The upper floor of the Pivotal Secret Temple was brightly lit. Dozens of Stones of Lighting illuminated the round library at the top of the tower as if it were daytime. It was hard to imagine that one was underground in this hall.
If it were the Hermes Cathedral on the ground, this place would be the Tower of Babel, which was also Zero's favorite place to stay. Through the window, she could easily overlook the whole Pivotal Secret Area. Looking at the busy figures around the God's Stone Pillars of Punishment like ants, she had a feeling that she was in control of all living beings, as if she was the God living in the Holy Kingdom of Light, and the people walking slowly in the darkness under her feet were the believers who built the Holy Kingdom.
Every time she had free time, she would take out a book from the bookshelf that recorded the history and secrets of the Union, sit by the window, and slowly read it. Of course, she would also put a cup of black tea with some winter flowers beside her.
After becoming the Pope, Zero actually felt relaxed. She was not nervous about the Battle of Divine Will, which was getting closer and closer. Instead, she looked forward to it. More than 200 years of life had made her feel very bored, and the invincible demons in the records seemed to be an opponent that could excite her. She wondered if these ferocious enemies could be as fearless and terrifying as they looked when they were pulled into the Soul Battlefield.
However, there were still several years before the final battle, so she needed to set up a new goal to pass the time.
There were very few people who could attract Zero's attention, and Roland Wimbledon happened to be one of them. He was also the only mortal who could arouse her interest.
Nobody thought highly of him, but he stood out in the Royal Decree of Fighting for the Throne and did not fall into a disadvantageous position against the two chess pieces who had the potential to succeed the throne. She also found some interesting clues in Garcia's memory.
That was, the Queen of Clearwater had once used a maid placed beside the 4th Prince to make him take a deadly alchemy poison, but the result was useless. The angry Queen then executed the unlucky alchemist. However, Zero let the Pivotal Secret Agency copy a copy of the poison according to the formula in her memory, and found that the finished product was indeed as the alchemist had claimed: colorless, tasteless, melted in water, and was incurable.
So did the maid deceive Garcia, or was the current Roland Wimbledon no longer the Roland Wimbledon of the past? According to the information she had collected, Zero was more inclined to the latter. The question was... if he was no longer Roland Wimbledon, then who was he? Why did no one around her raise any questions? The more he paid attention to this aspect, the more interesting it became. The gradual change in his style of doing things, winning the unanimous love and respect of his subjects, and single-handedly changing the distribution of power in the Western Region. Whether it was the Church's emissary group or the crazed army, none of them returned … If such a person was only a lord of a small territory, it would be such a pity.
Therefore, Roland Wimbledon must belong to the church, or in other words, become a part of himself. This was also the reason why she decided to change the direction of her attack. This was also the reason why she decided to attack the Wimbledon castle. of Roland Wimbledon.
Of course, as a lord with great power, he would definitely stay at the back during the battle. How to force him out was also a problem that needed to be considered.
While Zero was thinking about how to bypass the main battlefield and confront Roland, the door of the library was pushed open and Isabella walked in.
"Is the meeting over?"
"Yes." She rubbed her neck. "You, on the other hand, sit here reading and drinking tea every day, while I have to accompany those old guys... no, an old guy and two little lunatics talking nonsense."
"That's not nonsense, it's related to the operation of the church's lower echelons." Zero shrugged. "Although witches are the main body of the church, without them, we can't easily gather so many resources to achieve our ultimate goal."
"Whatever." Isabella yawned. "Anyway, according to what they said, we have to wait until the second month of summer to transfer the preparations for the attack on the Kingdom of Dawn to Graycastle. This is an optimistic estimate."
"This is neither a long time nor a short time," Zero thought. "Waiting is a kind of torture, but it also increases the joy of harvesting." "What about the production of the pills?"
"There are already 300,000 to 400,000 pills in the warehouse, right?" Isabella replied. "By the way, do you really plan to fight against the demons with all the civilians? Millions of people can eat up all the Hermes. And... "
"And what?"
"And we won't necessarily win." She shook her head. "If there are too many people, there will be trouble wherever we put them. After the first pill, their value will be calculated by days. What if the demons don't attack us? It's useless if we eat too few people, but it's all a waste if we eat too many people. Even if the demons swarm us and are defeated by the crazed army, they won't be able to fight anymore. "
"You don't understand what I mean." Zero stood up and walked to a big table in the hall. She uncovered the cloth covering it. "I never planned to let the crazed army defend Hermes. The final battle should be somewhere on the Fertile Plains... I guess it will probably be in the ruins of the Holy City of Ahn's Qiraj, because it's the closest place to us."
"Do you want to... take the initiative to attack?" Isabella was stunned.
"What we lack the most is time," Zero said calmly. "I don't expect to wipe out the demons in one fell swoop. The Holy Book says that when the Bloody Moon comes and the Gates of Hell open, the demons can build a Obsidian Spire. In fact, it's not building... it's growing. "
"Are you trying to say that those stones are actually alive?" Isabella asked incredulously.
"This part of the content can only be seen in the personal records of the Three Chiefs of the Union... The expansion of the demons must be built on the Obsidian Spire that can produce Red Mist. Currently, the places where the spire appears are all rich in God's Stone mines, and the area of influence will continue to grow. At the beginning of the Second Battle of Divine Will, an Extraordinary once led a group of soldiers to approach the Red Mist area from underground. As a result, she saw a shocking scene. There was an extremely huge monster surging under the spire, and its body was even thicker than the base of the spire itself. " Zero said word by word, "That huge monster was corroding the God's Stone and turning it into a black crystal that emitted Red Mist. Considering that the demons have Chaos Beasts that specialize in turning God's Stones into Magic Stones, it's not difficult to understand why they have such an ability. "
"…" Isabella opened her mouth and finally spat out a word, "Disgusting."
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