The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In Leo's impression and cognition, the churches of the Church of the Hill King are all magnificent buildings made of huge stones. Standing in front of the church, people will feel awe from the heart, as if the gods are right in front of them. , but the church of the King of the Hill in front of him is just an ordinary red brick house, which is not much different from other houses around. The only thing that can identify it as a church is the holy emblem of the King of the Hill on the top of the church. .

"Although I already knew that the Church of the Hill King was severely suppressed by blood clans and werewolves in Asha County, I didn't expect it to be so suppressed." Leo looked at the church in front of him in surprise, which could no longer be controlled by simple tools. After describing the Church of the King of the Hill, I couldn't help asking in doubt: "The King of the Hill allows such a church to exist?"

"Of course not. This church has never been recognized by the King of the Hill." Sylvia chuckled and said, "Their external name is the Church of the Hill King's Believers."

"Believers' self-study association?" Leo couldn't help but smile when he heard the old-fashioned name, and walked into this simple church.

Just like the simple appearance of this church, the interior layout of the church is also very simple, without any gorgeous things, only a few holy emblems representing the hill king and the statue of the hill king.

The interior of the church is quite empty, with rows of chairs neatly placed. Below the statue of the hill king at the front is a pulpit. Several braziers are hung around the pulpit, and some wood with a special fragrance is lit on it. The light from the fire in the basin is reflected into the church through the copper mirrors around the basin, making the interior of the church less dim.

At this moment, the daily evangelistic meeting is going on in the church. There are not many people who come to the evangelistic meeting. There are only a dozen or so people who are sitting loosely in various parts of the church. Among the dozen or so people, there are many Most of them were asleep, and only a few people listened carefully to the sermon on the stage.

Although few people listened, the white-haired clergy who was preaching on the stage did not feel slighted by it. On the contrary, he spoke affectionately about those readings in the Canon of the Hill King as if he were in a cathedral that could accommodate thousands of people. It sounds very boring teachings and stories.

Leo and Sylvia didn't disturb each other's sermons, and found a relatively remote seat to sit down after entering the door, and then focused on the preacher.

When they saw the preacher clearly, Leo and Sylvia let out a low cry full of surprises at the same time. Although the meanings of their voices were the same, the reasons for them were different. Sylvia was because of the other party's identity, while Leo was because of the other party's status.

"He is Saint Francis." Sylvia leaned close to Leo and whispered the identity of the preacher.

"Saint Francis?" Leo, who was reminded, also showed a look of surprise on his face, and he was no longer so surprised by the strange state he saw from the preacher just now.

Just now, Leo felt a strong sense of threat from the preacher. Obviously, the other party has the power to threaten his life, but the strange thing is that Leo scanned his situation through the spiritual network, and the result was that this person was just An ordinary person, even because of his age, his physical function is not as good as that of an ordinary person.

But it was such a person that made Leo feel a strong sense of danger, and even made him want to stand up and leave immediately.

Leo didn't know who St. Francis was and what status he had in the Church of the Hill King, but he knew that anyone whose name was stamped with a holy word by the church was definitely the top existence of the church.

For the clergy of the church, canonization and non-canonization are completely different things. The uncanonized clergy are just the lambs of the gods, and the higher level is the shepherds of the gods, while the canonized clergy are the gods. The status of the incarnation is even higher than that of the pope, so for a long time, the church will only canonize the dead, not the living.

But the change of identity is only second, the real change is the inner power. According to the handwriting records of the tower wizard, the canonized clergy can summon the power of the gods at any time, and the power of the gods he summons is complete. Weakened, the clergy who canonized during that time were equivalent to gods.

Sylvia seemed to see that Leo didn't know what Saint Francis said, and said: "Saint Francis is a famous ascetic preacher in the Church of the Hill King, and he is also the best herbal medicine expert in the world. He found fifty-nine kinds of very precious herbs, and developed more than three hundred prescriptions with different effects based on these fifty-nine kinds of herbs. These prescriptions are all very common, even the poor in the slums can afford them .”

"He was canonized because of this?" Leo asked.

"Of course not." Sylvia smiled and said with a serious expression, "He can be canonized because he is the only one in the Church of the King of the Hill who can get the response of the King of the Hill every time he prays." The clergyman of the Church of the Hill King." She added: "It stands to reason that he is the first candidate for the next pope of the Church of the Hill King, and he should stay in the holy mountain of the Church of the Hill King, and should not appear here , The environment here is very weird, even a saint like him will be greatly affected when he prays for the power of the gods."

Although the voices of the two were not loud, in this relatively empty and quiet room, some people with keen hearing could still hear clearly.

Saint Francis, who was originally concentrating on preaching, turned his head to look at Leo and the others, nodded to them, and then turned his attention back to the preaching, continued to explain the teachings of the Church of the Hill King, and answered the following believers raised questions.

At this time, Scherf came in from the side of the room, saluted St. Francis who was on the podium, then glanced around the church, and walked to the chair next to Leo and Sylvia against the wall. Down, lowered your voice, and said, "You came earlier than the scheduled time."

"Appointed time?" Leo was stunned for a moment. When he saw the invitation letter, he only saw the address on it, but did not see the time written on it.

"Is there anything you want from us?" Sylvia asked for Leo.

Silfort looked at Sylvia, then at Leo, and found that Leo did not reject Sylvia's hint in using the word "us", so he couldn't help frowning, but he quickly returned to his normal expression , said to the two: "There are indeed some things I want to ask for your help, but it's not me, it's Lord Saint Francis."

At this time, St. Francis on the podium began to recite the prayers, and Sherf clasped her hands together as a prayer costume. Although Sylvia was not a believer in the hill king, she still prayed the same prayer as Sherf action.

In the entire church, only Leo did not pray under the leadership of St. Francis. He sat on the chair and looked in the direction of the podium quietly, while his eyes inspired the power of the eye of truth.

In his eyes, St. Francis, who was just an ordinary person a moment ago, has already exploded with strong energy fluctuations, and not only the energy fluctuations, but also the energy itself. It is a more advanced life energy, the abyss The big snake's eyeballs shrank completely under this energy fluctuation, while the chaotic stomach sac exuded a sense of hunger, as if it regarded this energy as some kind of dessert.

Leo resisted the desire to rush forward to devour this energy, and calmly watched the changes in St. Francis through the eyes of reality. It was obvious that St. Francis was communicating with the king of the hill at this moment to obtain energy blessings from him , and this energy can help him show the majesty of a god in front of his followers.

At the same time, Leo's mental network suddenly sensed a strange energy body coming from outside the church. The energy fluctuations in this energy body were blood clan energy, and his energy fluctuations were so strong that he had already reached the sixth-level psychic. However, compared with the Dawson that Leo had seen before, the energy of the strange blood race outside is obviously more vain and scattered, which undoubtedly shows that the power of this mysterious blood race was obtained by taking a shortcut.

However, even if it is the power obtained by taking shortcuts, power is power. With its power equivalent to that of a sixth-level psychic, plus the extra blessing of this weird place in Yasha County, I believe that the superhumans in the dark world of Cash Velen World will come Look, few people should be able to compete with it.

This mysterious blood didn't enter the church, but stood outside the church, on the edge of the hill king's energy radiation, looking as if he was watching or observing.

Because Leo didn't hide the energy fluctuations of the spiritual net, the vampire also sensed the existence of the spiritual net, but he didn't seem to know what the role of the spiritual net was, but regarded it as another energy fluctuation, Did not care.

After St. Francis' prayer ended, the energy on his body quickly disappeared, and everyone recovered from the state of prayer. The blood race outside the church also turned into a cloud of blood mist, soaring into the sky up and disappeared into the night sky.

"Hey! This is an unexpected harvest" Leo murmured in his heart at this moment, because the mysterious vampire knew nothing about Leo's spiritual network, so he was using the original power of their vampire to turn into a blood mist and fly away During the process, Leo's mental net was not dispelled at all, which made it easy for Leo to obtain the process of using this blood mist method, as well as the process and details of using the blood power.

With these things, Leo can be sure that he can definitely imitate the same power and display the same ability through the power of nightmare.

Just when Leo carefully memorized all the collected materials, the believers in the church stood up one after another, walked to the podium, took a communion from St. Francis, and respectfully went to St. Francis After a salute, they left the church one after another, and soon there were only four people left in the church, including Saint Francis and Leo.

"Hello, Mr. Leo Dodd, I've wanted to see you for a long time," St. Francis walked to Leo's side, and said very kindly: "Your wizard potion has stumped me. I haven't found any solution so far, but even so, I found some useful potions, which just solved one of my earlier problems."

"Hello, Your Excellency Forsyth." Leo is not used to dealing with such priests, and he doesn't know how to address them, so he can only use the most commonly used address, but judging from the expressions of the people around him The title seems to be wrong.

St. Francis raised his hand to stop Sylvia and Sherf from correcting their address, and then said to Leo with a smile: "It's been a long time since anyone called me Your Excellency. This title makes me feel like I'm still an ordinary person. I am very happy." I like this title, Mr. Leo can call me like that.” Then, he turned his head to Sylvia and said, “Master Earl, can you allow me to have a private talk with Mr. Leo?”

"Of course." Don't look at how relaxed and casual Sylvia was when she said Saint Francis, but when she actually faced Saint Francis, she was still a little nervous.

Hearing this, Leo looked at Sylvia and smiled, as if he was laughing at how she was a close lover just now, but he bought himself when he turned around.

Sylvia could naturally see what Leo was thinking, and turned her head to the side in embarrassment, looking out of sight and out of mind.

Leo turned his head towards St. Francis and asked, "Are we talking here, or..."

"Go upstairs to my office!" St. Francis suggested, and after seeing Leo nodding in agreement, he asked Sherf to entertain Sylvia, and then led Leo through the small door on the side of the church, boarded the He went up the spiral staircase in a compartment next to the small door and came to the office on the top floor.

After St. Francis opened the office and led Leo in, he signaled to Leo to be casual, then took off the complicated clothes worn in religious ceremonies, and put on a simple priestly black robe, and then sat opposite Leo, looking He said with some seriousness: "Actually, I didn't know your whereabouts, Mr. Leo. After Knight Sherf arrived, when I mentioned you, I knew that you also came to this city. That's why I invited you in such a crude way. Come here."

Leo also asked curiously: "May I ask why you invited me here?"

St. Francis was silent for a moment, and said: "This invitation is not because of church affairs, but a personal invitation by me."

"Is it for your personal affairs?" Leo was stunned.

"It can be said that." St. Francis thought for a while and said, "I mainly want to ask Mr. Leo about No. 9 Golden Oak Street."

"Nine Golden Oak Street?" Leo had a puzzled expression on his face. After all, it is a bit puzzling that a religious saint with a high status in the Kingdom of Maris would be interested in a haunted house on another continent.

At this time, Leo's eyes suddenly fell on an oil painting on the wall. This oil painting looked very old. It depicted a young ascetic walking on the wilderness while supporting an old ascetic. The appearance of the ascetic was vaguely similar to the Saint Francis in front of him, but this was not what surprised Leo the most, because she found that the young ascetic was more like another person, the genius mechanical Peter Alcott of Lake Town.