Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 67 Depth 3
One of the great benefits of being an investigator at the Asylum Bureau is that you can work from home. Ethan and Ivy returned to the apartment with a thick stack of documents, and his living room was requisitioned as a temporary office.

It was another day of working overtime all night, and even the Knight Commander of the Empire was dragged by her to work overtime all night. She once again took out the files sent by Gear City and sorted out the details with Bi'an, hoping to find out some inside information from her.

Young Lance was appointed as Ethan's assistant.

So the entire apartment was divided into three offices. Ethan and Lance in the study were responsible for extracting information related to the contaminated area from "Jacqueville the Light Messenger". In the living room, Ivy and Bi'an were discussing the case intensely. In the kitchen, Zhaocai was still instructing Miss Chloe to brew potions.

Before setting off for Riverside Town, they must make the best preparations. Another major effect of the stimulant is that it can make people who stay up late feel more energetic.

Of course, long-term use of potions will be accompanied by side effects of varying degrees. The fatigue will not completely disappear, but will be multiplied on the user after the effect of the drug wears off. Just like Lance at this moment, Ethan saw that his hands were shaking when he turned the pages of the book, and he would not be surprised even if he died suddenly the next moment.

Out of consideration for the safety of young Lance, Ethan said, "You should go to sleep for a while. Leave this to me."

"I... can still hold on! The Knight Commander said..."

"Boom--!"

Before he finished speaking, Lance, whose body was completely hollowed out, fell into the book. According to Ethan's observation, Lance was a loyal and honest boy who implemented the old-school chivalry spirit. However, to him, this was not a compliment. The old-school chivalry spirit represented stubbornness. Even if Lance was almost exhausted, as long as he could open his eyes, he would meticulously carry out the orders from his superiors.

But in the Kingdom Army, he would become an excellent soldier. The empire's territory was originally conquered by these old-school knights who bravely fought and died.

Ethan knew very well that Lance would not accept his advice, so he could only entrust the elemental elves to help Lance get a baby-like sleep through the new-age hypnosis technique of pressing Lance's head on the table.

After that, he was finally able to devote himself fully to the novel "Jacqueville the Lightbringer".

For a modern person who has lived in an era of information explosion, it is not difficult to understand the abstract concepts in the novel. He took out paper and a feather pen, and while reading, he wrote down the information he thought was important.

Simply put, the contaminated zone first proposed by Jacqueville is somewhat similar to the inner world in concept, except that it has many more layers. The book calls this stratification "depth", and believes that almost all of the objects contained in the "SI" series have escaped from the contaminated zone.

Jacquewell is more inclined to believe that the anomalous space in the contaminated area existed originally, and many cursed objects known to the containment bureau are used to open the anchor points of the contaminated area. The importance of the anchor points is repeatedly emphasized in the book, which is related to whether the investigators can safely "cut out" the area after going deep into the contaminated area.

What can be confirmed at present is that when non-believers of the evil god go deep into the contaminated area, their mental state will inevitably be affected. In serious cases, they can often hear incomprehensible whispers coming from nowhere, and see some bizarre objects that ordinary people cannot see.

They can become extremely aggressive, sometimes even mistaking their companions for enemies and attacking them.

Once the mind is polluted, if it cannot be "cut out" of the polluted area as soon as possible, it will fall into madness.

However, even Jacquewill himself did not know how deep the contaminated area was. The most in-depth investigator had only reached the third layer, and the contaminated area on the third layer had completely lost its original outline. Jacquewill mentioned in the records that the riverbed there had turned into blood, full of tentacles and eyes, and the trees could move. They were full of faces of humans and beasts, and the branches would hang around the necks of those who approached like ropes. The faces of the victims would become their new collections, and the sky was completely obscured by the blood-colored fog. He always felt that there was some kind of creature behind the blood fog, so huge that it was beyond his imagination, looking down on all of them.

During that investigation, Jacqueville's mind was severely affected, and he could no longer distinguish whether those terrifying and bizarre existences were illusions or reality. However, he clearly mentioned that after the "cut-in" depth reaches the third layer, any extraordinary person's belief in the gods will be weakened until they completely lose their power and become prey hunted by the abnormal.

During that exploration, only Jacquewell returned to the real world, and the other seven A-level investigators all became nutrients for those unknown monsters.

Ethan had no way of judging whether Old Mu's evaluation of Jacquewill was objective. In his book, he believed that although Jacquewill's body had returned to reality, his spirit had already collapsed at the level of Depth 3, and he was branded with the evil god Bazatos without his knowledge.

The best proof is that a few days after Jacqueville received rehabilitation treatment, he once again ignored the opposition of the bureau and entered the contaminated area alone.

He never returned to the real world, and no one knows whether Jacqueville has ever reached a level deeper than Depth 3.

Contrary to the title, "Jacquewell the Lightbringer" is not about praising the bravery of the former Nestheril Templar, but about showing a poor guy who is full of passion but is finally tortured to collapse by the evil god Bazatos.

Ethan felt that it was a good thing for Old Mu that no one was interested in this book. Otherwise, Mr. Shu Ren would most likely be invited to have tea by the tribunal because of his unclear political stance, or simply chopped down and burned as firewood.

Ethan calmed himself down, copied down Jacqueville's description of Depth 3, and underlined the important sentences.

What concerned him most was that in Depth 3, the faith of the extraordinary people in the gods would be cut off, which almost reduced them to ordinary people. However, in the contaminated area, the believers of the evil god Bazatos would not be affected by this, and their power would even be enhanced to varying degrees.

Before the operation, Jacqueville and his elite team of A-level investigators had made what they thought were perfect preparations, but in the end they were almost wiped out because of this one characteristic.

"Forbidden Demons" are like natural enemies to extraordinary people.

Just as the spells of elemental shapers and magicians require magic to be realized, every currently known supernatural path has its own unique energy. These energies come from the connection between them and the gods. Once the connection is cut off, they will become ordinary people.

So, Ethan thought of a way to kill the Imperial Knight Commander without any effort.

If he is a believer of the evil god, he will try every means to lure the other side to cut into the depth 3 and set a trap there. In this way, no matter how rich the other side's combat experience is, he will not be able to escape.

Thinking of this, he almost immediately thought of Miss Becky.

Was the mass sacrifice in Riverside Town really just a witch's revenge?

Did she just coincidentally "wake up" at this delicate moment?

Ethan frowned and reviewed the contents of the notes again and again.

Miss Becky, what exactly is your purpose?
(End of this chapter)