Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 18: Offspring of the Evil God
"This is Abbess Town, I'm a monk's apprentice, William Adams!"

"If you receive it, please answer it. If you receive it, please answer it!"

Reinhold could only hear the crackling sound of electric interference in his ears, and the monk apprentice kept talking nonsense.

He opened his eyes with great effort and tried to sit up, but he found that every part of his body was in pain. His body wrapped in bandages was like a mummy, and it was difficult for him to move.

"Don't move! Your Excellency, it's safe here, don't worry."

Reinhold looked up and stared blankly at the ceiling which was very close to him. There were several harpoons and pitchforks stuck on it and it was leaking some air. It took him a long time to react.

Oh...it turns out this is the roof of the steam carriage.

Reinhold turned his head and saw the apprentice fiddling with a large radio transceiver.

Li Nanke's face was stained with blood, and there were traces of burnt black marks on his face and hair. His hair was stuck together into bunches and dripping with water.

He had taken off his outer black windbreaker and was wearing a wet and tattered vest shirt, with blood-oozing bandages wrapped around his shoulders, arms, chest and back.

But he was oblivious to his multiple serious injuries, and his eyes seemed to be burning with a blazing flame.

The thermite rifle and the blaster rifle were thrown in a corner, looking like they had run out of ammunition... well, Liliana's chainsword and his chainsaw axe were also there.

"Liliana..."

The apprentice seemed to know what he was worried about and pointed to the side. He looked while muttering, and saw a charred corpse wrapped in a torn windbreaker.

Seeing this, Reinhold was completely relieved. He felt dizzy and his thinking was very slow.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that the steam carriage was at the port, and there were many heretics lurking there.

Reinhold stared at Li Nanke blankly, his mind a mess.

Was it this apprentice who went to the port, fought against a large number of native heretics, and finally took back the carriage?

William, just a monk apprentice, could actually accomplish all these things on his own?
You know, even Reinhold couldn't take back the carriage from the port. There were so many heretic monsters there that he couldn't count them. Just escaping from the siege of countless monsters cost him half a leg.

Reinhold really couldn't believe that a monk apprentice could do all this, but the facts before him forced him to believe it.

"I am sorry, sir, I deceived you."

"Lie to me?"

Li Nanke put down the ruler and map, stopped fiddling with the radio, opened his pocket watch, took a look and said, "Yes, I lied to you."

"The residents of Abes Town do not have a primitive worship of the sea. They believe in an evil god... Actually, he can't really be considered an evil god. At best, he is the offspring of an evil god who has not inherited divine power."

Reinhold's expression suddenly changed: "Descendant of the Evil God...why didn't you tell me in advance!"

Li Nanke smiled lightly: "Tell you? To deal with a 'High-level Sea-loving One', we need to muster up all our courage and use all means. If I tell you the truth, will you still have the courage to avenge Lady Liliana?"

"Moreover, a descendant of an evil god, even one who has not inherited divine power, is definitely not something that human power can contend with. After hearing this news, do you still have the courage to struggle to survive?"

Reinhold looked very unhappy.

If he was not seriously injured, he would definitely stand up, grab the apprentice by the collar, and punch the foul-mouthed boy.

But it is undeniable...what the apprentice said is true.

Even when fighting against the 'High-level Sea-lovers', he fought with all his might only when he was desperate and had no other choice.

If he could escape the town alone, and the condition was to leave his apprentice behind, he would choose to escape alone without hesitation. Now the apprentice did not abandon him who was seriously injured and had no fighting ability, but treated his injuries, arranged Liliana's body, and went to the dock alone to take back the steam carriage at the risk of his life.

Reinhold thought of this and softened his tone unconsciously: "So you are here to ask for support from the church... How is it going? Have you made contact?"

"The receiver on this radio transceiver is malfunctioning and I can't get a response, so I don't know if the call was received or not."

Li Nanke knew that the church must not have received it, otherwise he would have completed the final node and ended this bizarre black dream.

He was sure that the radio transmitter was intact, and in this case, the church did not receive the call for help, which meant that there was a problem in some link in the middle.

If it was because of the giant monster stranded on the deserted beach, which blocked the town and made it impossible for the radio to transmit, then this dark dream would be an absolute death.

'Orphanus' is a terrifying monster that exists in myths and legends, and is simply not something Reinhold and his men can deal with.

Just seeing that terrifying existence from afar was enough to make him unable to bear it. If he really dared to get close, he would lose his mind and become a deformed monster before he could even see the enemy's appearance clearly.

Moreover, if one wants to destroy the offspring of the evil god, he does not necessarily have to do it himself...

If this possibility is ruled out, it means that there is a problem within the church.

"Sir, I need you to call the church for me..."

"That's not difficult. Pull the microphone over here and I'll tell you."

Li Nanke shook his head. "The default calling channel of this radio transceiver is the Order, not the Church. The one who got the calling information was the Grand Master, not some church figure."

"I need to know if you have an additional encrypted channel - a channel that can bypass the Grand Master and directly contact a bishop-level figure who you absolutely trust and has enough weight?"

"Why are you asking this?" Reinhold frowned and thought for a moment, then quickly realized, "You are suspecting that the Grand Master has received the call but did not notify the church and deliberately did not send anyone to rescue and reinforce us."

"Impossible! I'm telling you, there must be something wrong with the radio. Don't speculate."

Li Nanke smiled lightly: "Nothing is impossible, sir. I not only suspect the Grand Master, but also some important figures in the church."

"What if I told you that the evil god's offspring 'Orphanus' is now stranded on the beach southwest of the town, waiting for an alien body, preferably a male body with extraordinary powers, to help him complete his rebirth once every hundred years."

“When a qualified person that Orfanas likes enters the town, the evil forces will completely block the town, making it impossible to enter or leave.

"And just at this point in time, the church issued an order to investigate, and the Grand Master assigned a very small team of armed monks to go to the town of Abbess... What can you think of based on these clues?"

Reinhold was visibly stunned for a moment, then his expression changed: "There are traitors in the church who deliberately let... Did you see all these things you just said in the Black Sea Book?"

Li Nanke did not comment: "Originally, the simplest way is to throw you, who is still alive, to the descendant of the evil god. Once the descendant of the evil god with a new body completes his goal, he will remove the evil force that is blocking the town, and I can leave the town. Maybe after I leave, I can even get the favor and recruitment of the chief monk."

"But you are also the lover of teacher Liliana, and you have fought alongside me. Although I am afraid of death, I don't want to betray my conscience and live in vain."

As he spoke, Li Nanke pulled over the voice transmission device connected to the transceiver and placed it in front of the armed monk.

"If you have considered it, please tune the channel yourself. As for the specific content of the contact with the church, you can read it from this paper."

Reinhold looked at the paper, which read:

This is the town of Abbess, and I am the armed monk, Reinhold!

The investigation mission failed. There are powerful heretics in Abes Town that cannot be resisted by human power. They need a large number of bombs to destroy them!
This is not an exercise nor a joke. Please send at least ten steam airships at full speed, loaded with incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs, and depth charges to prevent the heretics from escaping!
轰炸坐标为西经4°7'2.882''，北纬50°18'57.577''，再次重复，轰炸为坐标西经4°7'2.882''，北纬50°18'57.577''！

(End of this chapter)