The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The urban area where the Holy Prayer House is located was originally called the New Municipal District. It was originally the relocation site of the municipal district formulated during the third expansion of the Cape West Port. However, and in order not to affect the municipal management, various departments of the City Hall Both the office and the office were relocated while the urban area was still under construction.

When half of the urban area was built, and one-third of the municipal offices, such as the tax department, etc. were relocated, a strange thing happened. There are no rules.

At first, those municipal officials didn't take it seriously, they just thought that their bodies hadn't adapted to the new environment. It was only when several high-ranking officials died of continuous illness that they realized something was wrong, and some departments tried to The office location was relocated back to its original location.

As a result, a surprising thing happened. The public officials who had been sick all recovered quickly and did not get sick again for several months, while those who were still working in the new urban area were still suffering from constant pain.

After discovering this, the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of Xiwangyangjiao Port realized that there was a problem with the new municipal city they had demarcated, so they commissioned the church to investigate.

What is puzzling is that even though the church investigation did not find any abnormalities, the things that caused the pain still existed, so this urban area was left idle by the port city hall, and the city hall redefined an area as a The relocation site for the new town hall district.

Later, the church wanted to build a Holy Prayer House here, and the city hall set aside a special area on the outskirts of the city for this purpose. However, the dean of the Holy Prayer House at that time felt that it was too far away from the city, which would not be conducive to the study of the Holy Prayer House. Workers and apprentices get in touch with society and understand believers.

When re-selecting the site, the dean of the Holy Prayer House quickly took a fancy to the idle cursed land that was surrounded by the urban area at that time, and after understanding the situation, he believed that this curse was not a bad thing, but could help the holy land. The house of prayer tests the piety of the clergyman's apprentice.

At the insistence of the dean of the House of Prayer, the House of Prayer in Cape West Harbor was built in this cursed area. Even in order to save costs, the original city hall building was not demolished and rebuilt. Instead, it was directly used by the Holy Prayer House, so on some college buildings of the Holy Prayer House, you can also see special reliefs that only exist in certain departments of the city hall, such as the Goddess of Wealth who is blindfolded and holding gold coins in the tax department picture.

After the completion of the Holy Prayer House, several churches built temples and churches around the Holy Prayer House one after another, making more than half of the urban area a church building complex, so the official name of this urban area is It became a temple area.

Leo's carriage first passed through the Gate of Justice built by the Justice Church, then walked through the Gold Coin Avenue of the Fortune Church, and then circled around the Fruit Square of the Harvest Church before stopping at the entrance gate of the Holy Prayer House.

The campus of the Holy Prayer House is not open to the public, and the carriage can only be parked outside. Leo got off the carriage and came to the foyer next to the entrance. He showed the badge of his college lecturer to the gatekeeper at the door, and said: " I'm Leo Dodd, a lecturer at the college, and I have something to ask Mr. Stave, the president of the Amazing Continent magazine, and the people from the magazine said that Mr. Stave is in the Holy Prayer House at the moment."

"You wait." The gatekeeper looked at the lecturer badge in Leo's hand, then motioned for Leo to wait a while, turned around and entered a small room inside the hall, and walked out after a while, signaling to the church guarding the door The knight opened the door, and said to Leo: "Mr. Staff is in the dean's office now, you can go there to find him! If you don't know the way, we can send someone to lead you there."

Leo refused: "No need! I can just take this opportunity to visit the campus of the Holy Prayer House. Are there any taboos here?"

The gatekeeper didn't care about what Leo said about visiting the park, but just reminded Leo: "Basically there are no taboos, but if there are church knights blocking it, you'd better not force your way in."

Hearing this, Leo nodded, then stepped into the park.

Although Leo had scanned the park several times through the Spirit Net before, and his familiarity far surpassed most of the clergy who lived in the park all year round, but because of the interference of the gods and divine power, the scan of the Spirit Net could not be done. To the smallest detail, such as the power of the curse that hangs over this area.

The churches of gods entrusted by the city hall could not solve the curse power contained in this area, and the Holy Prayer House could not solve this matter either. Not long after entering the park, Leo felt a strong erosion effect around him. The power is silently penetrating into his body.

This power is not so much the power of the evil curse, but rather the power of the cursed gods, because when this power penetrates into Leo's body, it will immediately begin to automatically appear in Leo's body because of Leo's special physique. Some unknowns gathered in the body, forming an indistinct imprint of the gods.

Leo didn't know which god this imprint of the gods corresponded to, but he could know two things from this imprint of the gods that might never be formed. The first thing was that the imprint of the gods represented the source of the plague, and the second The thing is that the god who held the source of the plague is dead.

The reason why this kind of plague power appeared in this place is probably because the blood and body of the plague god fell here, polluting this place.

This is why the church cannot solve this cursed land, because unless the divine power of the plague that has penetrated into this place is completely dispelled by the divine descending technique, the clerics' dispelling divine power alone cannot deal with this divine power. Anything that causes any impact is more likely to have the opposite effect of adding fuel to the fire.

The dean of the Holy Prayer House obviously knew what the curse power of this place was, so he insisted on building the Holy Prayer House here. For the clergy apprentices who study, it will only play a supporting role. Under the stimulation of receiving this kind of divine power all the year round, the clergy who study here will be more sensitive to divine power than those who study in other regions, and it is easier to accept it. When the gods reveal the magic, get the magic bestowed by the gods.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. While these clergy apprentices are repeatedly stimulated by the divine power of the plague, they will also fall ill under the influence of the divine power just like ordinary people. Incense to disperse diseases, hang incense burners in various places of the Holy Prayer House, and burn them all year round, which also makes the Holy Prayer House shrouded in smoke all the year round. Over time, it also has the elegant name of fog garden.

Knowing that the park is surrounded by smog all the year round, the road signs guiding the roads in the park are very eye-catching, and the words on the road signs can be seen clearly from far away, and there is absolutely no possibility of mistaking the place.

After Leo entered the park, he didn't immediately go to the main building where the dean's office was located, but went to the prayer hall of the Holy Prayer House, which was completely opposite to the main building.

The prayer hall is a place where priests who want to determine their faith direction provide inspiration and prayer. The priests who studied in the hall of prayer did not know which main god they wanted to believe in at first, until after a series of strict church After studying theology and testing their beliefs, they will come to the prayer hall for enlightenment prayers. Here they will generally receive the revelation of the gods corresponding to their beliefs, and then become the priests of this god.

But not every clergyman apprentice can obtain divine revelation, and those clergyman apprentices who have not received the revelation have another chance to obtain revelation, that is, after they decide which church to join, there will be arrangements within the church. A revelation prayer.

If the enlightenment is obtained during this revelation prayer, then that apprentice clergyman can also successfully become a clergyman of that church, otherwise the apprentice clergyman must become an ascetic and wear rags that beggars would wear , with bare feet, went to different church temples in an ascetic way to perform self-enlightenment rituals.

This ascetic cannot escape from asceticism until he obtains the revelation of a certain god, otherwise he must continue to practice asceticism until he dies.

When Leo was scanning the entire park with the spiritual network, only the prayer hall could not penetrate his spiritual network through any method. It was not because of the powerful power here, but because the gods and divine powers contained in this prayer hall were too complicated. That's right, the divine power contained here almost covers the divine power of all the main gods of the church in the entire continent.

Leo took this opportunity to go to the prayer hall, just to see if he could try his luck, capture a few divine powers, use the particularity of his body to create a temporary imprint of the gods, and pry into some secrets of the corresponding gods , and then dispel it to prevent the gods from tracking him back through the imprint.

When he came to the prayer hall, there were already dozens of clergy apprentices from the Holy Prayer House trying to obtain divine inspiration. Instead of reciting specific prayers for the gods, they read the Holy Prayer House and various churches. The Great Prayer formulated jointly.

This kind of big prayer is very simple, there are only ten prayers in total, and the content is to praise the greatness of the gods. Because this prayer is common to all churches of gods, ordinary people, as long as they are not devout believers of a certain god, Use this prayer only when attending a religious service at a church.

What's more interesting is that not only ordinary people use this prayer, but even some heretics who believe in evil gods will use this prayer in their own blasphemy ceremonies, because this prayer is also applicable to evil gods.

Although there are church knights from different churches guarding the hall, other people are not prohibited from entering. Any clergy apprentice can enter the prayer hall to pray, and people like Leo, who are obviously not clergy, will not Be blocked, just before he goes in, remind him not to disturb other people's prayers.

After entering the prayer hall, Leo found a random corner to sit down, and then tried to use the spiritual network to investigate the situation in the hall. As a result, just like the situation encountered by the spiritual network before, the complex and chaotic divine power shrouded in the hall was like Like an invisible storm of divine power, it easily shreds and disperses the spiritual net that is trying to infiltrate.

Leo tried several times afterwards, and after confirming that the spirit net could not scan the hall, he could only use his own supernatural perception to perceive the traces of the existence of the divine power in the hall.

This is not a difficult thing for Leo, he can easily perceive the surrounding divine power, but the problem is that he wants to extract a kind of divine power from the surrounding divine power, extradite it into the body, and form a temporary divine power Imprinting is a bit more difficult, because these divine powers are like a tangled mess, it is difficult to extract a pure divine power without being affected by other divine powers.

After several failed attempts, Leo could only find another way, and the way he was looking for was also very simple, that is to snatch it from other people.

Although he himself cannot obtain divine revelation through prayer, other priests around him can. He just needs to intercept and snatch the divine power that produces the revelation before it descends on the priest.

Although the method is simple, it is somewhat difficult to do, and it needs not to cause the backlash of these divine powers in the prayer hall. Even if Leo was dedicated, he still succeeded in grabbing a revelation divine power after more than a dozen failures. The priest apprentice who was robbed was at a loss, because he clearly felt that he had received the revelation of a certain god, but the follow-up reaction after the change did not appear, and he did not know which god responded In the end, I can only think that the feeling of enlightenment is just my own illusion.

As for Leo, after intercepting the divine power of revelation, he tried to integrate into his body, but after the divine power entered his body, he did not form a vague imprint of the gods in his body, but automatically integrated into the imprint of divine punishment in Leo's body Among them, he became a part of it, and the mark of divine punishment passed to Leo relevant information as if it had been activated.

The mark of divine punishment in Leo's body originated from the Lord of the Birth and Extinction of All Things. It was a mark of the gods that he had inadvertently obtained after seeing the battle of the gods. It's just that he has been unable to use this mark of the gods for so many years. , as if the power of this imprint was completely insulated from him, until the divine power of revelation was poured into it just now, this imprint of the gods began to respond.

After Leo integrated the information sent by the imprint of the gods, he understood that the imprint was not so much the imprint of the gods, but rather the imprint of magic, because this imprint was a god of punishment used by the Lord of the birth and death of all things. spell, and the reason why it was activated was entirely because the divine power of revelation he absorbed coincided with certain divine power fluctuations of the imprint of divine magic.

The divine power of that revelation comes from the righteousness of the Lord God of the Justice Church. According to the teachings of the Justice Church, the Lord God’s justice represents the justice of this world, and the church is also the secular substitute for justice. Some divine punishment, so the will of punishment and punishment is contained in the divine power of justice, which happens to resonate with the imprint of divine punishment and divine art, thus inspiring this imprint of divine art that has been sealed for a long time.