The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After reading the research materials about the Primordial God, Leo's understanding of the Primordial God has not changed much compared to before reading, but his basic cognition of the Primordial God has changed a lot. Before reading the materials, he thought that the God of Beginning was some kind of extraordinary life like other gods in this world, but now he thought that the so-called God of Beginning was more like a concept rather than a deity that actually pointed to it.

The reason why Leo has such a subversive change in the basic cognition of the original god is that all the research materials about the original god do not have a unified description of the original god.

Among these materials, most of them are folklore, and in these folklore, there are more than ten kinds of images of the primordial god, among which the most widely mentioned is a group of flames, which will kill people when they are lost. Time will appear to guide the lost to find the right path.

In the classics of other underground churches, there are more images of the God of the Beginning, such as a giant like a mountain, such as a ray of sunshine passing through the woods, etc. All in all, after reading these materials, it will make people feel that the Middle Kingdom region Every plant and tree in the world is the incarnation of the god of the beginning.

In addition to the fact that the original god does not have a unified form, there is no conclusion about whether the original god exists.

In a material that can be regarded as a heretical book, it records a lot of things about the God of the Beginning in the Middle Kingdom, and also records a lot of things in the Middle Kingdom. It looks like the ancient books of the Church of the God of the Beginning.

According to the description in this book, the Primordial God is the first self-produced god in this world. He is in charge of everything in this world and is also the incarnation of the world. After his death, his body and soul turned into countless gods, kind and just. Part became the true god, and the evil and cruel part became the evil god.

When the God of the Beginning ruled the world, humans gained wisdom and created the first kingdom, which is also the origin of all kingdoms, and the place where this kingdom is located is the current Middle Kingdom area, and because of the reputation of this kingdom As a result, the previous name of this plain has been forgotten, replaced by the name of the current Middle Kingdom region.

Although in Leo's opinion, the credibility of more than 90% of the content in this book is almost zero, there are still many contents that may be true, such as the first kingdom that appeared on this plain, and the central kingdom. The origin of the name of the kingdom area.

Because it is also recorded in the books he read from the City of Academics and Belmont Castle that the Middle Kingdom region was the first region in the world where a kingdom regime appeared. As for the size of that kingdom, there is no conclusion yet, but most scholars believe that The original kingdom should not be very big, equivalent to a medium-sized town now, and it existed for a very short time, maybe only a few years.

No matter how large the kingdom is or how long it has existed, its status in history will not be affected. The kingdoms that appear later are basically replicas of this kingdom, so there is no problem in calling it the Middle Kingdom.

In addition, in addition to the highly credible description of the Middle Kingdom in that book, the statement that the God of the Beginning is the first self-produced god in this world is also quite credible, at least in Leo's opinion. Faithful.

Because after careful study of the relevant content, it is not difficult to find that the person who wrote this book actually played a trick on the text, and it is difficult to find the clue if you don't think carefully.

The key point of this little trick is the first god that is self-produced. In layman’s terms, the God of Beginning is the first god conceived in this world, while other gods are likely to be foreign and cannot be regarded as The first god conceived in this world.

Although there is no evidence to prove this, the possibility is not impossible, especially in this special world where outsiders dominate and may fall into the abyss at any time, it should be very difficult to conceive a natural god through natural methods.

Moreover, the statement that the body and soul of the original god gave birth to other gods in this world after the death of the original god, Leo also thinks it is very credible, but this other god has to be changed to other natural gods.

The reason why Leo thinks so is entirely because he has evidence, and this evidence is the source of divinity left over after killing Daru, one of the sea gods. Based on Leo's research on this source of divinity, this divinity If the origin falls into a certain corner of the world, one day it will be absorbed by a certain creature in this world and evolve into a natural god, just like its predecessor Daru.

This characteristic of immortality and birth of gods fits perfectly with the description in this book about the body and soul of a new god after the death of the first god.

It's just that after learning about the situation of the Primordial God, Leo felt a little confused, because if he analyzed the details according to what he knew, then the Primordial God here should have nothing to do with the Stone Throne, and naturally it is impossible to produce The spar that could affect the Stone Throne obviously didn't match his previous guess.

After reading all the information, Leo did not continue to stay in the hotel, but left the hotel directly, rented a horse at the hotel station, and then left the town on horseback, heading towards the legendary God of the Beginning The ruins of the sanctuary rushed over.

According to the many records that Leo has seen, there are only three remains of the Sanctuary of the Primordial God that can be seen now, of which there are two in the southern forest, and the remaining one is located in the stone forest in the northwest of the Barbarisa territory. , according to the walking speed of ordinary people, it takes about a day to reach the stone forest from the Barbarisa territory, but if you ride a horse, the time will be much shorter, and you can reach it in less than half a day.

The original sanctuary located in the stone forest is not the first sanctuary of the God of Knowledge, but according to the book, that sanctuary is the largest sanctuary. By measuring the ruins of the ruins that can still be seen , it is basically certain that the area covered by this sanctuary is basically comparable to that of Xiaocheng, which is home to 100,000 people.

From this, it can also be determined that this should be the main missionary site of the Church of the Primordial God. If there is any place where more information about the Primordial God can be found, then this should be the best place, compared to when the Primordial God first appeared. In the cave, it is much better.

Leo left overnight, and it was just dawn when he arrived at the ruins of the original sanctuary. He repaired in a small town outside the sanctuary, and then went to the sanctuary to collect clues.

Almost all the ground parts of the sanctuary ruins have been evacuated, and the bricks and stones used to build the ruins have been moved to other places, becoming the cornerstone of a certain lord's castle, not only the ground parts, but even those large foundations A lot of stones have also been pried away, and the entire ruins of the Sanctuary of the Primordial God have been severely damaged.

However, with the funding of Barbarisa, some scholars from other countries who specialize in the study of religion and gods were invited here to restore the ruins. With the help of these scholars, the foundation of the entire sanctuary was almost restored. It's just that whether this restoration can fully fit the previous foundation is still open to discussion, but at least one result cannot be denied, that is, the restoration of the foundation is equivalent to confirming the coverage of the sanctuary.

When Leo arrived at the ruins of the Sanctuary of the Primordial God, those scholars were leading their students to discuss where the main hall of the Sanctuary is located. I don’t know if these scholars deliberately delayed time to defraud funds. In short, the location of the main hall The discussion has been going on for more than a month, and there is still no result.

Leo was not in a hurry to find clues in the sanctuary ruins, but came outside the crowd who were discussing the location of the main hall and listened to the conversation in the crowd.

These scholars have now determined that five foundation locations may be the location of the main hall, but the exact location of the foundation is still unclear. If the location of the main hall cannot be determined, then the location of other religious buildings in the entire ruins cannot be confirmed.

In the absence of his own on-the-spot investigation, Leo just stood from the perspective of a bystander and listened to the discussions of these scholars about the location of the main hall. The location conditions were analyzed sufficiently, even Leo couldn't find any big loopholes.

So after listening for a while, he broke away from the crowd, entered the ruins of the sanctuary alone, walked towards the nearest place that might be the main hall, and then walked along the cleared road and walked through other marked places. It is suspected that the location of the main hall came out, until I walked around the entire sanctuary ruins.

Although the ruins of this sanctuary were severely damaged, this did not mean that the ruins were worthless. In fact, the real value of the ruins was in the ground below the foundation.

Obviously those scholars did not discover that the ruins of this sanctuary were rebuilt on top of a pile of ruins. Under the foundation composed of those huge stones, there was another layer of ruins buried in soil, also because of the buried ruins. Because of this, the ruins are very well preserved, so intact that even the traces of destruction are preserved, Leo can even vaguely feel the residual breath of the gods and divine power from these traces of destruction, and there is no shortage of these gods and divine powers Familiar divine powers, such as the divine power of justice.

"Is it under siege?" After collecting all kinds of information through the spiritual network scan, Leo couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, because according to the traces of destruction, this sanctuary was at least a dozen of the church of the true God at that time. During the siege of the paladins, one could feel the shadow of the high-ranking clerics casting divine spells in the residual divine power.

From various indications, the largest sanctuary of the Primordial God was besieged by more than a dozen churches of the Church of the True God at a certain time, and was destroyed during the siege, and then buried, and the Church of the True God is still being buried where a sanctuary was rebuilt.

As for the purpose of building this sanctuary, it is definitely not to continue to preach to the god of the beginning. After comparing the distribution of the sanctuary buildings on the ground with the ruins of the underground sanctuary, Leo found that the sanctuary on the ground is probably used for Block certain things in the underground ruins.

The locations of the five main halls analyzed by those scholars are actually not wrong, because the sanctuary on the ground is built with five main halls, and these five buildings disguised as main halls have only one purpose, that is, to confine the foundation. download banned items.

In fact, if those scholars were not obsessed with restoring the ruins, they should be able to find that there are problems with the foundations of the five places marked by them, because among the stones used in the foundation of the entire sanctuary, only these five places have the largest stones. It is also because of this that the foundations of these five sites have survived the hands of those who destroyed the ruins of the sanctuary.

The foundations of these five locations are very ingeniously built. All the exposed parts of the stone are blank surfaces after polishing. A variety of symbols, patterns and holy emblems with deep meanings were created.

And these special religious patterns produce weak forces all the time, and these forces are compatible with each other, like a whole, producing a strong suppression effect on the things placed in the ruins below, and this suppression At the same time, it works in conjunction with other suppression methods in the ruins, imprisoning the things placed there.

Because these forces are very chaotic and mixed with the power of gods and gods, the interference effect is so strong that Leo's mental net can't scan out which items are imprisoned.

After discovering the secrets hidden in the ruins of this sanctuary, Leo was not in a hurry to lift the five foundations on the ground, and took out the banned items in the ruins below.

Because the forces generated by these five foundations are connected to each other, once one of the foundations is moved, it is equivalent to triggering the other four foundations, and there will definitely be a lot of trouble when the time comes, and Leo has not thought about it yet. Let the secrets here be known to everyone.

After figuring out the situation, Leo left the ruins of the sanctuary, returned to a small town next to the ruins specially built for scholars and workers who restored the ruins, and found a hotel to stay.

After the whole day, Leo stayed in the hotel room. As the sky darkened, the scholars and workers on the ruins of the sanctuary returned to the town one after another. After they returned to their respective residences for a little repair, They went to the only tavern in the town to pass the time. Only a few scholars compiled the content of today's discussion into documents, and after a certain amount of accumulation, they would be sent to Barbarisa.

After confirming that the scholars and workers had returned, Leo left the hotel and walked towards the ruins of the sanctuary alone. After arriving at the ruins of the sanctuary, he was surprised to find that there were other people in the ruins, and these people They are not ordinary, even though the clothes these people are wearing now look like ordinary workers, but he can still feel the faint divine power from these people. Obviously these people should be senior clergymen of various Churches of True God, and they The purpose of coming here is obviously not to help Barbarisa restore the ruins of the sanctuary.