The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"See God?" Leo froze for a moment, frowning slightly.

Not only in the Vinylon world, but also in the Earth Federation. Ordinary people cannot directly look at Omega-level advanced life forms, because the life forms of the two are too different, and the impact of life levels will make ordinary people The mind of the person is damaged, ranging from being in a coma for a long time to going mad.

However, what Leo is puzzled about is that even the weakest Omega-level advanced life forms, even those false gods, will produce huge energy fluctuations when they appear, which is an unavoidable natural law. But yesterday, Leo didn't feel any abnormalities around him at all, which obviously didn't match what Berenzina said.

Seeing the suspicious look on Leo's face, Berenchina added: "It can't be called a god, it can only be said to be a shadow left by the god."

Hearing the explanation, Leo's expression softened a little. God and the shadow of the gods are two completely different concepts, one is real power, and the other is just an illusion, although it can still cause some damage to the spirit of ordinary people. Influence, but it is far from being able to compare with the influence caused by Omega-level advanced life forms.

However, even the shadows of the gods are extremely rare in the world of Velen. In the past, when the gods came to the world, the gods usually attached their own shadows to the statues at the church headquarters. Every time there was a large gathering, the shadows of the gods would appear Proclaim the oracle for him and manifest the divine power.

However, with the disappearance of the gods, the shadows of the gods gradually disappeared from the statues. Now only a few large churches still have the shadows of the gods, such as the Lord of the Sky, the King of the Hill, and so on.

But the current situation seems to be a bit abnormal, because the shadow of the gods appeared in the port of Sete, which means that the shadow of the gods can be moved, and judging from the course of the incident, the shadow of the gods should be on someone, this person He is chasing and killing Berenchina.

Before Leo could ask, Berenchina took the initiative to reveal the answer and said, "It's Kelumber, the shadow of God, Kelumber."

"God's Shadow Klumber?" After hearing this name, Leo was sure where he had seen this name, then recalled it carefully, and quickly remembered it, and confirmed: "It is the Holy Inquisitor Klumber." Lumber?"

"Yes, that's him." Berenchina nodded.

"Is he still alive?" Leo asked with some doubts.

Leo first saw the name Holy Inquisitor Clumber from the old man Rembrandt. He still remembered that the book recorded the most famous figures of various churches and Orthodox churches in the past four hundred years, and the Holy Inquisitor Kelumber Lumber's position is very high, just below the leaders of the various churches.

In addition, there are the least records in the book about the Holy Inquisitor Clumber, and it can be seen that this person has a lot of secret information that the church does not want to make public.

And not long ago, Leo saw the records about Clumber in the wizard tower in Death Valley. An open-minded high-ranking member of the Orthodox church, he collected the dirty things that the Orthodox churches did in the past, wrote them down, and published them as books.

These recorded things are definitely the last thing the Orthodox church wants to be known, so this book was regarded as a banned book and completely banned as soon as it was published, and the author was even regarded as an apostate, described as a The heresy that the cult broke into the Orthodox court was publicly burned.

The tower wizards are naturally willing to see some troubles in the Orthodox Church, so after this banned book came out, they bought it immediately, and even when it was listed as a banned book, they secretly published it and spread it. It was collected as a collection, and the one Leo saw was one of them.

Although most of the content in that book is about the nasty things about the Orthodox Church, the records about Clumber are relatively positive, and more of the content is to show his ruthless side.

Clumber is the son of a groom who lives in a mountain village in an earldom of the Maris Kingdom, but on a certain day a black wizard of a cult sacrificed all the people in the mountain village to the evil god. A morning out was survived.

After that, Clumber was taken away by the adjudicator of the Orthodox Church who came here to investigate the cult's sacrifice, and was taken back to the Orthodox Church, where he was trained to become a Judgment Knight.

After becoming a Judgment Knight, Clumber fought to the death in countless fights with cultists. It stands to reason that he should have obtained a higher position long ago. Guess right, but because he is too ruthless and unscrupulous, even nobles and colleagues have been used as pawns by him to attract cultists, causing a lot of The casualties of innocent people forced the senior officials of the Orthodox Church to suppress his promotion.

However, even so, he has accumulated too many achievements, so much that even if someone suppresses him, he cannot be suppressed. In the end, he was promoted to the position of adjudicator, and according to the rules, he entered the rank of the Orthodox Church. In the hall of the gods, see if you can accept the oracle of the gods. This earned him his title.

However, no one expected that Clumber would acquire the shadow of the God of Vengeance and become an agent of the gods, that is, the only agent of the gods other than the leaders of various churches.

The God of Vengeance is not a deity in the conventional sense. It is just a will of the gods who gather together the idea of ​​revenge. He has no church and no doctrine. He is placed in the headquarters of the Orthodox Church and is specially used to give knights of the Orthodox Church Blessing before the war.

Clumber's acquisition of the God of Vengeance's shadow was completely beyond everyone's expectations. In a way, his identity is almost the same as that of the leaders of various churches. If he wants, he can even create a Church of Vengeance. Self-proclaimed pope.

However, Clumber did not do that. He used his new identity to obtain a series of privileges, and his methods of doing things were more direct, rough and unscrupulous. The royal families of various countries complained.

In the end, Clumber killed many innocent people in an operation to capture the wizard, and among these innocent people, apart from some businessmen and civilians, there were also several heirs and crown princes of the Dukes of the Faran Empire.

As the most powerful country on the road to the world of Vilen, the enemy country of France naturally would not worry about Clumber's identity, and directly sent heavy troops to surround the Orthodox Church, and stated in an extremely tough manner that if Clumber was not called out, the headquarters of the Orthodox Church would be completely destroyed. Expulsion of all Orthodox churches.

If it was only the French Empire that put pressure on the Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Church could still fight against it, relying on the church's influence among the people to influence the decision-making of the French Emperor. But the problem is that Clumber has offended too many people, offending almost all the kingdoms in the world of Velen. Now that the French Empire is taking the lead, other kingdoms will naturally not stand by and put pressure on the Orthodox Church and begin to restrict Church activities.

Based on the situation at the time, it is no exaggeration to say that if the Orthodox Church chooses to confront it head-on, the Orthodox Church will cease to exist, and even churches in various countries will be severely hit.

For this reason, the Orthodox court had to choose to compromise and call out Klumber, but the Orthodox court also put forward a condition, that is, the Orthodox court should try Klumber, and the French Empire only has the right to supervise the trial. The Lan Empire is also only qualified to supervise, and can check the execution results afterwards.

The French Empire did not care about this, and agreed to the request of the Orthodox Court. Afterwards, Clumber was tried and burned to death at the stake. After the people of the French Empire checked the body, the matter came to an end.

Although this incident has come to an end, the follow-up impact has not disappeared, because after experiencing this incident, the governments of various countries began to realize that the Orthodox Church is not as powerful as they expected, so they began to secretly restrict the activities of the Orthodox Church and various churches. Right, that is, starting from this incident, the influence of the Orthodox Church is no longer as omnipotent as before.

The reason why Leo was surprised that Clumber was still alive was not only because Clumber had been burned to death in the records, but also because Clumber's trial was more than 140 years ago. The thing is, according to the estimation of Clumber's own age at that time, if Clumber is still alive, then his age is almost two hundred years old.

Hearing Leo's question, Berenchina immediately understood what Leo meant, so she explained: "Actually, Klumber was never burned to death, it was just a substitute, don't forget that Klumber is a god. Agent, how could he be burned to death by ordinary flames?"

Leo frowned and said, "Don't the French Empire know about this?"

"Of course I know, how could the French Empire not know." Berenzina sneered, and said, "They don't care whether Clumber was burned to death, what they care about is that the Orthodox Court bowed to them. "

Leo questioned: "Since he didn't die, where has he been for so many years? Why haven't you heard about him?"

"Of course they were locked up." Belenchina said: "Although the French Empire does not pursue the life and death of Kelumber, the trial of Kelumber has caused great damage to the prestige of the Orthodox Church after all. The matter has been adversely affected, and the power has been greatly reduced. If Clumber is not dealt with, the Orthodox Church will probably be abandoned by various churches, so the Orthodox Church will imprison him without restriction." She was silent for a while, and said : "Actually, I didn't expect that he would not die after being imprisoned for so many years. The shadow of the gods gave him not only strength, but also longevity."

Leo asked again: "Since he is locked up, how did you provoke him?"

Berenchina said with a look of resentment: "I went to rescue a friend who was imprisoned by the Orthodox Court, and unintentionally opened the shackles of this guy. Who would have thought that this guy not only thanked me for releasing him, but chased and killed me along the way."

"Is it just to save people?" Leo didn't fully believe Berenchina's words.

"Of course, in order to save people, we must deal with some guards." Berenchina shrugged and said.

Leo didn't continue to ask, because it was obvious that among the guards that Berenchina killed must be very important to Klumber, otherwise Klumber couldn't have followed her closely.

Leo didn't want to get involved in this matter, and said directly: "I want to take Leon away, and you can settle your affairs yourself."

"Of course you want to take Leon away, but you will only hurt him by doing so." Berenzina shook her head and said, "Your Excellency may not know how Clumber does things, he has seen Leon and me together , and that manor is also Leon's manor, he will only think that Leon and I are in the same group, and will not let Leon go just because Leon is innocent, he will find Leon, imprison him, use various means to torture, ask Give out all the useful information, and then kill Leon."

Leo frowned, stared at Berenzina and said, "I suddenly felt that it would be better to catch you and hand you over to Klumber."

Facing Leo's danger, Berenchina was not nervous at all, instead she smiled and said, "Of course, you are capable of catching me and handing me over to Klumber, but you may have forgotten your identity, You are a wizard! Clumber hates wizards the most. In order to kill a wizard, he even killed the crown prince of France. What do you think he will do when a wizard like you appears in front of him? He will solve it first. Drop me, or shoot you first?"

Leo knew very well that Berenchina's words were not nonsense. According to the records he read about Clumber, his hatred for wizards had already penetrated into his bones, and it even became his belief in being favored by the God of Vengeance. The power of this belief does not exist, so the situation that Berenchina said is not likely to happen, but will definitely happen.

"It seems that you should also understand that my words are not alarmist!" Berenchina saw Leo's thoughts, and said: "Actually, we don't have to be afraid of Clumber at all now, he has been injured, and he was seriously injured. Otherwise, it is impossible for him not to continue chasing and killing me, so we can find him now and solve this trouble."

"Us?" Leo looked at Berenzina blankly, and said, "You seem to be thinking too much, you and I have never been us."

After finishing speaking, he was seen walking out of the room and towards the outside of the warehouse, as if he was not going to continue talking with Berenchina, nor was he going to take Leon away.

Seeing the back of Leo leaving, Berenchina's housekeeper stepped forward and asked, "Mistress, what should we do now?"

"You don't need to do anything, just wait!" Berenchina raised her head towards Leo and said, "He will help us solve that trouble, all we have to do is what price should we pay to let him Do not retaliate against us."

As she spoke, she pondered for a while, as if she had thought of some good idea, a smile appeared on her face, and she gave instructions to the housekeeper.

After hearing Berenkina's order, the butler showed a reluctant expression on his face. He didn't reluctantly agree until Berenkina showed a serious expression, and then walked out of the warehouse and disappeared into the woods next to the farm with a few people. .