The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"We've already come here, and we'll be out of the mountain in four more days. How can we go back?" A caravan executive said impatiently while roasting the bonfire that had just been raised to dispel the chill from his body. manner.

After setting up camp, Delkan and other mentors from the exchange team of the city gathered together the scholars and other caravan stewards in the team to discuss whether to move on or go back.

The reason why this discussion suddenly took place was entirely due to the bad news brought by the members of the righteous church heresy hunting party they had rescued earlier. The desecration ceremony, if the team continues to advance, there may be a head-on conflict with the Son of the Virgin.

The believers of the Son of the Virgin believe in a mysterious being called the Holy Mother. Their teachings claim that the world was created by the Holy Mother, and that all gods, whether they are true gods, evil gods, or other unknown mysterious beings, are divine. Son of the Mother, the Divine Mother is the first and last God.

There is no doubt that this kind of doctrine offends both the True God Church and the Heretic God Organization, so even though there are many followers of the Son of the Virgin, almost all over the Old Continent, there has never been a core church, nor a core church. organization, and nearly every cult of the Son of the Virgin that has formed its size will claim to be orthodox.

The Church of the Son of the Virgin in the Kingdom of Teresa can be said to be deeply ingrained. Before the founding of the Kingdom of Teresa, they were already entrenched in these mountains. There are even rumors that the Kingdom of Teresa also obtained the Son of the Virgin when the Kingdom of Teresa was founded. , in exchange for the kingdom of Teresa allowing the Son of the Virgin to hide in the kingdom.

The reason for such rumors is that the size of the Underground Church of the Son of the Virgin in the Kingdom of Teresa is far larger than the underground churches of the Son of the Virgin in other parts of the mainland, and the Kingdom of Teresa is specifically fighting the heresy of the Underground Church of the Son of the Virgin. Very few, even if there is, most of them are loud thunder and little rain.

In addition, the cultists of the Son of the Virgin often do things such as human sacrifice and blasphemy in other regions, but the Son of the Virgin of Teresa rarely performs similar ceremonies, and even if they do, most of them are in It is carried out in the mountains far away from the main town, with minimal impact on the people in the town.

Therefore, ordinary people in the Kingdom of Teresa also have a set of solutions when encountering the Son of the Virgin performing certain cult rituals. This solution is to turn their heads and leave, so the exchange team of the Academy will call everyone to discuss whether they should turn their heads and leave, in order to avoid Conflict with the Son of the Virgin.

However, at the very beginning of the discussion, the vast majority of those who attended the meeting in the tent expressed their opposition to the proposal to return.

A caravan guard captain also interjected at this time: "We have so many people that we don't need to be afraid of those cultists."

Many people nodded when they heard the words, and many scholars agreed.

Now there are more than 200 guards in the entire Xuecheng team, and many people in the caravan are qualified warriors. The overall combat power is comparable to that of a small corps. There is no possibility of losing in a head-on conflict with the Son of the Virgin.

"Servant of God Upson, can you describe the image of the high priest in those cultists again?" When everyone expressed that they were not afraid of those cultists and were unwilling to go back, Delkan suddenly spoke to a man next to him. The clergyman, who was covered in wounds and lethargic, asked.

Just like the Church of Justice, although the Church of the Holy Heart also has the division of civil and military positions such as church knights and missionaries, in fact, most of the civil and military clergy can call, and almost all the clergy of the two churches wear armor. , Picking up a weapon is a knight of the church, putting down a weapon and putting on a robe, holding a holy scripture in hand is a servant of the gods.

I saw this tall and powerful civilian servant wearing a missionary robe. After hearing the question, he cheered up, and then recounted what he had said to Delkan and others before. once again.

At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to the narration of this Holy Heart cleric, but soon some people heard some clues, and their faces changed from relaxed to dignified, and the atmosphere in the tent also appeared a little bit. Change.

However, more people just heard how this holy-hearted cleric bravely led his heretical hunting team to break out of the siege under the heavy siege of cultists, and in the end he was even more interested in this The clergy were surprised to be able to use the high-level magical technique of light of purification. After all, in their opinion, most of the people who can perform this magical technique are senior clerics at the bishop level, and the clergy in the missionary priest robe in front of them. Obviously not enough level.

Different from everyone's doubts, Leo knew from the beginning why this cleric was able to perform that kind of high-level magic, because his spiritual net scanned the bodies of these heretical hunting teams the moment they appeared. At the same time, he also scanned the items on their bodies, so he also found that the missionary servant was wearing a holy weapon full of holy heart power.

The appearance of this holy artifact is very ordinary. It is a copper ornament with a holy heart and holy emblem on the waist. It looks rusty and mottled and is very inconspicuous, but Leo can feel that there is something hidden in this item. Extremely strong divine power, this divine power is not inferior to the divine power contained in the top-level clergy of Sartos.

That is to say, this missionary servant carried a top-level senior cleric with him, and the light of purification he cast should be borrowing the power of this holy artifact, but even so, exerting power beyond his control would still affect the He himself caused great damage. Although the traumatic injuries on this missionary servant seem to be extremely frightening, in fact, his mental damage is the most serious, which has also caused him to show apathy now. They will all faint.

After retelling their experience of war with the cultists, the spirit of the missionary servant finally couldn't support it any longer, so he passed out protectively, and Delta immediately sent him back to the tent to rest.

At this time, Leo sent a command to Penny in his tent through psionic induction, and then turned his attention back to the meeting.

Delkan said to everyone, "I think someone should be able to hear what's going on ahead?"

Only a small number of people in the tent nodded, indicating that they understood the meaning of Delkan's culture, while the vast majority of the others were still blank, and looked at the people around them who nodded, as if asking them what they heard. something up.

The head teacher beside Delkan saw that there were still so many people with a bewildered face, so he stopped selling off his sons and said directly: "The cultists of the Son of the Virgin are not the sons of the Virgin in the kingdom, they should be from Famian. Blasphemy."

Hearing these words, the people in the tent also understood what Leo meant. At the same time, their faces became a little ugly, and they no longer expressed so much confidence in their team's ability to guard as before.

The loose internal structure of the Son of the Virgin can help it avoid the demise of the church due to the annihilation of high-level clergy in its battle with the Church of the True God, but at the same time, this loose church structure has also led to factions within the Son of the Virgin. There are many factions, and among these factions, there are moderate factions like the Kingdom of Teresa, and radical factions like the Duchy of Famion.

Recently, among the major incidents in the surrounding area of ​​Teresa Kingdom, there is an incident related to the blasphemy sect of the Son of the Virgin in the Principality of Famion.

It is said that the blasphemous sect actually launched a large-scale blasphemy ceremony, defiled all the churches of the Church of the True God in a town in the Principality of Famion, and transformed the clergy of the Church of the True God into heretical monsters, which were then reflected in the Church of the True God. Before, most of the ordinary townspeople who had been transformed into children of the Virgin fled.

The Church of the True God was very angry about this. It is said that a heretical hunting coalition has been formed to launch an all-round hunt for the son of the Virgin. believers.

Almost everyone who pays attention to this incident can remember the characteristics of this blasphemous Son of the Virgin announced by the Church of the True God, and these characteristics are very similar to those of the Son of the Virgin cultists who were in the front. Indicates that the cultists are preparing for a large blasphemy ceremony, which makes them think of something bad and realize that the cultists in front of them are the craziest kind.

In the hearts of the people in the tent now, moving forward is basically out of the question. They want to evacuate here as soon as possible to avoid being involved in the blasphemy ceremony of the Son of the Virgin.

"What about the kingdom? Could the kingdom just sit and watch these cultists carry out blasphemy rituals in the kingdom?" Someone couldn't help asking.

The head teacher quickly replied: "I have received the news just now that the kingdom has dispatched a nearby third corps. In about a day, they will arrive nearby and begin to cooperate with the Church of the True God to encircle and suppress this cult of the Son of the Virgin."

When everyone heard the news, their nervous expressions slightly improved, but they still did not completely let go of their worries, because they were too close to the cultists at the moment. If the battle to clear the cultists begins, they are very likely to run into the fleeing cultists. , at that time those desperate cultists are very likely to make crazy moves.

After weighing the pros and cons, the discussion in the tent changed from continuing to move forward without fear of those cultists, to returning to Dashu Town as soon as possible, and continuing on the road when it was safe.

Although according to what everyone wanted to do, they would immediately leave the camp and go back, but the dark sky outside did not allow them to do so. The danger they might encounter when walking on the mountain road in the dark is far greater than facing a group of cultists.

As a result, this temporary overnight camp was transformed into a marching camp under the consultation of everyone. The tents for the guards were arranged on the periphery, the people who did not have much combat power were arranged in the interior, and dark posts were also arranged around, and Before dark, the erection of the warning bonfire was also completed, and it was lit to make the defense and warning as perfect as possible.

At the meeting, neither Leo nor Sylvia made any suggestions and did not participate in the discussion. They had already left when they discussed the arrangement of the camp in the middle of the meeting.

When they returned to their tent, Penny was already waiting there. After seeing Leo, she handed Leo the Holy Heart relic obtained from the Holy Heart missionary servant.

Leo took the relic, played with it for a while, and then handed it back to Penny, asking her to return it to the servant of God.

"Looks like we have something to do tonight." Leo turned to Sylvia after Penny left.

Sylvia was stunned for a while, but soon realized something and asked, "Is there something wrong with the missionary servant of the Holy Heart Church?"

Leo nodded, and then said curiously: "This Son of the Virgin is quite interesting, from the point of view that they can imitate the divine power of other churches exactly the same, they claim that all the gods are derived from the Son of the Virgin. It's not unfounded."

"Isn't the divine power in that thing just now the divine power of the Holy Heart?" Sylvia was a little surprised and asked.

"No." Leo shook his head affirmatively. The reason why he was so sure was because he tried to absorb the divine power of the Holy Heart through his special physique just now to temporarily condense a Holy Heart divine power imprint in his body, so as to analyze the divine power of the Holy Heart. The divine power of the heart, but it turned out that what he condensed was not the divine power imprint of the Holy Heart at all, but another kind of divine imprint of the Holy Heart that was completely different and full of the aura of the evil god.

At the moment when the imprint of divine power was condensed, Leo felt some unexplained murmurs ringing in his ears. This was not so much a sound as a kind of mental pollution. Even if he lost his hearing, he could still hear it. And the murmur is full of mysterious allure, which makes people unconsciously produce some kind of mental distortion.

For ordinary people and even some clerics, this kind of murmur is unstoppable, but for Leo, this kind of murmur is just some noisy noise, and it is suppressed by the imprint of other gods in the driving body. After that, the murmur disappeared completely.

Leo did not dispel the divine power imprint of the Son of the Virgin, but kept it. He plans to wait until he has time to try to analyze the mystery of the divine power of the Son of the Virgin, and see how the divine power of the Son of the Virgin imitates the divine power of other gods. So similar, because he felt the breath of nightmare power in this evil god's power.

Because of the divine imprint of the Son of Notre Dame, and the previous performances of the Holy Heart Church heresy hunting team, Leo can almost pretend that those people are definitely cultists of the Son of Notre Dame, and their goal is probably to learn from the team. The scholars of the city wanted to kidnap these scholars and let the third corps sent by the Kingdom of Teresa throw them.

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