Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 1231 - 790: We Are Free Soul-sucking Ghosts
"Hero Anleisi is in a deep sleep due to the potion's influence and hasn't woken up yet, while Hero Kaius has already set off for the Sain Dungeon."
"This is the first time I've openly taken out the potion I usually add to the heroes' food and personally fed it to Anleisi in front of Kaius. As long as I say it's a healing tool, he won't suspect a thing."
"The latest potions researched by the Church are quite effective. The two heroes, who previously paid no heed to the Holy Light Doctrine, now subconsciously follow it, behaving like believers who have believed in the Holy Light for years. Even they haven't noticed this change."
"I request the Church to allocate more potion to me, so I can verify its effects on others and ensure the potion's universality."
"The success of the potion is foreseeable. In the future, the Church will definitely be able to massively produce fanatics of our Holy Light!"
In Hepa Town, at the camp of the Holy Light Church.
Beside the sleeping Anleisi, the Holy Light Knight Anna was swiftly writing something on a piece of paper. Once finished, she tossed the letter into the air, whereupon a pigeon-shaped Envoy Demon appeared from nowhere and carried the letter off into the distance.
Sometimes, traditional letters are safer than the convenient and quick Teleportation Magic.
Having done all this, she flexed her sore wrist, glanced at Anleisi, and at the young girl who treated her like a friendly right hand.
"You're really too easy to trust others."
Anna, on the surface, is one of the Holy Light Knights.
In reality, she is a confidant of the Church's Archbishop, specifically sent to monitor the two heroes. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Along with adding a little "seasoning" to the daily meals of the heroes.
The so-called potion is a new technology recently researched by the Church, involving the combined application of Illusion Magic and Hypnosis Magic. It's a bunch of complicated terms, but the actual effect is clear—it strengthens the consumer's faith in the Holy Light.
To put it simply, it's mind control.
After all, Anleisi and Kaius are not devout Holy Light believers by background; both were hired by the Church. So, even though they seem quite obedient, the Church cannot fully trust them.
Of course, the potion's production technique is highly advanced, so it hasn't been discovered yet.
Even if it were discovered, the Church would have sufficient reasons to explain, such as:
"This is so that you can smoothly be enlightened by the [Light God's Right Arm] in the future and become Divine Blessings. It's for your own good too."
Anna wholeheartedly believes this statement. She even thinks that secretly giving potions to Kaius and Anleisi is a way to repay them.
Among them, since Anleisi's talent in magic is beyond ordinary, the potion's effects are relatively slower on her, but the effects on her brother Kaius are already significant.
How significant are these effects?
So significant that when he hears something shocking, he would involuntarily blurt out a phrase like a devout believer of the Holy Light.
Anna herself would often say that phrase, and at this moment, thinking that the Archbishop's task assigned to her is about to be completed, she couldn't help but smile and mutter to herself:
"Holy Light above."
...
"Soul-sucking Ghost above."
Kaius blurted out such a phrase that somehow seemed a bit off.
... What did I just say?
No sooner had the words left his mouth than he froze, his expression showing obvious bewilderment, his memory becoming a bit blurry.
He couldn't even remember what he had just said, leaving only a feeling in his heart.
As he spoke that phrase, he inexplicably felt a sense of freedom...
Kaius quickly shook his head, cautiously scanning his surroundings, suspecting that some power within this Painting World was influencing him, but he had no evidence.
He had always kept a secret, one that concerned his and Anleisi's heroic abilities.
Although with Anleisi currently unconscious, his hero's power has thus reached an extremely strong level, his understanding and resistance to magic haven't actually improved.
He merely uses the magic Anleisi has learned and enhances it with his own warrior's strength, meaning he's like a magic projector, without much understanding.
If he were unconscious now, Anleisi would immediately leap to become a legendary warrior swordsmanship master who could strike innumerable killer blows in an instant, but she would also just be a swordsman projector, not understanding warrior abilities as deeply as Kaius does.
However, Kaius has never fallen unconscious, so Anleisi doesn't yet know she has this ability.
And the Holy Light Church only knows that the Twin Heroes are a mechanism freak, knocking one down causes the other to strengthen in anger, but they don't know the intricacies.
If they knew, exploiting these weaknesses to deal with them would be ridiculously simple; the targeted methods would be endless.
To protect his sister's self-esteem, Kaius has conspired with his knights to deceive her, letting her believe that after she falls unconscious, she becomes ultra-strong and can defeat all her enemies.
