"The cycle of the world, your merchandise."

Neo repeated this sentence and turned his head to look at Basha sitting in the corner.

"I can feel my bias towards the cycle. I wasn't sure where this bias came from before, but now I understand. It's not just bias, I have a disgust towards the entire Order of the Cycle."

Basha pursed her lips, unsure if she should respond. She was already scared of Neo's temper.

"As a messenger of light, you actually slept with the Cycle," Neo continued.

Basha knew this was directed at her and quickly responded, "I know that the church's evaluation of the Cycle has always been polarized, but my interaction with the people of the Cycle is largely due to their power. You may not know how far the Light Church has fallen."

"I don't know, but I do know one thing. If light needs to rely on dirty means to come, then what reappears is definitely not light."

"In the world of religions, where is there true purity?" Basha said with courage, "Even the purest light has disappeared, but the Cycle still stands, even if it's dirty."

But this time Neo wasn't angry, he responded, "It's different. It's not reasonable just because it exists. Even if the light has disappeared, as long as people still have the yearning for beauty, then light is always there, just not in the way of the Light Church."

"What about order?"

"Order is different."

"But what's the difference between order and the Cycle? Order 'awakens' the deceased, and the Cycle recalls the dead. Aren't they the same?"

"The Order awakens not the soul, but the residual spirituality on the body. After a person dies, the body is no different from the swords and knives of the owner before. The Cycle imprisons the soul of the deceased."

"Do you know why the First Knight Order of the Order of the Cycle is called the strongest among the Twelve Knight Orders, and why all other orthodox churches are afraid of them?"

"And why doesn't the Cycle Church have such a terrifying guardian legion?"

"Because the 'awakened' bodies of the Order of the Cycle have the cognition and consciousness of their lives, and have their own choices. The priests who are eligible to enter the First Knight Order have voluntarily signed agreements before their deaths. They are willing to contribute their last bit of strength to defend order even after death."

"There is not a single coffin in the First Knight Order of the Order of the Cycle with iron chains. The entire knight order only has living people who work as transporters, but there is absolutely no living person guarding them. When members of the First Knight Order awaken, they can even form their own battle formation according to their positions."

"Does the Cycle Church dare to treat the Cycle in this way? They don't dare, because they know that once those imprisoned souls are free, the first thing they will do is not rush towards the enemy, but to devour and tear themselves apart."

"This is the true strength of the Order of the Cycle. You can see their corruption and decadence, but you cannot deny that they have accumulated many people who truly have faith in order since the last era, generation after generation."

"The ones truly guarding the Order of the Cycle are those people."

"The Cycle Church... I heard that many middle and high-level members of the Cycle Church refuse to reach a cycle agreement before they die, just wanting to end their lives happily without being tortured and enslaved after death. They don't even believe in the Cycle themselves, but they have been preaching to the world to believe in the afterlife.""The doctrine of light is to cleanse oneself of sins and face life with a better outlook, while the doctrine of reincarnation tells the world that the suffering in this life is predetermined, and by devoutly worshiping the god of reincarnation, one can enjoy a better life in the next reincarnation.

What reincarnation promotes is a kind of passivity and numbness.

In reality, if someone advises you to accept your predetermined fate and tells you to lie down comfortably on the side of life's road, there are only two reasons: either he is a fool, or he thinks you are a fool."

"Why are you telling me so much?"

"I don't know..." Neo shook his head. "Maybe because of this photo studio today, I remembered a lot of things."

"You lost your memory?" Basha exclaimed.

"Not really lost, just curious."

"Curious?"

"Like the feeling you get when you read someone else's diary, the process of peering into someone else's life is fascinating, isn't it?"

"I...I don't know."

"I want to know one thing. Does your close relationship with her mean that the high-level members of the Light and the Reincarnation are also closely related?"

"I'm not sure."

"Hmm?"

"But I've heard that some elders in the central area advocate using the power of reincarnation to revive the Light, but there are no specific actions within the church system. My relationship with her is just a private matter. So, I think that the central area may only have this idea, wanting to take advantage of the contradictions and rifts between the orthodox religions to gain support and revive the Light Church."

"No, it's not just that."

"Not just that, what do you mean?"

"The return of the gods..."

"I've heard rumors of the return of the gods. I dream that the great god of light can return and save the church. For this, I am willing to give everything!"

Neo could tell that Basha was not insincere or had any ulterior motives when she said this. Deep down, she had absolute faith in the god of light, which was completely different from the feeling when Karen expressed his faith in the god of order in the previous scene.

Although when Karen said those words, he gave the impression of being more sincere and atmospheric.

"As long as the god of light returns, you are willing to accept anything?"

"Yes, that's right!"

"What if the god of light comes out of the Reincarnation Valley?"

"How...how is that possible!"

Neo sighed heavily and muttered to himself:

"I finally understand why Order wants to attack the Reincarnation."

...

"Buzz!"

Tarina's figure disappeared again from where she was standing, and then she appeared to the left of Karen's body, the black dagger in her hand stabbing towards Karen.

The second time!

Even Gray wouldn't use the same move twice in a row.

With the Dark Moon Blade blessing, Karen's speed reached its limit. He paid no attention to the threat from his side and ran straight ahead. After running a certain distance, he quickly pulled back and swung the Achilles sword.

At this moment, Tarina's figure appeared behind the Achilles sword, and she was almost cut in half by Karen's lazy waist. She was shocked by Karen's speed, but her subsequent reaction was also quick, or rather, the person from the Raymond Sect who was currently possessing her had a quick reaction speed.She first moved in the opposite direction of Karun's sword retrieval, then quickly approached him and stabbed at him with the dagger in her hand. Originally, this was just a feint, intended to change according to Karun's next swing of his great sword. But Tarina noticed that Karun's sword retrieval was slower.

The original feint turned into a real attack, and the black dagger pierced the armor in front of Karun. The Sea God's armor quickly froze in that area. After the black dagger was embedded, the outer part could no longer enter, and the inside part was quickly melted away by the water flow inside the armor, losing its attacking power.

This is the disadvantage of non-material weapons, but there is no way. Tarina's pair of daggers were forcibly taken away by Neo, and she currently does not have a suitable weapon.

The Sword of Achilles turned and slashed at her. Tarina's body swayed, and the nails of her other hand cut her palm. Blood flowed out, and at the same time, a blood-red dagger quickly condensed, stabbing into Karun's armor again.

This time, it was clearly deeper than the last time, and the part that penetrated the armor did not melt away with the water flow inside the armor, but was pulled by the blood, and a new force burst out inside the armor, piercing through Karun's armor.

"Uh!"

Karun made a muffled groan, feeling the severe pain in his ribs. He was surprised that the other party could use even blood as a deadly weapon. According to the characteristics of his Sea God's armor, he found a way to crack it in an instant.

This woman, or rather, the soul of Raymond Church, has a terrifying assassination experience.

After this attack, Tarina's figure began to retreat. She just dodged Karun's swing of the long sword. Everything looked perfect, precise like teasing prey, neither too much nor too little.

But just as Karun suffered a loss because he did not understand the other party, the other party would also suffer a lesson because they did not understand Karun.

The edge of the Sword of Achilles happened to sweep past Tarina. The Sword of Achilles was just that long, but there was also a dark red whip-like existence that was longer than the sword body.

In an instant, a dark red whip-like thing appeared from the tip of the sword, like a poisonous snake suddenly spitting out its tongue. Tarina, who only calculated the length of the sword body, did not expect this. Her abdomen was directly cut open, and after falling to the ground, she covered her abdominal wound with one hand, and blood began to flow out.

After swinging this sword, Karun did not stop to deal with his wound, because the Sea God's armor on the chest had already frozen, and this method had already completed his hemostasis and purification.

Facing Karun's second wave of attacks, Tarina's figure disappeared again.

Almost the same as the previous two times, the killing intent appeared behind Karun.

But this time, Karun grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands, quickly rotated it downward, and aimed the long sword at his own back, while his figure quickly retreated.

Tarina's figure behind him did not disappear, which meant that she was really, at this moment, actively colliding with the sword edge of Karun.

What she didn't know was that Karun had extravagantly spread the water droplets on the Sea God's armor around him to serve as physical alertness.

Grei and Wind had both reminded Karun that any extravagance of his spiritual power during battle was a desecration of his own life. But the problem was that the spiritual power in Karun's body was accumulated much more than an ordinary person's, and could fully withstand this kind of extravagant method of fighting.

In desperation, red light flowed from Tarina's hands, trying to forcibly pull the sword body of the great sword. But the characteristic of the Dark Moon Blade was the thing it least feared, or rather, the thing it liked the most - stalemate!With just a brief contact, Tarina felt a sharp pain in her hands. She bit her tongue, and a burst of blood sprayed out, forming a blood-red dagger aimed at Karun's back.

If Karun continued to attack from behind, the Sword of Achilles would pierce Tarina's body. If Karun added a horizontal slash, the woman would be cut in half, but Karun's head would also be attacked by the blood-red dagger. Previously, the dagger had broken through Karun's Sea God Armor, injuring his chest. This time, it would be his head...

Karun didn't believe that this woman would dare to exchange lives with him, but he believed in the soul possessing her at the moment. He dared!

One was due to the professional pursuit of an excellent assassin. He would use any means to kill his target. The second was because Karun had sensed the emotions emanating from the opponent during their close combat. The other party seemed to want to obtain release through death.

He couldn't escape Tarina's control, nor could he violate her will. But he didn't mind using a mutual destruction method to let the person who enslaved him die together. This way, he could also obtain release.

Karun didn't want to exchange lives with her, so he could only turn around, sheathe his sword, and make a final diagonal strike during the process.

As Karun turned to dodge, the blood-red dagger flew past his side. The two sides pulled away a small distance once again.

Almost simultaneously, a black chain appeared under Karun's feet. However, the chain did not rush towards Tarina, but extended silently under the cover of night.

If the other side chose to fight in this way, Karun also had his own idea.

Tarina's hands were already covered in blood, as if they had just been roasted on an iron. But in Tarina's eyes, there was a touch of regret.

In the next moment, the dark red bead on Tarina's chest released light again. The shadow that had covered her body was swept away, and then a woman's figure appeared, overlapping with Tarina's.

It was unclear whether it was because Tarina had discovered that the soul of the Raymond religion wanted to die with her, or because she thought that fighting Karun in close combat without a physical weapon was too disadvantageous, so she wanted to try another way.

After Tarina's eyes returned to normal, her hands were still bleeding, but she was still forcibly forming a formation. A green starburst appeared under her feet, and the wind blew around her. Two green lions appeared on either side of her body, roaring in unison and pouncing towards Karun.

"Order - Protective Barrier!"

A huge black screen appeared in front of Karun, but the anticipated violent collision did not occur. The two green lions actually penetrated the barrier and continued to pounce towards Karun.

It was a soul attack, not a physical one.

A holy light shone from Karun's right eye, and he said in a deep voice, "Light - Soul Cape!"

The power of the light had a strong effect on all soul entities. A huge cloak woven from white feathers appeared in front of Karun. The two green lions collided with the cloak, but couldn't break through it. The cloak began to show waves of green, like prey caught in a bag, struggling to resist.

"Order - Purification!"

The power of purification was released, directly attacking the huge cloak. Then, the cloak and the green inside it disappeared together.

"Phew..."Karun took a deep breath. Grei and Wend were no longer his opponents, and this made Karun unsure of his true strength. He knew that his strength could no longer be measured by the "Judges". The opponent in front of him made him feel the thrill of a good fight.

Although he knew that the captain had taken away her equipment, putting her at a disadvantage, Karun had no shame in this, as she had found a substitute player herself. He believed that even if the woman had all her equipment, he could still win because strength and fighting skills were two different things.

However, the way in which she sealed the souls of others and then summoned them during battle was truly unexpected. Karun was sure that this kind of magic would inevitably come at a cost to the caster, such as their life force. As they were ghosts, bringing them into the world required giving them life force, and the dark red bead on Tarina's chest probably stored a lot of it.

Karun approached with his sword, not too quickly, as he was worried that the green snake in front of her might attack at any moment. However, behind Tarina, a black chain that had already wrapped around her was rapidly approaching.

The green snake suddenly turned its head and seemed to sense the threat from behind, but then turned back to face Karun, letting out a fierce growl.

She noticed it but pretended not to. Like the ghost Raymond taught before, this female ghost who was good at using soul magic was more obvious in her intentions this time. However, she used this opportunity to deliberately give Karun a chance to attack.

This ghost who had signed a reincarnation contract was actually more eager for Tarina's death than her true opponent.

Finally, the black chain reached Tarina's feet and penetrated her body. Tarina screamed in agony, and the dark red bead on her chest began to fight violently. Three different colored figures appeared next to Tarina, two of which Karun had seen before, and one that Tarina had not used yet.

This meant that she had signed a reincarnation contract with three ghosts.

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Karun felt a twitch in his chest, which was very painful, but he still persisted by covering his chest with his hand. His spiritual power was being quickly drained away, and everything felt similar to when he used the chain to "awaken" himself.

At this moment, Karun's black chain began to turn white and wrapped around the three reincarnated ghosts. The bead lost all its luster, and it was clear that it had lost all its control over the reincarnated ghosts, which were now under the control of Karun's white chain.

"How could this happen? How could this happen? No, this is impossible, this is impossible!!!" Tarina looked at this scene in horror. This change was more unacceptable to her than the threat of death because it subverted her faith since birth.The Reincarnation Contract had actually severed its connection with her without her consent as the master. This had never happened before, and it meant that a crack had appeared in the foundation that the Reincarnation Church was most proud of!

And the person who held this crack was right in front of her.

She would rather have the person in front of her defeat her in a conventional way and then kill her, instead of tearing her pride and faith apart with chains like now.

Talina gasped for breath non-stop.

At this moment,

She felt that the man in front of her was even more terrifying than the masked figure in the basement.

"Who are you, and why are you doing this…"

Karun looked at Talina,

And answered:

"The existence of the Reincarnation Church has disrupted the… order that should have existed between life and death."