"We used to think that everything we did was right, but that's not the case."
Maria sat back in her chair and closed her eyes.
"You've seen the dark and sinful side of the church, foreigner. But the source of all this is the greed of human nature. Those people are addicted to the blood of the Ancient Gods and can't extricate themselves. They crave things that humans shouldn't have … "
"I see."
Fangzheng put down the book in his hand and looked at the woman in front of him. From Maria, Fangzheng finally learned what happened in Yanan.
Based on Maria's description, Fangzheng finally completed the whole story.
First, the Byron Weiss Academy had unearthed the ruins of the Sumerian civilization. From the ruins, they learned that the Sumerian civilization used to be the servants of the old gods. The Sumerian civilization had once tried to raise their level by injecting the blood of the old gods, becoming a god like the existence they served.
But the Sumerian civilization failed and was destroyed in the end.
Byron Weiss Academy was attracted by this secret. They began to take over the remains of the Sumerian civilization and re-study the secret of becoming a god. Then they found the Daughter of the Universe, Ibitas, in the depths of the Sumerian ruins. She was an ancient god who had not left this world. They brought this ancient god back to Byron Weiss Academy and tried to obtain the secrets of the Ancient Gods through her.
Unfortunately, their experiment also failed. Although the Blood of the Ancient Gods obtained from the Daughter of The Universe had indeed increased their strength in the beginning, as more and more blood was injected, the subjects of the Byron Weis Academy began to mutate without exception, resulting in a series of collapses from the soul to the mind.
Under such circumstances, Master William decided to stop the research, but his proud disciple, Lawrence, was obviously unwilling to stop there, so the two sides parted on bad terms.
Before Lawrence left, Master William, the old man who had obtained wisdom close to that of the Ancient Gods with his own strength, finally told him the truth. The reason why humans could not become Ancient Gods was that they lacked something.
The third umbilical cord.
This was something only an infant Ancient God would have. It was connected to the brain and Spirit Vision of the Gods. In other words, without the third umbilical cord, no matter how hard a human tried to inject the Ancient God's blood, they would not be able to become a God.
However, Lawrence obviously did not give up. After leaving Byron Weiss, he built the Church of Healing and began to conduct two experiments. On the one hand, Lawrence tried to obtain a third umbilical cord. On the other hand, he chose a different research route. He tried to control the beastification caused by excessive injection of the Ancient God's blood through the human's own reason. After all, from Lawrence's point of view, if his mentor William could do it, then he could definitely do it as well.
Of course, the latter was only a backup plan in Lawrence's eyes. If possible, he still desired to obtain a third umbilical cord to fulfill his wish of becoming a god.
Finally, Lawrence's research had made great progress. Through the "Holy Grail" excavated from the Sumerian ruins, they had successfully contacted the ancient gods that existed outside the void and attempted to carry out a ritual called the Blood Moon.
All the leaders had lost their children, and they were all looking for children.
Only the tainted God's blood could trigger this mysterious copulation.
Therefore, in order to allow the ancient gods and humans to copulate, so that humans could bear the child of the ancient gods and obtain the third umbilical cord. Lawrence started the Blood Moon ritual. It would attract the ancient gods to the human world and copulate with the person with the tainted blood, thus making the other party pregnant and give birth.
However, Lawrence's ritual failed.
A member of the Cain Hearst clan suddenly broke into the ritual site. He killed all the guards and took away the God's blood at the same time. This caused the ritual to fail. After the ritual failed, the wrath of the ancient gods covered the entire Old Yanan, causing the entire Old Yanan to become a place where monsters ran rampant. In desperation, Lawrence had to burn the entire Old Yanan to ashes, and at the same time, seal off the road between Church Town and Old Yanan to end everything.
Naturally, the Church of Healing would not stop there. After the ritual failed, the angry Lawrence sent an executor group led by the "martyr Rogarius" to the Cain Hearst castle in an attempt to recapture the God's blood that had been stolen by the Cain Hearst clansman. At the same time, they would take revenge on the entire Cain Hearst clan.
The martyr Rogarius never returned, and no one knew what had happened.
However, Lawrence didn't have the time to care about this matter because at this time, the Church of Healing was once again divided.
Due to the loss of God's blood, the ritual failed. This also caused Lawrence's desire to become a god through the third umbilical cord almost failed. Under such circumstances, another school of thought within the Church of Healing began to rise — that was the Mance School.
Their idea was that there was no need to pray to the Ancient Gods to complete the ritual. They could create the Ancient Gods themselves. Thus, although Lawrence's Blood Moon Ritual had failed, the Manses School had found another opportunity. That was, to not give birth to an Ancient God's child, but to directly create a true God with human hands.
The Mance School of Thought and Lawrence naturally didn't see eye to eye. Hence, both parties quickly parted ways. However, Lawrence was also showing signs of bestiality due to the excessive injection of the Ancient God's blood. He had to find a way to obtain the third umbilical cord. Otherwise, not to mention his research, even Lawrence himself would be completely finished.
Just as Lawrence was in despair, he suddenly received a piece of news.
There was a small fishing village not far from Yanan. The people there worshiped an Ancient God called Coase. Not only that, but most importantly, perhaps due to the influence of Lawrence's Blood Moon Ritual, the Ancient God called Coase had become pregnant and was about to give birth to a child! And now, the Coase worshipers in the fishing village were preparing to pray that their God would successfully give birth to a child!
This was truly a case of wearing out iron shoes in fruitless searching, only to find it by chance!
Overjoyed, Lawrence immediately issued an order to the hunter squad, requesting them to head to the fishing village and exterminate those monsters. They also had to kill Kosi and obtain the unborn baby and its third umbilical cord.
As an outstanding hunter, Maria naturally tagged along as well.
At first, the battle against the fishing village went very smoothly, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it. The fishermen who worshiped Coase had long since become half-human, half-fish monsters. In the eyes of the hunters, they were no different from the monsters in Yanan. And there was only one thing these hunters wanted to do, and that was to kill!
Facing the hunters who were adept at fighting, the fishermen in the fishing village were almost defenseless. The entire battlefield became a one-sided massacre. The hunters killed the fishermen as if they were chopping melons and vegetables, and then rushed into the cave behind the fishing village. There, Coase was already on the verge of giving birth.
Any living creature was at its weakest during pregnancy, and even an Ancient God was no exception. Facing the hunters who were as ferocious as wolves and tigers, Coase struggled with all her might. But in the end, she wasn't able to escape from the hunters' claws. The hunters cruelly killed Coase, cut open her belly, and took out the unborn child along with the third umbilical cord.
However, no one could escape unscathed after killing a God. But at that time, the hunters who were in a state of ecstasy didn't hear Coase's curses and anger before her death.
"Curse those demons, curse their children, and their descendants to suffer for eternity."
The ecstatic hunters left with their prey. Only Maria stood there, staring at Coase's body in front of her. As a woman, she could feel Coase's pain and anger before her death. As a hunter, Maria could mercilessly raise the butcher's knife against those monsters, but as a woman, she couldn't accept the heart-breaking scene in front of her. Humans killed a mother for their own desires and took out her child ….
Maybe it was a mistake for us to come here.
Maria threw her weapon into the well of the fishing village and swore never to participate in any battles again, but that didn't change anything. Coase's curse had spread. The hunters who participated in hunting her disappeared almost overnight. They were mercilessly locked up in this nightmare. They went crazy, tyrannical, and endured pain and torment from the soul to the body.
Maria couldn't do anything about it.
"Coase's curse has trapped us in this nightmare."
While speaking, Maria took out an astrolabe from her bosom.
"We couldn't rest in peace when we were alive, and our souls can't be freed after death. We can't change all of this, because all of this is our own doing. But you are different, foreigner. Perhaps you have the ability to remove all of this nightmare and end this nightmare forever. “
Maria raised the astrolabe in her hand and pointed it at the huge clock on the wall in front of her. Soon, the huge circular clock began to turn slowly, revealing a gap.
"Come on, foreigner."
Maria nodded at Fangzheng and the man with the big chin beside him.
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