The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the mutation on Irene happened in the middle of the night, many people in the castle had already rested, but there were still many people who were still awake. These people saw that the whole castle became transparent under the red light. Yes, a few of the unlucky ones accidentally lowered their heads and saw the dark and deep underground.

Even Leo's strong willpower would feel uncomfortable seeing that dark and profound scene, let alone a few ordinary people, so those unlucky ones passed out at that time, and in the second After waking up, they all went crazy without exception.

The red light erupted at night, the castle became transparent, and suddenly someone went crazy. All kinds of weird things happened together, which made people have some associations, so some rumors spread in the castle, some rumors about Sylvia It was also mentioned again and connected, which made the whole castle panic.

When Sylvia got the fiefdom of Randall at the beginning, many people in the kingdom were envious and jealous, and many people obstructed her when she took over Randall, creating all kinds of rumors that were not good for her. , such as deliberately revealing her identity as a witch, and making various rumors based on her identity as a witch.

Although witch hunting by the Orthodox Church had stopped for many years, legends and stories related to witch hunting continued to circulate in the world of Velen, and many of them have become well-known folk tales.

In all the stories, without exception, the witch likes to do evil things such as refining harmful poison, torturing ordinary people, and even spreading plagues, so the attitude of the people towards the witch is hatred and disgust.

Facing this kind of rumor, Sylvia used the most direct method to decipher it. She directly put on the costume of the Orthodox Tribunal Judge and walked directly through the center of Randall, accompanied by the dean of the Sea God Church and other church clergy.

Although Randall's people don't know much about the Orthodox Church, and it is impossible to know what the clothes of the adjudicator are, they can recognize the church badges on the clothes, and the entourage of the priest and clergy of the Sea God Church is even more impressive. With the church's attitude, those witch rumors are naturally self-defeating.

However, even if the rumors were broken, the rumors did not disappear because of this, and they were still used by Randall's people as talk after dinner, but no one believed it anymore.

But what is happening now makes people feel weird no matter what, and it is so similar to the description of the witch in the story, so the legend of the witch that has been silent has come to mind again.

However, only the servants and workers of the outer and inner castles are affected by the witch story. As for the stewards and servants of the main castle, they all know the identity of the Sylvia witch and have passed various loyalty tests of Sylvia. Someone Sylvia trusted, so it didn't have much influence.

"Aren't you going to deal with it?" In the early morning, Leo's super hearing heard some servants talking about what happened last night, and turned to ask Sylvia who was washing with the help of the maid.

Sylvia said calmly: "It doesn't matter. Their discussion like this won't affect me. As for my reputation, I have been too kind a few years ago. It's time to increase my dignity." She turned her head Looking at Leo who had already changed into his suitcase, he said, "If you go to the port, some officials there may deliberately make things difficult for you. You don't have to be polite, just use your own method to solve it."

Leo nodded, left the room, and came to the courtyard of the main castle. At this time, the steward had prepared the carriage and accompanying attendants. Leo got on the carriage and ordered to go to the Municipal Archives. The attendants jumped on the seat in front of the carriage, The carriage started slowly and drove towards the outside of the castle.

Seaview Cliff is located on the northwest side of Port Randall, separated by a forest and a plantation, just like most of the areas near the sea at the southern end of the Velen Continent, the plantations here are also planted with grapes, and the grapes here are still famous. The variety was transplanted from the Porto area by the French royal family in the past. After hundreds of years of improvement, it has now become a new grape variety.

Every year, the grapes here are brewed into fine wine by Castle Black and named after Castle Black.

Many wine lovers believed that the value of this grape plantation far exceeded the value of Castle Black itself, and many of those who were jealous of Sylvia's acquisition of the fief of Randall were jealous of her. Acquired this grape plantation.

Because of the cold weather, all the vines need to keep warm. In addition to covering all the grape racks with a layer of breathable gauze, the managers of the plantation also lighted the surrounding area of ​​the plantation at night. Some braziers raise the temperature, which also doubles the manpower needed for the plantation. Many unemployed fishermen in Randall Port have come here to work part-time.

The blockade of the sea surface by gray fog is a fatal blow to all navigation industries. Almost the entire navigation industry in the world of Velen has fallen into a desperate situation. Now it can only rely on some shipping near the sea to support the entire endangered industry.

The fishing industry is also in desperation. Those fishermen who rely on fishing at sea for a living have all lost their source of income. Although they can catch some fish in the waters near the shore, the amount of fish caught is comparable to that of offshore and distant sea fishing. Compared with the harvest brought by fish, it seems insignificant.

And I don’t know if it’s because of their concentrated overfishing, or because the fish have learned to be smart. All in all, there are very few fish that can be caught near the shore. It’s not bad for a skilled old fisherman to catch dozens of them at a time. Yes, many fishermen usually catch nothing.

In this way, these idle fishermen have become a hidden danger to the security of almost all port cities. These fishermen hang out in taverns all day long, drinking cheap self-brewed wine, feeling at a loss and fear of the future, all kinds of pressure fall on them, and they are drunk. Finally, all these pressures are released, and the way to release them is to fight.

In addition, some unsustainable fishermen will also appear as robbers and thieves, which makes the local prison full of people soon.

A few days ago, Sylvia could see from the documents obtained by the intelligence agency that within the United Kingdom, these fishermen had become some big troubles, making the United Kingdom, which had just been established, somewhat unstable.

However, Rupert Fitz seems to have found a solution. He approved a large number of infrastructure constructions within the kingdom, such as the urban sewer widening plan, the Kingdom Avenue plan, the urban slum reconstruction plan, and other costly kingdom construction plans. And part of the manpower needed in these plans is ordinary people in need of relief, another part is prisoners in prisons, and the last part is those idle fishermen.

This has greatly eased the pressure on prison accommodation and city law and order. The only thing that needs to be paid is enough money. For Rupert Fitz, it can be the least headache for him.

The situation in Randall is slightly different from that of other fishing ports. Although the fishing industry here has also been hit, some fishermen have already started businesses, but because of the Sea God Church, most fishermen can still fish in the offshore area. The number of fish can no longer be compared with before.

The Sea God Church will hold a ceremony every month. In this ceremony, they will bless some fishing boats. After the blessed fishing boats enter the mist, as long as they are not too far away from Randall Port, they will not lose their way, and they will not lose their way. You will not be attacked by unknown existences in the black mist, and you can fish in offshore waters with confidence.

Although the catches are much less than before, the income of these fishermen who have a good relationship with the Sea God Church has not decreased too much, because as the gray fog seals the sea, the seafood decreases rapidly, whether it is in the joint In the Kingdom, or in the Faran Empire, the supply of seafood is in short supply. The price of an ordinary sea fish has risen several times, and the growth has not yet slowed down or even declined.

There are also some fishing boats that are very unlucky, and they can’t make it every time. They get the blessing of the Sea God Church. Most of the fishermen on these fishing boats were diverted by the municipal construction plan of Randall Port, and the rest were also planted like grapes. All in all, even if the fog has closed the sea for such a long time, Randall Port, a large fishing port, can still maintain stability in terms of law and order, and there is no sign of panic like other places in the market.

And the more important thing that affects people's hearts is that it is not a bad thing in the port of Randall. Not only are the mutants here not discriminated against and suppressed like other places, but they have become the envy of others, because in the port of Randall In this city where the Church of the Sea God occupies an absolute dominant position, the mutants all show the variation of the Sea God's family without exception. Some have scales like sea fish growing on their bodies, and some have acquired the ability of fish to breathe in the sea, etc. wait.

After the Sea God Church has verified that these mutants are indeed mutated in the direction of the Sea God Family, they will publicly admit that these people have become Sea God Family members, and incorporate them into the Sea God Church, becoming one of the priests that everyone envies. On the streets of Doyle, many mutants wearing the costumes of the priests of the Sea God Church can be seen preaching in various squares.

"Stop." When the carriage passed a small square, Leo knocked on the carriage and ordered.

The carriage stopped quickly, and the position was just at the outer edge of the small square, just enough to hear clearly the mutant clergy preaching loudly on the podium in the middle of the square.

The head of this mutant cleric has obvious fish-like mutations, such as scales, ears turned into fins, palms with an extra layer of webs, etc., but the overall appearance is still similar to that of humans.

Although he has just joined the Sea God Church and has not been a clergyman for long, he is very familiar with the sea god classics, and he can casually tell a story in the classics when preaching, which shows that he was already a member of the Sea God Church before he became a mutant. devout believers.

The citizens of Randall Port standing around him did not show any disgust or dislike for the mutant in front of him. Instead, they looked at him with reverence and envy. Every time the other party recited the name of God, they would be extremely devout. On the chest is painted the emblem of the sea god.

Leo listened for a while, but only heard some sparse and ordinary sermon content, so he lost interest in continuing to listen and prepared to leave.

Just when he was about to tell the coachman to move on, the content of the mutant's sermon caught his attention again.

It turns out that the content of the sermons that this mutant is giving is no longer the content of the sermons of the Sea God Church in the past, but the content of the sermons re-written according to the current situation of the gray fog sealing the sea.

In the content of the sermon, the gray fog was described as a test of the sea god to mankind, and it was also a gift. Only devout believers who passed the test could receive the blessing of the gods.

Generally, anyone with a little brains would not believe such temporary sermons full of loopholes, but the problem is that among all the churches of gods in the entire Velen continent, only the church of the sea god can bless the sea god through rituals. The ship can sail safely in the fog-covered sea, which is impossible for other churches of the gods, which also makes this sermon full of loopholes have innate evidence to prove its authenticity.

It is also because of this that some of the believers of the Sea God Church in Port Randall continue to become extremely devout believers, and many even become fanatics, and it is the first time that the Sea God Church has spread its faith to surrounding cities.

"Is the Church of Sea God planning to take advantage of the opportunity of the world's changes to expand the faith?" After listening to the new sermon, Leo ordered the driver to continue to the archives, and a trace of doubt arose in his heart.

The belief in Sea God is one of the oldest beliefs in the Vinylon world, and it is also one of the largest churches. The Sea God Church not only has church churches in the surrounding port cities of the three continents, but also the two sea overlords of the Kingdom of Engel and the Kingdom of Sigmar. The church of the Sea God is the state religion of the country, and there are countless believers. Almost everyone who lives at sea believes in the Sea God to some extent.

Although the Sea God Church is so large, because the beliefs are too scattered, the Sea God Church has never had a unified Holy See, and it also makes the Sea God Church look like a mess.

Both the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Sigmar consider themselves the orthodoxy of the Church of Sea God, and the churches of these two countries are also opposed to each other, and both have established holy places in their own countries. The situation of the Church of Sea God on the three continents is similar, and each has its own The holy places of each other do not belong to each other.

As a direct result of this, the position of the Sea God Church in the Orthodox Church has always been in the middle, and even the number of devout believers is shrinking year by year. This is definitely bad news for the Sea God Church, and the ultimate solution to this declining situation A good way is to let the Church of the Sea God show its unique strength to the world, and the gray mist gave them the best platform to showcase it.