Chapter 295
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Chapter 295: Something Must Have Happened in Hillenbrand Town!
The celebration in Hillenbrand Town ended while the residents were sound asleep. Even though they were in Hillenbrand Town, apart from the collective slumber at the end, the entire celebration seemed very peaceful and joyful, filled with music and dance.
If we ignore the small troubles and interruptions in the torture tower, even the nap times in other places can be seen as a good thing.
After joyfully watching the fireworks, enjoying food and fun, choosing to rest well and take a nap with the Daydream Fruit is indeed beneficial for both body and mind.
As for the small "side effects" brought by the Daydream Fruit, they are not necessarily a bad thing for the residents of Hillenbrand Town and the Superoperators.
After all, since everyone is asleep, there’s no one who can hear anyone’s dreams and create awkward situations.
In fact, many people feel that even if they were heard, they wouldn’t feel embarrassed.
Many Superoperators and residents took this opportunity to confirm their "true feelings."
After this group of Superoperators from the Holy Alliance began to live together with the residents of Hillenbrand Town, along with the construction of new areas in the south and west, there were also plenty of opportunities for the original residents to work together and get to know each other again, leading to warm feelings between them.
Among them, there were a few pairs of folks who had feelings for each other. After accidentally consuming the Daydream Fruit and facing their true selves, they experienced effects similar to those of many members of the Abyssal Succubus family who consumed the Daydream Fruit!
Soon, Hillenbrand Town might even have a few newly formed families!
The only ones who might feel a bit awkward are the mercenaries living in the same dormitory and confinement room.
After all, hearing their leader call out the name of another leader with a silly laugh, or listening to their comrade ask them to "put more strength into it"… is not a very pleasant experience.
Indeed, under such pressure, mercenaries often have strange thoughts.
Even if the fantasies involve someone they don’t know, most of their sleep talking clearly shows that their dreams include non-human beings like golems, harpies, and slimes…
However, even if it’s a bit awkward, it’s not completely a bad thing.
Originally, because of Lolth’s actions that made them report each other, the mercenaries had developed suspicion and barriers between them, but this strange experience helped reduce some of that distance.
In fact, the trust they built through this was even a little more solid than the trust established while fighting side by side.
After all, most mercenaries, even if they had not reported each other before, still held some reservations about their comrades.
Therefore, no matter which part is considered, the celebration in Hillenbrand Town and this night can be regarded as a successful case of "promoting harmony."
However, from the outside, it did not seem so.
In this world, most exploration still relies on magic.
Outside Hillenbrand Town, several other legionnaire leaders from Vera Plain felt the sudden surge of magical energy from Hillenbrand Town, sending scouts and advance teams to check it out. Naturally, they thought the mercenaries from the Holy Alliance and the United Kingdom of South Sotua were responsible!
Even in the Demon Army at Demon King Castle, where there was no Demon King present, Doyle Candice believed something was about to go wrong!
Several legions nearly gathered overnight to head to Hillenbrand Town!
Fortunately, the police station staff discovered the advance team of the demon race in time, and with Kululu stepping in to explain, these guys headed back home.
However, apart from the Abyssal Demon forces understanding the explanation from Kululu, the other factions on the continent focusing on this matter could not clearly know what was happening here.
Although Kululu had previously traveled to Seychelles and Lolth herself had crushed all the elite mercenary groups of the United Kingdom of South Sotua, temporarily stopping these two forces from plotting against Hillenbrand Town and intimidating other powers…
However, there is still one force that continues to pay attention to this place!
That is the Church of Light!
After all, they left a Divine Artifact here!
And the Lady of Light suspects that a former Holy Maiden, a false-dead Pope, is hidden in this town, or perhaps an elder who has been summoned from the underworld or reborn from the dirt, so it is impossible for them not to be concerned about this place.
In fact, the spies and personnel of the Church of Light have almost begun to act alongside those from South Sotua and Seychelles.
But precisely because they suspect this town is very deep and due to the internal constraints between various forces within the Church of Light, they have always maintained a stance of observation and information gathering, never truly sending people to infiltrate, mostly operating in Vera Plain, or simply stationed inside the New Western Line, watching this little town through other means.
Although this cautious probing has not achieved any remarkable results, the failures of both South Sotua and Seychelles have proven that the arrangements caused by the internal constraints of the Church of Light have become the optimal solution.
Now, the Church of Light is the only force that systematically monitors Hillenbrand Town!
Last night, the spies at The Church of Light saw this "chaos," which was naturally an important event to report.
"Urgent: There was a huge burst of magical energy in Hillenbrand Town last night, suspected to be a rebellion from the previous captives (mercenaries from the Holy Alliance and the United Kingdom of South Sotua)!"
"The incident lasted about three hours and then gradually calmed down."
"According to information gathered at great risk by a spy using a divine spell to listen to ‘key figures in town talking’… the leader of the demon race in Hillenbrand Town, a succubus named ‘Lolthlinda,’ seems to have fallen into a coma!"
"Although the unrest among the captives may not have caused this, when combined with the attack on a high-ranking council member that occurred in Seychelles the previous day, the timeline suggests that the leader of the demon race in Hillenbrand Town likely had an encounter with the ‘Sword Saint Seychelles.’"
"Therefore, there is reason to suspect that she was injured during her confrontation with the ‘Sword Saint Seychelles.’"
"Additionally, the Light Artifact remains missing, and there was no new surge of Holy Light energy during last night’s riot."
Reports were transmitted through various major churches and soon reached many cardinals, Privy Council bishops, high-ranking knights, and even several officials from the Papal State and nobles and power holders of the Holy Empire!
Within Eden Palace, the Lady of Light and Janine Irene, the leader of the Oracles Knight Order, also received this fresh news from the new western front!
Looking at the content recorded on the papyrus, the Lady of Light, sitting on the prayer bench in the holy church of Eden Palace, thought for a long time before turning to Janine Irene.
"Irene… what do you think?"
