Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 151 As a follower of the evil god
Ivy suddenly felt like a rebellious girl.

When everyone in their letters advised her to return to the imperial capital, she insisted on staying at the border of the empire, pursuing a goal that would almost never be accomplished; and now, the king has passed away, and undercurrents are surging in the imperial capital. Mentor Valerie has advised her to stay at the border and not come back, but she has begun to think about returning to the imperial capital.

"That needs to be carefully planned. We need some plans."

Ethan's answer surprised Ivy. She said softly, "I can go back by myself. It's very dangerous there..."

She lowered her head and glanced at Ethan secretly.

Deep down in her heart, she hoped that the other party would accompany her back. This person had a lot of clever ideas and a special magic that always made people feel hopeful, but she also vaguely remembered that Ethan mentioned that he did not like dealing with nobles.

And when Ethan suggested that they be a team, she was indeed moved.

"Hmm? What do you mean? Doesn't the Emperor welcome a country bumpkin like me?"

Ethan asked, half jokingly.

Ivy still lowered her head, but the golden hair on her head straightened up. If it weren't for the limited range of movement, it seemed like it would pounce on him.

"Brother, my good brother!"

The golden retriever seemed to be expressing this message.

Ivy's mood settled down. She hoped to stay in the current atmosphere for a while longer, until the cold voice of Winter interrupted the harmonious atmosphere, "The capital really doesn't welcome country people. You will be discriminated against if you go there."

"Who dares to discriminate against him!"

Ivy blurted out, then realized she had lost her composure and lowered her head again.

"Before we talk about these issues, I have a new discovery, Ivy, which may be related to you."

Ethan's tone suddenly became serious. After noticing Ivy's strange reaction to Viola, he realized that the unknown witch's plan might not be so simple.

The member of the choir happened to be the one Ivy was most familiar with, plus the chief pastor Mary who looked very similar to Ivy... He didn't believe that all this was just a coincidence.

He said, "Perhaps Chief Reverend Mary is you, or the ancestor of Margaret's family. The Scarlet Plague mentioned that she and her sister depended on each other since childhood, but the reason for this was the war. Her behavior and conversation have some traces of nobility. Refugees cannot be exposed to these etiquettes. In addition, she was also subjected to the Holy Word. For some reason, the Church has blocked her emotions."

The book "The Scarlet Plague" omits many details, and Ethan feels that this is what is most evil about Old Ba.

Lao Ba broke the seal of the Holy Word through some means, and then the emotions that had been accumulated for many years instantly overwhelmed Mary like a tide. She became a drowning person, and the only life-saving straw she could grasp was the whisper of the evil god.

This gave Ethan a new understanding of Lao Ba. Rather than using tough force to make people surrender, he seemed more interested in psychologically breaking down people's psychological defenses. Anyone who was targeted by him was unlucky for the rest of their lives and was bound to experience the deepest despair.

Ethan felt that the main reason was that Lao Ba was too idle.

His body was isolated in a certain level of the contaminated zone, where there was nothing except him. Everything that happened in the real plane was like a performance that kept rolling forward to him. He could intervene in the performance at certain time points, treating some of the "actors" on the stage like puppets.

These "actors" became His chosen ones.

When Ethan understood the significance of the Chosen One to Lao Ba, he vaguely knew the "play" they were in.

In the future imagined by Lao Ba, this is a drama of the collapse of an empire, and it is also one of His greatest pleasures.

"Everything we learned in the contaminated area was designed by the unknown witch, including your encounter with Viola and the identity of the head priest Mary."

Ethan said, "Teacher, you are right, she is indeed a difficult enemy."

The witch vaguely outlined two paths for them.

First, Viola died in the contaminated area. The enraged royal family and the church dispatched the Golden Fleet to Ximu Town, thus opening the curtain of war.

The second is to guide them back to the imperial capital. Ethan has a hunch that the ancient technology mastered by the Margaret family and the relationship between the chief pastor Mary and the Margaret family may become the fuse to subvert the empire.

No matter which direction things develop in, the other party will be happy to see it.

The answers to all puzzles are hidden in the imperial capital.

"How do we get out of here?"

Ivy glanced at Viola. "I cut off her energy supply. She won't wake up again until the core is restarted."

"Let the Crimson Plague destroy this city."

This was the early stage of the outbreak of the Scarlet Plague. According to the trajectory of historical development, Chief Pastor Mary stayed in this city for a long time. Although she took all measures, even ruthlessly isolated the sick refugees outside the city gates, the pervasive plague still enveloped the city.

Lao Ba gave them hints from the very beginning.

It is useless to destroy the city by force, and only if they stop using the power of magic, and take on the perspective of a refugee, or a cultist, can the "show" continue.

Ethan felt that this was Lao Ba's revenge against him after he dazzled his eyes. He carefully designed a level and told him how to pass it from the beginning.

——As long as they follow His will and act like a good follower of the evil god, they will be able to pass the level smoothly.

The only price is obedience.

Obey the rules of the game set by Heavenly Father, and then everything will become simple.

"Are we...really going to spread the plague in the city?"

Ivy hesitated, even though she knew that everything before her was an illusion. In the real world, these people had already died tragically in the plague, and neither Chief Priest Mary nor the Goddess of Life could save them.

However, these illusions were too real. She could listen to people's conversations and feel that they were living right in front of her eyes. They were just a group of ordinary people trying to survive in this chaotic world, and in the end, even their names would not be remembered.

Ivy felt a little resistant, but was quickly suppressed by the Holy Word.

These people are already dead.

Your pity means nothing.

No matter what means are taken, leaving here is the first priority.

"This is a common way to get through customs."

Ethan suddenly said, based on his understanding of Lao Ba, those seemingly simple methods often require the "actor" to pay a painful price, "compromising with Him and obeying the rules He sets may be the first step to evil."

He felt that this might also be part of the unknown witch's plan.

It seems that he is a master planner of the same type as him.

Winter asked with interest, "What are you going to do?"

For her, taking the "simple way" did not bring any psychological burden, but she was more curious about what ideas Ethan would come up with in this situation. Judging from the past records of their encounters, he always made it impossible for Lao Ba to get what he wanted.

"The survival or destruction of this city may be the anchor of the pollution zone. I want to do the opposite."

"But your scarab is ineffective, isn't it?"

Ivy blurted out that Ethan had tried to treat the scarlet plague as soon as they entered the contaminated area, but because he violated the rules set by Bazatos, the people who were cured were reset.

"But there is one person who can."

Winter continued, "Chief Pastor Mary, but I think her talent is average. Can she learn your skills?"

In her opinion, although Mary is a high-ranking priest of the Church, her talent can only be said to be good within the scope of humans. Ethan, on the other hand, seems to be a creature from another dimension. Although he always says "I am not a god" and "stop your fanatical religious behavior", his actions are no different from those of the righteous gods recorded in the scriptures.

It is impossible for humans to find the secret to curing the scarlet plague just by reading a book.

You know, this is a plague that destroyed an entire civilization and lasted for nearly a hundred years with the Scarlet Dynasty. This means that everyone who tried to cure the plague failed, including Mary. Although she dedicated everything to the God of Life, her God did not protect her.

Ethan's idea immediately increased the difficulty of this "game" to the point where it was impossible to complete. Lin Dong couldn't help but remind him, "You can't teach her directly, because in the real historical trajectory, she didn't meet a teacher who fell from the sky and radiated golden light. You can only influence her as a believer in the evil god." Huh?
Lin Dong was suddenly stunned.

Why did she suddenly become so excited that her hands and feet clenched involuntarily?

And the words just now were spoken without even thinking. In fact, she knew no more about the rules of the contaminated area than Ethan.

This abnormal behavior made her frown, and she almost immediately spread her magic power, but did not detect anything abnormal.

This inexplicable excitement made her feel a little uncomfortable.

"Teacher, you are right. As a follower of the evil god, I will teach Mary how to cure the scarlet plague."

This man is crazy.

If anyone else said this, Ivy would think that person must be crazy, but Ethan... his thinking is always different from that of ordinary people.

"Before that, I need to disguise myself."

Ethan had no experience in dressing up as a villain. He looked like an ordinary small town resident in his current outfit, and did not have the aura of a follower of an evil god at all. Fortunately, his teacher was probably the most experienced person in the world in playing villains. "Teacher, I need your help."

……

It had been a long day for Mary.

The Vatican sent an envoy, but he was of no help in curing the scarlet plague. He seemed to have no sympathy for those suffering and was only interested in tracking down a witch she had never heard of.

Mary's eyelids kept twitching. Her body was so tired that even the protection couldn't support it. She hadn't slept for several days since she came to this city.

Displayed in front of her was the body of a refugee who had died of plague, with blood oozing from the corners of his mouth, ear holes, eyes, and nostrils.

Mary calmed herself down and used a knife to cut open the chest of the corpse. The internal organs melted into sticky blood.

She could no longer remember how many corpses she had dissected in the past few days. Countless mysteries shrouded her. Isolated and helpless, she could only repeat mechanical movements, hoping to find clues to cure the plague on one of the corpses.

She promised people that she would do everything she could to cure the plague.

but……

Failed again.

There was nothing in the sticky blood, and Mary had no way of knowing how the plague was spread.

She tried isolation and even went so far as to conduct inhumane experiments on the refugees, isolating them in two rooms and completely cutting off their water and food supplies, but they were still infected.

"Because you were thinking in the wrong direction from the beginning."

The sudden voice made Mary's heart tighten. She looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man in a black cloak. His face was hidden by a vortex mask. He was looking at the disemboweled corpse with cold eyes.

"The man whose stomach you cut open was named Teach. He was the father of five children. He heard about you and brought his children here. They all came here to seek refuge with you, Mary, but you couldn't save them and kept repeating the same wrong experiments."

Mary saw the blood-red magic that was filled with an ominous aura, which was exactly the same color as the plague. This made her feel unprecedented panic. Her voice could not help but tremble, and she pointed the sharp blade at the uninvited guest in the house, "Who are you?"

The man didn't answer her.

She saw the other party raised his hand to her, and the plasma in the refugee's abdominal cavity began to wriggle and surge. Under the catalysis of the scarlet magic, several disgusting red tapeworms drilled out of the flesh and blood. They moved quickly, and when Mary came to her senses, they had already drilled into the cracks in the wall and disappeared into the depths of darkness.

Under the cover of the scarlet magic, more and more objects were distorted. Feeling the chair squirming, Mary stood up in panic and took several steps back. The scene before her made her legs tremble - the chair was twisted into a ball of meat, and the ball of meat suddenly shattered the moment it fell to the ground, splitting into countless folded and squirming red tapeworms, which scattered and fled.

The guard heard the noise in the room and immediately rushed in with his sword drawn.

"don't want--!"

Mary wanted to stop it, but it was too late. She watched helplessly as the red tapeworm pounced on the guard and drilled into his body through his ear.

The sword fell to the ground, and the guard covered his ears in horror and rolled on the ground.

"You have exhausted my patience. Let this city be destroyed."

The man passed the guards and disappeared into the night.

……

"What kind of teaching is this!"

In the hotel, Ivy, who had witnessed all this, slammed the table and stood up. The dense red tapeworms made her scalp tingle. In addition, Mary looked more than 80% similar to her, which made her feel like she was being bullied. "You are scarier than Bazatos himself! You said you would change the fate of this city!"

Poor head pastor Mary, she looked so scared by Ethan.

"The most crucial information has been conveyed and demonstrated twice in front of her."

Winter explained the mystery to Ivy.

The reason why Mary's research has not made any progress is that she has focused too much energy on dead people. The red tapeworm will leave the host before the infected person's internal organs are completely rotten and look for the next object to parasitize.

It was through divination that Rowena discovered the tapeworm in Blanche's body. If Mary had been more ruthless and performed vivisection on people in the first stage, she would have discovered the tapeworm in their bodies.

"He showed Mary the origin of the red tapeworm in the way of the evil god's followers."

Next, they can only hope that Mary is smarter and can see the essence through the phenomenon.

If we kill all the tapeworms, we can stop the spread of this plague.

Ethan cracked the secret of the scarlet plague in just one night. Not only that, he also used this principle in reverse to create a scarlet plague-specific scarlet beetle. It feeds on red tapeworms and will drill into the body of the infected in the same way, devouring the tapeworms while repairing the infected's soul.

Winter did not have such high hopes for Mary. She only needed to find a way to eliminate the red tapeworm to successfully complete her mission.

This task, which was not difficult in Winter's eyes, took Mary two days. When she tried to infuse the light of the Goddess of Life into the infected person's body, she finally succeeded in killing the parasitic red tapeworm. However, compared to Ethan's fully automated treatment method, this would consume a huge amount of her magic power and was extremely unstable.

A damaged soul cannot be repaired, and it is even possible that the tapeworm will be killed along with the host in the process.

However, for a city doomed to be destroyed by the plague, this was a breakthrough.

As Mary and the people of the city were bathing in joy, they were "invited" out of the contaminated area by Bazatos. Turning their sight around, they returned to the command hall of Wolf's Head Castle with Viola. The brown boiled egg head disappeared, and the arms sticking out of the wall were also cleaned up.

It was obvious that Lao Ba was very dissatisfied with this "performance". His angry whispers echoed in their ears, sounding like cursing.

"You made Lao Ba angry again."

Winter also accepted the title of "Old Ba". She could imagine the furious Bazatos deep in the contaminated area. Unfortunately, he was imprisoned in that place and could only worry.

She felt that sooner or later, Ethan would anger Lao Ba to death.

She smiled happily, as if she had never been happier than now.

Ok?
Gradually, Winter became aware of something unusual.

Why was she so happy all of a sudden? This emotion that came out of nowhere was exactly the same as the excitement she had a few days ago.

When she walked out of the castle, she suddenly sensed something and looked towards the distant street corner almost reflexively.

A figure disappeared around the corner gracefully.

The figure had the same white waist-length hair as her.

Time seemed to jump at this moment.

(End of this chapter)