Rick was suddenly stunned, frowned and stared at Grie's eyes. After more than ten seconds, he said coldly: "Who are you? Why do you know my name?"

Gri's hands and feet became extremely cold, and his heart seemed to fall into an ice cave. Tears flowed down and threw themselves into Rick's arms. She choked and said, "I shouldn't have let you take the risk at the beginning... Now Brother Kyle doesn't remember Gri... It's too late."

Belle stood behind Grey in amazement. Rick's eyes made her feel strange, and she asked quickly: "How could this happen? Jim, Martin, do you still recognize us?"

Xin poked her head out of the room, leaned her back against the door, and laughed disdainfully, "Kyle is teasing you."

Jim and Martin laughed.

Belle and Grey were shocked and stared at Rick who was still looking at them coldly.

After a few seconds, Rick finally couldn't help but the scorching eyes of the two women. He raised his lips and smiled and said, "Okay, I'm really teasing you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Grey's pink fist hit Rick's eyes. The girl's chest was up and down excitedly, and she gritted her silver teeth and said angrily: "Do you know how worried Grey is about Brother Kyle!"

"Sorry, sorry," Rick bent down and laughed twice, and wiped the tears from the corners of Grey's eyes.

Seeing Rick coming back safely, Belle breathed a sigh of relief and looked at him quietly in a hurry to comfort Gray.

"Are you getting anything?" Xin felt that she was almost exhausted when she stayed in the room. Seeing that Rick and the others were back, she asked curiously about the result of the operation.

Under Jim's arrangement, everyone gathered in the temporary conference room again. He pressed the booklet of the Church of Destiny on the table and slid it to Elena, "Instructor, you have a look first."

Elena opened the church's scriptures indifferently, browsed them roughly, and came to a conclusion similar to Jim, "The common doctrine is similar to the divine church, but it is just to simply promote their Lord God, and there is no suspicion."

This booklet has no reference value, and it does not reflect the unspeakable purpose of the church in destiny. Therefore, they cannot regard this thing as evidence to identify the church as heresy.

Rick carefully explained the baptism of the bishop, and he focused on it: "The bishop of the Church of Destiny pressed his hand on our foreheads. He thought they would launch a mental attack through this time, but we still thought too much."

"Do you dare not in front of many people, afraid of showing your strength?" Xin asked curiously.

"Mental power is invisible. Unless there is a strong mental power present, ordinary people cannot perceive it." Belle said, "If the Archbishop of the Destiny Church is really a spiritual master who is proficient in thought control, he does not need to touch your bodies at all. Even if it is more than ten meters apart, it can affect your will."

"When we use mental power as attack methods, then we can't do anything?" Xin asked anxiously. The magic or sword skills that can be seen and touched are not terrible, and the mental attack that is irrecognizable is the most terrifying.

Belle shook her head, "It is very unstable to use mental power to influence other people's consciousness. First of all, your mental power must be far beyond the other party. If the goal's will is firm, it may also fail. Even if you successfully invade the other party's consciousness, at most it will only leave a subconscious mind in your mind, and it is impossible to directly control people's thinking theory."

The girl in the white robe is a summoner, so she is not specializing in mental power, but she said with certainty: "If there is a master who can manipulate the spirit in secret to control the residents of the Ice City and force them to believe in the words of the Lord God..." Belle said helplessly: "Then, we are definitely not his opponents, and will only be controlled without knowing it and become puppets."

Everyone's hearts suddenly became scared, but Belle's next sentence gave them some hope. "But this requires applying mental power to a state of superb level, and it is almost impossible for anyone to do it."

Martin pondered for a while and suddenly said, "Maybe, our ideas have been wrong all the time. The Church of Destiny is not an evil organization that relies on mental power to control the thoughts of the residents of Ice City."

"If, I mean, if, the Church of Destiny is a very formal religion, then wouldn't we be wasting our time?" Martin glanced at everyone and said with great seriousness.

Mingx Wings suddenly fell into silence.

"Impossible," Rick broke the stalemate. "We have not yet discovered any special charm of the Church of Destiny and the Lord God they believe in. The doctrine and thoughts are in line. It is impossible to sweep the Principality of Lyre in such a short time and challenge the Holy Church."

"That's right, but I agree with what Martin said, the Church of Destiny must have used improper means to absorb believers, but not through spiritual manipulation." Jim bit his index finger gently, thought for a while, but still couldn't come to a conclusion, "It must have used other improper means, and we need to investigate further."

"This mission did not give a precise time limit. The Holy Church means that it is enough to find sufficient evidence before the Church of Destiny completely controls the Principality of Lyle." Elena leaned against the chair and said lightly: "But the Ice City has become the base of the Church of Destiny. This is the second largest city in the Principality of Lyle. Soon the king will be occupied by the Church of Destiny."

After all, this woman wanted to say that time was tight... Rick cursed inwardly. They couldn't find any clues yet, and they were really passive.

Everyone is waiting for a breakthrough that can break this embarrassing situation in one fell swoop.

"Kyle, in the next day you will go to the morning prayer and doctrine exchange meeting held by the Church of Destiny on a daily basis, and try to explore the Church of Destiny as deeply as possible." Jim paused and said, "I am responsible for investigating the residents of Ice City to find out the reasons for joining the Church of Destiny, and others will continue to be on standby."

"Wouldn't it be better to leave this kind of thing to me?" Martin was a local after all, and he had a deeper understanding of Ice City, so he could investigate local residents more efficiently.

Rick fell into deep thought. Jim's arrangement was obviously loophole, but he must have thought carefully before he could go to the Church of Destiny with Martin to understand the daily lives of believers.

Jim smiled slightly, without answering, just looking at Rick meaningfully.

I understood... Rick suddenly realized and looked at Martin who was unaware of it with some vigilance.

Rick thought for a while and finally understood Jim's intention.

Although Martin's identity was confirmed, Jim still did not completely believe him. The reason is very simple. If there was a strong man who could manipulate his thoughts working for the church of fate, local local officials might have been tampered with their memories or directly controlled.

If Rick was the mastermind behind the scenes, he would also control Martin and mislead the Wings of Nex step by step. But the Wings of Nex is an envoy from the Kato Empire and cannot be killed directly, so that the Holy Church will even more doubt the Church of Destiny.

And they cannot control the members of the Wings of Nex. Because invading people's minds with mental power will leave a spiritual mark. Once they are let go back, the Holy Church only needs a simple inspection and will find that the members of the Wings of Nex are brainwashed. This is the evidence of the Church of Destiny.

The safest way is to provide false information and conceal the truth through the messengers from the Principality of Lyle, so that the Wings of Möx will return in vain.

So Jim asked Martin to follow me to the Church of Destiny for morning prayers and worship, with the purpose of letting me send Martin away. Jim's investigation is the highlight...

Even if everyone in Ice City became puppets, the secret mental manipulator could not monitor everyone at all times, and it was even more impossible to know who Jim was investigating.

So Rick got up early every day, pulled Martin, who was sleeping in, and ran to the church of the Church of Destiny to pray in the morning. When the two of them left, Jim began to investigate the people around him.

Martin sat on the church bench, yawned a long time, and whispered: "Even if we investigate the Church of Destiny, this method is too inefficient, right?"

"If you integrate into the lives of the believers, you may find some clues." Rick actually didn't expect that this would be effective. He can only hope that Jim can get some results.

After praying for the morning prayer, Rick took the initiative to chat with some believers of the Church of Destiny, and occasionally asked why they joined this emerging church, but the answers were disappointing.

"The Goddess of Light will only favor the Kato Empire. Just as the Goddess of Ice and Snow only cover the Ice and Snow Empire, our Principality of Lyre must also have its own gods."

"I originally believed in the goddess of light, but she did not bring me much good luck. Instead, she has been very unlucky in recent years. Maybe the Lord God can bring some surprises."

"Oh, the Pope and I are distant relatives, so we naturally believe in the Lord God."

...

All kinds of strange reasons came, and Rick sighed helplessly, but he still received important news.

These people are not crazy believers in the Church of Destiny. Many of them believe in the Lord God just to be fresh or on a whim.

This is different from the information sent to the Kato Empire by the Principality of Lyre. I remember it said that the residents of the Ice City are all minions of the Church of Destiny and do not allow anyone to offend the majesty of the Lord God. But now it seems that the locals' thoughts are normal, not extreme at all, and they are even a little disrespectful to the gods they believe in. Why do they feel so dissonant? Rick feels so depressed, and the truth of the matter seems to be getting farther and farther away from him.

After going to the church for several days, Rick was exhausted. Not only did he not find the secret of the church of fate, he made himself confused.

So, Rick secretly discussed with Jim, but the latter also got nothing.

"It's strange that the emergence of the Church of Destiny did not affect the residents of Ice City too much. Their living patterns were almost exactly the same as before. And their ideas were normal. They just simply accepted the church and did not think about 'let the Pope be the king of the Principality of Lyle'." Jim was busy for a few days and did not get reliable clues, and he was a little tired.

"However, I feel that this is the peace before the storm. Let the Church of Destiny continue to develop, and when all the citizens of the Principality of Lyle become believers, they will be completely destroyed if they suddenly have terrible thoughts." The power of the people is powerful, and the Church of Destiny is supported by the entire people of the Principality of Lyle, and the authority of the Pope will be far greater than that of the king, which is what Rick is most worried about.

"The Ice City is too calm, but it is unsettling." Jim said with a frown. There are no crazy believers here, not as dangerous as expected, everything is very harmonious, as if there is no conspiracy theory of the Church of Destiny.

"Are we really wrong from the beginning, as Martin said, the Church of Destiny is just a normal emerging church?" Rick thought for a while and overturned his thoughts: "It's still wrong. If the Church of Destiny is not dangerous to the royal power, then the Principality of Lair does not need to ask the Cato Empire for help."

What is the truth... Rick and Jim couldn't help but think.

"I have a way, but I can't tell him until I'm sorry for Martin." Rick suddenly had a bold idea.

...

As night falls, the bustling ice city during the day is completely in darkness. One of the teachings of the Church of Destiny is that believers can develop the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, so that they can come to the church to pray in the early morning, and pray again before going to bed. In order to implement this concept, the ice city, which once was a city that never sleeps, was calmly turned off at night.

So, at night, the church became extremely deserted, and the clergy of the Church of Destiny returned home early.

Since the Church of Destiny has not yet developed, the cathedral is usually managed by two archbishops on duty every day. Now that twilight is coming, their mission has been completed. The church door is locked and the two white-robed bishops walk together.

Their home is not far from the cathedral and can be reached in about ten minutes, but the two are destined to not be able to go home on time tonight.

There was no one on the main road, only scattered street lights illuminating the road ahead, but the vision was still not clear enough.

The black shadow suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and the two archbishops were shocked, stopped quickly and glanced around him vigilantly.

"Who is it?" The voice of an archbishop echoed in the quiet alley.

"Maybe it's dazzled, let's go." Another archbishop didn't care and walked in front of him alone.

After a while, he found that his companion had not followed, and turned around curiously and was stunned.

Another archbishop was stunned by the man in black who suddenly jumped out with his hand knife. Just as he was about to shout for help, he suddenly felt a numbness in his neck, his eyes turned black, and he fainted.

Rick and Jim were wearing black windbreakers and almost blended with the night. They looked at each other and left with two unconscious archbishops.

The two returned to the hotel carefully, making sure that Martin was not awakened, opened Elena's door and threw the two archbishops in front of her.

Elena never slept, lit the lights and waited for the two of them because she promised to do Rick a favor.

"Instructor, are you sure you can disguise us as archbishops?" Rick asked again a little worried.

After so many days of investigation, Rick found that as a low-level believer, he was not even a clergyman and could not access the secrets of the church.

The Archbishop is second only to the Pope, so they must know more secrets. Unfortunately, Elena is not good at the spiritual realm, otherwise she could browse their memories directly.

Fortunately, the four major bishops were just a few respected ordinary people in the Ice City, and they took on this important position because they were supported by the people. If they were the archbishops of the Holy Church, Rick would not dare to have the idea of ​​kidnapping them. Cardinals of the Kato Empire were all semi-sacred existences, and they were not comparable to those of middle-aged men in the Church of Destiny who could not even magic. (~^~)
Chapter completed!