Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Luo Mi carefully turned into a transparent state and flew down into the cave.
The cave was not deep and he soon reached the bottom.
Luo Mi originally thought that the cave must contain a prayer room like the one above, or a mysterious and ancient tomb. However, after landing, he saw a scene that surprised him.
The metal wall panels and the floor supported a space of more than 300 square meters. The ceiling was inlaid with light bulbs, illuminating the office desk, laboratory table, test tube rack, and various culture dishes and instruments that Luo Mi had no idea what they were used for.
All the items were covered with thick dust, and it seemed that no one had been here for many years.
It looked like a laboratory? Luo Mi was stunned for a moment, and many scenes similar to the Resident Evil flashed through his mind.
But nothing happened, and the secret room remained quiet.
“The Black Wing Lord should have come in once, and even if there was any danger, it should have been cleared up.” Luo Mi muttered to himself, following the symbols of the magic circle flowing in from outside.
Those magic arrays came out of a incubator.
Luo Mi approached it cautiously and took a look inside the incubator.
There was no biochemical monster or fleshy embryo as he had imagined, only a small brown bottle with an open mouth, through which one could vaguely see the mercury-like liquid.
There was a small black magic circle under the bottle, with four black feathers placed on it. The mysterious magic circle symbol that spread throughout the palace flowed from here.
Luo Mi felt that this bottle looked like it was used to power a magic circle, so he was cautious not to touch it directly. He just looked around, trying to find some clues.
On the table in front of the incubator, a parchment notebook was spread out, surrounded by dust.
Luo Mi flipped through it carefully and found that it was a material record. The content was basically in the format of “XX month XX day, XX items were delivered in XX quantity”.
Luo Mi said regretfully, “I thought it would be some research notes or researcher’s diary.”
[The host has watched too many movies.]
“Think about it.” Luo Mi looked around. “Everything here is neatly arranged. This means that the people here had plenty of time to evacuate, so it’s unlikely that they left anything valuable behind… But this is strange. How did that bottle get left here? Could it be that the Black Wing Lord put it in here?”
There was a blank label on the brown bottle, and its design was very similar to the empty bottles on the medicine cabinet, which at least showed that it was of the same origin as the things here.
Luo Mi carefully observed everything in the laboratory and saw the same cross symbol on some blank notebook covers and the reliefs on the corners of the tables.
These crosses were not like the Vatican cross, which was long at the top and short at the left and right, and positioned higher up. They were also not like the Pietists’ cross, with all four sides of equal length. Instead, they were made up of four sides of different lengths arranged at right angles, with no intersection in the middle! Even more peculiar, this cross symbol was tilted at a 45-degree angle.
After being in this world for so long, Luo Mi had learned a lot of knowledge about the Church and also learned how to distinguish the cross symbols unique to different schools and organizations.
This tilted cross symbol belonged to a school of thought that was early identified as a heresy and expelled and hunted by the Church: the school of alchemy!
Based on the belief that “the power of God constitutes the entire world,” the alchemical school further studied how to use the power of Holy Light to transform, reorganize, and graft matter. While still within the Vatican, the alchemical school’s research remained limited to non-living matter. After being deemed heretical and expelled, their research became extreme and degenerate, and they began to transform and graft life, creating many strange monsters.
These monsters looked more terrifying and evil than the demons in the Demon Realm, but they possessed the power of holy light. They then caused many incidents, angered the Church, and began to hunt down the alchemy school.
According to Anos, the alchemy school had basically disappeared after being hunted down over the years. It was not known whether it had completely disappeared or was just well hidden.
After Luo Mi displayed the characteristics of both succubus and phantom, Anos believed that he was a product of alchemy and was very worried about his future.
According to records within the Vatican, no matter how healthy the creatures created by alchemists appeared, they always had huge physiological defects and would die suddenly within a very short period of time.
Luo Mi had always regarded it as a background story and material for lies, but he didn’t expect to discover the alchemists’ laboratory in the basement of the royal palace of the Principality of Perde!
“It seems that the Black Wing Lord’s target is here…” Luo Mi looked at the almost empty laboratory, suspecting that all the valuable things in it had been taken away by the Black Wing Lord, leaving only this strange bottle to set up the magic circle.
Luo Mi first put the material record book into the system warehouse, and then began to think about how to deal with the brown bottle in the cultivation chamber: “System, do you have the identification results?”
[The silver liquid in the bottle contains an extremely high concentration of energy and has no attribute bias. If the host attempts to touch it, there is a risk of burns.]
Luo Mi thought thoughtfully: “Can it be put into the system space? Can you handle it?”
The system’s tone became much higher:
[What misunderstanding do you have about the system? This level of energy density is no problem! It just requires the host to redeem the energy isolation function.]
“…. How many points?”
[Not expensive, 10 points. Of course, you’ll also need to open a special storage space like the previous angel statue.]
“…” Luo Mi frowned in pain.
He exhaled quickly, “Exchange it, exchange it.”
After finding at least three chosen ones in one go, even if you spend another 13 points, it will still be a profit overall.
After the system was turned on, Luo Mi, in a translucent state, stretched his hand through the glass in front of the incubator and touched the small brown bottle with his fingertips.
He thought his fingertips would be burned like touching an angel statue, but the brown bottle felt soft and gentle to the touch. It looked hard like glass, but in fact it was like a balloon filled with water, without any adverse reaction.
Even so, Luo Mi quickly threw it into the special system space that he had opened up with 13 points, intending to consider it after the system analysis.
As the brown bottle disappeared, the magic circle below trembled twice, slowly turned into a ball of magic power and dissipated, and the symbols derived from it and flowing outward also dimmed.
Luo Mi had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the black feathers surrounding the magic circle suddenly jump up and form a little man out of thin air – a small black-winged lord condensed to ten centimeters!
The Mini Black Wing Lord stared coldly at Luo Mi with his blood-red eyes.
Sweat immediately streamed down Luo Mi’s forehead, and he laughed dryly: “Lord, Lord?”
He subconsciously began to back away.
The corners of the Mini Black Wing Lord’s lips suddenly curled up a little, revealing an extremely gentle yet terrifying smile to him.
Then the little demon lord also disintegrated into a ball of black mist and slowly disappeared without a trace.
Luo Mi felt the cold sweat on his back sticking to his clothes and he felt very uncomfortable. After coming to his senses, he quickly flew out.
….
The battle in mid-air had already come to an end.
The light man rode on the back of the black dragon, then condensing a slender sword in his hand, he stabbed it into the black dragon’s back fiercely.
The black dragon rolled and struggled in the air but was unable to shake the light man off his body.
At this moment, they looked down at the same time.
The black fog that had been spreading upward from the city of Troon below and the entire Principality of Perde had begun to slowly decrease and disappear.
The light man felt that the black dragon’s power was weakening, and the corners of his lips curled up, as he thrust the rapier into the black dragon’s body again!
The black dragon roared angrily but was unable to resist the feeling of weakness and powerlessness and slowly fell downwards.
As it fell, the black dragon’s body twisted and turned back into the appearance of a black-winged demon, but the rapier made of holy light was still stuck in its back.
The light man left the black-winged demon’s back, then floating in the air, he pinched the black-winged demon’s neck with his right hand, and lifted him up.
Now he could finally take a closer look at this face that looked exactly like his own.
There were many demons that could transform themselves into identical beings, most of them using mental illusions, a few by changing their flesh and blood – but without exception, these would be exposed under the purification of the Holy Light.
However, the black-winged demon before him showed no signs of “transformation”, as if his face naturally looked exactly like the angel on earth.
The light man’s light golden eyebrows slowly wrinkled up, and he asked, “Who are you?”
The holy light sword pierced through the chest of the fallen angel-like demon, now stained with blood as bright red as that of a human.
The black-winged Anos stared at the angel of holy light with his blood-red eyes, and suddenly laughed: “Who do you think I am?”
The light man looked at him, his blue eyes were deep and calm, and no emotion could be seen in them.
The crimson in the sky slowly faded, and the blood moon also began to dim. The black and red arrow that had previously solidified in the black fog also began to shrink.
After a long while, the light man said, “No matter what, you lose.”
The devil raised the corner of his lips, and his tone was as calm as his: “Really?”
As he spoke, the black and red arrow that seemed to be disintegrating suddenly changed direction and shot out!
Several rays of holy light quickly caught up, only making it dimmer, but not causing it to completely collapse.
It eventually went off into the distance and never returned.
The light man withdrew his left hand and said in a deep voice: “This kind of force cannot damage the light domain barrier.”
The demon laughed again, “What if my goal isn’t the barrier?”
The light man stared at him and spoke again: “Who are you?”
The devil curled his lips and said calmly: “I am you.”
There was no surprise in the light man’s eyes, as if he had expected this answer. But he shook his head and said calmly, “I don’t believe it.”
The demon suddenly reached out and grabbed the light man’s neck. His tone gradually became sharper and colder. “Hypocritical angel who refuses to accept the truth… just wait in the cage of lies until I take away everything you have and destroy everything you love. Just wait.”
After saying this, the seemingly seriously injured Black Winged Lord suddenly exploded and turned into a bunch of scattered black feathers – those feathers spontaneously combusted without fire before hitting the ground and turning into ashes.
Only Anos, who was made of holy light, was left floating in the air, looking at his palm with a serious expression.
After a long time, a trace of contemplation flashed across his blue eyes. He then exhaled softly, made a papal cross on his chest, and prayed silently.
The holy light dissipated and turned back into the white feather bracelet.
However, the next moment, the bracelet gradually became transparent, like summer ice, and quickly melted in the midday sun.
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