Only I can make them stronger

"In that case..." The maid took a deep breath, bit her left finger, drew a crescent-shaped symbol on her right hand with her blood, and wrote a few incomprehensible words below it. Then she stretched out her right hand and raised it in front of Xia Ye.

The other party's serious appearance made the latter inexplicably nervous, and he stammered:

"I…do I need to do anything?"

"Hold my hand." The maid looked at him seriously and signaled with her eyes.

"Oh..." Xia Ye obediently stretched out his left hand and clasped the other person's fingers together.

"The White Moon is the witness, the Black Moon is the examiner. I will abide by the agreement and tell the other party about my master, my actions, and... the hidden things. No lies are allowed. If you violate the rules, you will be punished by the Godly Moon."

"It's your turn. Follow my instructions and take your oath." When she mentioned the oath, the expression on the maid's face changed again.

The pretty face, which originally showed some confusion and hesitation, seemed to have a more holy glow.

"The White Moon is a witness, and the Black Moon is... an examiner. I will abide by the agreement and keep the secrets that the other party has told me. If I violate the agreement, then... what is it?"

"Suffer the punishment of the Divine Moon..." the maid reminded in a low voice.

"If you violate the rules, you will be punished by the God Moon!"

"Feiti——" While saying her name, the maid motioned Xia Ye to follow.

"Xia Ye——" The latter understood and also gave his own name.

"Let's pledge together!"

"Let's pledge together!"

……

After saying the last sentence, the two people at the table fell into silence for a long time.

"Is it over?" Xia Ye asked tentatively.

The other party was still holding his hand tightly and he didn't know what was going on for a moment.

However, he always felt that although the oath-taking process just now looked formal, it actually seemed a bit sloppy and casual...

At this moment, the moon pattern on Fitty's left hand suddenly lit up.

The alternating black and white lights flickered back and forth, casting uncertain shadows on his sacred face.

At the same time, a prompt came from Xia Ye's system -

It is the profile of the new character.

"So she is also a member of the harem!?" Xia Ye was shocked.

What if he hadn't come to take a look at Lin Qimi out of curiosity, wouldn't he have missed it?

At this moment, the other party's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"It's over... Frankly speaking, I don't like this boring ceremony either, but this is one of the teacher's strictest orders, and I must obey it."

The light on Fiti's right hand had stopped flickering at some point, and even the pattern drawn in blood had disappeared.

"..." The other party's ever-changing attitude made it difficult for Xia Ye to keep up with the pace.

He had such a holy and reverent look on his face just now, why is he the first to complain now?

And... that seemingly sloppy-looking ritual just now seemed to have actually worked?

Is it possible that gods really exist in this world? Or is it just the effect of some mysterious factor ability?

Xia Ye just felt that his head was full of question marks.

"Anyway, I can tell you that my name is Fiti, and I am a nun of the Divine Moon Church. My teacher is the High Priest [Yafeng] of the Divine Moon Church, Ms. Krona."

After hearing the other party's self-introduction, Xia Ye even suspected for a moment that he had entered the wrong channel.

Shenyue Church? Nun? High Priest?

Is this an organization and identity that fits the tonality of SEEK?

Shouldn't it be called "Shenyue Association", "Executor", "Administrator" or something like that?

"The Shenyue Church is a very ancient religious organization. Most of its members are concentrated deep in the wilderness. They can be considered a reclusive group." Fiti did not notice the rich expression on Xia Ye's face and continued to talk to herself.

"I don't know much about the specific work and situation in the church, but anyway, my teacher holds a very high position in the church. Because of the trial for promotion to the [Moon Priest], he came to the Highway District with another [Mingfeng] High Priest, Ms. Lori, to deal with the unknown and twisted beliefs that exist here... That is, the evil belief that we now call [Hidden]."

"To their surprise, the situation in the highway area was far more complicated than they expected, so they settled in two gathering points in the highway area and opened a hotel each to inquire about the information of travelers. This task also took them eight years without them realizing it."

"I was found by chance in the wilderness in the second year after my teacher came here. At that time, I was almost dying in the wilderness. It was my teacher who saved me and brought me back to the highway area."

"Before that, I was just a wanderer who made a living by stealing things, but under the guidance of my teacher, I learned the skills of fighting and some prayer rituals, was granted the status of a [Nun] of the Divine Moon Church, and successfully became a fourth-level factor ability user. I also have a seemingly stable and normal job..."

"The job you mean is being a maid in this hotel?" Xia Ye scratched his head and complained casually while trying to accept the sudden huge amount of information from the other party.

"Well... at least I don't have to sleep outdoors, and I'm very happy to be with the teacher..." Fiti said with a little embarrassment after being pointed out by Xia Ye.

"You continue." Xia Ye shrugged.

"At first I didn't know much about the teacher's tasks, I just felt that the teacher seemed to show a trace of inexplicable worry from time to time."

"Later, slowly, I learned a lot about her from the teacher, including the situation in the highway district."

"She said that in recent years, the evil beliefs in the highway area have not only not improved because of her purification, but seem to have intensified, as if someone is behind it and fanning the flames."

"Not only that, the source of the [Hidden] has never been found, which also prevents them from fully completing the mission."

"Whether it was due to the requirements of the [Moon Ceremony] trial or the teacher's own kindness, she was anxious about the current situation."

"The turning point happened last year... to be exact, after the black moon night last year."

"According to custom, the teacher would communicate with Ms. Lori every morning using the special communication method of the Shenyue Church, but that day, it seemed that some mysterious force blocked the communication and it failed."

"Just when the teacher was getting anxious about this and was about to go to Sunset Town himself, the travelers started talking about this rumor—"

"Overnight, Sunset Town, which was once as lively as Highway Town, although not prosperous, became lifeless and cut off from all contact with the outside world."

"The teacher felt that something was wrong and decided to continue trying to communicate with Ms. Lowry... and after nearly ten attempts, the communication channel was suddenly connected."

"But from the other side, the teacher only heard four words."

Having said this, Fitty's breathing became rapid, and it was obvious that her emotions had become unstable again.

Seeing this, Xia Ye skillfully placed his palm covered with white flames on the back of her hand, and asked gently to comfort her:

"What did you hear?"

"Return...to...hiding..."

68. Fate’s Favored One and Abandoned One

"So, the high priest named Lori has already..."

"Yes, her state in the communication... is exactly the same as that of the [Hidden Believer] who was contaminated by the hidden faith."

"Teacher speculated that Lori may have led the source of the hidden faith to Sunset Town on the night of the Black Moon in an attempt to purify it, but he didn't expect that he would be polluted by the other party instead."

Such a result was not unexpected to Xia Ye, but after actually hearing it, he still took a deep breath.

"As a companion, the teacher naturally would not ignore Ms. Lowry, so she set off for Sunset Town that day, but after that, she never came back..."

Having said this, Fitty's expression became lonely and sad.

High Priest Crona was her only relative and teacher, and the light that saved her life, but he just disappeared in the quiet Sunset Town.

"So you tried to find your teacher, and then you were also contaminated?" Xia Ye speculated based on what the other party said.

"When my teacher left, she swore an oath to me that she would not allow me to go to Sunset Town to participate in the hidden faith. So even though I was extremely anxious at first, I couldn't go find her."

"But later, when I was sorting out the teacher's belongings, I accidentally found her notebook hidden on the bookshelf."

"It contains her speculations over the years on the origins and solutions of hidden beliefs."

"Many of these conjectures have been denied by her, but there is one relatively early piece of content that has been left blank, and it seems to be still unverified—"

"Hidden faith comes from a higher dimension. Its power does not come from rationality, but from a behavior that is more inclined towards emotion and thinking."

"It sounds strange, but it is very consistent with the actual situation."

"In other words, all these behaviors, such as closing the house and refusing visitors, are due to the influence of this higher-dimensional existence, and are some kind of prayer or... ritual that provides it with power?" Xia Ye understood this statement quite quickly.

In his opinion, isn’t this so-called “higher-dimensional existence” also a kind of God in the broad sense?

At best, he is an evil god that is more inclined to the style of the Counter-Strike.

"Hmm..." Fitty seemed to be trying to distinguish the difference between the prayer rituals she had learned and this behavior. For a moment, she was unsure whether Xia Ye's summary was accurate.

"Forget it, it's not important. What next?" Having said that, Xia Ye didn't have the heart to explore what that thing was essentially.

He now only felt that beneath this continent, there were countless secrets hidden that he could not even imagine, and the other party's words were revealing a small corner to him.

This not only did not frighten Xia Ye, but instead he slowly got rid of his previous depressed state.

The hardcore player's instinct to explore the plot is gradually taking over his brain.

"Then..." Fiti's beautiful gray eyes seemed to show more depression, "After this conjecture, a solution was mentioned-"

"On the night of the black moon, sacrifice a body that can bear all of His faith to this higher dimensional being."

"This body must meet the following conditions: ① It must be a female ② It must be a mutant with only mystical abilities ③ It must have the ability or physique to allow the mutant factor to take effect even when it is separated from the physical element..."

"Wait? The mutant factor can still be effective without the physical element? Isn't this a paradox?" Xia Ye interrupted her in confusion.

According to the common knowledge he had learned, the mutation-causing factors originated from the rational factors. How could they be separated from the rational factors?

"No...it's not a paradox..." Fiti raised her head and pointed at her face.

"I am the special case that meets these conditions."

"Because all my factor abilities are passive and related to illusory luck, there is no need and no way to use rational elements to intervene."

"It seems a little hard for you to understand?" Fiti smiled bitterly, took out a Highway District Western commemorative coin that can be seen everywhere from the front pocket of her apron, threw it out casually, covered it with a bowl, and said:

"front."

The bowl was opened and the answer was correct.

Then, under Xia Ye's increasingly shocked gaze, she repeated the same method four or five more times, and every time she did it, it was correct without exception.

There was no fluctuation of rational elements throughout the whole process. She was like an idle person sitting here playing the coin tossing game, casually stating the direction of the commemorative coin again and again.

"This is my second-level ability [Good Luck Intuition]."

"Pa pa pa..." Xia Ye really didn't know how to express his inner shock, so he could only clap a few times.

Wow, even Destiny’s Child…oh no, Destiny’s Girl is out, right?

But soon, he realized that this did not seem to be something to be happy about for Fiti at the moment.

"So you think... your teacher adopted you in order to find a suitable sacrificer in order to resolve the hidden faith..."

"Who knows?" Fiti looked into the air and curled her lips.

"Maybe it's just a coincidence. Maybe it's just my genetic ability that makes me lucky enough to meet a kind, intelligent and powerful teacher. Or maybe it's just like what you said... But no matter what, she is my teacher and my benefactor. How she sees me is actually not important to me."

"What's more, the oath that the teacher asked me to swear before leaving for Sunset Town made me believe that she had already given up this guess, but just forgot to write down the denial."

"So, as her student and...child, I can't just sit back and do nothing after knowing this."

"On the night of the black moon this year, which was a few days ago, I broke my oath and went to Sunset Town."

"And the price I paid was that my fourth-level ability, which I had just broken through, was completely destroyed... In addition, it seemed that some of my emotions were also affected."

"The punishment of the Divine Moon has always been mysterious. I just have a vague intuition, and I can't know exactly what has been affected in a short period of time."

"But to me at that time, none of this mattered. What I wanted to do was to fulfill my teacher's last wish and repay her for saving me."

“But when I paid these prices and came to Sunset Town with the intention of sacrificing myself, I found that I was wrong, and my teacher was also wrong.”

"We thought this matter was too simple... and completely underestimated the horror behind this incident."

“The church in the center of Sunset Town seemed to sense my arrival. The door opened, and inside was only darkness.”

"I bravely walked in with the Lisu lamp, but instead of seeing the source of hidden faith, I saw a monster."

"That monster is half Lori and half teacher. Their flesh and blood merged into one. After seeing me, they didn't want to use my body to carry their faith. They just wanted me to become one of those believers who closed the door."

"But perhaps the teacher recognized me and seized the monster's consciousness for a short time."

"She told me the hard way that Lori was crazy."

"In fact, Lowry stopped believing in the Divine Moon a long time ago and became a fanatic who delved into hidden beliefs."