The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Di Garro has been the caretaker of the Rock Church in Nice City for ten years. During these ten years, he has changed from an ordinary church knight to the captain of the caretaker. In terms of the speed of promotion, it is not unpleasant.

However, Di Garro was not happy about it, because he didn't like Nice City from the very beginning, and he didn't want to come to Nice City to be a watchman captain. My hometown, the giant rock city in the northern polar region, the majestic city built out of mountains, the great city with lava as its river and wine like a fountain.

For so many years, he has always wanted to leave Nice and return to Giant Rock City, but no matter how many transfer requests he submitted, they were all rejected in the end without exception, because the manpower on the New World has never been very sufficient, especially There are very few magical knights like Digarro who can perform divine magic. If he leaves, there will be no suitable person to fill the vacancy caused by his departure, so he has never been able to transfer as he wished. Back to the old continent.

However, Di Garro was annoyed by this. He carefully analyzed his situation and finally found a way to allow him to return to his hometown reasonably and legally. Merit exchange rules, use enough merits to exchange transfer applications.

In the past two days, it was rumored that a thief was interested in the top stone of the Panshi Temple and wanted to steal it.

For the other guards and church knights who knew in the temple, this rumor is a joke that does not deserve any attention, because in their opinion, not to mention the divine power contained in the top stone, it is enough to deal with any opponents. For unruly people, the weight of the top stone alone can block most people's petty thoughts.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Panshi Church, there were churches that were hostile to the Panshi Church and sent people to destroy or steal the top stone. They wanted to use this to make the Panshi Church lose its reputation in the New World and prevent the Panshi Church from entering the New World.

As a result, without exception, those who tried to misbehave with the Heart Stone all ended in failure, and several of those who tried to break the Heart Stone were backlashed by the divine power in the Heart Stone, and were directly crushed into meat sauce .

Therefore, when the rumor that someone tried to steal the Topstone was passed on to the content of the Rock Church, not only did the Rock Church not send additional manpower to protect the Topstone, but even the clergy order that was supposed to keep vigil in the church to pray at night was also dispatched. There is only an empty sanctuary left here, allowing people to enter the sanctuary to steal.

It's just that Di Garro didn't regard this incident as a very ordinary incident like his colleagues, but regarded it as an opportunity to accumulate merit. As long as the thief was caught, he would be able to rely on this Merit plus the achievements accumulated over the past ten years will be exchanged for a transfer order.

So, every day in the sanctuary, after everyone else left, Di Garro still guarded in the sanctuary. In order not to scare off the thief, or if the thief saw that someone was guarding him and would not show up, he also hid himself in a dark place, and Various weapons including shotguns and crossbows are ready, and of course the large shield and war hammer that the Rock Knight should have are indispensable.

However, what made him extremely disappointed was that he squatted for two consecutive days, not only did not wait for the thief, but there was not even a shadow of a ghost, which made him suspect that the rumor might really be just a rumor.

"It's fine if there's no result today." Digaro, who was crouching behind a stone pillar, waved his hand to drive away the bugs that kept flying around him, and said to himself impatiently.

Just as he finished speaking, there was a sound from the door of the sanctuary, which sounded like a knock on the door.

This immediately alerted Di Garro, because almost everyone in Nice knows that the Rock Temple is closed to the public, especially at night, and even believers and congregants are not allowed to enter. It is impossible for anyone to enter at this time Knock on the door knowingly.

So this abnormal situation made him immediately think of the rumored thief, and this reckless behavior of knocking on the door, in his opinion, was actually a kind of temptation, to test whether there were other people in the church.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but clenched the crossbow and single-barreled shotgun in his hand, and tightened the black cloak on his body so that he could better hide in the shadow of the stone pillar. At the same time, he carefully moved his head to the Peep at the gate from the edge of the stone pillar.

After knocking on the door for a while, the people outside probably also confirmed that there was no one in the church, so they stopped. A man in knight armor squeezed out from the ventilation hole little by little, then nimbly moved to a nearby stone pillar, hugged the stone pillar, and slid down.

Because the opponent was wearing armor, when sliding down, the metal of the armor and the surface of the stone pillar rubbed against each other, making a loud and piercing sound, which spread throughout the entire interior of the Rock Temple, and continued to echo in the temple.

"This is the thief?" Di Garro was completely stunned at this moment, because the thief he identified was so different from the thief in his impression. In his opinion, a thief should steal as lightly as possible. , Don’t make any noise, even if you know there is no one in the house, you will still be cautious, but now this thief is completely careless, from knocking on the door to crawling in through the ventilation hole, all kinds of noises are too loud. Even people outside the church could hear it, no matter how you looked at it, it revealed a trace of weirdness.

Just when Digalo was puzzled, the figure went to the door again, apparently wanting to unlock the door and let the accomplices from outside come in, but he obviously underestimated the fineness of the door lock of the temple door. When I took it, I saw that the figure picked up the stone basin next to the door for washing hands, and smashed the door lock forcefully, and the commotion was even bigger than before.

And Di Garro, who witnessed this scene, was even more impulsive, and immediately rushed out to arrest the guy who broke the door lock of the temple, lest this guy damage other things in the temple, but he finally endured it, After all, there is no doubt that it is a greater merit to catch a man who broke the lock of the gate of the sanctuary than to catch a man who tried to steal the top stone.

After the man broke the lock and opened the door, two more figures came in. Because of the distance and the darkness, they couldn't see clearly, but judging from their clothes, they should be a man and a man. Female, wearing what looks like a normal travel outfit.

"The top stone is over there, are you going to take a look?" At this time, the guy in knight armor who came in first said, although the voice was not loud, but because the church was very empty, it spread very loudly. Far.

Di Garro also heard this sentence, and he immediately became excited. Obviously, this sentence proved his guess that the three people who broke into the sanctuary were thieves who came for the top stone.

Afterwards, one of the two people who came in later nodded, and seemed to agree with the proposal of the man in knight armor, so the group walked from the hall outside the church to the large chapel in the main hall.

At the moment when the three of them entered the chapel, DiGaro, who was hiding in the dark, also saw the appearance of the three clearly through the moonlight coming in from the roof window and the oil lamp light from the chandelier in the lobby.

"How could it be him?" The man and woman who came in behind were completely strangers to Di Gallo, but the knight who entered the gate first was someone he knew. After all, in the church of the Rock Church, no Not many people know Joan, the mad knight.

When Sir Capone returned to the church and brought a knight of the Order with a delusional heart, it was enough to attract attention, not to mention that this Knight of the Order with a delusional heart actually became Sir Capone's apprentice Paladin, It made everyone feel like they were listening to the joke of the year.

It has never happened in the history of religions in the world that a knight of a church becomes an apprentice of a paladin of another church. Many people wonder whether Sir Capone is crazy to do such an unreasonable thing. things.

But no matter how the outside world felt ridiculous about this incident, Sir Capone did not change his mind. He even used his status as a paladin to allocate a patrol team that originally belonged to the Knights of the Rock Church to that vain Joan. This naturally caused dissatisfaction within the Rock Church, but these dissatisfied people did not dare to show their dissatisfaction to Sir Capone, but they dared to vent their dissatisfaction on the false heart order knight body.

It's just that these dissatisfied people seemed to be dazzled by their anger, completely forgetting that the knights of the order came from the church made up of that lunatic in the false heart, so they were taught a lesson by the lunatic instead, and the lesson was very bad , there were three people who quit the Knights of the Church directly because of physical disabilities.

When this incident broke out, Di Gallo was not in the city of Nice, but was on a mission outside. When he came back, the matter had calmed down, and this Knight of the False Heart Order named Joan had already arrived. The patrol team, board and lodging are also in the patrol team, and rarely return to the church.

Although DiGaro did not fight Joan head-on, what Joan did in the patrol team afterwards, such as conflicts with his colleagues, provided DiGaro with some references. He asked himself if the two were fighting head-on If it is a battle, his chances of winning should be higher. If it is a life-and-death fight, then he will undoubtedly lose, but if he is given enough time to prepare weapons, then he should be able to become the final winner.

Some people in the church encouraged Di Gallo and Joan to fight once, in order to redeem the shame that the church knights of the entire Rock Temple were defeated by Jo Ann alone, but because the two had no intersection, and Di Garro was not the same People who like to take the initiative to provoke, so this matter will be over, and now Joan has become the thief's guide, which makes Di Garro feel that he may be able to fulfill the wishes of those colleagues this time.

On the other side, although Digalo hid very secretly and restrained his breathing as much as possible, when he was spying on Leo and Silvia, both of them felt the prying eyes immediately , but none of them showed any abnormalities, and they still followed Joan, who tried his best to introduce the Rock Temple, to the top stone like a tourist.

The two casually glanced at the huge church made of boulders. Although the building was extremely magnificent, it did not cause them too much surprise, because the interior decoration and architectural structure of the church , is almost exactly the same as the Megalithic Church of the Stone Throne in Miria City, the only difference is that some religious symbols are slightly different between the two.

In the megalithic church of Miria, there are a large number of sculptures of gargoyles and stone giants, which are the guardian family of the stone throne, and are also a magic material for the stone throne. This magic can be used to stimulate these stone statues when necessary Ghosts and Golems fend off incoming enemies.

However, the present Rock Temple does not have these statues at all. They are all rough and simple stone pillars, but at the junction of the top of the stone pillars and the dome, a row of Cyclops with many arms is carved. These Cyclops are all Kneeling, and carrying the dome of the church, symbolizes surrender and service.

It is mentioned in the classics of the Rock Church that when the Lord of Stone they believed in first appeared, there was a group of multi-armed cyclops who fought against it. Later, these cyclops were defeated by the Lord of Stone and surrendered to the Lord of Stone. The power of the Lord has become its family members. Until now, in the headquarters of the Rock Church in the Old World, there are still some church powers composed of multi-armed cyclops.

Right now, these multi-armed cyclops carved at the junction of the stone pillar and the dome cannot become alive like the gargoyle in the Miria megalithic church, but it has some special powers that belong to the solitary giant. The people in the temple have some obvious influences. For example, under this kind of power, the knights of the Rock Church may have some magical abilities, while those who are not members of the Rock Church will be greatly suppressed.

Although Leo has never experienced how strong the power in those Cyclops statues is, he has already tested it with the spiritual net, but there is no gain, because his spiritual net was surrounded by the power of the temple just after leaving his body. After being washed away, it is clear that there is not only one power in this temple, and there are many powers and traps hidden here.

However, both Leo and Sylvia were brave people with high skills, and they didn't care about these hidden powers at all. Their focus quickly fell from the surrounding situation to the thing called the top stone suspended in the air.

I saw that this top center stone was square and looked like a stone tablet. There were more than a dozen ropes that bound him and suspended him in the air. A hole was dug out of the heart, and a fist-sized gemstone was placed in the hole. In addition, on the back of the stone tablet were some strange words like prayers, which looked very complicated.

Although neither Leo nor Sylvia are stone experts, they were able to immediately see that this core stone is not a stone at all, but a part of a mysterious existence or flesh and blood, because whether it is Leo , or Sylvia felt the suppression of the high-level blood from a higher-ranking person in this crest stone.