The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Pfft!" Ambert's words made Sylvia couldn't help laughing out loud.

Seeing Sylvia's reaction, Ambot frowned, and then asked calmly, "Excuse me, is there anything wrong with my words?"

"Of course not." Sylvia said bluntly: "No matter how attractive the mystery in front of you is, the desire for power will not diminish, it will only expand. Even ordinary people know that the greater the power, the more resources they can get. The more there are, the more mysteries you can come into contact with. Could it be that the life in the inner circle who claims to be the smartest in the world doesn't understand such an obvious truth?"

Ambert was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to refute Sylvia. In fact, he couldn't refute, because what he said just now was just that he wanted to make a kind of inner circle. After all, if the actual situation of the inner circle is revealed, maybe the other party will have some bad thoughts, and even affect his real purpose of coming here.

At this moment, Leo eased Ambott's embarrassment and said, "I hope you can tell us the actual situation of the inner circle, so that we can make mental preparations in advance to avoid any misunderstandings."

Hearing what Leo said, Ambert pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't intend to tell the two of these things, after all, these things will affect your sense of the inner circle, and will also cause problems. Some unnecessary misunderstandings, so I plan to wait for the two of you to become full members, go to the furnace, and find out these things by yourself, then maybe it will be easier for the two of you to accept. However, now that the two of you have thought of these issues, tell me now You two won’t have too much of a problem if you think about it.” After speaking, his expression turned serious, and he said in a deep voice: “As Sylvia said, power is related to resources, and it is also related to the mysteries that can be accessed. How many, so the struggle for power in the inner circle is not much worse than their research on various mysteries. The products of power games such as conspiracy, assassination, and slander are not less, or even more, in the inner circle. After all, once people If you have obtained it for a long time, and you have no fear of death, then you will have no worries in doing things, and the methods will also be much more intense."

Leo and Sylvia didn't show anything when they heard Ambott's words, and their expressions were very calm, as if what Ambott said was just daily trivial matters.

In fact, the two of them have already speculated about the factional struggle within the Transcendence Organization. After all, judging from the various words and phrases they have obtained about the Transcendence Organization, there are at least three factions fighting each other within this organization. , because Joan and Penny were attacked by three different types of people during the time they were out. Burt Fitz may also have left behind some of them. With Rupert Fitz's ability to create trouble and turmoil, it is impossible to calm down within the detachment organization.

Leo said in a deep voice: "If you can, tell us about the main factions within the inner circle, especially the faction you belong to."

After hearing this, Ambott thought for a while and said: "There are many factions in the core circle, except for a few academic towers who concentrate on research and don't care about foreign affairs, but the other core members mainly fall into three categories, the most primitive detachment faction, the most radical Transformation faction and the largest number of Ascendants, your student Joan Paladin is one of the products of the faction of Ascendants."

"Tell me specifically." Sylvia said with an interested expression.

Afterwards, Ambot gave a detailed explanation of the three major factions in the inner circle. Although what he said sounded very objective, as if he was speaking fairly about each faction from the standpoint of a neutral person, Leo and Xi Sylvia could still tell from the inclination of his tone that he was more inclined to the detached faction, which meant that he should belong to this kind of faction.

The reason why these factions are called classes, rather than individuals, is because these three types of factions are just the integration of various factions in the inner circle. In fact, there are more than 20 factions, large and small, in the inner circle. After so many years of development, plus the annexation and integration of other underground organizations, and these underground organizations have integrated their ideas into the detachment organizations, so that there are many factions within the detachment organization, and even the number of factions in the inner circle is smaller than that of the inner circle. There are still many factions, which may be related to the fact that some people in the inner circle have almost immortality, and almost every such person has a faction of their own.

The first one introduced by Ambott was the God-climbing faction. This kind of faction not only has the largest number of people in the inner circle, but also has the most members outside the inner circle. It almost occupies the core circle, inner circle, outer circle, etc. More than 70% of the total number of members.

Just like its name, the ultimate goal of this type of faction is to become a powerful life like a god. In fact, from this point of view, the ultimate goal of the gods and psykers is similar, both to evolve into a higher life form, but There are almost essential differences in the implementation process of the two.

Psykers use psychic energy to continuously promote physical evolution and transformation, and finally complete self-evolution, and all members of the Godsmen faction from the very beginning have their goal of using external forces to promote a complete transformation of their life forms.

In order to achieve the ultimate goal, the gods have tried all kinds of methods, and even began to use the method of offering sacrifices to evil gods, etc. In the end, there are only two methods left, one is the method of belief, and the other is seed method.

As the name implies, the belief method is to believe in a certain god, use the divine power of the god to complete one's own transformation, and finally obtain the blessing of the god to become a demigod, or even an existence like a god. This method sounds no different from religion, but in reality Those who use the Law of Faith in the Ascended God faction are the most devout blasphemers, and their so-called belief is nothing more than a deception against the gods.

The specific method is very simple: a belief organ is implanted in the brain through a special operation, which can also be called a belief seed. He is the worst blasphemer, he will still be the most devout believer in front of the gods, and he can also obtain the blessings of the gods that only the most devout believers have in religious ceremonies.

When Ambott talked about this, he didn't seem to have any scruples. He mentioned several popes, archbishops, and even high priests of the Church of True God and heretic organizations of evil gods. There are also some acquaintances that Leo and Sylvia knew.

Another type of members of the gods who implement the seed method is to use the flesh and blood seeds made from the remains of the gods to allow the seeds to assimilate their own flesh and blood, and finally achieve the purpose of incarnation into gods. This method is the method of making faith seeds through the law of faith It is a kind of faction that has been improved, and they have produced a large number of such gods and flesh seeds a long time ago and implanted them in the experimenters they selected, and finally they were able to complete the first step of transformation without any abnormalities There were less than ten experimenters, and Joan and Barbarisa were the two most successful.

After Joan disappeared, people from this faction were the ones who were most anxious, and they sent someone to notify Leo as soon as possible. What's interesting is that the people who proposed that Leo and Sylvia join the inner circle also came from this faction. Their main purpose is to use this method to draw Leo and Sylvia into them, and cooperate with each other in the study of Joan's implant.

As for why they didn't use force to deal with this matter, except because Joann resisted very fiercely, they were worried that using too strong means would cause Joann to adopt the drastic means of dying together, and then they would lack the most perfect research object Yes, there is another main reason because they are full of concerns about Leo and Sylvia. This concern does not come from the Belmont family and Theresa royal family who have a complicated relationship with Sylvia, nor is it that Leo is in The status and prestige of the academic city is mainly because they already know that the fallen sea god Daru died at the hands of Leo and Silvia, and the power of the two godslayers is the main reason for their low profile.

What's interesting is that when Ambert made it clear that he knew about Leo's killing of gods, he seemed very calm. This kind of calm was not the kind of pretended calm, but real calm, as if in his opinion, killing the gods This incident is not a strange thing, not to mention that the so-called god is not worthy of its name.

Leo was suspicious of this, so he directly asked a related question, and Ambott's answer was that there were more than one remains of the gods in the hands of the inner circle of the god-climbing faction, and some of the remains came from some ancient gods. The battlefield of the gods, and some of the remains were directly obtained by killing the gods. As for how they killed the gods, he didn't go into details, but just told Leo and others to join the inner circle and he would naturally know.

Although Ambott himself is not a member of the God-climbing faction, he admires the God-climbing faction very much. He thinks that they are definitely the people with the most pioneering thinking and research spirit in the organization. The faction may become the only faction in the inner circle of the organization.

After talking about the faction of the ascendant, he quickly mentioned the faction of transformation, and when describing the faction of transformation, his tone became a bit abnormal, full of contempt and disdain, and he used hints in his words He thinks that the transformation faction is a group of disgusting guys, but even so he mentioned that if Leo really wants to study the various magical tools and equipment left over from the starry sky, then joining this type of faction will be his best choice.

The metamorphosis faction is different from the god-climbing faction. The metamorphosis faction appeared very early, and the metamorphosis faction appeared shortly after the formation of the Transcendence Organization. The creators and users of the few ruins are not humans, but some unknown strange races.

Compared with human remains that are rarely found in human remains, the remains and corpses of those races can be found in many of the starry sky ruins of those strange races, and even after so many years, many of those remains and corpses are still intact. The activity is maintained, and the most important point is that the equipment in those ruins is also better than the equipment in human ruins, not only better preserved, but also better in use.

The key point that finally led to the formation of the metamorphosis faction was that a member of the organization called the Forerunner found a learning device in the remains of a strange race, and magically activated that device, and he was also the first to pass The person who learned the knowledge of the strange race civilization from that device.

Afterwards, those who joined the metamorphosis faction would accept the knowledge instilled by the device called the enlightener, and through the instilled knowledge, they would be able to master the tools of the starry sky ruins more easily than other people in the organization.

If it is just learning knowledge, it will not make Ambott particularly disgusted. The real reason for Ambott's disgust is that the metamorphosis faction believes that the human body is a fragile and negligent product. If you want to return to the starry sky , then a body must be replaced, and the best bodies are those of those weird races.

That's why almost all the metamorphosis faction people will take the initiative to accept the implanted seeds made from the bodies of those weird races, let their bodies mutate under the influence of the seeds, and eventually mutate into the appearance of those weird races they worship, and because they have mastered The relics have the most equipment resources, so they also occupied the holy land of the organization through their own affairs, and transformed it into a special resident of the metamorphosis faction.

Hearing this, Leo and Sylvia looked at each other. Obviously, the member of the inner circle that mutated into an alien and died in their hands, and the subspace plane that Penny and the others inadvertently broke into came from In the metamorphosis faction.

"Does the metamorphosis faction also have that kind of immortality?" Sylvia suddenly thought of something and asked.

"Of course not." Ambert shook his head and said, "As long as the seeds are implanted, they will not be able to gain the ability to live forever, regardless of the transformation faction or the god-climbing faction. Only the primitivism of our detached people who have perfect eternal life.”

Maybe it was because he felt extremely disgusted just mentioning the transformation faction, or maybe he had some concerns in his heart. After he briefly talked about the situation of the transformation faction, he turned to describe the situation about the detachment faction.

The detachment faction appeared after the establishment of the detachment organization, almost as old as the organization, and most of the members of the detachment faction are the descendants of the original founder of the organization, or even himself, and the establishment purpose of the detachment faction is very simple, It is to bring human beings back to the starry sky, which is consistent with the original purpose of the Transcendence Organization.

If calculated by the total amount of resources, the Ascendant faction has the most resources, but if it is allocated to individuals, then the resources held by each member of the Transcendence faction exceed the resources held by other faction members. times, even ten times.

Another most important point is that the Transcendence faction has mastered the immortality device, and at the same time mastered the technology of stealing the divine power of the gods.

And hearing this, Leo couldn't help but think of the gods' law net covering the entire Old Continent.