"I'm this powerful?"
Qi Tian looked at his right hand, feeling that he was more powerful than he had anticipated. This simulated divine light was so much more potent than the genuine divine light. He was destined to be the Pope of the Vatican from now on.
As they spoke, their bodies seemed to instinctively move away, distancing themselves from the church. Although they kept saying they shouldn't, deep down, they felt that the torso had been dealt with.
The two returned to the Pope's resting chamber. The Pope was still in a coma.
This coma was strange. Lin Xiao felt that the old Pope's body had no major issues, just a slight concussion. Yet, this minor concussion should have healed long ago, and he shouldn't still be in a coma.
The Knight Commander also brought the Grand Inquisitor to the room.
"It's over?"
"It's over. The one behind the scenes has been dealt with," Lin Xiao nodded. As he said this, he felt something was amiss, but after uttering the words, he realized he wasn't wrong.
"Thank you."
The Grand Inquisitor nodded and sat by the bed. He looked at the unconscious old Pope with a heavy expression. "He still won't wake up."
"There are no physical problems. I just checked. There's no damage to the brain, and his body is fine. His current state is more like a sleep state. By rights, he should have woken up by now."
"But he hasn't awakened," the Grand Inquisitor said, frowning as he stared at the old Pope on the bed.
"Since there are no physical issues, perhaps..."
Lin Xiao hesitated. If there were no physical problems, yet he remained unconscious, it must be a spiritual issue. "The old Pope's soul is damaged."
Given how similar the torso they encountered earlier was to the old Pope, perhaps that entity had attacked the old Pope and his soul.
Soul-level attacks were beyond Lin Xiao's expertise.
Qi Tian was also a complete layman in this regard.
"Soul?"
The Grand Inquisitor and the Knight Commander exchanged glances. The Knight Commander immediately patted his armor and muttered, "Almighty God, I am willing to clear the path for you. I am willing to give all of myself to eliminate evil..."
A trace of faith power entered his body through his armor. Then, the Knight Commander's eyes flashed with a sacred white light, and his entire demeanor underwent a drastic change.
He stared at the Pope lying on the bed, as if examining something.
The next second, he exclaimed, "This is wrong! There's no soul reaction within the Pope!"
"What did you say?!"
The Grand Inquisitor's voice doubled in volume as he looked at the old Pope in horror.
"No soul reaction?"
Lin Xiao also mumbled, "That means what's lying here is just an empty shell, devoid of a soul. No wonder the old Pope wouldn't wake up."
An empty shell without a soul was just that – a shell. In other words, he was in a vegetative state.
To make the old Pope wake up, they only needed to return his soul.
But... the biggest problem now was, where exactly had the old Pope's soul gone?
"Could it be that..."