The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Seeing this, Leo couldn't help thinking of the phantom of the sea god he saw when he crossed the sea last time, so he raised his head and asked Sylvia, "You are the lord of Randall, what do you think of this sea god church?"

"It was the first ancient church to join the Orthodox Church. It usually doesn't have any sense of the church. It just holds some sea ceremonies when ordinary ships go to sea, and some sacrificial ceremonies when fishing boats return with a full load. Generally speaking, it is a very peaceful church. Sylvia recalled for a while, and said: "I am considered a believer of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and the relationship between the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the Church of the Sea God is not very good, so I don't have much communication with the Church of the Sea God." When she saw Leo frowned slightly, she immediately had some associations in her mind, and said, "Do you suspect that the Sea God Church is related to that assassin?"

Hearing that Sylvia misunderstood what he meant, Leo was about to explain, but stopped when the words came to his lips, because after a quick analysis, he found that Sylvia's misunderstanding-like conjecture did not seem to be true. There is indeed a lot of suspicion in the Sea God Church.

Although Randall used to be the territory of the French royal family, this land has great autonomy. Basically, the French royal family in the north has never adapted to the life on the southern seashore, and it is difficult to come once a year. The city government and the Sea God Church are the actual power holders here.

But now that Randall has become Sylvia's fiefdom, Sylvia's character will naturally not allow her fief not to be controlled by herself, so Sylvia must have done something to get Randall's Political power, this will inevitably lead to some conflicts with the Randall City Government and the Sea God Church.

The Randall City Government is a good solution for Sylvia. Through the work of the intelligence department, it is easy to find some moths from the city government, and then use this as a breakthrough to reorganize the city government and obtain the administrative power of the city government .

But the Church of the Sea God is different. Her methods are not suitable for the church, and because of the Orthodox Church, the power struggle between the Church of the Sea God and Sylvia may still be at a stalemate.

If Sylvia has no heir, then who will benefit the most, normally the United Kingdom, because if the fiefdom nobles have no heir, then the fiefdom will be nationalized, but the hidden beneficiary is the Sea God Church, because of this As a result, they were able to regain control of Randall Port.

And the more important point is that the Church of the Sea God and the Church of the Lord of the Sky have been hostile for so many years, and there have been countless secret conflicts between the two sides, and even senior clergy have participated in it, so they should be familiar with each other's divine power, and want to imitate similar It's not difficult to have a breath of divine power.

"Do you think it's possible?" Leo didn't know much about the Sea God Church, Randall Port, etc., and didn't have enough information to make a correct judgment, so he could only ask Sylvia back.

Sylvia was silent for a moment when she heard this, and took out a document wrapped in a black document bag from a pile of documents, and handed it to Leo.

Leo took the file bag, opened it and took out the three pages inside, and quickly read it, with a little solemn look on his face.

These three pages are a letter written by the headmaster of Vinlen Continent of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and the content on it is the detailed investigation of the assassin with the blessing of the gods by the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

At the very beginning of the investigation document, the Chief Dean admitted that the assassin was the Divine Cleaner of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and that he had a very high status among the Cleaners, and he was a mentor-level figure. He just disappeared, and was listed as a death list long ago, and the battle that led to the disappearance of the Cleaners was a conflict with the Sea God Church.

At that time, the internal investigation team of the church believed that the cleanser of the gods should have been killed when he was fighting with a powerful person from the Sea God Church, and the body was also taken away by the Sea God Church as a trophy, because the Sea God Church had taken away the corpses of powerful enemies. The habit of taking away as spoils, so when the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the Church of the Sea God negotiated afterwards, I hoped that the Church of the Sea God would return the body of the cleanser, but the result was that the Church of the Sea God said that there was no such body, and the cleanser was not there either. On the list of achievements of the Sea God Church.

Afterwards, the Church of Sea God conducted some unannounced investigations, and finally came to the conclusion that the Church of Sea God did not lie, that the liquidator did not die in the hands of the Church of Sea God, and the Church of the Sky Lord also discovered that the Church of Sea God also had someone involved in that conflict. disappeared.

In the end, the head teacher said that there must be a third-party force that intervened in the conflict, and took away the liquidator, and there was an unknown method to control the liquidator, so he made the assassination of Sylvia heir thing.

Although in these three pages there is no clear indication of who the third-party force is, Leo can still feel from the lines that it should refer to the original French royal family.

"I don't think it's the royal family of France." At this moment, Sylvia seemed to see what Leo was thinking, and directly denied his thoughts, saying: "It is possible that the Bishop of the Sky, and the Church of Sea God is also possible. But the possibility of the French royal family is very small, whether it is the current French royal family or the royal family of the United Kingdom, the possibility of doing such a thing is very small."

After hearing the words, Leo thought for a while and said, "Is it because of interests?"

"Well." Sylvia nodded, and said seriously: "I have no heir, and even if I die, neither the French royal family nor the royal family of the king can get the slightest benefit from it, on the contrary, it will cause some bad things. Influence, if they are not downright stupid, they should not do such things that hurt others and benefit themselves. On the contrary, the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the Church of the Sea God will have a lot of benefits when I have no heir."

Leo asked a little puzzled: "I can understand that the Church of the Sea God would be beneficial, but the Church of the Lord of the Sky?"

Sylvia explained: "I once made a suicide note, and donated all my property to the Church of the Lord of the Sky after my death. I haven't had time to revise that suicide note yet, and it is still valid."

Leo was stunned when he heard the words, then frowned again, and said, "The Church of the Lord of the Sky should not..."

"It didn't happen before, but it doesn't mean it won't happen now." Sylvia seemed to have thought of something, but she didn't plan to tell Leo, she just said something briefly, and then handed over the matter to her to investigate. Nothing more to say on this matter.

Seeing that Sylvia had already made a decision, Leo didn't say anything more.

In the next few days on the train, the few people lived peacefully without encountering any accidents. I don't know if it was because those who regarded Tolan as the destroyer of the world had stopped, or because the Church of the Sky Lord passively intervened. The investigation acted as a deterrent, or it might be because Sylvia changed the train midway, chartered a section of carriages, and dispatched a team of elite men to protect them, so that those people had no chance of attacking.

All in all, after the past few days, their group arrived at Randall Railway Station in the suburbs of Randall Port without any danger. When they walked out of the train station, the butler of the Belmont family had already arranged for the escort of the carriage. The personnel waited on the square in front of the train station.

Sylvia and the others got into the carriage directly. Amid the yelling of the coachman, the carriage started slowly, gradually accelerated, and drove towards the castle located on the sea cliff outside Randall Port.

Wanghai Cliff is located on the seaside cliff on the east side of Randall Port. It is about 100 meters from the sea level to the top of the cliff. The scenery of the area has a panoramic view. If you look towards the sea, the area of ​​the sea you can see from the Wanghai Cliff will be larger.

Due to geographical reasons, the early port of Randall built a lighthouse here as a navigation marker to guide fishing boats into the port.

However, I don’t know why many fishing boats, after seeing the guidepost of the lighthouse, not only did not enter the port according to the correct position, but instead ran straight towards the cliff under the lighthouse as if they were possessed by evil spirits, so that they looked at the sea. The sea area under the cliff has become a fishing boat ranch.

Afterwards, people from the Church of the Sea God came to investigate and found that there was a mysterious force here, which could distort the light and even produce mirage-like illusions, so that those fishing boats finally accepted the wrong guidance.

As a result, the lighthouse here was abandoned, and the people in Port Randall had to choose another place to build a new lighthouse.

However, this original lighthouse was not demolished, because when it was about to be demolished, the British royal family came here and used this lighthouse as the main support pillar to build Castle Black overlooking the sea cliff. The main body of the lighthouse can still be seen inside the castle.

The carriage drove very fast, and arrived at Randall Port in a short while, but the carriage did not drive into the downtown area of ​​the port, but turned a corner when entering the first square of the port, heading towards the sea-watching cliff. Castle Black drove away.

In the carriage, Leo also drove the spirit net to instantly cover Randall Port and the surrounding area. Soon, through the feedback information, he learned that Sylvia's reputation in Randall Port was really bad. Knowing that Sylvia came back, the Randorians stayed in their favorite taverns, cursing Sylvia's series of reforms to Randall Port, and gave Sylvia a vicious foreign policy one by one. No. It is not an exaggeration to describe the relationship between the two parties as a situation of fire and water.

However, it wasn't Sylvia that these Randall bottom fishermen talked about the most. Cursing Sylvia seemed to be just a warm-up for their real chat. What they talked about most in the tavern was going fishing.

How to fish safely in the gray fog and bring back the catch has become their most concerned thing, and according to the content of their conversation, the Sea God Church seems to be able to make a special figurehead, as long as this The figurehead is installed on the front of the fishing boat, and after each harvest, the necessary sacrifices are made, so that the fish can be fished safely in the gray fog.

From their conversation, it can be heard that several large fishing boats have already installed the figureheads provided by the Church of the Sea God on their bows, and they have successfully caught a large amount of fish in the sea blocked by gray fog, making a lot of money. Pen.

The ship owners in the tavern also planned to install a figurehead on their ships, but because of the price, they could only chip in a few people to buy a figurehead, and several ships would use it in turn.

The news that he heard made Leo feel a little surprised, because although Seagod claims to be in charge of the ocean and is a true god with great power, compared with the old gods such as Lord of the Sky, Seagod's power is still much worse. Even the top true gods in the Velen world, such as the Lord of the Sky, could not break the blockade of the gray mist, so how could the Sea God have the ability to erase the power in the gray mist.

So this figurehead was either used by the Church of the Sea God to cheat money, or the Church of the Sea God really mastered a method that allowed the fishing boat to pass through the gray fog safely.

However, Leo was not in a hurry to find out what was going on, because all the fishing boats with figureheads had already gone to sea, and he would have to wait a few days before returning to port to have a figurehead for him to check. Leo didn't think about the idea of ​​looking for the figure of the sea god church, because he might need to cross the sea in the future, so now he doesn't want to offend the sea god.

After the carriage tried a specially built and planted forest, it began to climb uphill, and Leo's spiritual net was also transferred to Wanghai Cliff and Castle Black.

And when his mental net swept through these two places, a look of surprise appeared on his face. He found that the spiritual net, which can penetrate even the superalloy armor of a star warship, was actually blocked by a mysterious force. Wanghai Cliff and outside Castle Black, in his senses, the place was empty, there was nothing there.

"What's wrong?" Sylvia couldn't help asking after seeing Leo's obvious expression.

"I can't sense your castle and Wanghai Cliff," Leo told the truth, and said, "There must be something hidden here."

Just as Leo was speaking, the carriage had already driven to the edge of the area where the spiritual network was blocked, and then he was not immersed in that mysterious force.

At this time, Leo tried to use his own power, and found that his own power has been weakened to varying degrees, even the spiritual power is the same, but these restricted powers do not include the abyss power in the crystal serpent. .

After discovering this, Leo immediately turned his head towards Sylvia and asked, "Don't you feel any sign that your power is being restricted?"

"Restricted?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, and immediately drove the abyssal power in her body to check her body, then shook her head, looked at Leo with some puzzlement, and said, "No! The abyss in my body The power is intact, there is no restriction at all," she said, she noticed Leo's expression, and said, "Did you find something?"

"Most of the power in me is restricted." Leo nodded, and then continued: "Only the power of the abyss is not restricted. It seems that the so-called mysterious power here should be a hidden abyss crack, and this abyss The rift has formed an abyss domain."