The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The business skills preached by the business goddess pastor did not attract Leo's attention. The reason why he didn't get up and leave was because the scene in the prayer room when the pastor was preaching attracted his attention.

Because there are a lot of devices that interfere with psionic energy in Venaya Port, Leo's spiritual net cannot play any role here, so Leo can only turn on the spiritual vision for a long time to observe the psionic energy situation here.

During the prayer hearing of the Goddess of Commerce, Leo also turned on the spiritual vision. Before the sermon, there was no abnormality in the spiritual vision in the prayer hall. As the business skills explained by the pastor continued to deepen, the attention of the surrounding businessmen gradually became involved. After entering, bursts of light immediately appeared on the walls around the prayer hall.

This kind of light is not spiritual power, but Leo can feel that there is a strong and messy power in the light, and these lights gradually follow the religious scriptures and symbols on the walls of the prayer hall that are similar to the root of Turing. The money bags and tilted scales gathered in the hands of the statue of the Goddess of Commerce in the prayer hall gradually weakened as if being swallowed by some invisible force.

Afterwards, after the sermon was over, the businessmen sitting on the surrounding chairs stood up one after another, took out a Vinaya coin from their pockets, tapped their foreheads with the coin, and threw it into the purse at the feet of the goddess.

Although the actions of the merchants seem simple, they are not simple at all in Leo's eyes, because the moment the merchant touches the forehead with the coin, there is a layer of colorful light on the coin, and when it is thrown into the purse, the money Some incomprehensible words appeared on the surface of the bag.

This series of ceremonial actions made Leo think of one thing: becoming a god through faith.

In the pedigree of gods in the world of Velen, there are a lot of gods who believe in gods. According to the statistics of religious scholars, there have been at least 3,756 gods who believed in gods since the first believer appeared. In the eyes of some wizards who study gods, the appearance of belief in gods represents the coming of the age of gods, because before that, human beings did not have the concept of gods, and all supernatural things were considered to be unspeakable mysterious powers.

In the knowledge provided by the web weavers, there are some contents about the belief in God, which are very scattered and not many, but now the scene in the Goddess of Commerce Prayer Hall is similar to a certain paragraph in those contents, and that paragraph mentioned The most important thing is to become a god by faith, or to create a god of faith.

Although the process recorded in that section is different, the purpose of both is to collect the power of faith from believers, and the colorful light emitted from the Venaya coin that the merchant took out is obviously the power of faith.

But what puzzled Leo was that those businessmen were only looking for profit, and they only had interests in their eyes. It was impossible to have faith, and it was impossible for them to be devout enough to condense into the power of faith. However, from the colorful rays of light emanating from that coin, it is not difficult to see that these merchants have a high degree of belief in the Goddess of Commerce, and each of them can be regarded as a devout believer.

Confused, Leo also imitated the behavior of others around him, walked up to the goddess statue, and took out a Vinaya coin that he had just exchanged from his pocket, and at the moment when the coin was taken out, he couldn't help being stunned Dazed, he then threw the coin into the pocket under his feet, turned around and left the church, while walking aimlessly on the street, he took out a coin from his pocket again, and checked it repeatedly in front of his eyes.

The reason why Leo made such a move was because the moment he took out the coin just now, he found that the coin in his hand also emitted colorful lights. Judging from his previous experience, he should also be regarded as a devout follower of the Goddess of Commerce. But he himself is very clear that he is not a believer in any god, let alone have any belief in a non-existent goddess of commerce, so he feels that there may be a problem with the power of this belief, and the problem should lie in the coins .

After repeated inspections, Leo quickly discovered the clues. There was nothing wrong with the front and back of the coin. One side was printed with the whole picture of Vinaya Port, and the other side was printed with the city emblem of Vinaya Port and the emblem of the General Chamber of Commerce. It looks like a very common coin shape.

What's really unusual is the material used for the coin. If Leo hadn't obtained the knowledge of the web weaver, he might only regard this material as an ordinary silver-tin alloy, but by comparing the knowledge of the web weaver, He discovered that the coin in his hand was actually a cheap magic silver.

In ancient times, the right to mint coins was not in the hands of kings and lords of various countries, but in the hands of various churches of gods, and the church first used a kind of magic silver to make coins. However, with the increase in the amount of coins used, it would be too expensive to use magic silver for all of them, so ordinary silver alloys were used instead, and the formula of magic silver disappeared in the world with the passage of time.

It is already surprising to see the magic silver whose formula has been lost for a long time. What is even more surprising is that the magic silver was used by the United Kingdom General Chamber of Commerce to cast currency that can be circulated like the ancient church.

It's just that magic silver is not the most peculiar thing about Vinaya coins. The main reason why this coin can gather the power of faith is the pattern-like decoration on the edge of the coin circle.

Ordinary people will only regard decoration as some protective measures taken by the General Chamber of Commerce to prevent people from damaging the currency, just like the coins of the Kingdom of England, the French Empire and other big countries will leave a circle of jagged edges, so in the eyes of ordinary people The Vinaya coins that came to the General Chamber of Commerce are not unusual, they are just a little more exquisite.

However, Leo was able to recognize that this circle of patterns is actually a circle of variant radicals based on the knowledge of variant radicals he learned from Dio Browno not long ago, and the original radical was not Gamo according to Leo's deduction. Thunder language, but an unknown divine language.

Although Leo doesn't know the meaning of this circle of divine text, he can understand the function of this circle of divine text. Its function should be to transform any transaction behavior of the person who holds this currency into a gift for the goddess of business or The power of faith in business itself.

That's why Leo and those businessmen don't have any belief in the Goddess of Commerce, but the Venaya coins they took out contain the power of faith.

The moment they entered the Church of the Goddess of Commerce and listened to the priest's sermon, they were already conducting a business transaction, and the content of the transaction was information, and all they needed to pay was a Vinaya that had transformed into the power of faith currency.

In order to confirm his guess, Leo directly found a roadside stall and bought an equivalent amount of food with the Venaya coins in his hand. At the same time, he immediately saw a layer of faint colorful light on the ordinary currency just now.

"Why? What do they want to do?" Leo found a chair in the street garden and sat down, thinking in his heart while eating the food in his hands.

Obviously, the reconstruction of Venaya Port, the appearance of Vinaya Coin and the later so-called business goddess farce should all be secretly done by the United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, or Rupert Fay, who holds most of the power of the Chamber of Commerce. Everything was arranged here, but Leo didn't understand why they did this.

According to Leo's idea, Lanxi, as the center of heavy industry, can be said to be the frontier of steam machinery in the world. As the master of this city, Rupert Fitz also mastered the core mystery of steam machinery, and consciously promoted it. To the entire vinylon world, the entire vinylon world has entered the stage of scientific development.

Therefore, according to common sense, Rupert Fitz should be the last person in the world who does not want the gods to reappear, because once the gods reappear, the world power structure will inevitably be reshuffled. Because of the emergence of steam machinery, the merchant groups that have begun to reach the peak of power will inevitably be hit hard, and the declining church groups will also regain their power. The merchants take away part of the power, and eventually the world situation will return to the ancient state of ignorance.

Although Rupert Fitz never admitted it, with the expansion of the General Chamber of Commerce's influence around the world, he has gradually become the leader of merchants everywhere. Once the merchant's power is damaged, he will inevitably be implicated.

With the wisdom of Rupert Fitz, it is impossible not to see this, but the problem now is that the General Chamber of Commerce controlled by Rupert Fitz is carrying out a vigorous plan to create gods. Leo even suspects that Louis X A series of far-reaching events, such as the agreement signed with the Black Forest, the surrender of the city of Miria by the United Kingdom, etc., all have Rupert Fitz's plan behind them, and his purpose is all for the business of Venaya Port goddess.

Leo feels that the business goddess is not over yet, because according to the process of becoming a god through faith he refers to, the current situation in Venaya Port is only the initial stage. an unknown.

For example, although the Eye of Truth itself has extraordinary talents, it also takes the path of becoming a god through faith, which is why the Church of the Eye of Reality was established. But until he was banned by the tower wizard, he was not able to complete the final transformation, and he was always just a false god, which shows how difficult it is to become a god by faith.

Therefore, no matter where the Goddess of Commerce goes, Port Venaya, or even the United Kingdom and the French Empire, may be affected, and even cause some unforeseen turbulence, and with the future influence of the Chamber of Commerce, this stock Unrest may even spread to other continents and countries.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help mourning for the people of the Vinylon world for a few minutes, but even though he had some inferences about the current situation in the Vinylon world, he didn't want to meddle in it, instead he left the place of right and wrong and found a The idea of ​​tidying up in a calm place and gaining after coming to the world of Velen has become more firm.

"Huh!" Just when Leo recovered from his thoughts, he threw the paper bag left over from the food into the flowers beside him, stood up and prepared to find a place to live for the night, several young men and women suddenly came from Running out from the depths of the garden, you ran past Leo chasing each other, and quickly disappeared at the corner at the end of the street, and Leo's eyes followed these people until the figures of these people disappeared. When he came back, there was a hint of doubt on his face.

After experiencing the trip to the Dibia Mountains, Leo had a very sensitive feeling for the family because of his contact with a large number of Black Forest family members, and he had a feeling for those young men and women just now.

Although this induction was very weak, Leo knew it was not an illusion, and he also believed that his induction would not be wrong. In this case, it meant that those men and women were obviously members of the family, and they were members of the family that did not trigger the mutation of the blood.

In Leo's memory, unless it is a safe place like the Black Forest, the family members will get together, otherwise, there are very few scenes of the family members in groups in the outside world. The Orthodox Church caught them all.

Although the overall situation in the whole world is not as harsh as it was in ancient times for the Familiars, and even the night watchman who is called the mortal enemy of the Familiars will not hunt and kill the Familiars when they see them, but this custom of not gathering together is still preserved, at least It was like this in Miria City five years ago.

But now, in the city of Vinaya, these family members are gathered together, walking on the streets without any defense, and what's even weirder is that these family members do not belong to the same ethnic group. Just now, Leo sensed that these seven young men and women belonged to three different family groups. This kind of thing seemed incredible to him, because even the family members of the Black Forest would not mix with other family groups.

Leo, who found it weird, didn't follow up to investigate, because he felt that after returning to the world of Velen from the dream world, his already strong curiosity became stronger, and even affected his judgment.

He felt that if he continued to indulge this curiosity, he might be involved in some inexplicable incident, so when a strong curiosity arose in his heart, he suppressed this curiosity again, and put the Putting this strange discovery behind me, I started looking for a suitable hotel according to my previous plan.

Leo, who walked out of the street garden, stopped a newsboy casually, took out a Vinaya coin, handed it to the newsboy, and said, "Tell me which hotel in the city is the most comfortable?"

The newsboy took the coin, put it in his pocket, and then introduced carefully: "If you like to be lively and listen to some sea legends, you can go to the Son of the Sea, which is the favorite hotel of the captain who arrives at the port. It has the best tasting rum Wine. If you like some high-end services, you can go to the Golden Lion Hotel, which is the favorite hotel of wealthy businessmen. But if you want to live in a comfortable and quiet environment, there is only the Oak Hotel. It is located next to the Sky Garden, surrounded by Rich merchant villa, every hotel room can overlook the sea and garden.”

Hearing the newsboy's introduction, Leo nodded in satisfaction, then walked to the side of the road, stopped a rickshaw, and told the driver, "Go to the Oak Hotel."