Villain: Glory bows to me

The note read:

{There is a great relic of God in the world, called the Bond of the Eye. It is the product left behind by God's children at birth, and it contains the power of God.

When the three eye bonds are gathered, human thought can rise to an extraordinary realm. After all, gods can also see the truth of the world.

Catherine didn't quite understand the meaning of this, so she didn't think much about it for the time being and just kept it in mind.

Vito had just learned the news and sent a tip to Catherine.

Just when Catherine was unconscious, Milea sent information again, which was about how to obtain inner vision.

There are three divine relics in the dream world, known as the Eye Links, which are the only way to gain inner vision.

With inner vision, Catherine was able to match Chaos in cognition and kill him.

So Vito will continue to send hints to Catherine until she collects all three Eye Bonds.

At the same time, Vito also began to ask Milea to collect information about the symbols on the blue gem.

This symbol was not designed by Vito, so Vito believed that it contained a great secret.

In the dream world, Catherine uses the power of the gem to send herself back to the main dream.

Stepping onto the bridge leading to the parish again, Catherine now had a clear idea of ​​what to do.

Looking at the monster lingering at the end of the bridge, Catherine did not retreat but walked up resolutely.

As if she realized that she would not die completely in this world, Catherine had no worries at all and rushed towards the monster with a butcher knife in hand.

Just with this one action, Catherine's lost memories returned to her brain.

In an instant, all the fighting skills she had ever learned were recovered. What was even more incredible was that Catherine's own strength also increased exponentially.

She just took a short run and jumped lightly, and actually jumped directly onto the head of the monster that was dozens of times her size.

As the butcher knife fell, the monster let out a horrifying scream and a large amount of blood splattered out.

However, this time, Catherine did not feel the thrill of hunting and the excitement of blood. Instead, she felt calmer than ever before, as if she had done something insignificant.

This is her instinct, the instinct of a killer. Facing a hunt, she is calm, cruel and unperturbed.

However, this sudden powerful ability still made Catherine feel unfamiliar. She couldn't believe that it was the power she burst out.

The monster seemed to be destroyed in an instant. Blood kept flowing from the head of the terrible skeleton goat, and the monster lost the ability to resist.

It suddenly knelt down towards the cathedral in the direction of the parish, clasped its hands together, and uttered its last words in a low roar, and finally fell to the ground.

But in the real world, Vito used his magic to understand what the monster was saying.

It seemed like a confession.

The monster mentioned that the church did not abide by the motto and forgot its original intention.

Two of the words caught Vito's attention: "Holy Body and Holy Blood" and "Eucharist".

It sounded like some kind of ceremony held by the church, and Vito already knew that blood seemed to play a very important role in the dream world newly designed by Chaos.

So Vito thinks these words are crucial.

However, Catherine is now preparing to head to the parish, so Vito does not have time to ask people to search for clues and can only pass the information to Catherine first.

Then Catherine found a new note on the monster's body, which read:

{The Holy Cross Church is holding a terrible ceremony, in which the important ingredients are the Holy Body and Blood.

Unfortunately, no one has ever seen the Holy Body, and it seems that only traces of the Holy Blood can be found.

Such church-related information naturally attracted Catherine's attention.

Catherine wrote down the information and waited to check it one by one after arriving at the cathedral.

Leaving the bridge and entering the parish, Catherine found that it was the same here, full of the breath of death.

It was pitch black everywhere, with no sign of light at all. Only at the top of the cathedral was there a faint light, which did not look like lighting or fire. Its color could only be described as weird.

However, the situation in the parish is much better than outside the parish, because at least there are no corpses everywhere.

But Catherine felt very uncomfortable because the streets were filled with coffins, and those coffins were wrapped with heavy chains, as if they were afraid that the people sleeping in the coffins would run out.

To Catherine, such a burial method was really a blasphemy to the dead. It was no wonder that Lamer would say such words. However, the funeral that Lamer advocated seemed a little hard to describe.

Just as Catherine stood there observing the surrounding situation, a figure suddenly flashed in the darkness not far away and entered an alley.

Catherine, who had a keen insight, immediately noticed the movement over there. Catherine vaguely saw that the figure seemed to be wearing armor.

Catherine speculated that the man was most likely a guard of the Holy Cross Church, and perhaps she could get useful information from him, so Catherine immediately followed him.

At the same time, Vito in the real world is constantly receiving information from Mireya.

The first is about the symbol on the gem.

The intelligence states that in Chaos' setting, the Enlightenment Academy once explored an underground cemetery, and Cosmos led the Apostle Organization to act as their guards.

The symbol on the gem was the one Cosmos had discovered on the wall of the underground cemetery. Along with the symbol appeared a group of mummies with their hands tied and hanging upside down from the ceiling of the cemetery.

It looked like a human sacrifice.

There were piles of gold, silver and jewelry near the mummy.

The postures of the mummies were exactly the same as the symbols on the gems, so the symbols on the gems that Mireya gave way to seemed to represent sacrifice.

But Vito had different ideas.

Because Vito understood one thing: those who performed human sacrifices were also human beings, and they sacrificed their own kind in order to obtain blessings from the objects of worship.

The intelligence also stated that the mummies did not have twisted expressions of pain, but instead looked calm.

So Vito believed that those mummies were sacrificed voluntarily, or in religious terms, they were martyrs.

But for Vito, martyr is just a good name to cover up the truth.

So Vito temporarily questioned his speculation and waited for more evidence to verify it.

Whether it is an offering or a sacrifice, there is no conclusion yet.

But the real reason why Cosmos used this symbol was a little hard for Vito to guess.

It can't be said that he also sacrificed all the members of the Apostles, right? Vito didn't think so, because Lamer had said before that the members of the Apostles disappeared overnight, and it was obvious that Cosmos couldn't do it.

If it was a sacrifice, what did Cosmos sacrifice? And what did he gain?

Vito believes that the answer to this puzzle may involve the Enlightenment Academy.

After all, birds of a feather flock together. A group of arrogant scholars will not hang out with a reckless man who only knows how to fight and hunt.

So Vito thought that Cosmos was no ordinary person after being modified by Chaos.

What surprised Vito even more was another piece of information, which mentioned that the "gathering place" of the Apostle Organization still existed in the subject's dream.

In other words, chaotic dreams are nothing more than the product projected by Chaos using the main dream.

Then, the gathering place in the subject's dream may contain the key to unlocking the secret in Cosmos' heart.

Vito has already learned the specific location of the gathering place in the main dream, so the next step is to guide Catherine to go there and take a look.

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The image of the mummies I described is exactly the "Hanged Man" in the Waite Tarot card, which means the noble spirit of self-sacrifice.

If we trace the origin, we have to go back to Odin, the king of gods in Norse mythology. His symbol is the prototype of the Hanged Man in the Tarot card.

The story is that Odin hung himself upside down on the World Tree and thus obtained the Runes.

This story is recorded in the Poetic Edda.

"For nine days and nine nights, I was hung upside down on a tree in the howling cold wind. I had no bread to fill my hunger and no water to quench my thirst. I kept picking up runes from top to bottom."

This is why Odin hung himself upside down, dedicating himself to gaining knowledge.

So Kosmos's motive, or the motive of the Enlightenment Academy, seems self-evident.

Finally, I have to mention that "Phantom Beast Palu" is so fun that I can't stop playing it, hahaha.