Chapter 1933: Inside the Pope

"Mr. Chen, this glass of wine is to thank you; thank you for stepping in to help my disciple several times." Dewen raised his glass and gestured slightly toward Chen Yu from a distance.

"You're welcome." Chen Yu raised his glass, gestured slightly, and then drained it in one gulp.

"I have more or less guessed the purpose of Mr. Chen's visit this time." Dewen smiled slightly and said, "You want to understand what exactly is going on inside our Pope, right?"

"Yes, I see that Mr. Dewen is different from the Pope members I have met before." Chen Yu set down his glass and looked at Dewen.

"In their eyes, what I see is darkness and a craving for power and strength; this kind of craving will cause a person to fall into darkness."

"But in your eyes, I see a lack of worldly ambition; I believe you are a person who loves the light," Chen Yu said.

"Living in the light, if I did not love the light, wouldn't that be pushing myself into the abyss?" Dewen sighed slightly and said, "This world has changed far too much."

"The Pope of the past was not like this; they loved the light and devoted everything they had to their faith in the Lord."

"But the Lord seems to have fallen into a deep slumber. In the last twenty years, even when the Pope held grand sacrificial ceremonies and the Pope used the Altar to amplify his Mental Power infinitely in an attempt to communicate with the Lord, he never received a response."

"What is the reason for this?" Chen Yu couldn't help but ask.

He knew that the high-level figures within the Pope could communicate directly with the gods, especially the Pope, who held the Holy Grail and the Holy Staff and only needed to use the Altar to amplify his Mental Power.

In this way, they could speak directly to their Lord. Generally speaking, they would receive a response during their annual sacrifice.

But listening to Dewen's meaning, they seemed not to have received a response from the Lord for these years, which made things seem somewhat unusual.

"I don't know. Perhaps... he is tired and has fallen into a deep slumber," Dewen said. "Perhaps this era no longer belongs to him, and he is gradually drifting away."

"Back in the Middle Ages, when the Lord's glory was at its peak, as long as we had a request, we would definitely receive a response. But now, no matter how hard we try, we cannot get a response."

"Perhaps it is as you said; the current era is no longer the era that belonged to him." Chen Yu nodded slightly and said, "So he is in a deep slumber?"

"I don't know, because without the Lord's favor, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the missionaries in our Pope to obtain greater power."

"We work hard to preach and channel endless Faith Power to the Lord, but the responses we get are few and far between, so as time goes by, everyone's mood has become somewhat restless," Dewen sighed and said.

"I seem to understand the actions of those people. Because they cannot get a response, the Holy Power is decreasing, and the originally limited resources are becoming scarcer," Chen Yu said. "So in this state, the interior of the Pope began to split; they turned into two groups?"

"Yes," Dewen nodded slightly and said, "One group advocates following the Pope's rules and continuing to preach without hesitation, while the other group wants to improve themselves by capturing the power of the Dark World."

"As time went on, an even more terrifying idea was born: to open the entrance to the Dark World and let the creatures of the Dark World occupy this world."

"And our Pope would exhaust all its power to reshape a true Lord, then act as the savior."

"A new true Lord? Could it be the current Lord of the Pope?" Chen Yu frowned; he seemed to understand something.

"Yes, it is the current Lord of the Pope, who is also what everyone calls the Pope, Ivan," Dewen nodded slowly.

"This is truly a crazy idea. Therefore, if you succeed, your original Lord will be abandoned, and that Pope will become the new true Lord? All the Faith Power will be absorbed by him?" Chen Yu asked.

"Yes, for now, based on the situation I have grasped, that is exactly his intention," Dewen said. "Ivan is the Lord of the Pope, so his power and influence are much greater than mine."

"But I have also been fighting against him. The reason he cannot move against me now is that I hold the Sacred Object, which is the Holy Grail of the Pope. If he wants to become the true Lord, he must use the power of the Holy Grail."

"So he has never dared to move against you?" Chen Yu asked.

"Yes, part of my power has been sealed, but we have not yet reached the point of a total falling out, so they dare not move against me for the time being," Dewen nodded slightly.

"It seems that the affairs of your Pope are quite complicated," Chen Yu sighed and said. "I originally thought that the believers of the Pope were all those kinds of fervent zealots whose faith was unshakable."

"But now I realize that is not the case. Human nature and desire are infinitely amplified everywhere until they themselves can no longer control them."

"Mr. Chen, you are a Cultivator from Huaxia. Are you Cultivators all without desire or pursuit?" Dewen asked curiously.

"Not at all," Chen Yu shook his head. "Cultivators control even more powerful strength, and their desires are even greater than those of ordinary people."

"It is just that what they pursue is not worldly power and money, so in the eyes of outsiders, they are high and aloof, without desire or pursuit. But in fact, the world of Cultivators is even more terrifying."

"So people in this world are all the same," Dewen sighed slightly. "I once greatly admired the Cultivators of the Eastern world."

"I thought they had the world in their hearts and were without desire or pursuit, unlike us who use unscrupulous means for power. But now it seems that everyone is the same."

"Yes, there is no difference; everyone is the same. In fact, no matter what level you reach, human nature has never changed," Chen Yu said leisurely. "It is just that when you reach a certain level, what everyone pursues becomes different."

"So you would think that their enlightenment is different, but in fact, there is no difference; it is just that the pursuit has changed."

"Mr. Chen, I think what you said makes a lot of sense, and I feel like I've known you for a long time. If there were more people like you in this world, it would be good." Dewen raised a glass to Chen Yu again, and the two drained them in one gulp again.

"I have encountered a few people from the Pope before, and these people were all from the dark faction," Chen Yu said. "I did not show mercy and sent them to see your Lord."

"I know about these things. These people were all rather important pawns of the dark faction, and Old Ivan was very angry about this," Dewen laughed. "I just knew that this matter must have been done by someone with a sense of justice; sure enough."