Seeing the skinny old man in front of them, Hao Ren and Lili immediately exclaimed: "It's you?!"
The other party is none other than the mysterious old man that everyone saw after encountering the ancient phantom at the monitoring point!
At that time, the old man said a lot of inexplicable things, but when Hao Ren and his party wanted to catch up and ask for clarification, he disappeared out of thin air—everyone never expected that they would meet each other here and under such circumstances !
The old man sitting on the chair was not surprised when he saw Hao Ren and his party. He stood up slowly, his thin and frail body was like a rock without shaking: "I saw yours in the dream. Come and welcome you, guests from afar.”
"Dream?" Hao Ren repeated the word, "What we saw before was..."
The old man nodded slightly: "This is the world of nightmares. There is no boundary between dreams and reality, so don't pursue it carefully."
"You are the Pope?" Calassius finally couldn't help but say, "The Pope I know is His Majesty August VII. I have never met you before! Who are you?"
"You've seen me, you've seen every single one of me," the old man who claimed to be the pope just smiled slightly in the face of Calassius' doubts, his words were as mysterious and obscure as ever, and following his words , his appearance began to change continuously, turning into old and middle-aged people with different appearances one after another, and his voice also gradually changed, as if countless people spoke together and turned into a compound voice, "I am Charles I , I am also Harold III, I am August VII, and I am Saint Ivan... I am each of them and all of them... I am the Pope, every Pope you have ever known."
Calassius' eyes were wide open, and in the constant changes of the old man, he saw familiar faces one by one—those faces had appeared in the hallway of saints in the Palace of Icons, painted as portraits of a person's height, neatly arranged Hanging on both sides of the corridor, he has walked through that corridor again and again since he was the assistant bishop, and he is familiar with the face of every pope. He also saw August VII, that was the last change of the old man. The familiar voice and smile only lasted for a few seconds, but it made him tremble from the bottom of his heart!
"You...you..." Calcius pointed at the old man tremblingly, but couldn't speak.
"Are you a collection of popes?" Hao Ren was more familiar with similar situations. He looked at the old man in front of him curiously, "Then what are those corrupted creatures we encountered in the real world? The one in Asuman What happened to August VII who blocked the way?"
"Lockmarton thought it could easily corrupt a saint, but he didn't know that Sanctuary people never had the habit of yielding," the old man said indifferently, as if what he was about to say happened to others, "for faith, We can abandon the body, we can tear apart the soul, we can destroy everything we have, and there is only one obsession left, and what Lochmarton can corrode is only an empty shell. If we really have no choice, we would rather choose self-destruction , come to this world to perish with the minions of Chaos, and will never surrender."
Hao Ren vaguely guessed the truth of the matter, but there are still many things that need to be explained by the other party: "So those in the real world are just corrupted bodies? Wait a minute... We encountered a very strange nightmare monster, which claimed to be..."
"Benedict III made a noble sacrifice in order to spread the news to the outside world," the Pope's collective shook his head gently, "Originally he had failed and lost his self-awareness before the news came out, but we didn't expect him to When I met you, met the wolf, and by accident, he still managed to convey some news."
"So you...you have been controlling the situation?" Karasius' voice trembled, "Your Majesty, why didn't you tell me?"
The first half of his sentence was talking to the pope's assembly, but the second half of the sentence was obviously asking August VII.
"Because Lochmarton monitors everyone's dreams, these secrets have always been known only to the sleepless dead," the pope assembly explained, "after the death of all popes, they were buried under the Palace of Icons, and the Saints, sages, and living saints were also buried in mausoleums throughout the Holy City after their deaths. Some of these heroic souls were summoned to enter the eternal battlefield of the Forgotten Abyss, and together with the Warden Legion, they fought against Lokmarton's influence on the real world. Corrosion, and the other part is connected together, becoming the will of the dead to shelter the living... "
Ge Dun, King of Mountains and Rivers, nodded: "It is true."
The pope group nodded to the King of Mountains and Rivers, and continued: "After the wardens fell into chaos, we realized the changes in the situation and deduced the worst situation. The early planning started at that time. However, no one expected that Lochmarton's escape would be so fast. Not only was it continuously polluting the Abyss of Forgotten, but it also infiltrated the real world through the polluted warden army—the remains of the saints were the first to be killed. to Corrosion, followed by Soul…
"We realize that this kind of pollution is irreversible, and if we are trapped in the real world and only rely on passive resistance in the chaotic war once every hundred years, then mortals will never be able to resist the power from the nightmare world, not to mention counterattack, which is not even above is an effective defense.
"However, the door to the Abyss of Oblivion is sealed. If we want to break through it, we must obtain the power of the gods, or find the crucial key, neither of which we have...
"But the turning point came when we didn't expect it, and it's not appropriate to say that it was a turnaround, because it was not only our opportunity, but also Lockmarton's - a few months ago, a fragment with great power Penetrating time and space, impacting on Asuman."
Hao Ren couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this: "Wait a minute, do you mean that you used the power of that crystal to teleport the City of the Gods?!"
The Pope shook his head: "We couldn't use the power of that piece of debris, but only slightly borrowed the 'vibration' it caused. That impact destroyed the function of Asuman, causing a leak in the seal that held Loch Marton, but it also created a hole for us. Open a passage, a passage that only the dead can see, so the plan to prepare for the millennium was finally implemented. When the power of Lockmarton found August VII, everything was ripe, so August VII sacrificing his body to become a member of 'us' as the last member, and when Lochmarton thought it had finally succeeded in corrupting and occupying a pope, its connection with the Palace of Icons became We hunted down its beacon, although it was very vigilant and immediately cut off the link with the real world, but we still came... to find it to pay for it!"
When the old Pope said this, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and finally showed some emotion on his face, which was an expression of pride and determination.
Gordon, the King of Mountains and Rivers, was shocked by this grand and decisive plan. He couldn't help but stare at the Pope and scrutinized him for a long time: "You can always surprise people... I never thought that mortals could do this step..."
The pope glanced at Gordon quietly: "We are mortals, but mortals also have backbone."
"I admit, I never thought you would have this kind of power," Gordon shook his head. Although this wide cathedral can accommodate a giant like him, it still seems narrow to him after staying for a long time It's still a bit awkward, "But you also need to know that Lochmarton is an evil god, and it's not easy to deal with—although you have transferred the most powerful armed forces in the sanctuary and the dead souls of saints accumulated over tens of thousands of years to this world, but These forces combined may not necessarily destroy Loch Marton."
"At least we can hit it hard, so that the world of future generations will have at least thousands of years of peace," the old Pope said, "We have no choice, instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better to make a decisive blow, so that we can die like a sanctuary. "
Such a decisive speech touched everyone present, and Lily couldn't help but stepped forward: "Well said! Don't worry, old man, we are here to help!"
The Pope nodded: "I know—it seems that the goddess is still protecting us after all, and sent a powerful reinforcement at the darkest and most critical time. I just don't know what your plan is?"
Hao Ren stepped forward: "I have the most powerful means of attack. If I am right, I should be the only one here who can truly destroy Lochmarton."
Y'zaks continued: "But first we need to find Lochmarton's body and understand some of its properties—for example, under what circumstances it can be destroyed, whether it has a backhand for hiding or resurrection, and its How strong is the counterattack force that can be mobilized, and what form it is."
"And more!" Lily also came in, and when she talked about this kind of topic, she was in full spirit, "If Lokmarton is killed, what will happen to this nightmare world? We have to Are you ready to go back..."
"That Locke or something, does it have a hidden big move? Does it drop something after hanging up?" The little girl Elizabeth also jumped out, and she knew that she had been playing games on the Giant Turtle Rock for the past month. up.
"Ask one by one, one by one." Hao Ren quickly waved his hands to calm everyone down, and turned to look at the Pope. "Let's talk about where to kill and how much to kill."
The Pope saw that the group of people in front of him finally came up with a definite question, and then nodded slightly: "Across the Scorched Earth Plain, there is a Spiral Hill at the border of the Confused Sea. The node of collapse, now Lochmarton is entrenched in that place." (To be continued~^~)