The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After guessing that the designer of this canyon railway is most likely to be the king-chosen Saran Meyer, Leo quickly thought that Saran would destroy the canyon railway as a means to collapse the economy of the Savile Kingdom, so she would definitely be there. A trap was planted on this railway that could instantly destroy the entire railway, and she would only need to use this trap to accomplish her goal.

So for everyone who takes the Canyon Railway train, they are sitting on a bomb that will explode at any time every moment, and maybe they will encounter disaster at that time.

However, after realizing this, Leo quickly calmed down after cursing, because in his opinion, the railway is still safe in a short time.

The reason why such a judgment was made was because the timing was wrong. If Saran wanted to destroy the Savile Kingdom, then the only ones she could rely on were the Kingdom of Deliyat and Marris.

Daliat is not interested in Savile's desert, and the relationship between the queen and the king-chosen Saran is obviously not very good, and there is almost no possibility of cooperation between the two.

In this way, the only one who can be her assistant is the Marris Kingdom. Leo thought of the current civil war in the Marris Kingdom. Stage the big show of choosing the king and regain control of the Maris Kingdom.

It's just that her plan, Leo, thinks it might come to nothing, because with the return of the gods, the power of the church will inevitably return to its heyday. There is no chance for the Kingdom of Reiss to gain a foothold. After all, how could the church tolerate a witch standing on top of them? Maybe the Church of the Hill King will launch another operation to hunt witches.

Just as Leo was thinking about it, a loud siren came from the direction of the locomotive, and with a faint vibration, the train slowly left the platform. Gradually increase the speed and drive towards the station of the next city.

In the next few days, the train ran smoothly and stopped in four cities in turn. Several new passengers arrived in each city, and the three explorers got off at the city where they stopped recently. As for the The old puppet master never left the room since he got in the car, even the meal was sent to the room by the waiter.

Every time the train stops, Leo will ask the first-class waiter to go to the station to buy all the newspapers. Judging from the news reported in these newspapers, the situation seems to be developing towards the worst that Leo expected.

First of all, the fog on the sea surface has not only not weakened but is getting thicker and thicker, and it is still advancing towards the shore. Today, the dense fog is only less than 100 meters away from the coast, and the dense fog is very strange. The fog wall is very flat and straight into the sky. , up to hundreds of meters, from a distance, it seems as if a giant has built a huge wall for the Minsk continent.

Faced with this weird situation, some ocean companies tried to send some old sailors who were familiar with the route to drive sailboats into the fog to explore the way, but they never returned, even if they went to offshore islands close to the mainland. , as if some monster existed in the dense fog, devouring all those who dared to pass in.

In addition, extreme weather has begun to appear in the countries of the Minsk continent. For example, there are extremely high temperatures in the south, and there is no rain for a long time. Several rivers in the south have dried up to the extent that their riverbeds are exposed.

The north was plunged into extreme cold, and snowstorms that should have appeared in winter began to appear. All cities in the north were in trouble because they did not have time to store food, fuel and other supplies for the winter. Queen Dalia had to dispatch the national army to deliver various supplies against the cold.

As for the Savile Kingdom, it became a place where winds raged. All kinds of tornadoes, which are rare in a century, frequently appeared in the desert, and some of them even appeared in the center of the city, sweeping across several cities, causing countless buildings and people. casualties.

On the train, Leo saw a tornado form out of thin air on the edge of the desert close to the canyon yesterday, and it moved slowly towards the canyon. Fortunately, the train passed the railway quickly and was not swept by the tornado. The iron frame is hollowed out, weighed successively, connected to each other tightly and stuck in the rock, even a tornado can't shake it.

It's just that the natural disasters caused by the world's changes are not a particularly serious problem compared to man-made disasters. It seems that among the three major countries in the Minsk mainland, only Deliyat, controlled by the Queen of the Iron Fist, is very quiet. Even if there are natural disasters in the north, there is still no problem Disrupt the order within the kingdom.

The Savile Kingdom looks calm on the surface, but from the newspaper reports on the affected cities, it can be seen that there are many internal conflicts in the Savile Kingdom, and the cities are enemies with each other. Helping, but gloating from the sidelines, and even some can't wait to step on it.

And there is another thing that is very noteworthy, that is, the Church of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things began to expand its influence by taking advantage of its extraordinary performance when the world changed, and began to collect rights from the Savile nobles, one of which was a certain church The clergy proposed to the local council to abolish several unreasonable tax items and restore the church's tithe.

It is conceivable that a fierce power struggle will inevitably take place in Savile in the near future, and a civil war may even break out as a result.

As for the Maris Kingdom, which had already broken out of civil war, the war did not stop because of the disaster. On the contrary, both sides invested more troops and manpower in various battlefields, trying to completely eliminate each other in a short time.

Contrary to the secular power struggle, the Church of the Hill King seemed very quiet at this time, without any action, but sent some clergymen to perform various prayer ceremonies, atonement ceremonies, etc. for the soldiers of both sides on the battlefield.

Leo thinks that the Church of the Hill King's approach is very clever, because no matter who is the final winner of the Maris Kingdom, the church's influence will not be weakened, and may even be strengthened, and the church's influence has also penetrated into the armies of both sides Among them, once the Church of the Hill King begins to dabble in the secular rights they have given up for many years, then they will be unstoppable.

With the wisdom of Saran Meyer, it is impossible not to see such an obvious advantage of the Church of the Hill King. If the King Chosen is really the manipulator of this civil war in the Maris Kingdom, then she will definitely take action.

"Leo." Just as Leo finished reading all the newspapers today and was lying in the carriage thinking about things, Sylvia once again used her power to pull Leo's consciousness into a garden illusion.

"How did you connect to my consciousness and pull it into the illusion?" Seeing Sylvia appearing in front of him, Leo asked before the other party could speak.

"Sorry, I..." Sylvia was stunned for a moment, thinking that Leo was extremely disgusted with her act of directly pulling Leo's consciousness into the illusion, so her face became a little ugly, and she was about to apologize to Leo.

But Leo interrupted Sylvia and said, "You misunderstood me. I want to know how to connect. If there is anything in the future, I can contact you directly."

"Ah?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, seeing that Leo didn't mean to blame at all, a smile appeared on his face immediately, then pointed to the king and queen on Leo's waist, and said: "The thing is in there , you only need to use your power to touch this, this, and this rune in turn, you can enter here, and then you can summon my consciousness from here."

Hearing Sylvia's explanation, Leo couldn't help but smile. He had always thought that Sylvia had left some kind of power on him, so he repeatedly and carefully searched for every sign on his body. The place has never been discovered, and I was shocked by Sylvia's strength because of this. In the end, he didn't expect that his thinking was completely wrong. The other party didn't tamper with him at all, but just added some extra things when helping him to overhaul the weapon. He thought in the wrong direction at the beginning, and did a few days of useless work.

Leo smiled self-deprecatingly, then ignored the matter, and turned to Sylvia and asked, "How is the situation on your side?"

"You mean the family who suddenly lost control? Or the thick fog on the sea?" Sylvia knew what Leo was asking about without further explanation.

Leo nodded and said, "The world has changed, you have to be prepared."

"Is it the return of the gods you mentioned before?" Sylvia asked again in confirmation.

"Yes." Leo replied, and then said with a serious expression: "And the return may not only be the gods, but also other things."

"Other things?" Sylvia looked at Leo puzzled.

"The abyss, and the abyss." Leo gave a clear answer.

Although Sylvia has never seen the abyss, she knows that the abyss is a very dangerous thing from what Leo mentioned before and some things she encountered. Although she also knows that the witch comes from the abyss, but This doesn't endear her to Abyss one iota of favor.

"Is there any way I can go back to the United Kingdom?" Sylvia asked with anticipation. Although according to his knowledge, Leo came to the Minsk mainland for the first time and was not familiar with the situation here, but for some reason, She always felt that Leo should have a way to return to Velen Continent.

"You can wait for winter to take the continental ice bridge to the north." Leo said the answer without much thought.

Sylvia was stunned for a moment, and the matter of the ice bridge soon rang out, with a smile on her face.

"Let me ask you something," Leo asked suddenly at this moment: "Did Saran Meyer participate in the civil war in the Kingdom of Marris?"

"I don't know about that either." Sylvia shook her head slightly and said, "But I think she should be involved, because she has done some weird things recently."

Afterwards, Sylvia told Leo carefully what Saran had done recently when the world mutated, and Leo couldn't help showing obvious surprise when he heard it, and then doubts appeared on his face again.

Saran's recent behavior can be summed up in two things. She secretly supported the rebel army and the government army with a large amount of weapons and supplies. It seemed that she was fanning the flames on both sides at the same time, and wanted to make this civil war more intense.

Obviously, doing so is not good for Saran, because no matter which side she secretly supports, the final victory will only be a miserable victory. In that case, the church can only be the final beneficiary.

"Ah! That's it!" Leo suddenly came to his senses when he thought of this, and said in a deep voice: "It turns out that Saran Meyer's cooperation partner is neither the rebel army nor the inter-government, and her cooperation partner has been the mountain from the beginning to the end." Church of King Qiu."

"Tell me in detail." Sylvia didn't understand the meaning of Leo's words.

So, Leo carefully told Sylvia all his conjectures after reading the newspaper on the train.

After hearing this, Sylvia was stunned for a while, and then said in disbelief: "How could she cooperate with the King of the Hill? She is a witch? Back then, the Church of the Hill King first launched a witch hunt on the Minsk continent. They should be enemies!"

"Yes, you see, even you, a smart person who has been in contact with Saran Meyer for a long time, thinks they are enemies and it is impossible to cooperate, so I am sure that they have cooperated long ago, because only such Cooperation will not make anyone doubtful, and I think the cooperation between the two was before Saran Meyer took charge of the Marris Kingdom."

Leo was talking, squatted down, picked up a branch from the ground, drew a circle on the ground under his feet, wrote the words "Maris Kingdom", and then drew four circles around it, They wrote about Saran, the Church of the Hill King, the old nobles, and the new nobles.

After writing these things, Leo wrote a number next to it. This number happened to be the time period when Saran led his men to drive away the army of the Savile Kingdom and clean up the old aristocratic forces in the kingdom.

Leo asked in a deep voice: "Who is the beneficiary of this war?"

"Saran." Sylvia replied decisively.

Leo shook his head and said, "Saran is only the beneficiary on the surface, and the beneficiary in the dark is someone else. Think about who is the biggest beneficiary of the war besides Saran."

"The Church of the Hill King." Sylvia thought for a while before she answered, "The clergy of the Church of the Hill King gained great respect during the war, and the Church of the Hill King also developed rapidly after the war. In that era when the gods retreated, the strength of the church not only did not weaken, but expanded, and this matter has attracted the attention of many churches."

Leo nodded, and then asked guidingly: "Think again, who is the biggest beneficiary in Saran's series of reforms?"

"The Church of the Hill King." Sylvia said: "The Church of the Hill King changed its teachings and included various industrial machinery into the teachings, and also actively invested in various forging machinery factories. During the heyday of the Church of the Hill King, It almost controls more than 80% of the factories in the Marris Kingdom," she said, she was silent for a moment, and said: "That period was when Saran ruled the Marris Kingdom."

"Now compare the situation of the Maris Kingdom with the situation in the past. The rebel army replaced the new nobles, and the kingdom army replaced the old nobles." Leo smiled and said, "Don't you feel like history is repeating itself? "