After entering the interstellar age, the Earth Federation classified the advanced intelligent creatures on the earth into four levels: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Omega.

Among them, ordinary humans are regarded as the lowest Alpha level, humans with extraordinary intelligence and super strong bodies are regarded as the Beta level, and psykers are the Gamma level. As for the Omega level, the range of identification is very large, and most people think that they can

Any behavior that interferes with the operation of a planet can be counted as an Omega level, and the most famous one is the will of the planet, also known as the will of Gaia.

Now Leo actually found the remains of a high-level Omega species from the ashes of a monster. If such a thing were to be placed in the Earth Federation, it would definitely become big news around the world, because the value of the remains in his hand alone is enough to buy a

A fourth-level resource star.

Of course Leo would not think that the monster he burned to death would be an Omega-level advanced creature, but he felt that the appearance of this monster was due to the piece of debris in his hand, and if he had not made a mistake in his estimation, such a piece of debris would

There were still more than forty yuan. This discovery also made his breathing become thicker.

At this moment, Leo's contemplative state and the slight change in expression on his face attracted the attention of Catherine, who was already suspicious. However, she obviously misunderstood what Leo was thinking.

Regarding relationship issues, I think Leo discovered something related to her, such as why the stone pendant in her hand is here, etc.

Although it was just a misunderstanding, I had to admit that part of Catherine's misunderstanding was guessed, so I saw Catherine also said to Leo extremely seriously: "You also said just now, if we want to cooperate, there are some

Things cannot be hidden, so I also hope you can tell me what you have discovered now."

Hearing Catherine's inquiry, Leo frowned slightly, then looked at the stone pendant held tightly by Catherine, and immediately understood why Catherine said this.

So he was silent for a moment, and said with some seriousness: "Do you really want to know? You have to know that the more you know about some things, the better. Sometimes knowing too much will make you..."

"I want to know." Not only was Catherine not dissuaded, but she was even more curious about what Leo had discovered and said with certainty.

Seeing this situation, Leo concealed a little bit and did not tell about the remains of this Omega-level advanced creature. He just told his guess that the forty-five original founders of the Aknaya Church had turned into monsters.

come out.

"Impossible! This is impossible!" After hearing Leo's guess, Catherine denied the statement without hesitation. However, the pain and sadness on her face and the look in her eyes towards the pile of ashes all showed that she

I already believed this guess in my heart.

While Leo was telling his guesses about the forty-five founders of Aknaya Church, he was also observing Catherine's expression and emotions. Although her emotions were completely within Leo's guess, she was so

It was a little weird to accept Leo's speculation so quickly.

"Unless my speculation is related to something she knows?" Leo looked at Catherine, guessing vaguely in his heart, and after waiting for Catherine's mood to stabilize a little, he said: "You don't have anything else to say.

Let’s talk about it? For example, what turned them into the monsters they are now?”

"What do you know?" Catherine looked at Leo suspiciously.

"What do you think I should know, such as how these monsters are produced? Martin you know should know, and the three high priests of the Aknaya Church should also know. As for you?" Leo said,

His head was very close to Catherine. The two were almost close enough to feel each other's breathing. They looked at each other for a while, as if they wanted to see her heart clearly, and then slowly moved back and looked affirmative.

He said: "You may not know it before, but you must know it now. Do you think I am right?"

Catherine did not respond to Leo immediately, but looked down at the stone pendant in her hand, sat in the pile of ashes, was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "We accidentally discovered the catacombs from the catacombs.

We found some ancient books and learned that we are probably the descendants of the slave kingdom. And we also found from other older ancient books that the slaves who overthrew the French Empire were not slaves at the beginning. They had their own country and

Civilization, they are the Nilgardians."

Leo pointed to the surrounding houses and said, "Are there people living in this underground city?"

"According to the ancient language of Velen, the predecessor of Frank, Nilgard means living underground." Catherine explained a little and continued: "The Nilgard people built this underground city and formed a city-state.

The prosperity of the kingdom is not inferior to that of the legendary city-states on the ancient continent of Velen. According to records in ancient books, an evil force later emerged from the underground and affected Nilgard's patron saint, corrupting him and making him

From the patron saint to the god of destruction.”

"Patron saint?" Leo was stunned.

"In the ancient city-state period, each city-state would find a patron saint for itself. For example, the earliest patron saint of Lanxi was the god of killing and gladiatorial combat. However, most of those gods were only symbolic and not real gods." Catherine said

Here again, she felt a little lack of confidence. Obviously, what happened just now had a great impact on her, making her doubt her past knowledge.

But she soon recovered and continued: "Although the Nilgardians finally defeated the corrupted patron saint, divided his body into countless segments, and used the power of the earth to completely suppress his remaining body, the evil power

However, they were still unable to escape the corruption, so the Nilgardians were forced to leave the place where they lived and went to the surface to live like other people."

Hearing this, Leo couldn't help but tighten his grip on the remains of the higher creature. He felt that the remains in his hands might have come from this corrupted patron saint.

“The later rise of the Fran Empire destroyed the city-state built by the Nilgardians on the ground, and built Lanxi on the ruins of the Nilgardian city-state, turning all the surviving Nilgardians into slaves.

." Catherine stopped here, sighed, and said: "After that, it is the dynastic history of the French Empire."

At this moment, Leo could vaguely understand why forty-nine people encountered abnormal situations at the same time, but only four survived and even gained some supernatural powers similar to psychic powers. The rest of them all had genetic collapse and turned into monsters, because it was not

All descendants of slaves are Nilgardians.

At this time, Jason, who was listening with rapt attention, couldn't help but ask: "What does the history of the Nilgardians have to do with the emergence of this monster?"

Catherine hesitated for a moment before saying: "We found notes in the catacombs left by some people who took refuge here before the demise of the Slave Kingdom. In the notes, it was written that King Yasin was the one who defeated the French Empire.

The great gladiator who was able to defeat the elite troops of the French Empire was because he discovered the remains of the patron saint in the ruins of Nilgaard's ancient city, and used the power of the remains to create a group of powerful warriors.

Warriors with the power of gods. But later these warriors were corrupted by evil forces and turned into monsters, which caused the subsequent slave kingdom to quickly weaken."

"Do you believe these things?" Leo asked.

"I don't believe it! At least I didn't believe it at the time, because I don't know who wrote the note, and the words behind it are also some messy graffiti, so we think the note is the gibberish left by the person who went crazy before his death." Catherine said honestly.

He responded, looked at the pile of ashes and the stone pendant in his hand, and said with some confusion: "Now...I can't tell clearly now."

Catherine paused for a moment, then continued: "Martin and the others should believe this statement, because according to the contents of the notes, if you want to create warriors with divine power, you need to sacrifice on the altar where the remains of the corrupted patron saint are sealed, and

The sacrifice needs to be a person with the blood of the gods. I think this is why Nelson will be targeted. I once accidentally mentioned Nelson's life experience to Martin, so he..."

Catherine, who was full of guilt, said no more, and Leo was silent for a while, as if he was digesting the information he had just received.

Then Leo said to Catherine very seriously: "Now the development of things has deviated from the original purpose of our coming to the catacombs. It is no longer to collect evidence of some cases. I even suspect that those cases are Martin Luther or the Church.

What you did. It may be very dangerous here, and there may be things you don’t want to see happen. If you want to leave now, Jason and I will send you away first, and then come back to find the doctor...

"

Before Leo could finish speaking, Catherine immediately responded: "No need! I grew up in Cage City, and I'm not as fragile as you think."

"In that case, let's find the doctor first, and then consider other things!" Leo made a decision. He did not choose to go to the area that was probably the laboratory of the Aknaya Church, hunt those monsters, and obtain the remains of other advanced creatures.

, but chose to meet Nelson first.

Although he was still very interested in the remains of advanced creatures in the dozens of monsters, there were some things that were not easy to do when Catherine was around. In addition, he did not know how to use the remains of such advanced creatures for the time being.

According to the Earth Federation's approach, they would naturally extract genes directly from the wreckage and cultivate them into genetic fluid, or try to clone higher organisms. But as a warrior, Leo didn't understand these things at all, and even if he did, he didn't have those high technologies.

He can't do anything with the help of tools, so now the remains of higher creatures are like useless to him.

After making the decision, Leo also slightly adjusted the equipment. He asked Jason to refill the arrow box of the crossbow. Every five ordinary arrows were mixed with a special arrow with a flame effect. At the same time,

He also placed the ammunition for the flintlock hand cannon within easy reach so that it could be picked up and refilled at any time after use.

After getting ready, Leo led the two of them and chased them along the route taken by Nelson and his party.

Not long after Leo left this underground residential area, two teams of priests from the Aknaya Church who lit torches came one after another from the other two underground passages in this underground residential area.

If Leo was still here, he would definitely know that these two groups were from the garrison priests in the previous residential area and the garrison priests in the laboratory area.

In addition, he would also find that although the front of these priests' clothes had the emblem of the Akhnaia Church, the back had the chaotic symbols he had seen on the walls of the parish.

Except for the emblem symbols on their clothes that are different from those on the ground, each of these priests wears a mask, and the exposed parts of their bodies are completely covered by their clothes, and even their heads wear hoods.

It gives people a mysterious feeling.

Among these priests, there are also experts who are proficient in tracking and exploration, which allowed them to quickly find the place where Leo and the monster fought just now, find the ashes, and even barely piece together the process of the battle through the surrounding traces.

, made a rough assessment of Leo's strength, and finally judged from the footprints on the ground how many people were here at that time.

However, when they judged a person's condition based on the depth of their footprints, they mistakenly described Leo, who was carrying a heavy flintlock hand cannon, as a fat man.

Afterwards, a man who seemed to be the leader walked out of the group of priests coming from the laboratory area. He gave a few instructions to the other priests, and then the two groups were divided into three.

A team stayed in this area and continued to search. It seemed that they wanted to find out the reason why Leo and others sneaked in here silently, which was the secret passage.

The other team returned to the previous area, probably planning to block the passage to prevent anyone from escaping.

As for the last team, which was also the largest team, they followed the footprints left by Leo and others on the ground, but they didn't know that the footprints they found were deliberately left by Leo.

Leo, who is proficient in special operations, had hundreds of ways to cover up his footprints so that they could not be traced, but he did not do this. He even expected that the people from the Aknaya Church who were alerted by his gunshots would follow him, so that he

We can use these priests to deal with the team that brought Nelson here.

Although judging from various collected data, the team that caused chaos in the shelter should have no ill intentions towards Nelson, but Leo, who always likes to consider things in the worst-case scenario, habitually makes some countermeasures

advance arrangements.

It didn't matter that the team had no problems, he could unite with that pair of people to deal with the priests.
Chapter completed!