Mystery: From Celestial Venerable's Backup to Red Priest

Chapter 100 The Witch Cult and the Gnostic Society

Chapter 100 The Witch Cult and the Gnostic Society

Today, using information from Tingen and Triss to bring the Gnostic into the game was a last-minute decision made by Evan after meeting Helen.

Helen's sudden arrival made Evan realize that while he could use and benefit from other organizations, he lacked the means to counter the Gnostic.

On the contrary, they also hold the most secrets about Evan. Evan is basically transparent to them, a pawn they can discard at any time. As long as they can gain more, they don't care whether Evan lives or dies.

As for their promise to help Evan ascend to the Hunter path and regain his male form, just listen to that and be done with it. Only a fool would believe it. Witches are never benevolent.

As for Helen's deep affection for him, Evan originally believed it to be true, and he was quite conflicted about it.

However, since Evan came to Backlund, he joined more organizations and came into contact with more information. In addition, with his understanding of the witch's path, he gradually pieced together the creed of the Gnostic Witches.

That is, "Women are supreme, men are despicable!"

Helen's love for Evan was genuine, and the cuteness she showed when she met him was also true to her nature.

But the problem is that the witches of the Gnostic Society are true "Black Widows." Their way of dealing with "pain" is to "eat" the man who has impregnated them, given them the Assassin's Potion, and whom they deeply love while they are pregnant. Then, with the help of a ritual, they give birth to a girl who is born an "assassin."

Their eating and Mr. A's eating are the same thing; they really eat. The deeper the love, the more intense the pain, and the faster the potion is digested.

When Evan used his brother Robert's access to see this document in MI9, he was completely dumbfounded, and sweat broke out on his back.

He originally thought that the Gnostic would be more normal in training female "witches," but he didn't expect them to be even crazier than the witch cult.

Their true ideology is to establish a female-led world, completely reverse the status of men and women, and make men truly subservient.

This made Evan understand why the major orthodox cults viewed the Gnostic as a great enemy, not just because of the disasters they brought.

They also understood why the two major forces that controlled the Witch's Path were so irreconcilable and regarded each other as mortal enemies.

For the witches of the witch cult, this idea was a direct challenge to their proud "masculine" mentality, making it a heresy among heresies.

In the eyes of the Gnostic witches, the witch cult, a group of men who usurp the extraordinary characteristics that belong to women, is also a heresy among heres.

Evan was also puzzled as to where the witches of the Gnostic Society got the courage to do such a big thing, considering that their mortal enemy was the witch cult that occupied the top of the assassin hierarchy.

The Primal Witch occupies the top of the sequence and should have a great influence on the Extraordinary Ones of this path. The Gnostic should be able to destroy her in a heartbeat.

But the fact is that, from the Quaternary period to the present, more than a thousand years later, the Gnostic has become more and more prosperous, and even has the trend of growing stronger.

Based on his own account of the original work and his analysis, Evan concluded that either the Primordial Witch was attacked by the Seven Gods along with Death during the Pale Calamity, suffering unimaginable injuries that she has not yet recovered from, and is therefore powerless to interfere in the present world.

Either the original witch's severe injuries affected her mental state, causing her to have a distorted understanding of her own gender and resulting in a severe personality split, which is why the witch cult could not use the original witch's power to directly eliminate the Gnostic Society, and even had to be wary of whether the original witch would help her rival from time to time.

This conjecture arose because Evan had once tentatively asked his brother Robert, who seemed to know a great deal, about Gnostic matters, and Robert's answer was quite interesting:

"The Gnostic can be seen to some extent as another kind of witch cult; they even share the same blood ties."

If the Gnostic Witches are indeed related to the Primordial Witch by blood, then the battle between these two organizations can truly be described as an internal struggle within a family.

Furthermore, since the Grim Revelation Society is composed entirely of female witches, Evan boldly speculates that the president of the Grim Revelation Society might be the daughter of the primordial witch, a witch born with angelic qualities?

If these speculations are true, Evan is genuinely curious about who got the Primal Witch pregnant, gave birth to his daughter, and who hasn't been "drowned" yet.

Putting aside speculation and returning to the initial question, Evan proactively provided Helen with information because he lacked the means to deal with the Gnostic Society and needed to demonstrate his value.

Furthermore, Evan didn't want the Gnostic to remain hidden in the shadows any longer. Tris, the vessel for the Primordial Witch's divine descent, was carefully cultivated by the Witch Cult. If they discovered that the Gnostic was active near Tris, they would definitely have a stress response, and the Augustan royal family, which cooperated with the Witch Cult, might also react.

If Evan's speculation about the Primordial Witch's schizophrenia is true, then the Witch Cult's actions in cultivating vessels for divine descent are very intriguing. Perhaps it is a deadly move against the Gnostic Society, and the Gnostic Society, having discovered Tris's abnormality, will not sit idly by.

By then, Evan's importance, having successfully infiltrated the Witch Cult, will become even more prominent. Moreover, Evan can use the Witch Cult's power to target the Gnostic Society, giving him the means to counter the Gnostic Society.

When they start fighting, it will be a great thing for Evan. From what I've learned so far, both organizations are bound by bloodlines, and a self-taught "assassin" like Evan won't be taken seriously.

The higher the sequence, the fewer extraordinary traits there are. Especially for high-sequence extraordinary traits, whether it's the Church of the True God or a secret organization, they are all traps for each other. Evan predicts that under normal circumstances, it will never be his turn to be an outsider like himself.

Therefore, for the long term, it is necessary to "remove the vine" and "empty the pit" when necessary. This Triss incident is just the beginning. In the future, Evan will use his identity to constantly look for every possible opportunity to provoke a war between them until there is a pit where he can put his vine.

As the saying goes: turmoil and conflict are always stepping stones to advancement.

Just as Evan was envisioning how he would become a double agent and instigate a war between the Witch Cult and the Gnostic Society, Robert was frowning as he looked at the documents in his hands, his face growing increasingly grim.

The documents Robert had were delivered by his men to Tingen via a cryptic messenger; they were all photocopies of files related to the cases of Heiner Vancent and Mrs. Sharon.

It even included information about Sirius Arepis, who had just died that day, and concluded with a progress report.

With the deaths of Mrs. Sharon, Heiner Vancent, and Sirius Arepis, the investigation into which faction Evan obtained the potion formula and materials has reached a stalemate. The investigators in Tingen will now search for Mr. Z, a possible superior of the two Aurora Society members, hoping to find some clues.

It was also mentioned that the Tingen City government's Extraordinary Squad's investigation revealed that Mrs. Sharon had a subordinate named "Tris" who had traveled to Backlund by steam train. He might know about Evan's relationship with Mrs. Sharon, and Robert was asked to investigate.

Robert placed the documents in his hand on the coffee table in front of him and rubbed his temples in annoyance. He hadn't expected so many things to happen in Tingen in such a short time. The evil god followers who might be connected to his brother had one after another met with misfortune, which made him increasingly suspicious that someone was using Evan as a springboard to target him, which made him extremely angry.

After a long while, Robert said to Mr. Hope, who had been standing to the side:

"Based on the timeline, the wanted criminal named Tris in the file should have arrived in Backlund by now. Send someone to find him and bring him before me!"

"Yes, sir!" Mr. Hope replied meticulously as always.