Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 404 Where the Sun Can't Shine
Duan Mingyuan is a person who likes to get to the bottom of things. Whenever his curiosity is aroused, he will try every means to find out the truth, which can help him sleep peacefully every night thereafter.

Even if, occasionally, that requires skipping the language system and looking directly into someone's heart and memory.

People can lie, but their hearts and memories always reflect their truest side.

Duan Mingyuan knew that this was not a good habit, so for a long time, he chose to restrain his curiosity as much as possible.

But there are always exceptions.

Just like the war that the Church of Embers launched against the Wizard Star, and the subsequent witch-hunting movement that lasted for a hundred years and has not completely stopped to this day, it is hard for him to imagine what kind of deep hatred could make the church persecute wizards to such an extent.

Is it just because some people were lost in the war on Wizard Star?
Or is it the fear of the killing curse?
Duan Mingyuan, who has been dealing with Universal Company for a long time, doesn't think so. He always feels that the war story between Heya and Fuling is missing a key link.

For example, the reasons why the Church of Embers launched a war against the Wizard Star.

Heya believes that the situation of Wizard Star in the past was somewhat similar to that of Blue Star. The Church of Embers took a fancy to the spells created by the wizards. However, the first thing the church did after destroying Wizard Star was to burn all the books related to spells.

And in the treasure trove of memories of this iron-blooded bishop, Duan Mingyuan finally found the missing link.

"The art of prophecy."

Just four words made the Iron-blooded Bishop's face change suddenly.

The Wizard Star in the Iron-Blooded Bishop's memory was a rich planet. At one point, the wizards' attainments in mysticism were even able to compete with the Church of Embers.

The dignitaries of countless civilizations visit this planet from time to time, and even the top executives of some companies are no exception.

This also seems to explain why the Saintfield family continued to have contacts with wizards after the witch-hunting movement arose, as the Semites were frequent visitors to the Wizard Planet.

The reason is that they can always get guidance for the future on that planet.

In that era, the art of prophecy was a compulsory course for wizards. By communicating with some mysterious power, they could predict future trends to a certain extent.

At a certain period, the Church of Embers also had extensive exchanges with the witches of the Wizard Star on the subject of mysticism. They established a church on the Wizard Star to share their knowledge of mysticism with each other.

Until, the Pope's visit changed everything.

In order to exchange views with each other, the most outstanding witch on the Wizard Star at that time demonstrated the art of prophecy to the visiting messengers.

But something went wrong with the prophecy that time.

The claws that emerged from the shadows twisted the witch's neck, and some unspeakable creature tore a crack in reality.

Although the pope himself was not injured, he fell seriously ill after returning to church headquarters.

The creatures in the crack seemed to have a great impact on his spirit, but the Pope refused to tell anyone what he saw that day.

After two months of recovery, the pope issued the mandatory order.

He ordered all wizards on the Wizard Star to stop their research on the occult and called their occult research the devil's magic. The rumor of the Void Demon began from then on. From then on, all those who studied the art of prophecy would be regarded as descendants of the devil.

The iron-blooded bishop at that time was given an important mission when he rushed to the battlefield.

——Burn all books on divination. But in the memory of the Iron-blooded Bishop himself, the war was not won smoothly. In addition to the killing spell with a fatal effect, the wizards were always one step ahead of them through the prophecy, and even used the magic book as bait to lure the Iron-blooded Bishop's advance troops into a siege until they lost contact with the main force.

Duan Mingyuan also understood why the Iron-Blooded Bishop was so resistant to having his records checked.

During the week when he lost contact, he became a captive of the witch.

But the strange thing is that the unknown witch did not torture him, but used some kind of spell to force him to wake up, forcing him to memorize all the magic books in the library within a week. She also personally explained the spell knowledge to the bishop, which even included the method of breaking the inherent barrier.

It was during the days when the Iron-Blooded Bishop was imprisoned by the witch that he created his own inherent barrier.

After escaping, the Iron-Blooded Bishop gradually gained control of the battle using the knowledge he learned from the library.

In his later reports, he concealed the days of his imprisonment. He claimed that his troops were attacked by a witch, all the believers died heroically, and he fell to the bottom of the valley, where he found some ancient ruins and luckily saved his life.

Duan Mingyuan was not satisfied with this result.

As is always the case, every time he solves a mystery, more seem to emerge.

He originally meant that the witch who imprisoned the Iron-blooded Bishop was trying to play a trick like "making him become the person he was against", but from the results, it seemed that the witch almost treated him as a disciple and taught him everything with all her heart.

The war on the Wizard Star took a sharp turn for the worse, largely because of the sudden appearance of the Iron-Blooded Bishop, a man who knew how to restrain the witch's barrier.

There is a traitor within the wizarding world.

But what's the purpose?
Duan Mingyuan found the witch who taught him knowledge in the Iron-Blooded Bishop's later memories. When they met again, she became a prisoner of the defeated side and was executed along with many other witches.

There was no subsequent conspiracy, and without any struggle, he was burned to death by the church.

Until the very end, the executed witch did not reveal anything about the Iron-blooded Bishop.

On the night the witch was executed, the frightened bishop slept well for the first time in a long time.

"why?"

After much pondering, Duan Mingyuan threw this question to the Iron-blooded Bishop who had personally experienced the war, "Why after you were captured by the enemy, instead of torturing you, she taught you how to deal with witches? Have you never been curious about this?"

"you--!"

The Iron-Blooded Bishop was horrified, and he subconsciously looked at the guards whose bodies were dislocated.

In their eyes, and the eyes of the believers, he was invincible and had never experienced being captured by a witch in his life.

And Duan Mingyuan's question is exactly the key.

If the church knew about this unexplainable past, it would definitely conduct a long and thorough investigation into him.

“You can try to answer this question.”

Duan Mingyuan said, "In a minute, I will make sure they forget this conversation."

(End of this chapter)