Assassination career from full level

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After Benjamin's explanation, Hansel and Enanke just remained silent. Although this is very shocking news, these two people are Kievan Rus people who are relatively indifferent and pragmatic in nature. Accepting and taking advantage of this information, only Gretel took half a step back, with an obviously shocked expression on his face.

"You...no, what the Pope is thinking, that's his son! His own flesh and blood! Not a cat or a dog picked up on the road! It's not a machine either! He's a human being!...What did you all do to him? ?!"

"Gretel, I understand what you mean, but you have to calm down." Hansel tried to comfort Gretel, but En Anke just let out a sneer, as if mocking what Gretel said just now.

"He is a human being, but before that he was a genius," Benjamin explained with an indifferent expression: "A genius among geniuses, and blessed by the gods, we haven't seen a soul entangled by roots for a long time , he is the only one who has hope to decipher the divinity left by Friedrich the Phantom since the Second Jihad, we must try!"

"You have only turned the blessing of the gods into a curse, and his gifts into his shackles!"

"He is the only hope that can save us from [The End]!"

"And now he is ruining our world!"

Gretel's voice was as crisp as a silver cup, and Benjamin fell silent, because what Gretel said was right, they desperately wanted to save the world from the too distant future, but they didn't expect that this urgency was precisely the acceleration motives for the coming of this end.

Hansel lit his fifth cigarette of the day.

In fact, Hansel was more confused about himself than what the Pope did to Ingram. He felt that he should have realized this a long time ago, instead of waiting for this matter to come out of Benjamin's mouth. If At that time, he didn't have any doubts when he saw the name Friedrich on the roster, so when he realized that this was Ingram's middle name, and Ingram was a member of the Engel family, the place where the popes were born for generations, he should It's just being aware of it.

Friedrich, the phantom who has the qualifications to become a god in the legend, but cannot become a god. In the legend of the elves, it is the only phantom who survived the world to save the living beings from the first holy war. The demons are locked in the shadow level, but at the same time, he is also a phantom with the ability to ring the death knell that symbolizes the end of the world. Whether he is the beginning of everything in the world has been forgotten, but he symbolizes the end of the world But it is still remembered (human beings are always like this), just as human beings fear their own inevitable death, the whole human being also fears Friedrich, who symbolizes the end—but death is invisible, but The phantom of the end exists, as long as it exists, they believe that it can be found, eliminated, and avoided.

The Engel family is not the only clan that tried to find Friedrich. In fact, after the first holy war, many humans tried to find Friedrich based on the legend of the elves, but they basically failed. It was too elusive, they couldn't even find evidence of his existence, and their successors gave up without exception—except for the Engel family.

It is difficult to explain what the ancestors of the Engel family experienced at the time. It is said that he did bring back evidence of Friedrich's existence, but the Engel family has been criticized by outside magic scholars for thousands of years. There is no real evidence, and everything is just their lies. Even so, there are many people who support the Engel family, and the factions are gradually divided under this contradictory situation. In the end, the church controlled by the Engel family was born. Times have changed, The original factional disputes finally turned into beliefs, and beliefs brought all kinds of bad habits, canons, and constraints. This organization, which should be regarded as the longest existence of human beings, seems to be gradually forgotten. The reason why it was revered in the first place, Engel The family's unique way of screening bloodlines and powerful magical abilities from generation to generation have only become synonymous with power and rights while firmly controlling power.

However, there are always people who have not forgotten the ancient things, the original fear of human beings, the fear of death and the end, the Engel family is like this, the clues about Friedrich they hold remind them all the time The mission - to find Friedrich's sleeping place, find him, seal him, kill him, use all means to keep him in his [Long Sleep], and when he wakes up and rings the bell that symbolizes the end of the world Before the bell—even if a thousand years have passed, even if it is still a thousand years to wait.

In fact, the Engel family has no evidence of Friedrich’s existence at all, or the evidence they have is not enough to point out the difference in Friedrich’s scene. The facts are similar to what Hansel speculated, so that It is that the Engel family not only has evidence, but very intuitive and obvious evidence to prove the existence of Friedrich, because hypocritical beliefs cannot last for thousands of years, let alone allow the Engel family to stick to this mission after a thousand years.

But despite this, even though Hansel had already guessed that this thing must exist, it is irrefutable, but it is only limited to objects or images. In fact, even if Benjamin told him that Gelfrat or Friedrich Xi's body (although whether the phantom has a body remains to be verified) is placed in the basement of the holy city of Selman. He thinks he will shrug his shoulders to express his interest, but he will never be so surprised until Benjamin tells them what was actually found—

It wasn't something that could be seen or touched, as Hansel thought, but it was far more convincing proof of Friedrich's existence than anything else, and far more promising than anything to point out. Friedrich's resting place.

——In fact, what the Engel family possesses is the divinity of Alfonso, the god of beginning and end. In other words, it is what made Friedrich a phantom and the source of his great power.

And this divinity has been passed on from generation to generation to the Pope selected by the Engel family. Although Ingram is indeed the undoubted successor of the next Pope, before he officially took over the Pope's scepter, the divinity It was supposed to be on the current Pope Vislas - logically so, but something happened.

That is because of Ingram's reckless behavior ten years ago, the art of falling stars was laid out and activated. Jill's keen intuition of a killer is not wrong, and Ingram is indeed dead because of the backlash of the magic art , if it was an ordinary person, maybe he really died like this, but Ingram didn't. As Benjamin said, the Engel family placed high hopes on this child, not only because of his outstanding personality even in the Engel family. Magic ability, but also because of his roots entwined with roots, which means that he can reach the peak of any kind of magic, not just limited to one or a few, and more importantly, he is the only one in a long time The one who might decipher Alfonso's divinity and even find where Friedrich lies.

Several veteran figures in the Engel family quickly held a meeting. They proposed to advance the succession ceremony, that is, to hand over the divinity of Alfonso, whom they had guarded for generations, to Ingram in advance. Mastered some methods on how to use this divinity, one of which is to create a new cycle of beginning and ending like Friedrich opened up the plane of shadow, although they have no ability like Friedrich That creates something as huge as one level, but if it is to create a cycle of the beginning and end of a person's life, it is not impossible.

However, the adoption of this proposal means that the Engel family must think about two issues, one of which is that the source of life has left when Ingram died, which means that in this new cycle, Ingram can only rely on the original existence Inability to usher in a new life, unable to use healing magic are trivial things, and more importantly, unable to usher in a new life, eternal death also means eternal life in another way, and it is different The eternal life of the filthy one will not be corrupted or faded. It is a truly eternal life, unless Ingram's cycle of beginning and end collapses and returns to the original state of death.

If the first problem is predictable, then although the second problem is predictable, it is absolutely uncontrollable. Just as the plane of shadow must rely on the plane of reason to exist, the new life cycle they create must also Relying on Ingram's original life cycle, this means that Ingram will be broken into two halves. Although they are all Ingrams, one part is the original Ingram, and the other part is based on the original Ingram. The model of Ingram created by using Alfonso's divinity, but from the perspective of nature, the essence of another Ingram may be closer to the existence of the phantom Friedrich - no one knows this What kind of thing Ingram will be, and what kind of purpose.

Based on the above two points, the Engel family vetoed this proposal, but Vislas performed the ceremony without authorization just out of curiosity about magic science. The result of the ceremony was subtle. Although Ingram came back to life, he did not regain consciousness. , They think that it may be because of the soul, this cycle only restores the functions of Ingram's body, they try to get Alfonso's divinity back from Ingram, but they fail, because the divinity The transfer must go through a kind of soul approval, which can be roughly understood as a conscious recognition, and Ingram is completely in a state of unconsciousness. The Engel family used Ingram for magic research, but they didn't expect that Ingram, who had become an experimental product, would wake up.

This is the essence of the Ingram that now exists in the Baroque underground palace, that is, the past that made Gretel on one side tremble with anger-indifference is something that is engraved in the blood of the Engel family, and even makes them look Not human.

"You're right, Gretel, Ingram is trying to bury our world," said Benjamin. "The root is the essence of our world, that is, the beginning of our world, and what Ingram carries is The divinity of Alfonso's beginning and end, when Ingram touches the root, it means to draw a rest for the beginning of our world - Ingram will replace Friedrich and ring for our world Deathstroke."

The author has something to say:

Although I feel that the foreshadowing is almost finished, why is there such a long distance from the ending orz

This foreshadowing about Ingram is actually intended to make Hansel's reasoning come out, but I really don't want to think about the reasoning process, so I let Benjamin do it all directly_(:з」∠)_