Uplifting Journey

Accompanied by the deep clicking sound of the gears turning, the small lifting platform of tens of square meters slowly left the ground, and was lifted up along the vertical cliff to the higher upper city.

The silver-haired elf, who stood out among a group of dwarves, walked to the edge of the elevator, looked at the houses and streets that were gradually shrinking, and then rubbed the metal railings, looking thoughtfully at the advertisements and slogans above the railings of the elevator.

"The way forging and furnaces extract, transform, and control things in nature, and continuously strengthen this ability." Curiosity flashed in the crimson eyes of the elf, which vaguely showed vertical pupils, "I thought that guy was a traditional The god of blacksmiths in the sense, I didn't expect this belief to be quite interesting."

"In a nutshell, it's a bit close to the definition of productivity. When you get to the temple later, you can take a look at the specific content of the teachings spread by his church." Looking away from the divine emblem and slogan on the billboard, Cheng Bin followed with a loud noise The fallen dwarf walked out of the lifting platform slowly, and continued to move towards the core area of ​​the dwarf city.

This city of dwarves is directly controlled by the church of Morrigan, the god of forging and furnaces. When Cheng Bin approached the city, he found a huge defense system that was not inferior to the original elven king's city, so he transformed from the red dragon form A humanoid elf walked slowly from the main entrance.

Although the defensive barrier of this metal city can't be bypassed or dismantled violently, but Cheng Bin came to seek communication, and naturally he would not do this kind of behavior.

At least not at first.

The level of streets and buildings in the upper city is more advanced than that of the lower city, and the style is more uniform. Walking among the continuous tall buildings, Cheng Bin looked around, feeling a bit like returning to a certain town on the inner earth.

After walking a few streets in a leisurely manner, Cheng Bin, who had a brief taste of the customs of the dwarves, came to the huge square in the center of the upper city.

The huge statue of the God of Forging and Furnace, which is hundreds of meters high, stands on the edge of the square. There is a faint brilliance flowing on the statue, and behind it is the church temple.

Sweeping his eyes over the dwarves standing outside the statue praying, Cheng Bin stared at the giant statue carefully with a gleam of light in his eyes.

A familiar feeling faintly came from the statue with a complex internal structure. After savoring it carefully, Cheng Bin confirmed the source of that familiar smell in his heart—the divinity of the God of Forging and Furnace.

However, the divinity is only connected to this huge statue through the bridge of time and space. It itself exists deeper in the temple complex. This connection with the divinity is full of omissions in the subtleties. It doesn't look like it was directly made by the gods. It seems that It is a usage researched by its believers themselves.

"This big guy seems to be able to move. Is this a mechanical Gundam?"

Cheng Bin glanced at the huge square hammer on the ground under the statue, and then looked at the priest who was loudly promoting the power of the god near the statue, and found that there was nothing substantial to listen to except the power and greatness of the god.

Bypassing the Divine Gundam, which could smash the dragon into meatloaf with one hammer, Cheng Bin continued to walk towards the temple.

Passing through the open outer gate of the church complex, Cheng Bin did not follow the flow of people to the prayer hall corresponding to the statue, but walked deeper into the complex following the initial divinity induction that he had temporarily transformed and compiled.

Although he didn't enter the hall, Cheng Bin, who just glanced over there casually, had already scanned all the text messages hidden in the prayer hall without disturbing anyone.

A large amount of basic information about Morrigan, the god of forging and furnace, was collected by Cheng Bin. He browsed the information in his mind while walking, and quickly figured out the situation of this god.

According to the common standards of the gods, Morrigan is a god with a medium godhead. His vocation includes forging, smelting, machinery, craftsman and other fields, as well as some derivative and expanded side concepts, such as fire and blasting.

Judging from the content of the teachings, Morrigan is not the racial god that Cheng Bin expected, and his priesthood is more focused on interpreting certain specific behaviors in the process of intelligent life transforming nature.

This means that dwarves are not necessarily his worshipers, and non-dwarven races have no barriers to worshiping the deity.

Strangely, there is no trace of any other gods in dwarven culture, and no second dwarven god exists.

Cheng Bin, who was thinking, suddenly stopped, but a dwarf in a loose gray tunic stopped in front of him, frowning and looking at him suspiciously.

——A humanoid race that has never been seen before, with pointed ears? Could it be the legendary elves? It can't be that the goblin has mutated.

Grabbing the braided brown beard, the dwarf guard who couldn't see anything wrong with the silver-haired elf waved his hand and said loudly: "Stop, go further and you will be inside the church. If you have anything to do, you can go back to the prayer hall." Find the pastor over there."

Legendary warrior? No wonder I was able to break through the passive ignoring the special effects. I noticed that I, Cheng Bin, looked at the dwarf guard and shook his head with a smile. He slightly strengthened the soul spells around him that had been activated not long ago, and then continued to walk forward——

The place he is going to has the divinity of Morrigan. I am afraid that there is no way to get close to it through the normal process. I don’t know what Morrigan is doing. He has come here and has not responded yet. Could it be that he has not found him yet? Bar?

Seeing that the pointed-eared elf obeyed his advice and walked away, the dwarf guard nodded, then walked sideways to the other side and continued to patrol——

There seemed to be a missing link in his soul. The fact that the elf left from where it was was directly connected to the result of the judgment. He was completely unaware of what the direction of its departure represented.

For a demigod-level soul mage, the thinking circuit of a legendary warrior is not something that cannot be interfered with. Cheng Bin, who is exceptionally good at this aspect of work, can push the dwarf guard into a logical dead end with no effort at all.

Of course, this is also because the slight disturbance made by Cheng Bin did not threaten the dwarf guards, and cleverly avoided touching the power of his real name.

Relying on the extremely fine and subtle magic control and the powerful neglect aura comparable to the stone hat in Doraemon, Cheng Bin drove straight all the way, passed through layers of barriers and identification spells while being ignored by many temple personnel, and came to the depths of the temple complex in front of a modest stone building.

After looking at this ordinary building with a distinctive painting style and no magical power added, Cheng Bin pushed open the semicircular wide wooden door from the middle, and walked in amidst the low sound of the door hinge.

Looking at the tables, chairs and bar in the hall under the light coming in from the window, and then looked at the wine bottles behind the bar, which were mostly filled with cabinets, Cheng Bin raised his foot and walked towards the passage on the side of the bar, without taking a few steps I saw the source of divine induction.

It was a simple blacksmithing shed built of stones. The gray furnace was surrounded by black ash, and a square hammer with a wooden handle was leaning against the uneven anvil—it was very similar to the hammer on the statue outside.

The taste of divinity permeates faintly from this simple hammer.

"The magical hammer, but the structure doesn't look like a special weapon or tool, it's just a product of divine infection?" After looking at the hammer, Cheng Bin, who let go of the divine resonance, walked across the hammer to the opposite side of the furnace The edge of the deck looked out.

The huge circular shaft left after the reconstruction of the crater is directly below Cheng Bin. The bright light emitted by the hot lava diffuses through layers of filtration and transformation to the outside of the shaft. Huge energy surges through the magic patterns all over the shaft. Moving, constantly flowing and transforming to the distance.

Just as Cheng Bin leaned over to look at the core of the Dwarf City, a thick arm with prominent muscles and scars stretched out from the void, and grasped the wooden handle of the square hammer next to the anvil with five fingers.

The next moment, the dwarf walked out of the space-distorted ripples, raised the hammer in his hand with an uneasy expression, aimed it at the back of Cheng Bin's head, and smashed it down.

The speed of the hammer swinging is not fast, just like a mortal blacksmith forging iron, but the divinity in the square hammer guides the huge magic power it has accumulated, locking the entire space into one piece, let alone avoiding it by ordinary people, even Thoughts cannot continue to function.

But this is obviously of little use to Cheng Bin.

The phantom-like translucent red dragon body materialized a thin layer behind Cheng Bin. I don’t know how many versions of the red dragon scales have been modified by magic, easily bursting the space blockade, catching the god like a breeze. Sexual hammer, not even a trace of aftermath ripples, all energy conflicts are annihilated invisibly.

Under the power of divinity, the hammer, which had transformed into an unknown amount of heavy attack power, was taken back by the dwarf. He frowned and looked at the surface of the hammer that hit the phantom dragon scale, and raised his hand to rub it for a few times with a feeling of distress. Down.

Cheng Bin, who turned around, smiled when he saw this: "This should be a souvenir, right? Such rough use is not afraid of accidents? Morrigan, is this how you welcome old friends?"

"Bah! Who is your old friend?!" After putting the hammer back as it was, the dwarf deity stared at the trigger elf and spat, "What do you have to do with the sneaky guy who plays with shadows? You actually sneaked here .”

Cheng Bin didn't know that Morrigan had an incarnation waiting in this city, but after Morrigan was notified by a certain god incarnation, he still knew the arrival of the red dragon, and he had been paying attention to it. Traces of flying red dragons.

It's just that he didn't expect that this guy would have such terrifying aura restraint and stealth abilities when he got close to the urban form. From the beginning of acting alone at the city gate until now, no one from the church personnel to the magic barrier can stop him.

If the other party hadn't come to the hammer and touched the divine sense, Morrigan himself would not have been able to find the red dragon from the huge city—unless the city's defense system was fully activated to build the god's domain above the ground, or he would directly descend with The battle avatar of divinity does the sweeping sweep of divine power himself.

"Well, it's very simple. In addition to the simple thinking of the personnel, the structure of your defense system is also very easy to understand." Cheng Bin smiled slightly, and operated on his own soul, pulling out a module of the soul magic in operation to separate it. Run it a bit.

Morrigan froze suddenly, he saw an extremely clear line of faith in the red dragon - pointing to him, the god of forging and furnace.

As if the red dragon had become his devout believer at this moment, Morrigan could perceive the thoughts he was praying along this stable line of belief, and as long as he wanted to, he could bestow divine spells on this true believer .

However, in the next moment, devout believers abandoned their faith in a series of spiritual changes, and the faith connection that could be recognized by countless magical enchantments collapsed and disappeared in the blink of an eye like snowflakes encountered by a soldering iron.

——So that’s the case, using the believer’s belief detection link as a springboard, combined with powerful spellcasting ability to intrude into the defense system to tamper with the identification mark and access authority

The muscles on Morrigan's face, who saw all the details clearly, twitched, showing a complicated expression that he didn't know how to describe: "You are provoking face to face, how dare you play with faith and deceive the gods like this?"

"I think this is a very sincere communication," Cheng Bin said sincerely, "Look, I found a lot of fixable mistakes and omissions for you when I came here. Based on what I just showed, you should be able to Improve a lot of divine arts to enhance the power of believers in the material world?"

Morrigan snorted coldly: "So what, disrespecting the gods is the greatest sin in itself, do you know what will happen if your behavior just now is exposed to other gods?"

"That's why I came to you. I think you who know something should be able to communicate, and your teachings have absolutely no content about what happens if you don't fear God."

The silver-haired elf leaning back on the fence on the edge of the open-air platform smiled, and then said seriously: "And after watching my process of creating a belief connection, do you really think you are a real god?"

"What do you mean?" Morrigan frowned.

Cheng Bin pondered for a while and then slowly said: "I came to ask you for advice on becoming a god, but after sneaking in before, I think that gods like you may have some fundamental problems."

Morrigan blinked and said in a deep voice, "Scaremongering!"

"Is it alarmist? Let's discuss it together after I finish speaking." Cheng Bin shook his head and continued, "Just now I temporarily created a belief connection, theoretically connecting you at the other end, or your god body can be Perceive the details of the connection and discover the abnormality on my side.

"But the fact is that you haven't noticed the problem of my fake belief connection at all, which shows that you can't always pay attention to the status of every belief connection. For a god, it's strange that you can't control your own power foundation. ?”

"Strange? What nonsense," Morrigan sneered, "How to deal with the impact of complex beliefs, how to use the Godhead to create templates to respond to different types of belief ideas are skills that every god must learn.

"Do you know how many planes there are in this world? Do you know how many planes a god has churches? How many believers does a god have in total?

"No one can perceive and deal with such a huge belief at all times, even when he has just achieved the least number of believers in the gods, those who dare to try will die due to the distortion of their souls under the spiritual washing as soon as they ascend to the throne of God."

Facing Morrigan with a sarcastic expression, Cheng Bin spread his hands innocently and said, "But I can."

Morrigan, who was about to continue to say something, couldn't help but froze, and his face changed a few times, revealing a "you're kidding me" expression.

Another day of pictures, depressed

I don’t have much free time and I’m stuck, I don’t feel like I’ve written recently.