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Chapter 393 A Trap Leading to Hell

but.

Although the process was a bit strenuous, looking at the Void Crystal the size of a human head in his hand, Erin felt it was all worth it.

With at least this large piece of void crystal as a foundation, Arlin wasn't entirely at a loss.

As energy is depleted.

The energy avatar of Isriel summoned by Erin through the [Angel's Scepter] dissipated into countless points of light and vanished into the void before Seri's reluctant gaze.

"What a pity."

Looking at the countless points of light, Erin shook his head.

He had originally planned to take advantage of this rare summoning opportunity to see if he could also deal with the succubus in the other cage.

Then I'll drop some items to feed the succubus egg in my spatial ring.

But now it seems we don't need to use the flying skill anymore.

Without the six-winged angel as a trump card, Erin certainly didn't want to provoke the troublesome demon bodies in the other cages at this time.

Who knows if the opponent will be as difficult to kill as this Void Demon?

Fortunately, with the help of Isriel's power, Selene not only repaired the vulnerabilities corrupted by the prisoners, but also dealt with the two big guys, the Mirror Demon and the Void Demon, in one fell swoop.

With the pressure suddenly reduced, Sally no longer needed Erin to do anything.

and so.

Not long after.

Selene then led Erin to a special space at the top of the pure white cage.

Here, Erin met the Pope with whom he had suddenly parted ways, and also saw... an ocean formed by the power of faith.

Beneath that ocean of faith, the Pope was laboriously transforming the surging power of faith through a massive magic array into drops of pale golden liquid that radiated vast fluctuations.

"Why is there only so little this time?"

Seeing the few drops of pale golden liquid at the bottom of the huge energy pool in front of the Pope, Sally frowned in dissatisfaction.

However, as soon as she finished speaking, Selene thought about the energy she had consumed during her battle with the Mirror Demon and the Void Demon.

Thinking of this, although Sally was still somewhat dissatisfied with the Pope's conversion efficiency, she didn't say anything more.

Instead, he waved his hand, replacing the Pope, who was covered in sweat, at the center of the formation.

The Pope, drenched in sweat, paid no attention to Selene's complaints. Instead, he breathed a deep sigh of relief after Selene replaced him.

This ocean of faith, and this enormous transformation array, are among the Vatican's most core secrets.

It is only through the divine power of faith generated by this enormous magic array that the pure white cage can barely maintain its operation.

Otherwise, there will be no energy replenishment.

Even if the Pure White Cage were incredibly powerful, it couldn't possibly imprison so many powerful demons for thousands of years.

However, over the course of thousands of years, the massive magic array has developed many problems due to years of neglect.

In order to maximize the efficiency of the magic array, someone must be at its core to assist in its operation.

Otherwise, relying solely on the operation of the magic array would be dozens of times slower.

Therefore, during the time when Sally was teleporting Erin into the prison ocean inside the pure white cage, it was the Pope who took over Sally's previous duties.

only.

Assisting in the rotation of this massive magic array is no easy task.

The Pope was exhausted after only briefly replacing Selene.

Moreover, compared to Selene, the Pope was much less efficient at maintaining the magic circle, otherwise Selene wouldn't have disliked him.

After the Pope was replaced.

The enormous magic array beneath the ocean of faith saw its operational efficiency increase dramatically at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, Seri's expression relaxed slightly, and she turned to Erin and the Pope, saying, "I'll see you out!"

As if afraid that Erin would misunderstand, Sally even gave a special explanation.

"The Pure White Cage is a special artifact designed to imprison enemies. There's no benefit for living people to stay here for too long. Of course, if you fully master the power left behind by Isriel, then that's a different story."

Is that so?

Erin nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this.

Upon entering the pure white cage, Erin felt a peculiar force pressing down on his body and mind.

Staying in such an environment for a long time is indeed not good for either the body or the mind.

Of course, Erin also knew that this force was more aimed at the prisoners in the pure white cage; they were at most only affected by the aftershocks.

After seeing Erin nod, Selene gave the Pope a few more instructions.

At last.

She simply waved her hand.

Erin then felt that special sensation again, that feeling of time and space rushing past him at breakneck speed.

When Erin came to her senses...

He then found himself once again in a deep, dark tunnel whose bottom was unknown and whose destination was unknown.

A few seconds later, the pope beside him slowly opened his eyes.

Compared to Erin, who seemed to be mostly unharmed.

The Pope's face was etched with fatigue, and he even looked older than before.

However, the light shining in his eyes was brighter than ever before.

Through his perception of the mental field, Erin was able to keenly sense that his spirit was more excited than ever before, and even his previously tense nerves had relaxed considerably.

"call······"

After exhaling a deep breath, the Pope bowed deeply to Erin.

"Thanks!"

"From now on, you will be the most honored guest of the Holy See."

After accepting the Pope's bow with composure, Erin smiled and joked, "Wasn't I already an angel before? In other people's eyes, I was still the so-called angel."

Upon hearing this, the Pope smiled as well, then said to Erin:

"Let's go upstairs first. I'll have Wendy bring you the things you wanted later."

"it is good."

After nodding, Erin did not refuse the Pope's offer.

Although Erin had purified himself of the assimilation and contamination he had suffered from the six-winged angels through the purification light he had obtained, he was still quite interested in the thing the Pope had mentioned that could solve his problem.

After making the agreement.

Erin glanced again at the seemingly bottomless, dark tunnel beneath him, then asked the Pope, "Since this leads to the Pure White Cage, where does this tunnel lead if we continue down this path?"

Following Erin's gaze downwards, the Pope shook his head: "I don't know either."

"That place is the true forbidden area of ​​the Papacy. Even I have never been there. There are very few descriptions of it, even among the taboos passed down from generation to generation of popes. It is said that it is connected to the real 'hell' because those who go down there never come back up."

"However, in my opinion, it is more likely a dangerous trap used to confuse the enemy. After all, if there is no special magic to lure Lady Seri to guide them, people who are not familiar with this passage will definitely continue to walk on. At that time, it will be a question whether those people can come up."

"Of course, this is just my guess. Maybe there's some great treasure hidden below this passage, but I just don't dare to go any further."

Perhaps it was because he had eliminated a major threat that the Pope was much more relaxed, because at the end of the conversation, he made a rare joke.

"What, Lord Erin, are you interested in what's below?"

"Um."

Erin nodded. "I was indeed quite curious about what was down there, but now, you've successfully extinguished that curiosity."

From beginning to end, Erin's mental field never closed, so he could naturally tell whether the Pope was lying to him.

Knowing that what lay below might be a trap deliberately set by the Vatican to mislead the enemy, Erin was naturally no longer interested in what lay below.

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"Da da da..."

Inside the palace, blackened by flames and filled with scorch marks, Wendy, guarding the entrance to the passageway, heard footsteps coming from below. He immediately raised his greatsword of light and shouted sharply, "Who's there?"

"I want to eat the bagels that Ms. Margaret prepared!"

As the footsteps grew closer, the figure that slowly emerged from below the passageway into Wendy's view did not answer her question.

Instead, he said something that seemed plausible but was actually wrong.

However, it was precisely these words that made Wendy, whose muscles were tense, relax.

After using his clairvoyance, he keenly perceived Wendy's emotional changes.

A strange glint flashed in Erin's eyes as he looked at the Pope.

Good guy.

This so-called code is really down-to-earth.

A while later.

Wendy finally relaxed completely after the Pope and Erin emerged from the passageway unharmed.

"Your Holiness the Pope..."

For some reason, Wendy, who thought she would have a lot of questions to ask, opened her mouth silently the moment she saw the Pope, but didn't know what to say.

The Pope, emerging from the passageway, gently patted Wendy's shoulder, whose voice was trembling slightly, before quickly walking behind the enormous cross.

A mechanism switch was pressed.

With a buzzing vibration.

Soon, the passageway in the center of the palace disappeared once again among the blackened bricks.

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He took his phone out of his pocket and glanced at the time.

Erin yawned and said to the Pope, "It's getting late, I'm going back to sleep now. If there's anything else later, you can have someone come find me."

"By the way, you can have someone bring those things over tomorrow morning. Don't disturb my sleep so late at night."

Having just closed the passageway using the mechanism, the Pope nodded upon hearing Erin's words:

"Alright, Your Highness, you've worked hard tonight. Please go back and rest!"

With outsiders present, the Pope's address to Erin reverted to a respectful yet slightly distant form of address.

Erin didn't take it to heart.

After waving, Erin stepped through the burned-out door and walked back along the corridor he had come from.

but.

Compared to the strange occurrences and attacks I encountered when I first came here, this is a far cry from what I experienced before.

The return journey was unexpectedly peaceful.

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After Erin's figure disappeared into the corridor.

A while later...

Wendy walked up behind the Pope and respectfully asked, "Your Holiness, was it successful?"

The Pope looked at Wendy, who was still clad in the armor of light, and nodded, saying, "It can be considered a success. At least the situation we encountered before will not happen again for a while, and the Vatican can have some peace and quiet for a period of time."

At this point, the Pope smiled and said to Wendy, "This time, we really owe a great debt to His Highness Erin for helping us solve a big problem. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy for us to deal with those guys."

At this point, the Pope thought for a moment and said, "The commotion tonight was quite significant, and coupled with the 'miracle' during the day, once Ethan and the others find out, they will definitely try every means to get close to His Highness Erin."

"You take some men and stand guard outside Prince Erin's residence. Prince Erin just did us a great favor, and it wouldn't be good if those guys disturbed his rest."

Wendy: "Don't worry, I will arrange everything and will absolutely not let Archbishop Ethan and the others disturb His Highness Erin."

Although the departure of the Heavenly Dimension greatly reduced the extraordinary power of the Papacy, over thousands of years, the Papacy, with its numerous branches and leaves, inevitably split into many factions.

Archbishop Ethan and his group constituted another faction within the Vatican.

Although their lineage did not possess much supernatural power, Archbishop Ethan's influence on the secular world was in no way inferior to that of the Pope's lineage, and perhaps even slightly surpassed it.

However, due to their lack of power and supernatural strength, Archbishop Ethan's lineage was often subject to the control of the Pope's lineage within the Vatican.

Upon learning of Erin's reincarnation as an angel, Archbishop Ethan immediately attempted to win over this angel who had descended to earth.

Hoping to turn the tide by leveraging the name of the reincarnated angel and the terrifying combat prowess Erin displayed in the Battle of New York.

That's why.

Previously, after learning about Erin's whereabouts, Archbishop Ethan took the initiative to rush to the airport, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity, but unexpectedly, due to Erin's disguise, he just missed him.

same.

The Pope clearly did not want the other party to have too much contact with Erin.

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Erin was unaware of the subtle, unsettling events unfolding within the Papacy.

Shortly after walking through the corridor.

Arryn found Gwen, dressed in a bodysuit, clinging to the edge of the palace dome, atop another palace.

As soon as Arryn spotted Gwen, Gwen used the bumps to roll over and landed in Arryn's arms.

After holding Gwen and spinning her around to dissipate the momentum, Erin cupped Gwen's head and looked into the deep worry in her eyes.

A warmth filled her heart, and she couldn't help but chuckle, "Didn't I tell you to wait for me in the room? Why did you come over?"

(End of this chapter)