"This! This is the power of the witch!"

"This!! This is the power of our resistance!"

"This!!! Let's leave this dilapidated and rotten neighborhood! Get rid of the disgusting name 9-3!"

"The power of revenge against those who exploit us! those who oppress us! those who despise us!"

His words are fanatical, his sonorous determination is full of strong incitement, and the man standing on the high platform has an exaggerated posture, like a mentally disturbed patient.

But after the miracle they had just witnessed, everyone below was immersed in it, raising their arms and shouting in agreement!

Witnessing such a scene on the steel beam, I originally thought that they were just a group of people from the bottom of society who happened to obtain something related to the night war and committed evil deeds, but when I heard Osphia say the name "Witch",

that moment,

Fangran found that things began to go beyond his expectations.

Instinctively, he thought of that dark and mysterious figure, and in an instant he seemed to understand the source of the throbbing just now.

Then at this time, several middle-aged men who looked like members of the upper class were tied to the rack and pushed up. Their faces were pale and trembling, and they were wrapped in blood-stained cloth strips. Everyone around them held up the fire in their hands and screamed.

It looked like it wanted to burn it alive!

It makes people think they have gone crazy.

Yes, already crazy.

The malice of harming others surged out like stagnant black mud. He suppressed the urge to rush in and save people now. Feeling uncomfortable with such a cult scene, Fangran frowned slightly and said:

"What are they going to do?"

"Black magic is one of the most dangerous branches of ability in the mysterious side. Ordinary people who come into contact with related things without authorization are extremely easy to be contaminated by the spirit of their owners. That person is no longer normal,"

Osphia looked at the leading 'black sheep' on the high platform, as if looking at a dead man with half his foot in the abyss.

"His current hatred and jealousy towards the wealthy class has been combined with the residual spiritual influence of the witch herself on that item."

"My... mental influence, then why does it become like this?"

Hearing this sentence, Fangran murmured in surprise, thinking that he knew nothing about this title of 'witch'. After looking at him, Osphia spoke slowly and quietly:

"Witch hunting broke out in Europe, also called witch trials."

Her blue eyes looked at the 'cultists' surrounded by several men holding flames below, as if she saw a microcosm of that era, except this time the men and women were reversed.

"In that era when there was no scientific concept, witchcraft was generally considered to exist and be evil. Those in power feared that it would threaten their rule and ordered killings, which formed a wave of witch hunts centuries ago,"

"Because of jealousy, persecution from the upper class, ignorant fear, and even coveting beauty and wanting to see who looks like without clothes, innocent women are easily slandered as witches, brutally forced to confess, pushed to the stake, and face the horrific ending of a miserable death."

"Do you know what secular courts used in that era to determine whether a woman was a witch?"

Speaking of this, Ophia glanced at him, paused for a moment, and then slowly spoke:

"It's a book called "Hammer of Witches". It's full of absurd logic that if you throw it into the water, the one who drowns is not a witch, and the one who doesn't drown is a witch."

It was dark above the underground mine. Fangran listened to Osphia's story in disbelief. He couldn't believe that this could be a historical fact.

It is even more unimaginable that this is what that figure has experienced...

"How could this happen..."

And when I thought about how dark the era of theocracy was, I seemed to have heard about it, the moment I asked this question,

Fangran suddenly stopped and realized that the identity of the figure beside him came from it.

"I know what you are thinking, but first of all, I am a knight of arbitration and not a church believer. Secondly, the church in history is not exactly what you think."

His black eyes were hidden in the darkness and he stared down. Those people who had gone crazy were still carrying out 'prayer' activities. Fangran listened to Osphia's voice calmly ringing in his ears.

"For that period, the church as you know it was feudal, anti-scientific, backward-thinking, controlled by the Inquisition to execute any heretic who challenged the authority of the church, and was the main culprit that led to the darkness and witch hunting in the Middle Ages."

Osphia looked at the irrational prayers of the people below, and was ready to save people at any time. She lightly talked about the religious churches of that period that were exaggerated by various arts and cultures and in the eyes of the public.

"But in fact, before the birth of modern science, as the upper class, many outstanding people with advanced ideas were members of the church. Galileo was a Christian, and the Pope himself was his good friend,"

"Copernicus was a devout Catholic believer. He never felt that there was any conflict between his theory and his beliefs, and the church did not interfere with his research. It was not until his later years that he published it just because he was perfecting the theory, but he used a perfect circle plan to move the orbit.

Entering into a misunderstanding.”

The black eyes were stunned, thinking that the darkness of the witch hunt was due to the religious persecution of that period.

Recalling what he knew about Galileo being tried and imprisoned by the church, and Copernicus only daring to express his theory because he was afraid of authority before his death, Fangran listened to Ophia tell completely different facts, as if the whole story of history had been revealed.

"Until now, the religious persecution of scientists during that period is still in the minds of many people. They still think that Bruno was burned to death for defending the heliocentric theory."

I searched the entire underground mine again and found no suspicious clues or traces of participants' activities. I have already concluded that the cult incident here has nothing to do with the association.

Thinking that this was indeed just an ordinary incident, Osphia relaxed a little and then looked at Fangran.

"It's ridiculous, just like you in China, many people still think that Qin Shihuang burned books and harassed Confucians, and was a cruel emperor."

He was so surprised that he didn't know what to say. Fangran listened to her words that overturned his past common sense, and then listened to Osphia lower her voice.

"And the same goes for witch hunting."

"The official attitude of the Catholic Church has always been that witches do not exist at all and stop these superstitious and ignorant behaviors,"

Describing the true situation of that era that cannot be summed up by the phrase "church persecution", Osphia seemed to be able to feel the darkness of that era through the scene of the cult in front of her.

"But it does not mean that every local church, secular kingship, and ignorant people in remote villages can think so."

Ever since I first heard her mention the horror and cruelty of witch hunting, I was speechless and stunned, thinking about the figure that had been my salvation more than once,

Fangran learned about the witch's past for the first time.

"The background left by the Black Death, the persecution of the royal aristocrats for their own interests, the private actions of some religious forces, and more lynchings of ignorant people in remote villages, and various complex reasons born in the social period,"

Looking at the cultists below who had begun to kneel down and pray, they thought that by burning those people to death they would be protected by the 'Witch' and leave the swamp-like bottom of society. The ignorance and superstition were astonishingly similar to history repeating itself, which made Osphia

He spoke deep words in a low voice.

"What really led to the witch hunt... was the dark side of humanity in that era."

Hearing her say these words, Fangran suddenly remembered what Vaer Linyin once said to him in the battlefield of the time scene,

Then at this moment when he was about to say something!

The prayers of the cultists below came to an end. Hidden on the steel beams supported by the underground mine, Fangran and Osphia suddenly saw the leader showing the thing they were worshiping.

——A pitch-black spherical crystal.

Incredible moment of being stunned!!!

His black eyes suddenly widened. All kinds of irrelevant information rushed into his mind inexplicably, including the cult incident, the fall of the royal court, the dark energy crystal, the association plan, and the dark side of mankind that he had just heard about.

I felt as if there was some kind of connection connecting them, and that was the moment when my right eye pupil lit up subconsciously!

Fangran saw a line of information appearing in his field of vision,

-'A container that can contain the dark side energy of the real world and is made of dark world crystals through special means'-

Then the next second,
Chapter completed!