The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the Baptist Church has only recently obtained the consent of Beiruk City to allow it to preach in the city, in fact, the Baptist Church has been preaching in the suburbs and villages of the cities and counties of the Outer Federation for many years in the past, because its teachings are simple. God has never asked for money from his own heart, and often does good deeds, so he has a certain foundation of believers and has a secret church.

Because their missionary work was not officially permitted by the Otter Federation at that time, their churches were disguised as residential buildings like most other secret churches, and the church specifications also vary greatly due to different regions, such as some remote villages. The church is just a slightly larger residential house, and in a commercial town like Beiruk, the church is a villa with a garden.

South Town is in the outskirts of Beiruk City. Mushroom farming is the mainstay here. Most of the mushrooms produced are sent to Beiruk City for sale, and a small amount is sold to other places. The income of the farmers living here is not bad, although It's not as good as those businessmen in the urban area, but at least it's much better than most of the villages.

In the past, the town of Sous was not well-known. Anyone who heard the real name of Sous would only feel as if they had heard of such a town. The town of South, where the original main church of the Baptist Church is located, has gradually entered the eyes of mainstream society in Beruk.

Although South Town is where the main church of the Baptist Church is located, very few people in South Town believe in the Baptist Church. Every time the preaching meeting of the Baptist Church is not enough to fill even a small sermon room, this is mainly It is because Sous Town already had its own beliefs before the appearance of the Baptist Church. They believed in an earth god named Gaia.

The belief in Gaia is very old. It has spread throughout the continents during the Old World, and later spread to the New World with the Great Migration. Almost all countries will have people who believe in Gaia, but it is very interesting that even if the Gaia belief spreads So far-reaching, believers spread all over the world, and the inheritance of belief is extremely ancient, but the Gaia belief has never produced a thing that can be called a religion.

All quasi-religious ceremonies about Gaia belief seem to be some kind of custom. For example, believers will pile up a plump female statue near the door of the house they built. The statue does not need to be carefully carved, as long as it looks like A woman is enough, and after the statue is finished, there is no need to pray or pay homage to the statue, as long as some daily food is placed on a small plate in front of the statue on certain festivals.

In addition, people who believe in Gaia will dance an ancient dance called the Dance of the Earth on some festivals, weddings, funerals and other funerals. The dancers can be anyone, and there is no need for special priests.

All in all, the entire world has Gaia beliefs, but there is no Gaia church. It is for this reason that even countries with the most stringent controls on beliefs, or countries with only a single religion, will not have Gaia beliefs. Behaving harshly, and Gaia's beliefs in other gods also appear to be very tolerant.

Although the Gaia belief is a general belief for most people, just like some habits in life, there are also many people who are devout Gaia believers. Although these people will not change the Gaia belief become a religion, but they will not give up their Gaia beliefs and turn to other beliefs. It just so happens that the people in South Town are devout Gaia believers, so the Baptist Church has been established here for many years, but The missionary effect is very low, so low that it is almost equal to nothing.

After the Baptist Church was recognized by Beiruk City and agreed to preach in the urban area, some powerful and wealthy believers of the Baptist Church proposed to relocate the main church of Beiruk City to the urban area, but this proposal It was vetoed by the archbishop of the main church in Beruk, who only agreed to build a branch church in the urban area, and to build a mission church in each of the four port towns around Lake Beruk. As for the main church, it is still open. In the town of South.

Everyone was puzzled by what the archbishop did, and they didn't understand why the archbishop did this, but some people speculated that the reason for the archbishop's doing so was probably because there was some treasure hidden in South Town, so Shi Shi Only the Baptist Church will place its main church in this place where it is impossible to develop any believers, and it is unwilling to move away.

In this regard, the Baptist Church did not deny or admit it. After hearing such rumors, many good people went to South Town to hunt for treasure, which made the locals in South Town start to talk about it. I feel that there may be some treasures in my town.

For the mayor and other managers of South Town, although this will have some adverse effects on the public security in the town, it can also drive some commercial activities in the town in disguise, so that the townspeople can get some extra income. Such as selling souvenirs, being guides, etc., so they didn't come forward to stop this kind of nonsense treasure hunting, but they were happy to see it succeed.

Some people also looked for clues from the history of the town of South Town after failing to find any treasure clues in South Town, and indeed found some strange places.

These people discovered that the town of Sousse appeared earlier than the establishment of the Ott Federation, even earlier than the religious war. The history of Sousse Town before the religious war is no longer available. It once became a gathering place for refugees. After the war, a small number of those refugees returned home, and most of them stayed in South Town. Because they personally felt the suffering of the religious war, the townspeople of South Town have a natural resistance to religion. , On the contrary, there is no church, only the Gaia belief of faith has become their spiritual sustenance, and it has continued to this day.

This period of history was recorded in the history of the town's establishment written by South Town itself, and the people who made outstanding achievements in the early days of the town's establishment were recorded there, and those who were interested found a few very special names from these names , the tasks behind these names are all the pioneer families in the vicinity of the early religious wars.

These pioneer families were the first batch of immigrants, and they were also the first to establish settlements in the New World. These people may not have the same surname and the same blood, but after the settlements were established, these people intermarried and intermarried with each other. Changing surnames eventually formed the later pioneer families.

It has been mentioned in many legends that the reason why the pioneer family was able to gain a firm foothold in the New World, a land full of primitive beasts, and to establish settlements and thrive was entirely because they came to the New World from the Old World. , carrying some treasures containing mysterious power with them, these treasures protected the migrants at that time, allowing them to avoid various dangers on the primitive land, and live and multiply safely on this new continent.

It's just that most of the pioneer families have disappeared in the long river of history, and the related legends have not been confirmed, but even so, many people still believe that the treasures of the pioneer families are real, just like there are many Few people think that there were descendants of the pioneer family among the people who founded Sous Town, so the treasures of the pioneer family may be hidden here, and this is also the reason why the Baptist Church is unwilling to move the main church to other places.

After all kinds of rumors spread in Beiruk City and surrounding counties and cities, many people came to South Town. Not all of them came here for treasure hunting, some of them just watched the fun, but this also made Soss in disguise. Si Town has become extremely lively, and even in order to receive these people, some local residents even converted their houses into temporary hotels.

After Leo settled the affairs of the manor, he went to South Town. Although South Town is an outlying town, at Leo's speed and with the help of Psionic Wings, he only spent less than half an hour Came outside the town of Sousse.

This trip made Leo discover some problems after using psionic skills in this world. For example, when he used psionic wings to fly in the air, he could clearly feel the pressure he felt as the height climbed. The bigger it is, when it's about 100 meters in the air, he can't go higher, even if he increases the output of psionic energy, it's the same, as if there is an invisible wall blocking it, so that he can only Can fly so high.

This kind of situation doesn't just happen to him who is using spiritual skills, the same is true for those birds, they are not even as good as Leo, they can only fly to a height of tens of meters at most, and they can't fly any higher. It also gave Leo reason to believe that the sky of this world has a force similar to the forbidden space, or the environment, so even though people in this world have invented extremely mature iron-clad ships, they still cannot invent any aircraft.

Leo didn't use the various powers he had mastered too much. He just tasted each power. After understanding the limitations and consumption of these powers, he stopped and put this matter aside for the time being.

Before coming to South Town, he naturally heard rumors about the hidden treasures in South Town, so he opened his spiritual net as soon as he came outside South Town, spread to the whole town, and brought the real inside and outside , and even carefully scanned the underground.

However, unfortunately, he did not find any treasures in this town, but he discovered another interesting thing, that is, the land of Sous Town contains a very strong god power.

Leo has more than one imprint formed by the condensed power of gods and gods in his body, and he is naturally very sensitive to the power of gods and gods. Although this kind of power is perfectly integrated with the land of Sous Town, almost one, he can still clearly feel it. The existence of divine power, and it can also be felt that this divine power is very powerful, so powerful that it is almost comparable to the gods at the level of the Lord of the Sky in the world of Velen.

However, what makes him a little strange is that although there is divine power in this land, this divine power does not have the divine imprint that divine power should have.

You must know that each god possesses different divine powers, just like each psychic possesses different spiritual powers. Each divine power has a special energy wavelength. This wavelength is like a label imprint to identify the divine power. The best way, but the divine power that Leo sensed from the land of Sous Town does not have any energy wavelength at all, that is to say, this divine power is probably just pure divine power, and there is no corresponding god.

This kind of situation has not never happened in the god system of the Velen world. Among the gods of the Velen world, many evil gods will retain their divine power in the artifacts and other related items that they left behind after death. And with the passage of time, the imprint of the gods contained in this kind of divine power will gradually wear away, and eventually the remaining divine power will become ownerless divine power, and finally completely dissipate and merge with the world.

Reminiscent of the Gaia belief in South Town itself, and the fact that the Gaia belief has never formed a church, this made him suspect that the divine power of South Town belongs to the mysterious earth god Gaia, and that Gaia may have fallen Therefore, the church did not form.

But he turned his head and thought again, and felt that there was a big loophole in this speculation, that is, without the support of the gods, it would be difficult to preserve divine power, and it would only be swallowed up by the fusion of this world.

If we look at the source of Gaia's belief, Gaia, the god of the earth, may have fallen long ago, so no church has been established since ancient times. If this is the case, then the divine power related to it should have declined long ago. It's right to dissipate, it is absolutely impossible to integrate into the land of a town, and it can still behave so strong, strong enough to make Sous Town a place where a god descended once.

"Could it be that the reason why the Baptist Church doesn't want the main church to move to another place?" Leo couldn't help but have a guess in his mind, and looked at an ordinary-looking villa on the other side of Sous Town.

However, this idea was quickly rejected by Leo. If the Baptist Church believes in a certain god, it may be possible to increase its sensitivity to divine power by being in this environment full of godless power for a long time , and then when communicating with the gods, it is easier to perceive the existence of the gods and obtain the revelation of the gods. This is what the churches in the world of Velen do, but the problem is that the Baptist Church does not seem to believe in any gods, and their beliefs are more Like another Gaia belief, sensitivity to divine power is not so important in this case.

Leo, who couldn't find the reason, went directly to the outside of the main church. While checking the internal situation of the church through the spiritual network, he tried to activate the spiritual vision to find out the real situation of the main church.

As he expected, he didn't find anything of value. The only thing that attracted Leo's attention was that there was a small compartment on the roof of the main church transformed from this villa, and this compartment had no door. The exit was sealed by wooden boards. Judging from the state of the wooden boards, it should have been sealed not long ago, and the dust in the compartment also showed that some things were placed in the compartment not long ago, but those things were removed not long ago. The compartment may have been completely sealed at that time as well.

"It seems that this Baptist Church is not simple!" Although the things in the compartment have been removed, the residual energy of the things stored here before has not dissipated, and was captured by Leo, which also made him Got some thoughts on the Baptist Church.