Even the "chief" cannot accurately describe what the God's Forge is. The latter may really exist, but after so many years of word-of-mouth and deification effects, it has become a cult of abstract rhetoric and exaggeration.
A phantom piled up with images, people in this world may use a thousand words to describe how great the Forge of the Gods is - but they just don't know what it is.
However, we can still roughly restore the situation of the God's Forge from these messy religious depictions: it is not on the earth (that is, far away from the planet, that is, in space), it is located in the God's eternal residence (then this residence may refer to
is a larger space base), the Celestial Forge is closed, but people firmly believe that there is still a flame burning in its furnace (assuming that this legend is not groundless, then the "Celestial Forge" should be a working device),
Finally, the legend mentions the "flame" of the God's Forge more than once. This flame should not be an ordinary fire... Then it will be a fusion reactor, or something more crazy, something similar to a psionic reactor?
"Anyway, if that thing is still running, there will definitely be an energy reaction. People on this planet believe that the flames of the God's Forge protect the world, so I guess it should be an energy device that provides some kind of protective barrier.
Yes..." I said my opinion, "By the way, Shandora, do you think this protective barrier is an 'interference' in this universe? The God's Forge is actually the energy source of the interference transmitter, or it is simply interference.
The transmitter itself?”
Sandora's ball floated up and down to express her agreement, and then she muttered slightly unhappily: "In short, the religious legends in this world are very complicated, and maybe to hide some secrets, some parts have obviously been artificially blurred... Hey, we should
Get in touch with people at a higher level in this world. Maybe Celine can be a breakthrough. She is at least a battle nun."
At this moment, Alaya has transferred all the personnel in the underground stronghold to the prisoner-of-war camp of the Imperial Admiral. Those prisoners should be able to provide more or less information after they wake up. Sandora and I are among a bunch of autonomous machines.
With the help of others, I "troubled" this underground stronghold for a while. I took away some important-looking materials and equipment, leaving a scene that looked like a hasty evacuation. This way I can explain the whereabouts of the people here. Complete these things
After that we left the underground stronghold.
At this moment...it's already the next morning. It's been quite a long night.
Facing the morning sun in the forest, I stretched my arms and stretched out. Although I don’t feel tired easily due to my physique, being tired after a long day and night always has a psychological effect. Sandora Ball seemed to be attracted to me as well.
Infected, even though it was a ball of light, she still let out a long yawn: "Yawn - I'm so tired. Ajun, help me stretch."
I was stunned: "What? How to do this?!"
Sandora hit my head twice with the ball: "Just pull me a little longer. If you stretch, don't you just stretch yourself out?"
Me: "...Your Majesty, please don't do this. Your image has been ruined for several days. Can you please calm down a little..."
Sandra Ball immediately became anxious, hitting my head and yelling: "We are already an old married couple, what do you do to your mother-in-law and mother? What did I say when I usually beat your back and rub your shoulders? Besides...why did I change?
Do you always say weird things after doing this? When did my behavior become unseemly? It’s normal, okay!”
Okay, okay, Sandora Ball's worldview is different from ordinary people. She can easily accept the various attributes that she "should" have as a ball and she doesn't think it's malicious and cute. I don't think I can be like this.
A naked person with both a psychotic level of outlook and an evil god level soul quarreled, so he could only hold back the cramps on his face and hold the sandora ball in his arms, squeeze it hard twice and then start to follow her instructions.
Pull on both sides, this... what should I do if I find the feel of the noodles below!?
Shandora also deliberately let out a foul cry: "Ah - so comfortable... This is the feeling, Ajun is awesome..."
As soon as this voice came out, I could hardly calm down: It would be great if Sandora was not spherical now.
It was hard to control the strength of her hands when she was excited. So after a moment, Shandora's exclamation scared the piss out of countless birds and beasts in the forest: "Uh-ah - Jun, please break it off...quickly..."
It broke..."
All in all, I almost got two Shandora balls, but in the end I still had a near miss. On the way back to town with Her Majesty the Queen, who had become cute, I couldn't help but mutter to her: "Sandora, you have become like this.
And the physical feeling? Does the spiritual spark really need to stretch?"
"It's necessary. If you don't believe me, try to unite yourself."
Me: "..." Where am I going to wipe it off! Do you think that other people like you can shine just by being balled up?
We followed the man in the black cloak for a day and a night. We had already moved far away from the ancient ruins where we originally set out. Although we were not lost, we were far away from Celine and others. Sandora and I did not get lost along the way.
Deliberately speeding up the pace (although it is still much faster than ordinary people). Therefore, it was already a few hours later when the two returned to the edge of the forest and saw the smoke of the town.
The probe detected that Celine had led most of the adventurers out of the ruins, so Sandora and I did not go to the ancient tower, but returned directly to the town.
In the past few hours, Shandora and I had a lot of fun discussing issues related to three views, which directly caused both of us to be a little exhausted physically and mentally. But the business was not delayed at all. Under the remote command, the Imperial Admiral
A large number of deep space probes have been manufactured (because the spacecraft has undergone "rebirth", so these cargoes basically have to be re-manufactured). This time, the deep space probes are specially designed to enhance energy sensing and abnormal space phenomena.
Sensing abilities, we plan to use these things to find the Celestial Forge, or at least something similar to it.
Coupled with the low-speed and high-precision probes launched two days ago and distributed throughout the galaxy, as long as the Celestial Forge really exists and its location does not deviate too far from my guess, it will definitely be found.
"Phew, I'm back - it looks like the town hasn't changed much, well, at least there's no damage."
Standing at the gate of the town holding the Sandora Ball, my first concern was whether this place had been damaged by the microwave irradiation yesterday: Although Celine opened the protective device in time, I was really worried about what the Lost God Cult would do.
Can the half-assed electromagnetic shield withstand the power of the ancient broadcast tower? It seems that the situation is good now. Everything is business as usual in the town. The civilians are still living their leisurely and ordinary lives. If there is any change, that is, most people
There was a bit of shock on the face, and some buildings seemed to be slightly damaged by high temperatures or magnetic storms: this was already better than the whole town turning into a microwave furnace.
"Ah! It's Mr. Scholar! Mr. Scholar is back!" While I was observing the state of the town, an energetic little girl's voice suddenly came from the side. I turned around and saw that it was indeed Elu - and this girl was also following me.
An adventurer who looks helpless, has this little girl found a "business" again? She still firmly believes in what she learned from the knight's tale.
"Ellu is going to take Mr. Scholar to find his mother," the little girl turned to the adventurer beside her and said, "Then let's treat it as a free service this time. You took advantage of twenty coppers~~"
The adventurer immediately had an expression of gratitude to God. He gave me a look that said, "Brother, please be patient." Then he ran away. His speed and skill were simply... I don't know if he was this big when we were acting yesterday.
Ganjin, is Ellu really that annoying?
The little girl jumped up and ran to my side, not forgetting to raise her hand to say hello to Sandra Ball: "Hello, Sister Dan! Mom said you were missing in the ruins, which scared Ellu. She was about to summon
The adventurers are going to the forest to continue looking for someone. Elu will take you to find her."
Celine was not at home at this time, because of "special circumstances". She had to sit in the church. Under the leadership of Ellu, we quickly arrived at the church. Celine was still dressed as a battle nun in black robe and rifle, and it seemed that because of these two
She seemed a little more tired than before because of the Tian incident. I appeared in front of her holding the Sandola ball and finally let her eyes show some light: "You are back? Are you not injured?"
"Ah. I ran into some trouble, and I have something to report to you..." As soon as I started speaking, I was interrupted by Celine, who said in a hurried tone: "Let's not talk about anything else. I will take people to check underground later.
Situation. Some suspicious mine tunnels have been discovered. Pagans may be developing their power here. Now the town and surrounding areas have entered an emergency. Except for adventurers who team up with clergy, no one else can go to the wild at will. You'd better
Don’t go out. By the way...you just said you had a situation report?"
"This is what we want to say," I nodded, "Yesterday when I was looking for the missing adventurer in the underground passage, I met a suspicious guy. Sandora and I followed each other and found a secret stronghold. It should be you who said
They claim to be a technology revival organization. The situation was special at that time, so I followed you directly before I had time to contact you, and lurked until late at night before returning."
"God of technology," Celine frowned and loosened her collar. It seemed that the presence of heretics made this experienced former adventurer + current battle nun feel quite troubled, "Sure enough, it's those gangs
Pagans, they have actually infiltrated into a place like this... Well, don't worry, you have done a good job, it cannot be better. Leave the rest to me. I will notify other dioceses to block it first.
Road, and at the same time take people to the stronghold you mentioned to check the situation - by the way, you need to help lead the way."
At the end, Celine couldn't help showing an apologetic look: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect that things would become so troublesome. Originally, it was just a remote ruins that was allowed to be developed, but it suddenly rose to the level of a 'heresy incident.' Originally, you were supposed to
It belongs to my guest."
"Don't say that," I quickly chuckled and waved my hands, "Actually, I'm quite surprised that a hotel proprietress is actually the person in charge of the church in this area. It seems that Ellu's dream of 'reopening her hotel' has to be postponed.
Wait, the more adventurers gather around here, the more you won’t be able to relax.”
"It's normal for clergy to engage in various professions. I just happened to have opened a hotel with my husband," Celine smiled. "Those civilians who don't have much contact with clergy occasionally think that we are mysterious or unattainable, but
In fact, the church has never allowed clergy to occupy too many social privileges. The meaning of our existence is only to manage the knowledge of the world for the God of Technology and the God of Magic, so that the world can develop at the right pace. Apart from that, there cannot be too much
Unreasonable thinking - at least you have to find solutions to life problems by yourself. This is why the number of priests is so small, and most people are not very able to accept this kind of stressful life."
It seemed that she had talked about a topic that she was interested in, or that she couldn't usually find someone to talk to about such things. Celine started talking a little more for a while, and Sandora and I also learned more about the operation of this lost religion.
And finally the most core point was completely determined: the founder of the Lost God Religion and the current core of the church is the tree elf.
Of course, the indigenous people of this world do not have the term "tree elves". They refer to tree elves and two other white elves who may come from other civilization circles as "elves". The latter does not seem to be trying to correct this statement.
interest.
After confirming that the Lost God Sect was founded by tree elves, the "simple" and "pure style" of this sect became more understandable. Although their behavior is still a bit inappropriate in the opinion of Sandora and I, but that
This kind of atmosphere with clear goals and only acting to preserve knowledge without seeking personal gain (at least most priests do not seek personal gain) is really in line with the racial characteristics of the tree elves.
Next, I took Celine to that stronghold.
Of course, all the people here have been moved away by us. First of all, the current contradiction between the Lost God Religion and the Technological Revival Faction belongs to the "Contradiction of Obscurity" (a proper term for a certain discipline in the empire. It is specifically used to refer to those who have lost their civilization because of civilization.
(Conflicts that arise when a group is deceived or have limited cognitive level, and may be resolved in a short period of time), it seems that this excessive conflict between them should be temporarily suspended, and secondly, the members of the technical revivalists will remain useful. Shan and I
Dora also hopes to get more information from them, so naturally she cannot just hand it over to Celine's sect.
So what Celine saw was a person going to an empty underground base.
"It seems we are a step late. They should have been keeping an eye on the movements around the ancient tower. They ran away as soon as the adventurers came," Celine said, leading a group of adventurers back to the surface from the underground palace. There was an undisguised expression on her face.
With a disappointed look, "This will raise the alert level again. The heretics who escaped may scatter to the surrounding towns, making it more difficult to catch them."
I held Sandora next to me and kept laughing the whole time. I wanted to write the words "I don't know anything" directly on my face. At this time, I felt a little envious of Sandora: she would never worry about her expression showing anything when she looked like this...
…
"What should we do next? After such a big event, are things at the ruins still the same?" I asked casually, trying to shift the topic to higher levels of the sect while diverting Celine's attention. "What do you think about this kind of heresy?"
How was the incident handled?”
"A fringe town like this is not even a 'parish', and I am the only battle nun who officially owns the Holy Clothes. It cannot deal with this level of heresy. Now we can only let the adventurers
Help strengthen the security and strictly check every stranger who comes to the town... The town is small and remote, which seems to be a benefit now. Strangers other than adventurers will be very conspicuous here," Celine said a little tired
He laughed heartily, then frowned, "Based on the size of this underground base, the number of heretics who were originally entrenched here was probably quite large, and they also had certain research and development capabilities. This might alarm the cardinal-level leaders... No,
It may even alarm His Majesty the Pope. If that really happens, I will have to go to the Holy City of Science and Technology to meet with the Pope. By the way, if the Pope really personally intervenes in matters here, I am afraid that you, as the first parties involved, will also be summoned.
Don't be nervous, this is an opportunity: I'm afraid only the Pope can solve the 'Egg Curse' encountered by Miss Sandora."
Sandra Ball immediately became confused: "Don't mention the egg-making thing again!"
Celine smiled slightly, just taking Sandora's blow-up as an ordinary embarrassed reaction, and then lowered her head and muttered to herself: "I really can't believe that I will have the opportunity to see the Pope in person in this life, but...
It’s because of this kind of incident…”
"It's better this time, it saves us trouble," Shandola ball dangled in my arms and said through mental connection, "I was thinking of finding a chance to meet with the leader of the Lost Cult before, so I planned for a long time to break in directly.
I still sneaked into the Holy Capital secretly, but the opportunity came to me."
The following days seemed to calm down temporarily, and nothing happened for several consecutive days.
Adventurers in the town still go to the ruins of the ancient tower to explore on a regular basis. Every day someone brings back some relics or rubbings of ancient texts and submits them to the church. As the only qualified clergyman in the town, Celine is responsible for inspecting these relics.
After rough classification and registration, after the exploration of the relics here is completed, the adventurers who have contributed can get monetary rewards from the superior parishes based on the total number of relics turned in: this is the way of cooperation between the Lost God Cult and the adventurers.
.
During this period, Shandora and I also went to the ancient tower out of curiosity, and found that the place was nothing to see: it was just a communication facility with backward technology, and it was not built by the tree elves, and it had no exploration value.
Celine has also passed the information about "heretics" to the archdiocese through the special communication channels of the clergy. Each parish has blocked the main traffic roads in an attempt to catch the heretics, but it is destined to be impossible. It is said that the most
It only took four days to get direct instructions from the Supreme Diocese, and now it seemed that there was a high probability that she would really have to meet the Pope, so Celine seemed quite nervous.
Because Celine is busy with work, Ellu is even more unsupervised, and the little girl almost becomes a disaster in the town - so I am helping to take care of the child these days.
Wait... wait, why am I helping the widow take care of her children!?
Widow, Battle Sister, Naughty Child, and Lost Civilization, can anyone help me remember how these four things were put together?!
In short, time passed slowly, and just when I thought that there was nothing to do next and I should go to the Pope to talk about life, a signal suddenly came from the distant space.
A deep space probe discovered something suspected to be the "Celestial Forge". (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!