The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although it is called a castle, it is actually very different from the current knight castle in Faran. In terms of its overall shape, this castle is more like a city-state with a huge internal area, just like the desert city-state of the Savile Kingdom. almost.

However, the buildings inside are not the kind of low bungalows. They are all very simple brick and stone houses, and there is nothing special about their shape. The short ones have three or four floors, and all the houses have pointed roofs, which look like minarets from a distance.

Although all houses are the same, the identity of the owner of the house is high or low, and the identity of the owner of the house cannot be distinguished from the height of the house, but can only be judged from the uniform pointed roof.

Those with high status will use more expensive materials to build the roof, and make their own family emblems and some legends into eaves reliefs and place them around the roof, and the holy emblem of the mother of filth on the top of the roof will also use different materials. The difference in these materials is also the difference in their status.

Among them, the material with the lowest status is naturally the most common wood here, while the material with the highest status is gold.

In the entire castle, among the thousands of houses, large and small, only the holy emblem on the top of the lord's mansion is made of gold.

Although the lord Prodi is the most noble person in the entire Lyon Territory, this is only for ordinary people. From the fact that his mansion is not the center of the castle, it can be seen that the real power here is not him.

The entire city-state was built around the altar of the mother of filth. The altar was not only the center of the castle, but also the tallest building in the city-state, and the shape of this altar was also very strange.

The upper part of the altar is a common stepped tower building, but the bracket building below is a group of entangled irregular objects. From a distance, it looks like a ball of hemp rope, while the painting near it looks more like a rope. There are entangled snakes, but unlike snakes, there are no scales carved on the surface of this irregular building, but a thin layer of black oily substance flowing on it.

These black oil substances flow down along the edge and fall into the pool below to form a pool of black oil, and the black oil seems to be endless, always flowing down, and the pool is like a bottomless pit. No matter how much black oil there is, it can't increase the black oil in the pool by one point.

Because there are no religious ceremonies being held now, there are no people in the square around the altar, only some devout family members and clergy of the Dirty Mother are doing something similar to prayers.

After Leo and Sylvia came to the edge of the altar square, they found a place to sit down, and then observed the surrounding situation and collected useful information.

Relying on his extraordinary hearing, Leo listened to the scriptures sung in a specific tone by the family members and clergy around him. Although the content of these scriptures was vague for various reasons, he still collected and sorted them over and over again, and soon This piece of scriptures has been restored.

Just like the prayers of most churches, the prayers of the mother of filth are also full of praises for the mother of filth, but there is still some useful content hidden in these worthless sycophants .

For example, the origin of the mother of filth is mentioned in the first sentence of the prayer, which provides Leo with very useful information. However, she saw that the world was shrouded in filth, so she developed sympathy for all creatures in the world, and voluntarily fell into the world, absorbing the filth of the world, so that all creatures can reproduce normally, but she concentrated all the filth on her body. , unable to fly up and return to the starry sky, only when all the filth on her body disappeared, could she return to the starry sky and shine on the gods.

After removing those meaningless words of praise and boasting in this prayer, two main points are mentioned in the remaining content, one of which is the origin of the mother of filth.

Different from outside research on the mother of filth, this prayer mentions that the mother of filth came from the starry sky and then fell into the filth, instead of being born from the filth of the abyss in the first place.

In this regard, Leo believed in the content of the prayer even more, because he suspected that the mother of filth might also be an Omega-level advanced life form from the universe.

In addition, the strangeness of the power of the abyss in those family members they just discovered just now proves that the origin of the mother of filth does not come from the abyss, because no matter it is the abyss serpent or the abyss dragon, these abyss products are affected by thunder no matter what. Ou and Sylvia's control, the nature of their chaotic power will not change, this is just like their nature.

However, the power of the abyss in the family members and clergy of the filthy mother is regular and orderly, which obviously does not conform to the nature of the products of the abyss, but if the content of the prayer is brought in, the filthy mother's side will be defined As an outsider from the abyss, then all this makes sense, and even the fact that the mother of filth can appear in a place like the Black Forest makes sense.

In addition to the answer to the origin of the mother of filth from the prayer, an important ceremony of the church of the mother of filth is also mentioned in the prayer, which is to reduce the filth for the mother of filth, so that she can return to the starry sky.

Therefore, whether it is a family member, a clergyman, or an ordinary believer, every time after reciting a prayer, they will go to the pool full of black oil substances, and swallow the black oil in the pool.

Leo could feel that after drinking the black oil, there would be some abnormal reactions in the energy fluctuations of their bodies, but these reactions were very weak, and they quickly returned to calm.

Sylvia didn't know the content of the prayer, and she couldn't feel the short-term abnormal energy fluctuations on these people's bodies after drinking the black oil, but she still got some information from the conversations with the people around her.

"According to what I said just now, the front line has captured a group of prisoners and plans to send them over today to prepare for tomorrow's bright day." Sylvia barely understood what these people said, and then whispered to Leo "There should be a sacrifice here tomorrow."

"In this case, let's leave after watching the sacrifice tomorrow." Leo nodded after hearing the words, made a decision, and then told Sylvia what he found.

After hearing this, Sylvia couldn't help but fell into contemplation, and said after a while: "If that's the case, then maybe this Mother of Filth is really a great god, and she can become a god during the First Dynasty. The largest church at that time was justifiable. After all, even in that chaotic period, it was difficult for the evil god to become the largest church. After all, according to common sense, the vast majority of believers would not give up their faith in a church that would kill them at any time. Religion and gods."

The two of them stayed on the edge of the square for a while, and suddenly saw a few people hurrying outside, then stepped over the pool filled with black oil, and entered the altar. After a while, they saw several people who looked like maggots The senior priests crawled out of the altar, crawled across the pool and square, and moved towards another exit of the castle.

Seeing the appearance of the maggots, many people immediately became agitated and fanatical. They got up from the ground and followed behind the maggots. Leo and Sylvia didn't intend to follow, but stayed where they were , Watching those few maggots lead most of the believers and clergy in the square, disappearing at the corner of that road.

After a while, the noise came from that road, and then I saw the maggots wriggling at the front of the team, leading the team forward slowly. During the process, the maggots held their hands high. Holding the scepter in his hand, shaking it in the air, chanting some scriptures in his mouth.

In the middle of the team is a wooden platform that needs at least a hundred people to lift it up. On the platform is a statue of a god, a statue of the mother of filth.

This statue of the filthy mother looks very weird. His lower body looks like a maggot, covered with a layer of black oil, and his upper body is a perfect woman, and on his back is a pair of transparent wings. , this pair of wings wrapped his body like a burqa, and in his arms was holding a snake. This snake had just hatched from an egg, and half of its body was still in the egg.

"Is this the mother of filth?" Sylvia couldn't help but said after seeing the statue, "It's completely different from what I imagined, it seems..." As she spoke, she suddenly stopped listening, and her vigilance became low. Head, did not look at the statue of the filthy mother, and reminded Leo: "Be careful, don't stare at the statue, that statue seems to affect the mind of those who watch it."

Although Leo's reaction was not as strong as Sylvia's, he also turned his head away and didn't look at the statue again. As Sylvia said, when he saw the statue, a voice immediately appeared In his consciousness, he couldn't hear what this voice was saying, but he felt that this voice was very pleasant, and he had the urge to listen to it forever.

"Let's go! Let's leave here temporarily, and come here when the sacrifice begins." Leo put the hood of his robe back on, gestured to Sylvia, and then turned and left the square.

The two quickly found a hotel that was exclusively open to foreigners. There were only two such hotels in the entire castle.

Because of the grand ceremony to sacrifice the Mother of Dirt tomorrow, many believers of the Mother of Dirt from outside the Lyon Territory and Lyon Territory gathered here, making the hotel here overcrowded, and Leo and Sylvia could only Share a room with a dozen or so believers.

It seems that it is not the first time for these believers to come here to participate in this kind of sacrificial ceremony, so they are not disgusted by the situation that more than a dozen people live in one room. They are very excited about tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony. Chatting with other people, Leo and Sylvia sat quietly in a corner of the room, quietly listening to their conversation, and wrote down the content of their conversation, and gained a lot of useful information from these contents material.

For example, the area where they are located is called Dirty Pond. It consists of nineteen territories in total. Lyon Territory is one of them. It is neither the largest nor the smallest. It has become one of the richest territories in Dirty Pond, and it is precisely because of this that every ten full moons, the Lyon Territory will hold a large sacrificial ceremony to demonstrate the Lyon Territory's respect and belief in the Mother of Dirty.

Most of the sacrifices used for sacrifices are captives captured after wars with other regions. Judging from the content of the conversation, the dirty pool seems to be handed over to the other two regions, and the relationship with the other two regions is particularly bad. There are frequent wars.

In addition, in addition to the battle axes, among these sacrifices, there are also many believers who voluntarily sacrificed.

These believers are almost all people who are old enough to die, but their bodies have not yet undergone any mutations. In the belief of the filthy mother here, only when the body has mutated can it be regarded as the real family member of the filthy mother, and can return to the embrace of the filthy mother after death, and those believers who have not become a family member will be killed after death. The Black Forest devours and disappears forever.

Therefore, some believers thought of a way, that is, voluntarily become a sacrifice, and merge with the mother of filth. Although it was also absorbed and completely disappeared from this world, compared to being swallowed by the black forest, it is more for For believers, it is obviously more in line with their wishes to serve the mother of filth as a snack.

In addition, although all the territories of Dirty Pool believe in the Mother of Dirty, they do not have a unified church. Basically, each territory is an independent small church of the Mother of Dirty. Doctrines have their own understanding, and when these Filthy Mother believers from different territories gather together, the first thing they will do is to have a great doctrinal debate.

It's a pity that when Leo and Sylvia arrived, the doctrinal debate in the room they were in had already ended. Otherwise, from the debates among the believers of the Dirty Mother, Leo would be able to gather more information about the Dirty Mother. data of.

In the end, Leo and Sylvia also got some things about Lanxi during the conversation with these people.

When these believers mentioned Lanxi, their emotions seemed very strange. When they mentioned Lanxi's belief in the mother of filth, they all seemed extremely disdainful, and even described Lanxi's belief in the mother of filth as a shame of faith, but at the same time He also showed obvious awe of Lanxi, and all Lanxi people were called wise men.

These believers were also curious about Leo and Silvia, because they had never seen the mutations on their bodies, and their clothes were also different, but they did not regard them as Lanxi like the old hunter. Come, because some of these people have been to Lanxi and know what Lanxi's clothes look like.

However, because Leo and Sylvia always ignored their questions, they quickly lost interest in them.