The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"You really know!" Bishop Baron said with an unusually gloomy face, "Before you came here, we had guessed that the secret of the lighthouse would not be kept. I didn't expect you to find out so soon. It seems that there are rumors that His Excellency Leo It's not a rumor that he's the last of the Tower Wizards."

Although Sylvia didn't understand the meaning of Leo's words just now, from Bishop Barron's words, she was keenly aware of the crux of the matter, and quickly sorted out the details in her mind.

After realizing that her lighthouse turned out to be the product of the tower wizard, she was also very surprised, but she didn't reveal her surprise, instead she looked very calm, pretending that I knew about it a long time ago , said: "Lord Bishop Barron, I think the conditions we put forward..."

Bishop Barron gritted his teeth and said, "I can decide to agree to your conditions, but I also have a request that I hope you two can agree to."

"What request?" Leo asked.

"We hope that no matter what you two find out, don't spread it to the outside world, and don't leave it in. This is an internal matter of our Sea God Church." Bishop Baron looked at Leo again, and said, "I remember His Excellency Leo You're not a member of Yingge's pseudo... state religion, so you shouldn't have any reason to intervene in this matter, Mr. Leo, right?"

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other. Although Bishop Barron's words didn't reveal much, it could be heard that the matter of Castle Black's lighthouse was related to the power within the Sea God Church, and both of them were interested in information. People with very sensitive data, just this bit of information can already allow them to deduce a lot of things.

For example, there are not many things that can lead to the tilt of power between the Church of the Sea God in England and the Church of the Sea God in Randall, and the most critical thing is the power of the sea, especially when the gray fog seals the sea, who can control the Whoever uses the method of safe navigation in China will be able to control the sea power and become the hegemon of the world.

From this, it is not difficult to judge that what the Church of the Sea God does every year at the Castle Black Lighthouse is to obtain the power to control the ocean from the Sea God.

Because of this, Leo can almost be sure that the root of Turing on the lighthouse is definitely related to the legendary Palace of Poseidon that sank into the deepest part of the sea, and it is also related to the more than 300 people who have no death records every year.

The room fell into a brief silence, and Bishop Baron's face became more and more ugly as the silence lasted, and drops of sweat leaked from his forehead, and the sweat slowly fell under the weight. However, she had no intention of wiping it down, and kept looking at Leo and Silvia expressionlessly.

"Yes." Sylvia quickly understood Leo's meaning through the almost telepathic eyes, and said, "No matter what we find out, we can stay out of the internal disputes of the Sea God Church, and I will not interfere with the matter of the lighthouse, what should I do before, and what I still do now."

Hearing Sylvia's words, Bishop Baron heaved a sigh of relief, and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve without showing any trace, but he seemed to feel that Sylvia's promise was not very safe, so he turned his head towards Lei Ou asked: "Where is Mr. Leo Dodd? Do you mean the same?"

Leo nodded and said, "Yes, Xini's words represent my words."

"We can agree to your request, but as long as it involves the use of the lighthouse, we must participate in the qualifications." Sylvia added, and when Bishop Baron wanted to say something, he said: "Don't worry, we are just watching To understand the situation through the identity of the author, and will not intervene in it.”

Bishop Baron was silent for a while, nodded, and said: "I hope you can do what you say, otherwise... our Sea God Church does not want to be enemies with the two of you, but for the sake of our lord, we are not afraid to be enemies with the two of you." .”

After uttering a harsh word, Bishop Baron felt that there was no need to stay any longer. After telling Leo that he could go to the church to check books and materials at any time, he stood up and walked out.

When Bishop Baron walked to the door, Leo suddenly asked, "Did you do the assassination of my son?"

Bishop Barron was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at Leo and Sylvia, and said, "It has nothing to do with us," and said to Sylvia with a hint of meaning: "Sometimes things don't need to be too complicated. gone."

After speaking, he opened the door and walked out.

After Bishop Baron left, neither Leo nor Sylvia spoke, but carefully savored his last words.

After a while, Sylvia picked up the pen and paper on the table and quickly wrote something, then folded the paper and stuffed it into a small ring, then she walked to the window, opened the window, and made a It didn't take long to see a hawk flying to the window sill, landed firmly in front of Sylvia, and flew away quickly after Sylvia put a ring on its claw.

"There may be news in a few days, I really don't want..." Sylvia's face was gloomy, and she didn't finish her sentence.

Leo didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only stand by and gently hug her shoulder.

Leo was not very clear about Sylvia's complex emotions towards the Church of the Lord of the Sky, even though he had already heard from Sylvia about her life in the Church of the Lord of the Sky when she was young, but as a person who was born It is impossible for biochemical warriors who are immediately sent to the battlefield after they come out to have this so-called youthful life, and they don't even have their own life.

However, after gradually possessing the feelings and emotions of ordinary people, Leo could understand why Sylvia felt that emotion when she suspected that the Church of the Sky might really be the mastermind who committed the suicide of her son.

Although the Belmont family's manor was Sylvia's home, for Sylvia in her early years, the Holy Order of the Lord of the Sky Church might be her real home.

There, she avoided all kinds of miscellaneous matters and dangers inside and outside the Belmont family, and grew steadily to the point where she could be independent. During the days there, she made many friends and learned a lot of knowledge. Not to mention that her current achievements are largely due to that period of time.

However, the Lord of the Sky Church, which she regards as her home and family now, may be the mastermind who sent someone to assassinate her son, which made her feel deeply betrayed, and this feeling also had a great impact on her.

Judging from the fact that Sylvia was not in the mood to tease little Tolan and Ai Ling in the past two days, and often made mistakes and omissions in reviewing documents, and was very irritable, it was clear that her mentality had been deeply affected.

Leo didn't take the initiative to persuade him about this, he just temporarily gave up going to the Sea God Church to look up various books and materials, and stayed in Castle Black to help Sylvia deal with some things and stabilize her emotions.

In this way, after three days, Sylvia became a little impatient with waiting for the news, and began to discuss with Leo to go to the headquarters of the Lord of the Sky in the United Kingdom to directly intervene in the investigation of this matter. The communication hawk belonging to Sylvia flew back to Castle Black, landed on the window sill of her office, and pecked at the window with its beak.

When Sylvia heard the movement, she immediately looked towards the window, then stood up, walked over quickly, opened the window, skillfully removed the seal ring from the eagle's claw, gave the prepared piece of meat to the eagle, and He turned and walked back to the table.

"Why don't you open it and have a look?" Leo asked puzzled when he saw Sylvia put the seal ring containing the investigation report on the table and didn't open it immediately.

"I'm a little worried." Sylvia said nervously.

Leo said calmly: "You always need to know."

"If it's true..." Sylvia paused while speaking, and then continued: "If they really did it, what should we do?"

"Get rid of all the participants." Leo gave the answer without any thought, and added: "If you can't bear to do it, let me do it."

Sylvia was silent for a moment, picked up the seal on the table, untied it with a special method, pulled out the investigation report stuffed inside, opened it and read it seriously.

Although Leo on the side didn't know what the content of the report was, he could guess from the increasingly gloomy expression on Sylvia's face and the burning anger in his eyes that the above content was definitely not what Sylvia wanted to see .

After reading it twice without missing anything, Sylvia handed the investigation report to Leo.

Leo took it over, and after a quick look, he couldn't help but frowned, and said in surprise, "The Church of the Lord of the Sky has actually split?"

No wonder Leo was surprised, because looking at all the churches in the world of Velen, the Church of the Lord of the Sky can be said to be the most united, even the turmoil of the holy court relocation plan that year did not cause the Church of the Sky to split the slightest sign Unexpectedly, the various side effects of a world catastrophe would split the most united branch of the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the Velen Continent into two, or it would be more correct to say that it would be divided into three.

Now the Church of the Lord of the Sky on the continent of Velen has been divided into three branches that do not belong to each other. The first is the Church of the Lord of the Sky of the Empire. Judging from the situation, once the sea of ​​gray fog is over, the Holy Court, the headquarters of the United States, will definitely return these church members to the empire, and the church members whose clergy accept the appointment, dismissal and assessment of the empire will be excommunicated.

The situation in the United Kingdom is not much better. Although the church here can still maintain relatively independent religious power, the church has split into two parts because of two ideas, and one part remains in the United Kingdom. , and the other part went to Miria City, which has become the chaotic capital of the world.

According to the current classification of the kingdom's intelligence department, the part of the Church of the Lord of the Sky going to Miria should be regarded as the Redemption sect, and what guides the clerics of this school is the oracle of redemption in the forty-six main scriptures of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

In this book, there is a prophecy of God, which mentions that the world will fall into a great crisis in the future, the ocean will be sealed off, the world will change, and chaos and death will become the theme of the world. At that time, the Lord of the Sky The clergy of the church must practice the way of redemption to save others, so as to gain God's favor.

It is also because of this oracle of redemption that many people in the Church of the Lord of the Sky think that they should go to the city of Miria, where the situation in the Velen continent is the most chaotic and the most mutated, to redeem the mutants there. oracle teachings.

So the Redemptionists, including the Sisters of Redemption led by Sister Hannah and the Brothers of the Poor led by Bishop Kubrick, gathered together and went to the city of Miria to implement their way of redemption.

Although not all the Churches of the Lord of the Sky who remain in the United Kingdom have the same thoughts, they all agree with the doctrine of heresy cleansing in the church, and their ideas also come from the Doomsday Book in the Forty-six Canons of the Church of the Lord of the Sky .

This Doomsday Book of the Church of the Lord of the Sky is very famous. In other churches, this book is called the Book of the End. There will be a big war, and everyone needs to prepare before that big war. Before the war starts, weaken the enemy's strength as much as possible to usher in the final victory.

This book of the end, together with the book of death of the lord of life and death, and the book of silence of the king of the hill, are called the three books of doom. , and because of the writing of the three Doomsday Books, the Orthodox Church has carried out witch hunting and purging of heresies for many years.

Now the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the United Kingdom regards this book as the center of thought, regards those mutants as the abnormal people mentioned in the book, hunts and kills these mutants, and they are also called cleansers.

Because the actions of the Purging faction have helped the United Kingdom to alleviate the social chaos and casualties caused by the large number of mutants, and the Purging faction will not do anything to the controllable mutants that have been registered in the United Kingdom and have been incorporated, so The United Kingdom also allowed them to carry out their cleansing plan in the territory, and while granting them certain privileges, it also gave them a checkpoint castle in the Dibia Mountains as a resident.

This will not only avoid the unrestrained recruitment of believers by these cleansing factions in the kingdom, but also use the power of the Church of the Lord of the Sky to help them guard the passage of the Dibya Mountains and prevent uncontrolled frenzied mutants from milia Run over from the city.

The actions of the Redemptionists and the Purifications to split the church, not to mention the current chaotic and terrible situation, even in that peaceful situation, are taboo for any church, the gods of the church This kind of behavior will definitely be punished, such as taking away the divine power and magical arts bestowed on the clergy.

But what is strange is that not only did the two parties who split the church not receive punishment, but they also received the gift of the Lord of the Sky. This means that the paths implemented by both parties are correct. Only those who have the courage to make the decision to assassinate Sylvia's heir, and the cause of this decision is the thinking of the world destroyer.