"Nolan Clocktower is definitely not black, and the exterior paint doesn't have that metallic quality."
Among the bustling crowd outside Nolan City Hall, Miss Windsor spoke first before the local Jenkins spoke.
People around who escaped from the building raised their heads and looked forward at this moment. At the position of the original white Nolan Clock Tower, there was actually a pure black tower that seemed to be made of metal. In the fog, the vague and strange appearance makes everyone who sees it feel chills.
It is thinner than the original white bell tower, but also taller, almost twice as tall. There are no windows or openings visible from the exterior, and each floor is a perfect shape of a regular hexagon.
There are no patterns on the outside of the metal tower, and the surface is completely smooth, but traces of ancient times can be seen only from the texture of the metal. This is a special feeling that only time can leave. It stands in front of people's eyes, as if it has traveled from the past of ancient time and space, and it is incompatible with this steam-industrialized city.
"The Eye of Truth!"
Jenkins muttered in his heart, and then in the blink of an eye, the black aura almost exploded from the metal tower. While the line of sight was in contact with those black auras, there was a unique clicking~ sound produced by a gear turning a tooth in my heart. The soul immediately felt something strange, and at the same time, an inexplicable cold feeling spread from the heart to the whole body.
Jenkins snorted suddenly, feeling that a part of his heart had turned into a gear structure. But under the guidance of a powerful soul and the drive of the spirit of life, this mutation was abruptly reversed.
He hastily turned off the Eye of Reality, but when he observed the tower with his naked eyes, there was no vision. The black metal tower standing in the gray mist is quiet and eerie. It stands there, in everyone's eyes, and reflected in everyone's heart.
"Oh, this is really bad..."
That was Jenkins' only thought at the moment.
It is difficult to judge whether there is any connection between the earthquake just now and the appearance of the metal tower that destroyed the clock tower. But today's meeting is definitely not going to go on. Fortunately, the most important topic has ended, so it is acceptable for everyone to end today's affairs like this.
In order to appease the people who were frightened by the earthquake, Queen Isabella decided to hold a reception. The purpose of this reception is also to reveal the news of the end of the war reached at the meeting in a gentle and reasonable way. This is probably one of the few good news during this period.
Although today's earthquake is very strange and has a relatively small range, the tremor near the center of the epicenter is very strong. Disaster relief is also in full swing. Fortunately, Nolan has experienced frequent earthquakes recently, so it did not cause too many casualties.
After agreeing to Queen Isabella's invitation to the evening reception, Jenkins made an excuse to go home and change his clothes, but actually hurried to the church, and then met Miss Bevanna under the black tower.
Although the naked eye can't see any abnormalities in this tower, everyone knows that this thing is absolutely abnormal. Before Jenkins arrived, the church had sealed off the nearby public square and dispersed the onlookers. Fortunately, the whole city has been foggy recently. As long as people stay away from the square, they can't see the situation under the tower even if they stand on the roof.
At this time, the Twelve Orthodox Churches sent teams to check the situation, and the leaders were all demigods. Jenkins stepped on the remains of the stone bricks and beams of the clock tower, and while greeting acquaintances, he walked quickly to Miss Bevanna at the bottom of the tower. Collect the air, the wreckage of the bell tower, and the soil, and use rituals such as [evil force dispelling] [malicious detection] to prevent things from rushing out of the tower.
"What's the situation now?"
Finally came to the tower, the metal black tower in this position brings people a stronger sense of oppression. Observing from under the tower, it is easy to find that the tower protrudes from the ground, smashing the original bell tower like a spear.
Looking from the bottom of the tower, we still can't find any windows, but we can see an ordinary black iron door, because the color is similar, it almost blends with the tower body.
The door is closed now, and Mr. Smith, the secret keeper of the Church of the Sages, is talking in front of the door with two other old men whom Jenkins doesn’t know. Those two are not followers of Sages, but mystic scholars .
"It's hard to say what the situation is now."
Miss Bevanna replied, she was standing at the end of a high wooden beam holding her big book as usual, but for some reason she wore a very short purple gauze cape on her shoulders today, I don't know if it's for decoration or to prevent cold at night.
"The Church of the Earth told us that the epicenter of the earthquake was under this tower. More precisely, it was because the tower protruded from under the tower like a javelin that the earthquake was triggered."
"How much of this tower is underground?"
Jenkins frowned and asked, he didn't dare to confirm with the eyes of reality now.
"How do you know there are underground?"
"Actually, if you look closely, you can see that the current layer on the surface is not complete."
Jenkins explained, but in fact guessed based on the routine of most of the stories he had read.
"The underground area is very large. In fact, the Church of the Earth told us that the part exposed to the ground is like the tip of the lightning rod of a tower."
The answer given by Miss Bevanna was very accurate, and Jenkins immediately had a sense of the picture. He patted the cat on his shoulder that had exploded for some reason, and asked hesitantly:
"As for this tower... will it have something to do with the cogsmith?"
"I don't know yet. The Church of Mechanics is trying to detect the structure and composition of this tower, but the current progress is not optimistic."
It is difficult for the church not to associate this tower with the gear craftsmen hidden deep in Nolan's underground. In fact, almost everyone is sure that the recent frequent earthquakes, the A-12- 2-0322 [Stone of the Eyeless Man] and this tower were created by the actions of those cultists deep underground.
Because they vaguely knew that the terrifying things sealed in the depths of Nolan's underground might be related to the cataclysm at the end of the era, so the Church paid a lot of attention to the metal black tower that appeared after the earthquake.
Just looking at the quantity and quality of the first batch of personnel sent to seal off the scene and investigate, it is not difficult to see the attitude of the church.