"What does it mean?" Roland stroked the line of words. "Did the owner of the ancient book fight with the monsters in the Barbarian Land?" He moved his gaze downwards.
"There are more and more demons, and fewer and fewer of us. "
"Even the God's Stone of Retaliation cannot stop their attack. Just by relying on their unparalleled strength, even without relying on magic power, they would still be ferocious and terrifying enemies. "
"The Holy City of Taquila has fallen, and we have fled in all directions. "
"Over the mountains, across the rivers, run as far as you can from the Gates of Hell. "
"But next time, where can we escape to? "
"But this is not something I need to think about. I am dying, Natalya. "
"The power of the demons is corroding me, and no medicine will work. "
[I'm writing all this because I have a favor to ask of you. "
"Alice's experiment with the God's Punishment Army is coming to an end. The experiment was very successful, and the extraordinary warriors are not inferior to the demons. But she forgot that even if the God's Punishment Army wins, the victory will 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 passage was not long. After reading it from beginning to end, Roland closed his eyes and tried to put himself in Cara's point of view.
If she did not know the existence of the demons and replaced the demons with witches, she could easily imagine the Church's army retreating under the attack of the witches. Then combined with the widespread rumors that witches were the minions of the demons, and that their magic came from the Gates of Hell. Cara was very likely to think that the Church actually wanted to hide the truth: the so-called Gates of Hell were the entrance to the Holy Mountain. For hundreds of years, witches had gone to the Holy Mountain and obtained eternal life there. So there were more and more witches. And the Church's soldiers were getting fewer and fewer.
Of course, there were many loopholes in this speculation. For example, the notes mentioned that the demons had extraordinary strength, which was obviously not a characteristic of witches. Another example was that witches could defeat the Church's army under the influence of the God's Stone of Retaliation, which seemed too bizarre. So what made Cara decide to go to the Barbarian Land, he still did not know. Was it her excessive eagerness that affected her judgment? Or was there a part of the content that he did not peek at, and that was the real reason?
Roland was leaning towards the latter.
At least now he knew that the demons described on the last page of the scribbled notes were not witches, but real otherworldlings.
However, this did not reduce his doubts at all. Instead, it increased the number of unknown problems.
When had the Church ever fought with the demons?
Roland flipped through the 4th Prince's pitiful knowledge of mysticism. He couldn't find any related content. Ever since the end of the War of Faith, the church had established its base camp in the north to resist the demonic beasts that invaded the mainland from the big breach. Later, they simply built a magnificent fortress city on the Hermes Plateau and called it the New Holy City. These two connected cities, one high and one low, were used to fight against demonic beasts. Not the devil. Besides, he had never heard of the name Taquila.
If these things were true, the Church had no reason to hide it. In the books that recorded the history of the Church, every successful defense against demonic beasts and major victory against witches would be described in detail, as if they were afraid that others would not know of their achievements. But fighting against the demons was more worthy of being written about than fighting against demonic beasts and witches.
The last question was about the God's Punishment Army.
Obviously, this member of the Church did not want to see the God's Punishment Army appear and entrusted others to stop the person in charge of the experiment. It seemed that it was successful? Roland only knew that the Church had the Army of Judges. But he had never heard of the God's Punishment Army – of course, he could not rule out the fact that the 4th Prince was ignorant.
However, if they could really cultivate powerful warriors that could fight against the demons, it would only increase the strength of the Church. Why did the author of the notebook think that the God's Punishment Army would bring destruction?
What Scroll thought was inconceivable should be the latter two points.
"Do you know where you got the ancient book that led Cara astray?" Roland looked up at Nightingale.
"When I joined the Witch Cooperation Association, my sisters had already set foot on the road to find the mountain." Nightingale chewed on dried fish and said in a vague voice, "But Vendy once mentioned that the Witch Cooperation Association was not originally called the Witch Cooperation Association. It was just a group of witches from Seawindshire, including Cara, Vendy and Scroll. Later, they found a hidden place in the forest not far from Seawindshire and used it as a secret meeting place. I didn't expect that it was actually the entrance to an underground ruin. " She swallowed the snack in her mouth and licked her lips, "But except for Cara, no one went down to explore."
"Was the ancient book found in the ruins?"
"Anyway, that's what Cara claimed," Nightingale curled her lips, "Later, there were more and more witches gathered. Maybe someone accidentally leaked their whereabouts during a meeting, so the Church sent a large group of Judges to surround the forest. More than twenty witches escaped, less than half of them. From then on, Cara decided to go to the Impassable Mountain Range to find the Holy Mountain. So they called themselves the Witch Cooperation Association and set finding the Holy Mountain as the highest goal of their members. "
After listening to this, Roland fell into deep thought. Adding too little mystic points was so troublesome. Anything related to history and legends, his mind was basically a blank. The ancient book didn't mention the specific year, so he didn't know if other history books had any records of this war. The first person involved was already dead, if only I could go to the ruins to explore it, he thought.
But Roland also knew that this was basically impossible to achieve. The Eastern Forest was too far away from him. Compared to a trip across the entire Graycastle, developing his territory was his top priority.
Walking to the window, Roland looked through the floor-to-ceiling window at the garden under his feet. The witches were training their abilities according to his orders. Now that he had twelve witches under his command, it was time to establish an organization.
In his mind, this organization didn't need any program or guidelines. It was set up to facilitate the management of witches and the reasonable use of their abilities. Its function was similar to the industry guilds in the future.
The rules of the organization were as simple as possible, with only two rules: Don't use your abilities to violate the territory laws. Don't use your abilities to evade the law.
Roland initially wanted to imitate the Three Laws of Robotics and restrict the witches from using their abilities to harm or attack ordinary people, but later he felt that it was unnecessary. For them, abilities were just like guns in the hands of ordinary people. When they encountered danger, there was no essential difference between using a gun and using their abilities to fight back. Moreover, deliberately emphasizing the difference between witches and ordinary people would only make the gap between the two groups bigger and bigger.
Therefore, not breaking the law and not evading responsibility was the most concise expression that a technical dog could think of.
As for the name of the organization, Roland had already thought about it.
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