The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Send them all to the farm and let the old tree roots check them out!" Among the troops directly subordinate to the Dark Lord of Hongtu City, a middle-aged man whose extraordinary strength was not very strong looked at those who had been knocked out by them and fell into madness. The fighters gave instructions to the ordinary city guard soldiers who followed closely behind the team, and then rushed towards other blocks with their troops.

Leo did not follow the team to observe their actions, nor did he follow the ordinary people who dealt with the follow-up matters to the farm they said, but he left some spiritual imprints on the two teams for future use. able to find their whereabouts.

After leaving the mark, he didn't stay any longer, but rushed towards the direction where the marks on the clergy of the Justice Church were.

Those people retreated quickly, and depending on the situation, there should be internal responses from the inner city wall. They saw that the troops directly under the Dark Lord had already dispatched, so they retreated decisively from the inner city wall. In a certain location, it feels like preparing to climb over the wall to the outer city.

When Leo felt a commanding height in the nearby block suitable for observation, he had already seen guards hired by the inner forces responsible for guarding the city wall assisting the priests to climb over the wall and leave through the rope ladder.

Among the people who hadn't left yet, Leo saw the archbishop of the Justice Church who was in charge of directing the operation. Beside the archbishop, there were three paladins of the church who were not bad at all, talking to him about something. , Judging from their expressions, it seems that they are not very happy.

Leo did not approach, nor did he use any supernatural powers such as witchcraft, because he could feel that there were traces of divine magic combat around those people, and it should have been arranged to prevent supernatural powers from eavesdropping.

Although it is impossible to eavesdrop on their conversation through extraordinary power, Leo's supernormal five senses can still easily hear the conversation at this distance under such circumstances. The voices of those senior clergymen of the Justice Church were left behind.

"Are you sure all the Dark Lords are dead?" After Leo adjusted his listening method, the archbishop's voice appeared in his ears very clearly, as if he was standing next to them and listening.

"Yes, it has been confirmed repeatedly. They are indeed the dark lords of Hongtu City." Although a paladin is not much inferior to the archbishop in strength, he is much inferior in priesthood status, so he seemed a little humble when answering. .

"How could those teams directly under the Dark Lord appear?" The archbishop said angrily: "Those people signed a divine contract with the Dark Lord, and only the Dark Lord of Hongtu City is qualified to command them. Now these people are all Being mobilized means that the Dark Lord of Hongtu City is still alive."

"Could it be that our intelligence has made a mistake?" Another paladin guessed: "The people we killed are actually just substitutes for the real dark lord."

The Archbishop was silent for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Impossible, we have repeatedly verified that those people are the Dark Lords, and there is absolutely no possibility of mistakes."

"Don't be so categorical, have you made few mistakes before?" The eldest of the three paladins seemed to have a bad relationship with the archbishop, and directly retorted: "According to me, in the blacksmith Before Kit’s accident, you were still not sure who the Dark Lord was. It wasn’t until a series of reactions in the inner city area after Kit’s accident that you confirmed that Kit was one of the Dark Lords, and then passed Kit’s daily routine. Behavior, assuming other dark master lists, in fact, you have no idea from the beginning, so the people on the list include the leaders of the middle-level and above forces in the entire inner city. If you really know who the dark master is, just It is enough to kill those dark lords and those in power at the top. There is no need to kill so many people at all. The end result of doing so is to expose all our arrangements in Hongtu City, and now we have lost everything , had to abandon Hongtu City's plan to retreat and leave."

The archbishop said with great dissatisfaction: "Enough! What do you know, the Hongtu City plan has succeeded, we have collected enough experimental data, the church..."

"You can speak louder, so that I can get rid of you directly on the grounds of leaking secrets." The old paladin put his hand on the long sword at his waist and interrupted the archbishop's words, while other people around Although the two paladins were unwilling to be enemies of the archbishop in front of them, they had to put their hands on their weapons and put on a show. After all, the excuse given by the elder paladin was very sufficient.

Facing the threat around him, the archbishop's face became extremely gloomy. He looked at the clergy not far away who were burying their heads over the wall. He knew that he had almost slipped his mouth. If he speaks out his plan publicly, the three paladins in front of him will really kill him, and even the other priests who heard it will be silenced.

The old paladin unceremoniously pointed out the archbishop's thoughts, and said: "I heard that during this holy disaster, many people in the upper echelons of the church are responsible for the sleeping of our Lord, and there will definitely be major changes in various positions. You So eager to launch the layout of Hongtu City, it should be because you want to use the achievements of Hongtu City to transfer yourself back to the main hall, right?"

"It's just what you think. In fact, there is nothing wrong with my approach. The sudden death of Kit, the dark lord, is the best time to provoke Hongtu City. Otherwise, with the current dark lord system of Hongtu City, I want to make Hongtu City chaos Come on, I'm afraid it won't be enough for another ten years." The archbishop argued very strongly: "And you should know that the Dark Lord of Hongtu City has already doubted the seeds we planted, otherwise, they would not have planted those barbaric The guy is here, if you don’t activate it at this time, everything will be exposed after a while.”

"So what if it's exposed?" The old paladin sneered, "Even if it is exposed, it has nothing to do with us. They will only think that it was the work of those blasphemous heretics, but now? All the hasty actions left too much Once the turmoil in the city subsides, they will immediately start an investigation, and the church will be exposed to them at that time. All this is caused by your wrong decision, and I will record it truthfully in the report."

"You also said that the existence of the church can only be discovered if they start investigating." The archbishop didn't show any worry on his face. He sneered and said, "In this case, it's fine not to let them investigate."

"Don't let them investigate?" The two younger paladins looked at the archbishop in puzzlement, while the older paladin showed a thoughtful expression.

The archbishop said confidently: "Monster cities like Hongtu City have stood on this land for too long, and they are using the Green Emerald region and other forces' wars for profit all the time. This evil act must be punished. I think both the nobles in the Green Emerald region and the people of Roloshire want to see this city disappear. Do you think they will use the opportunity of the civil strife in the Red Clay City to solve the cancer that has been entrenched in this land for many years? ?”

The elder paladin said with great dissatisfaction: "You have already destroyed the arrangement of the church in Red Earth City, and you want to expose the people of the church in Lolo Hill and Green Emerald to clean up the aftermath for you. Don't you worry about things? The more troubles are getting bigger and bigger, it will completely expose the church's layout in the Middle Kingdom, and it will not end in the end?"

The archbishop looked at the other party, didn't say anything, and seemed unwilling to continue the discussion with them, but turned around and walked into the crowd, commanding the city's internal response, and quickly transferred his subordinates to the outer city.

"Your Excellency the Archbishop probably won't..." The young paladin looked at the figure of the Archbishop and hesitated.

Before he could finish speaking, the elder paladin sighed and said: "He has no way out, and he will definitely use all methods to solve the matter in Hongtu City. Let's think about how to make up for the loss if something unexpected happens." Minimize it?"

"Aren't you going to stop him?" Another paladin asked.

The elder paladin glanced at the other party, and said with something in his words: "I still want to live."

After finishing speaking, he had no intention of continuing the conversation. He raised his hand and made a gesture, and the magic spells around him that were used to prevent prying eyes disappeared with the gesture, and then he was seen taking out something that looked like some kind of ore powder. The things sprinkled around, completely eliminated the traces of the actual combat magic, followed him and the other two paladins under the arrangement of Nei Ying, sat on the hanging basket, climbed over the city wall, and went to the outer periphery of the other side urban area.

Leo didn't take action to prevent these people from leaving, because it was unnecessary. Although the clergy of the Justice Church made a decisive decision to retreat, and the retreat arrangements were perfect, they obviously underestimated the eyes and ears of the forces in the city. Ou wasn't the only snooper. In fact, there were several hidden compartments in the surrounding blocks, hidden in the walls of buildings, or in the statues of fountains. Tools such as speakers and hearing aids are monitoring the movements of these church clergy.

Because they didn't just look directly at the senior clergy of those churches, neither the archbishop nor the paladins had any sense, and they didn't know that their every move was being watched, and the content of their conversations was immediately monitored. The watchers were sent away.

Leo was also surprised by the appearance of these monitors. In fact, when he chose this commanding height just now to monitor, he never thought that the people in Hongtu City had discovered the retreat route of these Justice Church clergy. I realized that I somewhat underestimated these people in Hongtu City, or more correctly, these dark lords in Hongtu City.

Obviously, except for the unlucky Kit, who was suddenly assassinated and died, the other dark masters in Hongtu City are probably not dead as the paladin of the Justice Church said, and those who died in the hands of the Justice Church were all arranged by the Dark Lord As pawns on the bright side, the dark masters have been hiding in the dark to monitor every move of the Justice Church from the very beginning.

In fact, thinking about the turmoil in Hongtu City this time is a good thing for those Dark Lords who hide in the city and control everything in the city.

First of all, in the turmoil, the various forces in the inner city are reshuffled. The dark masters who control the real power can take this opportunity to expand their power on the surface, and can also strengthen the power they control secretly.

Secondly, through this chaos, they can justifiably solve some of their confidants and make their power more consolidated.

Finally, during the turmoil, those with a heart like the Justice Church lurking in Hongtu City will either actively or passively leave Hongtu City. In this way, the interior of Hongtu City has been thoroughly purified, even if the overall strength of Hongtu City is weakened. , but the core strength has been consolidated.

The only thing these dark masters need to worry about now is what the Archbishop of the Justice Church planned to do next, which is to unite the Green Emerald Region and the Loro Hills to attack Red Earth City. If the Archbishop really does If it is time for the two feuds to put aside their previous suspicions and join forces, let alone Hongtu City, which has experienced civil strife and suffered great losses in strength, even in its heyday, it may be difficult to resist such an attack.

The most ideal way to solve this crisis is to keep all the members of the Justice Church in the city before the Justice Church can lobby both sides, just not to mention whether the people of the Dark Lord of the Red Earth City can survive under the influence of an archbishop and three saints. The Knights teamed up to get rid of all the senior clergy of these churches. Even if they were all killed in the city and pretended to be caused by turmoil, the people of the Justice Church would probably not believe this disguise. They will directly attack the entire Hongtu City with more drastic means, and even use the strongest magic to level the Hongtu City directly.

Although doing so will plunge the Justice Church into controversy, the last thing the Justice Church needs to worry about is controversy. They just need a target that can allow them to re-establish their prestige. At this time, anyone who dares to have a positive relationship with the Justice Church People or forces in conflict will face the most open and violent revenge from the Justice Church in the near future.

The dark master who wanted to come to Hongtu City also thought of this, so they have been forcing the members of the Justice Church to withdraw from Hongtu City from the beginning to the end. Judging from the situation under surveillance, it is not difficult to set up a deadly trap.

For Leo, a bystander, the situation in Hongtu City in front of him became interesting. He felt that the Dark Lord of Hongtu City was not as simple as he thought. Also know why.

It's a pity that he has other more important things to do on this trip. If it doesn't bother him, he intends to learn a little bit about the intelligence of the Justice Church in Hongtu City from these dark masters before leaving Hongtu City and going directly to Green Emerald area.