The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Kingdom of England will recognize the legitimacy of the Church of the Weaver of Destiny, not only because of the secret operation of the Duke of Buckingham, but also because the Parliament and the royal family of the Kingdom of England need another church of gods to check and balance the growing power within the kingdom. Sea God Church.

After the smog disaster, the appearance of the gods that had disappeared for many years also began to appear in various churches. Even people who are dull can feel that the gods are beginning to return to the world. Everyone believes that the return of the gods is to save mankind, so everyone Church believers have become extremely devout. In the past, it was difficult to select qualified clergymen from among the believers. Clergymen could only be cultivated from an early age, but now it is necessary to select the most qualified clergymen from a large number of pious believers who are qualified to become clergymen. Alright, and being faithful is the main reason why the church is able to grow so fast in this time of calamity.

The situation in the Kingdom of England is slightly different from that of other countries. Without exception, the main churches in other countries are the power of the church far beyond the power of the world. Almost all the functional departments of the governments of various countries are church believers, so even if there are conflicts, they will not Very serious.

However, before the Year of Fog in the Kingdom of England, the struggle between religious power and royal power was already on the surface. In fact, it should be a struggle between the two powers within the Sea God Church, because the royal family itself is The owner of the Seagod's bloodline, the royal family is the secular incarnation of the Seagod in the eyes of the people of the kingdom, so the core of the royal power of the English royal family is still the belief in the Seagod, which is also the purpose of the English royal family to disclose that they have the Seagod's bloodline.

But with the return of the gods after the fog disaster, the focus of people's beliefs began to shift to the church. After all, compared with a successor of a god with a thin bloodline, the gods themselves are the core of the believers' beliefs, and the clergy of the church also After the return of the gods, they began to possess and master some divine arts that only high-level priests could master in the past. For example, almost all priests who have passed the test will be blessed by the sea god, etc. This is also one of the signs of the return of the gods.

Feeling the crisis, even though the British royal family still possessed the Seagod artifact, many citizens believed that after Seagod's return, they would be able to give the royal family greater power and rights. The parliament, nobles and scholars who were also dissatisfied with the church began to unite to suppress the Church of Sea God.

However, in this era when gods can be manifested in church ceremonies, and clergy can show magic in front of ordinary people, any suppression against the church is futile, and only the church can resist the church.

The British royal family and the parliament wanted to understand this, and wanted to use the support of the Lady of the Lake Church, which also has a wide range of beliefs in the Kingdom of England, to fight against the Sea God Church. Unfortunately, the Lady of the Lake Church seems to have insight into the thinking of the royal family and the parliament, or maybe it is The development focus of the Lady in the Lake Church has shifted to various continents, so it has ignored the olive branches thrown by the royal family and the parliament, and is still doing its own things at its own pace.

There is nothing the British royal family can do about it. Although the followers of the Church of the Lady of the Lake in the Kingdom of England are far from comparable to those of the Church of Sea God, almost all people in England have a very special feeling for the Lady of the Lake. This kind of emotion is like a child is to a mother. Some belief rituals related to the Lady of the Lake have become the daily rituals of the English people. The Lady of the Lake is a part of their life. compared to.

After the Church of Lady in the Lake rejected the cooperation proposal, the British royal family and the parliament could only look for another partner. At first, they thought of the shamanism that had already taken shape in the Kingdom of England.

It's just that shamanism is too primitive, with a large number of appalling blood sacrifices. In the Kingdom of England, some cases related to extraordinary power are almost all related to shamanism.

Either the shaman belief is too esoteric, and some primitive teachings have been transformed into shaman philosophy, which is only circulated among some scholars in the academy, and will not be accepted by ordinary people at all.

So when the British royal family and the parliament were having a headache for a suitable partner who could resist the Church of the Sea God, the Duke of Buckingham appeared in front of them with the Church of the Weaver of Destiny, plus some coercion and lure. Operation, the underground church that originally belonged to the Duke of Buckingham became the legal church of the Kingdom of England, and church churches began to be built in various parts of the Kingdom of England.

The Sea God Church was naturally unwilling to passively accept all of this, so it also made a request for the opening of missionary restrictions in the Duke of Buckingham.

The Duke of Buckingham did not refuse this, nor did he put forward particularly harsh additional conditions, but only required the Church of Sea God to publicly recognize that the Weaver of Fate is the Church of True God.

Whether a church is the Church of True God is not determined by whether a certain church recognizes it or not, but is determined by the divine revelation obtained after various ceremonies after discussions with representatives of the Churches of True God in the Orthodox Church, so the Sea God Church is recognized The Destiny Weaver Church is the Church of True God. Once they leave the Kingdom of England, the Destiny Weaver Church will still be an underground church.

The Church of Sea God knew that whether they recognized it or not was of no use to whether the Church of the Weaver of Destiny was the Church of True God, so they quickly agreed to the Duke of Buckingham's request.

And the Duke of Buckingham also knows this, he only needs a pretext, not to mention that the confirmation ceremony and process of the Church of True God are not made public, only the senior leaders of various churches and the Orthodox Church know this, and ordinary people do not know this. In the eyes of ordinary people, when a Church of True God recognizes another church as the Church of True God, that church is the Church of True God.

Because of this, when the Church of the Sea God recognized the Church of the Weaver of Destiny as the Church of True God, the mission of the Church of the Weaver of Destiny in the Kingdom of England became much smoother, especially the various ceremonies held by the Church of the Weaver of Destiny There are more than twice as many gods appearing in the church than in other churches. The ordinary people have the feeling that the gods are always paying attention to the church, which makes the followers of the Destiny Weaver rapidly increase.

Faced with the pressure from the Church of the Weavers of Destiny, the Church of the Sea God has also strengthened its missionary efforts to the people of the Duke of Buckingham, but the Duke of Buckingham has already assisted the Church of the Weavers of Destiny to build believers in the territory like iron barrels. The missionary work of the Sea God Church was basically useless, which also forced the Sea God Church to shift the missionary direction to some emerging territories of the Duke of Buckingham, and Morlock Island was such an emerging territory.

Knowing that Morlock Island has become the core transit point for transcontinental routes, the Destiny Weaver Church, with the help of the Duke of Buckingham, took the lead in building a large church church in the Morlock Crater, the highest mountain on Morlock Island. .

The size of the foundation of this sanctuary exceeds that of all other sanctuaries of the Church of the Weaver of Destiny, because its foundation support columns cover the entire crater of the active volcano, and the main body of the sanctuary is in the center of the crater, below It is the flowing magma, and the whole building is a miracle in the eyes of ordinary people.

This is also the goal that the Church of the Weavers of Destiny wants to achieve. They just want people who travel between the two continents to see this miraculous building and spread the reputation of Weavers of Destiny.

The Sea God Church was a few steps behind the Church of the Weaver of Destiny for various reasons, and it was not until the main body of the church of the Weaver of Destiny Church was almost completed.

Although the Church of the Sea God was a step late, they did not give up. On the contrary, they generally changed the arched and column-shaped architectural form of the church church in the past, but based on the current island environment and route status, The church sanctuary was built into a pointed lighthouse sanctuary.

Because the Duke of Buckingham restricted the sale of available land on Morlock Island, the foundation of the lighthouse sanctuary of the Sea God Church is not on the island, but in the sea, and its foundation area is also very large, which is equivalent to Morlock Island in conversion. One-sixth of the total area.

The lighthouse sanctuary emerges directly from the sea and extends upwards in the shape of an eight-sided cone. When it reaches the top, it just exceeds the height of the volcano sanctuary of the Destiny Weaver Church.

Such a huge lighthouse sanctuary can be seen clearly by ships from far away on the sea, and when the sanctuary was built and ready to install the components of the navigation light, the sea god appeared in the sanctuary, and bestowed blessings in front of countless believers and non-believers. The lighthouse is an ever-burning flame. From now on, the lights of this lighthouse sanctuary can be kept on without any fuel, and the intensity of the lights can be seen by nearby ships even in the biggest storm, guiding The ship enters the safe haven of the island.

There is no doubt that both the Lighthouse Church and the Volcano Church are very successful church buildings. After the appearance of these two church buildings, the number of believers related to them has also begun to increase rapidly, and the Church of the Weaver of Destiny is no longer It was limited to preaching within the Kingdom of England, and began to spread in other continents, but because it was not the Church of the True God recognized by the Orthodox Church, it was still an underground church that was suppressed by churches in other continents.

However, the fantastic ideas arising from the struggle between these two churches have also opened up the era of spectacle churches in various churches. Various spectacle churches that demonstrate the majesty of the gods began to appear in the headquarters of various churches or important parishes.

When the Star of Hope sailed to Morlock Island, Leo, like other passengers and crew on board, also saw the two marvelous buildings on Morlock Island, but they were slightly different from others in that they were more spectacular and The lighthouse sanctuary, which is more oppressive and has an immortal fire, is not very attractive. On the contrary, it is the destiny web weaver sanctuary in the crater that attracts his attention more.

From Leo's point of view, although the lighthouse sanctuary is more majestic and shocking, the difficulty of construction is not very great. With the existing industrial level and the intervention of extraordinary power, under the condition of financial and human resources, any one Non-church forces can build a similar building, so it is difficult to equate the lighthouse church with a miracle.

As for the immortal fire at the top of the lighthouse sanctuary, it is not a magic fire at all, and has nothing to do with Poseidon. It is a hatch guide light that can only be found on a mothership-class battleship that is still functioning.

The main material of this guide light is a special material that was unintentionally developed by a certain medium-level scientific and technological civilization. This material is called Eternal Light Energy Metal, which can always emit a light wave of a special frequency outward, producing It is not strong, but it can be clearly seen by people under the special environment in the universe, and it will almost never weaken without destroying its atomic structure.

Almost all motherships built by cosmic creatures that mainly rely on light-receiving vision will place this special metal on the hatch of the carrier-based aircraft to guide the fighter back to the cabin.

Obviously, the Sea God Church should have discovered this intact piece of eternal light energy metal from the wreckage of a damaged mothership spaceship, so they regarded this metal as a miracle of Sea God and placed it on the top of the lighthouse church.

Compared with the lighthouse sanctuary, which has a simple architectural structure and a mixture of industry, extraordinary power, and cosmic civilization technology, the volcanic sanctuary on the crater that was built purely with extraordinary power is more attractive to Leo. , because he sensed that the extraordinary power that built this volcanic temple was not much stronger than him, it was only equivalent to an eighth-level psyker, similar to the True Eye in its heyday, which also made Leo guess The Weaver of Destiny that the Duke of Buckingham supports is supposed to be a demigod.

Unlike Leo in the past, when he felt the power of a demigod, he would only feel that the power was very powerful without any further details. Now that he has reached the seventh level of psyker, he can also be called a demigod, and he When feeling the power of other demigods, he was able to analyze more details, but these details often brought more doubts to Leo.

These questions are not only caused by Leo's own strong curiosity, but also because of his reserve knowledge of his future psychic level improvement.

Because after he stepped into the seventh-level psyker, he found that the complete set of psychic inheritance knowledge he had acquired, in addition to the conventional knowledge of psychic skills, was still useful, and other knowledge related to the improvement of psychic levels was due to racial civilization. And so on, the help that can be provided to him is very small, and even most of the content can only be used as reference materials.

Leo feels that after the life form has evolved to the level of a seventh-level psyker, the level of psychic power can no longer be improved through primitive accumulation or tricks as before. As for how to continue to upgrade to a higher level , Leo also feels at a loss now.

Although he has just stepped into the stage of a seventh-level psyker, he has not even fully grasped the power after the promotion, and the life information generated by the life form is even more uncontrollable, and it is not released all the time. Everyone has an influence, but he instinctively felt that he should prepare for the subsequent improvement of his spiritual power level. It would be too late to prepare when he thought of raising his level, so when the ready-made reference object of Destiny Web Weaver appeared in his In his eyes, he naturally had no reason to let go.