Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 405 - 224: The Place Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine

Duan Mingyuan was a person who liked to pursue answers relentlessly. Whenever his curiosity was stirred, he would do everything in his power to uncover the truth, which helped him sleep peacefully every night thereafter.

Even if it occasionally required bypassing linguistic systems and directly viewing someone’s heart and memory.

People can lie, but hearts and memories always refract their most authentic selves.

Mingyuan knew it wasn’t a good habit, so for a long time, he tried his best to restrain his curiosity.

But there were always exceptions.

Take, for example, the war that the Ashen Church waged against Wizard Star, and the subsequent witch-hunting campaign that lasted a century and hasn’t completely ceased to this day. He found it hard to imagine what kind of deep-seated grudge could drive the Church to persecute witches to such an extent.

Was it just because they lost some forces in the war on Wizard Star?

Or was it fear of the Art of Curse Killing?

Mingyuan, who had dealt with Universe Company for a long time, didn’t think so. He always felt that the war stories of He Ya and Fu Ling were missing a key piece.

For instance, the reason why the Ashen Church declared war on Wizard Star.

He Ya believed that Wizard Star’s past situation was somewhat similar to Blue Star, where the Ashen Church coveted the spells created by the wizards. However, the first thing the Church did after destroying Wizard Star was to burn all books related to the spells.

And within the memory vault of the Iron Blood Bishop, Mingyuan finally found the missing link.

"Prophecy."

Just four words were enough to drastically change the Iron Blood Bishop’s expression.

In the Iron Blood Bishop’s memory, Wizard Star was a prosperous planet that could even compete with the Ashen Church in esoteric studies at a certain period.

Countless elites from various civilizations visited the planet periodically, including high-level executives from some companies.

This also seemed to explain why the Saintfield family maintained contact with witches after the rise of the witch-hunting campaign, as the Shan Clan People were frequent visitors to Wizard Star.

The reason was that they could always receive guidance about the future on that planet.

In that era, the Art of Prophecy was a compulsory course for witches, through which they communicated with some mysterious force, enabling them to predict future trends to some extent.

At a certain point, the Ashen Church even extensively exchanged mystical knowledge with the witches of Wizard Star, establishing churches on the planet to share insights into esoteric studies.

Until the Pope’s visit changed everything.

To exchange views, the most talented witches on Wizard Star demonstrated the Art of Prophecy to the visiting envoys.

Nevertheless, something went wrong with the prophecy that time.

Claws born from the shadows twisted the witch’s neck, and an indescribable creature tore open a rift in reality.

Although the Pope himself was unharmed, he fell severely ill after returning to Church Headquarters.

The creature from the rift seemed to have a profound impact on his psyche, but the Pope refused to reveal to anyone what he had seen that day.

Two months after his recovery, the Pope launched a mandatory decree.

He commanded all wizards on Wizard Star to cease their studies of esotericism, labeling their mystical studies as the spells of demons. Thus began the rumors of the Void Demon, and from then on, anyone who studied the Art of Prophecy was considered a descendant of demons.

The Iron Blood Bishop had been given an important mission as he rushed to the battlefield.

——Burn all books related to divination.

However, in the personal memories of the Iron Blood Bishop, the war had not been going smoothly. Apart from the lethal effect of the Art of Curse Killing, the wizards could always stay one step ahead of them through prophecy, and they even used the Grimoire as bait to lure the vanguard of the Iron Blood Bishop into a trap, until they lost contact with the main force.

Mingyuan also understood why the Iron Blood Bishop was so resistant to having his reading records checked.

In the week he was out of contact, he had become a prisoner of a witch.

Strangely enough, the unnamed witch did not torture him but instead used a spell on him to forcibly keep him awake, forcing him to memorize all the Grimoires in the library within a week. She also personally explained the knowledge of spells to the bishop, including methods to break through the Inherent Barrier.

It was during the days of his imprisonment by the witch that the Iron Blood Bishop created his Inherent Barrier.

After escaping with his life, it was the knowledge learned from the library that allowed the Iron Blood Bishop to gradually gain the upper hand in the battle.

In his later reports, he concealed the days of his imprisonment. He claimed that his troops were attacked by witches, all believers died bravely, and he fell to the bottom of a valley, where he luckily discovered an ancient relic and narrowly escaped death.

Mingyuan was not satisfied with such a result.

Reality is always so, everytime he unraveled one mystery, it seemed that even more surfaced.

He had originally meant that the witch who imprisoned the Iron Blood Bishop was playing a trick like "turning him into what he was fighting against," but as it turned out, the witch almost treated him like a disciple, earnestly teaching him everything.

One of the major reasons the tide of battle on the Wizard Star turned so drastically was the sudden appearance of an Iron Blood Bishop who understood how to counteract the witches’ Barriers.

There was a traitor within the wizards.

But what was the purpose?

Mingyuan found the witch who had taught the bishop in his later memories. When they met again, she was a prisoner of the defeated side, executed along with many other witches.

There were no subsequent plots, and she was burned by the Church without any struggle.

Even to the end, the executed witch did not reveal anything related to the Iron Blood Bishop.

On the night the witch was executed, the anxious bishop finally had a good night’s sleep after a long time.

"Why?"

Unable to come up with an answer, Mingyuan threw this question at the Iron Blood Bishop who had lived through that war, "Why did she, instead of torturing you after capturing you, teach you methods to combat witches? Have you never been curious about it?"

"You—!"

The Iron Blood Bishop turned pale with shock, he instinctively looked at his mispositioned guards.

In their eyes, along with the believers’, he was an invincible being, who had never experienced being captured by a witch in his life.

And Mingyuan’s question was precisely the key issue.

If the Church were to find out about this past that couldn’t be explained by common sense, they would definitely carry out a long and thorough investigation on him.

"You can try to answer the question,"

Mingyuan said, "In one minute, they will forget this conversation"

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