In the thick fog, the Lord in red turned his head to look at the car, his movements stopped, as if he was frozen in time.
He (she)... seems to be recalling his true identity.
He or she doesn't know whether he is actress Katherine Haley or the god who has been sleeping in horror stories for many years...
Regardless of the danger, Sean rushed out of the car and shouted at the red mountain-like figure: "Catherine, wake up!"
Moonlight also got out of the car, and he began to play music that could make people wake up, with jumping notes. The sound was louder than ever before, making people's eardrums hurt.
In the thick fog, the Lord in Red began to waver.
His (her) deep eyes began to flicker, and the surrounding illusions of the lake with two suns and the spiers city with the bloody sunset gradually disappeared...
With the awakening of Catherine's personality, the evil god's divinity began to dissipate, and the power given by the role also gradually disappeared...
Sean and Yueguang could almost see Catherine's shadow in the red robe.
Suddenly, the dissipated red figure became solid again, and the ragged red robe once again tightly wrapped Catherine...
Sean looked ferocious, he didn't want to see Catherine's soul lost: "Catherine! What are you dawdling about?!"
However, the red robe was swaying, showing no signs of dissipating.
"Get in the car Sean!" Moonlight shouted.
If he stayed, his soul would be harvested by the "evil god" in front of him. Sean had no choice but to get into the driver's seat. Anger and impatience made his eyes red. He cursed and started the vehicle and continued to rush forward.
Moonlight followed Catherine's previous request and began to use her Explorer playing cards to send a briefing on the situation to the association's emergency department.
He couldn't imagine how the association would solve this sudden loss of control: "In this case, even if the Ace class arrives at the scene, I'm afraid it won't be able to protect itself..."
Something went wrong, which made Sean's heart become a mess: "She said it herself, it was only a short-term role, although it will have a serious impact on her, but it is not a problem to break away from the role!
"how so?!"
A possibility flashed through Sean's mind: "Catherine's soul is very powerful, and a part of the evil god who was awakened discovered that she can not only "act" as the Lord in Red...
"She can even become a channel for the evil god to descend into the material world. So the evil god's godhead launched a counterattack, forcing Catherine's soul to admit that she is the red-robed Lord...
Sean's face turned pale: "Although he retreated to a corner of history, the Lord in Red did not give up any opportunity to return to the material world... Neither Catherine nor us realized that acting would actually cause the evil god to awaken... Now Oh no."
In the thick fog in the rearview mirror, Catherine was like a red swaying lonely peak...
The Lord in Red, played by her, was mentally confused at the moment and just followed the car out of the spiritual world with her basic consciousness.
Ten minutes later, the car broke out of the thick fog like a small submarine rushing out of the water, and returned to the world where the air was not so heavy.
Only then did Sean see that Thirteenth Avenue was under martial law.
Countless believers lined both sides of the avenue, like endless mirror images with no end in sight.
They all wore cloaks, their faces covered in white hoods, with a bright red circle of thorns pattern painted on their backs.
"Is this?" Sean's eyes widened in surprise. This was obviously an arrangement to deal with an out-of-control situation. He didn't expect the association's response to be so quick.
"They are not from the association, these people are from the Mosaic Ascetic Order." Moonlight looked at the almost identical believers in white standing by the road - they held thorn whips in one hand and snake-shaped daggers with curved blades in the other, their faces The escutcheon is not visible in the hood...
The Mosaic Ascetic Order is the core order of the "Original Sin Sect" under Salvationism. Run by one of the six saints of the Holy Court, it is an organization in the Holy Court that believes in pain and believes that pain can earn God's forgiveness.
"A big shot is coming." A temporary high platform was built with sandbags and wooden platforms in front, and three people stood on the high platform. The man in the middle wore the same white cloak, but he didn't wear a hood. His exposed face seemed to have been poured with molten gold, and a layer of flowing gold tightly adhered to his face with closed eyes.
There is a diamond-shaped halo above his head, slightly red.
"That is one of the six saints of the Holy Court, the master of the Mosaic Ascetic Order, the saint in charge of the Original Sin Sect, Saint Matthew...
"He must have received a revelation from God and took action when Catherine started to act, so he did it so quickly."
The car stopped under the high platform and made a harsh brake sound. Sean and Moonlight got out of the car.
Sean shouted towards the high platform: "Lord Saint, that is not the real evil god, it is the temporary role played by our captain!"
St. Matthew walked to the high platform with the support of his trusted aides. His face was covered with a layer of gold and he could not speak. His voice came from nowhere and was erratic and mysterious: "'For now' he is not the real evil god. Not long after, Not necessarily.
"Mystery seekers... you seem to really think that the mysteries in this world can be used for your own purposes...
"This is the consequences." On the surface of the melted gold, a towering red figure walking out of the fog was reflected.
Sean's voice lowered: "Lord Saint, if you can... please save her and don't hurt her!"
St. Matthew's face seemed unable to express any expression: "You make a contradictory request - salvation can only be achieved through suffering..."
As he spoke, the saint raised his hand holding the vine whip. The vine whip was more than one meter long and wrapped with shocking thorns and spikes.
Suddenly, the white-clothed believers standing on Thirteenth Avenue raised their rattan whips in unison.
"Only suffering can wash away our sins..."
Saint Matthew exhaled and swung the vine whip behind his back with great force. The vine whip hit his back hard, making a muffled sound that made Sean and Yueguang's teeth ache. The thorns instantly pierced the clothes and skin on his back, and bright red soaked out...
Swish, bang! The entire Thirteenth Avenue made the same crackling sound and muffled sound.
Sean and Yueguang looked around in disbelief. They found that under the whip just now, the robes on the backs of almost all the believers were torn, and the blood soaked the white robes.
"We must pay for the sins committed by the world with suffering." St. Matthew whipped him again, and this whip completely broke the robe on his back, leaving flesh and blood bloody.
The sound of whips sounded again on Thirteenth Avenue, as well as the muffled sound of rattan whips hitting flesh.
All the believers were suffering great pain, but no one groaned or groaned.
The diamond-shaped halo behind St. Matthew began to rise, becoming larger and brighter, like a huge window leading to the kingdom of heaven, and also like a geometric totem symbolizing the majesty of the Holy Father. It was suspended above the avenue, exuding holiness. With some blood red light.
The "Lord in Red" emerged from the dense fog that was like a huge wall. The ragged red cloth was twisting in the wind, like countless bright red living creatures curious about the material world.
His (her) face is blurred, with only one pair of eyes, like twin suns.
Saint Matthew read passages from the Holy Book, raised his arms, and took off his robe, revealing his arms covered with scars and wounds poured with molten gold—he had used molten gold to stop bleeding and heal the wounds.
Sean couldn't help but swallow his saliva as he imagined pouring molten gold on the wound...
“With blood and pain, I beg the Lord for forgiveness and for a miracle.”
The snake-shaped blade dug into his arm, and someone finally made a sound under the high platform, but the sound was similar to enjoyment.
Blood flowed on the arms of all believers, but disappeared before dripping to the ground. The diamond-shaped halo behind Saint Matthew was dyed red. The red light gradually became stronger, completely swallowing the darkness and thick fog of Thirteenth Avenue. , illuminated everything into the color of blood, like a sunset falling around me.
The "Lord in Red", who was originally walking towards the high platform, seemed to be hypnotized by the huge red diamond-shaped halo and stopped all movements.
Only then did Sean discover that the "Lord in Red" had the same scars on his arms as the ascetics.
"Is this the ability of the Mosaic Traitor Order to let powerful beings share their pain?" Although the person in front of him was not the complete and true "Lord in Red", he was already a terrorist threat above the Ace level.
“Outside of the explorer system, the Divine Palace has its own ability to resist mysterious risks.
"After all, it is the supreme theocratic organization that governs New Landel, and its strength is beyond doubt..."
Sean suddenly discovered that St. Matthew had put the snake-shaped dagger against his chest...
If a saint inserts a dagger into his chest, he himself will not die under the protection of God, but this is not necessarily the case for low-level believers.
And, thanks to the mysterious powers of the Trappist Order of Moses, Catherine, hidden in the body of the Red Lord, will also die.
"Lord Saint!" Sean shouted, "Maybe..." He originally wanted to delay time, but suddenly remembered something and said loudly, "There is no need to sacrifice so many lives, I have a way to wake up my companions! "
A little red smeared on the white robe on the chest, and St. Matthew's arm stopped exerting force.
The arm holding the dagger hung down, and blood was thrown on the high platform: "The lives of the brothers and sisters of the Trappist Order should not have been consumed like this...
"We can stop it for ten minutes." St. Matthew's face looked sharp in the red light. "In ten minutes, we will continue to cleanse this huge sin...
"In addition, your safety is not within the scope of our guarantee."
"Sean," Moonlight looked uneasy, "Do you really have any idea?"
Sean remembered how Catherine grabbed her collar angrily after coming out of the spirit room on Central Avenue: "She saved me. I have to save her."
He stared at the stagnant "Lord in Red": "This is still just an appearance, the evil god will not come so easily."
"That's Catherine in 'costume', she just forgot about herself for a moment...I'm going to bring her back."
