789 Discovery (2/2)

”Who could it have been?” Looking at the other four coffins, Clement hesitated. If he opened the wrong one, the corresponding saint would definitely sense it, and it would be hard for him to explain why he did that. Although he wouldn't be executed, he would certainly be regarded as an ambitious schemer by his fellows and ostracized.

He performed divine powers, hoping to give himself some hints, but the results of his prophecies varied and included every coffin.

Shaking his head, Clement remembered that the Lord of Hell was behind him and therefore made up his mind, ready to check the target that he was most suspicious about!

He walked to the front and stopped before the coffin of Saint Ivan, which was standing vertically. With the angelic wings flapping, he extended his right hand and moved away from the cover of the coffin.

Creak.

The coarse, heavy friction interrupted the dead silence in the Room of the Holy Spirit. The coffin behind the cover was empty, showing nothing but the cold reflection from the iron.

Clement's gold eye was immediately frozen. It was indeed empty!

Saint Ivan, who betrayed the Holy City and established the North Church, was gone! His divine body and his generations of power were all gone!

”It's indeed Belkovsky. He has completed the status transformation!” Clement could barely hold back his fury. He was angry at Belkovsky's betrayal of their ideal.

It was not until this moment that he finally realized why Pope Viken never considered the saints in the North Church when he secretly released the ways to become a demigod, because he must've known that, with the divine bodies of the few saints and the power that they accumulated, all they needed for status transformation was to collect the power of feelings, which was relatively easy. Together with the power of faith that the North Church stole, the preparations to become a demigod were already done. The resources were enough to support a demigod.

If this path did not involve the understanding of divinity and faith, and the odds of failure were not as high, Belkovsky might have already tried to make the advancement… Clement thought angrily and enviously. He hadn't even completed status transformation yet. However, he did not know that Belkovsky was unaware of the secret to combine them to break into the demigod level.

Suddenly, he frowned. ”Belkovsky couldn't have fooled everyone when he collected the power of feelings in San Ivansburg. It's normal that I didn't know it, but it's rather strange that none of the saints sensed anything. Does he have any special ways?”

Thinking about that, he suddenly came to a horrible conclusion, which forced him to turn around and open another coffin without any concerns.

In squeaks, the cover of the coffin was opened, revealing the empty hollow. Felix's divine body was also gone!

The coffins were opened one after another. The divine bodies of Uriel and Aleksey had disappeared too!

Belkovsky was not the only one who had completed the status transformation!

”So, I was the only one who did not know it…” Clement laughed in his utmost fury. As it turned out, he had been exiled from the central circle since a long time ago.

After cleaning up the Room of the Holy Spirit, his consciousness returned to the Saint Geno Church, and he reached out to Maltimus.

”Belkovsky and the other three saints have all completed the status transformation with the divine bodies as 'containers'… Where did they learn the mysteries of negative feelings and primeval devils? Viken couldn't have leaked it to them. The other legends who learned it certainly wouldn't want to disseminate it either…” Maltimus considered.

He once had a plan to reveal the secret to Belkovsky at a critical moment to disrupt the situation, but he dropped the plan after he successfully arrived.

Before Clement proposed any speculation, Maltimus suddenly laughed mockingly. ”I'm afraid that it was done by the guys from the Congress of Magic. They only have the secrets about negative feelings and primeval devils, and they need the way to steal and utilize the power of faith that you know. You guys are perfect partners. Hehe. To think that Douglas and Lucien Evans still insist that they will walk on the path of arcana…”

”What do we do now?” Clement asked thoughtfully.

Maltimus chuckled. ”Release the message. Make sure that Viken learns it.”

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A few days later, in the Holy City…

Benedict III looked unusually awful as he read the intelligence before him. He gnashed his teeth as he hissed, ”Lucien Evans…”