Early the next morning, Rob and Lolo bade farewell to Lucia. The latter did not sleep at all last night. The female Magician was busy writing down the results of the discussion with someone in the carriage. There were some parts that she did not quite understand, so she planned to write them down first and then slowly ponder over them. As a result, she had two dark circles under her eyes.
The owner of the inn had already gone back to Lavi. Rob asked Lucia to help him hire a new carriage and sat in it with Lolo.
"Where are we going?" the girl asked as the carriage drove out of the manor.
Rob did not answer the question immediately. He knocked on the door with his knuckles. After a while, he said, "There's something I don't want to tell you, but it seems that I have to tell you."
Lolo did not rush him. She knew that since he had said so, it meant that he would tell her everything.
Sure enough, Rob continued, "After leaving the Margan Desert, the monsters moved very strangely. They walked and stopped along the way, and sometimes they would suddenly turn back. But the general direction is not wrong. Combined with what Venner the Fifth said, I can roughly guess where they are going."
"Oh?"
"The Northern Region, the territory of the Bretton family." Your Honor, the future Supreme Magician, said word by word.
Lolo understood why the young man said he did not want to tell her this speculation. Last night, Rob had told her about the current situation outside, including his betrayal of the Sorcerers Association and what happened in the Margan Desert.
The church classified the monsters as a divine punishment. While the common people were relieved, they were also curious about where the divine punishment would fall. Now, Rob had given his answer.
"They … are coming for me?" Luo Luo's expression was calmer than she had imagined. Ever since she saw the giant of light at the top of Anarepp, she had been thinking about many things.
Merlin once said that the role played by Venner the Fifth in the Bretton family was the insider and executor, but he was not the mastermind.
This statement itself was very strange. Venner the Fifth was the number one figure in the church, the emperor of the Holy Alliance, a big shot standing at the top of the pyramid. In the human world, there were less than a handful of people who could compare with him. Who could order him around?
The answer behind this was a little terrifying.
"Gods, so this is what it looks like?" Luo Luo asked.
Rob knew that the girl was talking about the giant of light at the top of the mountain, Your Honor, the future Supreme Magus. He shook his head and said, "No, although that thing is powerful, it's not strong enough. It's probably just a doppelganger."
There were many records about the gods in the Church's books, but there was no accurate statement about the gods' combat power because no one had ever seen a god in action. To be more precise, no one had ever seen a god in action.
Most of the descriptions about the gods came from the imagination of human beings. From the perspective of communication and propaganda, there must be some exaggeration. Some things were true and false, and it was difficult to distinguish them now. Of course, the Church also had oracles. It was said that oracles could convey the will of the gods, and they were like a mouthpiece. But even the mouthpiece had never seen the existence on the other side.
However, there were still many miracles in the world over thousands of years, so it was possible to speculate part of the gods' power. The giant of light at the top of Anarep was strong, but it was not enough to trigger those miracles, so Rob speculated that it was just a doppelganger.
Lolo had been investigating the matter of that year, and now she was only one step away from uncovering the truth. However, the answer was something she had never thought of before. She had thought that the behemoth that was the Temple was terrifying enough, but when the shadow behind it gradually appeared, she knew what real despair was in the world.
And now, what had happened to Elua had happened to her again. What kind of fate was waiting for her?
What could mortals do to fight against the gods?
The morning sun shone on the fields on both sides of the road, and the side of Rob's face also shone slightly in the sunlight. Your Honor, the future Supreme Mage, said, "Actually, we are not without a chance of winning."
"Huh?"
"The gods are powerful, but they are not completely without weaknesses. Have you ever wondered why no gods have appeared in the world for thousands of years?"
Lolo thought for a moment. "Is it because they don't need to? With the Church as their spokesperson in the world, they only need to issue an oracle … "
Rob interrupted the girl. "But this time, the Temple did not complete its mission. It could not wait to send a doppelganger, but it was killed by us. If it was angry enough, it should have attacked us directly, but it did not. It only used the arrangement in the Margan Desert a year ago to put pressure on the Temple and the Magic Association."
"Why is that?"
"Because it is afraid," Your Honor, the future Supreme Mage, said softly.
"Afraid? Even the gods are afraid? "
"The longer they live, the more afraid they are of death."
"You think that the reason why it does not dare to show itself is because there is something on the road in the Kingdom of Dawn that can threaten its life?" This inference was a little unbelievable.
"So to verify my guess, we need to go back to Ryan's dungeon," Rob said.
"The dungeon in Ryan's?" The girl was a little surprised. That was the place where they met and had their first adventure. At that time, Lolo did not know Rob's identity and only thought of him as an ordinary scholar.
The next time they heard about the dungeon was a year ago. The two of them saved Ursula, a female student who was being hunted by the Temple on Six Flowers. Ursula said that the reason she was targeted was probably because of her teacher's last research. Her teacher, Fagan, had discovered something extraordinary, and the last place he wanted to go was the dungeon in Ryan's.
"Ryan's dungeon seems a little different from the other dungeons."
On this point, Luo Bu was perhaps the person with the most right to speak. Back then, he and Luo Luo had only explored the first floor, but their harvest was more bountiful than the later floors of other dungeons. The structure of the chest needle treasure had now been proven to be inextricably linked to the laws used by the gods, and Bevinadet's appearance was even more unexpected. At that time, Luo Bu had wondered what would be in the next few floors.
However, before returning to Ryan, he had to first solve the problem of the Bretton Family.
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