Chapter 524: Underground Cathedral

Dorothy watched the back of the nun leading the way with great interest.

It had to be said, this nun's figure was truly exquisite; as she moved with light, lotus-like steps, even the loose nun's habit could hardly conceal the beauty of her graceful curves.

Elegant and swaying with every step.

"Sigh, it's just a pity it's all technology and hard work."

Once she had feasted her eyes enough, she shook her head and sighed with some regret.

With her keen eyes, it was naturally not difficult to see that the nun before her was not actually a "human."

Well, to be precise, she was not a natural human; this was an intelligent robot.

This was no wonder why Dorothy's Akarin Technique hadn't been very effective on this nun; after all, this magic only influenced one's own presence, and its effect was merely to make people subconsciously ignore them, not true invisibility.

Simply put, this magic was only useful on sentient creatures and ineffective on inanimate objects without life.

Even if she maintained the Akarin Technique, if you were to take a photo with a camera, you could actually still capture her figure.

Of course, while the spell was in effect, even if you saw her in the photo, you would subconsciously ignore her existence, but once the spell was lifted later, you might be surprised to find an extra person in those photos.

Hmm, it had that horror movie vibe.

Likewise, an intelligent robot was just like a camera and could ignore the influence of the Akarin Technique, which was why this nun had stopped Dorothy and Dinisha earlier.

But, how exactly did the two of them fit this intelligent mechanical nun's proselytizing program?

Dorothy was a bit puzzled and also a bit curious.

She looked down at herself, then at Dinisha beside her, and finally at the nun's habit worn by the mechanical nun ahead, lost in thought.

"Is it the clothing?"

The Home Witch speculated in her heart.

Although she and Dinisha were the supreme rulers of the Magic Republic, compared to the emperors and royal members of normal countries, their lives were actually quite simple.

They still lived in Adam's small cathedral, and they basically wore the same ordinary nun's habits as before.

Hmm, Adam was originally a priest of the Glory Sect, so naturally, Dorothy and Dinisha's nun's habits were of the same style as the other side; the two of them had simply removed the emblem that originally symbolized the Lord of Glory, and other than that, they hadn't modified much else.

Hmm, a nun's habit should look like this; if you change it, it loses that flavor, alright.

It was no wonder this mechanical nun had addressed them as "sisters" right off the bat; she had mistaken the two of them for ordinary nuns of the Glory Sect.

It's just...

"Good grief, sending intelligent robots to proselytize on the street, and doing it directly to clergy members to promote a heretical sect—is there really no problem with doing this?"

Dorothy grumbled inwardly.

Although she knew that the Glory Divine Kingdom was probably having a hard time due to the influence of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the current situation was still somewhat beyond her expectations.

What was the Glory Sect doing? The heretics were so rampant, and you aren't going to do anything about it? Or had the infighting become so severe that there was no energy left to manage these things?

The Home Witch couldn't quite figure it out, but since she couldn't, she stopped thinking about it; she hoped the Glory Divine Kingdom would be as chaotic as possible. Right now, she was more interested in the Savior Xia Wa mentioned by this robot nun.

Although the name Xia Wa, like Adam, was actually a very common name—if you shouted it on the street, several people might turn to look at you—there was currently no evidence to show that this Xia Wa had any connection to her witch mother from over five hundred years ago. But since she was idle anyway, Dorothy decided to follow along and take a look first.

"A very exquisite machine; there is the power of fate upon it."

At this moment, Dinisha, who was beside her, suddenly said this.

"Eh?"

The Home Witch turned her head in surprise to look at this good sister, then looked suspiciously at the robot nun leading the way ahead.

Although she had detected traces of magic power on this robot nun, that was normal; after all, magic machinery was not a pure technological product but a combination of technology and magic, having a flavor of Hextech from the games of her previous life.

As for the power of fate, she was a "fate insulator," so she really couldn't tell.

"This robot is very interesting. When it was made, techniques from the fate puppets of occultism were added. It will automatically seek out those who have a fated connection with it."

Seeing her sister's puzzled look, the Shepherdess whispered an explanation.

Dorothy nodded then.

As a semi-puppeteer, she naturally knew about fate puppets; this was a fairly high-level type of puppet. What controlled them was no longer the puppet strings of a puppeteer, but fate itself.

The puppeteer only needed to design a mission objective for these puppets, and the rest was left to fate.

For example, if you wanted a puppet to find something, but you didn't know where it was or even what it looked like, then you just handed the task to a fate puppet, and the puppets would act on their own under the arrangement of fate.

Of course, whether it would ultimately succeed was not guaranteed; it might succeed, or it might not—everything depended on fate.

How should one put it? Fate puppets couldn't help you reach the fate you wanted one hundred percent, but they could increase the probability.

It was like, normally, the probability of you finding that thing was one in a billion, but with a fate puppet, maybe that probability increased to one in ten thousand. Although the hope was still slim, it provided some psychological comfort.

Anyway, it was very mysterious, the kind of path you took as a last resort when you were truly out of options.

Back then, in order to find the runaway Adam and Dorothy, Long Ma had once had Spider-Sensei make many fate puppets and scattered them all over the world, but unfortunately, these puppets hadn't come in handy in the end; it was Long Ma's invincible strength and her unwavering heart of a mother seeking her daughter that had ultimately made the difference.

In this mind-only Witch World, a believing heart was more useful than any other flashy thing.

Anyway, after Dorothy learned about this, her face turned green with heartache. After all, don't look at these fate puppets as having lackluster functions; they were expensive. After all, they were high-end goods related to the supreme power of fate, and the production cost of each one was very high. The most critical point was that fate puppets were mostly one-time use; once you input a certain command, you could never recycle or reuse them.

In short, heaven knows how much wasted money Long Ma had spent on this aspect back then.

However, strictly speaking, Long Ma had used them incorrectly.

The main function for which fate puppets were created was indeed to find things, but they were not used to find a specific object; their true use was actually as Dinisha had just said—they were used to find fated connections.

If you set its target on a specific object, the probability of it succeeding in the end was indeed very low, but if you set the target within a certain range, the success rate was very high.

How to say it? It was like wanting to find a partner; if you forcibly specified one person and wanted to hang yourself on one tree, then you would pursue it very painfully. But if you set the target to elements like "fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged rich woman," as long as these conditions were met, rather than naming a specific person, then your range of options would be much larger, and relatively speaking, the success rate would also greatly increase.

Therefore, if used correctly, fate puppets were actually quite easy to use.

For example, the robot nun before the two of them right now.

If this nun's production process included fate puppet technology, then her finding the two of them to proselytize earlier might not have been random; it was an instruction from fate.

"But I am a fate insulator."

Dorothy was still a bit puzzled.

She hadn't known why she wasn't good at fate-based magic before, until she met Sophie Liya, and the Pure White Witch finally gave her an explanation.

It was all because of her bizarre fate that was constantly jumping back and forth every moment.

If you couldn't determine the target's fate, then the power of fate was very difficult to have an effect on the other party.

This was like having to know someone's birth date and time before you could tell their fortune, but if a person's birth date and time were constantly jumping numbers, then how could you possibly calculate that fate?

To enter the field of prophecy magic, the most basic introductory hurdle was to first calculate one's own fate and figure out one's own fate.

And Dorothy's difficulty in entering was because she was stuck at this hurdle; she didn't even know what her own fate was.

This bizarre fate made it very difficult for her to learn prophecy magic and subsequently master the power of fate, but it also had a benefit: the vast majority of fate abilities had no effect on her. She was naturally immune to the influence of most prophecy magic, and even someone like Sophie Liya, the illegitimate daughter of the Goddess of Fate, couldn't do much about her fate.

Therefore, this small fate puppet logically shouldn't have been effective on her either.

Thinking of this, Dorothy glanced at Dinisha beside her, wondering if this robot nun wasn't looking for her, but for this good sister of hers.

"Dorothy, you know me; it's impossible for any power of fate to take effect on me without my knowledge."

Seeing her sister's expression, Dinisha immediately understood what she meant. Regarding this, the Shepherdess shrugged helplessly and said so.

She was just an avatar; how could she have an independent fate? She shared the same fate with the main body, and the fate of the God King was extremely noble in this Western Universe, especially after the God King defeated the Lord of Glory and obtained a portion of the fate authority that originally belonged to the Lord of Glory; the fate of the Western Universe could no longer manage her.

If Dorothy's fate was an ordinary person hidden in a sea of people, making it hard to find, then the God King's fate was that of the Lord of the World; she sat there openly, but no one had the guts to challenge her authority.

"Fine, you're the big boss."

Dorothy was silent for a moment, feeling that her good sister was indeed very reasonable.

It was good enough that Dinisha didn't go looking for trouble with fate; how would fate dare to interfere with her casually? As the Witch King closest to the realm of omniscience and omnipotence, although the God King was not yet a god, she was already close to being a deity.

To use an old Eastern saying, she had already jumped out of the Three Realms and was not within the Five Elements; she was truly carefree.

On this point, even the Long Wang and the Demon King, who were also Witch Kings, were far inferior to her.

"Then it really is looking for me. Is there some way it bypassed my fate-insulating constitution, or did this robot nun just make a mistake?"

Dorothy speculated inwardly.

However, fortunately, she didn't need to worry for too long, because soon that robot nun led the two of them through many twists and turns to a hidden alley, and when the nun tapped on the wall of the alley according to a certain pattern, the ground split open, revealing a passage leading underground.

Considering they were on Noah's Ark at the moment, this shouldn't be called leading underground, but leading to the ship's hold.

"Not bad."

Looking at this hidden passage, Dorothy nodded with interest; she liked this feeling of exploration.

Of course, she also suspected whether all of this was Sophie Liya's conspiracy, such as sending this robot nun to lure her into some trap, but glancing at the good sister beside her, the Home Witch was fearless.

As long as there was a big thigh to lean on, she could do anything.

Therefore, Dorothy walked down the somewhat dark underground stairs very calmly.

At first it was narrow, only allowing one person to pass, then down dozens of steps, and suddenly it opened up...

Well, these stairs were just for show; the Home Witch knew from her own constantly nauseating physiological reaction that these stairs were actually a teleportation channel disguised as stairs, and light soon came from the end of the stairs.

And when Dorothy endured the discomfort and walked out of the stairs, a clean but simple cathedral appeared before her.

The Home Witch looked around curiously, but soon, her gaze was attracted by the object at the end of the cathedral that occupied the place where a statue should have been.

It was a painting.

In the pitch-black night, on the calm water surface, a huge silver full moon rose as if it were the sun; this moon was so huge that even though it had just emerged from the horizon, the shadow cast by its massive body plunged the world into darkness.

Moreover, although this was the moon, to be honest, it was not bright; not only did it not emit white moonlight, but it was more like it was absorbing the light of the world. The edge of the moon's halo was a darkness deeper than the night itself. (Reference to Ranni's Dark Moon).

And below this painting of the dark moon, a nun was also standing there, her back to the crowd, watching the dark moon in the painting.

Seeming to hear the sound, the nun turned around, revealing a face that made Dorothy's eyes widen instantly.

"My sisters, welcome to the Moon-Worship Sect. I am Xia Wa, the agent of the moon."

The nun, who had a face identical to Yufiliya, said so.

Oh my...

... Dorothy in shock... ===== CHAPTER 525 =====