our family is gone

Baldwin only saw the lord rushing forward quickly to catch the falling Junia, and thought that was it, but after calming down a little, he saw the lord's face that was even more surprised and angry.

At this time, the light that had originally subsided in Junia bloomed again, but it seemed to be squeezed out and turned into a stream of light.

What made Baldwin feel even more weird was that he actually felt like he was being stared at the first moment. There was no way he could be wrong because the flash of light was rushing towards him.

It was too fast, even Baldwin didn't react, but at this moment, accompanied by an inaudible roar from the lord, a big hand actually grabbed the light.

The moment the two touched, the flash seemed to have sensed something and burst into dazzling light in Lance's hand, but it was swallowed up in an instant.

This time, Baldwin and his companions witnessed with their own eyes the famous scene.

Lance caught the light.

Or perhaps it could be said that not even light could escape the power of sacrifice.

However, Lance also paid a heavy price for this. His entire arm was severely burned by the final burst of power. His skin was charred and carbonized, and the exposed muscles were not in good condition. The flesh and blood and the remnants of clothes were all melted together.

Lance calmly withdrew his arm, as if it was not his arm that was injured. He could see the wound healing, and the continuously growing flesh and blood replaced the charred necrotic flesh and turned into blood scabs that fell off.

In an instant, smooth white skin appeared on the arm, without a single scar visible on it, as if it had never been injured.

But the resentment was even more serious - I just changed into new clothes!

He only has eight sets of regular clothes for all four seasons. He just scrapped a set of severely damaged clothes yesterday, and it broke again just two days after he changed it.

Not only did he take over my body, but he also ruined my clothes.

Fortunately, the gift from the sacrifice at this time distracted his attention and left him no time to care about these things, because the gift was...

Divinity +5
“So this is what you call a saint?”

Lance whispered, lost in thought.

The corpse is probably just a host or container of the light. As long as the light is parasitic on it, he is a saint.

Of course, just like before, she would be occupied by another consciousness. Lance was very sure that if he had not intervened, the consciousness that would have waited for Junia to wake up would have been another consciousness called a saint.

Lance didn't care what he did, what it was, or whether it was good or bad, as long as anyone who touched him would die.

However, the two key words "container" and "parasitism" made Lance frown. Why did he seem to have heard them somewhere?
Plus, the gods walk the earth...

But he soon realized something and felt excited.

Carrying the power of God, isn't this the origin of the Pig God?
Besides, wasn’t the last time he came into contact with divinity from the sacrifice of the Pig God?

The real reason for the Pig God's failure couldn't be that he was not divinity enough, so he couldn't withstand the arrival of the extraterritorial being.

And obtaining divinity can probably be guessed to be related to religious worship. Could it be that the ancestor cultivated those pig people in order to accumulate divinity?
That is, there are two existences in the beast cave, one is the pigman god, and the other is invisible flesh and blood. One provides divinity, and the other provides the heart of flesh and blood. Both were deliberately left behind by the ancestor for his plan.

Although these are all Lance's guesses based on the existing information, the logical reasoning is smooth.

So the ancestor did so many things, could it be that what he really wanted was to take this divinity?

A myriad of thoughts were tangled in his mind, but Lance didn't have much time to dwell on them because Junia slowly woke up.

Lance finally reacted and helped her up, "Are you okay?"

"It's a very strange feeling, what is that?" Junia is not an ordinary weak woman. She asked this question after she woke up.

Lance took up the opportunity without hesitation.

“That saint just wanted to occupy your body and resurrect from you. I thought there were really saints in the church. How is occupying someone else’s body different from those cultists and those evil wizards?
It turns out that the church has only mastered some extraordinary ways and then monopolized them, and only appears glamorous with the help of religious packaging, but once the truth is revealed, it is extremely ugly. "

If the believers of the church heard this, they would probably get angry with Lance. They wish the saint would descend upon them, and they don't care at all about having their consciousness devoured.

Instead, it was Lance who intervened and interrupted the ceremony. Perhaps like those Ascensionists, they thought that Lance had deprived them of the chance to "ascend".

In fact, those who are involved in religion are all the same. They talk about going to heaven and ascending to heaven. They are just people pursuing their own interests.

When Lance orders people around, he at least gives them something, but their interests are only in the mouths of those gods' messengers, which are illusory and cannot be seen at all. This is the most ridiculous thing.

Both Junia and Baldwin have discussed these issues because they themselves had doubts about the church. Under Lance's "education", the separation of faith and religion did not make them crazy, but they were willing to think about what Lance said.

Indeed, if one can occupy another person's body and resurrect, doesn't this sound like a very evil power? How the hell has the church become like this?
What’s even more terrifying is that if the saints are nothing more than a bunch of parasites, then what exactly is the Holy Light?
They originally had a filter for the Saints, but it was torn off immediately and kicked into the garbage dump by Lance.

Lance doesn't care whether the saints have done any good deeds or not. He has his own interests, and the more unfortunate the church is, the better.

While others were still busy thinking about these messy questions, Lance simply let go of Junia and turned around to search the scene where the sanctuary was disappearing.

The saint's body, which was originally the best preserved, turned into dust as the holy flame dissipated. It was a pity that this guy did not leave behind any equipment like the Iron Torch.

But the other three gave Lance some surprises: a set of legendary shield guard equipment, a set of legendary knight equipment, and the things left by the bishop.

Although Lance doesn't like the church, he can use it critically. There are no restrictions on these equipment.

Three sets of legendary equipment had already entered his pocket at this time, but Lance was still not satisfied. He was looking for something on the corpses.

Sure enough, he took out three metal amulets shaped like torches, which emitted strong spiritual fluctuations and even emitted orange-yellow fluorescence, as if the torch was really burning.

After all, it was approaching the final level. No matter how forgetful Lance was, he probably remembered that he would face the monster with the prefix "Temple" that guarded the ritual on the second floor of the dungeon.

The Temple has a powerful skill called [Revelation] that other cultists don't have. This skill can instantly penetrate human will and even soul.

In the game, you need to collect this item called [Burning Amulet] in order to survive the revelation.

Why not bring more people?

The three burning amulets in Lance's hand have already given the answer. Without them, no matter how many people come, they will die. Some difficulties cannot be overcome by willpower.

He had another consideration in bringing his personal guards this time, but he was not stupid. He had never wanted his personal guards to attack the temple. The most troublesome thing when he entered the dungeon last time was not the one-on-one fight, but those losers.

But when these scumbags rushed up at once, even Lance would be held back. In this case, he realized that he had to fight in a group. The guards came here to clear the monsters, and Baldwin would be the tough one for him to chew. So none of the five guards selected this time were ranged, because the damage of both bows and muskets was too low, and there was no room for squishy people to survive here.

They were all the most elite melee fighters, wearing heavy full armor and helmets to prevent themselves from being killed immediately and unable to be rescued, as well as those face-hugger monsters.

The weapons in their hands are basically sharp weapons, which are used to cut those cultists. After applying medicine, the damage caused is more obvious than that of blunt weapons.

It can be said that these people are selected specifically based on the traits displayed by those cult members.

"Do you know what this is?"

Lance interrupted Junia and the others from thinking about life with the amulet in his hand. To be honest, if he wasn't just pretending, he wouldn't have bothered to ask this question.

Junia seems to be extremely talented, but she is trapped in the monastery most of the time and her job is to add firewood.

He also learned about the rules and regulations in the scriptures. Although he could read, he was not exposed to supernatural knowledge or the mysticism until he came to Hamlet.

At this moment, facing the amulet, she just frowned and shook her head. After all, she was not one of those brainless fanatics. The experience of being eroded just now made her instinctively resist these things.

There is danger lurking beneath that light.

On the contrary, Baldwin's background meant that he had access to some good things, and he said it naturally after feeling the power emanating from the amulet.

"do not know."

Lance was speechless. You two are fake church believers, right?

However, the only simple explanation is that the defeated saints of the church left a message when they came here last time, which said that there was a kind of monster that could kill a person instantly, and only by wearing this amulet could it be resisted.

"One for each of you two." Lance handed the amulets to the two men, and then waved to the guards, "Barin, come here."

The tallest man among the guards came forward. His tower-like body and the Beheader axe in his hand made him look fierce, but he was really still in his growth stage.

Because after getting adequate nutrition and the blessing of the lord, his height exceeded two meters in just a few months.

At the same time, the withered flesh and blood gradually filled up, and the thick skeleton finally bulged into solid muscles. Now this set of armor is new, because the old one can no longer be worn, as you can imagine.

"Taking this means you will be at the front and face a very formidable enemy. Can you complete the mission?"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

All of Balin's answers were like the sound of a great bell, and Baldwin had no idea where the lord had found the giant, and even he himself was unwilling to wrestle with him.

"Okay!" Lance handed the last amulet to Balin, looking quite satisfied.

Balin is the strongest among the guards. With his talent, hard work and blessing, he has already broken through to the master level.

Originally, Lance thought about asking only him to come back to join the team, but since he had already called him, he might as well just pull a small team back so that there would be no disadvantage in having more people.

Now that the sanctuary has dissipated, Lance doesn't care whether or not the protective ritual is destroyed. He simply picks up the three waxy green hands that look like mummies.

The Hand of Praise is a strange prop made by the saint using the palms of the other three people to suppress the flesh and blood ritual.

Originally Lance thought it was quite tragic, but when he discovered that the Saint was trying to take over Junia's body, he felt something was wrong.

"Why is it that the church is still using these human organs to make props like the mountain barbarians?"

Lance's seemingly unintentional complaint did not cause much waves, but it deepened the impression of those people.

If possible, Lance didn't want to waste time here. He had no interest in going to the dungeon to deal with the weird church, but he had to eliminate the influence left by the saints here.

This is fucking harder than fighting, it’s all my fault.

"We don't have much time to waste here. If we go past here, we will encounter the enemy."

Lance simply took away everything, not even leaving the corpse behind.

No matter what purpose those people came here for, they created conditions for themselves after all. Lance is a person who is objective about one thing.

Since we have taken the equipment, we will not leave them here.

I wonder how much money the church is willing to pay to redeem the corpses of saints and legendary strongmen?

But now there is no time to care about all this. Lance has already walked into the slowly opening door, and the team followed him in.

Flesh and blood forged by madness! They climbed steadily up from the depths and leaned on the steps made of huge stone pillars...

When he stepped into the second floor, Lance finally felt the pressure he had lost on the upper floor.

If the first layer was just filled with blood mist, then the thick blood mist here became thinner, but...

Large pieces of eyeballs, fangs, blood vessels, and rotten flesh fused together with various tissues can be seen everywhere, now clinging to the door frame, the ground, and the boulder.

Looking out into the distance outside the passage, what was revealed was a mountain of twisted and deformed flesh and blood, and wildly growing giant tentacles...

This scene gave everyone an even stronger shock. Even Lance was stunned because he remembered something.

During the great catastrophe, where did the flesh and blood of millions of people go?
When he saw this scene now, he seemed to have the answer...

While the others were still in a daze, Lance had already taken the initiative to walk towards a piece of flesh and blood. He could find that although the large pieces of flesh and blood clinging to the surrounding area were twitching, their eyeballs were moving, and their mouths were opening and closing, they had no intention of directly attacking.

There are certain differences between it and the growths that were originally peeled off from the body of the Deranged Demon.

Lance knows nothing about mysticism. When he is in doubt, he just sacrifices himself.

You will know whether you are aware of it or not by trying it.

However, it was this action of his that... (End of this chapter)