Mystery: emerging from the wilderness of knowledge

In the prayer hall of the Steel Church, Bonova sat in the front position closest to the triangular holy emblem, clasping his hands in front of his mouth and nose, and praying calmly.

Behind Him, Thomas Morais, Archbishop of Trier Diocese of the Steam Church, with neatly styled short white hair and deep features, was reporting to Bonova the encounters and losses of the Steam Church in previous incidents.

There was suppressed anger in his gray-brown eyes, and his voice was hoarse. As the Archbishop of the Diocese of Trier, he didn't even see the intruder and let him leave peacefully. .

After listening quietly to the story, Bonova nodded calmly, drew a triangle holy symbol pattern on his chest, and recited in a low voice:

"Praise be to you, great god of steam and machinery, the embodiment of essence, the guardian of craftsmen, the radiance of technology."

As the words of prayer fell, Bonova stood up from his seat, turned to look at Archbishop Thomas Morais behind him, and said calmly:

"I felt the oracle, and God said: Let war come, let strife begin, let the glory of technology envelope the Southern Continent, and all rebels, ignorants, and blasphemers will be purified!"

Thomas Morais stretched out his hand and tapped three times on his chest to draw a pattern of a triangular holy emblem. He then saluted devoutly towards the triangular holy emblem in front of him:

"Honor your will!"

Then he looked at Bonova again and said in a firm and serious tone:

"Your Highness Bonova, I will go to the parliament center in Erato District to convey God's will to the members of the parliament. However, do we need to contact the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun? They may not agree to rashly launching a war."

"They would agree and that's what they want to see."

Bonova responded with a firm tone, with emotions floating in his light blue eyes.

After pausing for two seconds, he walked towards the back of the prayer hall and towards the mechanical hall where sealed items and magical items were stored underground. The items there needed to be re-sealed.

Located in the Leston Province south of Intis, at the Port of Layak along the Sea of ​​Mist, an illusory "light" composed of streams of complex information rises from the distant horizon and approaches at an extremely fast speed. .

A torrent of terrifyingly complex information converged at a private port in the southernmost part of the city, quickly reorganizing Renekton's body.

He raised his right hand wearing a mechanical glove and snapped his fingers. Fragments of starlight floated by. His appearance, image and temperament quickly changed. Half flesh and half starlight merged into a body and quickly turned into a complete body of flesh and blood. Even the cold, depressing and crazy feeling in my body seemed to be fading quickly.

The "Cinderella" who can change his external image, coupled with some illusions, successfully concealed his problems.

Exhaling softly, Renekton looked around, and then walked to the location described in the letter Bernadette had asked the "speedster" messenger to send.

Below the gorgeous clock tower inlaid with gold, several green vines hung from the air, covering Renekton's body like a waterfall, leading him into a forest intertwined with countless green vines, isolated from reality.

Bernadette's figure appeared on the swing made of intertwined vines in front of her. She was half-leaning there, her breath a little erratic, as if she had been injured in the previous stalemate and pull with Bonova.

She looked straight ahead and said with a tired tone:

"Your condition is not very good. There is something wrong with the properties contained in that sealed artifact?"

Renekton nodded calmly and said, "There are some contaminations. It will take me some time to resolve them."

Bernadette nodded lightly, skipped the topic, and said instead:

"I just foresaw some future. The war will be ignited in the Southern Continent, sweeping through the entire Southern Continent bit by bit, spreading to the five seas, and spreading to the countries of the Northern Continent."

"This is an inevitable development. Some entities want to launch a divine war and annex the other party's authority. Some want all-out war to cover up their true purpose. Some need to reduce their own pressure and cause disaster and chaos. Others want to Complete a grand ceremony.”

Renekton twitched the corners of his mouth to reveal a somewhat sarcastic smile, and looked forward with deep eyes, as if he could see the figures hiding in the darkness through the intertwined information.

Bernadette did not ask who wanted to launch a divine war or who needed a grand ceremony. After a brief silence, she sighed softly:

"I will stay in Backlund in the near future. If things go well, I will let the Dawn help you intercept part of Intis's army on the Sea of ​​Fog."

Renekton greeted Bernadette with a smile and said:

"Thank you for your help. I am thinking of issuing bounties to pirate generals and pirate kings at sea."

"Adventurers and bounty hunters have always targeted pirates as bounty targets, and you are the first to issue bounties to pirates."

Bernadette sighed in a low voice, and as her words fell, her body suddenly disappeared, disintegrating into streams of complex information that surged away into the distance.

Without Bernadette's support, the surrounding layers of green vines quickly retracted and disappeared, and Renekton's figure reappeared under the clock tower on the dock.

Looking at the sun gradually setting over the sea in the distance, Renekton sighed and murmured:

"It's a bit troublesome. Within a month or two, it will be difficult for me to adjust my condition. I hope there won't be too many changes during this period."

While sighing in a low voice, the disguise on his body quickly disappeared, and his body that was half flesh and half starlight became illusory, disintegrating little by little into a pure and complex information flow, turning into a pure information flow creature, flowing towards the densely populated areas of the port. go.

In the West District of Backlund, in a three-story detached house near Berklund Street, countless starlights flew out of the void, quickly building a dark "traveler's door" with countless mysterious patterns and symbols engraved on it. Door".

Leonard walked out of the "Traveller's Gate" in a good mood. He also held two magical items brought out from the underground of the Iron Church. Although he had not yet had time to check the effects of these two items, they could be The mechanical hall placed underground by the Church of Steam must be powerful and dangerous enough.

"Old man, do you know the effects and negative effects of these two items?"

"I thought, I should know what their negative effects are."

A light, slightly smiling young man's voice broke into Leonard's ears. The latter raised his head in shock and looked at the sofa in front of him. On the sofa, there was an unknown figure.

It was a young man with black hair and black eyes. He was wearing a black classical robe and a soft pointed hat of the same color. He had a wide forehead and a thin face. He was playing with a monocle made of crystal in his hand.

He seemed to have been there all along, waiting for him, quietly watching him walk out of the "Traveller's Door".

Amon put the monocle back on your right eye and asked with a smile:

"Pallez, do you like the surprise I prepared for you?"

At the same time as he made the move, the surrounding light suddenly brightened. A cross hundreds of meters fell from a height and was heavily inserted on the floor of the living room. With this huge cross as the center, gray stone pillars, Tall walls and colorful stained glass emerge from the ground one after another.

In an instant, a church of bones appeared. In this church, every stone pillar, every arch, and every dome was inlaid with densely packed skulls. They came from demon wolves, giant dragons, giants, demons, and monsters. The birds were densely packed, watching Leonard with different eye holes, watching him parasitize Pales on him.

On the walls, windows, and doors around the church, transparent and distorted faces stood out. It seemed that the souls sealed here were isolated from the existence of the spiritual world and the astral world!

"The paranoid committed suicide some time ago. As his only legal heir, I had no choice but to bear the pain and inherit his inheritance."

"In this church of bones, the eyes of the gods will also be shielded, and no one will disturb us."

While speaking, Amon stood up from the sofa. His figure suddenly became as tall as a hill. The phantoms of the Worm of Time with twelve transparent links spilled out from his body, and some of them were wandering in the Bone Church. , intertwined, and some of them converged into an ancient and mottled huge shadow above the head.

Leonard stood there blankly. The thoughts and ideas in his mind were stolen as soon as they appeared, which made him enter a state of confusion and confusion, unable to make any reaction to the outside world.

"Alas~" A somewhat old sigh sounded from Leonard.

The next second, Pales, who had gray hair and wore an exaggeratedly simple white robe, emerged from Leonard's body. His figure expanded rapidly, becoming as tall as Amon in the blink of an eye.

A phantom of a wall clock carved from stone also appeared above his head. It was divided into twelve grids. Each grid was either gray-white or blue-black, intertwined with each other, had clear boundaries, and had different symbols.

Boom!Boom!

The melodious and illusive bells rang in no particular order, and an indescribable invisible torrent emerged around them, as if they were traveling through a long history.

Something seemed to have changed around me, but upon closer inspection, nothing seemed to have changed.

Without Amon stealing thoughts and ideas, Leonard finally came back to his senses from his dazed state. He looked around in amazement at the Bone Church that had reappeared at an unknown time, two tall figures confronting each other, and the people wandering around wantonly. The shadow of the Time Worm filled him with unprecedented panic and fear.

Pales looked down at Leonard, and waved his hand in disgust. A cobalt blue charm in Leonard's pocket quietly shattered, and his body instantly disappeared, like a non-existent thing, untouched. He flew backwards under control.