The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Impossible, absolutely false!" After hearing the news about the golden scales, Rudick, the priest of the scepter who was discussing matters with Archbishop Chris, immediately said affirmatively.

This scepter priest is an extremely rare Sea Clan on land. Although there is not much difference between the Sea Clan and ordinary land people with a sea-clan body, they are almost half-human, half-fish, and covered with scales. , but the characteristics of the fish on the sea people will be more obvious, more prominent, and the shape will be more exaggerated. Just a little observation, you can easily distinguish each other.

For example, the eyes of this scepter priest now protrude a lot more than normal people, and the area of ​​the gills behind the ears is also very large, covering almost the entire back of the neck. It grows all the way to the back of the neck and looks very striking.

Because of physiological and religious reasons, the Hai people hate land very much, and they don't like to come to land.

Back then when the Spirit Clan split from the Sea Clan, with the domineering character of the Sea Clan, they would definitely send a large number of chasing troops to hunt down and kill the Spirit Clan, and completely wipe out the traitors of the Spirit Clan, and it would definitely not be as described in the story. That would have forgiven the schism of the Eldar in the first place.

But the Sea Clan did not do that in the end, and instead allowed the Spirit Clan to develop on the ground. Apart from the fact that the Spirit Clan was recognized by the Sea God, it was more because their physical strength and combat skills would be seriously affected after they landed. In addition, the dry air on the land will directly damage the scales and skin of the sea people, causing the sea people to develop a deadly disease called rift disease.

There are very few Sea people who are willing to live on land for a long time, and even fewer Sea people are willing to take positions in the Sea God Church. Although the object of the Sea God Church's belief is Sea God, in the eyes of the Sea People, this church is a church for land people. The Sea people have their own Sea God Temple.

As the only member of the sea tribe who is the priest of the scepter in the Church of the Sea God, Rudick's reputation is so great that he is almost a household name, but compared to his reputation, his status is a bit embarrassing. The sea tribe people think he is the god of the sea Temple traitor, and the Sea God Church also had a hard time trusting a Sea Clan member. In the end, he was still able to get the powerful position of the priest of the scepter, which shows that his ability is only outstanding.

When Chrissy's Goddess Temple was allowed to be established, she recruited many senior priests from the Sea God Church, and Rudick, the priest of the scepter, was one of the few senior priests whom she personally visited, and these few were chosen by her. The high-ranking priests who valued are now also entrusted with important tasks by her.

For example, although Ruddick's position is still the priest of the scepter, his authority has crossed two levels and has become a senior clergyman at the bishop level. Now he is mainly responsible for the connection between the Holy Church and the Sea Clan, from commercial trade to He is responsible for all armed cooperation.

As the only Sea Clan member present, Rudick was the one who had the most strength to speak out about the golden scales, and when he heard about the golden scales, he immediately denied the authenticity of the scales.

However, not everyone at the scene agreed with Rudick's judgment. Another clergyman who had a somewhat hostile relationship with Rudick retorted: "Don't make such an arbitrary judgment, the news has already spread here, it may not be real."

"If I say it's impossible, it's absolutely impossible." Ruddick still maintained his previous judgment and said, "Okla, the king of the sea, asked the sea god for help because of the golden scales, and the sea god answered him, telling him that the golden scales in this world Thirty-nine, and now those thirty-nine have been taken back by the Sea Clan, so the golden scale that appears now is definitely a fake."

As Rudick's words fell, the clergy in other rooms also began to discuss in a low voice, but most of the people present now believed Rudick's statement, because they gradually remembered the number of golden scales.

The sea tribe is a race that respects promises very much. They value promises even more than their own lives. Stories of sea tribe people who lost their lives in order to keep their promises abound in this world.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, sea merchants will do business with the sea tribe. Even if there is a deal between two sea merchants, they will like to find a sea merchant as a middleman or guarantor.

It is precisely because the Hai Clan attaches great importance to promises, so the Hai Clan people seldom make any promises to the outside world. Even if they do make promises, they will carefully impose some conditions on the promises they make, and they will not just say things that they cannot fulfill themselves. Promise of.

And the promise of the golden scale is one of the promises made by the sea tribe, because the conditions of this promise are very few, so that anyone who comes to the sea tribe with a golden scale, the sea tribe must go for one. It was a big promise, and several times the entire Sea Clan had to go out together, resulting in countless deaths and injuries in order to fulfill the promise represented by the golden scales.

It is also because of this that the Sea Clan is very concerned about how many golden scales have fallen outside. The royal family specifically found the great priest of the Sea God Temple, and did not hesitate to use some taboo methods to calculate how many golden scales there are, and where are the remaining golden scales? Afterwards, all the sea tribes dispatched to search for the remaining golden scales all over the world, and finally collected all the golden scales.

This incident caused quite a stir at the time, because at that time the entire Hai Clan mobilized, and even blocked the sea area, marching in all directions, looking like they wanted to conquer the world. The Spirit Race was even more terrified by this news, so much so that the royal family of the Spirit Race hid in the church of Sea God Church to pray during that time, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief until the truth was finally announced.

It is because of this incident that people in the whole world know how powerful the Sea Clan is, and it also makes people in the whole world notice the value of the golden scales.

As a result, many people later regarded finding a golden scale as their lifelong goal. As for the thirty-nine golden scales mentioned by the Sea Clan, they regarded it as a lie, and the purpose was to prevent others from finding it. Looking for golden scales, what's more, some daring people will forge golden scales to cheat the promise of the Sea Clan, and the result will naturally be easily exposed, and the liar will not have a good end.

Now that someone took out a golden scale again, it was natural that everyone would involuntarily think of the liar.

A clergyman suggested: "Since he is a liar, let the people below deal with him. After all, this incident happened on our construction site. If there is a big trouble, it will not be very good for our reputation."

This proposal has been approved by the vast majority of people, but those who agree are only ordinary clergymen, and the real power holders of the Holy Church have not expressed their views yet.

At this time, Archbishop Chris, who had been silent all along, suddenly said, "I remember that after the golden scales appeared in the past, the Sea Clan would still send people to confirm the authenticity of the golden scales. This is what other people think the Sea Clan called the golden scales." Only thirty-nine is a lie, is there a reason we don't know?"

Rudick opened his mouth, wanting to explain, but as if restrained by some kind, the words could not come out.

The sacred scripture priest next to Rudick said, "Let me explain it! I know a little bit about this." He paused for a while, motioned the people around him to be quiet, and then continued: "Actually The statement from the Sea Clan that there are only thirty-nine golden scales in this world is not wrong. At that time, there were indeed only thirty-nine golden scales in this world. But there is another sentence that the Sea Clan did not spread, that is, the golden scales The total number is forty."

As soon as the Holy Ceremony Priest finished speaking, voices of doubt rang out in the room, saying, "How is this possible? This sounds really weird. Sometimes there are thirty-nine coins, and sometimes forty coins. How could there be two answers. "

Others also echoed.

On the contrary, some people showed thoughtful expressions on their faces.

At this time, the person who understood the meaning of the priest's words confirmed and asked: "You mean that the other golden scale is not in our world, but in other worlds."

"Yes." The priest of the Holy Code nodded, then turned to Chris and said, "My lord, do you still remember what we found during our investigation in the Mountain of Despair? On a mountaintop sanctuary not far from where the stone was discovered The arch has signs of being in operation, and there are some signs of some fighting taking place near that."

Someone immediately understood what the other person meant and said, "You mean people from other worlds came here from the Holy Arch?"

"Yes, I wonder if someone brought that golden scale from the Holy Arch to our world, and then wants to make the Sea Race keep their promise." The priest of the holy scriptures explained his thoughts carefully: "Actually, I just heard When it comes to this matter, it feels a little strange, because if it is a person in our own world, it should hide the whereabouts of the golden scales, and then find a sea tribe to show the golden scales, because the people here understand the promise of the sea tribe. Pay attention, and will not do things that violate the promise because of the value of the golden scales. In addition, if the scales are real, only the people of the Hai tribe can immediately distinguish them. But now that person is using the golden scales in this way, which makes me It feels like that person doesn't know much about our situation here and the Hai people, that's why he made such an inexplicable move."

"Indeed, he should not be from this world." Archbishop Chris said in a deep voice, "He probably wants to make public that he has mastered the golden scales, and use the power of public opinion to force the Hai people not to break their promises." .”

Some people can't understand this kind of thinking, saying: "Is this useful? If you don't want to keep your promises, no matter what others say, you won't keep your promises."

"It's really useless, at least not in this world." Chris said meaningfully.

"I have another question?" Another person said full of doubts: "If they are from other worlds, shouldn't they come out of the maelstrom? How could they come out of the holy arch in the Mountain of Despair? I remember The Holy Arches of Mount Despair are damaged and unusable."

People in this world know very well that there are other worlds. In those worlds, if people who believe in Sea God want to enter this world, they need to connect to the holy arch through rituals to enter. Otherwise, they can only meet with this world by chance. Only the great vortex connected to the ocean can enter this world.

However, the Holy Arch is not eternal, every time the Holy Arch will be unusable, then some rituals will be required to recreate the Holy Arch, and the broken Holy Arch will be sent to the Mountain of Despair .

In the past so many years, there has never been a thing that the broken holy arch can still be used.

"I don't know about this either, but..." Chris smiled and said, "Why don't we ask the owner of the golden scales to find out." She then turned to look at the scepter Priest Rudick, said: "Master Rudick, please go here, first to identify whether the golden scale is real, and then bring the holder of the golden scale whether it is true or not, I have something to think about." to ask him."

Rudick, the priest of the scepter, did not object when he heard the words, and nodded directly: "Yes, my lord, I will follow your orders."

After finishing speaking, he turned and walked out of the meeting room, but the people in the meeting room did not leave, but temporarily put aside the matter of the golden scales, and continued to discuss the construction of other god-born temples.

At the same time, other forces in Lingdu also heard the rumors about the golden scale, and their attitude was similar to that of Rudick, the priest of the scepter. They did not believe that the golden scale was real, including the Sea Clan ambassador and others.

However, when they heard that the Holy Church of the Gods sent Rudick, the priest of the scepter, to check the authenticity of the matter, their original negative attitudes turned into dubious beliefs. If the golden scales are real, and if the golden scales finally fall into the hands of Chris, then the progress of the construction of the Goddess Temple will increase tenfold and a hundredfold, and it will be unstoppable.

Thinking of this, they couldn't help but send people to check the situation. They didn't think about stopping this matter, and they knew it couldn't be stopped. They just hoped to get the news in advance and make corresponding preparations.

However, the Hai Clan's attitude remained the same, thinking that the golden scales were fake, so they didn't send anyone at all.

However, to everyone's surprise, Rudick, the priest of the scepter, took people back to the Spirit City not long after he went to the wharf site of the Goddess Temple. A few people, when he went back, he not only added some temple guards, but also brought back a lot of ordinary recruiters to Lingdu, and those recruiters were faintly under the protection of the temple guards.

People with a little knowledge of the situation will not understand this situation. The previous rumors about the golden scales should be true. Rudick should be worried that someone would attack the holder of the golden scales, so he added a lot of them to confuse them. The bait of sight, the news immediately spread back to the Sea Clan Manor in Lingdu and Yinyue Lake. The Sea Clan also changed their disbelief and immediately sent people to the Goddess Temple to investigate the situation.