Co-Aid Association was not called the Co-Aid Association at first. It was just a few witches who got together by chance in Seabreeze County, including Hakara, Wendy, and Scroll. Later, they found a hidden place in the Eastern Forest not far from Seabreeze County as a place for a secret meeting. In the end, I didn't expect it to be the entrance of an underground ruin." She swallowed the snack in her mouth and licked her lips, "But apart from Hakkara, no one has gone down to explore."
"The ancient book was found in the ruins?"
"That's what Hakara claimed anyway," Nightingale curled her lips, "Afterwards, more and more witches gathered at the gathering. Maybe someone accidentally leaked their whereabouts during a meeting, and the church sent a large group of judges to surround the forest. Several witches escaped less than half. It was from then on that Hakara decided to go to the Extremis Mountains to find the Holy Mountain. So they called themselves the Mutual Aid Society, and made finding the Holy Mountain the highest goal of their members."
Roland fell into contemplation after listening to it. It was so troublesome to add too little mysticism. Anything involving history and legends, his mind was basically blank. There is no specific age in the ancient books, and he does not know whether other historical books have recorded the war. The first party was already dead, it would be great if he could go to the ruins to investigate, he thought.
But Roland also knew that this was basically impossible. The Eastern Forest was too far away from him, compared to a trip that would traverse the entire Greycastle as soon as he said it, developing his territory was his top priority.
Walking to the window, Roland looked at the garden under his feet through the floor-to-ceiling window. The witches are doing ability training according to their own instructions. Now that he has twelve witches under his command, it is time to form an organization.
In his vision, the organization does not need any program or guidelines. It is set up to facilitate the management of witches and rationally exert their abilities, and its functions are similar to the guilds of later generations.
The organization's rules are also as simple as possible, with only two: Do not use power to violate territorial laws. Do not use your power to escape from the law.
At first, Roland also wanted to imitate the practice of the Three Laws of Robots, restricting witches from using ability damage, attacking ordinary people, etc. Later, he thought it was superfluous. For them, ability is like a gun in the hands of ordinary people. When faced with danger, there is no essential difference between fighting back with a gun and fighting back with ability. And deliberately emphasizing the difference between witches and ordinary people will only increase the gap between the two groups.
Therefore, it is not illegal, and it is also the most concise expression that a polytech dog can think of.
As for the name of the organization, Roland had already thought about it.
This new collective is called the "Witch League".