Struggle in the Steam Age

Standing among the ruins and bones, Lawrence lit a lantern and began to read the diary in front of him. Or to put it simply, the memory left by a fugitive about the last period of the Scarlet Sky organization.

This mage was just one of the recruited members of the underground organization after Scarlet Sky was broken up. After the organization was destroyed a hundred years ago, many people fled and lurked everywhere. Faith, ready to make a comeback at any moment.

But these fugitives finally got rid of the pursuit and found that it was too difficult to rebuild the church. Let alone being hunted down by the church and the Federation, let alone that the entire leadership was basically taken over by a large number of people. The loss of material contact points and even personal connections. To them these are small problems, the real big problem is that God is missing.

Yes, although the disappearance of the gods sounds a bit funny to a church, but it is a fact that must be faced by the organization of Scarlet Sky. The church of evil gods often choose to enshrine all kinds of strange things, and the cult organization of Scarlet Sky enshrines a fallen splicing ancestor spirit as a god.

The leader, who was also the founder of Scarlet Sky, was just an ordinary priest of the Agricultural Church when he first came to the New World, but he chose to degenerate after some unknown experience.

The priests after the fall directly slaughtered several aboriginal tribes and plundered the guardian spirits of those tribes, and then contaminated these guardian spirits through blood sacrifices and a series of complicated magic rituals and then put them together again.

In the end, the freshly baked leader connected himself and the fallen spliced ​​ancestor spirit together in soul, so that the leader can use these ancestor spirits as an intermediary to strengthen himself by absorbing the power of belief that humans cannot absorb. At the same time, through this ancestral spirit, the leader can also perform various miracles and give the backbone of the cult the power to use magic.

However, it is still too difficult to hold the authority of the gods as a human being, especially the intermediary he chooses is far from the real gods. Under such circumstances, with the improvement of strength, the leader also became more and more crazy because of the backlash of the fallen splicing ancestor spirit and the poison of faith.

Until the end, he tried to hold a large-scale blood sacrifice in a certain city to sacrifice the entire city to make himself a god. As a result, the guardians of the White Eagle Federation and various churches were lucky enough to discover this conspiracy in advance, followed by an elite ambush and a coordinated large-scale clean-up by all parties in the New World.

In that operation, all parties put forth their best efforts. After the battle, apart from the leader of the Scarlet Sky and the top leaders of the church, those who were completely wiped out included the degenerate splicing ancestor spirit who had been a god before. At the same time, the strongholds of Scarlet Sky were destroyed one by one.

Therefore, when these remnants of Scarlet Sky escaped and prepared to reorganize the organization. They found themselves with almost nothing but an empty title.

This led to their actions in the next rebuilding work, such as the extremely unsmooth missionary work. After all, this is a world where extraordinary power is revealed to the world, and a god who cannot bestow magical powers to show miracles cannot be attracted at all. believer.

So these remaining Scarlet Sky members thought of an alternative plan. They immediately stopped the ineffective and easily exposed preaching, and then concentrated all their strengths to start researching a way to release magic without magic power. It is hoped that through this method, a group of special missionaries will be cultivated to recast their beliefs, and then let the gods in their hearts return.

This process lasted for decades, and with the previous savings, Scarlet Sky really attracted many unsatisfactory transcendents to work for them. In this situation where it has completely turned into the dark, Scarlet Sky has lived a stable life.

However, the large-scale and organized supernatural research is really too dynamic, and their experiments also need a large number of innocent people as experimental samples. The disappearance of people naturally attracted the attention of various churches and federations. In the case of a lot of people talking, these studies and the bases used for the research were finally made public.

The mage who fell here was only a middle-level member of Scarlet Sky. When the federation and various churches discovered the last gathering point of Scarlet Sky and carried out the encirclement and suppression, he was selected as a seed with those research results to stand out from the siege.

Surprisingly, shortly after he escaped from the encirclement and hid here, a search team followed, and after a fierce battle, both sides died together. The place then sat for decades until Lawrence rediscovered it today.

The puppet that fought Lawrence before escaped here with the protection of the mage, but the battle that broke out here that year basically consumed all the energy in the puppet's body, and its structure was also severely damaged.

Under such circumstances, even if it is still able to restart according to the set procedure after Lawrence enters the room, and completes the basic armament by absorbing the blood of the raging rat to try to fight back, various problems prevent it from performing 1% of what it used to be. As a result, it was easily solved by Lawrence.

After reading the entire diary, Lawrence finally understood how the Scarlet Sky organization disappeared in history and what it did before it disappeared.

Of course, this is different from what Lawrence read from "The Extraordinary History of the White Eagle Federation" before, but considering that "The Extraordinary History of the White Eagle Federation" is public information, it is normal for some things to be hidden.

"That is to say, what is contained in this space bag is the research result of Scarlet Sky." Lawrence muttered while looking at the space inside the small space bracelet. The rest of the space was basically filled with boxes of the same size, and the notebook Lawrence saw just now was the only thing outside the box.

After taking out a few boxes and opening them, he found that the boxes were mainly filled with some common Transcendent materials that were not too low in value. Lawrence could understand why there were these things in the box, because these things were the easiest to get rid of and the least noticeable in the circle of extraordinary people. As a fugitive, this is very important.

Open the box, most of the materials in it have been completely decayed over a long period of time, but there are still very few animal and plant raw materials and almost all mineral raw materials survived. It's just that Lawrence regrets that in order to prevent the tracked from locking in some information through the place of origin, these mineral raw materials that are easy to preserve are scattered and scarce.

After throwing away more than 95% of the damaged materials, Lawrence finally found a dozen notebooks from the bottom box. After looking through it briefly, he confirmed that this is the spell information he was looking for.

After flipping through a few books, Lawrence regretted that these precious extraordinary knowledge were of little use to him. On the one hand, the spells recorded in it are all methods of using the power of the lower space to cast spells after communicating with the lower space through a large number of blood sacrifices. This evil way of casting spells is completely incompatible with Lawrence Baize's bloodline.

On the other hand, if you want to use this type of magic, you must go through a series of magical rituals to modify your body, which will make you lose the ability to use ordinary magic. Of course, this will not affect those who do not have magical talent themselves.

Thinking back, Scarlet Sky also hoped that through this method, ordinary people with insufficient talent could master extraordinary power, and then further preach to revive their so-called gods.

Of course, Lawrence also saw the biggest problem with these methods, that is, as the learning of spells continues to deepen, they need to get in touch with those lower dimensions, which will cause the whole person to degenerate from soul to body.

If his deduction is correct, people who practice these magics will be completely transformed into creatures of the lower space and become puppets of the consciousness of the plane of the lower space, completely losing themselves.

"It seems that these things can only be brought to the church to see what can be exchanged." After checking all the books, Lawrence shrugged. It seems that this time he can't learn from this mage's treasure. What a useful thing. If he is a senior mage, maybe he can gain some knowledge from it. But as a warlock with a relatively low extraordinary level, it is reasonable to sell these things as soon as possible and replace them with the resources he can use now.