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At this moment, Evans looked like a bloated, deformed and crazy monster. Ella felt that instead of letting Freya see this situation, it would be better to tell Freya directly that Evans was dead.

"I will." Ella put her hands on her chest, "I promise you that I will let you go after you tell me everything you know."

Evans fell silent again, as if the few words he had just managed to say were all he had left.

"Gentlemen, can you open the door?" Ella looked at the two Templar Knights at the door.

"This... Lady Saint, this could be dangerous." The Templar Knight guarding the door scratched his head, but his hand only touched the hard helmet.

"Don't worry, I will protect you."

"Uh, that's not what I meant...Okay, Lady Saint, please be careful." The Templar Knight thought for a moment and opened the iron door with the key.

In the empty cell, Ella approached the huge tumor that was as big as a hill step by step. The unrecognizable Evans always made Ella feel a little emotional.

She first set up a soundproofing magic circle, mainly to prevent the Templar Knights behind her from hearing something they shouldn't hear and causing mental problems, and then she asked:

"Lord Evans, what is the purpose of your creation of the blood sacrifice array and the godhood ritual?"

Resurrecting Freya is definitely one of the goals, but based on Evans' conversation with William at the Pilgrimage Festival, it is clearly not the only goal.

Evans said nothing, just sat there in silence.

Ella had tried some evil spells before, such as "Healing Holy Light", but that only healed Evans' wounds and did not make Evans' body or mind normal.

Evans's madness did not seem to be the result of a damaged soul or contamination by some evil spirit, but rather a complete transformation of a visceral, spiritual nature.

Ella didn't know who to ask about this strange situation. Bishop William and Freya, who didn't know that the high priest was alive, were definitely not suitable. Elder Holmes had only been in charge of various ceremonial affairs of the temple and didn't understand this situation.

Seeing that the other party was still silent, Ella thought for a while and continued in a deep voice, "Why did you cause Freya's mother to commit suicide sixteen years ago?"

"No!"

Evans did respond this time, but it was not the answer Ella wanted.

"Don't... don't let Freya see..."

"no no no……"

Evans kept mumbling as if possessed by a ghost. Ella was helpless and asked a few more questions but still got no response from the other party.

"Well……"

Ella paced back and forth. She opened the believer panel in the system again and used the search bar to find "Evans Arendell" among the millions of names.

As mentioned earlier, Evans also consumed Ella's "Healing Holy Light", so Evans was naturally classified as Ella's follower.

Although the situation of this believer is really weird.

In the character panel that was called up, Evans' mental and physical strength were both terrifyingly high. With this level of mental strength, Ella thought she could try out the soul perception that she had not dared to use for a long time to see if she could get some information from this guy.

The last time this trick was used, old man Hyde was almost in trouble. But this time, Evans' mental strength is so high, maybe the situation will be better?

But Ella was a little afraid that if she didn't drive Evans crazy, she might accidentally drive herself crazy.

However, it is useless to simply escape. Now a high priest has gone mad and wants to sacrifice the blood of millions of people. If we don't investigate it clearly, God knows what we will face in the future.

Just give it a try, and stop if something goes wrong... Ella thought to herself, then took a deep breath and tried to use her mind to connect with Evans' soul in the void.

She seemed to see her soul in the dark like a ball of light, with a faintly glowing tentacle extending from the surface and slowly approaching another ball of light in the distance along a thin line.

That ball of light probably represented Evans' soul. The moment the tentacles touched the surface of the ball of light, Evans' soul immediately trembled.

Evans' mental strength on the character panel was slowly declining at a speed visible to the naked eye, but unlike Hyde who was almost collapsed before, Evans' body was just trembling and his throat was making a hoarse but weak wail.

Ella closed her eyes and immersed herself in the tentacles of the light ball, drilling deeper and deeper.

Beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. Ella's mental power herself was not particularly high, but she did not consume any mental power when using the evil god's spells.

But what she was doing now was consuming a lot of her mental energy.

However, perhaps because of the difference in their status, or perhaps because Evans was already considered Ella's believer, the mental tentacles that Ella extended in the void finally broke through the thick outer shell of Evans' soul light ball and pierced in at one go.

Inside that ball of light was a chaotic and colorful ocean composed of countless fragmented images.

Flowers, trees, adults, churches, children, and all sorts of other things flashed by, and Ella felt her perception fall into an endless chaos.

The fragmented and dense images are like the colorful spots that float in front of people's eyes when they feel dizzy. They are densely packed and keep turning, which can be regarded as mental pollution.

Ella tried hard to concentrate, trying to identify what she wanted in those tiny images. Fortunately, the sizes of these images were not the same. It seemed that the deeper the memory, the more and larger the related images would be. Ella soon found the image of a woman lying in a pool of blood.

She tried to go a little deeper, but then her consciousness seemed to have slipped and fallen into an abyss, falling continuously.

Falling deeper and deeper...

Then, the moment Ella opened her eyes, what appeared before her was a vast expanse of white snow.

She raised her hands, revealing old-style temple-issue arm armor on her sturdy arms.

In the azure sky, the overwhelming number of flying dragons almost blocked out the entire sunlight.

Chapter 63 Synchronization Failure

"team leader."

"Captain Evans, the commander has ordered a retreat!"

The view suddenly turned, and a young Templar Knight with blood all over his face was staring at Ella with wide eyes.

Before he finished his words, an arrow flew through the air with a "swoosh" and accurately pierced the temple of the person in front of him.

"Pelos!?" Ella realized that her body was rushing forward subconsciously. After staggering half a step, the ground suddenly shook.

She turned around and saw an army of barbarian war lizards lined up in a row on the endless snowfield, occupying the entire horizon. They were stepping on the flying snow mist, like a gray tsunami coming towards her.

[Triggered memory: Battle of Bards]

[Mission Objective 1: Retreat and join forces with the main force of the Knights Templar]

Ah, this can also trigger a task? ?

Ella was confused, but she did not stop. She turned around and ran desperately after the group of Templar Knights who had thrown away their armor and weapons.

However, this mission has neither reward nor briefing, only a very clear objective, and I don’t know what its meaning is.

Ella was thinking as she ran. Her current body was definitely not her own. She could run so fast while wearing such a heavy knight's armor. Her strength must be very high.

Combined with the reference to the previously deceased soldier, it is clear that she is now acting as the former "Evans" in Evans's memory.

The road was littered with the bodies of dead barbarians and Templar Knights, broken spears and swords, and broken limbs and arms. The blood that was slowly flowing as the earth trembled had dyed the snowfield red.

Arrows flew down like raindrops mixed with snowflakes. Fellow knights who were fleeing together fell one after another, and their lives disappeared in the sea of ​​snow as the protective holy light on their bodies suddenly went out.

The dragging feeling of her leg armor on the soft snow and the pain and fatigue on her body were so real that Ella subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief until she finally saw the Templar Knights lined up in front of the village in the distance.

【Mission objective one has been completed】

[Learned skills: Intermediate Holy Light Body Protection]

Hey, this can actually learn a skill?

[Mission Objective 2: Protect the Bades Village Front]

At the front of the army, the Templar Knight riding on a silver-armored warhorse raised his lance high in his hand, and a circle of brilliant holy light radiated from him to the surrounding army.

"Fire arrows!"

At a command, arrows enchanted with holy light shot up into the sky from behind the army like golden locusts, tearing through the darkness that extended from the army of wyverns.

It was as if countless meteors streaked across the sky and landed in the tide formed by the barbarian war lizards, exploding into clusters of golden fireworks.

However, the greatest effect of these arrows is to kill flying dragons in the air, and they have limited effect on the barbarian heavy cavalry riding war lizards.

Ella followed a group of retreating knights and ran into the Templar Knights' formation. Before they had time to catch their breath, the soldiers behind the line came over with several lances and stuffed one into the hands of these knights who had finally evacuated.

"The captain has ordered us to prepare for a counterattack." The knight captain with a white feather on his helmet stepped forward and led a group of ready-to-go Templar Knights to push Ella back to the front formation. "Where are your team members?"

"He..." Ella or Evans couldn't help but want to answer "They are all dead", but the captain was obviously not interested in his answer and directly ordered, "Integrate to the flanks!"

Ella had no choice but to follow the captain into the flank of the spearmen's formation. At this time, several rounds of arrow rain had just ended, and the vibrations from the snow under their feet were becoming more and more intense.

The barbarian army of war lizards was approaching, and as a horn sounded that penetrated the heavens and the earth rang in their ears, the roar amplified by the magic circle immediately spread throughout the entire army.

"Lance formation, attack!"

The Templar Knights in the array all stood upright with their spears in hand. Thousands of shining spear heads gathered into four rows, slowly protruding from the battle line in front of the village and colliding head-on with the army of war lizards that was carrying the force of a landslide.

Ella, who was standing in the last row, watched the Templar in front of her fly out with his armor as if he was hit by a truck. Broken spear heads and shattered armor pieces fell like raindrops. She couldn't help swallowing.

But the depth of the four rows of spearmen was obviously a well-thought-out arrangement. The unstoppable war lizard troops crashed into the spearmen formation like beasts trapped in a quagmire. There might be a few that broke through the formation, but most of them were dragged into the spearmen formation and struggled everywhere, being pierced by spears wrapped in holy light.

Finally, the ferocious war lizards broke through the front line at the position where Ella was. Ella, holding a spear, bent down and put all her strength into it, but was still knocked several meters away by the barbarian monster that was as big as a hill.

She stood up dazed, and could hear a buzzing sound in her ears, as if someone was hitting her brain with a gong.

But there was no chance for her to rest on the battlefield. The barbarian knight who fell to the ground due to the fall of the war lizard saw a fainted templar knight here and immediately rushed over with a scimitar in his hand.

However, Ella was not a fledgling who had not participated in wars. At this critical moment, her mental concentration must not be affected by physical pain.

Therefore, even though she was dizzy, she threw the broken spear in her hand in time, and took advantage of the moment when the opponent separated the spear, and rushed forward and brazenly drew the long sword at her waist...

Hey, where's my sword?

In just a moment of distraction, Ella felt her vision being split in half, and the scimitar cut her in half from top to bottom.

[Synchronization failed]

Ella's eyes went dark, and a few small fluorescent blue words popped up in her field of vision.

[63% of mental power remaining, do you want to start over from mission objective ? ]

Oh, is there any save point?

Ella was confused. It seemed that this world tree system had many more tricks than she had imagined.

She first briefly checked the relevant system prompts. Currently, each restart will consume about 10% of her mental power. Similarly, advancing a task will also consume about 10% of her mental power.

What happens if you don’t start over, or if you run out of energy and haven’t completed the task?

[After exiting the memory space and then entering the memory, you will restart from the first task of the memory segment]

Ah...that's a bit shitty.

Ella couldn't help but complain in her heart.

She didn't know if 63% of her mental strength was enough to complete all the tasks. The most important thing was that she couldn't guarantee that she could complete every task in one life.

Fortunately, after discovering the memory fragments, there is no need to go through the "soul hacking" process again. Ella can carry out this memory task anywhere.

When his consciousness returned to reality, he saw the bright dungeon under the cathedral again. The bloated and huge High Priest Evans was still leaning against the wall in silence, with thick iron chains tied to his thin limbs.

Ella planned to go back to bed and slowly study the strange memory task system. It was not a good idea to let her mind wander and let her real body stand in the dungeon as punishment.

Chapter 64 Freya's Determination

But before leaving the dungeon, Ella checked her skill tree system first.

She discovered that there was indeed an evil god spell called "Holy Light Protection" next to the evil god skill tree, but what was interesting was that in addition to this, there was also an additional "Holy Light" skill tree in the blank space next to this skill tree, with a lonely "Holy Light Protection" skill on it.

This is actually a Holy Light skill that has not been transformed into an evil god spell? This means that this skill is not a replica of the "evil god" like the previous healing Holy Light Judgment Scythe, but a real ordinary skill that has been learned?

Thinking of this, Ella tried to follow the instructions on the skill panel to trigger this skill, and found that a thin layer of holy light really appeared on her body.

Seeing that her mental strength was slightly decreasing as the holy light was maintained, Ella terminated the skill.

The proficiency of this Holy Light Body Protection is even at the mastery level, which means that Ella does not even need to deliberately practice this skill.

This memory system is quite powerful, Ella suddenly realized. If she could follow the task instructions and go through all of Evans' memories, wouldn't she be able to directly upgrade to a transcendent Templar Knight?

But then again, ever since Evans said those words in the square, Ella is now more or less afraid of this thing called "holy light".

Forget it, let’s focus on discovering the truth... Besides, being a Templar is not the career she wants to pursue.

However, when the Templar Knights were not good enough, the skills of other professions were still very good. Although none of the millions of believers could reach the "supernormal" strength of Evans, some of the assassin skills that he had always wanted to acquire, or auxiliary skills such as alchemy and forging, would be very useful if they could directly obtain high-level versions in this way.

It is much more efficient than using a large number of general points that can be used to improve attributes to buy them in the system's black-hearted mall, or than doing tasks everywhere and learning from indigenous masters for half a day to slowly practice an entry-level skill.

Ella thought so happily and left the prison tower.

Afterwards, she would go to the bishop's office to discuss matters concerning the Ocean Cathedral with Elder Holmes, who is now the interim archbishop.

Unexpectedly, when she opened the door, she saw a figure with long light blonde hair standing in the room.

"Lady Freya?"