Chapter 1113 - A Third Wheel (1/2)

Chapter 1113: A Third Wheel

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“Ms. Army Commander?” Joe stammered. It took him a while to register the person in front of him and understand why the woman looked familiar. But… how was this possible?

“I… don’t understand. You should have been killed in one of the battles during the Months of Demons…” Farrina swallowed hard. “Plus, God’s Punishment Warriors are all extremely pious warriors who have devoted themselves to God. They never — ”

“They never speak, as though they’re mute?” Zooey talked over her. “This has nothing to do with faith. They never talk because they’ve been brainwashed, otherwise, we can’t use their bodies.”

Use their bodies?

“What are you talking about…”

“Well, I want to first ask you though, how did the church advertise the God’s Punishment Army?”

Joe replied fervently, “As the warriors who have obtained God’s power, the mortal enemy of the witches, and the church’s greatest hope to save the world. Only faithful and fearless believers will be granted the honor of becoming a God’s Punishment Warrior,” Joe paused for a few seconds and then said, “I used to think that saving the world meant to stop the demonic beasts invading the interior from the Great Rupture; however, after I read the last will of Pope Tucker Torr, I learned about the Battle of Divine Will and the existence of demons.”

“So, the God’s Punishment Army is actually a special army that fights demons,” Farrina supplied Joe’s answer. “Only the Prival Council of Hermes knew how to hold the incarnation ceremony. Now, Roland Wimbledon has ruined everything.”

“It sounds very touching, but unfortunately, none of this is true,” Zooey said with a contemptuous smile. “What you believe is that the God’s Punishment Army is merely a tool the usurper used to suppress witches. Although the original purpose of creating such an army was to save the human race, this wasn’t the church’s original idea, but rather, a witch’s.”

Farrina stared at Zooey incredulously. She would have refuted such a groundless allegation had the person talking to her not been the famous Enova, whom she admired.

Joe took a sharp intake of breath and said, “Could you… tell us more about it?”

“Fine. I’ll satisfy your curiosity then, mortals,” Zooey said with a faint smile playing around her lips.

…

After Zooey had told them everything, Farrina felt a pain sear through her ten fingers. Looking down, she noticed that her hands had clenched into fists as her broken fingers started to bleed profusely again.

Now Farrina knew why such a historical figure would suddenly appear in her life, alive and well. The Enova standing in front of her was not the army commander of the Judgement Army she knew, but an ancient witch who has lived for over 400 years.

She would have drawn her sword and fought a life-and-death battle against the witch while accusing her of profanity had she the strength to fight. Even if she could not win, she would not allow a devil to use a warrior’s body in such a disrespectful fashion.

However, she was too weak to get out of her bed.

This was ridiculous.

This was a preposterous absurdity!

According to Zooey, witches had founded the church. They were neither the representation of evil nor the devil’s underlings but were actually the real heroes dedicated to preserving the human race. The Queen of Starfall City had sacrificed herself for mankind. Was there anything more ironic than this? The God’s Punishment Army was actually a creation of the witches whom she despised. The incarnation ceremony she had been longing to attend was merely a process to provide the witches with more shells. Witches had even, in a way, shaped the world.

“Argue with her. This is a lie, a fabrication!”

A voice yelled in her head. Farrina opened her mouth but nothing came out.

Zooey’s story did explain many things.

For example, it explained why some God’s Punishment Warriors had mysteriously disappeared.

Why there were bodies of females drained of blood.

Why there were large monasteries in the old Holy City.

And why there were Pure Witches who looked no different than ordinary witches.

If everything was indeed a perfect lie as Zooey had told, the person who had fabricated all of it must have been staying in the church for decades, and know the church’s largestsecret. Farrina could think of no one but the popes.

Apart from that, there was another piece of solid evidence: “power”.

Since the God’s Punishment Warriors were designed to kill demons, then the stronger the better. From the fact that two God’s Punishment Witches could easily break through the castle on Archduke Island guarded by the God’s Punishment Warriors, Farrina judged that a conscious man was apparently much more powerful than an unconscious killing machine. If witches could exert such incredible power in a body of a God’s Punishment Warrior, why had the church wanted to kill them? Why had they not made good use of them instead? The church could have definitely used Pure Witches if they were prejudiced against ordinary witches.

In fact, there had not been a single God’s Punishment Witch in Hermes.