The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Do you see a problem?" Sylvia asked curiously when Leo returned to the temporary house.

"It's a god, but it's not a god." Leo gave an ambiguous answer, and then he added: "That's a living body."

In fact, he doesn't know what the god of Purifying Fire is now. When the priest Tovia separated the Purifying Fire through his method, Leo and Sylvia had already paid attention to the Purifying Fire.

Sylvia first took the time to look at the source of the purification fire, but felt that although the source of fire was not strong, its power was much stronger than the power of the dragon on her body.

And Leo didn't study the source fire of the purification fire, he was more interested in the isolated purification fire, so he went to the simple city wall to get close contact with the purification fire there.

Although the Purifying Fire is far higher than Leo's power in terms of energy level, it indeed belongs to the power of an Omega-level high-level life form, but no matter how high the energy level is, its power is very weak. For Leo's forced infiltration, the Purifying Fire could not resist at all, so he could only defend passively.

However, Leo's spiritual net can be said to be pervasive, and it can easily penetrate into the purifying fire, and he can clearly feel the situation of this purifying fire.

Although the purifying fires look like flames, they should actually be some kind of flame-shaped lifeforms. There are not many such special energy lifeforms in the universe, and they are not uncommon. Leo has seen them before. A gaseous lifeform that can live freely in a vacuum. Compared with that gaseous lifeform, this flame-shaped lifeform is somewhat ordinary.

Although this kind of flame life body should be a special life body created by the Purifying Fire with its own power, it is more appropriate to describe it as a clone of the Purifying Fire. They are equivalent to the infinitely weakened Purifying Fire. From this aspect In other words, facing this purification fire is like facing the body of the purification fire, which seems to have been mentioned in the transaction of the purification fire.

Leo didn't know why this deity named Purifying Fire did this, because the consequences of doing so were equivalent to completely letting go of the secrets of his own power, which gave Leo a chance to pry into the privacy of the gods. machine.

Leo easily figured out the details of the power in the Purifying Fire through the spiritual network, and even captured a trace of the power of the Purifying Fire, forming a mark in his body. As long as he wants, he can imitate any kind of Purifying Fire with the power of nightmare magical power.

As for the biggest benefit now, he can disguise himself as a high-ranking priest of the Purifying Fire by imitating the Purifying Fire, so that he will not be regarded as a heretic or an unbelievers of the Ott Federation, which can save him and Hill Via is in a lot of trouble.

You must know that in this world with many gods and countless churches, believers are the norm, and unbelievers in the Otto Federation are rare things. Even when Leo and Sylvia heard about the country of the Otto Federation, they felt It is unbelievable, and it is also difficult for them to imagine how this country composed of unbelievers can be born in a country dominated by churches, and even the Otter Federation can continue to grow in this unsocial state. Let Sylvia also admire the governing ability of successive rulers of the Otter Federation.

Leo and Sylvia had previously pretended to be believers of a small country church in the mountains, but this disguise has always had some flaws, such as traveling, staying in hotels, etc. are more or less restricted, and now Leo can imitate The Purifying Fire divine power and the way of magic, disguised as the high-level priests of the Purifying Fire, will undoubtedly have great benefits for them to go to the Old World in the future. After all, the religious beliefs of the Old World are only stronger than those of the New World.

Although the god of Purifying Fire is not a particularly powerful god in the New World, and the church is not very powerful, but fortunately, the Church of Purifying Fire also exists in the Old Continent. It is an orthodox church. After Leo went to the Old Continent , can still use the skin of the Purifying Fire Church to travel conveniently.

Leo carefully explained what he found after checking the purification fire, but Sylvia didn't care about it. In her opinion, with the strength of the two of them, there was no need to make any disguise, and they just suppressed it when they encountered trouble. That's it, as long as the gods don't appear in front of the two of them in person, there shouldn't be anything in this world that can really threaten the two of them.

On the other hand, Penistan, who is learning to create psionic waves, was surprised and looking forward to hearing that Leo could use the Purifying Fire magic, because then she would not have to worry about being in the Purifying Fire church. When he noticed something was wrong, he was implicated by Leo and Sylvia, and was treated as a heretic by the Purifying Fire Church.

Although the punishment of heresy in the diocese mastered by the Purifying Fire Church is not the main religious affairs of the church, the doctrine of the Purifying Fire contains the dogma of purifying all sins, and heretics and unbelievers are listed as one of the original sins. So once heretics and unbelievers are found in the parish of the Purifying Fire, the milder ones will be the seat of the parish where they are expelled, while the tougher ones will directly arrest them and burn them to ashes with the Purifying Fire. The custom of being tied to a pillar and burned to ashes.

During this period of time, Penistan learned various basic psionic skills from Leo. Among these basic skills, there is a technique called psionic canopy, which is to create a dark area, affect the line of sight of intruders, and cast Those who choose can choose between fleeing and counterattacking, which is a very practical combat auxiliary psionic skill, which can form a psionic field skill when developed later.

It was only after Penistan learned to use the psychic canopy that she definitely believed that Leo and Sylvia were probably some anti-ecclesiastical heretics, because this psychic canopy was obviously created for the purification fire, and only after the purification Only enemies of the Church of Fire would do this.

After making such a wrong guess, Penistan actually started to study each of the psionic skills taught by Leo more seriously. Obviously, she should have developed a mentality of breaking the jar, and she felt that since she had already learned The power of heresy, no matter how much she denies it, she will not be able to get rid of her identity as a heretic. If something happens, the priests of the Purifying Fire church will not let her go, so it is better to study these heresy abilities even harder. Have the ability to protect yourself when things happen.

Although Penistan still doesn't understand what kind of power this heresy power called psychic energy in her body is, and which heresy evil god it comes from, but she is very clear that this ability can improve her strength to an unprecedented level. As far as I dare to imagine, it is no exaggeration to say that there are only ten days. If she goes back to the time when she was hunted down by the rats, she can easily get rid of those jerry rats without running away.

This is not an illusion after she gained power, but a real power increase. Just these two days after Leo took her into the forest, he did not teach her new psionic skills, but let her use them herself The psychic skills she had learned combined with her own hunter ability to hunt rats. In just two days, she wiped out the five rats entrenched around the town, which to a certain extent protected the safety of the town.

It's just that she couldn't tell about such an amazing record and show it off to others, because she couldn't explain how she did this kind of thing, and now that Leo can pretend to be a priest, she also has less time to go Some worries, even if her ability is leaked, Leo will explain it for her.

At this moment, Sylvia mentioned another question that concerned Pennystein, and said, "Should we continue to wait here? Maybe we can go to the front line to find Penny's father."

Leo shook his head, and said: "The Church of Purifying Fire has already set up a strict isolation barrier around the isolated Christian principality, I can pass through the barrier without triggering the disguise, and you and Penny will definitely be discovered, so Your situation will definitely attract the attention of the entire Purifying Fire Church."

Sylvia was a little puzzled: "You haven't been to the border, how do you know that the Purifying Fire Church has set up a strict isolation barrier around it?"

"Although I haven't been to the border, I can infiltrate the fire of purification!" Leo explained: "Although the fire of purification also has grades, the essence of each fire of purification is the same, and they are different from each other. Connected together, I can sense the situation of other purification fires through the infiltrated purification fire, and it is difficult not to sense such a large movement on the border."

Sylvia frowned and said, "Are we going to wait here indefinitely?"

Leo thought for a while and said, "No, it only takes three days at most, and the rat tide should be over."

Penistan also became very concerned when he heard this, pricked up his ears, and eavesdropped intently, not even noticing that the psionic energy wave in his hand had stopped.

Leo didn't answer Sylvia immediately, but picked up a small fruit on the table and bounced it to Penistan's forehead.

"Ouch!" Pennistan immediately snorted while covering her forehead with a headache.

"An extra hour." Leo severely punished him.

Penistan pouted and covered her forehead, trying to mutter something to complain about, but in awe of Leo, she finally didn't say it, and refocused on her own practice, continuously generating inspiration Can wave.

After Penistan returned to the training state, Leo also continued: "Jerry Mouse's hive consciousness can no longer be upgraded to a separate hive consciousness. He failed. His current strength can only maintain two or three In a few days or so, those crazy rat groups will return to normal, and this rat wave will end."

"How did it fail?" Sylvia asked with some doubts.

"It's very simple that some people, or gods, don't want a new god to appear." Leo said seriously: "I checked the jerry rat colony outside the city in the past two days, and found that many of these rat colonies had gone berserk. The Jerry mice all became very weak. It is not difficult to see that this weakness should be related to the consciousness of the nest group, and the mouse group became very loose. There were even Jerry mice that escaped when Penny attacked. The group of rats that are so crazy that they would risk their lives is completely different. When I was researching the fire of purification just now, I also intercepted some information from each split incarnation node of the fire of purification. The pope of the fire of purification arrived in person a few days ago In the border area, there was a head-on confrontation with the swarm of rats entrenched there, and although the final result has not been announced, judging from the current situation of the rat swarm, the Pope of the Purifying Fire Church should have won."

Sylvia nodded and said, "This is the best, this place really makes me feel bored and bored!"

Leo looked at Sylvia, frowned slightly, and said, "You've been feeling a little strange lately, is there something wrong with your body?"

Sylvia said disapprovingly: "It's nothing, it's just that when I'm researching my own strength, I haven't made any progress, and I'm a little upset!"

"No, it's not as simple as being upset." Leo's expression became a little serious, and then he walked up to Sylvia, checked Sylvia's body very carefully, then took out a mirror, and held Sylvia A certain position on Via's neck was photographed, and said: "You have begun to be assimilated by the power of the abyss dragon."

In the mirror, a dozen or so black scales began to grow on Sylvia's neck at some point, and each of these black scales had a hideous face, as if there was a hidden secret in each scale. Like a devil.

"When did this happen?" Sylvia looked bewildered, and reached out to touch the scales, feeling the metal-like sensation from her fingers, and her complexion became ugly.

"It should be that when you have emotional problems these days, you were taken advantage of by the power of your blood." Leo thought for a while, gave a relatively reasonable explanation, and said, "I will help you configure a A sober potion, when you take the potion and regain your composure, I will work with you to develop your own power."

Sylvia was silent for a moment, nodded, agreed to Leo's proposal, and then said with a look of disgust: "What should I do with the scales on my neck now? uncomfortable."

Leo thought for a while, and said, "Isn't it just that I can imitate the magic of the Purifying Fire? In the Purifying Fire, there is a magic called expulsion that should be able to have some effect on the scales on your neck. You just have to When the power in the scales needs to be expelled, it can be absorbed back.”

Seeing that Leo had a solution, Sylvia immediately asked him to perform the spell.

Leo didn't cast the magic spell of the purifying fire immediately, but carefully recalled the relevant knowledge he had just obtained from the purifying fire in his mind, and after simulating it in his mind several times, he started to do it officially.

Suddenly there was a flame on Leo's palm. This flame felt very weak, but it made everyone who saw it feel that they were purified by the fire and became pure from the bottom of their hearts.

Afterwards, the color of the flame became darker. Leo brought the flame close to the scales on Sylvia's neck. A puff of black smoke immediately appeared from the scales and tried to escape, but was immediately blocked by another force. Attracted, it disappeared above Sylvia's head, and soon all the scales on Sylvia's neck disappeared.