I suppressed the weirdness in the shelter

Chapter 196 Accepting fate
After leaving the prayer platform, the four holy sons and holy daughters did not stay for too long and left one after another.

After saying a brief goodbye to Luvia and Field, Ruburt watched them leave, but he was in no hurry to leave.

He looked at Arthur in the distance, and he didn't seem to have any intention of leaving.

At this moment, Ruburt knew very well that he had something to talk about.

Ruburt does not reject Arthur. Although he and he are competitors, he is the one who is most similar to him among all the recognized saints.

Field's mind was entirely focused on the front line of the war against heresy. Compared to the position of Pope, he would rather focus on command and how to minimize the casualties of his subordinates.

Luvia looks like she has never grown up. Her heart is still the same as before. What she pursues is always the harmonious days of the past.

That's why she waited for Wyatt to come back in a childish way after he was expelled.

It can be said that neither of them has any intention of competing for the position of Pope, which is similar to Wyatt.

Although it is impossible to conclude that Wyatt has no interest in the position of Pope, it would not be helpful to regard him as a strong rival.

After all, I don't even have the chance to become an obstacle to him.

On the contrary, Ruburt could find common ground with Arthur, and believed that he, like himself, regarded each other as competitors.

Ruburt knew very well what he wanted. He wanted to become Pope, not just to clear Grey's name.

Ruburt and Arthur both noticed each other's gaze, so they walked towards each other tacitly, and finally stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the church, looking at the towering statue of the goddess in the city.

"It's very unkind of you to keep silent and let me ask all the offensive questions you want to ask, Ruburt."

"What does it matter? You don't really find these questions offensive."

"Indeed, they don't care. After all, who cares about a child's questions?"

"But at least we have learned some useful information."

"Like Gray's remaining soul?"

Ruburt nodded, it seemed that the two of them were thinking the same thing.

As the holy sons of the church, their attainments in divine arts are naturally incomparable to ordinary people.

Correspondingly, they also have a wealth of knowledge in the field of mysticism.

A remnant soul is a part of the soul that resides in the extraordinary or polluted, and eventually becomes an incomplete soul because it cannot dissipate naturally.

In the eyes of ordinary believers, the residual soul is sacred, and only selfless and noble people can leave behind a residual soul after death.

As long as this residual soul continues to help them, they will have the opportunity to become the goddess's angels after death.

The church's statement was vague, and believers naturally took the part they wanted to see.

Many people overlook the fact that pollution can also cause residual souls.

Therefore, when facing a remnant soul, one should confirm whether what is accumulated inside is extraordinary or polluted.

Ruburt and Arthur had never seen Grey's remaining soul. In fact, they only just learned that the church had recovered Grey's remaining soul.

However, after hearing that the Pope wanted to bury the remaining souls in the Requiem Cemetery, they broke out in a cold sweat.

As high-ranking officials of the church, they naturally knew why Gray died.

The things accumulated in Gray's residual soul are most likely pollution, and a very special kind of pollution.

Even so, the Pope still intends to bury him in the Requiem Cemetery.

It is really puzzling, could it be that Gray's remaining soul is pure?

So why did the church label Grey as "degenerate" in the first place, and even Wyatt, who defended her, was expelled?

The secrets of the church are deeper than imagined. "Gray fell because she was contaminated by the alien creature guarded by the Elf King's Court. If her remaining soul is polluted, it can only be left by the alien creature."

"So what do you want to say?"

"Recently, pagans have been appearing in the Requiem Cemetery. The problem was not solved until Wyatt took action a few days ago. What is polluting to us is a treasure to the heretics."

"You mean to say that the pagans are actually looking for Gray's remaining soul."

"It's possible, but not very likely. The remaining soul has not been buried yet. They acted too quickly."

Ruburt mentioned the heresy in the city, which gave Arthur new ideas.

However, the situation is a complete mess. Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

Arthur glanced at the door behind him. He felt uncomfortable when he thought of Wyatt and the Pope chatting about secret topics at the prayer table.

After more than ten years of hard work, the gap has not been made up. Now that he has returned to Shenhui City, he is even more dazzling than before, and the gap between him and himself is getting bigger and bigger.

Arthur began to have doubts.

He glanced at Ruburt beside him again. As the person he had previously considered his biggest competitor, Arthur really wanted to know what he thought.

Although Rupert was once a little tail behind Wyatt's ass, Arthur knew that he also had his own ambitions.

"Rupert, what do you think about Wyatt's return this time?"

"Thoughts? To be honest, I often think of my childhood recently." Rupert showed a wry smile on his face, "Every day I studied magic with brother Wyatt, and sister Grey often came to make trouble and took us to skip classes, and then the two of them started quarreling..."

"But Wyatt has changed, and Grey is gone."

"Yeah, but I can still miss the past from the current Wyatt... He is just like, just like Grey sometimes."

Arthur has a deep understanding of this.

More than ten years can indeed change a person. The young man who was full of resentment when he left Shenhui City became calm and introverted when he returned, even optimistic to the point of being crazy.

Perhaps to outsiders, this change is a good thing.

But to Ruburt and Arthur, Wyatt's attitude never changed.

Rejecting the papacy was just like what he had done during the trial.

Ruburt and Arthur were equally puzzled as to why the Pope would allow a man who denied the church to inherit the throne that could lead the entire church.

He is indeed very outstanding. At his age, he has such attainments in magic. He will definitely go down in history in the future.

Moreover, he is an apostle, a bottomless apostle.

He also came up with the astonishing invention of marking, which was enough to subvert the whole world.

If Wyatt had not left the Church, with all these achievements, he would have been a Pope that impressed everyone, even Ruburt and Arthur.

When they thought of this, they had new questions.

What had he experienced in the years since he left the Theocracy?
To achieve such an achievement, one must have gone through hardships that are unimaginable to ordinary people.

The suffering is absolutely beyond people's imagination.

Since I regard it as an invincible enemy, does it also mean that I will be vulnerable when faced with the same suffering?
Rupert walked towards his carriage. The two geniuses who had once been the focus of attention now had deep self-doubt.

Hard to accept? Not really. Both of them knew that they had been under the shadow of Wyatt since childhood.

I was just lucky enough to have a chance to breathe for more than ten years.

(End of this chapter)