The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

If there is no Miracle Star, the departure of the Ice Queen may cause some commotion at the port of Sete. After all, it is difficult to find such a wind-powered sailing ship on the sea now.

However, because the Miracle Star is so eye-catching, anyone who comes to the pier will be attracted by this monster-like giant ship. As for the other ships on the pier, they are all covered in the shadow of this giant ship.

The old captain of the Ice Queen is also very aware of this, so he did not give a sailing ceremony as usual when sailing. After all the guests boarded the ship, he directly lifted the anchor and sailed. He quickly left the port and headed southeast. heading towards the port of Tinstus.

I don't know whether it was unintentional or intentional. When the Snow Queen was leaving the port, the Miracle Star suddenly blew its whistle, and based on the rhythm of the whistle, it was inferred that it should be the whistle rhythm of a farewell ceremony.

In past naval battles, after a battle ended, the two sides began to claim some losses, and then the soldiers of both sides would hold some farewell gifts for the ships and soldiers that sank in the war.

Different countries have different farewell gifts, and no one has thought of unifying this kind of farewell gift before.

However, with the invention of the steam engine, the ship was equipped with a steam engine, and some people began to use the unique whistle sound of the steam engine to write some special whistle language that can be used at sea. After all, the whistle sound can be heard from far away. The semaphore has become more borderline, and finally the first whistle language was promoted by the Continental Congress seven years ago to become the only whistle language recognized by all countries, and the farewell whistle language is also included.

For those who don't know the whistle language, the whistle sounded by the Miracle Star is just a piece of music. After all, such a loud whistle sound is not something that can be heard casually, but for the sailors on the Snow Queen , This whistle sound is a series of provocative sounds, as if someone is telling them that your ship is outdated, and the bottom of the sea is the most correct destination for this ship.

They seem to refute, because they know how amazing the sailing ship under their feet is, but they can't refute it, because there is no steam engine on this ship, so there is no way to use the whistle to fight back.

Also because of this small episode when leaving the port, during the voyage to the port of Tinstus, the southernmost native island of the Kingdom of England, the sailors, first mates, and captains on board all stink. A face, as if everyone around owed them money.

The passengers on the ship also felt that the atmosphere was not right, so instead of staying on the deck to enjoy the sea scenery as usual, they stayed in the cabin to avoid the dull atmosphere on the ship.

Leo also didn't leave the cabin, but his mental net spread around while the ship was sailing, sensing all the movement of the ship during its operation.

However, until the ship arrived at the port of Tinstus, he still failed to find other secrets from the ship.

The port of Tinstus is located on the southeast side of the main island of the Kingdom of England. It takes only about half a day to arrive from the port of Dorset with the wind and the current. This is the southernmost land in the Kingdom of England and the latest land discovered in the Kingdom of England. .

More than a hundred years ago, Tinstus was still sinking in the sea, and here was just an endless ocean. With the eruption of a submarine volcano, this piece of land in the sea was enshrined. There is one more island.

After discovering the island, scholars speculated about the cause of the island, and the royal family rejected all opinions and directly gave the island the name of Tinstus. This name is not English, but only The Sea God language that the priests of the Sea God Church study hard, its meaning is the gift of the Sea God.

From the day it was discovered, this island has been the link hub between the Kingdom of England and the mainland of Mozambique. It was transformed into a military port in the early days, and it is the location of the Second Army of the Navy. When the number of warships was the largest, it reached 100. There are many ships, so the port terminal here is also the largest terminal in the Kingdom of England.

However, with the loss of the colony, the Kingdom of England completed its absolute rule over the Pearl Island Chain, and the role of the military port of Tinstus weakened a lot. The Second Army of the Navy was transferred to the Pearl Island Chain. All the facilities have been converted to civilian use. With the development of these years, they have become the most important material transfer station in the Kingdom.

All the original military camps on the island have been turned into warehouses, and only a few barracks have been transformed into residential quarters. However, on such a compact island, there is a luxurious Sea God Temple.

This temple not only has a temple full of classicism features, but also a square with the same area as the temple. There are more than a dozen fountains on the square. This is also the most magical part of this temple, because these dozen Since the fountain was built, the water has not stopped, and the water coming out is fresh water, not sea water.

This island rises from the bottom of the sea. At the beginning, there was very little fresh water on the island. The people on the island could only rely on several reservoirs built to store rainwater for their daily needs.

Later, the Sea God Church felt that since the island was given by the Sea God, a temple should be built to worship the Sea God, so the Sea God Church bought a large piece of land at that time, and then spent a lot of money to transport stone materials from the mainland of the Kingdom of England. It took five years to build this temple.

And on the second day after the Poseidon statue was placed in the temple, the chief priest who was appointed here said that he had received the oracle of the Poseidon at night, and he wanted to build fifteen fountains on the square in front of the Poseidon Temple.

At that time, almost everyone thought that the chief priest was crazy, because everyone knew that there was a lack of water here, and even if the fountain was built, it was impossible for water to spray out.

In addition, some people think that the chief priest is deliberately doing something shocking to the world, so as to attract the attention of the headquarters of the Sea God Church, so that the people in the headquarters think that he is very pious and can be transferred back, because he was assigned to this isolated island with few believers. Serving as the chief priest of the temple is undoubtedly equivalent to being assigned.

However, when the fifteen fountains were built, and everyone was waiting to see the joke of the chief priest, no aqueduct was built at all, and the fountains that were not built at the springs continued to leave beautiful spring water outside. And it's sweet fresh water.

At that time, everyone was stunned by this scene, and soon someone thought of what the chief priest said about the construction of the fountain. For a while, everyone thought it was a miracle and became the most loyal believers. The temple also became one of the holy places of the Sea God Church for this reason. As for the priest who received the oracle at that time, after returning to the Holy See of the Sea God Church, he was reused and his status continued to rise, eventually becoming the Pope of the Sea God Church.

The Snow Queen will stop at Tinstus for one night, and will continue sailing in the early morning of tomorrow. It will sail at sea for at least five days and reach the waters of the Pearl Island Chain.

During the docking period, the passengers on the ship will inevitably go to the Sea God Temple in the center of the island to offer sacrifices. Whether they are believers of the Sea God or not, they will be more or less in awe of the Sea God when sailing on the sea, and pray to the Sea God bless.

Leo has always stayed away from places like temples. He doesn't know his physical condition, but he also knows that his body seems to be able to arouse the curiosity of the gods in the world of Velen, so when he was in Port of Sete, he never Been to any place of worship.

However, this time he became interested in the Sea God Temple, not only because the creation of this island was so bizarre, but also because of the miraculous fountain, which made him unable to help but want to understand its mysteries.

With curiosity, Leo came to the square of the Sea God Temple with other passengers on the ship. At this time, almost all the people on the island gathered here. Some people had routine evening prayers here, while some Staying next to the fountain to cool off and play makes this square look like a place for leisure and play, and the religious atmosphere is not strong.

But this is just an illusion on the surface. After Leo came here, he stopped at the periphery of the temple square and did not set foot in it again, because the whole square was shrouded in a strange force field. He had felt it on the Miracle Star's ship, and although he didn't feel any danger from the force field, he had an instinctive disgust and rejection.

"The mark of the gods?" Leo checked his situation carefully, and found that the reason for his disgust was the marks of the gods on his body.

However, because it was several god marks that aroused Leo's resentment at the same time, Leo was unable to distinguish which god marks were disgusted with the force field of the Sea God Temple through reverse deduction for a while.

Although the strong resentment in his heart made Leo not want to approach the force field around the temple, this resentment did not originate from Leo himself, and he did not sense any danger, so he forcibly suppressed this resentment, Step into the square.

Just when Leo entered the strange temple force field, the entire force field fluctuated slightly. And this fluctuation is not abnormal on the ground, but it looks different in the ocean. An invisible energy fluctuation spreads along the sea water to the distance, and all the strange-shaped ocean gods are alarmed. , as if they had encountered something terrifying, running around.

This wave finally spread to the bottom of a deep sea abyss. The bottom of this abyss is the bottom that no creature can reach. There is no life in the water. A large amount of poisonous submarine volcanic dust covers this place. Only the most tenacious protozoa can survive. survive in this environment.

However, in a submarine volcano that is constantly tumbling lava, there is an extremely huge figure lying quietly in it. The lava under him can't bring him any harm. On the contrary, this figure will appear in a certain volcanic fissure. At that time, he took the initiative to plunge a tentacle into the volcanic fissure, and then as if he was sucking something, blood-red rays of light circled up in the tentacles and sank into the huge body.

This huge body seemed to be in deep sleep. All actions including sucking the energy of the lava in the volcanic fissures were just an instinctive reaction, but when the wave of energy from Tinstus fell on him, all the people inserted into the lava All the energy-absorbing tentacles stopped, and even the volcanoes and ocean currents on the entire bottom of the sea were fixed by an invisible force and remained motionless.

But this situation passed quickly, and everything returned to the original appearance, and the huge figure fell into that deep sleep again, showing no sign of waking up

Leo, who was in the Tinstus Temple of the Sea God, didn't know that when he broke into the force field of the temple, he disturbed an unknown existence in the deep sea. At this moment, his mind was placed on the dozens of fountains around him.

Although the surrounding unknown force fields affected Leo's mental net, the impact was not great, and he could still easily infiltrate the spiritual net into the foundations of these fountains.

Soon Leo discovered the reason why these fountains were able to continuously gush out spring water. This reason was not at all the miracle claimed by the Church of Sea God, but just a set of wizard wonders composed of the roots of Turing.

The main body of this wizard wonder is right in the middle of the fifteen fountains, and there is a secondary body under each fountain. They are connected to each other to form a Turing magic circle. become fresh water. Judging from the current situation, there must be fifteen or more such wizards and wonders in the waters around Tinstus, thus forming a water storage magic circle covering the entire island and its surrounding waters .

Although it was different from the miracle he thought, Leo was still amazed by the size of the water storage magic circle, and the layout of the water storage magic circle was very simple, and the materials needed were not very rare. With the materials and abilities on hand, Leo can also arrange a small water storage magic circle.

This simple water storage magic circle is very useful for Leo's future itinerary. Fresh water is definitely needed for sailing on the sea. Although he may not encounter shipwreck or something, it is always good to be prepared, and after arriving on the mainland of Minsk, he There will definitely be a need to go to the Guga Desert, where water becomes even more precious, and having a Turing magic circle that constantly provides him with sufficient drinking water can make subsequent journeys more convenient and less dangerous.

After harvesting the water storage magic circle, Leo was going to continue to look inside the temple, but a sense of crisis suddenly appeared in his mind. The sense of crisis this time was not because of the imprint of the gods, but It's his instinct.

And the hairs on his body stood up in this lesson. It was as if there was a ferocious beast in the temple that could devour people at any time, and when he got close to the temple, it would immediately rush out and bite him to death.

Fortunately, Leo's will as a ninth-level psyker was not affected too much. He quickly escaped from the suffocating sense of crisis, and then turned and left the square without hesitation, away from the temple, and returned to the temple. on board.