At the eastern part of the campus of Olsylvia Academy was one of the forbidden grounds, the Scripps Cemetery. After Bella kept Sylvia properly, she continued her trip with Noreya and Elaine. Her familiar demon, Demon World Princess Diaz did not show her face so Elaine did not manage to see Bella’s familiar demon. She also did not know that Sylvia had already been “taken in” by Bella.
“Elaine, how do you know that the footprints are left by your sister, Isaman? The footprints have no name!”
“This question is the secret of my profession. If there is a chance, I will let you know!”
Elaine did not clarify Bella’s bewilderment. She was the only dormitory roommate who Bella hadn’t seen naked. At the present time, she could only be considered a normal friend and her body’s secret needed to be kept secret from Bella. Her profession was said to be named Puppet Master but Bella felt that her identity was not as simple as just a Puppet Master.
It was very shabby in the inside of Scripps Cemetery and it seemed that no one had offered sacrifices for a very long time. The deceased spirits here weren’t going to go through the reincarnation process. Based on the hidden secret of the Radiant Church, ten thousand years ago, the Twelve Demon Kings had intervened in the battle of the God World and the God World had lost thoroughly. The Twelve Gods, together with a group of High-Level Gods, had all either died in battle or were unaccounted for.
The Death God was a first-class God and had also died in the battle. Once the Death God and God of Life died, nobody managed the Reincarnation Passage. Currently the dead were not able to reincarnate and this had caused the whole human continent to have exceptionally many wandering spirits. The Radiant Church seized the opportunity to emerge. Luckily the new spirits were not managed by the God World, if not the Other World would have been finished ten thousand years ago.
On the graveyard floor, Bella had seen the footprints that Elaine mentioned. On the muddy ground, there was indeed a row of footprints that was left behind by a human. However, besides the human race’s footprint, there were also many mysterious footprints and they all seemed to look similar to the human race.
“Bella, this footprint is not left by a living person. It should be a dead person, probably an undead Demon Corpse.
Noreya looked at the footprint on the ground and realized that the footprint was incomplete. For instance, the footprint that was nearest to her, the owner of the footprint, the sole of the foot seemed to be partly gnawed off. Noreya, besides being an assassin, also had archer as a subclass and in her past life, her actual profession was a hunter.
“The corpse of an undead… This Scripps Cemetery should have a thousand years of history and if there really were traces of the undead, it would be a ten thousand year Corpse God. Bella, should we retreat first? Even the Catholic Cardinal of the Radiant Church would not dare to deal with a Corpse God”.
Elaine was slightly worried for the safety of her sister Isaman. Based on the point of view of the Interdimensional Traveler, she and Isaman are not considered sisters but Elaine also did not want to implicate Bella and Noreya, thus she could only suggest for them to retreat first.
According to the ability of the undead, those that had existed for a century would be known as a Zombie King, those that existed for a millennium would be a Zombie Demon, then those that had been surviving for ten millenium would be known as a Corpse God. Even in Bella’s Darkness Sacred Region, there weren’t any Corpse Gods. She did not expect that at the Scripps Cemetery, there would be Corpse God, and not just one of them!
These Corpse Gods had been awake all this time but they did not climb up to attack Bella and others. It was not because the sunlight restricted their actions, the Corpse King was not afraid of the sunlight, let alone the Corpse God. It was also not because Bella and others were not human and with special identities thus being unable to snatch away their very abnormal human bodies.
The Corpse Gods actually feared the Great Evil Slaying Sword which Bella had put in the storage rings she brought with her. This Great Evil Slaying Sword was a genuine product that was bought from Akmans, who was one of the male saviors, and the sword was actually one of the nemeses of evil. To be cut by the Great Evil Slaying Sword, even if it was a Corpse God, it would also die.
It was already considered strange that Bella, being both a Demon King and a Demon God, could carry and use weapons of the Savior. Elaine and Noreya, who were her companions, had also faced a similar situation whereby they had very evil auras but they were unknown entities who were able to carry equipment of the Savior.
Bella did not bring President Maria and the four Holy Maidens nor did she call Angel, who was proficient in spirit magic. Regarding this Scripps Cemetery adventure trip, they had miscalculated from the start; they didn’t bring the full set of professions (like in a game) with them so now they were trapped.
“It does not matter, we shall continue to advance and follow Isaman’s footprint as we can’t leave her alone over here. She should have opened that door using a key!”
Bella decided to continue. It was still daytime, even if there was Corpse God climbing out, they would just cripple their own two legs. If she really couldn’t handle it, then she could summon that broken down Lolita, who was a Loli, and bomb this public cemetery. Ockham, who was one of the Ex-Twelve Demon Kings, had also been killed by Lolita. No matter how strong a Corpse God was, it could not win against the Twelve Demon Kings.
In the depths of the Scripps Cemetery, where the nameless stele was, Bella and her party had seen President Isaman, who was dressed in a pure white sacrificial apparel. Bella didn’t expect that President Isaman would be the priest and stared blankly for a while. The namelist of the St. Louis Church Academy elite priest members that she had gotten from President Maria did not have Isaman’s name.
The Radiant Church had stipulated that all high-level priests and above would be recorded in the file. It was obvious that Isaman did not register with the Radiant Church. It was estimated that she was not a normal priest. A person who was ranked first in the Olsylvia Academy Magic Profession students; Bella would not believe that she was just a priest even if she was beaten to death.
“President Isaman, what are you doing here, I remember that this place is a forbidden ground!”
“Oh, Duchess Bellina, why are you here when there is nothing happening and you are not part of the clergy?”
Isaman turned around and looked at Bella with a puzzled expression. The Scripps Cemetery had buried the human heroes that had died in the battle ten thousand years ago in Olsylvia City. After the heroes had died in the battle ten thousand years ago, because they could not reincarnate, their spirits had been hovering around here.
Following the elapsed time, the spirit of these former human heroes had become depraved. They were trapped in this Scripps Cemetery for ten thousand years and nobody had offered sacrifices to them; even a normal person would become crazy. The corpses that were left behind had basically changed into Corpse Gods. The reason they had not gone out to wreck the world was because they had no consciousness. They would only be based on the memory fragments and instincts before they died, and lingered around their original place.
Previously, Sylvia had met a certain corrupted hero spirit that was both a thief and an assassin. It had depended on its instinct and innate skill to effortlessly steal away Sylvia’s magic artifact. If she had not met Bella and the few “aliens” who had stopped it, it would have already gotten away.
These corrupted holy spirits were different from the Corpse God as their original corpse had already been destroyed in the last battle. They could only wait for a living person to turn up and then to wrest control of that person’s body. Because of an unknown reason, they were unable to attach themselves to the body of the Corpse Gods.
“Isaman, you are saying this place does not just have Corpse Gods but also holy spirits that have been corrupted. How did you know about this? Even President Maria and that others didn’t know about this matter so how could you have known…”
“Bellina, please don’t ask about that anymore; everybody has their own secrets. These corrupted holy spirits and the Corpse Gods, will temporarily not attack priests who are part of the clergy. I didn’t ask why you are alright, so why should you try to figure out my secret?”
Under the nameless monument, there were many bouquets spread over there and it looked like it was made of wildflowers that were picked from the mountain. Isaman put both her palms together and prayed in front of the monument. Her position was not very different from President Maria and those orthodox school clerics. There was no doubt about the identity of President Isaman being a priest.
Bella walked over to Isaman’s side and had quietly observed Isaman’s every movement. Elaine and Noreya were hidden in a distant place and observed secretly. Isaman was their nominal Student President so it would be troublesome if they were seen by her.
They were not like Bella who had belonged to the school next door. If Isaman had wanted to punish Bella, she would have pressure President Lucia to pressure and could not directly punish Bella. Because Bella was a student of Filomena Nobility Academy and fell under President Lucia’s management. She was the student president of Euphemia Imperial Academy and could not control Bella.
“Student Bellina… Why do you keep on looking at my face? Pay attention to your knight image! It’s currently a solemn prayer ceremony, can’t you be more dignified?”
Bella’s gaze towards Isaman finally made the student president unable to be calm. Bella’s eyes were too strong and invasive and she could not ignore it. If she wasn’t a girl, she would not care about her image and opened her mouth to rain curses.
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