The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

At this moment, a very ancient bell sounded from the city of Ethiopia. The sound of the bell resounded through the entire city in an instant like the sound of nature, even the screams of fear and the roars of monsters were suppressed. They went down, and the ordinary people who were still in a state of madness on the third floor seemed to be awakened by the sound of the bell, one by one got up from the ground, and ran crazily towards the market above.

"The Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things?" At the moment the bell rang, Leo turned his head and looked towards the place where the bell sounded. Although he was standing at the bottom of the canyon, his sight seemed to penetrate layers Like the land, see things on the canyon.

All Savile cities must have a church of the Lord of the Birth and Death. All Saviles, whether they really believe in the Lord of the Birth and Death or not, will definitely go to the church to participate in a religious ceremony every ten days. The belief in the Lord of Life and Death has almost disappeared after it left the Savile Kingdom, and its influence is not even ranked in the top five, but the fanatics of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things are the largest among the major religions in the world of Velen. It is even considered that adding all the fanatics in the top ten religions together may not necessarily have more fanatics than the Lord of Birth and Death.

Once the gods really return to the world of Velen, the supernatural beings of the Church of the Lord of All Things Birth and Death may far exceed other churches, because fanatics can bear the power of the gods far more than others, almost as long as they perform rituals to instill divine power, There is no danger of failure.

And because there are so many fanatics, there are fanatics praying and repenting every day and every night in the Church of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things. the point.

In normal times, the senior clergy in the church who possess the magic of the Lord of the Birth and Death of all things can use their divine power to invoke these huge and strong belief powers of the church, strengthen the power of the magic, show miracles to believers, and make believers think that everything is born and died The Lord is always watching them.

But now, it is obvious that the senior priests stationed in that church are using the power of faith contained in the church to deal with this family crisis.

"There should be a follow-up!" Leo found that although the sound of the bell could wake up people with low willpower who fell into madness because of seeing monsters, it didn't have much impact on those out-of-control family members, so he felt the urgency of life and death. The attacks of the Episcopal Church against these runaway families are not over yet.

Sure enough, just as suspicion arose in Leo's heart, the bell suddenly stopped, followed by a burst of chants adapted from prayers, filling the entire city in an instant.

In the ears of the believers of the Lord of the Birth and Death, these songs are like a lullaby before going to bed for their mothers, which makes them enter a peaceful state and fall into a deep sleep, while those who are not believers of the Lord of the Birth and Death As if they heard the most unpleasant curse in the world, they all fell into a coma. As for a transcendent like Leo, as if being watched by an existence, his body was completely stiff and he did not dare to move.

However, compared to those out-of-control family members, being stiff and unable to move is nothing, because the bodies of those out-of-control family members immersed in singing seemed to have turned into flammable objects, and all of them burned from the inside out. , Even if their bodies are mutated, they cannot prevent the flames from causing pain.

Leo's mental net was open from the beginning to the end, not only observing the mutation of the monsters at the bottom of the canyon, but also observing the magic performed by the Church of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things.

He was able to withstand the natural suppression from the Omega-level advanced life forms of the divine power fluctuations generated by the bell at the beginning, but when the bells turned into chants, the divine power fluctuations were also adapted accordingly, and that The suppression of this kind of life form is even more multiplied, which has exceeded the tolerance limit of the sixth-level psyker.

At this moment, Leo had no choice but to retract the spiritual net, because he felt that if he continued to open the spiritual net to pry into the mysteries of divine power, then the power contained in the chant would probably target him, so now he only Can be a true bystander.

However, something that surprised Leo soon happened. Just when the other two out-of-control family members with weird shapes that were beyond description were all burned to charcoal, the other family member of the mother of the hives He was able to instinctively suppress the flames coming out of his body, reducing the damage he suffered a lot. Even because of the severe pain, part of his consciousness recovered from madness and made the most correct choice.

I saw that this out-of-control family member jumped into the rushing Savile River without hesitation, his huge body floated on the water, was pushed by the river and rushed downstream quickly, and the flames on his body were also washed by the river. Turns off quickly.

Leo didn't have the idea of ​​jumping into the river to chase the runaway family member. He walked directly to the third floor market, came to the corpses of the two runaway family members, and carefully checked their corpses.

Undoubtedly, the two out-of-control family members were completely dead, their bodies were burnt to charcoal inside and out, and there was no possibility of them surviving.

However, such a flame did not burn away the source of their mutation, and there were still two fresh-looking lumps of flesh curled up in the charred remains of the two.

Leo reached out and tore open the weird body of the out-of-control family members, found the two meatballs, and took them out to have a look.

There is no doubt that these two meatballs should be derived from the alien god cells of the evil god, so this also proves that these family members are obviously not natural family members derived from blood like the British royal family, but artificially transformed Families.

At this moment, Leo suddenly felt a sense of hunger for these two meat balls. At first he thought it was the hunger caused by the chaotic stomach, but it turned out that it was the eyeball of the abyssal serpent.

This sense of hunger is very strong. Without doubt, if it is not suppressed by the chaotic stomach, maybe the eyeballs of the abyss serpent have already begun to actively devour these two meat balls.

After discovering the abnormality, Leo thought about it for a while, and released the restrictions on the eyeballs of the abyss snake.

Then I saw a big mouth popped out of the palm of the arm where the eyeball of the abyss snake lived, and swallowed two meat balls that were not too big. , also flashed a faint light as if it came alive, and also passed a piece of information to Leo, this piece of information is the use of some kind of power of the abyss.

The chanting didn't last too long, it subsided quickly, and the power of the gods covering the whole city also weakened rapidly. At this time, the sky also became dark, and the whole city became silent, and the people in the city either Died under the power contained in the chant, or fell into a deep sleep under the influence of the power of the chant, it seemed that only Leo remained awake.

Leo didn't stay in the market any longer, he turned around and left quickly. Not long after he left, he saw a group of priests from the Lord of Birth and Death leading a group of church knights to the market.

The first place this team of the Church of the Lord of Birth and Death arrived was the Hewan Market on the north bank. The situation there was similar to that here, or even worse, because there were five family members out of control, and one of the family members out of control It happened to be blocked at the stone steps, intercepting all the people encountered in the market.

The frenzied killing of the five out-of-control family members, coupled with the fact that ordinary people were driven into an irresistible state of madness by the special energy of the family members, finally caused almost all the people in the river bend market on the north bank to die.

It's just that the five out-of-control family members also spontaneously combusted to death in the singing of the Church of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things. None of them could resist the divine power that caused the spontaneous combustion and save themselves like the family members of the mother of the hives.

Although corpses are strewn across the river bend market on the north bank, like a purgatory on earth, the believers of the Lord of the Birth and Death are unmoved by this scene. Walking on the ground covered with flesh and blood is like walking in the small garden behind the church. Same,

Those senior clergymen of the church who were dressed in different clothes commanded the church knights to dissect the bodies of those out-of-control family members, and then find the meat balls from them. After finding the meat balls, they did not grab the meat balls very casually like Leo , but carefully clamped the meat ball with a clip full of divine words, and put it into a single metal box. The inner and outer walls of the box were also engraved with the sacred words of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things.

However, although these church knights have long been mentally prepared, and these out-of-control family members have died, and the power that affects others' minds and caused others to go crazy has disappeared, but these church knights are after all performing such a task for the first time , It was also the first time I saw such a monster, and the fear and tension in my heart inevitably arose, and these emotions also affected their actions.

I saw that one of the young knights had clamped the meat ball and was about to put it into the box, but the nervousness caused him to lose control of the strength in his hand, and the clamped meat ball fell out of the clamp. And the knight instinctively reached out to catch the meat ball.

The moment the church knight caught the meat ball, countless tentacles grew out of the meat ball instantly, piercing into the church knight's palm, and at the same time, the surface quickly melted and merged with the knight's palm. The whole process was very fast. It can be said that the mutation appeared in the blink of an eye.

"Ah!" The rapid mutation also brought extreme pain to the church knight, so that he couldn't help but screamed loudly.

The other church knights beside them didn't expect such a thing to happen at all, they were all stunned, they didn't know what to do, they could only watch their companions scream.

"Go away! A bunch of waste!" At this moment, a senior priest with a beard who looked more like a warrior rushed over, and before everyone could react, he directly pulled out the scimitar of a church knight and pointed at The corrupted knight swung his sword.

A head flew up and fell into a pile of broken corpses next to it. The headless corpse also fell to the ground, and the mutation of the corpse's palm also stopped, shrinking back to the state of a meat ball.

The cleric asked someone to take a new box and clip, carefully put the meat balls into the box, then stood up, and said to the leader of the church knights who had come over, "If church knights are like this people, then you church knights will be disbanded in the future."

"My lord, I know how to deal with it!" The captain of the church knights responded, walked up to those subordinates who saw their companions being eroded but did not take any action, and directly put the badges representing the church knights on them He took it down and said sternly: "All of you will go to the reserve group tomorrow. If you don't complete the ten good deeds and the ten evil deeds, you will stay in the reserve group forever."

Hearing the handling, several church knights looked very ugly, but they didn't dare to say anything, they could only accept the handling result.

"You've overdone it." When the bearded cleric returned to the queue behind, an elderly clergyman dressed similarly to him said slightly dissatisfied.

The bearded man gave his companion a white look, and said, "Besides killing him, what else can you do to save him?"

The old man shook his head and said: "I'm not talking about the one who was infected, but the other knights of the church. You must know that we have to employ people now. Now you drive people back to the reserve group, and you have to complete ten good and ten evil deeds." , those little fellows may find it difficult to become regular church knights."

The bearded man said very viciously: "That's good, so that they don't encounter similar things in the future and lose their lives, and it's also good for the Cavaliers they joined, so that they don't have to fight these Ability God Families at the same time. Watch out for something stupid these guys do."

The old man sighed and didn't say anything else. He handed over the gathered metal boxes to the priests around him and asked them to take them back to the church. Afterwards, the group of them went directly to the opposite bank via a chain bridge pulled from the Hewan Market. .

However, when they saw the scene of the Riverbend Market on the South Bank, they were extremely surprised, because the number of deaths here was far lower than their estimates, and what surprised them even more was that the people on the third floor market The two out-of-control family members have been dissected, and the contents of their bodies have also been taken away.

"Who did it? The night watchman? Or someone from another church?" The bearded cleric walked quickly to one of the corpses, examined the corpse carefully, and said with a puzzled expression.

"It can't be the night watchman. They are all staying in the United Kingdom of France now, staring at Venaya Port, and have no intention of coming here to make trouble." The old man shook his head, denying the possibility of the night watchman. It was equivalent to thinking that other churches were playing tricks, and then he walked up to the corpse, took a closer look, and said, "This person seems to be very clear about where that thing is in the body of these monsters, have you seen it?" Pointing to the hole Leo made in the corpse, he said: "He only opened one hole and found that thing. If he didn't have the special ability to find that thing, then he could only be... ..."