Tome of Blood

Chapter 357 -13- Holy Power

It's 【Divine Magic Counter】!

Seeing the familiar words appearing in the field of vision, Charlotte was pleasantly surprised.

But after she finished reading the magic spell described in [Divine Magic Counter], she felt a chill in her heart.

"Eternal Sacred Realm"...

Charlotte is no stranger to this magical technique.

She had browsed through the collections of the Boulder Church, and had some understanding of some of the divine arts of the Holy Royal Court.

And "Eternal Sacred Realm" is one of the famous ones.

This is a very powerful sacred illusion, which requires the use of the holy royal court's artifact "Eternal Sun" to perform it. It is said that even gods may be tricked.

After being pulled into the illusion, the subject will completely lose control of himself in the real world.

If the subject cannot break free from the illusion, the soul will sink into it forever, and when the "body" of the subject in the real world dies, the soul will be purified by the "eternal day"...

According to the records of the church, the city-state of the Luna Coast encountered the revival of the old god twenty years ago.

At that time, the chief judge of the New Moon Parish Tribunal used the "Eternal Sun" to cast the "Eternal Sacred Realm" to trap the revived old god, and finally killed him.

Gods are hard to kill.

As long as the source is immortal and there are people who still remember them, they may return from history.

But the illusion of "Eternal Sacred Realm" can interrupt the connection between gods and mortals, trapping the origin of gods and souls.

As long as the gods are trapped in the illusion, and then the body in which the gods and souls are stored is killed, the goal of killing the gods can be achieved.

This more secret knowledge is not just what Charlotte reads from books.

It was Niss, the black cat, who popularized science to her when he introduced the experience of the chief judge of the New Moon Parish to kill God.

Thinking of this, Charlotte's heart sank.

Bernard de Champagne...

[Divine Countermeasure] The caster described is none other than the chief judge of the New Moon Parish.

Charlotte didn't know if it was because she was hit by the magic spell left by the great judge in Lutetia Cathedral, or if the other party didn't go to Castel at all.

But no matter what the situation is, the presiding judge + the eternal sacred realm all show that the holy royal court may have suspected that she is related to the evil god.

"It should be just suspicion, otherwise...after pulling me into the illusion, the church is completely able to do something to me."

"Now it's just creating an illusion to induce me to attack. This shows that the church is still uncertain about my identity and wants to see my strength clearly..."

Charlotte soon came to such a judgment.

And soon, she made a new discovery.

She has been in the illusion for a long time.

Even if the flow of time in the "Eternal Sacred Realm" is different from that in the real world, she must have been exposed to the divine magic for a while in reality.

But now, even if she hasn't modified the judgment of [Divine Spell Counter], under the radiance of the holy light, she can only feel the burning pain and dizziness...

The illusion didn't end, and Charlotte wasn't attacked.

This shows that the church's hallucination test is still going on, which shows that her real body may not have a corresponding abnormal reaction under the illumination of the holy light, which shows that the church probably doesn't know what she experienced in the hallucination.

This shows... her resistance to divine power has increased.

Thinking of this, Charlotte felt a little weird.

She thought of the red divine fire that ignited in her heart after fusing the ancient god statue.

"Could it be... After I fused with that god statue, my body and soul also got a kind of sublimation, not only can I ignore the sunlight, but even the sacred power can resist to a certain extent?"

There is such a possibility!

However, now is not the time to test these speculations.

Charlotte needs to respond to [Divine Countermeasure] and be prepared to leave this illusion.

Thinking of this, Charlotte fell into thought again.

How to modify the judgment of [Divine Magic Counter] is also a problem.

Before leaving the illusion, she must be prepared to deal with the church.

The "Eternal Sacred Realm" can trap even gods. Before the church took the initiative to end the illusion, she, a mere silver moon transcendent, was able to break free, literally writing "I have a problem" on her forehead.

This is different from her interception and modification of divine spells in the past. The previous divine spells were not so targeted, but this time they were really aimed at her.

But Charlotte didn't intend to do nothing and passively wait for the church to end the illusion.

This method of handing over the power of selection to the other party is too passive and full of variables.

It would be terrible if the church decided to strengthen the illusion after seeing that she hadn't used her power for a long time in the illusion.

She is now able to resist the illumination of divine magic, which shows that the current strength of divine magic is not high enough. If the church strengthens the divine power, she really can't control what will happen.

After all, what trapped her was an artifact, something similar to the Holy Tome of Blood, Charlotte still planned to leave voluntarily.

It's just how to leave, how to modify the judgment, there must be a charter...

What is certain is that it is impossible for Charlotte to directly and crudely judge herself as a devout holy believer like in the past.

Because no matter how devout a believer is, it is impossible to actively jump out of this kind of magic.

Not to mention that the church has even used this kind of magic, which shows that the suspicion of her is already quite deep, and it is impossible for ordinary believers to hide their identity from the church.

She had to try to dispel the church's suspicions.

So... how to modify the judgment?

Looking at the "sun" in front of her, Charlotte's heart moved, and she had a bold idea...

...

Lutetia Cathedral, prayer room.

The golden brilliance is dazzling, and an exquisite and simple round crystal mirror is floating in mid-air.

The crystal mirror exudes sacred light, and the mirror faces downward, like a round of blazing sun, projecting a golden beam of light, enveloping the beautiful girl in it.

The girl's eyes were closed tightly, her brows were slightly wrinkled, and she still maintained the movement she had just entered the prayer room.

Inside the prayer room, the Priest Charles de Loren of the Crescent Parish, who was dressed in a white and gold-inlaid holy priestly robe and had white hair and beard, looked thoughtfully at Charlotte shrouded in the beam of light.

Beside him, on the left and on the right, stood two senior priests of the holy court.

The one on the right is a judge who looks to be about fifty years old.

He was wearing a bright red presiding judge's attire, and his face was condensed.

It was Bernard de Champagne, Grand Judge of the Parish Inquisition of the Crescent.

This legendary judge who was supposed to go to Castel to investigate the warning incident of the town god's bell turned out to have never left Lutetia at all, but waited in the cathedral, waiting for Charlotte to come to his door!

At this moment, he was holding a golden sun pedestal in his hand, which was connected to the floating crystal radiance, maintaining the divine magic mask covering Charlotte.

The side of the sun pedestal is engraved with mysterious and complicated lines and the symbol of the cross representing the god, which is obviously integrated with the crystal mirror.

The person on the left of the priest of the diocese is a relatively young priest who looks about forty years old.

It is also wearing a white chief priest robe, but the edge of the priest robe is purple.

This is a purple-clothed cardinal dean, who is also a legend.

Joseph de Mazarin.

He is one of the five cardinals of the New Moon Diocese, and is also the highest priest in charge of the Diocese's Demon Hunting Institute, also known as the Demon Hunting Cardinal.

Archbishop Charles de Loren, Grand Judge Bernard de Champagne, Cardinal Joseph de Mazarin...

These three priests are the three giants with the most power in the Crescent Parish of the Holy King's Court.

At this moment, the eyes of the three legends were all focused on Charlotte who was shrouded in brilliance.

They either frowned slightly, or showed doubts on their faces.

"Can't you see her spiritual world?"

The archbishop of the diocese, Charles, glanced at Bernard, the chief judge, and asked.

The grand judge Bernard closed his eyes, and the sun pedestal in his hand flickered slightly.

After a while, he opened his eyes and shook his head slightly:

"cannot……"

"Her spiritual power seems to be protected by some mysterious force. Although we have successfully pulled her into the sacred and eternal realm using the 'Eternal Day', her spiritual world is still closed to the outside world..."

"Mysterious power? Isn't it the divine power of Ability God?"

On the other side, Cardinal Joseph frowned slightly.

The chief judge, Bernard, hesitated for a moment and shook his head:

"I don't know..."

"The Eternal Sun did not issue an early warning, which means that the power protecting her has not been rejected by the divine power. This power is hidden deeply, and I am temporarily unable to judge what this power is..."

"Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the level of this kind of power is very high, so high that it can compete with the power of the divine..."

"To the extent that it can compete with the divine power..."

The archbishop of the diocese, Charles, murmured thoughtfully.

Although he has only been the High Priest of the New Moon Diocese for one year, he is very concerned about the Boulder evil god incident that caused a lot of trouble last year.

A god who can directly reseal the unsealed Balrog Valaroka after being born in this world, its true power is by no means comparable to those gods who have just recovered.

Such an existence, whether the opponent is an evil god recognized by the church or those unknown alien gods, is a huge threat to the Holy Royal Court.

The former high priest of Bold, who had already been tried, called the strange god "Dark Night", and the Holy Royal Court also secretly tracked down this "God of Dark Night" for a year.

However, after the Boulder turmoil subsided, this "God of the Night" seemed to have disappeared and never appeared again.

Until Lutetia's town god bell rang...

Thinking of this, the archbishop of the diocese, Charles, once again looked at the girl shrouded in the holy light, his eyes gradually deepening.

Charlotte de Castel.

The whereabouts of this "Holy Maiden who walks the world" overlapped with that of the "God of the Night" in various ways from the very beginning...

If it was just a coincidence in Boulder, then the second time the town god bell warned, and the place where the warning happened happened to be the Northland where she was, it was hard not to let people associate her with it.

Although the church in the North had reported the second town god bell warning as a sacrifice of the Blood Demon Cult, the High Priest Charles felt that it was not that simple.

Especially after the church received an anonymous report...

Thinking of this, High Priest Charles once again took out the report letter that the church received a few days ago.

The object of this whistleblowing letter was Charlotte de Castel.

It reported to the church that behind the young Earl of Castel there was an awakened blood-born evil god!

And... the evil god behind her is the "God of the Night"!

The report letter was not signed.

However, High Priest Charles relied on his superb divine skills to track down that the report letter probably came from within the Blood Demon Sect...

It's very interesting.

The Gorefiend Sect actually reported the traces of the God of the Night to the church.

However, after knowing what the "God of the Night" had done in Boulder, the High Priest Charles could understand.

It's just an infighting of the blood-born myth.

These guys have been fighting for an unknown number of years.

However, the other party was after all the Gorefiend Cult, the enemy of the Holy Royal Court. Even if the report letter described it plausibly, the High Priest Charles did not believe it completely.

The God of Night needs to suppress the seal, but the Blood Demon Cult also needs to be suppressed.

Although the church has long suspected Charlotte of Castel, it must also prevent the Gorefiend Cult from digging holes for the church.

At the same time, Charlotte of Castel is, after all, an important lord of the New Moon Kingdom, and the church is not good at taking action rashly...

It is also because of this that there is this relatively "mild" "illusion test".

"Eternal Sacred Realm" is one of the most powerful divine arts of the Holy Royal Court. If there is a problem with Charlotte's identity, there will be nowhere to hide.

However, no one thought that even such a magical technique would have a problem!

The spiritual world that cannot see the target...

Although this has proved that there is really something wrong with Charlotte de Castel, it is followed by doubts that make High Priest Charles even more uneasy...

If the mysterious power that protects the opponent is really a power that can fight against the divine power, then it will be troublesome.

The Divine Lord is asleep, and the gods of the royal court have not yet returned to their positions.

An alien god who can fight against the power of the divine lord is definitely a huge disaster for the holy royal court.

But on the other hand, if this is the case, they may have already ushered in the "gaze" of Ability God.

Or... the girl in front of her, could it be the descending Ability God himself?

Of course, there is another possibility.

That is, the girl is really a saint protected by the God Lord, and the power that protects her is the power of the God Lord, so the magic spell will fail.

But then again, if it's the power of the God Lord, it's impossible for priests like them not to perceive it.

"Your Excellency, the High Priest, I still can't see her spiritual world. Do I need to strengthen the input of sacred power and enhance the effect of the 'Eternal Sacred Realm'?"

Grand Judge Bernard said in a deep voice.

High Priest Charles thought for a while, then nodded slightly:

"Okay, let's strengthen the magic effect."

After speaking, he hesitated for a moment, and said again:

"If you still can't see her spiritual world, just do it directly."

After hearing the chief priest's words, the chief judge Bernard and the cardinal Joseph the hunter were taken aback for a moment.

Facing the eyes of the two colleagues, the High Priest Charles said in a deep voice:

"The time left for us by prophecy is getting less and less. For the sake of the church, we cannot take risks. Even if there are possible risks, we must kill them in the cradle..."

The chief judge, Bernard, nodded solemnly.

He looked at the girl in the holy light, ready to pray again to strengthen the effect of the artifact.

However, before he could pray, the holy light that enveloped the girl suddenly burst into dazzling light.

"She has exerted her power in the spiritual world!"

The chief judge, Bernard, was moved in his heart and said.

The chief priest, Charles, stared intently at the girl in the holy light.

The "Eternal Sacred Realm" can project the power of the "Illusion Realm".

If a girl exerts her full strength in the spiritual world, she can also see it in the real world!

Not only that, but if there really is a myth behind the other party, it will definitely attract attention, and the church can also use the "Eternal Day" to locate the other party's location!

For a moment, the eyes of the three legendary priests were all focused on the girl, and they were ready to strike at any time.

A radiant brilliance erupted on the girl's body, like a shining sun.

Feeling the familiar breath, the three legends were stunned at the same time.

"God... divine power?!"

divine power...

Under the shroud of "Eternal Sacred Realm", what Charlotte projects is the purest sacred power...