Chapter 125: Machine for Transforming the Power of Faith
After getting the information he wanted, Sunan killed the remaining Spark Cultists without hesitation.
After letting the hidden dragon and double-edged spider guard outside to prevent the gray-robed man from retaliate, Sunan then entered the building.
At the end of the silent corridor, there was only a closed metal door.
As the Spark Cultist said just now, the door and the wall are made of hundreds of refined steel, which is much harder than black stone iron.
Not to mention the legendary knights of the first ring, even if the legendary knights of the second ring come, don't even think about breaking through this place in a short time.
But for Sunan, it was no big deal.
He walked straight to the metal door, lowered his head to look at the very precise lock on the door, and went straight to it with a lockpicking technique. He heard a click and the door lock opened.
Although the lock-picking technique is a zero-level spell, it is very practical.
No matter how sophisticated the lock is, as long as it is not a secret lock or a magic lock, a lockpicking technique can solve it.
The secret room designed by the Spark Cult can only block knights and ordinary people, and is of no use to wizard apprentices who have mastered the art of unlocking.
Pushing open the heavy metal door, the scene behind the door quickly appeared in Sunan's eyes.
The entire secret room was empty, with not a single piece of furniture, only the cold metal floor, walls and ceiling.
A figure was lying alone in the middle of the room.
It was a man in his forties, wearing a gorgeous star chart robe, lying motionless on the ground. Next to him was a crown studded with jewels and a long staff made of gold.
Is this man the Pope of the Spark Sect?
Su Nan stood at the door and observed for a while, a strange expression gradually appeared on his face.
In his mental perception, the soul in the man lying on the ground had completely dissipated, and he could not feel any soul breath.
But the strange thing is that he is not dead, and his body still shows signs of life activity.
Like a still alive corpse!
This strange situation made Sunan very confused.
He released a debilitating ray towards the man, but after the spell landed on the man, it was offset by a strange force.
This power gave him a very familiar feeling.
"God's grace!"
Sunan's eyes narrowed slightly and he hesitated for a moment, but still remained alert and walked towards the man cautiously.
Until he came closer, the man still didn't respond.
Seeing this, Sunan went straight to check.
After a while, he finally determined that the soul of the Pope of the Spark Religion had completely dissipated.
The remaining body was completely supported by the divine grace in the body, so it did not completely stop life activities and rot and die.
What surprised Sunan was that although the amplitude was extremely weak, so weak that it was almost undetectable, the divine grace in the man's body was indeed slowly increasing.
"I see."
After thinking for a moment, Sunan quickly understood.
The pope of the Spark Religion has actually become a 'machine' that can receive the power of faith and transform it into divine grace.
He has no independent consciousness and cannot move. He only relies on divine grace to support his life, lying in the secret room day after day to transform the power of faith.
This is why people in the Spark Cult can hardly see the pope appearing, simply because their pope is actually dead, and all that is left now is just a body.
The person who really controls the entire Spark Cult behind the scenes is their chief priest Ovijiu.
This also explains why Ovijo can control so much divine grace.
It's unbelievable that the entire Starfire Sect's divine grace has been appropriated by him alone.
But the problem is that humans cannot transform the power of faith into divine grace. There must be other reasons why the Pope of the Spark Religion can do this.
Thinking of the divine skeleton mentioned by the man in gray robe just now, Su Nan had a vague suspicion in his mind.
He carefully inspected the body of the Pope of Spark Religion and quickly discovered something strange.
On the right hand of the Pope of Spark Cult, the ring finger is completely different from other parts and contains more divine grace.
After sensing it with his spiritual power, Sunan quickly determined that the ring finger did not belong to the Pope himself, but was sewn on the finger the day after tomorrow.
The key is that this finger is ridiculously strong.
Su Nan used the blade condensed from the magic pattern core to cut with all his strength, but it was unable to leave even a white mark.
Even if there is the element of divine protection in it, the strength is far greater than that of a legendary knight.
This is by no means an ordinary human body part.
Obviously, this ring finger is the so-called divine skeleton.
"Fusing the divine bones into your own body, I really don't know whether you should be called brave or ignorant?"
Sunan couldn't help but sigh.
Gods are existences at countless levels higher than human beings, and their life essence levels completely overwhelm ordinary people.
Even if it is only a part of the corpse of a god, it is equivalent to a very terrifying 'source of pollution' for ordinary people.
Even formal wizards don't dare to fuse the divine bones into their bodies. If a mere legendary knight dares to do so, it's no different than seeking death.
The pope's soul was probably annihilated by the impact of the fusion of the divine skeleton. All consciousness and thinking disappeared, and the body was subtly transformed by the divine skeleton into a tool for absorbing the power of faith and transforming divine grace.
This body is being transformed by divine grace every moment, transforming into a life form that is closer to the nature of the divine body.
Over time, if the Spark Sect expands in scale and the power of faith increases dozens of times, and continues for tens of thousands of years, maybe this body can be completely transformed into a divine body.
At that time, the real Star God will be resurrected from the divine body!
This is the terrifying thing about gods!
Even if most of the divine body is destroyed and only a small part remains, as long as there is enough power of faith and time, it can still be revived.
The key spirit can also twist the will and cognition of the creatures that come into contact with the divine corpse, turning them into their own believers, who will spontaneously work hard for the resurrection of the spirit.
From this point of view, in fact, all gods can be called evil gods.
"Evil stuff."
"I wonder what the wizard apprentice of the Eternal Life Society wants this for?"
"Do they also have means to purify divine energy?"
After thinking for a moment to no avail, Sunan shook his head and returned his attention to the body in front of him.
He held the divine skeletal finger and pulled it out gently. He immediately felt the divine grace surge rapidly in the Pope's body and quickly gathered in his ring finger as if it were alive.
Su Nan seized the opportunity, condensed a silver knife, and decisively cut it towards the connection between the divine body and the Pope's body, successfully separating the two.
Get the divine finger!
Sunan concentrated on sensing it, and found that there was not much divine grace contained in the ring finger, perhaps because it was extracted by Ovijiu.
But even so, the amount of divine grace contained in the Book of Stars is more than ten times greater. It is estimated that it will be no problem to increase one's mental power by two or three points.
After recovering from the joy, Sunan directly put his fingers into the Rubik's Cube.
Although this thing has vitality, it has no independent consciousness, so the Rubik's Cube can be stored.
Looking at the Pope again, as the divine skeleton detached, his body rotted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing pale bones, and eventually the skin, flesh, and bones disintegrated into pieces.
Before long, there was only a faint gray mark left on the spot.
"It's over." Sunan whispered.
Without the tool that transforms faith, even if there are still members of the Spark Cult, they will no longer be able to create holy objects and divine blood.
Without the means to quickly increase its strength, this sect will soon fall apart and no longer pose a threat.
After today, the Spark Cult will become history.
After doing all this, Sunan left the secret room and rushed to the warehouse and Oviejo's residence respectively.
These two locations were interrogated from the mouths of the Spark Cultists.
If there are any good things in the Spark Cult headquarters, they are probably in these two places.
Sure enough, Sunan found a large amount of gold coins and jewelry in the warehouse, with a preliminary estimate that the total value was at least fifty thousand gold coins.
The amount is not large, but for a church that is in the development stage, it is not bad to have such a large amount of cash flow.
"It's enough to create two, three, and two legendary level double-edged spiders."
Unfortunately, nothing was gained from Ovijo's residence, only some secret records and other documents were found.
Originally, Sunan expected to find one or two holy objects.
After doing all this, Sunan left Junan City without stopping.
After destroying the Spark Sect, his mission for this trip was basically completed.
Next, it’s time to go back and properly dispose of the divine remains.
Red Leaf Province, Star City.
Deep in the palace, the Grand Duke of Stars was walking on the silent corridor, his expression full of fatigue. Against the backdrop of his head of graying silver hair, he looked older and more haggard.
There is more and more bad news coming from the front.
The army sent by the royal family was unable to defeat the Marquis of White Tower's army and was dragged into the quagmire of stalemate.
However, the rebels were advancing on the battlefield in Zizhu Province with overwhelming momentum.
Letters asking for help came one after another from Marquis Zizhu, but the royal family did not have any extra troops to send for support.
If this continues, Zizhu Province may not be able to sustain itself for even a month and will fall into the hands of the rebels.
The situation has deteriorated to an extremely bad point!
"Why did it become like this?"
Grand Duke Fanxing sighed tiredly, remembering the wizard named Sunan that the Spark Cult once mentioned.
He knows more about wizards than most people.
After all, the royal family originally enshrined a wizard.
It's just that although the wizard is also very powerful, he is not good at refining golem puppets, let alone forming powerful armies such as the Golem Legion and the Black Rock Cavalry Regiment.
I have never heard of a wizard who could do this and single-handedly influence the direction of a large-scale war!
It was this misjudgment that led to the situation developing to this point.
While thinking, Grand Duke Fanxing had arrived at the door of the secret room at the end of the corridor.
He stopped, adjusted his appearance, then gently knocked on the door and said respectfully:
"Uncle."
There was silence.
After a long time, a deep voice came from behind the door.
"Come in."
Grand Duke Fanxing breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door and walked in.
The decoration in the secret room is very simple, with only a bed, a table and a chair.
Apart from that, there aren't even any hanging paintings.
A man with ordinary features, who looked to be in his forties and dressed simply, sat on a chair and looked over calmly.
Looking at that familiar face that had remained the same for decades, Archduke Fanxing's heart trembled slightly, and he could not suppress a surge of jealousy.
Looking at Grand Duke Fanxing, the man showed complicated eyes, sighed and said, "You shouldn't cooperate with the Spark Cult."
"There is no free lunch in the world, and the so-called gods are not philanthropic beings. To obtain immortality through the gifts of the gods, there must be a huge price behind it. Even if you do extend your life in the end, you will probably change your life." Become the puppet of those crazy people.”
"What happened this time was that you did something wrong."
A wry smile appeared on Grand Duke Fanxing's face, and he said harshly:
"Uncle, it's all my fault. I was blinded by greed."
"But now that the Spark Church has been destroyed, the rebels are coming in full force and will soon arrive here. I really have no choice but to beg you."
The man asked calmly, "What do you want me to do?"
Grand Duke Fanxing said quickly, "Please help Uncle and kill Sunan. As long as Sunan dies, I will have a chance to defeat the rebels!"
The man was silent for a long time, and then asked, "If Sunan dies, are you 100% sure you can suppress the rebels?"
Grand Duke Fanxing's expression froze, and after a long while he gritted his teeth and said, "Even if I can't win, I will fight to the death and will never let the Kessler family be humiliated!"
This time the man was silent for even longer.
Just when Grand Duke Fanxing was feeling uneasy, the man finally spoke.
"Okay, I'll go find Sunan."
"Thank you, uncle!"
Grand Duke Fanxing was overjoyed when he heard this.
Grand uncle was already a three-ring legendary knight fifty years ago. With his help, there is a great hope of killing Sunan.
In fact, if it weren't for the damned Spark Sect tempting him with immortality, with his great uncle around, he wouldn't care about the threat of the Spark Sect at all, let alone cooperate with the Spark Sect.
Who would have thought that the Spark Sect was so useless, and they acted in a high-handed manner, as if they were shepherds, but in fact they were vulnerable.
Before he could even hold on, the Spark Sect was destroyed by Sunan!
It's really despicable!
In any case, since his great uncle was willing to help, there was hope for the crisis to be resolved.
Seeing his great uncle wave his hand, Grand Duke Fanxing said goodbye and left tactfully.
But when he turned around, he didn't see the meaningful look his great uncle cast at him.
In the 1254th year of the Starlight Calendar, the month of Autumn Curtain (October).
The Shining Army conquered Zizhu Province and completely incorporated it into its territory.
Then he marched north and joined the army led by Baron Starley under his command, and took over the entire Hulan Province in just one month.
So far, four of the seven provinces of the Principality of Stars have fallen into the hands of the Shining Territory.
The other White Tower Province is also an ally of the Shining Territory.
The only provinces still in the hands of the royal family are the Red Leaf Province and the Frost Province.
Among them, the Frost Province has not yet recovered, and its combat power is almost negligible.
The only province that really has the strength to fight is the Red Leaf Province.
At this point in the war, even the most optimistic people do not think that the royal family can turn the tide.
In the 1254th year of the Starlight Calendar, the month of frost (November).
The Shining Army and the White Tower Army gathered at the border of the Red Leaf Province, and the war was about to break out.
