"Your Holiness the Pope."
Although Bai Yi was a bit surprised by Karis’s arrival, she quickly responded and greeted him as usual.
"Miss Fan Mao, the last time we met should have been at the conference in the fortress. I really appreciate Miss Fan Mao for saving young Xide.
Without you, our church would have lost another strong member..."
Even though she now knew that Karis, the guy pretending to be young, was actually an old guy from a thousand years ago, Bai Yi couldn’t help but feel a little strained when she heard Karis use a face that looked about twenty to call Bishop Xide a kid.
After all, Xide’s appearance couldn’t be described as youthful and beautiful, but rather as aged and deteriorated, with a face of someone stepping into old age, yet in Karis’s mouth, he became a junior of his family.
It’s not that it’s wrong, just that it looks somewhat abnormal.
Seeing Bai Yi’s expression of wanting to speak but holding back, Karis didn’t mind and returned to the main topic.
"Is Miss Fan Mao wanting to understand the situation of the church?"
"Yes, I want to understand all about the church and the gods in detail. Our Forest Elves don’t have much information on these matters internally."
Bai Yi answered truthfully. She knew Karis’s capabilities, aware that as the Eternal Pope, he had a prophecy-like ability and was very accurate in detecting lies.
Facing an ability of unknown principles, Bai Yi chose to play it safe rather than challenge the authority.
"Heh, I always speculated that Miss Fan Mao had only just been born within the Forest Elves, and now it seems that’s indeed true. That fellow Magga even bet with me, saying Miss Fan Mao was an ancient old entity.
The Forest Elves have a long heritage; although much has been lost over the years, if anyone survived from ancient times to the present, they should be knowledgeable about the church.
Now that Miss Fan Mao needs to come to us for information, it proves many things."
Karis specifically explained, and when Bai Yi first heard Karis’s words, she thought Karis had learned some truth and guessed she came from outside this world. Now it seemed her secret was well-kept.
However, Karis did not let Bai Yi continue with her wild imaginations and formally began his introduction.
"To talk about the church, I must first start with the gods.
Miss Fan Mao should already know this, but I’ll reiterate it.
The gods each hold different dominions. For example, the god I believe in is [Eternal], who controls the powers of fate, space, time, and is the Creator of the world.
There is also the [Creator], the master of knowledge, [Order], who controls the rules, [Longevity], spreading life, [Traveler], crossing space, [Chaos], wantonly destroying, and...
The master of the mind, [Thousand Faces]."
After Karis briefly introduced a few gods, he began a more detailed narrative, starting naturally with [Eternal], the one he worshipped.
However, Bai Yi’s attention was still stuck on just now, as one familiar name after another matched in her mind, leaving only one that was completely unfamiliar.
"[Thousand Faces]? Who is [Thousand Faces]?"
Bai Yi couldn’t help but interrupt Karis’s narrative.
This one hadn’t appeared in the starry sky...
At least, in the list of powers she received from the starry sky, there was no information about this god. Find the newest release on N0velFire.ɴet
Is it a unique deity of this world, or is it simply because the starry sky doesn’t have the influence of this god? Or perhaps...
It’s that this power is so well hidden that even the game didn’t get their intelligence...
Bai Yi suddenly remembered Karis’s description of this god as the master of the mind and immediately thought of Stica, whom she had just interacted with.
If the followers of this god all wielded powers of the mind, if these followers all had capabilities similar to Stica...
Then it makes sense that no news of this god’s believers had surfaced.
After being interrupted, Karis wasn’t surprised by Bai Yi’s question and answered her confusion.
"That is a special deity, mastering the power of the mind, and is most adept at concealing their presence.
In fact, the followers of this god have been extinct for a long time now.
Even we know very little about the followers of this god, with only some written records remaining, merely knowing that this deity masters the power of the mind.
Their followers are especially skilled at hiding, and enjoy collecting memories, offering special memories to their god.
Speaking of which, this ability is very similar to the recent attacking great demon.
Unfortunately, despite the long war with the demons, there has been no mention of the appearance of this god’s followers, perhaps they have completely vanished..."
Karis shook his head regretfully. Since the great demon began to wreak havoc, attacking human strong ones with its ability, he had speculated about this great demon’s powers.
For this, he had specifically sought out this god’s followers, trying to borrow their power to counterattack, but to no avail, as if they had truly vanished into thin air.
So, Karis wasn’t surprised by Bai Yi’s confusion and, after explaining it, continued his narration.
"Returning to the seers, prophecy is not truly peering into the future, but rather a deduction based on past history, so the stronger the individual, the more difficult the prophecy, because the actions of strong individuals can influence many things.
The second god is the Creator, representing worldly knowledge, an absolute rational pursuer of knowledge...
Although Bai Yi still cared a lot about the newly heard name of the god, since Karis also didn’t have much information, Bai Yi had no way but to first record the known information.