What does that mean? Roland Mo rubbed the row of handwriting, the owner of the ancient book had fought the monsters of the Savage Lands?

"There are more and more devils, and there are fewer and fewer of us. 」

"The Stone of Divine Punishment is powerless to stop their onslaught. With their unrivaled strange powers, they are fierce and formidable enemies, even if they don't rely on magic. 」

"The holy city of Taqira has fallen, and we are scattered. 」

"Climb over the mountains, cross the rivers, and run as far as you can from the gates of hell. 」

"But next time, where else can we escape?"

"But that's not something I need to think about anymore, I'm dying, Nataya. 」

"The power of the devil is corrupting me, and no medicine will work. 」

"I'm writing this just because I want to ask you for something. 」

"Akaris's trial of the Divine Punishment Army is nearing its end, and the experiment has been successful, and the extraordinary samurai will not fall behind even in the face of the devil. But she forgot that in the end, even if the Divine Punishment Army wins, this victory will not belong to us. 」

"That's right, the Divine Punisher will only bring us destruction. 」

"Go stop her. Only you can do it. 」

The text is not long, and after Roland finishes it from beginning to end, he closes his eyes and ponders, trying to substitute himself into Hakala's perspective.

Assuming she didn't know the devil existed, and replaced the devil with a witch, this description could easily be imagined as the church army retreating under the attack of the witch. Combined with the widespread rumor that witches are the devil's minions and that their magic comes from the gates of hell, it is highly likely that Hakhala believes that the church is trying to hide the truth: the so-called gates of hell are the entrances to the sacred mountain, where witches have been traveling for hundreds of years to gain eternal life. So there are more and more witches. And there are fewer and fewer fighters in the church.

Of course, there are also many loopholes in this speculation, such as the note mentioning that the other party has strange powers far beyond ordinary people, which is obviously not a characteristic of witches. Another example is that witches can still defeat the Church army under the influence of the Punishment Stone, which seems too bizarre. So what exactly made Hakhala decide to go to the Wild Lands, he still doesn't know. It was her overly anxious mood that affected her judgment. Or is there something that you don't see in the book that is the real trigger?

Roland prefers the latter.

He at least knew by now that the devil described in the scribbled note on the last page was not a witch, but a real alien race.

But this did not reduce his doubts in the slightest, but made the unknown more problems.

When exactly did the church fight the devil?

Roland rummaged through the fourth prince's poor occult knowledge, but couldn't find any relevant content. Since the end of the war of faith, the church has established its base camp in the north to resist the evil beasts that invade the interior from the Great Gap. Afterward. They simply built a majestic fortress city on the Hermes plateau and called it the New Holy City. These two cities are connected, one high and one low, and they are both used to fight evil beasts, not demons. Besides, the name Tachira has never been heard of.

If these things are true, there is no reason for the church to hide them. In the history books of the church, every success has been found in the fight against the evil beast. The major victories in the battle with the witches will be described in detail above. It seems that they are afraid that others will not know their merits. But the fight against the devil is more worthy of a special mention than the beast and the witch.

The final question is the Divine Punishment Army.

Apparently the church member did not want to see the Divine Punishment Army show up, and entrusted someone else to stop the person in charge of the experiment. Roland only knew that the Church had a judgment army, but had never heard of a divine punishment army - and certainly did not rule out the reason why the fourth prince was unheard of.

However, if they can really produce powerful warriors to fight the devil head-on, it will only greatly increase the strength of the church, so why does the master of the note think that the Divine Punishment Army will bring destruction?

What the book thinks is incredible. It should refer to the latter two points.

"Do you know where you got the ancient book that led Hakara astray?" Roland looked up at the nightingale.

"When I joined Mutual Aid Society, my sisters were already on the road of finding the mountains. The nightingale munched on the dried fish, her voice muffled, "but Wendy had mentioned it. The Aid Society was not originally called the Aid Society, but a few witches who got together by chance in Seabreeze County, including Hakhala, Wendy, and the Book. Later, in the eastern forest, not far from Seabreeze County, they found a hidden place as a secret meeting place. Unexpectedly, it was the entrance to an underground ruin. She swallowed the snack in her mouth and licked her lips, "But no one has gone down to explore it except Hakala." ”

"Ancient books were found in the ruins?"

"That's what Hakara claimed," Nightingale pouted, "and then there were more and more witches at the meeting, probably someone accidentally leaked their whereabouts during a meeting, and the church sent a large group of inquisitors to surround the forest, and less than half of the twenty witches escaped. It was then that Hakara decided to travel to the Desperate Mountains in search of the Holy Mountain. So they called themselves the Mutual Aid Society, and made the search for the Holy Mountain the highest goal of their members. ”

After listening to this, Roland fell into deep thought, it is so troublesome to add too little occultism, and anything that involves history and legends is basically a blank in his mind. The exact date is not mentioned in the ancient books, and he is not clear whether the war has been recorded in other history books. The first person was dead, and it would be nice if he could go and explore the ruins, he thought.

However, Roland also knows that this is basically impossible. The Eastern Forest was too far away from him, and it was his priority to develop his territory compared to a trip across the Grey Castle.

Walking to the window, Roland looked through the floor-to-ceiling window at the garden at his feet. The witches are training their abilities as they are told. Now that there are twelve witches under his command, it's time to form an organization.

In his vision, the organization did not need any program or guidelines. It was set up to facilitate the management of witches and the proper use of their abilities, and functioned similarly to the guilds of later generations.

The rules of the organization are as simple as possible, with only two exceptions: not to use power to violate the laws of the territory. Do not use your power to evade accountability under the law.

Roland also initially wanted to imitate the practice of the Three Laws of Robots, restricting witches from using their abilities to hurt or attack ordinary people, but later thought that it was too redundant. To them, ability is like a gun in the hands of ordinary people. When encountering harm, there is no essential difference between fighting back with a gun and fighting back with ability. And deliberately emphasizing the difference between witches and ordinary people will only make the gap between the two groups wider.

Therefore, not breaking the law and not avoiding responsibility is also the most concise expression that a science and engineering dog can think of.

As for the name of the organization, Roland had already thought about it.

This new collective is called the "League of Witches". (To be continued.) )