Who says the Magic Cyber ​​Police can't overthrow the Heavenly Gang?

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Before long, the three arrived at a shelter nestled in a small valley. According to Holnet, the shelter could be carried around, but since they had finally found a good place to rest, they decided to leave it there for the time being and go out to clear out the monsters in the surrounding area, which is how they ran into Latis.

Regarding the shelter, Latis suddenly remembered that his cyber police backend seemed to allow him to exchange for shelters, and even some miscellaneous settlements, ruin coordinates and the like. He hadn't bothered to study it before because he had been on the surface and didn't really need the help of magic network items. Now it seemed that he could make a small effort to use the magic network.

However, the underground magic net seems to be in a rather disorganized state... In this small valley, the existence of the magic net can not even be felt, with only a few floating "fragments" that Latis can detect.

As a cyber police officer, Latis was very perceptive of the state of the magic network. In just over ten minutes, he discovered that the underground magic network seemed to be isolated from the surface.

No, it can't be said that they are isolated from each other. The functions of the cyber police and the official spells are still there, but there is no spell exchange area or those folk spells. At the same time, the state of the magic network is also very strange. It seems to be a bit sleepy. It doesn't move at all when Latis rubs it. Even when Latis tentatively gathers a trace of necromantic magic, it doesn't use that oppressive manner to kill the virus.

Simply put, it's like a sleeping husband... cough, like a local host that's not connected to the internet, lacking any independent functions, and even with varying distances between hosts, causing the magic network to be intermittent.

This made Latis a little uncomfortable. After all, the magic net was a very useful hammer to him, which he could use to smash anyone. Now that the hammer was working sometimes and sometimes it was not, it felt like he was missing a handy tool.

However, the state of the magic network made him begin to suspect whether it was related to the will of light. Although the battle between the Supreme Radiance and the goddess that Jennifer found in the doujinshi seemed a bit nonsensical, upon closer inspection, apart from the last scene with a suggestive shot left to the artist, there could indeed have been a battle between the goddess and the Supreme Radiance, just like the battles between the goddess and other gods, which is reasonable.

Because he suddenly remembered that in a simulation long ago, Holnett had referred to these perpetual spatial turbulences underground as "the will of the gods."

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"The will of the gods?"

Holnet fiddled with the earplugs he had already removed, pondered for a moment, then put his hand back into his cloak. A short while later, he reached out and held out a broken piece of bone to Latis.

"This is..." Latis took the bone fragment, examined it for a few seconds, glanced at the item information displayed on the simulation panel, and asked, "A fragment of a container belonging to your Holy City Knights?"

"You really know a lot."

Holnett nodded with some surprise, took back the bone fragment, twirled it slightly in his palm, and said:

"It seems you are indeed one of the Holy City's own people now. In that case, I can explain these things to you. Of course, my conjecture does not represent the Holy City's position; it is merely my personal opinion."

"learn."

Latis noticed the seriousness in Holnet's words and immediately sat up straight, revealing a serious expression.

“Let me think where to begin…” Harnit, who rarely gave long explanations, pinched his chin, glanced at Gita peeking out of the shelter, listened to the howling wind outside, then shook his head slightly and said:

"Both the 'Broken Container' and the 'Perfect Container' are divine spells inherited from the Illuminati, the predecessor of the Church. At that time, believers regarded bearing the will of the gods as an honor..."

The turbulent currents of the underground world roared past the shelter, like countless ancient wills howling and pleading for their past glory.

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Long ago, there was a god worshipped in the Wilderness Territory, named "Supreme Radiance." Its light was magnificent and violent, like the most powerful weapon of its believers, protecting the common people who were teetering on the brink of collapse amidst the struggles between various lords and countless demons.

The power of the gods was too great to be directly used by believers. At this time, a most devout believer was inspired by his sincere faith and ascended to the gods' kingdom. During his report, he prayed to the gods with tears in his eyes.

The gods, moved by his sincerity, bestowed upon him the divine power of a vessel, allowing him to temporarily contain the gods' immense divine power.

With the help of such divine magic, the believers of the Wilderness Territory finally gained a brief period of peace until the goddess was born, the supreme radiance disappeared without a trace, and the divine magic of the vessel vanished from then on.

As Promea City gradually came into being, the Pope of the Church of Light, in order to gain a foothold in the monster-infested wilderness, rediscovered the divine magic of the vessel from old documents and taught it to the knights of the Church.

Holnet is exceptionally talented. He has not only made great achievements in the field of "Armed Knights", but also made rapid progress in the cultivation of container magic. In just a few years since he came into contact with container magic, he has cultivated "broken containers" to the point of being close to "perfect containers".

The reason it is described as "close" is that the container magic is, after all, a divine art bestowed by the supreme radiance. Now that it has become history, it is almost impossible for humans to obtain such high-quality divine power through their own cultivation. Therefore, even Holnet needs to find fragments of the perfect container to fill his container magic, which has reached its bottleneck.

Initially, Holnet didn't care about the progress of her training in creating the perfect vessel. After all, as an armed knight, her attitude towards various powers was to use them as they came, and it didn't matter if she couldn't reach the state where she was most comfortable with them. Moreover, there were many divine spells listed in the Holy Book of the Church, and it didn't matter if she couldn't use those ancient divine spells. Every year, knights would create new divine spells to fill the Holy Book, so she didn't have to worry about lacking divine spells to use.

However, everything changed when she accidentally entered the underground world during a battle with monsters.

When the Container Divine Art is on the surface, it is very similar to an advanced version of the first divine art of the cult priest, "Three Feet of Light". Both of them enhance one's own body with light. The difference is that the light absorbed by the Container Divine Art can be directly used to enhance combat and cast offensive divine arts, while "Three Feet of Light", as a basic divine art, is more like a means of cultivation, requiring one to digest that light first.

While Holnet was fighting underground, she accidentally used the divine magic of "Perfect Vessel." Just as she was about to habitually activate her weapon, which was blessed by light, to attack, she unexpectedly found that her body suddenly became uncontrollable. Then, in her perception, an immeasurable and vast will descended into her body, and with a wave of her hand, she easily cut a group of high-level monsters in half.

That was her first encounter with the will of the gods. She wasn't sure if it was the legendary Supreme Radiance, but the fierce and violent feeling lingered in her mind after the battle. It wasn't until she finally left the underground and returned to the Holy City that she began to suspect that it might really be the Supreme Radiance after consulting countless documents.

The questions are: why is the Supreme Radiance underground, what is its current state, and where did the light from the gods, as described in folk tales, go?

With these questions in mind, Holnet bid farewell to the Pope and the Holy City Knights who were still working hard to protect the light with human power, and returned to the underground alone.

In later battles, she rarely used container magic. After all, even Holnet was secretly terrified of the feeling of having her body controlled by a strange will. After exploring underground for many years, she discovered that many things underground actually bore the shadow of divine will.

For example, there was the insect monster whose eyes were swollen like lava by the parasitized light that Latis had seen in the simulation, and the berserk rat monster whose wounds flowed with lava light, and the snail monster whose body was completely transparent by the light and whose body could be clearly seen to have lava flowing inside.

The underground world is pitch black. Where did these monsters get these bizarre states of being parasitized by light?

Holnett believes that this may be a leak of the will of the gods, and that these monsters may have been tainted or even possessed by the will of the gods by chance, which led to their changes.

Driven by the desire to find similar phenomena, she also discovered monsters similar to those parasitized by light, such as spider monsters with strangely growing shadowy limbs and snake monsters that mysteriously remained active despite having their upper and lower limbs severed.

Perhaps the divine will existing underground is not limited to the Supreme Radiance alone.

As for those underground turbulent currents, she also believed them to be a manifestation of the will of the gods. The occasional murmurs that swept through them would even make her feel disoriented when she was caught off guard by them.

However, since there is no atmospheric circulation underground, she still couldn't guess where these turbulent currents came from.

Of course, she also visited seemingly intelligent monster races, such as goblins, gnolls, and minotaurs, but those races were almost unable to communicate with humans. Even when they did, she found that they had no long-term memory and could not discern the divine will she spoke of.

Therefore, it is no surprise that Holnet's next target, the intelligent night elves, overlapped with Latis's objective.

"That's quite a coincidence..."

Latis couldn't help but shake his head and sigh:

"I never expected that my investigation into the forced conscription in Shuluan Village would run into you."

"Being conscripted... for the mating of the Night Elves...?"

Holnet rolled up his cloak, stood up, took a couple of steps toward the shelter's entrance, observed the turbulent flow outside, then sat back down and whispered:

"Perhaps it's not a coincidence."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Latis was taken aback.

Holnett stroked his chin, glanced at Geeta who was looking away, embarrassed to listen to such things, and subtly curled the corner of his mouth before continuing:

"At your age, you may not have heard of the deeds of the elves, but I heard it when I was a child. The elves have very high requirements for the natural environment, and the floating islands where they live were once covered with all kinds of plants."

Upon hearing Holnet's words, Latis couldn't help but chuckle to himself, and subconsciously touched the ring on his ring finger.

In this world, probably no one understands the elves better than him.

"I have heard that although the Elven race's reproduction is similar to that of humans, being in nature is more conducive to the process of conception."

Holnett, oblivious to Latis's subtle expression, wrapped himself in his red cloak and said somewhat uncertainly:

"Although the relationship between the Night Elves and the Elves is no longer known, I have heard that the Night Elves also have similar environmental requirements, only that they prefer different types of plants than the Elves on the surface."

"Wait, that means..."

Latis suddenly had a flash of inspiration and instantly recalled the forest with palm-shaped leaves that he had encountered when he was blown to the Night Elf territory by the underground turbulence in the previous simulation. According to the racial habits of the elves, that might be the environment that the Night Elves needed to live in.

However, there seems to be some other problem...

A few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead as his mind raced, trying to grasp the clue hidden in that fleeting thought.

Night Elves...Tree Hill Village...

Praying to watch the sun... falling asleep... clover...

Scented grass is a shade-loving plant...and underground plants are probably all shade-loving too!

So, according to Holnet's conjecture, if the reason the night elves went out to conscript men was because of a declining birth rate that led to a problem with the continuation of the race, and the declining birth rate was due to a deteriorating living environment, then the deteriorating environment was very likely because those shade-loving plants were being suppressed in some way... and this!

"Could it be the work of some kind of divine force?!"

Latis couldn't help but widen his eyes, looking at Holnet, who also had a solemn expression. He took a deep breath and murmured:

"So, there's a high possibility that there's a leak of light energy near the Night Elf area..."

"possible."

Holnet lifted his cloak, adjusted his various weapons, then stood up, glanced at the temporarily calmed turbulence outside the shelter, turned to Latis and Gita, and said in a deep voice:

"Perhaps this time, we can finally find some new clues..."

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"The turbulence has temporarily subsided."

Jennifer poked her head out of a cave in the rock wall, looked around, and turned back to say:

“Let’s explore the area first. This seems to be some kind of boundary. The whole thing is just rock walls like this. Maybe if we keep following this path, we can find some kind of settlement.”

"Master, can we contact Grandmaster?"

Leafa walked out of the cave to Jennifer's side, glanced at the rugged mountain path below the rock wall, a serious expression appearing on her small face, and said:

"The environment around here doesn't look like there's any human activity. Those shady plants might not be safe. We have to be careful later."

Jennifer glanced at Leafa, who had quickly adapted to her surroundings, smiled, patted her head, and said:

"We can't get in touch right now. The underground magic network is a bit intermittent. Once we walk around and find a place with a magic network, we'll be able to make contact."

After saying that, she looked at Snyder, who was squatting at the very back of the cave, his face somewhat pale, and asked with concern:

"Miss Snyder, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Sir Knight."

Snyder snapped out of his daze, propped himself up on his knees, patted his white robe, pursed his lips, and smiled as he said:

"I just feel that the underground environment... gives me the illusion of being in the holy city of Romnia, so I'm a little nervous..."

"what?"

Jennifer raised an eyebrow, carefully examined Snyder's expression, touched her chin, and fell into deep thought.

Before entering the underground passage, she discovered that Snyder's faith was pure and devout, and after initial contact, she felt that he was of good character. So, she used her authority to bypass the Holy City's assessment and directly taught him the basic divine arts of a priest, making him a prospective priest of the Holy City.

The roles of priests and knights are different. If knights are the fighting force of the Holy City, then priests are the defensive and research force of the Holy City.

Priests possess a wide variety of divine spells and have a better understanding of their nature and possibilities, but their mobility and strength are far inferior to those of knights. However, when the priests of the Holy City gather together, the light they can summon seems to have a scale effect, making them much stronger than knights who focus on individual strength.

Jennifer initially thought Snyder was simply a person of pure faith, but upon hearing her describe the feeling of the Holy City of Romnia, Jennifer realized that there was indeed a faint, ethereal will permeating the air around her, much like the feeling of the Pope of Romnia before he activated the "Dispersed Lens".

Although it was because he was stronger, he didn't feel the same subtle pressure as the girl in front of him, but this was still enough to prove that Snyder's divine magical talent was extremely strong.

"It's not an illusion; your senses are very sensitive."

As Jennifer spoke, she conjured a ball of pure light to bless Snyder. Seeing the girl's expression soften instantly, she nodded slightly, clapped her hands, and said: