The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The lighthouse church of the Sea God Church is on the coast, which is very convenient for believers who come here to visit. Basically, it can be reached in two steps after getting off the boat.

On the other hand, the temple of the Weaver of Destiny is in the crater, and it takes a long distance to climb a mountain road to reach it. Moreover, this mountain road was the earliest temporary road built by construction workers to carry various building materials, and no repairs have been carried out since then. , and now the road has become very dilapidated, and the road is covered with all kinds of gravel, which is very inconvenient for many people.

Some believers once expressed their willingness to donate money to repair this road, but they were rejected by the Church of the Weavers of Destiny. They very directly stated that if believers are not even willing to climb such a short mountain road, then such believers don't care.

Although this kind of speech caused some believers to resent and break away from the Destiny Weaver Church to convert to other gods, but at the same time it also strengthened the belief of many believers, thinking that this is what a church should be like, so these believers To prove or strengthen your beliefs, you will choose to walk barefoot on such a gravel road and go to the volcanic temple to worship.

This spontaneous behavior of believers also made this road leading to the Volcanic Temple very famous in the Kingdom of England, and people named it the Road of Trials.

The development of the road of trials is no longer limited to the believers of the Weaver of Destiny in the Kingdom of England. Even the believers of the Weaver of Destiny in other continental countries have set an unwritten dogma, that is, they must walk in their lifetime. A road of trials, so that one can be regarded as a true follower of the Weaver of Destiny, so on this road of trials, people from different countries can often be seen slowly moving forward on the road.

This trial road itself is not very long. The straight-line distance from the foot of the mountain to the church square is only about 300 meters. However, because of the steep terrain, the road needs to wind up, which increases the length of the road. More than ten times, and the obstacles on the road are not only the gravel of the road itself, but also hot lava rocks that continue to fall from the crater. These unpredictable dangers make it more difficult to walk on this road, and even It can also cause casualties.

When Leo was walking on this road, he saw many simple gravel graves beside the road. These were all believers of the Weaver of Fate who died on the road due to various accidents. Friends took the body away, but buried it on the spot.

In addition, apart from those believers who walk this path of trials in the normal way, there are also some ascetics who are indispensable to any church. They think that walking in the normal way cannot express their piety, so they choose to walk this path barefoot , and every few steps they will stand in place and recite a prayer. Even if a stone falls from the mountain, they will not choose to avoid it. This also caused a lot of casualties for these ascetics. Most of the graves on this road All belong to these ascetics.

This kind of ascetic belief that is unreasonable in the eyes of most people is a different situation in Leo's eyes, because he can already clearly feel that the bodies of these ascetics have begun to slowly transform during the process of walking , has begun to evolve towards a higher level of life form. According to his estimation, if the ascetics of the Destiny Weaver complete this trial road in their own way, then their life form will change from An ordinary person has evolved to the level equivalent to a third-level psyker.

This leap-forward miracle of life evolution is not only due to their spiritual effects, but the help of external forces is the key to this miracle.

In the world of Velen, and even in the entire universe, there are as many people with strong will and spirit as stars, but they cannot allow themselves to evolve to a higher level until the moment they die, and they always stay at the level of ordinary people, because for For ordinary people, no matter how strong the spirit is, it is useless. Only advanced life forms begin to involve the ability of the spirit to interfere with reality. The evolution of life forms of ordinary people requires enough energy to produce genetic mutations.

For example, for Leo to become a psychic, that piece of high-energy matter is the key. If there is no psychic activation ceremony to guide the energy in the high-energy matter into the body, resulting in genetic mutation, no matter how mysterious and powerful the blood on his body is , I am afraid that it is impossible to produce any extraordinary power.

The ascetics who are currently walking on this road of trials are some mysterious means secretly arranged by the Church of the Weaver of Fate on this road, guiding their spirits to generate enough powerful energy to transform the genes of these people little by little.

It is also for this reason that the body of anyone who walks through this trial road will undergo some changes due to these methods, and most of these changes will change in a good direction. For example, a patient who is seriously ill After this trial road, the body began to improve and so on, which also made this trial road have a certain reputation in the world.

If it weren't for the fact that this path is only valid for followers of the Weaver of Destiny, perhaps more people would come to this path of trials.

When Leo embarked on this road of trials, he already felt the extraordinary power that existed on this road, and he became very interested in this power, because this power and the extraordinary power of the world of Velen They are all different, but somewhat similar to his spiritual power.

This also made him not climb up the volcano as quickly as originally planned to see the situation of the new god of Destiny Weaver, but walked slowly on this road like an ordinary follower of Destiny Weaver , while walking, through the spiritual network and the perception of his own body, he collects various data on the extraordinary power of this psionic power on the road.

Although Leo has tried his best to behave like ordinary people, some people still see that he is not ordinary. For example, his walking speed is always consistent, unlike other ordinary believers who stumble, fast and slow. Moreover, his breathing was extremely steady, and he didn't even leave a drop of sweat when he reached the church square on the top of the mountain. It was hard not to notice this abnormal situation.

So when he reached the top of the mountain, some believers who followed told his story to the guards of the temple of the Destiny Weaver, so that when he stepped into the volcano temple, almost The gazes of most of the church guards swept him back and forth intentionally or unintentionally, as if they regarded him as a saboteur who was hostile to the church.

It’s no wonder that these temple guards are so nervous, because in the past, fanatics from other churches tried to destroy the volcano temple more than once, and the most serious one even bought a church cleric to deliver a bunch of special bombs Once inside the sanctuary, the guards of the sanctuary will monitor those suspicious people very nervously every day.

In the past, the Destiny Weaver Church only preached within the Kingdom of England, so naturally it would not touch the interests of other churches, but when the Destiny Weavers appeared in other continental countries in the form of underground churches, it would naturally lead to hostility, Even hatred.

If it weren't for the Kingdom of England and the Church of Sea God, which control most of the ocean routes, to have publicly recognized the legitimacy and legitimacy of the Church of the Weaver of Fate, the Church of True God, which has existed for many years, might have classified the Weaver of Destiny as one of the evil gods. Column, and sent church armed forces and the adjudicator of the Orthodox Tribunal to destroy the Church of the Weaver of Fate.

Because the Orthodox Church has never recognized the Church of the Weaver of Destiny as the Church of True God, the relationship between the Church of the Weaver of Destiny and other churches has always been very bad. The Church of the Weaver of Destiny abroad, even in the border areas of the Kingdom of England, is often suppressed and destroyed by other churches, so this also makes the armed members of the Church of the Weaver of Destiny very nervous.

Leo didn't show any aversion to the surveillance sights that fell on him. Instead, he ignored them as if they didn't exist. His attention was completely attracted by the volcanic temple in front of him.

I saw that the shape of this volcanic sanctuary looks very similar to some kind of insect in the old earth era. The main body of the sanctuary is located directly above the crater, and the tumbling magma is below. The edge extends out, supporting the main body of the sanctuary suspended in the air.

The materials used to build the sanctuary look like pieces of local volcanic rock, but in fact the whole sanctuary is a complete rock mass, and it can be clearly felt that this is an extraordinary power that is powerful enough to change the material structure Forcibly integrate these stone bricks into a whole.

Just like all church sanctuaries, the surface of the volcano sanctuary is also carved with various exquisite patterns, and these patterns are also not only decorative, but also contain some mysterious arrangements that can generate powerful energy.

The only difference from other churches is that these mysterious arrangements that generate powerful energy are not the sacred words, holy words, holy emblems or even artifacts that the church believes in, but a set of energy transformation formula patterns based on psionic skills.

In the universe, high-level psykers have always been loners, and are more used to wandering in the universe alone and exploring the mysteries of the universe, but there are also some alternative psykers who like to be with other people, so among them except Some will choose off-the-shelf spaceships as their own rides, while most other psykers will build their own psychic battleships.

These psykers have fully converted the energy of the psychic skills that only advanced psykers can master, and created a special psychic skill called the energy conversion formula pattern, and arranged this set of formula patterns in their construction. The surface of the psychic battleship.

Under the action of this formula pattern, most of the energy wandering in the universe can be captured by the psychic battleship and converted into its own power energy, so to some extent, the psychic battleship has almost no energy exhaustion. Danger.

In addition to the basic energy conversion formula patterns, the formula patterns of each psychic warship are different, and the advanced psykers to which the warship belongs will perform secondary transformation on these formula patterns according to their own combat habits and mastered psychic skills. Transformation, just like the energy conversion formula pattern hidden in those exquisite patterns in the volcano temple.

Leo knew something about the patterns of energy conversion formulas from the set of psychic energy inheritance he had obtained, but the owner of that set of inheritance was obviously a lone traveler, and he was not interested in building his own psychic battleship. Therefore, there is very little content about the energy conversion formula patterns, only a set of incomplete basic formula patterns without any explanation and explanation.

But now he can see part of the shadow of the basic formula pattern in the pattern of the volcano temple, and through his subtle perception of energy, he found that the volcano temple transmits the heat energy and various harmful gases from the crater below. This formula pattern is converted into energy and stored in some stone statues that can be seen everywhere in the sanctuary.

From these arrangements, Leo could see that the armed forces guarding the volcanic temple were not the temple guards here at all, but these large and small stone statues all over the temple.

Once there is an attack here, these stone statues will move like those armed robots in the universe, attacking all attackers, and most importantly, as long as the volcano temple still exists, there will be an endless stream of energy from It is extracted from the volcano and injected into these stone statues, so that the stone statues can continue to operate forever.

After discovering the various secret powers hidden in the church sanctuary, Leo became more and more curious about this Destiny Web Weaver, and curious about what this newborn god is.

When he first heard the name Weaver of Destiny, Leo thought of the Weaver of Destiny, and he thought that the Weaver of Destiny might be someone who had evolved to a higher level and escaped from Death Gain. Yes, the incarnation of Grim Reaper.

However, what Leo was puzzled about was that as a truly transcendent existence above the gods, Death God Gain didn’t seem to need any belief, and naturally he didn’t need any church. The current Destiny Weaver Church is completely more than him Yes, and if this is really the church created by the incarnation of Death Gain, then it is absolutely impossible for the Orthodox Church not to recognize this church as the Church of the True God.

And now Leo discovered a lot of secrets related to psykers in the Volcanic Temple, which also made him overturn his initial guess, and instead thought that this web weaver of fate might be a high-level psyker.

Although the volcano sanctuary is very large, the interior is very empty. People who come here will go directly to the prayer hall to participate in various church ceremonies. Few people will wander around in the sanctuary, so there is nothing worthwhile in the sanctuary. After seeing the things, Leo soon walked around the interior of the volcano temple and returned to the original entrance.

"My lord, our priest wants to see you." Just as Leo was considering whether he should take a boat to the headquarters of the Church of the Weaver of Fate in the Duke of Buckingham to see if he could meet with the Weaver of Destiny During the face-to-face exchange, a senior priest of the church caught up and said to Leo very respectfully.