Even the "boss" can't describe exactly what the god's forge is. The latter may really exist, but after so many years of word of mouth and deification, it has become an abstract rhetoric and grandiose worship. A phantom of imagery, the people of this world might 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 descriptions: it is not on the earth (that is, far away from the planet, that is, in space), it is located in the eternal residence of the god (then what this residence refers to may is a larger space base), the Forge of the Gods is sealed, but it is believed that there is still a flame burning in its hearth (assuming this legend is not groundless, then the "Forge of the Gods" should be a working device), Finally, the "flame" of the god's forge was mentioned more than once in the legend. This flame should not be an ordinary fire... Then it would be a fusion reactor, or even more insane, something like a psionic reactor
"In short, if the thing is still running, there must 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, providing some kind of protective barrier. Yes..." I said my opinion, "By the way, Sandora, do you think this protective barrier is the 'disturbance' of this universe? The Celestial Forge is actually the energy source of the interference launcher, or it is simply the interference launch the device itself?"
Sandora floated up and down to express her agreement, and then muttered a little unhappily: "In short, the religious legends in this world are very messy, and they may be to hide some secrets. Some parts have been artificially blurred... Hey, we should talk to Get in touch with higher-level people in this world. Maybe Celine can be used as 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 Admiral Empire. Those prisoners should be able to provide some information after waking up, while Sandora and I are in a group of autonomous machines With my help, I "torsaged" this underground stronghold, took away some seemingly important materials and equipment, and left a scene that seemed to have been evacuated in a hurry, so that I could explain the whereabouts of the people here. After finishing these things, we left the underground stronghold.
At this moment... it is already the next morning. This tossing time is quite long.
Facing the morning sun in the forest, I stretched my arms and stretched my waist. Although my physique is not so easy to feel tired, it always has a psychological effect after a long day of work. Infected, even though it was a ball of light, she let out a long yawn: "Yawn—I'm so tired. Ah Jun stretched me."
I was stunned: "What? How do you do this?!"
The Sandora ball hit me on the forehead twice: "Just stretch me a little bit longer, don't you stretch yourself to stretch yourself."
Me: "...Your Majesty, let's not be like this, your image has been collapsing for several days, can you restrain yourself a little..."
Shandoraqiu became anxious immediately, and yelled as she hit my head: "I'm an old couple, what do you want me to be a mother-in-law? What did I say when I usually rubbed your back and shoulders for you? Besides... why did I become After this, you always have to say weird things? When did my behavior become unseemly? Is it normal!"
Well, well, Sandora’s world view is different from that of ordinary people. She can easily accept all kinds of attributes that she “should have” as a ball, and she doesn’t feel that it’s malicious and cute. I don’t think I can do it like this A bare-bones bickering man with both mental illness and evil god-level soul could only endure the cramping feeling on his face and hugged Sandora Ball in his arms, squeezed twice and began to follow her instructions. Pull on both sides, this... I found the feel of the bottom bar, what should I do!
Sandora also deliberately let out a soft cry like a foul: "Ah - it's so comfortable... That's how it feels, Ah Jun is awesome..."
As soon as the voice came out, I couldn't calm down: Sandora would be better if she wasn't spherical now.
When I was excited in my heart, the strength in my hand was hard to control, so after a while, Sandora's exclamation scared countless birds and beasts in the woods: "Oh—Ah Jun, break it lightly... Quickly break it!" it's..."
All in all I almost got two sandora balls, but in the end it was a narrow escape. On the way back to the town holding the cute Queen, I couldn't help but say to her: "Sandora, do you still feel your body like this? Does the soul spark really need to stretch?"
"Need it, if you don't believe me, get yourself together and try."
Me: "..." Where can I wipe it away! Do you think that other people can shine as long as they are balled up like you
We followed the man in the black cloak for a day and a night, and we were far away from the ancient ruins where we first set off. Although we did not get lost, we had a considerable distance from Celine and the others, and Sandora and I did not Deliberately speeding up the pace (although still much faster than ordinary people), so when the two returned to the edge of the forest and saw the smoke of the town, it was already a few hours later.
The probe detected that Celine had led most of the adventurers away from the ruins, so Sandora and I did not go to the ancient tower, but returned directly to the town.
In the past few hours, Sandora and I have had a great time discussing issues related to the three views, which directly caused both of us to be a little physically and mentally exhausted, but the business was not delayed at all. Under the remote command, the Admiral of the Empire A large number of deep-space probes have been manufactured (because the spacecraft has undergone "rebirth", these loads basically have to be re-manufactured), this time the deep-space probes are specially strengthened for energy sensing and abnormal space phenomena. Senses, which we're going to use to find the Celestial Forge, or at least something like it.
Cooperating with the low-speed and high-precision probes that were launched two days ago and have been distributed throughout the galaxy, as long as the forge of the gods really exists, and its location is not 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 with the Sandora ball in my arms, the first thing I care about is whether it was damaged by the microwave radiation yesterday: Although Celine opened the protective device in time, I am still a little worried that the Lost God Cult will make it out. Can the half-baked electromagnetic shield resist the power of the ancient broadcasting tower? Now it seems that the situation is good. Everything in the town is as usual, and the civilians still live their leisurely and ordinary life. There was a bit of shock on his face, and some buildings seemed to have been slightly damaged by high temperatures or magnetic storms: it couldn't be 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, a young girl's voice full of vitality suddenly came from the side. The adventurer who looks helpless, has the little girl found a "business" again? She still believed in what she saw from the knight's story.
"Ai Lu is going to take Mr. Scholar to find her mother," the little girl turned her head and said to the adventurer beside her, "Then this time it will be a free service, you took advantage of twenty copper coins~~"
The adventurer immediately thanked God, cast a look of "this brother, please be patient" and ran away. His speed and skill were simply... I don't know if he was so motivated when he acted yesterday. , Is Elle really that annoying
The little girl jumped up and down to me, and she didn’t forget to raise her hand to say hello to Sandora Ball: "Hello, Sister Egg! Mom said you were missing in the ruins, and Ailu was startled. She was about to call Adventurers are going to the forest to continue looking for someone. Elle will take you to find her."
Celine is not at home at this time, because of "special circumstances", she will sit in the church. Under the leadership of Ai Lu, we soon came to the church. Celine was still dressed as a combat nun with a black robe and a rifle, and seemed to be a little more tired than before because of the past two days. I held the Sandora ball Appearing in front of the other party finally made her eyes shine: "You are back? Are you not injured?"
"Ah, I've encountered some troubles, and I have something to report to you..." As soon as I opened my mouth, Celine interrupted me, who said hurriedly, "I won't say anything else, I will take someone underground to check the situation , found some suspicious mine tunnels, there may be heretics developing their influence here, now the town and surrounding areas have entered an emergency situation, except for adventurers who teamed up with the clergy, others are not allowed to go to the wild at will, you'd better not Get out. By the way...you just said that you have a situation report?"
"That's what we want to talk about," I nodded. "Yesterday, when we were looking for the missing adventurer in the underground passage, we met a suspicious guy. Sandora and I followed each other and found a secret stronghold. It should be what you said They claimed to be a technology revival organization. At that time, the situation was special, and I followed you before I had time to contact you, and I didn't come back until midnight."
"God of Technology," Celine frowned and loosened her collar. It seemed that the existence of heretics made this experienced former adventurer + current combat nun feel quite tricky. Heretics, they have infiltrated this kind of place... well, don't worry, you guys are doing a great job, it can't be better, leave the rest to me, I will first notify other dioceses to block the road , and at the same time take someone to the stronghold you mentioned to see the situation—by the way, I need your help to lead the way."
When it came to the end, Celine couldn't help showing an apologetic look: "Sorry, I didn't expect things to become so troublesome. Originally, it was just a remote ruin that was approved for development, but it suddenly rose to the level of a 'heresy incident'. Originally, you should It belongs to my guest."
"Don't say that," I hastily smiled and waved my hands, "Actually, I'm quite surprised that a hotel proprietress is actually the head of the church in this area. It seems that Ai Lu's dream of 'reopening the family hotel' has to wait. Procrastinate, the more adventurers gather here, the more you will not be able to relax."
"It's normal for the clergy to engage in various businesses. I just happened to have opened a hotel with my husband," Celine smiled. "Those civilians who don't have much contact with the clergy will occasionally feel that we are mysterious or unattainable, but In fact, the church has never allowed the clergy to occupy too many social privileges. The meaning of our existence is to manage the world's knowledge for the gods of technology and magic, so that the world can develop at the right pace. Apart from that, we can't have too much Unreasonable thinking—at least you have to find a way to solve your life problems. 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 seems that when I talked about a topic I am interested in, or I can’t find someone to talk about this kind of thing, Celine talked a little bit more for a while, and Sandora and I also got a better understanding of the operation of this Lost God Cult. And finally fully determined the core point: the founder of the Lost God Cult and the core of the current church are the tree elves.
Of course, the natives of this world do not have the term "tree elves". They collectively refer to the tree elves and the other two white elves that may come from other civilization circles as "elves", and the latter does not seem to try to correct this statement interest.
After confirming that the Lost God Cult was founded by the tree elves, the "simple" and "poverty style" of this sect became easier to understand. This kind of atmosphere with clear goals, actions only for the preservation of knowledge, and no self-interest (at least most priests do not seek self-interest) is really in line with the racial characteristics of the tree elves.
Next, I took Celine to the stronghold.
Of course, the people here have already been transferred by us. Firstly, the current contradiction between the Lost God Cult and the Technological Revivalism belongs to the "obscure contradiction" (a proper term for a certain discipline in the empire, specially used to refer to those The group is deceived or has a limited level of cognition, and the contradiction that may be resolved in a short time), it seems that this kind of excessive conflict between them should be temporarily suspended, and the members of the technology revivalists are useful. Dora was still counting on getting more information from them, so naturally she couldn't just hand it over to Celine's sect.
So what Celine saw was going to the empty underground base alone.
"It seems that we came a little late. They should have been watching the movement around the ancient tower. They ran away as soon as the adventurers came." Celine led a group of adventurers back to the ground from the underground palace, with an undisguised expression on her face. With a disappointed look, "This will increase the alert level again. The heretics who escaped may spread to the surrounding towns, and it will be more difficult to catch."
I hugged Sandora and kept laughing all the time, wishing I could write "I don't know anything" on my face. At this time, I was a little envious of Sandora: she is absolutely not worried about revealing her expression when she becomes like this...
"Then what should we do? After such a big event, is the situation at the ruins still the same?" I asked casually, while diverting Celine's attention while trying to shift the topic to a higher level of the sect. How was the incident handled?"
"A fringe town like this one isn't even a 'parish', and I'm the only combat nun officially in holy attire, so I can't deal with this level of heresy. Now I can only let adventurers Help strengthen the security, and strictly check every stranger who comes to the town... The town is small and the place is remote. Now it seems that this is a good thing. Strangers other than adventurers will be very conspicuous here," Celine said a little tiredly Laughed, then frowned, "According to the size of this underground base, there are probably quite a few heretics who were entrenched here at the beginning, and they still have certain research and development capabilities, which may alarm the cardinal-level... No, it may even be It will alarm the Pope. If that is the case, I have to go to the Holy City of Science and Technology to meet the Pope. By the way, if the Pope really intervenes in this matter, I am afraid that you will also be summoned as the first person involved. Don’t be nervous. , this is an opportunity: I am afraid that only the Pope can solve the 'egg curse' encountered by Miss Sandora."
Sandora Ball immediately became furious: "Don't mention the egg again!"
Celine smiled slightly, but just took Sandora's blowing hair as an ordinary embarrassed reaction, and then lowered her head and said to herself: "I really can't imagine, I have the opportunity to meet the Pope in person in this life, but Because of this kind of incident…”
"It's good this time, let's save trouble," Sandora said through the spiritual connection while dangling the ball in my arms. The Holy Capital still infiltrated in secret, but the opportunity found itself."
The days that followed seemed to calm down temporarily, and nothing happened for several days in a row.
The adventurers in the town still regularly go to the ruins of the ancient tower to explore. Every day, some people will bring back some relics or rubbings of ancient texts and hand them over to the church. Celine, as the only qualified clergyman in the town, is responsible for the inspection of these relics. Rough classification and registration, after the exploration of the relics here is over, the adventurers who have worked hard will be able to get monetary rewards from the higher parish according to the total number of relics handed in: this is the way of cooperation between the Lost God Cult and the adventurers .
During the period, Sandora and I also went to the ancient tower out of curiosity, and found that the place was nothing to look at: it was just a communication facility with backward technology, and it was not built by tree elves, and it had no exploration value.
And Celine has also passed on the information of the "heretics" to the archdiocese through the special communication channel of the clergy, and all the dioceses have blocked the traffic arteries in an attempt to catch the heretics, but they are destined to be unable to catch them. It is said that direct instructions from the highest diocese can be obtained within four days at most. Now it seems that nine times out of ten they really want to meet the Pope, so Celine seems rather nervous.
Because Celine is busy with work, Elle is even more unruly, and the little girl has almost become a disaster in the town-so I am helping to take care of the children these days.
Wait... wait, why am I helping a widow babysit!
Widow, Battle Sister, Ugly Child, Lost Civilization, who can help me recall how these four things came together? !
In short, time passed slowly, and just when I thought I should go to the Pope to talk about my life because I had nothing to do next, a signal suddenly came from far away space.
A deep space probe has discovered what appears to be a "Celestial Forge". RS