Chapter 308

Saint Petersburg, Kazan Cathedral.

An Orthodox priest is praying to the statue of the Virgin Mary enshrined in the church.

As a devout believer, Victor Letov's daily prayer before the statue of the Virgin Mary has always been his homework. The content of each prayer is not different; they are all things like seeking salvation and forgiveness. This time, he was still murmuring the prayer as usual, finished it, and made a cross on his chest.

But at this moment, he heard a voice, "Victor..."

He opened his eyes, and then was stunned to find that the Virgin Mary in the painting was looking at him.

A hazy glow descended from behind the Virgin Mary, and the incomparable holiness made him unable to stop tears from streaming down his face.

He fell to his knees with a thud, and the huge glory he had never dared to hope for made him almost faint with happiness.

But he still heard the Virgin Mary's gentle, loving, firm, and unquestionable voice, "Victor, calamity. Calamity is coming..."

"Ca, calamity?!" Victor finally recovered from the huge shock of the Virgin Mary's manifestation, and then was scared into a cold sweat by those words.

As an Orthodox believer, he naturally knew a lot about the manifestation of the Virgin Mary's statue.

The Virgin Mary had saved the Soviet Union three times, sparing it from the hands of the Mongols, Napoleon, and the Nazis.

Undoubtedly, she would only manifest when the Soviet Union faced a huge crisis of life and death.

And the calamity she spoke of must be such a horrific event.

Could it be that the Soviet Union is again facing a huge crisis of national subjugation and extinction?

"Where is the calamity? Theotokos Maria, please guide me..."

The Virgin Mary's gaze turned to the southeast, and she repeated that terrible prophecy again, "Calamity, is coming..."

Suddenly, the radiance dissipated, and Victor found himself still standing in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary, without moving a bit.

He looked toward the southeast with trembling.

Southeast of Saint Petersburg, that is Moscow, that is Kyrgyzstan, that is the ancient country in East Asia...

What exactly is the calamity the Virgin Mary referred to?

……

Almost the same scene played out in countless churches and the homes of Orthodox believers within the Soviet Union.

Overnight, everyone in the Soviet Union knew that the Virgin Mary had manifested again and revealed the arrival of a calamity.

……

When Murphy arrived at the Spring Palace, Grandma Yaga and Sophia were already waiting in the reception hall.

And in front of them, a statue of the Virgin Mary was placed.

Murphy saw the painting at a glance, and in an instant, he understood the meaning of "Maria has appeared" that Grandma Yaga spoke of.

"This is..." Murphy asked a bit uncertainly.

"Yes, this is that Maria you spoke of." Grandma Yaga said.

Murphy frowned; this was really unexpected.

He thought Maria was the name of some wizard, but it turned out to be the Virgin Mary herself.

"My enemy, is a god?" Murphy was a bit incredulous, "Does she really exist?"

Theoretically, magic already exists, so the existence of gods is not so unacceptable, but if she exists, why do wizards, who have more contact with mysterious forces than Muggles, seem to be mostly atheists?

It can be seen from their catchphrases; they don't say Christ, but use "Merlin" instead.

And in the various literature and materials of wizards, there is not much discussion about gods.

"I don't know if she exists," Grandma Yaga said, "but it did indeed manifest power through the statue of the Virgin Mary."

"How so, what happened?" Murphy asked.

"Arkaim also has some Muggle-born wizards. They will receive education in this city and then may settle down. Some of them are believers. Therefore, some wizards in the city believe in Orthodoxy, and there will be statues of the Virgin Mary in their homes."

"More than ten minutes ago, several wizards discovered that the statue of the Virgin Mary in their homes suddenly manifested and revealed a prophecy to them."

"The Virgin Mary said that calamity is coming, and the occurrence of the calamity is related to the north."

But at this moment, in the mind network, Murphy also received an emergency communication from Little Barty Crouch.

"Master, something big has happened! The statues of the Virgin Mary in churches and the homes of Orthodox believers across the Soviet Union have manifested one after another, saying that a calamity is about to happen."

"And according to their feedback, we drew the direction pointed by the 'statues of the Virgin Mary' on the map. The location where they converge is in the suburbs of Moscow, which is exactly the place we just decided on, preparing to build the 'National Laboratory'!"

National Laboratory?!

Is this Maria coming for the National Laboratory?

No, he also set traps for himself through the goblins before; his goal seems to be to stop his plan.

Murphy looked at the statue of the Virgin Mary placed in the room, unfolded his magic vision, and a layer of gorgeous halo remained on the painting, "Green, blue, purple..."

Purple... the magic remaining on the painting was purple to the point of being almost black in Murphy's eyes.

Color is actually something processed by the brain according to the signal intensity transmitted by visual cells. Murphy's brain directly borrowed the mode of distinguishing optical visual signals and used the same color difference as optical vision to mark different magic signal intensities. Because Murphy has tetrachromatic vision, he can see ultraviolet colors deeper than purple.

At this moment, the magic color on the painting almost reached Murphy's color vision limit.

And the magic intensity of ordinary wizards is mostly at the yellow and green levels; very few people can reach the blue magic intensity.

Murphy took another look at Empress Sophia and Grandma Yaga in front of him. Sophia carried quite a few items with high magic intensity, and the strongest reached purple, but her own magic was a bright yellow-green—not much different from ordinary students who just graduated from Hogwarts.

And the color of Grandma Yaga's magic was basically the same as his own, both a deep blue that was almost purple.

But the magic color of the painting was ultraviolet—this shows that the "thing" that left magic on the painting—regardless of whether it is a god or not, at least, its magic intensity far exceeds the level of ordinary wizards, and is even stronger than himself and Grandma Yaga.

This is perhaps the proof that its "realm" is higher than his own.

"The owner of this painting should be an Orthodox believer, right? Can I meet him?" Murphy asked.

Soon, a wizard was brought to the reception hall. He was the first wizard to report the manifestation event to Mrs. Yaga.

As soon as the wizard entered the door and saw Murphy, he exclaimed, "De, demon?!"

After speaking, he turned and wanted to run, but was grabbed back by Grandma Yaga, "What's going on? What did you say he is?"

"Demon! He, he has a pair of horns, and, and black wings... sheep, sheep hooves... his whole body is wrapped in green lightning... My God, there really is a demon in this world..."

(End of chapter)