The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hearing the exclamation of the three old women, relevant information provided by the secondary brain system also appeared in Leo's mind.

Compared with the priesthood of the Holy Maiden, in the Church of the Lord of the Sky, the priesthood is even more ancient, and can even be traced back to the beginning of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

In the history of the development of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, the position of the priest has undergone four changes in total. These four changes are also called the change of religious authority, and the name of the priest has also changed slightly due to the four changes.

Priests were originally regarded as mentors, teaching mortals how to touch the body of the gods and listen to the teachings of the gods. Priests were then seen as shepherds, responsible for caring for God's flock. Later, the priest was regarded as the representative, the projection of the gods in the world, and this was also the peak of the power of the priesthood of the Church of the Lord of the Sky. Up to now, in the world of Velen, priests are only regarded as managers, responsible for managing some teaching properties of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

There is a retroflex in the word the three old women call the priest in Gamore language, and this pronunciation only appears in the title of the shepherd priest. Later, after the Reformation, after the Church of the Lord of the Sky became the state religion of the ancient Russian Empire, a flat suffix was added to the pronunciation of the priest, and its meaning changed accordingly. That is to say, judging from the pronunciation of the priest, the three old women are at least characters who appeared between 376 years before the Velen calendar and the 7th year of the Velen calendar in the world of Velen.

However, before Leo could explain his identity, the three old women said in unison: "No, you are not a priest!"

Leo did not intend to pretend to be a member of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, so he said truthfully: "I am indeed not a priest of the Lord of the Sky, I just know something about the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and the three elders are the saints of the Church of the Lord of the Sky." Mammy?"

"Holy Maiden? Haha, Holy Maiden!" The three old women laughed when they heard Leo addressing them. The laughter produced by that hoarse voice sounded very harsh, like rubbing glass sound the same.

Leo was a little puzzled as to why the three old women showed such strong disdain and contempt for the title of Holy Maiden, but he also knew that it might not be a good choice to ask, so he looked at the three silently.

The old woman sitting in the middle said to Leo: "We are very happy today. We can meet the guests from the main world. You can stay here at night! The embers here should still be able to last."

Leo looked up at the gradually darkening sky, felt the rapidly changing spiritual energy fluctuations around him, and asked in a deep voice: "Is it dangerous after dark here?"

"Death is hidden in the darkness, and only fire can warm people." An old woman said, then stretched out her hand and grabbed the air beside her. On her empty hand was a mummy in a red robe. Then she saw that she threw the mummy into the flame container in front of her, and the mummy burned like firewood, which made the weak fire a lot stronger.

Leo, who was standing next to the brazier, could clearly feel that when the flames intensified, the increasingly chaotic and disorderly spiritual energy around him seemed to be injected with a stabilizer, and gradually calmed down, while the spiritual energy outside the firelight Still going on changing.

It's not that the enhanced flames had a stimulating effect. Leo felt that the surrounding sky was getting darker faster, and the thick dust on the ground was also lifted up by an invisible force and glued to each other. Together, it became a large piece of dust, which fell on the surrounding builders, and those distorted buildings began to change, gradually changing from distorted and weird shapes to normal architectural forms.

At the same time, Leo felt the hot temperature emanating from the long-horned dagger in his hand, and the surface of the bone began to transform into horny, and gradually turned red, like a red-hot iron. If it wasn't for the Gemini Gloves that insulated most of the heat, he might have been so hot that he threw away the dagger.

It's just that the change of the dagger didn't last for too long, its temperature stabilized soon, and its texture completely changed from bone to horny, and the sky was completely dark at this time, except for the flames in the church. Other than that, there is no light anymore.

At this time, Leo felt that besides the three old women, there seemed to be other people around him, which reminded him of the white shadow he saw near the arch before. So he immediately turned on his spirit vision and looked around.

Sure enough, besides him, there were a few vague human-shaped white shadows sitting around the brazier. Judging from the overall shape of the white shadows, they should be Charles Ranco and the others, but he did not come from the white shadows. Find the puppet possessed by Peter Alcott.

"Can you see them?" Although Leo's spiritual vision skill did not leak any spiritual energy fluctuations, and his eyeballs did not change in any way, his purposeful look around caught the attention of the three old women. One of them asked in a deep voice.

Leo didn't hide anything, nodded and said: "Yes, I can see them, they should be in the overlapping plane?"

"Are you a disciple of the Eye of Truth?" the old woman asked again.

"No." Leo replied simply, looking a little absent-minded, because he found that among the white shadows, the white shadow representing the black-robed wizard Riser was also looking around, and he could feel the other party's gaze on him. The process of looking at the body.

"He is a disciple of the Eye of Truth." The three old women seemed to see what Leo was thinking, and said.

At this moment, Leo realized that the three old women and the brazier didn't just stay in a parallel plane like him, they should be in all the parallel planes created by this demon library, so the three old women were able to see Until Charles Ranko and the others, and Charles Ranko and the others were able to come near this brazier when it was dark.

"Ah! Another new guest is here." Just as Leo was about to ask the three old women something, the three old women suddenly said to Leo as if they were seeing a stranger like Leo for the first time. : "Guest, you can take a little rest here, it's safe here, as long as the embers don't go out, the darkness won't come in, please rest assured."

After finishing speaking, the three old women unanimously took out some needles and threads from their bosoms, sat here and started knitting clothes.

Although the three old women don't look abnormal on the surface now, Leo can feel that the three people now are different from the three people just now. The three people now are not angry at all, and their behavior is more like some kind of Like a robot controlled by a program, it only repeats a fixed cycle of actions.

At this moment, there were some abnormal noises outside the church. Among these abnormal noises were heavy footsteps and harsh metal friction sounds. Leo turned his head and looked outside.

At this moment, the outside is no longer pitch black, and there are some red rays of light floating in the darkness. These rays of light are not strong, but they contain a kind of magical power, which makes people want to walk over and catch the rays of light.

However, Leo was not tempted by these lights. His spiritual vision skill contained night vision ability. Although he could only see the situation a few hundred meters away, it was enough for him to see the situation outside the church clearly.

I saw that those rays of light were actually eyes, and they came from some three-meter-tall, burly demons. Judging from the hideous and distorted appearance of these demons, they should be the ones Leo found in those houses before. The heads of those demons are transformed.

Although the various energy fluctuations on Leo's body that were incompatible with the surrounding environment did not leak out due to the isolation effect of the embers of light in the golden container of the church, the route that Leo walked before seemed to be an obvious guiding road. Pointing straight to the church.

Not long after those demon heads turned back into complete demons under the action of the dark power, these demons followed Leo's walking path to the outside of the church and gathered there.

Among these demons, there are a few demons with very strange images. They are all very huge, over five meters, and the horns on their heads are incomplete. It seems that Leo used to sacrifice The demon skeletons with long horns were chopped off with a knife.

Although there is an isolation effect formed by the embers of light, those demons can still feel the position of their lost horns. From time to time, they stand at the door of the church and yell at Leo who is wearing and holding the horns of the demons. His voice was full of anger and anxiety.

Finally, one of the demons, who was not too tall but with fiery eyes full of cunning, grabbed the other demon beside him with one hand, threw it into the church from the wall, and fell to the ground.

However, before the demon got up from the ground, the embers ignited it like a torch, and burned it to ashes almost in the blink of an eye, returning to its original head look like.

However, this demon head was different from the ones Leo had seen before. There was actually a small group of flames in this head that seemed to be extinguished at any time, burning with difficulty.

When he saw the flame, Leo suddenly felt a strong sense of hunger from his stomach, which prompted him to have the urge to eat the flame.

Although this hunger is extremely strong, it is still under the control of Leo's will, and he calms down, activates the perfect control skill, and uses the secondary brain system to analyze the situation in the body.

At first, Leo thought it was the chaotic stomach sac because of the hunger coming from his stomach, but after the sub-brain system analyzed various parts of the body through perfect control skills, he discovered that the hunger came from the body The blood in the body is the blood in the body that is affecting the chaotic stomach sac, making it feel hungry.

"Unknown bloodline?" After seeing the analysis results, Leo couldn't help opening the personal data interface, focusing on the unknown bloodline that was still a series of question marks.

A day ago, the value behind the unknown bloodline was already at the full value of 100 points. According to common sense, the bloodline should be opened and become a recognizable bloodline, but in fact there is no sign of opening the bloodline.

Now, the hunger caused by the influence of the blood is undoubtedly this unknown bloodline reminding Leo that the flame inside the demon's head can activate the unknown bloodline in his body.

Leo walked up to the devil's head, squatted down, and picked up the devil's head, but he didn't touch the flame in the head.

Different from before, now when Leo touches this head, he will not gain any knowledge from it, just like a normal skull.

"Is this alive?" Leo carefully observed the flames in his head, and found that the flames emitted the emotions of intelligent creatures, such as fear, anger, killing intent and so on.

"The fire of the soul, this should be the fire of the soul!" Leo suddenly thought of an object mentioned by various religions, whether it is the Earth Federation or the world of Velen, that is the soul.

Although the concept of the soul has existed for a long time, and almost all intelligent civilized creatures know what the soul is, no religion or a type of science can clearly explain what the soul is, even those near-immortal omega in the universe Ga-level higher creatures are also unable to explain the soul.

When he was in the Earth Federation, Leo, as a cyborg, did not believe in the existence of the soul, but after he became Leo Dodd, he began to change his concept. Now seeing the flame in the head of the demon, he felt Some of the emotional consciousness conveyed by the flame, he almost didn't pass the sub-brain system analysis, and felt that this flame should be a form of the soul.

"Sub-brain, activate spiritism!" Leo thought for a while, and instead of swallowing the flame immediately following his body's instinctive reaction, he activated the spiritism skill to communicate with the consciousness in the flame.

At the moment of communicating with the flame consciousness, a large amount of chaotic knowledge, memory and other information poured in towards Leo like a torrent, and along with this knowledge and memory there were some chaotic consciousness, trying to transform Leo's consciousness.

However, Leo had already prepared for this. While using spiritism to communicate with the flame consciousness, he also activated the mechanical consciousness, allowing himself to enter a state of absolute sanity. At the same time, he used the sub-brain system to collect all the transmitted information Stuffed into a newly established archive room.

This torrent of information came and went quickly, and within five seconds, the torrent of information stopped.

Although it stopped, Leo did not close the mechanical mind, but used the mechanical mind to cooperate with the sub-brain system to organize the collected chaotic data.

Leo's cautious approach soon took effect. Among the information recorded in the temporary archive room, there were a lot of chaotic consciousnesses that affected ordinary people's minds. Leo actively attracted these chaotic consciousnesses and wiped them out with mechanical consciousness. This helps the sub-brain system to speed up the sorting of data.

About ten minutes later, a completely organized memory data and knowledge file was presented in front of Leo, and after reading this file, Leo also obtained some important information about this demon library and methods of survival.