The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"We have come here, and we will be able to get out of the mountain after another four days. How can we go back." A caravan executive expressed his eagerness while roasting the newly raised bonfire to dissipate the chill from his body. manner.

After setting up camp, Delkan and other instructors of the exchange team in the school city gathered the scholars in the team and the stewards of other caravans to discuss whether they should move forward or go back.

The reason why this discussion suddenly started was entirely because of the bad news brought by the heresy hunting team of the Justice Church they had rescued before. The heretics of the Son of the Virgin are gathering in the mountains in front of them, and it seems that some kind of large-scale Blasphemy ceremony, if the team continues to move forward, there may be a direct conflict with the Son of the Virgin.

The believers of the Son of the Virgin believe in a mysterious existence called the Holy Mother. Their teachings claim that the world is created by the Holy Mother, and all gods, whether they are true gods, evil gods, or other unknown mysterious existences are holy Sons of the Mother, the Divine Mother is the first and last God.

There is no doubt that such teachings have offended both the Church of the True God and the Evil God Organization, so even though there are many believers in the Son of the Virgin, almost all over the Old Continent, there has never been a core church church, nor a core church Organizations, and almost every sizable cult group of the Son of Mary will claim to be orthodox.

The Church of the Son of the Virgin in the Kingdom of Teresa is deeply rooted. Before the founding of the Kingdom of Teresa, they were already entrenched in these mountains. There are even rumors that the Kingdom of Teresa also received the Son of the Virgin As a price, the Kingdom of Teresa allowed the Son of the Virgin to hide in the kingdom.

The reason why there are such rumors is that the size of the underground church of the Son of Mary in the Kingdom of Teresa far exceeds that of the underground church of the Son of Mary in other parts of the mainland, and the Kingdom of Teresa is dedicated to suppressing the heresy of the underground church of the Son of Mary Very few, even if there are, most of them are thunderous and rainy.

In addition, the cultists of the Son of the Virgin often perform human sacrifices and blasphemy ceremonies in other regions, but the Son of the Virgin of the Kingdom of Teresa seldom conducts similar rituals, and even if they do, most of them do so in It is carried out in the mountains far away from the main town, and has minimal impact on the people in the town.

Therefore, ordinary people in the Kingdom of Teresa also have a set of solutions when encountering the Son of the Virgin performing some cult rituals. Conflict with the Son of the Virgin.

However, at the very beginning of the discussion, most of the people who participated in the meeting in the tent expressed their opposition to the proposal of going back.

A caravan guard captain also interjected at this time: "We have so many people that we don't need to be afraid of those cultists."

Many people nodded when they heard the words, and many scholars among them agreed.

Now there are more than 200 guards in the entire academy team, and many people in the caravan are qualified fighters. The overall combat power is already comparable to that of a small army. There is no possibility of losing in a head-on conflict with the Son of the Virgin.

"Servant Upson, can you describe the image of the high priest in those cultists again?" When everyone expressed that they were not afraid of those cultists and did not want to go back, Delkan suddenly spoke to a person next to him. The clergyman, who was covered in wounds and depressed, asked.

Just like the Church of Justice, although the Church of the Holy Heart also has the division of civil and military positions such as church knights and missionaries, in fact, most of the clergy of civil and military positions can be called, and almost all the clergy of the two churches wear armor , Picking up a weapon is a knight of the church, putting down a weapon and putting on a cassock, holding a scripture is a servant of God.

I saw this tall, powerful, but wearing a missionary cassock, who was a civil servant. After hearing the question, he forcibly pulled himself together, and then recounted what he had told Delkan and others before. over again.

At the beginning, everyone didn't pay much attention to the narration of this holy heart clergyman, but soon some people heard some clues, their faces changed from relaxed to serious, and the atmosphere in the tent also appeared a little bit. Change.

However, more people just heard how this holy heart cleric heroically led his heresy hunting team to break out of the siege surrounded by heretics, and in the end, he The clergy were surprised to be able to use the high-level magic of the light of purification. After all, in their opinion, most of the people who can perform this kind of magic are senior clergy at the bishop level, and the clergy in front of them preaching the robes of the servants of the gods Obviously not enough levels.

Different from everyone's doubts, Leo knew from the very beginning why this priest was able to cast that kind of high-level magic, because his mental net scanned the bodies of these heresy hunting teams the moment they appeared At the same time, he also scanned the items on their bodies, so he also found that this missionary servant was wearing a sacred weapon full of holy heart power.

The appearance of this holy vessel is very ordinary, it is a copper ornament with the sacred emblem of the holy heart on the waist, it looks rusty and mottled, very inconspicuous, but Leo can feel that there is something hidden in this item. Extremely strong divine power, this divine power is no less than the divine power contained in the body of the top clergyman like Sartos.

In other words, this missionary servant carried a top-level senior clergyman with him, and the light of purification he used should borrow the power of this holy artifact, but even so, using power beyond his control would still affect his body. He himself caused a great deal of damage. Although the trauma of this missionary servant looks extremely scary, in fact, his mental damage is the most serious. This has also led to his current listlessness. It's like they're going to faint.

After recounting their battle experience with the cultists, the spirit of the missionary servant finally couldn't hold on any longer, and he passed out protectively. Delta immediately sent him back to the tent to rest.

At this moment, Leo sent an instruction to Penny in his tent through telepathy, and then turned his attention back to the meeting.

Delkan said to everyone: "I think someone should be able to hear what's going on in front of them, right?"

Only a small part of the people in the tent nodded, indicating that they understood the meaning of Delkan’s culture, while most of the other people still looked at a blank look, and looked at the nodding people around them, as if asking them what they heard. something.

Seeing that there are still so many people with blank faces, the main mentor around Delkan stopped being a joke, and said directly: "The Son of the Virgin cultists in front are not the Son of the Virgin from the kingdom, they should have come from Famiang. Blasphemy."

Hearing these words, the people in the tent also understood what Leo meant, and at the same time, their faces became a little ugly, and they no longer expressed so much confidence in the protection capabilities of their teams as before.

The loose internal structure of the Son of the Virgin can help it avoid the church's demise due to the complete annihilation of the high-level clergy in the battle with the Church of True God, but at the same time, this loose church structure has also led to internal factions There are many factions, and among these factions, there are both moderate factions in the Kingdom of Teresa and radical factions like the Principality of Famiang.

In the recent period, among the major incidents that occurred in the surrounding area of ​​Theresa Kingdom, one incident was related to the blasphemy sect of the Son of the Virgin in the Principality of Famiang.

It is said that the blasphemy sect actually launched a large-scale blasphemy ceremony, defiled all the churches of the Church of the True God in a town in the Principality of Famiang, and transformed the clergy of the Church of the True God into heresy monsters, and then reflected it in the Church of the True God Previously, most of the ordinary townspeople who had been transformed into the Son of the Virgin escaped with them.

The Church of True God was extremely furious about this. It is said that a heresy hunting coalition has been formed to launch an all-round hunt for the Son of the Virgin. believers.

Almost everyone who pays attention to this incident can remember the characteristics of the blasphemous Son of the Virgin announced by the Church of True God, and these characteristics are very similar to those of the Son of the Virgin who are currently in the front, plus the servant of the holy heart clearly It means that those cultists are preparing for a large-scale sacrilege ceremony, which makes them think of some bad things, and realize that the cultists in front of them are the craziest kind.

Now in the minds of the people in the tent, going forward is basically out of consideration. They want to evacuate here as soon as possible to avoid being involved in the blasphemy ceremony of the Son of the Virgin.

"What about the kingdom? Could it be that the kingdom just sits and watches these cultists carry out blasphemy rituals within the kingdom?" Someone couldn't help asking.

The main instructor quickly replied: "I have just received the news that the Kingdom has dispatched the Third Army Corps nearby. It will arrive nearby in about a day and begin to cooperate with the Church of True God to encircle and suppress the Son of the Virgin cultists."

Everyone heard the news, and their nervous expressions improved a little bit, but they still didn't completely let go of their worries, because they were too close to the cultists at the moment, and if the battle to wipe out the cultists started, it was very likely that they would bump into the fleeing cultists At that time, those desperate cult members are very likely to make crazy moves.

After weighing the pros and cons, the discussion in the tent changed from moving forward, not afraid of those cultists, to returning to Dashu Town as soon as possible, and continuing on the road when it was safe here.

Although according to everyone's intention, they should break out of camp and go back immediately, but the outside world has become dark and the sky does not allow them to do so. Walking the mountain road in the dark is far more dangerous than facing a group of heretics.

As a result, this temporary overnight camp was transformed into a marching camp under the discussion of everyone. The tents of the guards were arranged on the outside, and those who did not have much combat power were arranged on the inside. Before dark, the erection of the warning bonfire was also completed, and it was lit to make the defense and warning as perfect as possible.

At the meeting, neither Leo nor Silvia made any suggestions, nor did they participate in the discussion. When they were discussing the arrangement of the camp in the middle of the meeting, they had already left.

When they returned to their tent, Penny was already waiting there. After seeing Leo, she handed the holy heart relic she got from the holy heart missionary servant to Leo.

Leo took the holy object, played with it, and then handed it back to Petunia, asking her to return the object to the servant of God.

"It seems that we have something to do tonight." After Penny left, Leo turned to Sylvia and said.

Sylvia was stunned, but soon realized something, and asked, "Is there something wrong with the missionary servant of the Holy Heart Church?"

Leo nodded, and then said curiously: "The Son of the Virgin is really interesting. Judging from the fact that they can imitate the gods and powers of other churches exactly, they claim that all the gods come from the Son of the Virgin. Not without basis."

"Isn't the divine power in that thing just now the divine power of the holy heart?" Sylvia was a little surprised and asked.

"No." Leo shook his head affirmatively. The reason why he was so sure was that he tried to absorb the divine power of the Holy Heart through his special physique just now and temporarily condensed a divine power imprint of the Holy Heart in his body, so as to analyze the power of the Holy Heart. The divine power of the heart, but what he condensed was not the divine power imprint of the holy heart at all, but another divine power imprint of the holy heart that was completely different and full of evil spirits.

The moment the imprint of divine power was condensed, Leo felt some unknown murmurs in his ears. This was not so much a sound as a kind of spiritual pollution. Even if he lost his hearing, he could still hear it. Moreover, the whispering voice is also full of mysterious allure, making people unknowingly produce some kind of mental distortion.

For ordinary people and even some priests, this kind of whispering is irresistible, but for Leo, this kind of whispering is just some noisy noise, and the power of other gods imprinted in the driving body suppresses it Afterwards, the murmuring disappeared completely.

Leo did not dispel the imprint of the divine power of the Son of the Virgin, but preserved it. He planned to try to analyze the mystery of the divine power of the Son of the Virgin when he had time, and see how the divine power of the Son of the Virgin imitated the divine power of other gods. So similar, because he felt the breath of nightmare power in this evil god's divine power.

Because of the divine imprint of the Son of the Virgin, coupled with the performance of the heresy hunting teams of the Holy Heart Church before, Leo can almost pretend that those people are definitely the heretics of the Son of the Virgin, and their target is likely to be the disciples in the team. The reason for this is to kidnap the scholars in the city, so that the Third Corps sent by the Kingdom of Teresa will be a threat to them.