Giant of Light: I am the Old Ones

Chapter 525 Hunting Darkness
It is not known that the North Pole is covered by dark realms, but more subtle shifts are taking place all over the world.

"Noah, how can we kill these guys?"

Father Gascoigne's old voice sounded really complaining, but those who were familiar with this voice knew that it was the excitement of having a great time chopping and longing for more enemies to fight.

In the hinterland of Central Asia, a former colony with a brother country.

Every night, Father Gascoigne would rush into the valley with his sword and kill the demons that breed in the shadows.

This is where John Watson served, a place where the poor soldier and doctor was infected by the terrible pollution and suffered from it all his life.

Holmes is preparing to explore Asia to find out more. Although his partner's infection has been relieved due to the old incident in London, and although it will no longer affect his life, his inner traits still exist.

Holmes, who was preparing to expand his work scope from private detective to exorcism medium, happily abducted his girlfriend Anna, a nun with the eyes of cherubim, and set off.

As the Knights Hospitallers were recruited to the Holy City, Gascoigne, who had not had many demons worth challenging to kill, used this excuse to rush to the valley after receiving a letter from his apprentice Anna.

But he only saw Anna here. The great detective who kidnapped his apprentice turned back to the Holy City.

It was good that Gascoigne didn't have to resist the urge to split the detective in half while working with him.

He quickly got involved in cleaning up the local pollution.

Because this was once a colony of the Empire, the pollution caused by Queen Britain still exists.If it weren't for the precious oil resources here, America would have given up on it long ago, not to mention the already weakened Britain, which would not have the ability to continue to radiate the afterglow of the past empire to the hinterland of another continent.

"Father, your merits are enough for you to be promoted to a priest, then compete for bishops in various places, and finally you may even have a chance to become an archbishop. There is no need to continue killing monsters here."

Anna sat in the camp, looking at the scarred priest who returned at dawn.

The latter just added a few recovery buffs to himself, and wiped the blood-stained sword with peace of mind.

"The darkness here used to spread to dozens of kilometers in radius, but now it can only shrink in this small valley. I really hope that there is a dying god inside, so that I can carry out the name of the Holy Spirit with my own hands. Slay a heretic god."

Gascoigne felt that his faith had never wavered. At the same time, as a hospital knight, when he failed to save his comrades from pollution when he was young, he believed that studying medicine could not save church people.

So he is just a knight now.

"In about five days, the darkness here will no longer grow. We have to notify nearby churches and even the college's garrison troops to come here in advance. After the pollution is cleaned up, the main body inside is revealed. We don't know yet that there will be What unmanageable disaster happens.”

Anna turned on her own sequence, predicting the progress of clearing the valley here.

Her suggestion was very clear, and Father Gascoigne could go alone by cleaning up the peripheral pollution.But to deal with the polluting subject, it's best to gather people to bombard and kill it, there is no need to take risks.

"You must have communicated too much with people in those colleges. You are destined to be lonely on the road of spiritual practice. Only when you have nothing to rely on can you confirm whether your inner beliefs are firm. If you rely on external forces for everything, then what? None of it can be done.”

Father Gascoigne disliked cooperating with the academy, because the efficiency of the academy's heavy firepower was far greater than that of him slaying monsters with a sword alone.

He doesn't even have a good look on other sects that belong to the church.

Anna didn't pay much attention to her master's words and retorted: "In this case, we shouldn't pray for the Holy Spirit to give us any help. After all, it is considered an external force."

Gascoigne felt that this apprentice must be trying to anger him, so he turned around and went to sleep under a cliff with his clothes on.

His clothes and hair looked messy, but in fact, because of the magical buffs, they were actually quite clean, and there were no mosquito bites nearby, so the priest quickly fell asleep.

Ten minutes later, the ground shook. Anna considerately added the sleeping and mute buffs to her teacher. Anyway, the person who came had no ill intentions and would not wake up the priest who had been working hard for a long time.

The visitor was a tank corps. On the day the priest and his apprentice arrived here, the troops stationed in the nearby academy received the news.

They were not originally planning to interfere with the church's exorcisms, but starting yesterday, combat troops in various places received notices from the college headquarters:

Remove any known contamination residues on site and conduct periodic internal contamination screenings.

Within 20 days, it is necessary to ensure that any dangerous pollution in their respective nearby areas is cleaned up.

And this is the first stage of the eradication of darkness. In the natural environment, we must first remove all sources of pollution that may cause multiple blooms.Large-scale screening of possible dark believers in human society further reduces the activity space of dark believers.

There is not much time left before the end of the world. At present, all countries are forced to go all out to build shelters. Even if the combat troops of the academy and even the troops of each country are drafted to clean up the dark behavior, they can only pretend not to see it.

Ordinary people managed to maintain order after early chaos.Those urban legends or secrets passed down by family may now become true.

In this case, negative emotions are intertwined with positive emotions that believe that human beings can be redeemed after all, and there is no way to separate them.

However, Father Gascoigne still slept peacefully. His apprentice was always very considerate and knew that he was not sleeping well, so he added a lot of sleep-aiding meanings to his magic.

In his sleep, Father Gascoigne suddenly dreamed that he had turned into a giant of light, the angel currently promoted by the church, destroying all pollution, and soon gained the favor of the Holy Spirit.

In the dream, the valley collapsed and the demons died suddenly. This feeling was extremely real. Even after the main body of the pollution was exposed, this incomplete ancient evil god was killed by himself with one punch, which was very unpleasant.

In the real world, with the assistance of Anna's Cherubian Eyes, artillery fire has covered three rounds, killing almost all the pollutants. The main body of the pollution had to be exposed and tried to escape into the shadow ruins.

However, in the face of a large enough caliber and a sufficient amount of explosives, this fallen god who had lost his sacrifice for a long time was quickly buried in the ruins of the valley.

"Thank you all. There is still a small pollution residue within [-] kilometers nearby. I have marked it on the map. I wish you all smooth sailing."

Anna waved goodbye to the combat troops and left. In the afternoon, Father Gascoigne woke up from his sleep, feeling refreshed and having completely recovered from yesterday's strain.

He drew his sword and prepared to start a new round of battle.

After all, there are still five days of work to do, so there is absolutely no room for laziness.

But when he stood up and looked around, he had the illusion that he sleepwalked to other places after falling asleep.

The location where the small valley is now has become a hill, without the gap in the middle of the valley.

Some charred rocks and burned trees were still emitting a fiery smell, making people unable to help but cover their mouths and noses.

The corpses of evil creatures that have not yet been dealt with are just mixed among the collapsed ruins of the valley. The largest individual is lying on the highest place. It can be seen that under the polluted body surface, it can be seen that there was once a noble god's part.

"Give way, give way, we have to deal with these things!"

Several large trucks drove over, and containment personnel in protective uniforms quickly rushed down, and in front of Gascoigne began to collect the contamination residue and put it into a containment tank.

It seems that their work process is very proficient, and they can clean up all the contamination residue here in one day.

In addition to the containment staff, there were also specialized hands spraying disinfectant, following closely behind the containment staff. The pungent smell of chemicals made Gascoigne's breathing sensitive after he woke up.

"What the hell happened!"

He looked at his apprentice, who said innocently that she knew nothing.

"Aren't the people in these colleges afraid of arousing the suspicion of secular countries and affecting the lives of ordinary people with such a high-profile move?"

Gascoigne shouted, and he saw a few horse teams following the truck far behind, all of which were ordinary traders or explorers.

At that distance, with a telescope, you can clearly see that the appearance of the contained object is different from the creatures recognized by ordinary people.

"Priest, times have changed!" the leader of the containment team happily came over to say hello, "Now the college is ready to clean up darkness and pollution on a large scale, and will no longer cover up for the sake of stability like before. We can authorize the use of heavy fire weapons to attack Enemies, so that they know that even the evil flesh brought by flesh sacrifices or blessings from evil gods cannot resist thermal weapons.”

Gascoigne resisted the urge to slap the man in front of him, looked down at his apprentice and said:
"Let's leave first. I remember that your Cherubian Eyes also marked the location of new pollution. We rushed over to clean up the pollution before they found out. If they continue to make such a big fuss, the people will only know about the academy and not about us. The church paid its dues.”

Anna thought for a while and did not tell anyone that she had marked her address to the people at the college. She packed her luggage and left happily with her master on horseback.

Maybe it's just me feeling happy.

How could the horses catch up with the vehicles of the combat troops?
By the time they arrived, the place where the new pollution existed must have already been lifted into the sky.

In this way, Father Gascoigne would no longer be in danger, and he was really a good apprentice who cared about his master.

Gascoigne, who had not yet imagined how respectful his apprentice was, looked sharply in his eyes and was determined to snatch a bite of meat before the academy cleaned up all visible contamination.

Meanwhile, a sweep against dark beliefs has begun around the world.

Instead of waiting for these evil-minded anti-human beings to silently make any big noise, it is better to discover the abnormality in life in advance and strangle the sacrifice in the cradle in time.

Although it seems that the dark believers can now create high-level evil creatures and even dark giants, the larger range of low-level believers are not actually that powerful.

Back then, the patrolmen in Louisiana Town were able to pick out dark believers who had no dark giants or high-level evil creatures before. However, ordinary people could still pay some price to deal with those bad guys who had just fallen.

Fragrant City, an indigenous reserve rich in spices in the hinterland of America.

No one has disturbed this place for a long time, but as the outside world surges in, the indigenous people here have to communicate with the outside world to fight for the opportunity to enter the shelter.

"You really can't bring this thing with you!" The college's receptionist said with smoke coming out of his throat.

"Why can't you take it with you! Why can't you take it with you!" The natives roared, pointing to the specimens hanging around their necks, "This is my great-grandfather's finger, these are my grandfather's ribs, these are my father's teeth, Our ancestors have always protected us, this is our tradition, why can't we take it away!"

Someone even brought out a mummy. It is said that it was a strong man who killed a crocodile alone. After his death, he was regarded as a revered hero by the tribe and was made into a specimen to worship day and night.

How to convince these indigenous tribes is a headache for the people in the academy.They will soon start to kill the remnants of the evil god of this indigenous tribe. No matter how much this god protected this tribe, the long-term flesh and blood sacrifice has distorted the god's sanity.

More than 200 years after the discontinuation of flesh and blood sacrifices, the god's madness can still be felt, wandering above the forests of the reservation.

If all these flesh and blood beings are taken out, it will be like opening the floodgates and letting out water, and the river will be lost forever.

In addition to dealing with these indigenous people who retain their traditions, there are also some nobles whose families have ancient inheritance, which is also more difficult to deal with.

Among them, maybe the head of a certain generation was a famous pirate or colonist in history. He brought home many strange things and hid them in the cellar for many years.

If the person concerned does not have the habit of keeping a diary, then these pollutants will be buried in the ground for an unknown period of time, and a sudden thunderstorm may occur at any time.

Therefore, some nobles' property collections needed to be inventoried, which was completed with the cooperation of various countries.

But some nobles are different. Their ancestors have been exposed to evil forces and passed them down, so that some of their descendants already have filthy inheritance flowing through them.

In fact, Walter de la Pole in the town of Louisiana can also be counted as this kind. To deal with this kind of nobleman who has stolen extraordinary power and been polluted, he has to use some physical means.

So much so that dignitaries from various countries began to wonder whether the academy was cooperating with the ruling class to take advantage of the middle class and take advantage of them.

But no matter what people think, the academy's plan to advance the hunt for darkness cannot be shaken.

Time is really running out.

(End of this chapter)