After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

"Ah."

Aize raised his head, poured all the remaining water in the cup into his mouth, and wiped the corners of his mouth.

"First of all, it's certain that the potion didn't work on Rosalyn last night, which rules out the possibility that she attacked the little girl."

The physical constitution of each person cannot be generalized. Even if it is **, the effect on different people will inevitably be different.

As for Rosalyn, although the possibility is not very high - but what if this guy actually likes girls, especially innocent little girls?

It is possible that after Aize left, this guy did something terrible to Jane, who shared the same room with him. Just in case, we have to confirm it.

Fortunately, it seemed that Aize was overthinking it and nothing like that happened.

There were no visible signs of such behavior on the little girl's body.

Chris was confused after hearing this:

"Master...you even need to confirm this?"

"Of course we have to confirm it. That's called rigor!"

Aize continued:

"And, more importantly, I now finally know what that guy is all about."

These words made Chris stand up suddenly, and Villian also stopped what she was doing, and both of their eyes were focused on Aize.

Ai Ze cleared his throat with a dry cough:

"In fact, we made a mistake from the very beginning. Killing so many members of the church and inciting the so-called holy war army to die, such outrageous actions, according to common thinking, would have to have a common purpose, such as eliminating dissidents in order to control the church."

It was precisely because he was unable to grasp her purpose that Aize was helpless when facing Rosaline.

"But that's not the case. These actions never have a unified purpose. The actions themselves are their purpose."

As he spoke, he pulled out some notebooks from his pocket and showed them in front of the two of them.

There is a long list of names written on it, and a considerable number of them are followed by marks.

"These are the names of the church members who were murdered. I've checked with the sect members. I've marked those who have been confirmed to have participated in the persecution of the Pure White Saints—or are responsible for the Pure White Saints' current situation."

"Those who are not marked don't necessarily mean they are innocent. It's just that I don't have enough time today, and the number of cult members I've interviewed is too small. If I continue investigating, I have reason to believe that everyone on this list is 100% guilty. And then..."

"Wait, wait, Master!"

Chris, who was standing by, couldn't hold back her laughter anymore.

"Are you saying that everything that sinister woman does is to rid the people of harm? That she's actually a truly kind person? This is... too strange, isn't it? If that's the case, why would she send members of her own sect to their deaths?"

This was the point that had troubled Aize before.

They value their believers so much that they even kill people in the church.

Outrageous, but not impossible.

But taking believers to die completely denies this possibility.

There is only one explanation that satisfies both of these points:

"Because that's what the believers themselves expect."

"What?"

"Whether it's sanctions against the church or launching this kind of suicidal crusade, it's what the believers themselves want."

Aize said, looking at Villian:

"Vir, you said before that the Faith Network is a structure that connects the consciousness of believers based on directional magic, right?"

"Yes."

"What would happen if Rosalyn's own consciousness was also connected to it? Would she be able to unilaterally control everyone's consciousness? Or would she also be affected?"

Chapter 64 Saint/Nothingness (2)

Having been in this world for more than two years, ever since he became aware of the outrageous existence of Rosaline, Aize has tried to understand this character in his mind countless times.

Through various seemingly contradictory behaviors, he constructed countless images of "Rosaline Meredith".

Some of them want to seize control of the entire church through blind faith and fear.

Some people indulge in illusory pursuits and false fame, trying to make themselves the worshipped god.

But without exception, all of these characters are extremely cunning conspirators.

After all, according to common sense, even Aize would never be able to plan those outrageous actions, but Rosaline was able to do it, so her wisdom must be far superior to Aize's.

But is that really the case?

After the existence of the faith network was confirmed, Rosaline's modus operandi became simpler, and Aize began to re-examine this role.

Is it possible that I'm overthinking it?

Is it possible that I'm on the fifth floor and think she's on the sixth, but she's actually in the basement?

Over the course of two years, on various occasions, in countless brutal battlefields and treacherous social gatherings, Rosalyn faced all kinds of people and the admiration that came with them.

And of course there was humiliation.

No amount of humiliation could break Rosalyn's fake smile.

Until last night.

Last night, Aize didn't even make any personal attacks, but simply denied Rosaline's statement that faith is above all else with an understated attitude.

She actually stopped smiling because of this.

In other words, the defense was broken because of this.

This shows that faith, which is completely unimportant and even annoying to Aize, is the most important and even incomparable thing to Rosaline.

Before this, even after discovering the existence of the faith network, Aize still followed the conspirators' previous speculation and believed that it was just a tool for Rosaline to control believers.

However, tools cannot be the most important thing.

Aize then re-evaluated the faith network.

Then, he discovered something very interesting.

Those words Rosaline said, those words about faith, were all crazy talk to Aize in the past. They were all excuses made by a big conspirator to cover up his actions and were not worth wasting time on.

However, once I started to think about the rationality of these words and combined them with Rosaline's behavior, all the mysteries fell into place.

Rosalyn said the church's victims deserved to die.

indeed.

Rosaline said that the expedition was initiated by the believers and had nothing to do with her.

truth.

Even in Tafia, the fanatic who assassinated Archbishop Colin was simply doing it for his own beliefs - that's absolutely right.

Before, she had sworn to the goddess that she had never lied.

At this point, it even seems possible that it might be true.

Although it's ironic.

Following this line of thought, Aize immediately thought that Rosaline might not be using the faith network unilaterally, but she was also being influenced by it.

So I came to ask Villian for confirmation.

Villian didn't answer immediately, but raised her chin as usual and began to think.

Then he slowly shook his head:

"I'm sorry, but I can't answer this question without knowing the specific structure and principles of the faith network. But... it's certainly possible! After all, no matter how strong her will is, it can't possibly overcome the combined will of all believers. But this is just speculation, right? What if she's not directly affected, but is simply unilaterally catering to the believers for her own image?"

The difference between Villian's statement and Aize's is that Rosaline was influenced by the faith network actively or passively, deliberately or helplessly.

Of course, Aize had considered this possibility.

So he immediately replied:

“It’s unlikely that they’re actively catering to it.”

"why?"

"Just look at the change in Rosalyn's attitude towards Leah."

As mentioned before, Rosaline's attitude towards Leah changes in three stages.

When Aize was on the team, she ignored and neglected Leah.

When Aize left the team, she was willing to sacrifice Leah in exchange for Aize returning to the church.

After the riots in the Holy City, she hoped to repair the relationship between Aize and Leah and work together again.

"The changes in these three stages may seem capricious, but there is actually a pattern. Do you know what it is?"

Villian and Chris looked at each other and shook their heads.

After all, no matter how you look at it, you will just think that this guy is schizophrenic, so how can you talk about any rules?

"The pattern is that her attitude towards Leah is completely consistent with the public opinion and perception of the believers."

At first, church members thought of Leah as a mad dog who was good at fighting.

There are many people who dislike her, but after all, she is the number one chosen hero of God, and her combat power has long been ranked first among humans, and Aize is suppressing her.

So everyone felt that it was not unbearable to hold her nose and just let her be.

And humans always like to compromise.

When you say you want to deal with Leah, everyone might be reluctant.

But if you say that Aize will leave the team because of this, then everyone will be willing to talk about dealing with Leah.

Therefore, in the second stage, Rosaline hoped to sacrifice Leah to get Aize back.

Because at that time, the believers of the sect and even the entire church thought so.

He even felt extremely resentful towards Leah, the culprit who forced Aize away.

But by the third stage, the situation changed again.

After killing dozens of extremely evil church leaders and going through that trial, Leia went from being a madman despised by everyone who didn't know how she became a chosen hero to a hero who enforced justice overnight.

Public opinion reversed instantly.

Rosaline's attitude towards her also took a 180-degree turn because of this - although from a God's perspective, all of this was caused by Rosaline herself.

It can be said to be a perfect fit.

Aize does not think that the so-called catering to sects can be done to this extent.

Therefore, Rosalind's consciousness was forcibly bound to the belief network, which is a more reasonable explanation.

This made Villian nod slowly.

She turned her head and began to check the potion again, giving a wry smile.

"If that's the case, then that guy is just like me before? Completely controlled by external consciousness, without any personal freedom at all. It's kind of pitiful when you think about it."

"If that's the case, that's fine. The actual situation may be more troublesome than this inference."

"Ah?"

Chris and Villian, who had averted their gazes, thought the topic had come to an end, immediately looked over again.

Under their gaze, Aize's expression became unusually serious:

"Rosaline is controlled by a faith network. This theory can explain most of the strange phenomena, but it can't explain all of them. For example, do you remember the assassination that happened a few nights after we first met?"

"Yes, of course I remember."

Several knights from the Holy War Knights under Aize broke into the two's house in Tafia like crazy, intending to assassinate Villian who was alone in the room while Aize was away.

After failure, they even committed mass suicide, not intending to leak even a single bit of information.

Judging from the performance, Rosaline is the only one in the entire continent who can achieve this level, so it is almost certain that she must have planned it.

But this contradicts the previous statement.

At that time, Aize's departure from the team was still a secret and was not known to the majority of believers.