Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 61 Looking Directly
"Captain! Captain!"

As Claire continued to shake him, Dunn opened his eyes.

"Claire?" Dunn sat up with great effort. He looked listless and pale, but fortunately, he didn't seem to have suffered any obvious injuries.

"Goddess!" Claire, whose face was covered in blood, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your eye?" Dunn rubbed his forehead and climbed up with the help of the wall. Seeing the blood stain on Claire's face from the corner of her eye, he asked.

Claire explained, "I just had a strange dream, and when I woke up my eyes were bleeding. They're much better now, and it doesn't hurt much anymore."

"Dream?" Fear flashed in Dunn's gray eyes. He took a deep breath, barely suppressing the fear in his voice. "That dream, of that man hanging upside down, covered in blood?"

"Captain, did you have the dream too?" Claire asked.

Dunn shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not that I dreamed about it too...but I was in the same dream as you at that time."

"We are all in Hainas' dream."

"I happened to pull you into my dream, hoping to warn you that it was time to take action. However, my action actually harmed you."

Dunn couldn't help but mutter, "Hainas's dream actually had a connection with the evil god..."

"The upside-down evil god... is the true creator?" Claire recalled the dream that had become blurry. Her "universal" ability of having a photographic memory was strangely ineffective due to some force.

Whether it is the scriptures of the true gods or the rumors of the evil gods, all myths point out that there once was a creator in this world.

The Creator broke through the darkness and became all things.

The earth, rivers, seas, sun, moon and stars are all Him.

Humans, elves, giants, dragons, demon wolves, aliens, nagas, demons and all other races originated from Him.

Even the gods were born from Him.

The three righteous gods, the Eternal Sun, the Lord of Storms, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, are clearly stated in the records of different churches to be the incarnations of the spirit of the Creator.

As for the true creator, some cultists claim that the creator is not really dead, and the true creator is his essence left behind.

"Perhaps. He is the only evil god who fits that profile." Dunn sighed. He felt his strength returning, and his body was fine. So, Dunn said, "Let's go check on Hainas. I have a bad feeling."

When approaching Hainas' residence, Claire opened her Eye of Secrets and found that there was no longer any color of the celestial body in it. She reported this to Dunn.

Dunn frowned: "Did he run away?"

Dunn skillfully pried open the locked door, and the two men, who had night vision, rushed directly to the bedroom.

After quietly opening the bedroom door, Claire followed Dunn in and saw the brown-haired, spiky-haired Hainas lying peacefully in the armchair.

But he was obviously out of breath.

"died……"

Seeing that Hainas had died strangely in a dream, Dunn looked at Claire and asked, "Can we use psychic communication to find clues?"

"Let me try."

Claire took out a bunch of bottles and jars from her windbreaker with many small pockets and set up the altar and materials.

As her dark red eyes deepened, Claire infused her spirituality into the Holy Night Powder and sprinkled it on the surrounding ground. She then dripped liquids such as Amanda Hydrosol onto the surrounding area to prevent any remaining spirituality from being disturbed by the surrounding objects.

“I pray for the power of the night;”

"I pray for the hidden power;"

"I pray for the goddess's favor."

"I pray that you will allow me to communicate with the spirit of the cultist inside the altar."

The Hermetic spell echoed softly in the room, and a powerful, terrifying, and secret power descended upon Claire.

Claire's eyes trembled in their sockets, and suddenly turned completely black, losing all the whites.

In a trance, she seemed to see the remaining spirit of Hainas. She reached out to touch it.

At the moment of contact, she realized that this was not the spirit of Heinas!

Claire saw the side of a cross!
This time, before Claire could clearly see the person hanging upside down on the cross, her vision went dark and she fell weakly to the ground.

Tears of blood dripped onto the ground. Claire gasped in horror as she said, "It's gone! Henas's spirit is gone! All that remains is... the afterimage of the evil god..."

Dunn's expression turned extremely grim. After seeing Claire in better condition, he said, "It's not uncommon for cultists to die in the area, but it's impossible for the remaining spirits to dissipate so quickly. This isn't normal... Did someone tamper with the scene before us?"

Claire recovered her composure and recalled the Nighthawk cases she remembered. She hesitated and said, "Similar situations also occur during some rituals commemorating the advent of evil gods."

There is no need for the evil god to actually descend. Just the pollution of his aura is enough to destroy the remaining spirits.

Regardless of whether it involves a ritual marking the advent of an evil god or that Heinas has accomplices, this is not good news.

Dunn said, "The Haines case needs further investigation. Let's first look inside the house to see if there are any clues..."

After a careful inspection, the two found some suspicious items on the body and in various corners of the house, the most conspicuous of which was a silver pendant.

A thumb-sized human figure hangs from the pendant.

The statue has a single, unique vertical eye on its head.

That is the image characteristic of the legendary giant.

The giant was lying headfirst, with his feet bound with chains.

"The Hanged Giant."

According to Claire's memories, the evil god worshipped by the Aurora Society is the "Hanged Giant", who is also known as the "Eyes Behind the Shadows" and the "True Creator".

There was no image of any evil god in the Nighthawks' internal records. This was the first time Claire had come into contact with a specific image of an evil god.

"Is Heiners one of those cultists of the Aurora Society?" Dunn took the bracelet statue in his palm and examined it carefully. "Is this the concrete image of the real Creator? It's different from what we saw in our dreams..."

They are both upside-down images.

But the statue is clearly a giant.

The man in the dream was covered in blood.

One is bound by chains.

The other was crucified.

Claire speculated, "Perhaps there's a certain amount of false imagination in the dream?"

Dunn, the Nightmare, shook his head. "Impossible. Dreams aren't as simple as you think... And that dream was like looking directly into the eyes of a god... an evil god."

Dunn's gray eyes were noticeably distracted at that moment. He shook his head and said, "Let's put aside the matter of the evil god for now. At least we have confirmed that Hainas is a madman from the Aurora Society."

The madman here does not mean that the Aurora Society members are irrational, but specifically refers to their extremely distorted values.

Compared to humans, their thinking is like that of another species.

Dunn continued, "But since such an important object was left behind, it also means that none of Hainas's accomplices got ahead of us and destroyed Hainas' spirit."

Claire continued, "Does that mean Hainas has recently held a dangerous ritual?"

Dunn was silent for a moment, then said, "Claire, can you use psychic communication to find clues?"

Claire couldn't help but laugh when she heard this: "I just tried communicating with the spirit, Captain, and there's no longer any spirit of Hainas here."

Dunn was stunned for a moment, rubbing his tired eyes. "Yeah, we just communicated with each other. I had forgotten a little..."

"Go back and call someone over first. I'll stay here to protect the scene."

(End of this chapter)