The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Purifying Fire Church’s handling of the disaster-stricken principalities was as Leo expected. One part was to transfer all the troops belonging to the five principalities on the battlefield back to their respective countries and disband them as citizens. The other was to recruit people from other principalities. Fill the population vacancies of these teaching duchies.

As for the positions of officials and other positions in these principalities from various places, the clergy of the church are temporarily held, and the successors of the dukes of several principalities are also being selected for suitable candidates, but the power, interests, and political inclinations involved here, etc. It's really too complicated, and the candidates are not fuel-efficient. In addition, the church is consciously delaying the time. Therefore, within a year or two, it may be difficult to reach the final ownership of these principalities.

The troops conscripted by these principalities were immediately disbanded and sent back to various cities by carriages arranged by the church. When they saw that their families were all gone and their homes were destroyed, they were all sad Heartbroken, but fortunately the church had anticipated this long ago. When using church methods to appease these people, they also gave them a lot of promises, such as donating money to rebuild their homes, and finding them from other places. The arrival of new wives to form new families and so on temporarily calmed down these people's emotions.

On the other side, Penistan has been crying all afternoon. Leo has never faced such a situation before, so he can only hand her over to Sylvia to take care of her, while he finds Purifying Fire, who just served as a temporary political officer in the city. Church clergy, want him to issue a pass.

At noon, the first batch of townspeople who were recruited into the army had returned to the town where Penistan lived. From these people, she learned that her father died on the first day of the battle. On the battlefield, he did not die from the enemy's attack, but when he was carrying logistics supplies, he stepped on the ground, waved his hands wildly when he fell, and grabbed the slipknot of the rope used to bind the supplies, which eventually led to the death of the man tied to the vehicle. The material tilted down and was finally smashed to death by a large amount of material.

I have to say that this was a big blow to Penistan. When her father was recruited into the army, she was already mentally prepared that his father would die in battle one day, so her father's death made her sad. But it didn't make her so sad that she broke down emotionally. What really broke her down was that she felt that her father's death was too worthless. He didn't even kill a single enemy, but died by accident.

According to the teachings of the Purifying Fire, such a death method is absolutely impossible to become a Heroic Spirit in front of the God's Throne. It will only become the firewood at the bottom of the Purifying Fire, and will eventually be completely burned to ashes by the flames, disappearing between heaven and earth.

For some extremely devout believers, it is a supreme honor to be the fuel of the purifying fire, but Penistan doesn't think so now.

When Leo faced Penistan who was out of control and crying loudly, he did not inappropriately ask if the other party would like to leave with him, because in his opinion, there was no need to ask, so when issuing the pass, Leo also counted Penistan.

Due to wars, rat plagues, etc., there have been a large number of spies from the Otter Federation and some heretical secret organizations that have not been able to get on the table in the areas controlled by the Purifying Fire. Travel restrictions have been implemented, and one of the most important restrictions is that travel must have a pass issued by the church.

The travel mentioned here is not limited to the passage between the teaching principalities, even the passage between various towns and villages in the teaching principality requires a pass.

Although this method has brought great trouble to the people in the area where the rules are enforced, it has almost cut off the communication between these principalities and various towns, and only merchants will walk on the roads, but it is aimed at spies and However, the effect of the heretical organization was incomparably remarkable. Several relevant strongholds were destroyed in succession, and as many as hundreds of spies and heretics were captured.

If it was a normal period, it would be impossible for Leo to go directly to the town government to find the temporary mayor to issue a pass, but the patriarch had ordered the priest who took over as the town's temporary mayor before he left to let him Special attention was paid to Leo's various requests. Although Leo's identity was not stated, it was enough to make the priest have various associations, so Leo was able to easily get three passes.

This kind of pass is no different from ordinary certificates. It is a folded piece of paper with the name and function of the certificate, and the name of the issuer is written on one side, and the name of the user is written on the other. It looks extremely simple and easy to imitate. .

But in fact, after Leo got the certificate, he could feel the power of the purifying fire contained on the holy emblem of the Purifying Fire Church on the back of the certificate. It is impossible to imitate it, unless it is like Leo, who is not a senior priest of the Purifying Fire Church, but can use the gods and magic that only senior priests can use.

After getting the certificate, Leo did not go back immediately, but found a car dealership that was being rebuilt in the small town, and asked if there was a carriage that could go to Yodel City.

Yodel City is a small city on the border of the Principality of the Ruth Church. The ownership of this small city has been moving back and forth between the Principality of the Church of Russ and the adjacent Principality of the Church of Russ for a long time. The Principality of Sri Lanka seems to have won the support of a very powerful senior clergyman in the Purification Fire, and finally obtained the ownership of Yordle City. The dispute caused by the ownership of the small city was subsided, and it did not further evolve into a war. .

The reason. Such a small town will lead to contention between the two church duchies. It is entirely because there is the largest silver mine in the New World near this small town. Most of the silver mines are still hidden underground.

Yodel City is basically the same as most of the cities near the mines. Its builders were originally miners, and later turned into merchants who provided various services for the miners. Later, it gradually turned into a small town, and the Principality began to establish a formal The administrative organ of the Ruth Church has now become the most prosperous city in the Principality of Russ.

Also in order to make it easier to transport mined silver mines, Yodel City built an extremely spacious and strong road from the very beginning, which directly leads to the nearest port of Bekov, but later with the appearance of steam trains , The mine owners felt that this device could transport ore in a faster and cheaper way, so they jointly raised funds to build a railway to the city of Nice.

Leo's idea is to go to Yodel City to take a train. After arriving in Nice City, use the convenience of Nice City as a transportation hub in the middle of the New World map, transfer to St. Paulia Port, and then take a transoceanic ship here to go to the Old World.

It’s just that the idea was good, but the plan couldn’t keep up with the changes. The rat tide destroyed not only humans, but also all animals. The horses in the car dealership, like people, had no time to escape, and they all died in the rat tide. Only one The carriage is still well preserved.

The person in charge of inventorying the legacy of the car dealership suggested that Leo take a boat by water and take a boat from the ancient aqueduct of Yardi to Tisan. There is a material distribution center established by a church in the principality of Russ, where there should be a special trip to Yodel City carriage.

Leo followed the advice and went to the Yardi ancient aqueduct wharf in the suburbs. At this time, all kinds of materials transported by the church were transported from Tissan through this aqueduct. All the transport ships were reused by the church. And the ships of the locals who died were also confiscated by the church and requisitioned.

According to the normal situation, it is impossible for ordinary people to take these ships, but when Leo showed the magic of the pass and the purification fire, the originally difficult things became very simple, and the priests in charge of the pier immediately transported He copied a copy of the ship's travel form and gave it to Leo, saying that as long as Leo wanted to take the boat, he only had to check the departure time of the fleet returning to Yodel City on the schedule and come to the pier to board the boat.

After completing these chores, Leo returned to his residence in the small town. At this time, Penistan seemed to have recovered from his sadness, and her relationship with Sylvia seemed to have become much closer , unlike the previous period of time when there was always some estrangement.

Leo didn't ask what happened after he left. He just walked up to Penistan and asked, "You need to make a decision now? Do you plan to stay here, or leave with us?"

Penistan was silent for a moment, and asked, "If we leave, where are we going?"

"Go to the Old Continent." Leo replied.

Penistan was stunned after hearing this. She originally expected that after Leo and Sylvia left, they might just go for a walk in a few surrounding countries, and maybe go to some countries in the north, but she never thought of it The purpose of Leo and Silvia is to go to the Old Continent.

In her mind, the old continent is just a very vague concept. She just knows that people in the new continent come from the old continent. The old continent is very conservative, old, ignorant, and very chaotic. The chaos and evil deeds of those conservative countries led the oppressed people to migrate and settle in the New World.

Therefore, in Petunia's impression, the Old World is almost synonymous with evil, chaos and conservative, but now she learns from her teacher that the other party's destination is actually the Old World, which makes her not know what to do for a while. answer.

Seeing that Penistan didn't give an answer for a long time, Leo thought that the other party might not want to leave with him, so he said: "If you plan to stay, then I will give you the follow-up training method of psychic power in these two days. You can grope and train yourself, and what you can achieve in the end depends on yourself.”

Sylvia on the side seemed to see Penistan's current state, reached out and patted Leo's shoulder, and said, "I think she needs some time to think about it, she probably doesn't want to stay, we'd better let her Leave her alone for a while and let her seriously think about it for herself."

After listening to Sylvia's words, Leo nodded, and then led Sylvia out of the house to a small hill not far from the house.

Sylvia found a piece of grass and sat down, then patted the grass next to her, motioned for Leo to sit down too, and asked with some doubts: "I haven't really understood why you suddenly want to Accepting a student seems to be very different from your usual thinking."

"Because I know from the Karita Demon that I may be the last psychic in this world, but at this time a person with a very high psychic talent appears. There seems to be some kind of arrangement in the dark. I just Just follow the arrangement of fate." Leo explained seriously, then sighed, and said: "In addition, I also want to leave something, something that can prove how great the universe was once. A special power is naturally the most suitable proof."

Sylvia didn't say anything, just sat next to Leo, watching the sun slowly sinking.

Penistan didn't think too long. After nightfall, she found Leo and expressed her willingness to go to the Old Continent with Leo.

Regarding this, Leo didn't have any special emotions, and acted very ordinary, as if Penistan was just a local specialty that he took away with him by the way.

After Penistan made a decision, there was no need for Leo to stay here any longer. That night, he packed up with Sylvia and Penny and saluted, and went to the nearby Yardi Ancient Canal Wharf. Under the arrangement, the three of them boarded the convoy of transport ships heading to Yodel City in the middle of the night.

On the night of this day, a message was delivered from the Duchy of Russ to the main church of the Purifying Fire Church in the Holy Lord, and this news was sealed by special magic, and only the Pope could see it, and the Pope After seeing this news, I made a shocking news.

That is to order the commander-in-chief of the front-line Cleansing Fire Heresy Expeditionary Force to immediately stop the war, gather troops, and negotiate an armistice agreement with the Otter Federation, requiring them to withdraw all their troops to the nearest place within ten days no matter whether the final armistice agreement is negotiated or not. An apostolic duchy controlled by the Church of the Purifying Fire.

This news was not sent to the front line in secret, but sent directly through the channel of the Church Alliance. That is to say, when this order was issued, all the church countries that crusade against the Ott Federation knew that the Purifying Fire Church wanted to Retired.

This news is undoubtedly bad news for the Church Alliance. Although the Expeditionary Army of the Church of Purifying Fire does not account for a large proportion of the Army of the Church Alliance, the clergy of the Purifying Fire are an important logistics for the Church Alliance army.

Because not every church has a large number of clerics who can cast divine spells like the Church of Purifying Fire, and the divine spells performed by these clergymen are all divine spells that are extremely important to the morale of the army, such as boosting the morale of soldiers on the frontal battlefield. Brilliant spells, such as purification spells that can heal the wounded, etc., the withdrawal of these priests will definitely drop the morale of the coalition forces as a whole.

As a result, envoys from various church countries rushed to the Holy Lord's country to find out why the Purifying Fire Pope made this decision, and see if the Pope could withdraw this order.