Chapter 702 Where is the Crime?
The smoke and dust brought by the meteorite finally almost dissipated, and the noise on the street gradually subsided, and the injured were basically out of the dangerous situation because they had received effective treatment, but there were still people dying, causing occasional cries.
Inside the Church of Saint-Ceen, Father Cali finished his confession, stood up, and turned to look at Lumian, who was sitting in the first row watching him quietly.
Lumian laughed and asked chatterily:
"Is it still useful to repent now?"
Without waiting for Father Kali to respond, he habitually added:
"You should know very well that your fate of death is doomed and you won't live for a few days."
Father Kali's dark brown face was a little pale, and he replied in a fairly flat voice:
"If repentance is useful, it is not repentance."
After saying this, he seemed to relax a little:
"I repent because I want to repent, not in exchange for forgiveness and the opportunity to be saved.
"Looking back on what happened before, I did make a lot of mistakes, I was too eager to gain a higher status, so eager to be recognized by you people in the northern continent, so that my heart was blinded by desire and I listened to the devil's temptation."
Hearing this, Lumian let out a sneering voice:
"Is that really the case?
"Is it really desire that blinds your heart?"
Seeing that Father Kali's expression was slightly dazed, Lumian leaned against the back of his chair, looked at the sun emblem and said:
"Is it the desire to attain a higher status and the approval of the people of the Northland that forces you to cooperate with Tewanako, to become a vengeful spirit as a priest of the Eternal Sun, to accept the temptation of the devil, and to force you to play with the little boy?
"No, it's a choice you made."
Father Kali's lips moved, as if he wanted to refute, but he couldn't organize the words for a while.
Lumian smiled and said further:
"There are still many people in this world who yearn for a higher status and to be recognized by certain groups, and a large part of them are just trying hard to dedicate themselves, desperately purifying evil, never having any communication with the devil, hoping to get what they want through normal means, even if they fail again and again, they cannot let them fall into the abyss.
"They obviously have the same desire, why can they control themselves but you can't?
"It's not that desire blinds your heart, but that your heart chooses to fall."
Father Kali was speechless.
Lumian smiled and sighed:
"A relative of mine once told me:
"Strong desire is the driving force of human progress, and it is also the devil that drags mankind into the abyss, whether it is good or bad, light or dark, depends on ourselves, on a certain thought at that moment."
Father Kali, whose face was becoming more and more pale, lowered his head and said in a hoarse voice:
"I'm guilty......"
Lumian pressed his hand to his left chest, and his expression settled.
He looked at Father Kali and laughed at himself:
"I also have strong desires, and everyone has their own strong desires.
"If having a strong desire is sin, then you are a sinner, and I am a sinner, and each of us is guilty."
Father Kali's expression was stunned for a while, and he slowly turned back to his body.
He knelt in front of the altar again, looked at the huge sun emblem, and said in a low voice:
"You have no sin, strong desires are not sin, and I am a true sinner."
He lowered his head, allowing his body to gradually blur and become transparent.
In this way, Father Cali showed his "vengeful soul" form in front of the Sun Emblem.
The cold and gloomy aura then dissipated, touching the Holy Emblem and the altar.
The whole church swayed slightly, and the sun-like brilliance seeped out from the altar, from the emblem, from the stained glass surface, from the religious murals, and quickly moved away, converging to the spherical dome.
A brilliant and magnificent pillar of golden light descended with a chant-like sound and landed on Father Kali's body.
The resentful Father Kali trembled slightly, not dodging.
In the blazing sun, his body gradually melted and quickly turned to ashes.
Lumian looked at this scene without any expression of emotion on his face.
He was neither happy nor sad.
When the divine light from the dome subsided and only candles remained in the church, Lumian still sat in the first row, silently looking at the place where Father Cali was purified, and did not leave.
I don't know how long it took, but Camus and Rhea, who had completed the disaster rescue, walked into the church.
See Louis. After Berry sat in the first row, Camus breathed a sigh of relief.
He smiled slightly and said:
"We are still not calm enough, we are easy to panic when we encounter things, just now I only thought about helping the injured and trapped people, I didn't think that a damn and not dead person like Father Cali would suddenly go crazy, thinking about pulling more people to bury him, but fortunately you are here."
Ruiya looked around and said:
"Where's Father Kali?"
Lumian looked at the front of the altar and replied bluntly:
"After his confession, he purified himself with the help of the spirituality accumulated by the church itself and the particularity of the emblem."
Rhea fell silent for a moment.
After a few seconds, she opened her arms slightly and said loudly:
"Praise the sun!"
Then, Rhea sat down in the first row of seats on the other side of the aisle, clasped her hands, lowered her head, and prayed earnestly.
Camus didn't know for a moment whether he should sit down or continue standing.
Lumian glanced sideways at him:
"Have you put away the extraordinary characteristics of Reasa?"
Camus was silent for a while before he said:
"Put it away."
"Where's Meslow's?" Lumian retracted his gaze and looked back at the Sun Emblem.
"I don't know where it is." Camus replied.
Lumian said in a calm tone:
"It should be in the area where the meteorite hit directly."
Camus was stunned for a moment and said:
"The function of that meteorite is to take away most of the dead people?
"The power of 'Dream Festival' is so strong?"
"Stronger than you think." Lumian said in a tone discussing tomorrow's weather, "Rhaesa and Maslow are both members of the royal faction of the 'Spirit Order', and General Quularil knows their identities, and also knows that Rhaasa went to Tizamo Town to complete the task given by the royal faction's high-ranking officials."
Camus's expression changed a few times, and he sighed slowly and longly:
"Even if you don't say this, I won't resent and hate Captain Reasa, he really saved me several times, and this time he didn't betray me on the surface, but betrayed the patrol team, and I don't have a strong sense of belonging to the patrol team.
"Now, I'm relieved that he's not a traitor."
Lumian smiled in a "provocative" tone:
"It's also good for you, the Pyros Port Patrol has vacated a vice-captain position, and your competitor is dead."
Camus was not provoked and smiled bitterly:
"I plan to leave Matani.
"Thank you for your generosity, I have almost saved enough money for promotion sequence 6, and it is safer and easier to go back to the family and contact the main branch than looking for it in the outside world.
"After all, the patrol team is not a big organization, and it is the limit to sequence 6, if you want to be promoted to sequence 5, you must establish close ties with one of the 'Spirit Order', 'Rose School', Intis Eighth Bureau, 'Eternal Sun' Church, and Mother God Church, or become General Quularil's confidant, I have the surname Castia, why should I choose?"
If you really want to be accepted by the Castilian royal family, the ceiling will be much higher...... Lumian laughed and said:
"I thought you had a crush and chose to stay away from the sad place."
Camus was suddenly choked by saliva and coughed several times in a row.
After Rhea finished her prayer, she and Camus left the church of St. Ceen.
Lumian was still sitting in the front row, as if enjoying the empty environment.
After a while, Amandina appeared at the door of the church in a black hunting suit.
"Why are you the only one?" The girl muttered.
Her eyes looked left and right, as if looking for something.
"Why are you here?" Lumian asked casually.
Amandina sat down beside him and smiled:
"I want to secretly see if Robert will come to the dying Father Cali, who knows that he only sees you."
"Father Cali has purified himself, Robert should not have been here." Lumian said truthfully.
"That's right......" Amandina was a little regretful and disappointed, "If you really want to beat up Father Kali, it shows that he is still a man......"
Lumian did not respond to the girl.
Amandina faced the altar and emblem and simply said a prayer.
After completing this matter, her eyes turned slightly and she asked with implicit expectation:
"Will there be a 'Dream Festival' next year?"
"Yes." Lumian did not hide it.
Amandina's joy suddenly appeared between her eyebrows and the corners of her mouth:
"Is that black tomb still there? Can I still gain extraordinary power by touching it?"
"Yes." Lumian turned his head sideways and looked at Amandina with a smile, "But the outsiders who participate in the 'Dream Festival' next year will be even more powerful and terrifying, more than the evil ragdolls, crystal skulls, and human-skin men you see."
Amandina's expression collapsed:
"Well, then I will find an excuse to stay in Port Pelos next year's 'Dream Festival' and take my father and mother with me."
"Have you ever been back to Palm Manor?" Lumian asked instead.
Amandina said with a "hey" and said with a smile:
"I went back and looked at it, I didn't want to disturb them and pretended to be affectionate, so I came out again."
She paused for a moment, her eyes shining and asked:
"Besides touching the Black Tomb, is there any other way for me to improve my sequence?"
"Buy the formula and drink the magic potion, you can choose one of three paths: 'Sleeper', 'Corpse Collector' and 'Warrior'." Lumian did not hide the corresponding occult knowledge, and said while thinking, "Moreover, it is not the Black Tomb that bestowed you with extraordinary power, it is the figure ......."
Speaking of this, Lumian suddenly froze.
What is the relationship between Amandina, Robert and the underworld?
Normally, gifts are given to believers by gods or angels, but Amandina and Robert do not believe in the underworld at all, and they don't even know about each other's existence.
Applying the situation of various secret organizations, according to the custom that Franca occasionally mentioned, Amandina had to call the underworld "teacher"!
(End of this chapter)