Chapter 171 The First Saint

When Hao Ren returned to the Korpas space, he received a warm welcome from Lily.

The husky girl gnawed on his arm at least seventy or eighty times until the rigid shield sparked with golden light and Lily's teeth hurt too much to continue.

"Landlord, can't you be a little more steady!" Lily glared at Hao Ren with her hands on her hips. "You suddenly dashed out with such a big, dark thing in your arms—you're trying to scare someone to death! Do you know that's like charging with a nuclear bomb?"

Hao Ren was stunned by Lily's barrage of words. He never expected that he would be lectured by this husky girl. He always thought that this simpleton only knew how to eat and sleep, and had no worries at all, but he didn't expect that this girl would actually care about her landlord at a critical moment. He was quite touched and also quite depressed: "Uh, sorry... but do you think you, as a husky who is let off the leash, are qualified to teach me to be more steady?"

Lily howled on the spot and almost rushed up again, but fortunately Hao Ren used a packet of spicy sticks to block the girl back.

Later, he realized why Lily was so caring—the reason was actually very simple: loyal dog protecting its master, her instinct kicked in...

After losing its energy supply, the magical reaction in the ritual hall had subsided. The powerful magical fluctuations had turned into a slow trickle in the rune array, and were absorbed and dissolved by the demon runes set up by Izhaks. The unpleasant oppressive aura had also disappeared, and even taking off the life-support collar would no longer have any effect. Hao Ren looked at the situation in the hall and found that there was a large area of ​​charred marks on the ceiling of the hall, and cracks almost covered the entire roof: the powerful dark energy almost broke through the palace of the Goddess of Creation.

But when he thought that an entire star had exploded instantly under the influence of dark energy, Hao Ren felt that the cracks on the roof of the hall were just child's play.

The black Godslayer Sword was still floating in the center of the room, spinning quietly in mid-air as if nothing had happened.

"What's the situation with this sword now?" Hao Ren asked the data terminal, which was monitoring the data on site, "Has it caused any more trouble since then?"

"After you transferred that energy away, the magical reaction in the hall lost its support, and everything ended in a few seconds," the data terminal reported seriously, "Now this sword has calmed down. Since this unit started monitoring until now, it has not detected it continuing any communication with the outside world."

"But you said this thing is still 'alive'," Hao Ren recalled the words the data terminal mentioned in the communication earlier.

The data terminal shook its body: "Yes, there is something operating inside it, and it hasn't stopped since just now. It seems that our destruction of the entire magic formula only ended its current task thread, but it has not had any impact on this sword."

Hao Ren carefully came to the Godslayer Sword, stopping only two meters away from it. He observed the strange shape of this sinful weapon. The Godslayer Sword was like a fragment of the universe. When it slowly rotated, the tiny "stars" on the sword were fixed in a certain position and did not move with the sword body, so this thing looked like a crack leading to another world.

Perhaps it really is some kind of fragment, a fragment that fell from the "universe." Perhaps the stars on the sword really exist?

At this moment, Vivian's voice suddenly came from the communication channel: "By the way, can I come in now?"

Hao Ren quickly stopped her: "Hey, wait a minute! I'll put this thing away first!"

The Godslayer Sword had just gone berserk because it sensed Vivian's pure divine blood. For safety reasons, Hao Ren decided to complete the recovery work first. He opened his portable space, took out a silver-white metal box specially used to store dangerous items, and then released two autonomous machines to recover the murder weapon.

The two autonomous machines came to the Godslayer Sword while chirping and used their mechanical tentacles to carefully touch the strange dark sword body. Everyone around was ready to welcome any accidents, but in the end, nothing happened: the autonomous machines easily took the black long sword out of the levitation field and placed it in the recovery container without any surprises.

Closing the container, setting the lock, activating the metal box's energy barrier, and putting it into his portable space, Hao Ren then sent a message to Vivian: "It's all done, you can come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a flash of lightning suddenly light up at the entrance of the ritual hall, followed by a loud thunder that struck his head.

A large group of little bats flew into the hall in a dark mass and turned into Vivian's form in mid-air. The latter glared at Hao Ren with her hands on her hips: "Can't you usually be a little more steady? How can you charge with a nuclear bomb like that?!"

Hao Ren immediately felt that this statement sounded a bit familiar, and then quickly pointed to Lily, who had just finished eating snacks and was busy licking her fingers, next to him: "She already bit me, why are you still striking me?"

Vivian continued to put her hands on her hips: "Nonsense, how much of what a husky teaches you can you listen to! And this girl was blocked by you with half a packet of spicy sticks!"

Lily sucked on her fingers: "It's half a packet - the landlord is really stingy."

Everyone: "..."

"Okay, okay, can we not pursue this for now?" Hao Ren felt his whole body tingle from being stared at by the bat and the big dog, so he quickly spoke to change the subject, "At least this matter has been resolved safely, right? Now that the source of the accident has been recovered safely, can we consider the Korpas incident over?"

Bai Huo and Tutanin showed complex expressions on their faces at the same time—there was relief that the incident had finally ended safely, belated fatigue and emotion, and of course, worry about the future after the Demon Hunter clan suffered such a disaster. But Vivian suddenly interrupted everyone's thoughts: "There's still one thing."

"What's the matter?" Hao Ren didn't expect that there were still any omissions. Now the culprit that caused the civil war had been safely recovered, and the war in Korpas had also subsided. The remaining follow-up work and post-event investigation could not be completed now. He felt that his work was over.

"The First Saint," Vivian said slowly, her eyes falling on Claude and suddenly becoming a little sharp, "Now that the biggest trouble has been resolved, can we talk about this?"

Claude had been standing aside since just now, maintaining a distance that was neither close nor far from Hao Ren and the others. This outstanding figure among the demon hunters, the adjutant and herald of the First Saint, had maintained commendable composure throughout the thrilling process just now, and after the incident ended, he had been silent until now, as if waiting for someone to call his name.

Hao Ren also suddenly reacted. It seemed that in this chaotic incident, a very important guy had been ignored.

The Demon Hunter's First Saint.

In the "Korpas Rebellion," the twelve saints held a strange ritual and then died tragically. The Elder Council was swept into the war in a strange frenzy and then suffered a crushing defeat. A "voice" guided all of this behind the scenes and commanded the entire war in the ritual hall under the guise of the Saint Group, but this voice is still shrouded in mystery.

However, in this chaotic vortex, a guy who should have been the most important character was ignored by everyone as if he had disappeared.

What was the First Saint doing?

The ritual hall, eleven piles of ashes, the banquet hall, Betolis also left behind his remains. The whereabouts of only twelve of the thirteen saints were certain. The First Saint didn't even show his face. Before, Hao Ren and the others were too busy with various affairs to take care of this matter, but now that the dust had settled, Vivian felt it was necessary to let the First Saint come out for a walk.

After hearing Vivian's question, Claude remained silent. His eternally calm face didn't seem to show any emotional changes. Lily was an impatient mutt, so she inevitably barked: "Oh, right, where's your supreme commander? What's he doing during such a big event?"

Bai Huo and Tutanin also looked at Claude with curiosity. Although the two of them were also cadres of considerable status among the demon hunters, they had never seen the legendary adult. They only heard the legend of the First Saint from time to time, or heard the First Saint's oral message from "heralds" like Claude.

"If you are referring to the 'First Saint', I have never met him."

Claude finally spoke, but his answer was shocking.

"What did you say?!" Hao Ren stared, "Aren't you the First Saint's adjutant?!"

"The adjutants of all generations have never met the First Saint. We are just standing outside that door, pretending that someone is inside," Claude suddenly let out a long breath, as if a heavy burden could finally be put down. He looked at the devastated ritual hall, especially the piles of ashes in the corners of the hall, "The Saint Group has become history. I don't think this secret can be kept any longer: the First Saint does not exist, and has disappeared for thousands of years, almost since the Demon Hunter organization was first established."

The ritual hall was silent.