The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Is this the temple of the Spirit of Knowledge? It's really strange." Sylvia took Leo's arm and moved forward with other people who came to visit the temple, while looking around at this unique place. religious sites.

The temple of the Spirit of Knowledge is not so much a religious place as it is more like a huge library. Huge bookshelves stand around the temple like stone tablets, piled up from the ground to the The ceiling and the floor are all polished with transparent crystals, and those who walk on it can clearly see the various ancient books neatly placed below.

"There's something wrong with the divine power of the Spirit of Knowledge." Although Leo didn't look around like Sylvia, his spiritual net had penetrated into the surroundings the moment he entered the Temple of the Spirit of Knowledge, and he looked at it in another way Here's the situation.

Sylvia was stunned when she heard the words, and followed Leo's reminder to perceive the divine power that filled this religious place, and a hint of doubt appeared on her face, and said: "This kind of divine power...seems...like is dead."

"I feel the same way." Leo nodded, agreed with Sylvia's description, looked around, and said, "It seems that we chose to come to the Temple of the Spirit of Knowledge was right."

Although Leo and Sylvia have lived here for almost a month, this is the first time they have entered the religious place in Cape West Harbor. The reason why they have been delayed for so long is because they are not ready yet. .

The Old Continent is a continent ruled by gods, not just a description, but actually ruled by gods.

There are a total of thirty-seven churches and temples established by different churches in Cape West, because Cape West is a port city that has a lot to do with the sea, and fourteen of the thirty-seven churches One belongs to the Gods of the Sea, and the other twenty-three are the twenty-three most powerful churches in the Old Continent. Although there are other churches, these churches are not qualified to build churches in the city. able to establish their religious sites in the outskirts of the city.

The sanctuaries and temples of these churches are just religious places in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Leo's eyes, these sanctuaries and temples are like huge torches lit with divine power, showing the own dignity.

If the divine power permeating the sanctuary of the New World Church is a pool of diluted water, then the divine power in the sanctuary and temple of the Old World Church is like a pool of paint filled with a single pigment, sticking Thick, dense.

Although these divine powers belonging to different gods are strong, they are very stable, and there is no repulsion or conflict with other divine powers. On the contrary, there is a subtle connection between them, that is, this subtle connection makes the divine powers of these gods connected When they came together, a divine law net was formed to envelop the entire Cape West Port and connect it with the laws of the gods of the entire continent.

Under the cover of this kind of divine law, everything in the Cape of the West is controlled by the gods or the church. Even if there are a lot of anti-power and anti-church organizations lurking here, it will not have any impact on the church, because in the church In the eyes of the high-level officials, the struggle between these forces and the secular dignitaries is like two groups of ants fighting on the ground. No matter how fierce the fighting is, it is impossible to harm the foundation of the church.

Leo and Sylvia felt the existence of the magic net the first time they came to Cape West Port, but they didn't know the function and power of the magic net, so they have been doing it for a month All kinds of temptations, until these few days, they did not come up with a result.

There are only two functions of these divine law nets, one is to support and the other is to suppress, and the support is to support the clergy at all levels in the various god churches that constitute the divine power law net to perform magic. Simply cast a variety of exclusive magic.

For example, in the New World, only high-level clergy can perform divine magic through some ceremonies held by the church. Here, ordinary clergy can easily perform it, and the process of performing it is simpler and can be repeated. Cast several times.

As for the suppression, it is aimed at the extraordinary power of all other non-god systems. For example, the power of Sylvia's abyssal dragon was suppressed very badly, and the final power of her power was weakened by at least one third.

The power in Leo's body is also suppressed, but his situation is much better than Sylvia's, because there are two kinds of power in his body that are not affected by the magic net, and he can also use a special method to make it This effect disappears.

Psychic energy is one of the two forces that are not affected by the divine power net. Although psionic power will still cause some adverse reactions due to the effect of divine power, for example, the perception sensitivity of the spiritual net will decrease, etc., but these are all It is an influence within the normal range, and it will also have the same effect when encountering other extraordinary powers. It does not directly produce a suppressing effect in the body before it is displayed like other powers.

As for another kind of power that is not affected by the divine power, it is beyond Leo's expectations. This power is the power of the divine imprint of the eye of truth in Leo's body, and what is interesting is that not only is it not affected, but Leo displays it like this When abilities such as spiritual vision involve the power of the eyes of truth, the ability will be strengthened.

Faced with this abnormal situation, the only explanation that Leo and Sylvia can think of is that the Eye of Truth has become a true god in this world, and there is also His divine power in the divine law net covering the entire Old Continent, so from a certain On the one hand, Leo, who possesses the imprint of the Eye of Truth, is like the favored person of the Eye of Truth, whose status far exceeds that of senior clergymen of other churches, so he can naturally benefit from the divine power.

However, this speculation was quickly denied by Leo, because if the Eye of Truth really became a true god in this world, then he should be able to sense the existence of the Eye of Truth immediately, but he is using his spirit He didn't feel anything when he looked at it, so the divine imprint of the Eye of Reality would have an immune effect on the divine power net. There must be a hidden reason that he hasn't discovered yet.

In addition to the two powers of psionic energy and the imprint of the power of the eyes of truth, which have natural immunity to the magic net, other forces in Leo's body can also make the suppression of the magic net disappear through special methods. This method is very simple. When it comes to strength, adding some power aura of the stone throne can temporarily invalidate the suppression of the divine law net.

Leo could vaguely feel that if he could use the power of the Stone Throne to attack the divine law net covering the Cape of the West Sea, the divine power net would inevitably be torn apart, and it might even affect the laws of the gods at a higher level, but it's a pity The power of the stone throne is still out of his control, and it is the limit of what he can do if he can mobilize a breath of power and create a phantom of the power of the stone throne.

Although the power of the Stone Throne cannot tear apart the Divine Law Net, Leo and Sylvia also thought of other weaknesses of the Divine Law Net. This weakness is those church temples and churches that are the cornerstone nodes of the Divine Power Net. In the process, only a certain number of temples and the divine power cores of the sanctuary need to be destroyed, and the divine power net will naturally be unable to maintain the balance of various divine powers. Mutual repulsion and impact will also cause the divine power net to be annihilated from the inside.

It's just that this is just conjecture and speculation, not a fact, and they haven't figured out the core of the divine power of each church temple and church, so before they can prove that the divine law net can be destroyed, they still need to find out the power of each church. The core of the divine power of the temple and the sanctuary, and after some selection, the temple of the spirit of knowledge became their first choice.

The reason why the church of the Spirit of Knowledge was chosen is not because the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge is a recognized moderate church, but because the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge is the only one among the churches of the gods in Cape Xiwangyang Port that even non-believers can enter Temple Church.

The open day of the Spirit of Knowledge Church every ten days will allow ordinary people who are not churches to enter the temple. appear less noticeable.

In fact, as Leo had imagined, there were quite a few visitors like the couple who were not believers in the Spirit of Knowledge, and there were some nobles among them, but most of them were scholars and curious ordinary people.

Those scholars who are not believers of the Spirit of Knowledge choose to come here on the open day because on the open day, all the books collected in the temple can be read by visitors at will, and some of these books are considered by other churches as Taboo, heretical books to be burned, all of which are now available to read, the allure for the most curious scholar.

Although Leo and Sylvia were also curious about the taboo books collected here, they did not forget what their business was here, so after entering the temple, they observed the surrounding situation for a while and walked directly to the temple. Located in the center of the temple, in front of the black cube representing the Spirit of Knowledge.

Different from those anthropomorphic statues erected in other church temples and churches, the statue of the Spirit of Knowledge is very simple, just a black cube, but also this black cube is not simple, because Leo found that this black cube is so regular that The craftsmanship of this world is absolutely impossible to manufacture. Only by reaching the technological level of an intermediate interstellar civilization can such a perfect cube be cut out with some special cutting devices.

Standing in front of the black cube, Leo made the spirit net mixed with the breath of the stone throne, to get rid of the influence of the surrounding gods and divine power, and scanned the black cube, and the result of the scan made him frown slightly.

"It doesn't seem to be?" Although Sylvia doesn't have a special ability like the spirit net, her own perception can still help her analyze the black cube in front of her, and the result she gets from the analysis is the same as Leo's.

Both Leo and Sylvia judged that the most likely object in the church's temple and the temple to be the core of divine power was the statue worshiped by believers, but now they found that the core of divine power in the temple of the Spirit of Knowledge Church was not a black cube.

Although the black cube also contains an extremely large amount of divine power, this divine power has nothing to do with the divine power net. It seems to be completely independent of the divine power system in the entire Temple of the Spirit of Knowledge, and among them There is also a huge difference between the divine power of the Spirit of Knowledge contained in it and the divine power of the Spirit of Knowledge permeating the temple. This difference is as huge as life and death.

The moment Leo and Sylvia entered the Temple of the Spirit of Knowledge, they immediately felt that the divine power in the Temple of the Spirit of Knowledge was very rigid, sluggish, without a trace of activity, like a pool of stagnant water. There is no response to the detection, even if Leo absorbs it into the body through the power of devouring, there is no rejection at all. What is even more peculiar is that after Leo absorbs the divine power into the body, it does not condense into the imprint of the god at all. Signs, as if what he absorbed was not the divine power of the gods.

On the other hand, the gods and gods in the black cube are very active. When Leo's spiritual net approaches, he will spontaneously counterattack and defend. Reaction, dispelling the devouring power, if it wasn't for the strong suppressing effect produced by the aura of the stone throne, perhaps the divine power of the black cube would cause a further counterattack, and such a fierce reaction is completely in line with Leo's and their respect for the divine power of the gods. cognition.

This weird situation caused Leo and Sylvia to ponder. After a while, Leo seemed to understand what was going on, and muttered to himself: "I understand what's going on?"

At this time, Sylvia also said the same: "I also understand what's going on?" She turned her head and asked, "Do you think it is possible for us to..."

"It's possible, but first we need to find the core of divine power." Leo nodded and said.

This kind of riddle-style conversation can be heard in the ears of other people around, and they can't understand what the two are saying at all, but the tacit understanding of the couple has made it possible for them to rely on a Eyes, a look to know each other's thoughts.

Just now, from the difference between the divine power of the gods in the Temple of the Spirit of Knowledge and the divine power of the black cube, they all thought of a possibility that might involve the mystery of the laws of the gods, that is, the laws of the gods are not controlled by one or more gods. It operates according to its own rules, and is an existence independent of, or even higher than, the gods, and the same is true of the divine law under the laws of the gods. As for the role played by the gods in it, it is only a provider of divine power and a user of the laws of the gods. Just like a recharge member of a certain type of resource.

Because of this, both Leo and Sylvia thought that they might be able to use some methods to bypass the gods, influence or even control the divine law net covering the port of Cape West. If it can be done, then they Perhaps there is no need to be too scruples about doing things in Cape Xiwangyang.