Baicheng, Golden Rose Palace.
Rudolf III’s secret room seemed a little crowded today. This special room, which never received more than three visitors at the same time, received a lot of people this time—the three sons and daughters of the king sat beside him, and his two important ministers, Rune The Archduke and General Groun sat on the other side, while the "Ancient Guardian" sat across from him.
In addition to these people, there are two other people in the room.
One is the tutor of history and natural history of the princes and princesses, the famous scholar of the kingdom Alfred, this is a somewhat bald, fat old gentleman, with a white beard hanging down on his simple black academic gown, the whole He looked very kind. He was sitting next to Hao Ren with a smile on his face, and he had been looking at the famous "Ancient Guardian" curiously.
The other person stood behind the king. It was a mysterious woman covered in a black burqa. She was tall and thin, and she didn't speak a word. She stood there like a piece of wood that couldn't speak, and even her face was hidden behind Under a shadow that seemed to be a magical effect, her face could not be seen clearly from any angle. Hao Ren could only judge the gender of the other party through the figure faintly exposed under the burqa, and guess the identity of this mysterious person: This person's aura concealment skills are amazing, even if you stare at her direction, you will easily ignore her sense of existence, and even if you notice her figure, you will quickly forget her as soon as you turn your face. Magic effect, because even Hao Ren's magic immunity talent has no effect on her aura concealment.
This is probably a secret agent of the kingdom, or the king's secret knight, or some other similar character. All in all, it is not a simple character. Her appearance here is enough to prove the significance of the current conversation.
"First of all, I want to speak." The first person to break the silence was neither the king nor Hao Ren, but Veronica. Her Royal Highness has been a little angry since just now, "I know you are all very wary of cultists. I can't bear it, but you just put an ancient guardian who saved my life and protected the fortress of the western border as a target of suspicion. A group of heretics are so scared that they are cowards who only suspect others indiscriminately all day long?"
"I am the only one who has doubts about the ancient guardian," Grand Duke Luen said lightly, his expression unchanged for thousands of years. "It has nothing to do with Your Majesty and General Groen. If Your Highness the Princess has any opinions, you can vent them to the old minister alone."
Veronica stared: "I'm not venting, I'm just questioning."
Hao Ren didn't expect that Her Royal Highness would be so concerned about his affairs, so he couldn't help but feel a little moved, but in fact he didn't care so much about this misunderstanding—there were still some inexplicable and uncomfortable things at the beginning, but he was vaguely guessing After the truth of the matter, he didn't care. As a censor who walks between the mortal world and the gods, the mere Talos Kingdom has almost zero influence on him. He is looking at Keluo, not any country or individual of Keluo, as long as these things don’t interfere. to what he is doing.
But there is still a necessary statement, he waved his hand: "Veronica, don't be so excited, I don't care. It can be seen that you are in a trouble, and the trouble is probably not small, so I can understand. "
Rudolf III silently glanced at Hao Ren, with a trace of appreciation and gratitude deep in his eyes: "Thanks to the Guardian for his understanding, we have indeed encountered trouble—then let's make a long story short, I don't know that the Guardian has a great understanding of the 'Annihilation Secret Cult' How much do you know?"
Hao Ren was stunned: Why is it a new term
"The annihilation believers you are talking about?" He shook his head, there was no way to make up these things, so he simply stopped making up, "I don't understand, I haven't heard of them."
Veronica was surprised: "But this cult organization has existed since ancient times, and they were quite famous a thousand years ago."
Hao Ren blinked, and felt that this was rather embarrassing...
But fortunately, the characteristics of "amnesia" and "common sense confusion" of his ancient guardian are well known, and this issue is not the key point, so the people present did not delve into it, but the old scholar Alfred explained After a while: "The Annihilation Mystery Group, they are probably the oldest cult group in the world, and even the scholars in the sanctuary specialize in this group, and think they are as old as the chaos in this world-they are tempted Fallen mortals are lunatics stepping into chaos step by step. Since the evil giant Lochmarton exhaled his last breath, his breath has polluted the ancient mortals and created the earliest believers of annihilation."
Princess Ania took the words of her mentor: "The believers of Annihilation are fanatics who worship chaos and regard the evil giant Lochmarton as the 'truth of the world'. They believe that the destiny of the world is to step into chaos and darkness step by step. The Goddess of the World is the fundamental purpose of building the Kolo world, and order and light are just occasional ripples in the development of the world. The mortals and their civilizations born in these ripples regard this short-lived order as the truth. This is the original Folly'. They believe that the behavior of mortals to continue order and fight against chaos is to hinder the development of the world along the correct line, and it is the source of Colo's pain. The earth has brought great suffering, and they have a set of lofty 'ideals' to correct these 'wrongs', which is to end the resistance of mortals and let the whole world fall into the right track."
Veronica rolled her eyes: "To put it bluntly, it's just going around wreaking havoc and trying to make humans lose the Chaos War."
Hao Ren listened carefully to the narration about this cult group. To be honest, he was no stranger to any cult group, and he was not too surprised when he heard about the Annihilation Secret Cult Group: Cultists, it’s always the same. How come madness. He was just a little curious: "Their ideas are quite fresh and refined, but aren't they also mortals?"
"Yeah, so they also regard themselves as targets that need to be 'purified'." Veronica spread her hands, "This is where they are most insane. They will not let themselves go when they go crazy. I heard that annihilation The "Code of Annihilation" of the Secret Order also clearly stated that when the end of the world comes, all Annihilation believers should immediately destroy themselves to please Lochmarton, do you think there is any logic to a guy who is so crazy?"
Hao Ren nodded again and again: "Yeah, I know, they beat themselves when they went crazy."
Ordinary people may find it hard to imagine after hearing such a crazy cult group, because the actions of these fanatics are not only illogical, but also seem to be meaningless. Ordinary cults always use the only chance of redemption in the end of the world as a bargaining chip to confuse people's hearts, making believers believe that their crazy behavior can allow them to avoid some kind of disaster or get rewards far beyond human beings. However, this annihilation secret religion, their The doctrine points to the only perdition—not only will believers not be saved in the end of the world, but they must also be destroyed. They also regard themselves as things that need to be purified, and believers have not gained anything from this belief at all.
Instead, he is doomed to lose his life.
But Hao Ren was not too surprised by their deranged teachings, because he knew that there were many indescribable powers in the dream plane. These powers are spiritual poisons to mortals. Even just hearing about them is enough to make them firm The people are crazy and crazy.
If the evil giant Lochmarton is the representative of this power, then it is not surprising that his followers are crazy.
"I think you should already know what happened to Ania and Andrew," Rudolph III said in a low voice, "Although no clear evidence was found in the end, there are clues that show that there are believers in Annihilation behind this incident." The shadow of what happened today, and what happened today is more evidence of this."
Hao Ren immediately understood: "Veronica..."
"That's right, Veronica's distress in the western region was not accidental," Rudolf III said with a gloomy face, "In Baicheng, it was the master alchemist that Sir Lun found who cured Arnia and Andrew's ills. In the western region, it was the guardian who protected them. Veronica, if not, the consequences would be disastrous."
"The defeat in the Western Territory was caused by the tide of chaos and the withdrawal of the sect's troops. Could it be that those Chaos cultists have such great energy that they can control these factors?"
Grand Duke Luen shook his head: "Those cultists themselves are inextricably linked with the forces of chaos. Even if they can't control the tides of chaos, they can still make use of the tides of chaos to make their own plans. As for the early withdrawal of the church state …”
The Grand Duke said, looking at Rudolf III with a questioning look.
The king nodded and let out a sigh: "Speak, these things will not be secrets soon."
"The royal mystic looked at the sanctuary from the tower of mysteries, and observed that the light of Azuman on the top of the sanctuary had been extinguished."
Arnia and Veronica exclaimed.
Obviously, the two princesses, like Hao Ren, only knew the news at this moment. (to be continued~^~)