The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

An unexpected rat tide disaster disappeared after a month. Those huge rat colonies all over the five principalities seemed to have never existed before, disappearing without a trace in the early morning of a certain day. Only countless ruins and corpses were left on the ground.

Although the Purification Fire Church tried to conceal the disaster caused by this rat tide, and even blocked the border to prevent people from the disaster area from running out, but even so, there are still various related news in the area controlled by the Purification Fire Church. Dissemination, even to neighboring countries, aroused the attention of neighboring countries.

Although the main habitat of the Jerry rat is in the Duchy of Ruth, it does not mean that there is no Jerry rat colony in other regions. As a common species in the New World, the Jerry rat colony is almost all over the New World, so other regions and countries may also appear Such a rat plague.

Moreover, the rat tide this time is completely different from the previous rat tide. The timid Jerry rats in this rat tide no longer just eat food and spread the plague, they even treat humans as hunting prey. Including the five principalities of the Church of Ruth, the total population reached more than one million. After the abnormal rat plague, no more than 50,000 people survived, and all the others were killed and eaten by those Jerry rats.

After the rats retreated, the Church of Purification Fire, under the instructions of the Pope, formed a rescue team composed of high-ranking church clergy, church knights, and rat catchers and hunters convened by various principalities, and entered Arrived in the five churches that were blocked.

And everything they saw was a tragic scene without exception, countless bones were scattered everywhere, not to mention living people, even living animals were rarely seen, and everything in front of them made them coincidentally. They thought of the doomsday scene often mentioned in the church books, so the end of January, the term used to describe the rat tide of this month, also came from their mouths, and eventually became an official name and recorded in history.

In such disasters, survivors are rarely found. Even if they are discovered, the survivors are in very bad condition. Either the whole person was completely frightened by the rat tide, or it was a month of disaster and food shortage. Destroying their bodies, in short, after these survivors were rescued, half of them still died in the hospital bed.

Perhaps this is because the sense of crisis that supported them to survive disappeared the moment the support team arrived, and those who saw their relatives and friends being swallowed by rats have already lost their belief in living, when the sense of crisis disappeared. Their overdrawn bodies also completely collapsed.

It is precisely because of seeing countless survivors whose wills were destroyed by the disaster that the rescue team came to Leo and their refuge town, seeing thousands of survivors living like normal people in the town, the rescue team members were a little skeptical. Have you already passed through the five principalities and arrived at the boundary of the principalities on the opposite side that has not encountered the rat tide?

When the rescue team asked about the specific situation, they learned that this refuge town was actually built by a parish church fire watcher and an ordinary knight lord. While they were surprised, they also realized that this might be the case. A good thing with positive publicity for the Church of Purification Fire.

The scope of this sudden rat tide was too wide. One-fifth of the land under the control of the Church of Purification Fire was involved. Of the five principalities affected by the disaster, two principalities were the most affected by the church. An important source of taxes, in addition, millions of people died in just one month. In all respects, the Church of Purification Fire has suffered from this rat tide.

The loss of reputation is not to be counted, and the loss of reputation is even more immeasurable. Various rumors spread everywhere among the people, especially when the Purification Fire Church blocked the border of the five principalities, but did not send people in for rescue. , The people's grievances against the Purification Fire Church are also accumulating rapidly.

　　 Although the Purification Fire Church uses various methods to suppress this grievance and block various related rumors, it can only control the areas under its own jurisdiction. It has no way to eliminate rumors and rumors in other places abroad.

So up to now, the reputation of the Church of Purification Fire can be said to have fallen to the lowest point in hundreds of years among the people. It is no exaggeration to say that there are already people discussing whether the church should control secular power and other topics. The army against the heretical countries made a fuss, saying that the country needs more young people to join in this crisis to help the country out of the crisis, so the troops sent out should be called back to fill the population of the five principalities as a young labor force. Vacancy, reconstruction of the Duchy of Church.

If it had been a month ago, the people who were mentioned in this proposal would definitely be treated as heretics by the fire of purification and burned to death in front of the church, but now the situation is different. This time the devastating loss of the five principalities has affected it. The normal operation of the Purification Fire Church has affected the reputation of the Purification Fire. If you don't find something to restore its reputation, then the Purification Fire Church may begin to decline because of this disaster.

The Principality controlled by the Fire of Purification a month ago may not oppose the war against heretics, nor would it oppose the enlistment of citizens to join the conquest army, because they all covet the wealth of the Otter Federation. As long as the war is won, they will be able to gain a lot from it. However, the situation is different now. Because of this disaster, all the principalities are worried about the situation of the expeditionary forces that have been unable to open the occupation. The people of these principalities are worried that the casualties of the expeditionary forces will be the same as the rat tide, worrying that they will become too. As one of those victims, the war-weariness from the bottom to the top affected the entire Duchy controlled by the Church of Purification Fire. Even the Holy Master Kingdom and many people within the Church questioned their continued participation in the war against heretics.

Because the various impacts caused by this rat tide have had a serious impact on the church’s follow-up plan. Before the rat tide disappeared, the pope who returned from the border of the five duchy to the Holy Lord could not care about his injuries. The bishops of the various dioceses, the dignitaries of the Principality, and the celebrities of the people were convened a meeting to discuss whether the troops who were conquering heretics should be called back.

　　 The final result of the discussion is to summon some troops back, and then look at the subsequent situation of the rat tide before deciding whether all the troops should be recalled.

It’s just that this kind of compromise with public opinion did not restore the church’s lost prestige. On the contrary, it made some people who were dissatisfied with the church’s power see the church’s weakness at the moment and began to make some targeted accusations against the church, such as the church for a long time. The corruption and depravity of the clergy were all exposed this time, and even appeared in the official newspapers of some Principalities, arousing even greater anti-church sentiment among the people.

The church has also dealt with it in a targeted manner, such as removing all the priests who have received quality control, arresting them, and saying that they will be publicly tried in the near future. In addition, they have also exempted a large number of churches from certain taxes. To a certain extent, some prestige was restored, but it was not enough to completely prevent the decline of prestige.

This time, at the end of the rat tide, the Pope will immediately organize a rescue team with complete personnel and logistics to enter the disaster area. It is to save the survivors before other anti-church forces and complete the disaster area. Rescue, to show that the church attaches great importance to the people in the disaster area.

　　 Therefore, all those who participated in this rescue team are the most loyal clergy and believers of the church. They are very aware of the plight the church is facing, so they have tried every means to find opportunities to help the church gain prestige.

And now the refuge town established by Father Tovia and the Tafman Knights meets all their requirements. Think about it, in the center of the rat tide, a priest of the lowest rank in the church, regardless of the danger of his life, rescued The survivors, together with devout cult knights, established a small town of refuge, used the power of the fire of purification to resist the crazy rat group, rescued the survivors of the entire Ruth Principality, and thus obtained the approval of the fire of purification, Become a senior clergyman who has mastered higher magic arts.

　　 When this kind of story spreads, it will definitely bring a lot of prestige to the church. Let the church publicize it. Such a church hero born in the disaster will appear.

So after learning about the situation in the refuge town, the patriarch who led the team from the main church of the Holy Master Kingdom immediately reported the matter here to the Pope through the fire of purification, and he was quickly updated. A further instruction is to let them take Father Tovia and the Tafman Knights to the Holy Lord Kingdom as soon as possible, and all the survivors in the town will also take them to the Holy Lord Kingdom together. It seems that the Pope should take advantage of these survivors. The story of the author does something.

　　 "Why don't you want it? Father Tovia." The patriarch told Tovia and Tufman to hear the pope's reply, and then asked Tovia, who was frowning.

Compared to the frowning priest Tovia, Tafman is naturally very happy. It is a great honor for him to leave here, go to the Holy Lord’s Kingdom, and meet the Pope. It is a great honor for him. He is too happy, how could he oppose .

　　 On the other hand, Father Tovia was very preoccupied and asked: "Excuse me, my sir, after I go to the main church, how does His Majesty the Pope arrange for me, a humble fire watcher?"

　　 "When you arrange as a hero, you will be the hero that the church focuses on training." The patriarch immediately gave an answer, but his answer was too vague and contained no substantive content.

　　 "My lord, I'm talking about specific arrangements, such as my position." Tovia didn't let the patriarch go in vaguely, but directly pointed out.

The patriarch quickly answered, saying: "After completing the propaganda task assigned to you by the church, you should be arranged to enter the Holy Fire Academy and receive training for senior clergy. After completing the training, you will be in a certain department of the General Church. Hold a position." As he said, he looked at the Tafman knight on the side and said: "As for the Tafman knight, he should be trained as a paladin in the church and serve as an officer in a team of paladins in the main temple."

　　 Judging from the speed of the patriarch’s answer, it is obvious that after he reported on what happened here, the main church had already discussed the follow-up arrangements of Father Tovia and the Tafman Knights, and there was a result.

　　 "How about the Ruth Duchy and other disaster-stricken Duchys around?" Father Tovia asked again.

The patriarch tirelessly explained: "Don’t worry about this. The church will recruit people from other places to fill the vacancies in these duchy, and it will also find the bloodline successors of these duchy and let them inherit the duchy. Positions, and will send all kinds of talents to assist in the reconstruction of several principalities."

Although the patriarch only explained the results of the discussions passed from the main church, it was another kind of taste in Tovia’s ears, as if to imply that he would obey the arrangements honestly, and don’t have to ask more about other things. It has nothing to do with you.

　　 Although Tovia wanted to say loudly to the patriarch that he wanted to stay in the Duchy of Ruth and continue to rebuild and open up the diocese, in the end he still did not say anything.

However, there was still a grievance in his heart that did not dissipate, which made him very uncomfortable, so he thought of a way to vent, the patriarch said: "I am very happy to accept the arrangements made by the church, but before that, I still There is one thing that needs to be reported to you."

　　 The patriarch frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

　　 "There may be a heresy hidden in our refuge town." Tovia leaned forward and whispered.

　　 "Here?" The patriarch was stunned, and said, "Are you sure you are a heresy, not a clergyman in another church?"

During the early period of the migration to the New World, there was a period of intense conflicts between churches. They accused each other of clergy and believers as heretics. UU read www.uukanshu.com and used it as an excuse to kill them with no lower limit. .

Later, the dignitaries and high-levels of all the civil forces felt that this situation would continue to develop, and the new world would become the same as the old one, and the religions would become mortal enemies. Then why should they give up everything in the old continent and venture to settle in the old one. Woolen cloth.

Therefore, they forcibly put pressure on the most violent churches at the time, asked them to sit down and negotiate, and then signed the first set of New World Religious Bills. The bill directly stated that it was not allowed to use any religion recognized by society as a religion. Heresy, and use it as an excuse to attack it.

　　 also directly pointed out what is heresy, such as unbelievers, such as those who have power from non-true gods, and so on.

The Purification Fire Church’s crackdown on and prohibition of heresy is much stronger than that of other churches. As a result, some oolong incidents have occurred and the clergy of other churches have been purged as heretics. As a result, they naturally paid some compensation. So now Upon hearing of the heresy, all relevant clergy must first determine whether the other party is a clergy member of another church.

"No! I can be pretty sure that he is definitely not a clergyman in other churches. I don't feel any power of the true **** in him." Tovia explained in a deep voice, "His behavior has always been weird. Every day, a little survivor girl from the town will be brought into the forest. Sometimes it is daytime, but most of the time it is night. In addition, people have seen that little girl once used a kind of weird power that is not magical, that kind of power. A small animal can be killed easily."