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Chapter 1115 - Chapter 1115 Chapter 764 The Wind Rises

Chapter 1115: Chapter 764: The Wind Rises Chapter 1115: Chapter 764: The Wind Rises Duanmu Huai’s announcement had stirred quite a ripple in the small town, but while currents flowed hidden within the town, Duanmu Huai found himself in the church’s basement, gazing at a corpse — indeed, the church naturally held the duty of storing bodies, but the body in front of him was not quite the same.

Because this body was that of the farmer who was identified as a heretic by Duanmu Huai last night and taken away.

From the marks on his body, he seemed to have been hanged before being placed here for disposal.

But indeed, today Duanmu Huai had seen him lively and bustling about outside again…

“What do you think?”

“This doesn’t look like an artificial human.”

Alice Phil withdrew her gaze from the corpse in front of her, shaking her head.

“It doesn’t look like a puppet either; no matter how you look at it, it’s just a normal human.”

Medea also spoke up.

“But he should have died yesterday, yet today we saw him again. If he is neither an artificial human nor a puppet, could it be that the magician can clone?”

Duanmu Huai furrowed his brows; cloning might indeed be a possibility, but they were in a magic world, right? How could it suddenly turn into a sci-fi movie? Could there really be some kind of technologically advanced underground biochemical base beneath this town?

One died, and then another awakened as a replacement?

Have we truly entered a sci-fi movie set?

“What is cloning?”

“It is also a method of replicating humans, achievable by science, but the technology of this world should not have developed to that extent yet.”

“The body is just a container.”

Medea spoke again.

“The core of any creature is the soul. This damaged body lacks life and a soul. I think it’s very likely that the individual’s soul has been transferred.”

“If transferred, it shouldn’t lack the former memories, right?”

Honesty, Duanmu Huai found Medea’s explanation even harder to accept than cloning.

“……”

For a moment, nobody knew what to do. They had hoped to uncover some clues, but ended up finding the mysteries only deepening.

Then, Duanmu Huai thought of another issue.

“Logically speaking, since this is a magician’s workshop, there must be a magician, right? Can’t we just find him?”

“We’ve tried already, but haven’t found anyone similar. For now, all we can be sure of is that this workshop is indeed operational. Besides that, what the ceremony being held entails and where the owner of the workshop is, we still don’t know.”

Medea was also helpless. Although she was a magician from the Age of God, due to the decline in mystery, many things and ideas used by today’s magicians were different from her time. Although breaking into this magic workshop wouldn’t be difficult with Medea’s abilities, completely stopping and dismantling it still required starting from the core.

The prerequisite is knowing what the core is.

“So…….”

Duanmu Huai wanted to say something else, but quickly his expression changed, he waved his hand, and Alice Phil and Medea quickly spiritualized. Then footsteps were heard, and shortly after, the priest pushed open the door and walked in.

“Great Judge.”

The priest looked very tired at the moment, his expression one of great concern which made it hard to believe he wasn’t human.

“What’s the matter?”

“Someone has come to report that he has discovered traces of a heretic.”

The priest’s expression was terribly pained, clearly, he had not wished for such a situation to arise.

“Oh?”

But Duanmu Huai didn’t seem surprised at all, merely arching an eyebrow.

“I’ll go now.”

Once again, in the upper church room, Duanmu Huai looked at the uneasy man standing there, dressed in peasant’s attire, and snorted coldly.

“Did I hear you want to accuse someone of heresy?”

“Yes, Sir! I have to acc… I have to accuse Hawk from Andrew’s family!”

“What?”

Hearing the man speak, the priest immediately frowned.

“What nonsense are you spouting, Dover? You and Hawk have been good friends for decades! Aren’t you friends?”

“Just because he’s a friend, I know how much he disrespects the Lord in private!”

However, facing the priest’s counter-question, the man named Dover seemed very calm.

“Your Eminence, you might not know, but Hawk has always had very heretical views on the contents of the Bible. He not only denies that the Saint Heir is the Son of the Lord but also repeatedly claims that the Saint Heir isn’t a God at all! I tried to persuade him to abandon these blasphemous and evil heretical statements, but he showed no remorse! He even thought of me as a foolish person brainwashed by the Church!”

“This…”

Hearing Dover’s report, the priest was utterly baffled.

“But why have you never told me this before?”

“I did tell you, Your Eminence, but you never took my warnings seriously. Didn’t you say that everyone has their own view on faith?”

“I did say that…”

The priest glanced awkwardly at Duanmu Huai, quickly averting his gaze, while Duanmu Huai’s expression darkened.

“So, you mean to say that this Hawk does not recognize the deeds of the Lord?”

“Exactly! He even claims that the Saint Heir was born out of Holy Mother’s adultery with another man, fearing punishment from her own husband; she lied saying it was the child of the Lord! Such blasphemy!”

Indeed, that carpenter really is the biggest cuckold in the world.

Duanmu Huai, hearing this, silently approved of the narrative. The Bible states Maria and Joseph never consummated their marriage, yet there was the miracle of the virgin birth… But from a modern perspective, didn’t Maria just cuckold Joseph? Maybe she had an affair and then roped Joseph in as a cover-up, fearing Joseph would discover she was not a virgin, so she never shared a bed with him but secretly frolicked with another man.

Poor carpenter, innocent and honest, and thus deceived. Nowadays, cases like this are all too common.

Because there were no contraceptives back then, getting pregnant and then claiming it to be the child of a deity was actually quite common.

Especially in Greek myths, there are countless stories of women dreaming of thunder striking their wombs or being showered with gold, only to wake up pregnant. There are too many such cases, or rather, most demigod heroes in Greek myths come from similar backgrounds.

But in fact, it’s mostly just a recurring pattern.

That’s also why most of these so-called demigod children were mostly abandoned–people’s husbands are no idiots. You damned cuckold me and then want to trick me into raising your child by saying a deity prompted you in a dream? I don’t believe a word of it! It’s good enough that they didn’t kill them on the spot!

Therefore, it’s evident that even ancient kings weren’t fools, only the uneducated, silly carpenter Joseph suffered and was deceived into raising a son for his unknown rival, oh, it truly breaks the heart to hear.

Indeed, at this moment, Duanmu Huai really wanted to bring out a clapper… clank and clank, no idle gossip today, let’s talk about the saint’s mother, this saint is not ordinary, his real father cuckolded the little carpenter. Poor betrothed-and-pregnant Maria, aided by an angel in a dream, little carpenter, don’t mind the Holy Mother’s large belly, that baby inside is the king of humans–truly, the Father of Heaven’s grace is immense, a virgin birth unparalleled. Lucky Joseph, eternally renowned as the cuckold king ~~~~

Naturally, Duanmu Huai inwardly ranted frantically, while keeping a grave face. After all, this indeed counted as heretical speech. Normally, it might not be a significant issue, but who let Duanmu Huai be in charge of a heretic trial? Now, that’s a big problem.

“Do you have evidence?”

“Of course, he’s been making these blasphemous statements for over a decade! Everyone who knows him has heard him say it! Your Honor, you can verify this!”

“Oh, I understand.”

Duanmu Huai nodded his head, then turned to the priest.

“I want you to send someone to Andrew’s immediately to bring Hawk here. I want to interrogate him overnight!”

“… Yes, Your Honor.”

As the priest heard Duanmu Huai’s orders, he wanted to say something but ended up saying nothing, just silently sighing. Then he led Dover out of the room and left as ordered.

“Who would have thought, someone actually reported him.”

Alice Phil exclaimed in surprise, knowing full well that Duanmu Huai’s heretical trial was utter nonsense, but she never expected that people would actually believe it?

“These people have always lived here, naturally close, but being close doesn’t mean they get along.”

Duanmu Huai took a sip of water, sneering.

“Think about it, you live next door to someone you dislike, but you have to deal with each other for decades, that’s hardly a good relationship. If there’s an excuse and opportunity, you would definitely take the chance to get back at them. My appearance and the heretic trial just gave them an excuse…”

“Knock, knock, knock.”

Just then, the knocking sound came again, then the priest entered.

“Reporting to Great Judge, Hawk has arrived.”

“Oh? That was fast?”

Wasn’t it less than half a minute?

“Actually…”

Facing Duanmu Huai’s inquiry, the priest’s expression was complicated, but just at that moment, a burly man burst into the room.

“Great Judge, I’m Hawk Andrew! I want to report that my neighbor Dover is a blasphemous heretic!!”

“…”

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai nearly burst out laughing.

Now it was getting interesting.

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