I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts-Chapter 402 - 301: Knight’s Code, a Torn-Out Page

"Look, He said, let me in."

The Black Hood did not kneel.

He pointed to the deepest part of Constantine Cathedral and spoke to the Imperial Knights kneeling on the ground.

Louis XVII glanced at this mysterious figure with a complex, solemn expression.

"Can you hear it?"

"That’s impossible."

The Knight’s Code, as the Holy Relic of the Empire, can only be heard by knights with faithful belief.

Under this Black Hood, no one knows what creature exists.

But one thing is certain, he could not possibly be a knight.

Why can he hear the gospel of the Knight’s Code?

Without giving Louis XVII the opportunity to ponder,

the Black Hood had already lifted his steps and continued forward.

Initially, Louis XVII and a group of knights followed closely behind.

When the Black Hood passed through the third large gate, they all stopped simultaneously.

"Go back."

Louis XVII took a deep look at the back of the Black Hood as he continued walking forward and spoke.

"Beyond the third gate, you’ve entered the region covered by the Holy Scripture. No matter who he is, he cannot leave this area unharmed."

"But, Lord Louis XVII, if he really can..." a Punishment Knight asked from behind.

Louis XVII glanced at him.

"If he really can escape the influence of the Holy Scripture and leave easily, then even if all of us Imperial Knights combined, we would not be his match. At that point, we might as well wait for death."

The truth may be rough but it’s accurate.

Louis XVII’s words silenced the other knights.

The Black Hood did not care about the situation of nobody following him anymore.

He continued to walk with steady steps towards the depths of Constantine Cathedral.

As he went deeper, the surroundings became utterly silent, leaving only the slight friction sound of walking on the luxurious golden-red velvet carpet.

Rustle, rustle.

When the Black Hood passed through the eighth large door, even the sound of friction gradually faded.

In the vast emptiness of the cathedral’s deepest part, on the central exhibition platform, lay an extremely thick book resembling obsidian.

It was opened to one of its pages.

Above the entirely black pages, red symbols curled and twisted into view.

All the symbols fit together to form words displayed in mid-air:

"Who are you?"

"Who I am isn’t important, what’s important is what I’m here to do."

As he spoke, the Black Hood took out the Desire Oil Painting sealed in a transparent cover from his Storage Bag.

The moment the Desire Oil Painting appeared, a fierce wind suddenly stirred in the previously airtight deep section of the cathedral.

The Black Hood’s black robe flapped loudly in the strong wind.

The heavy obsidian book’s pages began to flip frantically.

The bright red symbols extended many dense threads into the air like tentacles, reaching out to cover the Black Hood!

"If I were you, I certainly wouldn’t act so recklessly."

The Black Hood stood in a steady posture, as if unaffected by the dramatic changes of the Knight’s Code.

His words seemed to possess special magic power, causing those crazily spreading, capillary-like red tentacles to halt mid-air.

The Black Hood spoke to himself again:

"Excited, aren’t you?"

"The Empire’s chaos back then, with the Knight’s Code’s last page torn by Imperial Sword Joseph, has never been found."

"Joseph’s power sheltered him, and covered the last page’s whereabouts. So, when Joseph completely died and power returned to darkness, you were so eager to send down the gospel, intending to mobilize all the Power of the Knight across the Empire to launch an assault on Great Xia North County."

"Because the last page of the Knight’s Code has transformed into the Desire Oil Painting, hidden within the borders of North County."

The Knight’s Code, sensing its general location, wanted to launch a large-scale assault on Great Xia.

The Black Hood continued:

"The Knight’s Code feeds on belief, revered and worshipped as the Holy Scripture across the Empire."

"But unfortunately, what they don’t know is, the Knight’s Code not only feeds on belief, but also on desire. Only when both are combined can it help you transcend Tier Nine Peak!"

The Knight’s Code is both a Holy Scripture and a dark text!

He accepts belief, bestows aura.

He sends down curses, magnifies desire.

Like the symbiotic relationship between light and dark, only when light and shadow unite can the Knight’s Code be truly complete.

Thus, knights who believe in the Knight’s Code must endure various desires’ torment and suffering.

So the Black Hood says the opportunity to break through Tier Nine Peak and achieve transcendence lies in the torn last page.

As the Black Hood spoke, he lifted the glass cover sealing the Desire Oil Painting.

Once the glass cover was lifted, the forty-six colored blocks on the Desire Oil Painting immediately blurred, embodying a conceptual art style of Impressionist painters.

It left the Black Hood’s hand and floated into the air.

Detached from its frame, the Desire Oil Painting indeed shared the same size as each page of the Knight’s Code!

Those capillary-like, countless red tentacles in the sky, appeared brighter when the Desire Oil Painting emerged, like dazzling Blood Essence Stone.

But they still did not act recklessly.

The Knight’s Code turned a new page, and red symbols reassembled in the air:

"What is your goal?"

"What do you want?"

Asking two questions in succession, it appears He’s impatient.

But no need to rush.

"I want you to stop the attack on Great Xia North County." Unexpectedly, the Black Hood proposed a surprising request.

Even more surprisingly, after a brief pause, the Knight’s Code responded.

"Impossible."

Even using the missing last page as a bargaining chip for transcending, it could not make the Knight’s Code change its decision to act against Great Xia North County?

What deep grudge is there between them?

The Black Hood seemed to anticipate the Knight’s Code refusal earlier, so he proposed his second request.

"I want you to suspend the attack on Great Xia North County for three months. After three months, you can continue your assault on Great Xia."

"If you don’t agree to even this condition, then we might as well go our separate ways."

This time, the Knight’s Code took longer to contemplate, and after a while, new symbols and words appeared above:

"Agreed."

"As an additional condition, during these three months, you must reside in this room."

The Black Hood chuckled.

Remember, he is a merchant.

Set high demands, settle for less.

From the start, his expected "price" was the three-month ceasefire period.

As for the Knight’s Code’s additional condition, he was indifferent.

"Deal."