Chapter 150

Chapter 150 “The Secret in the Underground Sanctuary”

“Are you going to pray to the goddess?”

Truth be told, in this instant, Duncan’s instinctive reaction was that there was something wrong with the storm goddess Gomona. The cause must be because of the sinister side of the god, which led to this terrifying shadow taking hold inside the city-state. This distortion was the evidence.

But the next second, he had another suspicion: if there was really something wrong with the storm goddess Gomona, then why were the other churches in the city normal?

It wasn’t that he had seen other storm churches – there were community churches near the antique shop and churches next to the original maritime museum. Even if he hadn’t gone in to check it out, he had wandered around the neighborhood, and the aura released by those churches... It was obviously different from this eerie church in front of him.

He also had contact with other clergies, including the most low-level priests and guardians, as well as the inquisitor like Vanna, who was at the apex of the city-state. From what he could tell, these people who served the goddess of the storm were all normal, even more determined and clear-thinking than most.

He ignored the nun and looked up at the statue.

After the glimpse just now, the strange rift in the head of the statue did not appear again. Even in the other picture of the church, the spot was nothing more than a charred mess. He couldn’t find any evidence of that rift anywhere again.

Duncan frowned.

The weirdness of this church was obviously a special case. Assuming the fault didn’t lie with the storm goddess herself... then what he saw could only be interpreted as an evil force trying to use this chapel as a node to invade reality.

But what exactly is that?

The shape of that rift seems to have nothing to do with the evil sun god, and it is completely unrelated to the sun fragment. If I had to say it.... the swirling chaotic light reminds me of the bottom levels of the Vanished.

“Are you going to pray to the goddess?” The nun’s voice came again. She was neither impatient nor urging, but as if some keyword was triggered, she began to repeat this question over and over again when Duncan and Shirley stood beside the statue.

Shirley seemed a little overwhelmed and instinctively looked to Duncan, who finally responded at this moment: “Are you praying to your goddess?”

This should be an unquestionable question, and any normal believer would give a clear and affirmative answer at this point. Yet, the nun’s reaction made Shirley’s eyes widen in shock.

“I... I don’t know,” the nun shook her head calmly as if she didn’t feel anything wrong with her response, “I’m just praying, and he told me to pray here.”

Duncan immediately frowned: “Who is he?”

“The great existence,” the nun smiled.

After speaking this, he paused as if making a further judgment. Then turning back to face Duncan, he explained his findings: “It’s somewhat similar to the situation of the abandoned factory from before, but it’s much more distorted here. I’m afraid the distortion is already approaching the threshold of what reality can bear.... There’s no mistaking it. The source of the veiled curtain must be here.”

“So the distortion is already approaching the threshold of the real world... No wonder I can observe it directly with my eyes too.” Duncan nodded nonchalantly, and his gaze fell on the stairs up ahead, “The entire church has been checked. Now all that remains is the basement... According to the layout of most storm churches in the city, the area is what the clergies call the underground church.”

“I’m starting to get excited,” Dog shook his ugly head, the chains around his neck rattling, “for the first time in my life, I broke into the forbidden land of the Storm Church... I wonder what’s down there!”

Shirley shot a weird look at Dog’s drooling expression: “Can you XXXX stop acting like a pedophile who’s ready to break into the women’s bathroom?”

Dog: “...”

Duncan ignored the combination of these two. He had already bypassed Dog and started going down the stairs. Eventually, he came to an entrance, which should lead into the underground sanctuary.

As a small community church, the so-called “underground church” here was nothing more than a spacious crypt, and the door to the underground area was an oak door reinforced with steel frames and sacred runes.

Duncan placed his hand on the door, pushed it slightly, and found that it was not locked. However, when he continued to drive forward, he felt some resistance, like something had blocked it from the other side.

“There’s something across the door.” Duncan stepped back slightly, observing the dark oak door in front of him.

For some reason, when he came to the door of the underground sanctuary, the strange “superimposition” scene subsided, and all he saw in front of him was this door.

It seems that the “two branches” of reality have completed their convergence here, leaving only the one “reality” as the truth.

“Do you want to smash the door open?” Shirley followed from behind. She had already picked up the chain in her hand with Dog ready by her side. Specifically, the pair had taken on the meteor hammer stance like they used on the suntists during that gathering.

“...... You may spoil the clues,” Duncan stopped the dog-wielding girl who was about to use traditional arts to solve the problem. Instead, he put a hand on the rune-strewn door and ignited a small flame between his fingers to follow the grooves, “Theoretically, this door should be some sort of supernatural item...”

In the next second, the blessed temple door had turned into firewood for the ghost fire. With the green flame burning rapidly, the gate faithfully carried out the “master’s” order.

It burned itself.

And as the door was wiped out, the thing that was against the door on the opposite side had revealed itself to the party by falling to the ground with a plop.

It was a nun in a black gown—scarred, still holding a sword in her hand, and glaring angrily at something in the darkness even though she had died.

Shirley saw the other party’s face clearly, and a chill instantly rose from the bottom of her heart.

“WAH! That nun we saw just now?!”