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Greenland silently gave Blaze a thumbs up. The villains in the plot always have various ways to eavesdrop on the plans of the protagonists, creating an unfavorable situation where the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, thus causing various plot kills.

"Question one, who are you?"

"A ungodly nun." Andre spread his hands, the cigarette in his mouth shaking constantly as he spoke, feeling a bit cynical.

"You are lying! Nuns should have obscene bodies wrapped in tight ascetic uniforms, and a faith that is prone to corruption at first sight!" Greenland raised his hand and pointed, shouting loudly, as if he was a judge who exposed the lie.

Andre looked at Blaze, who shook his head, indicating that he didn't need to pay attention to this guy.

Strangers often do this, suddenly making jokes in the middle of serious conversation, sometimes even standing on their heads or suddenly chopping with their weapons.

The strangers' own explanation was that they wanted to see if their strange words and actions would cause changes in the content of the conversation, etc.

At this time, just ignore the stranger and continue the serious conversation.

"In short, as you can see, I am an ordinary nun. Although I don't have any faith, I care about the residents of Anor City." Andre tried not to look at Greenland and briefly introduced the situation to Blaze.

The issue of the devil believers is very complicated, involving the vacant position of cardinal.

The Holy Cross has experienced a major political change. The death of several cardinals has led to a vacancy in the center of power. In the past, when a cardinal had an accident and caused a vacancy, a new cardinal would appear soon, but this time there was no movement.

In the eyes of many people, this has become an opportunity to compete.

Many second-level regional archbishops began fighting among themselves in order to gain the position of cardinal, and the entire Holy Cross Kingdom was filled with chaos.

The regional archbishops were busy fighting each other, and devil believers emerged in this chaos.

In the past, there were believers in the devil, but they would soon be swept up by the angels and legions within the country. But now the angels are missing and the legions are embroiled in internal strife and cannot be mobilized.

The expansion speed of devil believers is different from the past. The various churches cannot wait for the order from the regional archbishop and can only send out the exorcism department to investigate.

"There were devil believers before, but they were just worshipping devils and were crazy and insane. But this time, they relied on the distorted beliefs and became extremely organized, even forming a group of monsters."

"We also tried to get rid of the stranger, but the stranger's recent target is focused on powerful monsters, and he has no interest in devil believers." Andre's tone was still relaxed, but the downturned corners of his mouth revealed his inner pressure.

He had no blessing and would die, but he still appeared here.

"According to our intelligence, there are seven abnormal gathering places for devil believers, and this is one of them. And the regional archbishop here may have already..."

"Either he has become a fanatical devil believer, or he is one of the people who caused this incident." Blaze glanced at the center of Anor City, which was a magnificent church.

Last time he saw a cardinal who turned into a demon in the church, and this time he has to face a bishop who might also turn into a demon.

This situation is extremely absurd. The center of devout faith is either pure to the point of extreme distortion, or it is so devout only for the sake of power.

"Really? What on earth is faith?"

Andre seemed to see what Blaze was thinking and blew a smoke ring at Blaze.

The smoke ring was extremely white and hazy, but the center was empty. After losing the air blown by Andre, the white hazy smoke dissipated into the air.

"That's what true faith is all about."

Blaze's face was full of confusion, which was beyond the level of words and reached the level of stream of consciousness.

Chapter 651: Shepherd and Sheep

Andrew's meaning is very simple. The devout believers are obedient sheep, who lower their heads to eat grass and then follow the main group, and the bishops are the shepherds.

Shepherds will not eat grass with believers, they will use the wool of sheep to make profits. Maybe they are not pious and do things that go against the doctrine, but they do allow believers to have a stable life.

Although Blaze did not like the practice of dividing people into sheep and shepherds, he knew the truth that even the cardinal probably did not know, and knew that this statement was extremely appropriate.

Theresa is the real shepherd. She, or he, has been manipulating the people of the Holy Cross behind the scenes to create a unified faith. The so-called wool is the faith of the believers.

This pure spirit was collected by Theresa using the magical technology of the Age of Gods and converted into energy to destroy all worlds except the center.

Theresa is definitely the mastermind behind the scenes, and she will be attacked by foreigners in the future. Unexpectedly, after the big bomb of Theresa was removed, a small bomb appeared.

"So now all we have to do is assassinate the regional archbishop of this place?" Greenland took out a dagger, eager to try.

"It's not that simple. A new understanding of faith, believers in the devil, and the vacant cardinal position. These things have happened countless times in history, but in the end they didn't cause much waves. But this time, several events broke out at the same time and were cleverly combined together." Andre took out the cigarette butt that was left in his mouth, shook it at Blaze, and joked.

"If I hadn't heard what this friend had seen and heard, I would have suspected that the history of the Holy Cross State had come to an end."

"Didn't your Pope say anything?" Blaze asked suddenly.

The Pope is the center of the entire Holy Cross Empire. Although he is nicknamed the "preparatory boss" by foreigners, he himself does not have any major problems and is even willing to ease the public's discrimination and hostility towards mixed-race people.

It’s just that the Pope is old and his execution ability is not as good as before.

"Nothing happened." Andre shook his head, as if he had something to hide, and changed the subject. "Even if you don't trust me, at least we have the same goal now, to deal with the regional archbishop."

"So are we going to assassinate the regional archbishop?" Greenland raised his hand, carrying out the stranger's usual style of solving problems with violence in the end.

"Kill this guy, and then put an obedient puppet in power, and then manipulate the puppet step by step to put him in power. In the end, not to mention the cardinal, even the Pope will be in trouble..."

Apparently Greenland has entered into some incredible sitcom and is beginning to plot how to carry out a conspiracy to steal the country.

"This..." Andre looked at Blaze again, with a bit of help in his eyes.

He just wanted to resolve the crisis in Anuo City and did not want to bring crisis to the entire Holy Cross Kingdom.

"She was just joking. She doesn't have that much time to devote to the plan of stealing the country."

"The problem is that there is no time?!"

"Yes." Blaze felt helpless about Andre's fuss. The stranger had been here for so long, but he didn't even know that the stranger liked to play such little jokes.

"Tell me about your plan. You can take our combat capabilities into consideration and simplify the plan as much as possible."

"..."

Andre looked at Greenland, then at Blaze, and after looking up at the sky to clear his mind, he said seriously: "Anyway, you should kill the regional archbishop of Anuo City first, but you can't assassinate him. You must make a big deal and let everyone in Anuo City know that the regional archbishop is corrupt."

"The Holy Cross Theocracy has very strict requirements for faith. It allows a certain degree of self-understanding, but absolutely does not allow any involvement with the devil."

Andre said this with great confidence, but there was a problem.

"Then are you sure that the archbishop of this region is corrupt?" Blaze asked this question.

The cardinal he faced was a completely human being before consuming the Eucharist and becoming demonized. The fact that this regional archbishop hadn't been exposed in the city of Anor, where many foreigners lived, meant he wasn't some wandering demon worshipper; otherwise, a foreigner would have easily identified him.

If the regional archbishop is extremely cautious and fanatical, and would rather die than reveal his devilish nature, then Andre's plan will be useless.

"That's why you need me." Andre shook his hand holding the cigarette butt with a deep smile on his face.

"I play a character who is alone in trying to find out the truth, but is unable to solve it. In the end, he has no other choice but to kill directly, a method that will hurt both sides."

"Oh! Usually at this time, the villain will laugh at your stupidity and transform in front of you, leaving you completely desperate." Greenland understood Andre's words in an instant and continued, "Then at this time we will send our divine soldiers down from the sky to expose his true face."

"That's right." Andre raised his hand and wanted to high-five Greenland, and Greenland gave him face and clapped his hand directly.

"How about we carry out this plan now?"

Greenland looked at Blaze. Although she was confident that she could solve the problem alone, it would be safer to act with Blaze.

She judged that this would be a challenging mission based on civilian damage. If there was too much civilian damage, including civilian property, it would likely affect subsequent developments.

Maybe Andre would think she was not suitable as a partner.

For this kind of battle that will involve a large number of civilians, it is better to ensure that there are more of them. Blaze, who has the ability to kill from a distance, will be the best teammate.

Although NPC teammates with one-hit kill abilities may be reluctant to use them for various reasons, if certain necessary conditions are met, the NPC will use them without any hesitation.

Saving the people is undoubtedly a necessary condition for Blaze.

"That's fine with me." Blaze agreed to the plan and held Gungnir behind him.

The civilians of Anor City, including Andre in front of him, have no blessings and only one life, so he will use all means without hesitation.

"Take this for self-defense." Blaze took out an automatically triggered defensive prop and handed it to Andre.

But Andre shook his head and refused the insurance.

"If the regional archbishop finds anything related to the strangers, he will not be exposed."

"If we don't make it in time, you'll be dead." Blaze clenched the sphere in his hand, "You only have one life."

"Heh~" Andre raised his eyebrows casually and sucked the last bit of the cigarette butt into his mouth.

"As long as the demons of Anor are driven out, my life is of no use."

Greenland looked at the prop in Blazer's hand and suddenly said, "How about you put it in your butt?"

"Cough, cough, cough--" Andre was choked and started coughing violently.

He now felt the greatest fear after knowing the truth, which was the huge shadow of Blaze approaching.

This person seemed to really intend to stuff the prop in his hand up his butt in order to save his life.

Chapter 652: Sad Plot SKIP

Andre almost opened the door to a new world. If you ask why he almost did, it is because Blaze thought that the butt was just a metaphor, and the real meaning was to hide the props inside the body.

But Andre politely refused, saying that the stranger's props, especially the krypton gold props, had a special magical fluctuation.

Ordinary people cannot feel it, but the regional archbishop who has reached a non-human state can definitely sense it.

After much persuasion, Blazer gave up the idea and let Andre leave safely.

Blaze looked at Andre's back and said, "I think this guy must have something he didn't make clear."

"Of course there is. He's a cynical middle-aged man who is dressed in different clothes, smoking a cigarette. He has almost all the attributes." Greenland crossed his arms and shrugged. "He's still an ordinary person. He doesn't even have the Holy Communion. The limit of an ordinary person is LV40 at most. He has no chance of winning against the demon transformed by the Archbishop of the Region."

"But he still came, disguised as a nun. Generally speaking, his true identity must be so different from that of a nun that no one would realize that he was actually disguised as a nun."

"Maybe even the name is fake," Blaze added.

With just a few words, Ge and the other man had almost revealed everything about Andre who was walking away. Unfortunately, they didn't know much about the Holy Cross State and couldn't guess his specific identity.

By dusk, civilians had returned home and the streets were gradually becoming quiet. Only the church door was ajar.

Andre walked alone on the street, his shadow stretched very long on the burnt yellow tiles, like the only poplar tree in the desert.

It cannot protect any life, no matter how small, and it itself will perish in the heat and dryness.

Andre pushed open the half-open door of the church and walked in. What he saw was a huge statue of the Virgin Mary, who was extremely beautiful and full of maternal love, but a black veil covered her head.

This is undoubtedly a blasphemous act, which would even attract the Inquisition in the past. But in this special situation, wearing black veil is in line with the free interpretation of faith.

Even if the Inquisitor really came, that guy would be able to say a lot of things to make this black veil a flower that supports faith.

“The church welcomes lost lambs to visit at any time. Help is the original goodwill.”

A tall priest stood with his hands behind his back in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary shrouded in black veil, and his voice was extremely gentle.

"But changing your gender is somewhat difficult. The best help I can give you is..."

The priest looked back and saw a face similar to Zhang's and Andre's, except that it was very clean-cut, making him look a lot younger.

"I call you sister."

boom--

The priest's head suddenly tilted back, and he stumbled a few steps before falling down at the foot of the statue of the Virgin Mary. His head tilted into the shadow, and the sound of dripping water was like the countdown of his life.

Andre, holding a cigarette in his mouth, calmly put down the shotgun from Greenland, pulled out his own double guns and continued to fire at the priest's body.

Bullet casings fell one after another until the sky was completely dark and only the candlelight was left in the church. Cigarette butts fell to the ground, and Andre stopped.

"I really love the stranger for bringing such a convenient weapon." Andre blew into the smoking pipe.

"Life has become cheap because of this." The priest slowly sat up. A large part of his head was missing and his body was riddled with holes, but he was still alive.

The priest opened his collar, and there was a scar there that looked like a beheading.

"Look, the last time you chopped off my head, the tears that fell on my face were so hot that it hurt more than tearing my flesh. But now you remain calm and kill me with just a flick of your finger."

"You've been a bishop for so long that you've become more artistic." Andre calmly changed the ammunition for his gun, and then continued to shoot at the priest's body while speaking in a casual tone.

Eyes, tongue, heart, even arms, the priest's body was shattered, but the voice of speaking still came out from the broken flesh.

"Stop doing useless things. I have found a more real faith, a faith that is closer to reality."

"Then show me your true face!"

Andre growled, pulled out a bottle from under her skirt and threw it at the priest.

The priest, who had been motionless like a corpse, raised his hand and caught the bottle that was thrown to him.

The priest slowly straightened up, and from the dark shadow beneath him, countless dark liquids gushed out, filling the priest's body.

"It's against the rules to use holy water. Which saint does this belong to?"