The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A sea robbery that could be called a disaster for the Star of Hope ended in an unexpected way. Except for a few people in the engine room who fell down in a coma, there were some casualties. None of the passengers suffered any casualties, and even their money was not lost. If it wasn't for the corpses of pirates all over the floor and the pirate ship that was slowly disappearing on the sea, they might not have thought that they had encountered pirates not long ago.

Compared with the passengers who had just been rescued and awakened and knew nothing about how to resist pirates on the ship, the crew members on the ship were awakened before the passengers, and assisted the sea witch and the Fermont team to deal with the remaining two pirates on the ship. Learn a little about how these pirates fell.

However, because of the wrong information provided by the parties, they mistakenly thought that the sea witch's betrayal was that the Fermont team knew about the pirate robbery in advance, and bought the sea witch with a lot of money in advance, and the sea witch wanted to monopolize this sea area, so it happened. Team up with the Fermont team to take down the other two big pirate groups.

Now the sea witch has eliminated the sharp tooth and the old sea dog, cleaned up the hardcore members of the two pirate groups, and successfully received the remaining pirates and all the pirate ships that were not destroyed. It is no exaggeration to say that when the sea witch completely controls this time If there is no income, then the sea power she possesses is not only the most powerful in this sea area, but may even be the strongest pirate group on the transcontinental routes of Velen and Mosang. Even before the year of fog disaster, it is impossible There is such a powerful pirate group composed of more than a dozen large armed ships.

It is precisely because the passengers and most of the crew members on the ship thought that the Fermont team had known about the pirates' plunder in advance, and then set up a situation with the sea witch to solve the other two big pirates, so they felt sorry for Fermont who rescued themselves from the danger of death. The team was not grateful, but more hostile, even hostile.

Because in their view, the Fermont team is basically setting up their lives there, and any link in the middle is slightly wrong. For example, the sea witch accepted the commission and still chose to rob, for example, the other two pirate leaders were not so careless, etc. Then the passengers and crew waiting on the ship will have a very tragic fate. If they are lucky, they can be redeemed and regain their freedom. If they are unlucky, they will be directly sold as slaves and spend a miserable life in an unknown place. lifetime.

So when the sea witch left with her booty, the attitude of the passengers and crew on the ship towards the Fermont team became very bad. If the captain and other high-level officials on the ship hadn't stopped them, maybe they would all speak ill of the Fermont team. Face each other, and even fight.

The Fermont team was naturally displeased with the behavior of the passengers on board, but they also knew that this was what they or Cantor Fermont wanted to see, so they didn't say anything, and all returned to the team's suite The cabin, it seems that it will not come out again in the next trip.

Compared with these ordinary crew members and passengers who were misled and had not yet fully recovered from their panic and hatred, the ship on the Star of Hope was the first to be rescued and the first to join in the anti-pirate operation. Top and senior combatants are a different story entirely.

They could all see that the Sea Witch was the absolute commander of the entire campaign. Not only were the pirates under her completely obeying her orders, but even the members of the Fermont team obeyed her orders 100%. And behavior is definitely not an employer-employee relationship.

And after that, Cantor Fermont appeared and joined in the clean-up operation. The command center of the entire operation was transferred from the Sea Witch to Cantor Fermont, and Cantor Fermont and the Sea Witch inadvertently revealed that All these intimate moves show that the relationship between the two is definitely not as simple as they leaked.

It's just that those who saw a little clue kept silent about this matter, and decided to rot in their hearts. They knew very well that even if they made these things public, it would not be possible to have too much influence on Cantor Fermont. But they will offend a team of top adventurers in the world and a pirate king who may soon become the ruler of a sea area.

Unlike others, the captain of the Star of Hope is grateful to Cantor Fermont and the Fermont team even if he knew that Cantor Fermont knew in advance that the pirates would plunder. Something really happened to the Asterisk. Even if he was redeemed from the pirates by Kraken Shipping, what awaited him would be endless internal censorship, and he would never be able to sail at sea again for life.

Because anyone who understands the first half of the pirate attack and the fall of the Star of Hope will think that the whole process is too strange. Even with the help of mysterious powers such as witchcraft, it is impossible for the Star of Hope to be in the If there is no resistance, it will be completely fallen, not to mention that the Star of Hope itself has the blessing of the sea god, which can greatly weaken and resist supernatural power.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, it feels more like there is an insider attacking in secret, and before the official battle, the pirate insiders were indeed found out on the ship, but whether all the pirate insiders have been completely eliminated, whether there are insiders among the crew is all the same. Doubtful things, as the captain of the Star of Hope, naturally bear the brunt.

In fact, after the order on the ship returned to normal and the Star of Hope set sail again, the captain who calmed down also had doubts about whether there was an internal response on the ship, and the scope of his doubts was not only the people on board, but also the Kraken Shipping. Because after the battle was finally over and even after the pirate ships had left, the Kraken who should have appeared to protect the Star of Hope never showed up, which made him wonder if someone inside Kraken Shipping was cooperating with the pirates. The sea monster that originally protected the Star of Hope was led to another place.

After that, he even put the object of suspicion on Leo who appeared as a shipwreck, because the time of Leo's appearance was so coincidental that it seemed to be arranged deliberately.

However, when he saw Cantor Fermont go to see Leo with a very respectful manner, this suspicion was dispelled.

In fact, what the captain doesn't know is that the sea monster he thought was led to other places actually came to this sea area in the later stage of suppressing the pirates, and tried to get close to the Star of Hope, but it was emitted by Leo The breath of the advanced life form was frightened, and he didn't dare to approach, so he could only follow the ship in the distant sea area.

When the sea monster approached, Leo naturally also noticed it, and also knew that this should be the sea monster controlled by the sea monster conch that Sean Donald brought back from Sea God World.

In the world of Poseidon, the sea monsters created by the sea monster snails are false. The core of the sea monsters is the power of the sea god world itself gathered by the sea water and the sea monster snails. After the sea monster snails came to the world of Velen, it was like Leo using the Sea God Like the potions made of world materials, they have also mutated. It is no longer to create some kind of sea monster, but to directly control the sea creatures that are mutated due to the influence of unknown forces.

For example, the siren attracted by the horn on the Star of Hope should be a kind of jellyfish-like plankton mutated. The whole body and the sea water are almost perfectly integrated, and hundreds of huge tentacles spread out to the surroundings. , As the sea water floats, ordinary people may think that these soft tentacles should be easily torn off when they see it, but in fact, the strength inside these tentacles can easily tear the steel plate and cut off the huge hull.

With the help of more than a dozen such powerful sea monsters, it is only logical that Siren Shipping can become the largest private maritime shipping company.

Due to incidents such as pirate attacks, the Star of Hope had to change its course and turned to the nearest island, Morlock, for repairs, and it was necessary to report the whole incident to the fleet of the Kingdom of England and Siren Shipping, which were in charge of patrolling this sea area. The management team can continue to sail after waiting for further processing, and the passengers on board can continue to wait for the Star of Hope to set sail, or they can transfer to other ships and continue to the mainland of Mozambique.

After the ship docked, Leo originally planned to transfer to the ship of the National Shipping Company of the Kingdom of England to continue to the mainland of Mozambique like other passengers, but when he heard that Morlock Island was the territory of the Duke of Buckingham, and the construction of After making the Temple of the Weaver of Destiny, I decided to stay here for an extra day and take a look at the temple of Morlock Volcano located in the center of the island.

Morlock Island is located on the outermost edge of the British Kingdom Islands. It is a marginal island, and because it is an active volcanic island, it has not been developed for a long time in the past. At the beginning, the Kingdom of England assigned this island to Platinum The Duke of Han is only holding the mentality of waste utilization, reducing the valuable territory given to the Duke of Buckingham.

In the past so many years, the Duke of Buckingham has completely ignored the island, and even in the maps of his family's territory, several editions of the map did not mark the island.

However, after the fog disaster year, the situation changed dramatically after the opening of new routes between the Mozambique Continent and the Velen Continent.

Morlock Island, which no one cares about before, is just in the middle of the route. It is a perfect intermediate supply point, and it is also a key point of the route. Controlling this place is equivalent to controlling the entire route.

It is precisely because of the importance of this island that the royal family and the Duke of Buckingham began to fight for the ownership of this island for several years, even to the Kingdom Council.

Originally, there was no problem with the ownership of this island. Almost everyone who knew the situation knew that this island belonged to the Duke of Buckingham. The neglect of Locke Island, several maps did not mark the island within the territory, and was finally caught by the British royal family, claiming that the island was privately assigned to the territory by the Duke of Buckingham.

In the end, the farce ended with a settlement between the two parties. The British royal family obtained part of the island’s development rights and the right to build naval military bases and docks on the island. In exchange, the royal family agreed to the Church of the Weaver of Destiny to preach in the Kingdom of England. .

With the end of the foggy year, the world is also changing. Monsters entrenched in the wild have become the main body of the world. In order to fight against monsters, human society has also undergone unprecedented changes. On the one hand, the continuously improving industrial machinery has been vigorously supported. Support, on the other hand, various supernatural powers have also begun to become the norm in society. Many forces that were hidden underground in the past have gradually stood in front of the stage, and various things related to supernatural powers have become the focus of attention. , indicating that the gods who are about to return are the focus of attention.

In the years just after the end of the fog disaster year, due to the isolation of wild monsters and the fact that the governments of various countries have not yet recovered from the disaster, various places were in great chaos, and this kind of chaos also made people more in need of spiritual comfort. The Church then became the only source of comfort for the people.

During that period, various churches sprang up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Apart from some of them being the Orthodox Church of the True God, many of them were those churches of evil gods who had changed their appearances, and the various sacrifice ceremonies of evil gods that are circulating in the world are also there. According to statistics, the casualties caused by the various sacrifice ceremonies of the Evil God Church during that period even exceeded the casualties caused by wild monsters.

So after the situation stabilized, the Church of the True God with the Orthodox Church as the core began various hunts and arrests against the Church of the Evil God, and finally drove the Church of the Evil God out of major cities and regions in each country, allowing the Church of the Evil God and the monsters in the wild to For company.

To this day, various pursuits related to the Church of the Evil God have not stopped, and various high rewards have always been on the wanted list of the Orthodox Church.

However, apart from these churches of evil gods, there are actually a few emerging gods that have neither been recognized by the Orthodox church nor classified as evil gods.

It's not that the Orthodox Church doesn't want to classify these emerging gods as evil gods, but because these emerging gods have their own foundation and power behind them, such as the Ice and Snow Goddess of the Ice and Snow Kingdom Dailiat, and Buckingham The Weaver of Destiny recommended by the Duke.

The Weaver of Destiny is a deity that the Duke of Buckingham began to believe in before the Year of the Fog, but at that time only the Duke of Buckingham and his cronies and allies believed in this deity. The Duke of Buckingham still wanted to use his power and resources , trying to get the Orthodox Church to admit that the Weaver of Destiny is the true god, but the result is only a promise that the Orthodox Church will not list it as an evil god belief for the time being.

Until the fog disaster appeared, the Duke of Buckingham took advantage of people's panic and began to promote the Church of the Weaver of Destiny in the territory, and the Church of the Weaver of Destiny did protect the people in the territory during the year of the fog disaster, so with the fog With the end of the Year of Calamity, the Church of the Weaver of Destiny has also begun to spread to all parts of the world through the associations of some devout believers.

The reason why the Church of the Weaver of Destiny can be promoted so smoothly is entirely because the Kingdom of England, which has become the actual lord of the ocean, has recognized the legitimacy of the Church of the Weaver of Destiny.