The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Chapter 1497: Blasphemy heresy

Latest URL: Originally, Leo thought that he was the only one who discovered that something was wrong with the Sacred Heart Heresy Hunting Team, but he soon realized that he underestimated these scholars in the Academy City, because not long after it got dark, Delkan brought Several kingdom knights who guarded the exchange team came to Leo and Silvia's tent.

He told the two very directly that they found that the heresy hunting team of the Holy Heart might be disguised by cultists, and they should be attacked by cultists at night, so for the safety of Leo and Sylvia, they specially sent them Several kingdom knights are tasked with protecting the two.

"How did you find out that something was wrong with those people?" Sylvia also asked curiously after accepting the kindness of Delkan and other scholars.

Delkan smiled and explained: "Although they pretended to be perfect, they are not really Holy Heart believers. Some Holy Heart believers don't have the behavior and etiquette that some Holy Heart believers must have. If this happens to ordinary believers It’s all right on the body, but it’s obviously very weird to appear on the clergy and heresy hunting parties.”

After explaining, Delkan reminded Leo and Sylvia of some precautions, left behind those kingdom knights, and left in a hurry.

Judging from Delkan's expression, although he tried his best to look relaxed in front of Leo, and always had a confident smile on his face, as if he was saying that they had seen through the cultists' intentions and laid a trap, Just waiting for the other party to take the bait and catch them all, but in fact Leo and Sylvia can still easily see his hidden panic and worry. Obviously the situation is not as simple and easy as he expressed.

However, it is not difficult to understand after thinking about it. Although they have seen through the plot of the cultists and have made preparations in advance, the shortage of manpower is still a big problem.

Regardless of the fact that there are now two or three hundred guards and caravan members in total, these two or three hundred of them cannot fully participate in the battle, and a lot of people need to be allocated to protect other people in the team, such as Leo and Hill An important figure like Via took up three or four kingdom knights who were supposed to be the core combat power. In addition, the students in the exchange team may have more guards, so the number of people who can finally go into battle may be less than two hundred. .

On the other hand, the cultists, they only know that a few cultists pretending to be priests of the Holy Heart are internal agents, and they don't know anything about the overall strength of the cultists, but it is very likely that the cultists from the Son of the Virgin From the point of view of the Sons of the Virgin, the blasphemy faction that triggered the major events in the country, even if the cultists who attacked the team were not the main force of the Sons of the Virgin, there must be hundreds of people, or even thousands of them. Power-tainted, powerful heretic monsters.

In this situation of disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, even if one side has seen through the other side's plan, made preparations in advance, and has a certain advantage, this advantage cannot completely fill the vacancy in the strength of both sides. If it is a frontal attack, then it may be difficult for this exchange team from the school city that mixed several caravans to win this battle.

Although Leo and Sylvia could see that although Delkan was not as confident in dealing with the cultist's attack as he seemed, and was full of worries, he was just worried and did not show any despair. Obviously, Xuecheng should have hidden some means to turn the tide of the battle.

Leo was a little curious about what this method was, so after Delkan left, he monitored the entire camp through the spiritual network to see what other methods the scholars of the academy had.

Within the coverage of the Spirit Network, the scholars of the Academy City naturally couldn't hide any secrets. Leo quickly discovered the items used by the scholars of the Academy City to turn the situation around at critical moments, two proton grenades produced by the Earth Federation.

When Leo saw the team's main mentor pull out two proton grenades, he was both surprised and took it for granted.

Although he has not officially seen the academic city, after communicating with these academic city scholars, he has already gained a lot of information from the other party, which is enough for him to deduce a lot of things, such as He was almost sure that the University City must have mastered a relatively well-preserved Earth Federation colonization facility relic like the Otter Federation, and also unearthed some usable technologies and items that could be used from the relics.

The proton grenade is almost the standard equipment of all the armed forces of the Earth Federation. It covers an area of ​​up to 100 meters in diameter and has extremely high lethality. It is difficult for ordinary ground tank weapons to resist this weapon, so it was invented From the early colonial period of the Earth Federation to the era of Leo, this kind of weapon, which is simple to manufacture, long-lasting, and stable in power, has never been eliminated, and its stock is extremely amazing.

Leo also seized a batch of proton grenades from the enemy's arsenal in a certain battle, and the production date of these grenades is the early days of the Earth Federation's interstellar colonization, and they are still usable.

Now that Leo sees that the main mentor of the exchange team of Xuecheng actually took out two proton grenades, he can be sure that Xuecheng must have a batch of these proton grenades on hand, and there are quite a few of them, otherwise it would be impossible to distribute them to The main instructor of the exchange team of the school city used it.

I saw that the main instructor gave two proton grenades to Delkan and the captain of the Kingdom Knights of the team respectively, and then taught how to use them. The main target of the teaching was the Kingdom Knight Captain. He seemed to be very careful when passing the proton grenade, and he didn't listen to the usage instructions that the master instructor said.

After the two put the proton grenade away, the main instructor seriously explained the timing of the two to use it, but the timing and the target of the two were completely different. The knight captain of the kingdom used this thing to destroy the main force or Desecrate key figures such as priests, and Delkan used this weapon against his own people when the cultists completely won, so as to prevent the scholars of the academy from being taken hostage by the cultists.

Leo was also a little surprised when he saw the determination of the academics in the academy city, and told Sylvia what he saw through the spiritual network, but Sylvia didn't feel that learning was a problem. The performance of urban scholars is a matter of course.

Although foreign people think of the city of academics when they mention the Kingdom of Teresa, the real foundation of the Kingdom of Teresa is its mercenary system. The spirit of bravery, this spirit will naturally infect the scholars in the academy city, so it is understandable that the team leader will make this decision to be more like a warrior than a scholar.

"I don't want to be blown up by a proton grenade because of some people's nervousness." Leo expressed his thoughts tactfully, and then asked Sylvia, "Are you interested in taking a look at this forest?" nighttime scenery?"

Although the knight captain of the kingdom who owns the proton grenade can indeed turn the tide of the battle if he uses it well, the chances of accidents during the whole process are not small. Now, Delkan directly used the proton grenade in his hand as soon as he was nervous, and Leo and others who were within the blasting range of the grenade might also encounter a wave of proton storms.

Although with the abilities of Leo and Sylvia, the power of the proton grenade can no longer cause any damage to them, but they can't save the people in the team after the proton grenade exploded, so Leo thinks it is necessary to move , to avoid any surprises.

"Go by yourself! I still have a book to read." Sylvia shook her head and rejected Leo's invitation. In her opinion, it was absolutely unnecessary for the two of them to go out together to deal with a group of cultists. Ou alone is enough, and even if Leo didn't propose it, she would suggest that Penny and Joann go.

Hearing Sylvia's answer, Leo didn't force it. He casually picked up a coat and put it on, and then walked out of the tent. It felt like going for a walk outside after dinner.

And Leo's departure did not attract the attention of the kingdom knights responsible for their safety, because in the psionic illusion created by Leo, he was completely invisible to these kingdom knights.

Soon Leo walked out of the camp without a sound, entered the nearby forest, and moved quickly towards the northwest.

Although the Sons of the Virgin were able to hide their whereabouts under the eyes of the frontier corps of the Kingdom of Teresa and enter the kingdom, their hidden power of evil gods was as eye-catching as a spotlight in Leo's extraordinary perception.

Although the mountain road is very difficult, it is nothing to Leo. In less than five minutes, he has climbed three peaks and came to a small valley, where he encountered the blasphemy of the Son of the Virgin Pi's perimeter checkpoints.

The leader of this cultist attaches great importance to safety. They have set up ten light and dark checkpoints around the valley, and they have also planted some famous profanity traps in some checkpoints to prevent loopholes.

These blasphemy traps are to bury the corpses of heretic monsters who have been completely infected by the power of evil gods in key areas, and then set up some trigger mechanisms. As long as someone triggers this mechanism, those monster corpses will be detonated. The power of corpse explosion may be It can't cause too much direct damage to the triggerer, unless the triggerer is standing directly on the corpse, but the power of the evil **** spread by the corpse explosion can cause extremely strong pollution to the creatures within the range, and the pollution power of the evil **** is not only By twisting only the body of the polluted person, even the mind can be polluted.

This kind of blasphemy trap is often used by heretics, and it is also a very practical defense method. Even if the heresy hunting teams and church knights know of this thing in advance, as long as these heresy corpses are not triggered, it is difficult for the church's magic to find them Therefore, in the confrontation between the church and the heretics, the main casualties came from this kind of blasphemy trap.

However, these profane traps are like the light and dark checkpoints carefully arranged by the cultists, and they are useless to Leo. When he solved the guards of those checkpoints, he also destroyed all the profane traps and buried them in the ground. The power of the evil **** contained in the corpse of the heretic was extracted, and absorbed by the imprint of the evil **** of the Son of the Virgin that had been condensed in the body.

Although the imprint of the evil **** of the Son of the Virgin tried to resist during the absorption process, it was immediately suppressed by other imprints of divine power in Leo's body before it had the power to counterattack, especially when the breath of the imprint of judgment came over. For a moment, the imprint of the evil **** of the Son of the Virgin shrank completely, not daring to move, as if he had encountered a natural enemy.

After easily eliminating the cultists' peripheral forces, Leo came to the camp of the cultists in the center of the small valley. At this moment, the cultists team has begun to clean up their shape. It seems that they should have received the feedback from those insiders. News, began to prepare to set off to attack the exchange team of the school city.

As guessed before, there are a lot of people in this team of cultists. A rough calculation is about 1,400 to 500 people. Most of them should be armed by the church from the perspective of stature and equipment. It looks no different from ordinary people, but many of the parts covered by the clothes have mutated due to the power of evil gods.

What's interesting is that both the Church of the True God and the Church of Evil God in this world will regard this mutation caused by divine power as a gift from the gods, but they also declare that the other party's mutation is blasphemy.

It's just that the two treat the mutants in different ways. In the Church of True God, those clergymen or believers whose bodies are mostly mutated will be sent to the Holy Spirit Academy by the church to guard the artifacts and sacred objects stored in the Holy Spirit Academy. It can be regarded as a disguised form to control them, so as to avoid bad thoughts among ordinary people because of their too terrifying image.

The Church of the Evil God will choose those believers whose bodies have undergone substantial mutations to become priests, and even become church managers and leaders such as high priests. The more serious the mutation, the more inhumane they are, the more they are valued. The controllers of the cultists are three priests of evil gods whose bodies have been completely mutated~lightnovelpub.net~ I saw that these three priests of evil gods have been completely dehumanized, a thread like countless tentacles intertwined One group is suspended in the air by its own power of the evil god, and the other is a group of rotten meat, which is carried by several giant mutants on sedan chairs, and a rancid smell is continuously emitted from its festering body, and for the cultists The smell fascinated them like some seductive fragrance.

And the most special priest of the evil **** is just a black shadow, if you can't see him in the dark with the naked eye alone, but in Leo's perception, the power of the evil **** in this black shadow is very eye-catching.

In addition to these three priests of the evil god, there are dozens of clergymen such as bishops or servants of the Son of the Virgin wearing religious robes and severely mutated bodies around the priests of the evil god.

After seeing the staffing of the cultist in front of him, Leo was glad that he had made this trip and didn't wait for the team to attack the camp before taking action, because the team in front of him was not a fugitive from the blasphemy faction of the Son of the Virgin at all The team is a well-prepared main team of the Son of the Virgin. The attack of this team on the exchange team in the school city is probably not a temporary idea, but a careful plan.