WTYTIAAN Chapter 156

Yan Yunqing’s words caused the entire attic to fall silent.

Merlin’s expression wasn’t good, his old face wrinkled into a ball. Yan Yunqing glanced at it and couldn’t help but think that the wrinkles on Merlin’s face looked like chrysanthemums.

Yan Yunqing twitched the corner of his mouth and shifted his gaze, unable to bear to look directly at it.

Merlin didn’t notice Yan Yunqing’s slight disgust. If he had, he would only have been smug, because that old face was something he had deliberately created to avoid trouble.

“Mandi Pell, the Light Church…” Merlin frowned, “The Eternal God Sect, these three are not related on the surface at all.”

This was even more terrifying.

The more watertight they made it on the surface, the greater their ambitions were.

“The current belief of the Light Church, that Goddess of Light, have you ever learned about her? Is she really a newly born god?” Yan Yunqing asked the question that had been puzzling him for a long time.

“You’re talking about that.” Merlin actually knew about this. “When the Light Church was re-established and announced the birth of the Goddess of Light, Isabel and I had already investigated it. There was no new god born. That Goddess of Light was just a reason for the Light Church to re-attract believers.”

“The Goddess of Light who first appeared was just a saintess of the Light Church pretending. However, at that time, it was still during the war. The two great empires were fighting each other, and ordinary people didn’t have a good life. At that time, the Light Church took in these people and slowly formed a new Light Church,” Merlin said.

After the Demon King disappeared, the Eternal Empire persisted for a while with the support of severaljuànshǔ – retainers/followers. However, as time passed, people’s hearts changed easily. In addition, with the spread of that prophecy, the two initial leaders of Romunike and Bato Vita were the first to stand up and declare independence, unwilling to accept the rule of theyìzú – foreign race.

Immediately afterward, a war lasting more than a hundred years began.

The number of casualties during this period was no less than that of the God War. In addition, with the appearance ofmówù – demons/monsters, the ordinary people andyìzú – foreign race at the bottom suffered the most casualties. At that time, the Light Church stood up, fabricating a newly born Goddess of Light as an anchor for spiritual belief, sheltering and relieving those who were displaced by the war.

As everyone knew, the Light Church controlled all the light-based magic on the Ermann Continent, and many powerful healing magic spells were light magic. In addition, light-based magic was naturally strong againstmówù – demons/monsters. At that time, even if Merlin discovered the changes in the Light Church, he did not interfere with their reconstruction.

Judging by their actions, not their intentions, in that turbulent era, if they didn’t leave some shelter for ordinary people, they really wouldn’t be able to survive.

What’s more, the Goddess of Light displayed by the Light Church was just a fake, unable to affect them at all, so weak that she seemed like an ant that could be crushed at any time.

Even Merlin didn’t expect that the new Light Church, which was initially a saintess pretending to be a goddess, would now dare to secretly participate in such a heinous thing.

Merlin sighed, “I thought the new Light Church… would become true ‘Light.’ After all, I had met that child at that time.”

“That saintess who pretended to be a goddess was only 14 years old at the time… I asked her if she had ever thought about what would happen after being exposed by the believers?” Merlin recalled the past. Although thousands of years had passed, those scenes had long faded in color, they were still vivid in his memory.

She was a thin girl with a pair of beautiful blue eyes. Her hair was neatly tied up. When faced with Merlin’s blunt and sharp question, she didn’t show any uneasiness or fear, but firmly told Merlin:

——”There will always be some people who stand up to do something for this continent. If it’s not me, there will be others, so why can’t it be me?”

“She said the same thing to you, Nolan,” Merlin said with sorrow. “I really thought at that time that the Light Church might become the next Eternal Empire.”

Yan Yunqing, however, felt it was very normal. “You have to know that the way this world turns out can never be changed by one person.”

“If the Demon King hadn’t had like-minded allies andjuànshǔ – retainers/followers, he couldn’t have established the vast Eternal Empire.”

“Perhaps the saintess you saw really had the ambition to save the world, but human life is too short. She alone can’t control the Light Church to head towards a rotten future.”

The root of the Light Church was rotten.

It was rebuilt with the glory of the past and a decaying, smelly core. It was impossible to truly move towards “Light.”

“…You’re right.” Merlin had to admit that Nolan’s insights into certain things far exceeded those of people like them.

Even though he had lived for so many years, he couldn’t thoroughly study people’s hearts, but Nolan did it easily.

The attic was quiet again for a while.

Merlin breathed a long sigh of relief and said, “We will continue to investigate the Eternal God Sect, and at the same time, I will also pay attention to the movements of the Light Church. Their current power is developing too fast, and even I can’t easily get information from within them. It will take some time.”

“Is Isabel also going to participate?” Yan Yunqing heard what Merlin wanted to express.

Merlin nodded. “Finding out about the Eternal God Sect in the first place was because of that dragon bone transaction at the Auction House. Now that we’ve finally found new clues, Isabel won’t give up.”

“What’s more, when I returned to the academy this time, I also found crucial clues in the notes of that alchemist,” Merlin said. “The main materials required for drawing that alchemy formation are dragon bones and dragon blood. If our direction of investigation is correct, probably…”

This was the reason why members of the dragon clan had frequently disappeared in the past hundred years.

Merlin’s expression couldn’t hide his anger. Having become husband and wife with Isabel and living in the dragon clan for hundreds of years, he had also developed a sense of belonging to the dragon clan. It was difficult to maintain a calm state of mind when something like this happened.

Yan Yunqing nodded silently.

In this way, the Eternal God Sect’s plan had to be pushed forward a hundred years… if the disappearance of dragon clan members in the past hundred years was really related to the Eternal God Sect.

“Speaking of which, who is the descendant of that alchemist’s student you mentioned who is also a teacher at the academy?”

“You probably don’t know him,” Merlin didn’t hide anything. “He’s a teacher who teaches high-level students, and he didn’t inherit the alchemy talent of his ancestors. However, he’s very accomplished in magical languages. He’s currently teaching ‘Advanced Magical Languages and Runes.'”

“Clayton Gregory.”

Clayton Gregory?

Yan Yunqing repeated the name in his heart. Why did it sound so familiar?

He recalled for a moment and suddenly remembered why the surname Gregory was so familiar. As a fellow student in Class A, the classmate he was most familiar with at Sigret Academy—Quinn’s surname was Gregory.

Quinn’s full name was Quinn Gregory, and his father was also a teacher at the academy, teaching high-level students.

Yan Yunqing felt that he didn’t need to guess anymore about who this Clayton Gregory was.

Could it be such a coincidence…?

Yan Yunqing rubbed his temples, feeling that this world was made up of a huge series of coincidences.

“What about you? Are you going to continue staying at the academy? How much time do you need to recover your strength?”

From Merlin’s perspective, Yan Yunqing had only come to Sigret Academy to study the newly developed disciplines of the past thousand years. He wasn’t really here to study. And his strength hadn’t increased but had instead decreased so drastically in the thousand years of his disappearance. Merlin also actively found an excuse of injury for him.

However, Merlin always believed that Yan Yunqing’s strength would recover quickly. After all, judging from Yan Yunqing’s level increase in such a short period of time, it really seemed like he was slowly recovering his original strength.

After all, no matter how talented a person was, it was impossible to jump from level 40 to nearly level 70 in a few months.

Yan Yunqing touched his nose. This question was really difficult to answer. When would his strength recover? He didn’t know when he would reach level 180 or higher.

Why did he lose his levels after transmigrating? If he could directly inherit the panel he had controlled back then, would he still need to be afraid of this and that?

He could directly storm into the Light Church, tear the Pope apart with his bare hands, and kick the Holy Son. No one could stop him.

Yan Yunqing, who had spent two months specifically boosting the main control panel to be evenly matched with the God of Light, thought with great confidence.

It was a pity that these were all fantasies. After thinking about them, he still had to face reality.

“Well… my strength still needs some time to recover,” Yan Yunqing vaguely answered the question about his strength. “As for whether I will stay at Sigret Academy afterward…”

Yan Yunqing pondered for a moment and instead mentioned something irrelevant, “Counting the time, the ‘Sky Descenders’ are about to appear.”

Merlin was stunned and followed suit to calculate. His expression became serious. “‘Sky Descenders’… Hmm, judging by your expression, do you already know what the ‘Sky Descenders’ are referring to?”

“I know a little,” Yan Yunqing replied. “They’re a group of people whose behavior patterns are difficult to predict.”

“People?” Merlin caught the key point in Yan Yunqing’s words. “Are they from the human race?”

“…They are in terms of appearance.” Yan Yunqing thought about what game players would become from the perspective of game NPCs. “However, in a sense, they won’t die. At the same time, they are very curious about everything in this world. They are magical creatures.”

Merlin really couldn’t understand the “Sky Descenders” that Yan Yunqing described. “Your description… sounds more like they are undead.”

Yan Yunqing was exhausted. “In short, they are a group of people who are difficult to control. You’ll know when they descend.”

“I should leave the academy by then,” Yan Yunqing said. “I will mingle among the ‘Sky Descenders.’ If I’m not mistaken, the ‘Sky Descenders’ will also have ‘Talent Skills.’ When a large number of ‘Talent’ holders appear, the Eternal God Sect will definitely target the ‘Sky Descenders.'”

“Perhaps I can take this opportunity to find out the situation of the Eternal God Sect.”

Yan Yunqing and Merlin reached a consensus. They could never let go of the Eternal God Sect so easily and allow them to kill wantonly.

Yan Yunqing and Merlin didn’t even dare to talk about what the Eternal God Sect was collecting “Talents” for. If it was just one or two, then they might think that the people in the Eternal God Sect were just replacing better Talents for their children who didn’t have Talents.

But the scale of their killing was too large. What kind of purpose required so many lives and so many “Talents” to fill?

Yan Yunqing himself couldn’t figure it out.

It couldn’t be that the Demon King killed a God of Light, and they wanted to create a new god themselves, right?

Not satisfied with just a saintess pretending to be a god, but wanting to truly create a god…

Such a guess had no basis, but it made Yan Yunqing feel terrified.

If even gods could be created, would those high-ranking people… think about becoming gods themselves? If one person took the lead in using this method to become a god, would the remaining power holders also want to do the same?

This kind of precedent must not be set. If it was, the Ermann Continent would become a true hell.

A purgatory even more terrifying than the God War.

And it would be difficult for a second Demon King who slaughtered all the gods to appear in the world.

Even Yan Yunqing himself didn’t think he could do it again. Some things might be simple through a screen, but when he was deeply involved in it, he couldn’t be as ruthless and decisive as the former Demon King.

The plan to “establish his own power on the Ermann Continent” had to be put on the agenda.

Thinking of this, Yan Yunqing looked at Merlin. “Merlin, there’s something I need to ask you to do.”

“…”