Chapter 1054

Late at night.

Neither Anthony's intelligence channels, nor Franca's gang informants, nor Jenna's neighbors had been able to provide any information related to the "Disease Sect."

Franca sat down at the mechanical typewriter, turned on the radio transceiver, and prepared to ask "007" to see if the Church of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" had mastered any valuable intelligence.

"Beep, group message notification: 'Sleeve Sword', who did another good deed today, has joined the group chat!" Franca announced her arrival in the telegram group.

Before she could send a second sentence, she saw a telegram come in with "007" as the header:

"'Sleeve Sword', you didn't actually advance to Sequence 4, but to Sequence 3, right?"

The other telegrams that were supposed to respond to Franca came to an abrupt halt.

Franca was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized:

Oh, I didn't even want to show off about this, and you're helping me show off?

She felt she should express three parts helplessness, three parts pain, three parts confusion, plus one part unavoidable secret joy, so she deliberated and replied:

"Sigh... yeah."

After a brief, indescribable silence, one telegram after another was spat out amidst the clacking sounds under the queue control of the small analytical machine.

The mechanical typewriter felt overwhelmed, busy to the point of smoking:

"Really?"

"'Sleeve Sword', this kind of joke isn't funny; it's too hurtful!"

"I remember you, 'Sleeve Sword', mentioned just a month ago that you were a Sequence 5 'Pain Witch'. Sequence 3 in just a month? Even a rocket isn't that fast!"

"Have you been favored by the God of Luck recently?"

"A Sequence 3 Witch, I can't imagine how beautiful and charming she must be..."

"Really, is there any secret to the advancement? Name your price; maybe we brothers can scrape together a down payment."

"'Sleeve Sword', did you encounter something? Is there anything you need help with? With my sequence, I might not be able to participate in combat, but I can help you curse those people!"

"......"

"'007', how did you know?"

After venting various emotions and feelings, someone finally brought the topic back on track.

"007" replied:

"'Sleeve Sword' is already the patron saint of a church and has her own honorific name."

As expected, the changes at Saint Franca Church were noticed by the Church of the "Eternal Blazing Sun," and "007" had known before that I was "Red Boots" Franca Roland... Franca's guess was confirmed.

"Patron saint... honorific name... I really can't connect these two terms with the 'Sleeve Sword' who says 'Life is short, why not try it'." "Moon King" was the first to exclaim.

"That's right." "Wind Sound" then sent a telegram, "It's too magical, too magical; more magical than all magical novels!"

"Please show some respect to the great 'Sleeve Sword'!"

"Master 'Sleeve Sword', is it possible to take me as an apprentice?"

"You want to be a 'Witch' too? If I remember correctly, you can switch."

"I find it hard to accept that the strongest person in the research society is actually the silly 'Sleeve Sword'..."

"Don't, if you say that, aren't we even sillier and stupider?"

"......"

Looking at these telegrams, Franca couldn't help but curl her lips.

Must say, showing off like this really feels great!

Moreover, those wisecracking exclamations gave her a sense of groundedness, as if she hadn't left the masses and was still in touch with reality.

"Hey hey hey." She typed the words quickly, "You don't really think I have no brains, do you? What I did before was called being approachable, to blend in with you all."

Then, she added modestly:

"Lady 'Madame Hela' should also be Sequence 3, a little earlier or later than me.

"Whether the president is, I'm not quite sure."

"You really are Sequence 3... Is there anything you can tell us?" "Wind Sound" and others asked one after another.

Franca went a bit deeper than before:

"In the matters of advancing to Sequence 4, digesting the Sequence 4 potion, and advancing to Sequence 3, I met the conditions for taking shortcuts due to the uniqueness of being a transmigrator. Therefore, I became a saint with an honorific name within a month."

She didn't mention that her Sequence 3 potion had also been completely digested. After all, the members of the telegram group weren't too few, and the vast majority hadn't had contact in the real world. Although she was willing to trust their character, she didn't dare gamble on the environment they were in. Key information regarding her own sequence strength should be kept secret if it needed to be.

Moreover, if someone asked what a Sequence 3 Witch was called later, Franca didn't want to hide it, because after "007" pointed out that she was already the patron saint of a church, her honorific name couldn't be hidden from those who were interested. In this way, some telegram group members might make certain associations from the on-the-spot digestion of the sequence potion and the name "Unaging Witch."

"A month..."

"It really only took a month..."

"......"

Now, "Moon King", "Wind Sound", and the others seemed to have no mood to joke anymore.

"Then what kind of Witch are you now?" After a while, group member "Little Peppa" asked.

I knew it! Franca replied immediately:

"Unaging Witch."

"Unaging... eternal youth?" "Little Peppa" seemed a bit envious.

"Moon King" then asked:

"Can it also extend lifespan?"

"Theoretically speaking, living another two thousand years is no problem." Franca tried hard to control her smugness.

"Envious to tears..." The group members replied with similar words one after another.

One and two, all were sincere.

Who doesn't want eternal life?

As for the negative effects brought by the potion, there were no ordinary people in this group!

Franca thought for a moment and typed again:

"For those in the Trier region, if you have difficulties and need help, you can recite my honorific name.

"For those not in the Trier region, I can't help it; I can't hear and can't respond.

"My honorific name is:

"The One Who Never Ages, the Keeper of Disease and Plague, the Witch Accompanied by Strife and Disaster, the Holy Grail Bearing Joy and Pain, the Great Franca Roland."

Seeing this honorific name, seeing the prefix "Great," the group members truly realized that "Sleeve Sword" had already obtained divinity, was half-human half-god, possessed an honorific name, was the patron saint of a church, and could respond to prayers and descend power.

After a while, "Little Peppa" sighed:

"I feel like there is a sad, thick barrier between us..."

"Call me 'Master' and let me hear it?" Franca responded to these words very skillfully.

After finishing the exchange about her own affairs and explaining the concept that the "Holy Grail" was taken from the corresponding symbol of the Tarot card and the sacred object bearing joy and pain, she asked "007":

"'007', do you have more intelligence on the 'Disease Sect'?"

After their own collection and analysis of information, their team believed that the "Rose Redemption" and the "Disease Sect" should be worshipping the same evil god, but the former mainly corrupted the middle and upper classes, while the latter targeted the lower classes, promoting the authority of the "Disease God" and the terror of disease to develop believers through intimidation.

"007" didn't type fast or slow, and the telegrams came in line by line:

"The several cases related to the Disease Sect discovered earlier have been handled, and the corresponding Gifted ones have been cleared, but we have never found their upper levels.

"Those were just believers who knew the name of the 'Disease God'. We have sufficient manpower now and have sent mid-sequence Beyonders to keep an eye on them to see if anyone will contact them and if any abnormal events will occur.

"Apart from these, there is no other intelligence. The cultists in Trier have been very quiet in the last month or two and are hidden very deep."

Very quiet? This is very similar to the state before the hostel incident... Is something big really going to happen within a year or two? Other great existences might not know what the "Mother of All" wants to do or how, but they should have foreseen that something was going to happen. After all, we all have our guesses, so they restrained the Gifted ones in Trier, letting them either transfer to other places or wait patiently to fish in troubled waters when the time comes? Franca made her own speculation based on "007"'s words.

At the same time, she also heard another hint from "007":

Believers who only know the name of the "Disease God" can be saved.

That's true, those great existences all preach using honorifics and don't let believers have a true understanding of themselves. This isn't because they are benevolent, but because truly understanding them would inevitably lead to corruption. Some might be fine, just personality alienation or extreme mental states, but most would have their bodies collapse and become monsters that constantly spread pollution. This makes it impossible to preach secretly and makes it easy to be discovered by official forces... Franca muttered silently.

One of the reasons why praying for gifts requires holding a ritual is to protect the corresponding human through the ritual, and after establishing a stable but temporary channel, the corresponding existence can consciously restrain the mental and volitional pollution within the gift power, so that the recipient doesn't collapse on the spot.

Even for saints like Franca and Lu Mian, their understanding of those great existences is limited to honorifics, but compared to other Sequence 4 and Sequence 3 demigods, they also know that these existences all stand at the top of multiple pathways.

In reality, among the great existences, the only one that doesn't preach using honorifics is the "Mother Tree of Desire."

Lady "Magician" mentioned that "Mother Tree of Desire" is a small part of the long honorific name of the corresponding existence. There are two reasons why understanding and reciting it doesn't directly bring pollution:

First, it's only a small part and incomplete; second, the "Mother Tree of Desire" indirectly controls the one worshipped by the "Rose School of Thought" and the demon king in the abyss in the real world. Therefore, after mentioning this honorific name, under the premise that there is little understanding and the barrier still exists, a mystical phenomenon of "nearby response" will appear, and the danger is not that great.

"What should we do..." Franca didn't hide the distress of a saint with an honorific name.

"007" replied quickly:

"A large amount of official power has gathered in Trier, and those cultists won't surface again for the time being. Later, we will have enough manpower to screen everyone in key positions.

"It's like this in Trier, but in the border towns of the Trier region, where church and government power is weak, perhaps there are still cultists active. You can go to those places and look."

That's right, in the current situation in Trier, it's definitely impossible to find anyone, but you can go to the suburbs or the countryside to look... As expected, only official Beyonders have such vision and experience. We would have to waste some time before we could think of it... Franca replied to "007" immediately:

"Genius!"

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(End of chapter)