Struggle in the Steam Age

It was already late when Lawrence and Nora packed up the temporary laboratory tent and returned to Viscount Doropia's manor with a lot of monster phantoms. A bright pale blue moon was driving across a dark field.

Unlike those big cities, the field is obviously much darker because there are no various lamps and lighting. Although Lawrence's dark vision can see the road clearly, the horse borrowed from the viscount is not good at running in this kind of darkness at all, so Lawrence can only lead the horse back a little bit.

In this way, the journey that Lawrence and the others took half an hour in the afternoon was stretched to an hour and a half in the evening. Finally, after a long journey, Lawrence finally saw the faint orange light from the manor window.

"Ah, it's finally here." Looking at the iron gate that appeared in front of him, Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief and said, leading a horse that is scared because there is no light around it in the dark is really a bad thing. What an easy thing, Lawrence swore, if he had known about the horse's problem before, he would rather be dragged by Nora and fly there.

After handing over the horse to the servant of the viscount's family, Lawrence also learned from the servant that since he and Nora left, many reinforcements have rushed over, except for the Agricultural Church who arrived here first and the land they encountered on the road In addition to the Mother God church team, there is also a Druid who believes in the Father of Nature at a high level.

Apparently, this is where the Agro-goddess family comes into play. In addition, the Church of the Goddess of Wealth in the urban area also sent a team to help. After all, the reason why the city of Heraklion can be established is that the biggest income is obtained as a distribution center for cotton produced in a series of small mountain basins and large oases in this area. Root's Goddess of Wealth Church can be said to have dispatched all the troops except the left-behind personnel.

This is one of the reasons why these Orthodox churches occupy the mainstream of the world's beliefs. Let alone the education of the Orthodox Church is easier for intelligent creatures to be accepted by everyone. His approach is also much stronger than those evil gods who are used to fighting alone.

After getting the news from the servant, Lawrence walked out of the manor and walked towards the cotton fields that had been completely harvested. Because the manor itself was too small, the members of the church all set up temporary tents to rest on the harvested field when they rested at night.

To be precise, they were resting in a small camp. The reinforced carriages brought by the church are used as the support points for the outer defenses on the periphery of this camp, and the distance between the carriages is reinforced by a part of wooden fences and sandbag fortifications. Lawrence could even see the sentries behind the fence staring vigilantly through the gaps in these wooden fences.

"Stop coming! Report your identities." Just after Lawrence and the others followed the road at the back door of the manor to the gate of this temporary camp, a middle-aged male voice came from inside accompanied by slight metal collisions and friction sounds. Passed out from behind the makeshift fence gate. At the same time, a lantern shone on the place where Lawrence and the others were.

"I am Earl Sauer, Lawrence August. Next to me is my companion, Nora." As Lawrence, who has personally commanded the war, he naturally knows what to do to avoid accidental injury when facing this defensive camp . "Just now we found some important clues about the pollution in this trial outside, so I want to discuss it with you quickly."

"So it's His Excellency Lord August." At this moment, an old voice came from behind the door, and at the same time Lawrence could feel some faint magic power sweeping over him. Obviously, these church members have all entered a state of preparation after discovering the contamination of evil gods in a large area around them, and now this method is to identify Lawrence's identity.

Although Lawrence felt that these church members seemed a little too nervous, he didn't express much dislike. Because as a person who is equally cautious, he thinks it is a very good practice to prepare for the worst when the situation is unknown, especially when these people are likely to be his companions.

After completing the inspection, the simple door was opened from the inside. Then a clergyman of the Agricultural Church with a gray beard came out from the inside and greeted Lawrence and the others, and then led them to the middle of this small camp. There, a tent that looked larger than the others was set up there, and the bright lights inside could be seen from the gap in the door curtain, and at the same time there were bursts of arguments from the tent.

On both sides of the road are two distinct camps, one of which looks very simple and full of wild charm. From the green tents, it can be seen that this should belong to the camp of the Church of Agriculture. On the other side, the lights are brilliant, and the tent is also inlaid with all kinds of glittering sequins and embroidered with various exquisite patterns. It looks extremely gorgeous and obviously belongs to the Church of the Goddess of Wealth.

After entering the big tent in the center of the camp, the priest leading the way loudly announced Lawrence's identity. Then Lawrence walked into the tent under the gaze of a group of supernatural beings who looked at least one round older than him, and then sat down on a seat under the long table in the tent, while Nora quietly Floating behind him.

"Nice to meet you, Your Excellency." Because the main people here are members of the Agricultural Church, the high-ranking priest of the Agricultural Church sitting at the head of the table greeted Lawrence with a smile, and then said, "I just heard that you seem to have found something related to the source of the evil god's divine power pollution. Are you sure about this?"

"As a scholar, I can't say that it is 100% confirmed due to my serious attitude towards academics." After hearing the high priest's question, Lawrence stood up and said with a serious face. "However, according to some evidence I found before and the conclusion obtained after analysis, I think this possibility is the greatest."

After finishing speaking, Lawrence took out the analysis report and five or six copies that he had prepared by Shumei earlier from the space bag and sent them to the representatives of the church at the table, then returned to his seat and sat down to wait. stand up. Soon, these church representatives finished reading his report.

"Lord, are these reports true?" "A genius idea, and it seems very reasonable." "It turned out to be like this, but these detailed data—" After reading the report, the tent became a mess. Representatives of various churches stood up and said to Lawrence, and some even wanted to come over and ask.

"Quiet!" The high priest of the Agricultural Church sitting on the main seat tapped hard with his cane to quiet everyone, and then asked Lawrence. "I just read your report, and the whole reasoning can be said to be very rigorous and reasonable. The only question is how did you determine that the intensity of residual pollution varies from place to place?"

Because the core of Lawrence's report is to calculate the source direction of these pollutions based on the different intensity of divine power pollution in various places. Identify the degree of contamination in samples collected from various places. At most, it can only be confirmed that these pollutions do exist, and further find the masters of these evil gods.

As for the precise determination of the pollution concentration, it is impossible for the transcendent here. Although it seems that there is a similar magical instrument in the New World headquarters of the Fortune Church that can do this job, it is a pity that because this place is too remote and other places are not available. The reason for the need to use this magic item was not able to be applied for.

"I didn't check it out by myself." Lawrence said, pointing to Nora who was in a daze beside him, "My life partner of the construct is very sensitive to this power, so she can get it from These samples have detected different levels of pollution, and it was with her help that I successfully detected the specific value of the pollution residue on this land."