Chapter 88: The Pilgrim Path
Xu En turned his head and saw a priest covered in blood.
Xu En was friendly and respectful towards this unnamed priest. If not for this priest risking his life to disperse the chaos for everyone, his teammates would have suffered deaths.
“May I ask who you are…?”
“I am Moria, from the Holy See.”
Although Moria was still pale and in poor condition, he was clearly out of mortal danger.
Li Wen secretly thought that this guy woke up so punctually and seemed fine, so perhaps his fainting was just an act.
The Holy See?
Xu En was startled.
The faith of Glorious Light originated from Canaan and radiated to the whole world. Everyone knew the influence of Glorious Light and benefited from its grace. Canaan enshrined the halls of all saints, which was the legendary Holy See.
The interpretations of Glorious Light’s doctrines varied among the various religions, leading to many rifts. However, regarding the Holy See, the attitude of all religions was extremely unified—it was a sacred and inviolable place, the earthly abode of the saints, and the place closest to Light.
It could be said that the Holy See was under Glorious Light and above all religions.
The mainstream faith in the Kingdom of Arthur was Glorious Light. Her Majesty the Queen was also a true believer of Glorious Light. The Holy Candle Mass Church was the most powerful and widespread legal sect in the kingdom. This country was inseparable from Glorious Light in every aspect, and even the Disciplinary Bureau had a large number of Transcendent individuals from the Glorious Spectrum Series.
Xu En was one of them.
“So you’re a brother from the Holy See!”
Although it was strange for a person in his fifties, whose actual age was over thirty, to call a young man “brother,” it was normal in the Glorious religions.
“There’s no need for that. Captain Xu En, right? Miss Mephistopheles has many dealings with the Holy See, and I need to take her to the Holy See. I should be unable to participate in your investigation. I ask for your understanding, Captain Xu En. Wouldn’t you agree, Miss Mephistopheles?”
As he said the last sentence, Moria looked at Li Wen.
Li Wen raised an eyebrow, not expecting someone as seemingly upright as Moria to resort to such tactics.
She naturally wouldn’t agree to participate in the investigation. This matter involved the Dark Dawn and the subsequent destruction of Arthur, and the water was very deep. As for going to the Holy See with Moria, that was preposterous… or was it?
At this moment, Li Wen suddenly remembered something. She was going to find the Original Texts of all series to complete her promotion.
And the location of the Original Text of the Glorious Spectrum Series was, without a doubt, the ultimate secret of Glorious Light—the Pilgrim Path.
The Pilgrim Path was located in Canaan and guarded by the Holy See. All saints of the Glorious Spectrum Series had to walk the Pilgrim Path before their anointment, and only then were they qualified to be anointed.
Since the last saint completed his ascension on the stake three hundred years ago, up to now and even before the arrival of Doomsday Twilight, only Moria, the Eldest Son of the Holy See, had walked the entire Pilgrim Path.
In other words, if Li Wen wanted to obtain the Original Text of the Glorious Spectrum Series, she really had to go to the Holy See, and Moria had to accompany her.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t even see the entrance to the Pilgrim Path, let alone obtain the Original Text of the Glorious Spectrum Series.
“That’s right, I do need to go to Canaan with him, and this matter is probably much more important than your investigation.”
Li Wen was telling the truth, but she was careful and didn’t say when they would go.
After all, Moria at this time had not yet reached the stage of being able to walk the Pilgrim Path. Besides, Glorious Light was the most powerful pillar, and seizing the Original Text of the Glorious Spectrum Series was far more difficult than any other series.
Li Wen planned to consider the Glorious Spectrum Series after obtaining the last few Original Texts.
Unless she really couldn’t find any other Original Texts.
Seeing them say this, Xu En didn’t know if it was true or not. However, he was somewhat relieved.
After all, from the beginning, he didn’t believe Li Wen would agree. The reason he asked was mainly to deal with his superiors or his superiors’ superiors. As an investigator, he couldn’t afford the responsibility of letting a witness go.
Now that Moria spoke, it was equivalent to the Holy See vouching for him. When his superior held him accountable for this matter afterward, Xu En could be exempt from responsibility and pass this hot potato to someone else.
“Then it was my oversight.”
Xu En generously stated that he would not bring this up again.
At this moment, the dilapidated main door was pushed open, and two figures stumbled in.
It was the Wild Mage duo. No wonder they hadn’t been seen earlier. They had actually slipped away while Wilson was dead and Moria was unconscious.
“You… you guys go outside and take a look!”
Harik’s face was as pale as paper, and Nasha kept nodding in agreement.
Everyone… especially the players, were curious. They had just finished a dungeon and only got a broken cup as a reward. Could it be that the dungeon wasn’t actually finished?
They followed the Wild Mage duo out of the hall. The corridor they had entered earlier was now dilapidated, filled with dust and cobwebs.
On one side of the corridor lay a dusty desiccated corpse. From the clothing, this should be the butler who had guided them into the mansion.
“He’s been dead for a long time?”
The pursuer player Yuzuru said. She had put in a lot of effort to deal with this guy before joining the banquet.
“It’s not just that… you’ll know when you go out…”
Harik stammered, not saying anything, and kept walking to the front.
And when everyone walked along the corridor to the outside, leaving the mansion, they finally understood Harik’s meaning.
It was still night outside. The faint yellow crescent moon shone with a cold moonlight.
Under the moonlight, Wilson’s mansion was dilapidated and decaying, as eerie as a haunted house, as if it could collapse with a gust of wind.
“The mansion we saw before was an illusion created by the ritual. After all, this should only be a lavish banquet,” Li Lin acted as the explainer. “But in reality, Wilson was eccentric and tyrannical. The servants and maids in the mansion had long been tortured and killed by him. This mansion, being unattended, naturally turned into this state.”
After he finished speaking, Li Wen thought of something and said to Xu En:
“Wilson killed many villagers and buried them under this mansion to set up the ritual. And this mansion also has a basement. There should be a survivor inside, who was the former adjutant of Wilson’s father.”
Li Wen led everyone to find the well but found that it had been blocked tightly and was inaccessible.
As the highest-ranking and most powerful person, Xu En proposed to re-enter the mansion alone to search. Moria also wanted to accompany him, but Xu En believed that his injuries were still there and earnestly requested him to rest well.
Not long after, Xu En walked out.
“The bodies of those villagers were not found. I’m afraid we’ll have to wait for reinforcements from the Disciplinary Bureau and the Kingdom Army to arrive and dismantle the entire mansion to find them… As for the adjutant you mentioned, when I found him, he was already a corpse. And judging by the stiffness of the corpse, he had been dead for at least half a year.”
