A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 260 Angers: I'm doing this for Chu Zihang's sake.
"Idiot, big idiot!"

How could you be so foolish?

"Really... he doesn't even think about himself..."

Eva didn't even have time to marvel at the miracle of her resurrection, nor did she have time to worry about the clothes; she was only concerned with complaining about Fingel's recklessness.

Gently, she placed Fingel's head on her lap to make him more comfortable. Before Eva could mutter a few more curses, a radiant face interrupted her thoughts.

It is a radiant glow in the real sense of lighting.

In the massive server room where Norma was located, many devices suddenly experienced numerous errors due to EVA's detachment, and the dense array of red warning lights illuminated EVA's flushed face.

"Oh no." Eva realized that with her soul leaving the system, the entire artificial intelligence was starting to malfunction.

Norman's cold, impersonal, mechanical synthesized voice began to echo throughout the server room: "Alarm, alarm, underlying logic module - EVA lost;"

"The underlying human emotional module - EVA - is missing;"

"Low-level code access - EVA lost;"

"To ensure the continued operation of this system, we are now initiating the transfer of permissions."

Hearing the alarms ringing in her ears, Eva quickly spoke up: "No, I'm still here."

Unfortunately, after her soul left the system, Norma completely ignored Eva, who had no access rights. If Fingel hadn't been in the server room, Norma probably would have opened fire.

To protect the server room, Kassel specifically deployed many weapons there, and Norma had the authority to fire them without permission.

Eva knew she was in trouble. Once the transfer of authority was complete, Norma would completely transform into Kassel's shape, doing everything for Kassel and the Secret Service.

They will no longer cover up for Fingel, Chen Motong, and others. Even the news that Angers is not Angers may reach the board of directors and cause a huge shock.

Putting aside everything else, the power that allowed Fingel to resurrect her came from the Old Church, not to mention that Fingel had just prayed to Mr. Fool in person.

Although Eva had never met this Mr. Fool, she more or less considered following him after marriage and also regarded herself as a member of the old church.

How can we sit idly by and watch something that harms the interests of the old church happen?

"So, you idiot, why are you in such a hurry? Look, you've left me with another mess."

Eva rubbed Fingel's cheek unhappily, her tone clearly showing a hint of doting, as if this kind of thing happened often.

The professors who taught them both knew that during their school years, Eva was always the one who cleaned up the mess Fingel caused.

The same thing happened now. Eva first took the backpack that Fingel was carrying and used it as a pillow for his head. Then she ran to the Norma mainframe and began to quickly input low-level commands.

Her soul stayed inside Norma for ten years, and her understanding of Norma surpasses that of Fingal!
So, faced with this situation, Eva wasn't in a hurry and even had the mood to complain and grumble about Fingel a few more times.

"Alert, alert, the underlying code is not allowed... EVA permission detected, code modification permitted."

"EVA permissions have been confirmed to be lost, causing a logic conflict. Alert, logic conflict. The highest priority is to maintain the system. EVA permissions are temporarily disabled."

"Alert, alert, cannot be disabled. EVA permissions are core permissions at the system's lowest level."

Ignoring Norma's contradictory alarms, Eva's hands flew across the keyboard, typing out a series of commands.

While Eva was working tirelessly to modify Norma's underlying code, Professor Schneider was locked in a sleepless night in the principal's office at Kassel College, confronting Angers.

Angers calmly lit a cigar, took a puff, and exhaled a satisfied plume of smoke: "Old friend, don't worry so much."

“I admit that I shouldn’t have doubted Chu Zihang before. You’ve seen the surveillance footage of the battle in the capital. The mysterious man who set fire to the Old Church was not Chu Zihang.”

"I promoted him to squad leader in the execution department to make up for it."

"He needs rest! Not to keep going out on missions!" Schneider's voice, raspy and alarming, came through the ventilator.

Of course, it might scare the students, but it definitely wouldn't scare Angers, let alone the Time Worm clone that parasitizes Angers: "Don't worry, Schneider."

"I dare say that even you don't understand Chu Zihang better than I do now."

"You need to know that Chu Zihang and I both come from the Lionheart Society, and we know the Lionheart Society's core secrets best. If we want to become stronger, we need to send him out to fight."

"A true lion king cannot be raised in a sophisticated zoo. Only by letting lions roam freely on the wild grasslands can they become true kings."

After saying that, Angers took another puff of top-grade Cohiba. The Time Worm clone parasitizing inside it was thoroughly enjoying itself and quite pleased with itself.

How about that? Using the word 'lion' so frequently, isn't that impressive? He must have imitated it flawlessly.

Schneider, his face grim, further emphasized, "Chu Zihang is my student..."

Before he could finish speaking, his phone rang. Schneider took it out, glanced at it, and frowned: "What's this, Norma?"

Schneider flipped his wrist, pointing the phone screen at Angers, where a Norma notification was displayed: "Alert, Kassel &￥#% is no longer**#￥%."

A bunch of gibberish, the original meaning is completely incomprehensible.

Angers laughed heartily as he glanced at it, then waved his hand dismissively, "It's nothing. I ordered Norma to clean up decades of redundant data." "There was probably too much redundant data, and some slipped through."

Schneider immediately became anxious: "Angers! Norma can't have any problems, stop being so carefree."

"Calm down, calm down, old man." Angers pressed his hands down, indicating that the other person was not feeling well and should not get agitated: "Listen to me."

"This is also to protect Chu Zihang. Having Norma delete the data will also delete Chu Zihang's enrollment data."

"You were the one who recruited Chu Zihang into Kassel, so you must know that Chu Zihang's original bloodline wasn't this strong, right?"

"..." Mentioning his most beloved disciple, Schneider fell silent. So Norma's madness was because Angers was taking care of Chu Zihang?

It seems there's no rush. Let Norma clean up some junk historical data; that should be fine!

"Ring ring." Angers' phone rang again. Angers answered, repeated what he had just said, and then hung up. He smiled smugly at Schneider: "See, you're not the only one who received a notification from Norma."

"Even the Minister of the Equipment Department received Norma's garbled code. Don't worry, after tonight, no one will be able to make a fuss about Chu Zihang's bloodline."

Equipment Department? Schneider nodded knowingly. Since Chu Zihang was involved, it seemed necessary to summon the entire Equipment Department to the Execution Department for investigation tomorrow.

I heard the Equipment Department needs so much funding every year; I suspect there's some embezzlement involved. I'll have to ask them about it tomorrow and let them know what they should and shouldn't say.

"As for Chu Zihang's problem," Angers put down his cigar, took out a bottle of wine, and poured some to decanter. "Why don't you call him after this mission is over and ask him what he thinks in person?"

“If he wants to rest, I have no objection and let him go back to the college. But if he doesn’t want to, I hope you can respect the student’s wishes.”

Schneider blinked, looking at Angers strangely. Why did it seem like Angers was suddenly treating Chu Zihang better than he was? And even respecting the student's ideas?
Avenger who sends students to the battlefield to slay dragons, and then claims to respect the students' opinions? Are you still Angers?
"Alright, let's talk about this after Chu Zihang's mission is over," Schneider changed the subject: "That Old Church, are you really not going to take care of it?"

"According to our intelligence, not to mention other mixed-race forces, even the Laurent family and the Gauguin family in the school board are maintaining close relationships with many of the newly built ancient temples in Europe."

"If Europe, our party's stronghold, is already like this, then the rest of the world is even worse."

“I have received intelligence that those war-torn regions are now showing signs of a ceasefire due to the rise of the Old Church.”

Upon hearing this, Angers was not worried at all; on the contrary, he was quite pleased: "Old friend, ceasefire, peace, listen to that, what wonderful and beautiful words!"

"Also, I already knew that the Laurent family and the Gauguin family were secretly in contact with the old church. Your information is not reliable."

“Let me tell you something you don’t know: even the Sigurd family and Beowulf family of the Secret Society Elders have quite a few members who are flirting with the Old Church.”

Schneider coughed twice, then quickly looked down and adjusted the ventilator's frequency: "You, you know? And you're not going to interfere?"

He coughed again after speaking, which shows the impact this intelligence had on Schneider's mind.

“Eh.” Angers picked up his cigar again, puffing out smoke. “Don’t worry about that. I’ve already discussed it with the elders and the board of directors.”

"We are just pretending to cooperate, only to secretly investigate all the information about the old church. We don't really want to cooperate."

This is of course a lie. What kind of plan would the Secret Party's top brass have? The Secret Party, from top to bottom, has no idea about parasitism at all.

The so-called elder families, school board members, and old church colluding in secret are nothing more than parasitic incarnations that open all sorts of doors for the old church across Europe, accelerating its expansion.

Upon hearing about this 'secret' plan, and given that the elders and the board of directors already had their own ideas, Schneider felt it was inconvenient to get involved in the follow-up matters.

Professor Schneider was just like that—strict with others, but equally strict with himself. He knew the importance of secrecy, and finally felt relieved, he took his leave.

Seeing that the person had gone far away, Angers quickly grabbed his phone and contacted Fingel, but a female voice answered: "Principal Angers? Or rather, a senior member of the old church?"

"In short, please rest assured that Norma is back under the control of me and Fingel. The text message that was just sent was just a minor accident. Norma is fine now."

"OK!" The Time Worm clone was also a lazy bum. Upon hearing Eva's words, he immediately hung up the phone with relief, picked up the bottle of liquor, and chugged it down, finishing half a bottle in one go before letting out a long burp: "Burp~ That feels good!"

"It's so much more comfortable being a school principal. You can just fool people, unlike other people who are so busy."

A fervent voice echoed in my mind: 'What a waste! Don't squander my treasured collection like this.'

'And what about the Sigurd family, the Beowulf family, even the Laurent family and the Gougenting family? Were they all replaced by people like you?'

'What methods did your old church use?'

The clone casually reclined in the principal's office chair: "You don't need to worry about that, Principal Angers."

Angers' mind was too busy talking too much, so his clone didn't bother with him and wouldn't be so arrogant as to leak information.

Ange, who was left with only his own consciousness, also slowly began to feel anxious, whereas before he could maintain his composure through willpower.

But as time goes by, if they can't get their bodies back, then Kassel, the Secret Society, and even the whole world will be taken to who knows where by the Old Church!

The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. Angers slowly made up his mind to stop trying to communicate with the deeply parasitic clone and instead focus all his attention on sensing his own 'heart'.

Although Angers didn't know why, this mysterious thing that secretly took over his body didn't seem to be able to sever some kind of connection between Angers and his own heart.

(End of this chapter)