The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After returning to the boat, Leo stayed in his room, carefully sorting out the water storage magic circle he got from the fountain just now, and then made a few real objects with the existing materials, because they used the method of rune traps , so there will be a time limit when using it, and it will expire after a period of time, and it needs to be re-injected with spiritual energy to continue to use it, and it cannot continue to operate like the fountain.

When researching something, the time passed quickly, and the night passed without knowing it, and the passengers returned to the ship one after another, except that there were some more passengers besides the passengers who boarded the ship at the port of Dorset They also boarded this ship, and these passengers were very unusual, they were all itinerant priests of the Sea God Church.

The vast majority of formal churches will have parade ceremonies, but the parade ceremony is different. For example, the Church of the Lord of the Sky will ask the parade priests to find a mountain top, where they will practice the church’s teachings and sense the divine will of the Lord of the Sky. The King of the Hill will let the traveling priests look for an abandoned mine, and go into the depths of the mine every day to dig ore like a miner until they realize the true meaning of the church.

No matter what kind of church parade ceremony is a kind of ascetic ceremony, through the suffering of the body, the detachment of the soul is opened.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and the parade ceremony of the Sea God Church is an exception. For the itinerant priests of the Sea God Church, their parade has nothing to do with asceticism at all. They only need to circle around the world's seas. It doesn't matter if you're on a freighter or a premium cruise.

The early Sea God Church would also perform asceticism like other church parade ceremonies, such as hiding the identity of the Sea God Church priests, boarding an ordinary ship as an ordinary sailor, and even going to be a pirate.

But when someone discovered that the effect of the parade ceremony completed by performing asceticism was not much different from the effect of the parade ceremony completed without asceticism, the parade ceremony of the Sea God Church went in another direction.

Every parade ceremony held by the Church of the Sea God for the priests is more like a public-funded tourism activity. The church pays for the priests to buy tickets for luxury cruise ships, and all other expenses on the way are also paid by the church, which is very comfortable.

It's just that the itinerant priests of the Sea God Church who boarded the ship from Tinstus this time seem to be different from other itinerant priests of the Sea God Church. They are more like the itinerant priests of other regular churches, wearing an old Priest robes, bare feet, an old hemp rope used as a belt around the waist, and a book of Poseidon clutched tightly in his hand.

The moment these traveling priests of the Sea God Church boarded the ship, Leo, who was in the cabin, had already sensed the existence of these people. It's not because they walk very loudly, but because the energy fluctuations emanating from them are very similar to the mysterious power emanating from the temple that makes Leo feel horrified, and it's hard for him not to pay attention.

During the meal, Leo came to the dining room on the ship. At this time, the traveling priests also ate here, but what they ate was very simple, just a piece of dry bread and a glass of water, which was no different from what the bottom sailors ate.

At this time, someone who knew the situation whispered to the companion next to him, "They should be members of the Aminon sect."

After hearing what this man said, Leo, who was at the dining table not far away, quickly remembered relevant information about this sect.

If the Church of Sea God is an outlier among all churches in the world of Velen, then the Aminon Sect is an outlier within the Church of Sea God.

The person who founded this sect is called Aminon. He is not a great figure in the Sea God Church. His position has always been that of an attendant lecturer. According to the church’s clergy level, he is not even considered a regular priest, but only a trainee priest. .

He lived to be seventy-six years old. He was an orphan since childhood, and was adopted by the priests of the Sea God Church, and he spent the next seventy years in the church of the Sea God Church. He did not have any special achievements in his life. According to church records, his greatest achievement was to pay for the repair of the glass windows of the church where he lived. He also did not have any commendable works. The only thing left after his death was an unfinished book. Poseidon canon.

However, it is such an ordinary trainee priest without talent, who has practiced humility, poverty and other ascetic principles for seventy years, and has been barefoot and sackclothed all his life. This consistent practice of asceticism is highly respected by some high-level members of the Sea God Church, and these people recorded Aminon's deeds, compiled them into a book, and spontaneously regarded him as a saint of the church.

The reason why these high-level members of the Sea God Church acted like this was mainly because the Sea God Church had meddled in the political power of the Kingdom of England for a long time, and some members of the church even served in the Kingdom.

Just as the church exerted a strong influence on the kingdom's regime, all kinds of bad ethos in the kingdom also had a strong influence on the church. For a time, greed, lust, power struggle, and profit-seeking all kinds of filthy things kept happening inside the church. .

Seeing that the church is going to decay like this, some people of insight in the church naturally don't want to see the church fall, but they can't find a suitable way to fight against the corrupt forces in the church, and the appearance of Aminon just happened Give these insightful people an opportunity and direction.

After they used various methods to promote Aminon as a saint, they immediately took Aminon's lifelong behavior as the sect's code of conduct, and established the Aminon Sect, an ascetic sect within the Sea God Church, to dispel all kinds of corruption within the church. The members gathered together to form an extremely powerful and solid force.

In the end, in the battles against the corrupt forces inside the church, and the royal family and the Congress also disliked the church's meddling in secular affairs, finally, with internal and external cooperation, the corrupt forces inside the church were cleaned up, and the church returned to its original state. pure ecclesiastical state.

However, after the internal cleanup of the church was completed, the Aminon sect lost its core role. After all, not everyone is willing to practice asceticism for the rest of their lives. A large number of sect members left the sect and began to return to normal church rituals. Afterwards, the church no longer favored the Aminon sect in terms of resources, and the Aminon sect also declined because of this. Except for a small number of determined believers, few people would join this sect.

Although there are not many people in this sect, the people of the entire Kingdom of England still respect the members of this sect very much, so when these Aminon sect priests arrived at the restaurant, everyone behaved very calmly and stably, even drinking The sound of soup is much smaller.

Leo was very interested in the mysterious power of these Aminon priests. Although this power gave him a sense of danger, it was not very strong. While eating in the restaurant, he tried to use the spirit net to analyze this power. The composition of the mysterious power.

It's a pity that this mysterious power is obviously beyond the analysis of his current mental network. No matter how hard he tries to use the spiritual network, he can only barely sense the fluctuation of this power, and other more detailed details cannot be helped.

However, for those Aminon priests themselves, Leo discovered some interesting things through the spiritual network. He discovered that the mysterious power was not produced by Priest Aminon, but from an external force. Their bodies have been immersed in this power for many years, and they have been inevitably assimilated by this power, and their bodies have also undergone some abnormal mutations.

For example, there are gill-shaped organs behind the ears of these Aminon priests, just like Vashj, and there are also some scales on the body and some tentacles hidden in the hair, etc. These changes did not attract the attention of others because they were covered by the teaching robes on their bodies.

It stands to reason that the Aminon priests whose bodies have undergone these mutations should be counted as members of the Sea God Familia, but Leo could not feel any unique energy fluctuations belonging to the Familia from these people, and another Leo believed that they were not members of the Familia. The reason is that all the mutated parts of them are the same.

The wizard tower once conducted detailed research on the family members, and compiled the research materials into a book, and Leo had read the research materials on the family members. In this book, the tower wizard first listed several common characteristics of all family members, one of which is that the mutation of all family members is uncontrollable.

It would be fine if only one or two of the Familia had the same mutation, but the problem is that the positions and shapes of the body mutations of these Aminon priests are all the same, so Leo judged that these were not Familia, and the mutation on them might be something else. A case of variation.

However, in any case, this mutation brought extraordinary power to these Aminon priests. Although Leo did not know what kind of power those mutant organs could give these Aminon priests, they could It is certain that the muscle density of these Aminon priests is at least three times that of ordinary people, which means that their physical strength far exceeds that of ordinary humans, and they are already considered extraordinary.

If it was an ordinary priest parade, it would not attract too much attention from Leo, but the Aminon priest parade is very different, because the Aminon sect does not have a tradition of pilgrimage, and some good people have counted, every time the Aminon When priests go on a pilgrimage, some inexplicable events will happen in countries around the world, some are power struggles, and some are natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Apparently, the passengers on this ship also knew the rumor that Priest Aminon’s visit was a harbinger of disaster, so when Priest Aminon finished his meal and returned to the cabin on the lower deck, the restaurant immediately seemed to explode. The passengers who had dinner were almost unanimously discussing what kind of disasters would happen around the world.

If it was before, Leo would not have believed in such rumors of disaster predictions, but after experiencing the incident in Dulin City, he became particularly sensitive to disasters and other things, although he was not able to use his spiritual vision just now Priest Aminon saw the silk thread of the weaver on his head, but he could still feel the impending aura of catastrophe that he felt in Dulin City that day, but it was not as strong as that in Dulin City.

After confirming that these disasters would not come to him or the ship he was on, Leo did not pay too much attention to these Aminon priests, and returned to his cabin to continue to try to study various psychic potions, Turing radicals, etc. And rune magic circle.

According to the normal schedule, the Ice Queen left the last port of the British Kingdom after docking in Tinstus for one night, and headed southeast to the Pearl Island Chain.

The passengers on the ship were still very excited in the first few days. Most of them were taking an ocean-going ship for the first time, and it was a sailing ship. Naturally, they were curious about everything. Some even taught them how to tie knots, Tie the rope.

But no matter how novel things are repeated for a few days, they will feel boring. In the end, no one is too lazy to go to the deck. Instead, they stay in a specially opened playroom in the lower cabin, playing cards and chatting, and passing the time.

The cards played by these passengers were a kind of beast card that had been handed down from the Mosang Continent. Because it was simple and easy to understand, it quickly spread and replaced the popular King Power faction before, and became a good thing for everyone to pass the time after dinner.

There are a total of eighty cards of this kind in a set, and the rules are simple, that is, the strong eat the weak, and the weak are strong. Even a ten-year-old child can easily get started playing two cards, but because this deck can be expanded to four when playing. Sets, the playing method will also change due to the number of cards, so it is difficult to play the fighting beast card well.

Just like most chess and card games, the passengers on the ship will also gamble a little when they play fighting beast cards, and the people who can get on the Ice Queen are either rich or expensive, and they are not short of money, so they Most of the gambling things are some valuables that you carry with you.

Things like playing cards are sometimes a matter of luck. Even if some people don’t know how to play cards, they can get a good pair of cards by just grabbing a few cards when they are lucky. Well, no matter how proficient you are, it is impossible to win your opponent.

Among the players, there is such an unlucky, even terrible poker player. Since he sat down at the poker table, he has played nearly sixty games, and he has never won a single game. Gadgets were all lost, even a sterling silver cigarette case that he asked someone to make specially was lost just now.

Kunstein took out the handkerchief in his chest pocket and wiped the sweat on his forehead. He watched with extreme unwillingness that a gemstone chain that was just in front of him was received by a fat traveling businessman beside him. Here, I feel regretful in my heart.

He didn't regret losing his own things to others, but regretted that he had made a mistake in a card just now, which finally made him lose the game when he had a chance to win.

"Okay, stop playing! I've played enough for today." Said the traveling businessman who won the chain and the one who won the most among the many players present.

"Wait a minute, I'm not finished!" Kunstein immediately stopped everyone from coming.

The traveling merchant looked Kunstein up and down pretending to be contemptuous, and said, "You don't have anything to bet on, so you don't want to use money, do you?"