Gallo Nalo, Port Marury, Hearn Cathedral.

The bombing of the port of Marury was like the opening of the stage, and with the end of that night of suffering, everything went in the direction of madness, and the situation in the whole Western world was more severe than ever, although both sides had not yet torn their faces, but the heavy depression had permeated every inch of the land where human life lived.

Today, with the development of science and technology, human information is no longer as closed as in the old days, and with the railroad tracks and ships, letters and telegrams, information related to the night of tribulation spreads rapidly, circulates among countries, and triggers the nerves of others.

Everyone raised their heads and looked at the sky, and they would feel the unspeakable pressure, as if the sky was covered by an invisible iron curtain, and if they were not careful, it would be completely shattered, and it would smash fiercely on the kingdom with sparks and residual warmth.

However, some people are in a different mood than they are, they do not have the slightest fear, but are ecstatic about it.

The Plague Doctor was one of the ecstasy, and now he was standing on the lookout of Hearn Cathedral.

Looking at the place where the sky and the sea meet, the ironclad ships lined up one by one, docked at the port of Maruri, which was still being repaired. As a result of the defeat in the Glorious War, Gaulinalo's military suffered a great blow, and even after recovering in later time, their military strength still struggled to catch up with Invig.

In such a situation, Gaulnalo had little chance of winning against Invig, who had advanced steam technology, so they co-opted the surrounding countries, most of which were in the Rhine Valley, so the alliance became known as the Rhine League.

"War is coming!"

The plague doctor inhaled heavily, a heavy gasp under the beak mask, and his voice was filled with uncontrollable delight.

It was a good time, the war was imminent, the old king had cleared the country of discord before his death, and with the coronation of Cornell and the assistance of Corrie, all power in Gaulnalo was now highly centralized.

At the same time, theocracy was being plundered, and with Cornell's support, the Orthodox Church launched a series of conflicts with the Evangelical Church with the death of Migel, most of which ended in the victory of the Orthodox Church, and Lawrence, who is now the Orthodox Pope, controls almost all of the religion in the land.

There is still resistance in some areas, the believers of the Evangelical Church reject the spread of Orthodoxy, but their demise is also doomed, a few days ago the core of the Holy Evangelical Papal States, the place of the Seven Hills, was locked down, no one knows exactly what happened, but there are rumors that the Cathedral of San Nalo is surrounded by the Knights Templar, and the new pope is in it, maintaining absolute silence.

With this, the Orthodox Church also had the opportunity to strike at the believers of the Evangelical Church, and under the Great Purge, they usurped the holy church at their feet.

Hearn Cathedral is the largest and most prosperous church in the whole of Marury, it has a long history, and during the peak of the Evangelical Church, it was the outpost of the Evangelical Church, and all ships entering and leaving the port of Marury were monitored by Hearn Cathedral, even if it was not the Holy Evangelical Papal States.

But now everything has changed, without the interference of the Holy Evangelical Papal States, everything is moving according to the plan of the authorities, like a runaway train, which begins to accelerate wildly until it rushes off the tracks and carries everyone to death.

Now this sacred church is also Orthodox and expanded by Lawrence as a base, and the church is still there, but the faith in it has long been changed beyond recognition.

Such frenzied actions caused panic among the people, and there were people who felt fear and loathing about war, and there were many such voices in Gaul-Nalony, but under the death of the king and the death of the Pope and the attack on the port of Maruli, the mood for war in the country was mobilized, and even the voices of war-weariness were swallowed up by roaring anger.

"You are rarely so happy, the last time I saw you like this, was when I gave you the book of Revelation. ”

Lawrence walked over, wearing the familiar black iron mask, which could hardly illuminate the gloom even in the sun.

"Of course, I am finally going to set sail again, and those who seek the truth will never stand still. ”

The plague doctor turned, his voice joyful, distorted into a blur by the beak mask.

After going through so much, even Lawrence has changed an unknown number of bodies, but the epidemic doctor has never changed much.

He was still dressed in the same bloodstained clothes, some of the stained blood had coagulated and turned into a black stain, like dyeing, hanging all over the robe, but the bird's beak had changed slightly, he changed a few lenses, the new lenses looked much clearer, but from there, there was still a deep darkness below.

Lawrence's gaze moved from the abyss under the lens, his consciousness a little dazed, and he remembered that he had never actually seen the plague doctor, and that he had been wearing a mask since the day he met him.

"Are you ready?"

Lawrence asked.

The epidemic doctor planned to sail away, and he told Lawrence about this very early, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly, even a cold-blooded monster like Lawrence actually had a trace of reluctance.

Of course, this so-called "reluctance" is not a friendship, but a feeling of sadness about the loss of an excellent tool.

The plague doctor is a very good ally, they have the same interests, they can move in the same direction, it can be said that Lawrence can do what he is today, the plague doctor is indispensable, the flesh and blood of the Holy Grail, the legion of the secret blood...... He helped Lawrence too much.

With the strange knowledge in the doctor's head, and his ability to translate ideas into reality, his energy is far more powerful than an army.

Lawrence hesitated.

He didn't want to let the plague doctor go, the plague doctor was not on his opposite side yet, but at least there was a slight possibility of anything, and Lawrence was willing to destroy everything that could affect him in the slightest for his own sake, even if it was the plague doctor who helped him.

In order to avoid the almost non-existent possibility, Lawrence was considering whether to let the plague doctor sleep here forever.

"The ironclad ship is ready, the steam engine is roaring, the boiler is boiling, all the equipment is complete, plus the army you have given me, and the current state of the world...... Everything was so perfect, I can't think of a better time to do it. ”

The plague doctor leaned to the side, his voice full of fascination.

"Lawrence, in fact, many times I don't understand your madness, although it is said that it is to save the world, but it is difficult for me to empathize with you, I can't understand that, at that time I think we are probably different people in nature. ”

The plague doctor looked at Lawrence, both of whom were wearing masks and hiding their hearts.

"You're a madman, a war maniac, a savior, and I'm a scholar, and it's normal that we're different and pursue different things...... But I know a little bit now. ”

The sound rumbled, sounding from under the beak mask.

As a doctor and a scholar, the epidemic doctor can rarely understand the feelings of those careerists when they are in power, obviously there is no point in that kind of thing, why these people are still so crazy about it, and now the epidemic doctor has some understanding.

It has nothing to do with power or truth, it's a wish, an ideal, a thing that has been pursued all your life, the ecstasy before it is about to be realized.

Now his mood was like this, and with the formation of the fleet and the perfection of the plan, his heart that had been dormant for a long time was violently agitated again.

"It feels so good, I feel like I'm alive again. ”

The plague doctor sighed.

Lawrence was silent on the side, he looked at the body of the plague doctor, only to see that there were bursts of bulges under his robe, like some snake-like creature wriggling under his clothes, as if it would break out in the next second, tearing the plague doctor to pieces.

Lawrence had seen this phenomenon in the case of human demonization, flesh and blood began to distort, trying to break free from the shackles of the body, many times Lawrence thought that the plague doctor was going to alienate into a demon on the spot, but in the end they all returned to peace, as if this phenomenon was just a manifestation of his own emotions, and generally this situation indicates that the epidemic doctor's mood swings are very large.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long, the plague doctor's body gradually calmed down, and after recovering from the immersion, the plague doctor motioned Lawrence to follow him, and he walked to the huge building behind him, it was obviously daytime, but there was no light in the corridor, and the invisible darkness shrouded everything, making it impossible to see what was hidden inside.

"My departure will inevitably cause problems in the production of secret blood, so in order to avoid this, I have left all my knowledge about this part of the secret blood.

Paraphrasing this stuff out of the book of Revelation was such a big undertaking that I thought I was going to be killed by the madness of knowledge in it. ”

As he walked, the plague doctor said that reading the book of Revelation would inevitably lead to the cursed knowledge contained in it, and the erosion it brought about had caused the plague doctor to nearly get out of control, and he had lost many researchers for it.

Thinking about the appearance of those guys, the epidemic doctor couldn't remember it for a while, so he simply didn't think about it.

Although he was a scholar, the plague doctor killed no fewer people than Lawrence, and like Lawrence, the term "psychological burden" was a mockery of the plague doctor, which in his eyes was a sacrifice for great knowledge.

Not voluntary, of course.

Those guys all died at the hands of the out-of-control epidemic doctors, and he was still distressed for a long time at that time, and it was not easy to find such a group of guys who barely knew anything about demons.

"Because of the limited technical conditions, the current life of this facility is not long, and it is estimated that it can last a few years with frequent maintenance, and then it should get out of control...... But it doesn't matter, after all, according to your prediction, if we don't survive that apocalypse, we don't have anything to say 'in a few years', so it's still designed to be more in line with the status quo. ”

As the plague doctor spoke, a disgusting smell of blood wafted from the end of the darkness, it was so thick that it seemed that countless corpses were piling up in the darkness, and the abominable death had taken on a concrete shape, eroding its companions.

"We're not some Demon Hunter Order, and all kinds of powerful technologies can't be reproduced, but at least in a few years, this will produce enough stable secret blood here to make your army endless. ”

Out of the darkness, warm air hits your face.

It is an underground structure that sits upside down under the Cathedral of Herne, with a secret passage leading directly to the port, where the faithful carried out the smuggling business during the days of the Evangelical Church, sending the wealth of the distant Gospel from Gaulinaro to the Holy Evangelical Papal States.

It had been abandoned for years until it was reactivated by the plague doctor, who turned it into a twisted hell with his knowledge of the Apocalypse and his own madness.

Lawrence walked over, and he was parked to the side, looking down at the entire underground facility from above.

It was a furnace-like facility, in the heart of the underground, where steel and machinery burned with flames that emitted bursts of blinding glow.

The heat of the room is due to this, it is placed at the bottom of the bottom, and most of it is soaked in liquid, and because of the limitation of light, everything below the surface of the water is so black that it is impossible to see.

"What do you think of the Flesh Steam Engine?"

The plague doctor humored, Lawrence ignored him, but stared intently under the water, the blurred picture gradually became clear, there seemed to be some monster hidden under the water, countless swimming snakes were slowly moving.

Seeing this, the epidemic doctor pulled down the valve, and the rumbling sound of water sounded.

During these days of construction, the tunnel leading to the port was transformed into a waterway, and the epidemic doctor emptied the river below, and the combination of flesh and machinery gradually became clear.

It was a furnace, and only a small part of it was above the water, the main body had been hidden beneath the surface, covered with monstrous flesh and blood, which wriggled violently, thick cyan veins all over the surface, and the serpents that Lawrence had seen were tentacles on it, agitated as the river emptied.

"This carefully cultivated demon has been completely integrated into the furnace, and it will grow savagely, producing a steady stream of blood from its body, which can be purified into a stable secret blood that will be used for years to come. ”

The plague doctor leaned on the railing, looking down at his perfect work.

The furnace shook slowly, and then there was an unwilling roar at the bottom, it was an incomparably large demon, because of the overgrowth it had completely squeezed into the wall at the bottom, and the so-called furnace was only built on its back, and the scarlet flesh and bones could be seen through the gaps between the steel and the flesh.

As his gaze continued upward, countless corpses were fused into the steel-covered walls of flesh and blood, and they were completely united with the flesh, most of them trapped under the flesh, and only a few of their heads and limbs were barely exposed.

"The furnace will continue to drain its power and flesh so that this creature's growth will not break our bonds, and the river will keep it cool and stable, and by the way, curb the demon's activity...... It can be said that we have perfectly controlled a powerful demon. ”

The plague doctor's gaze rested on the bloody mural.

"Of course, the most important thing is these corpses, the corpses of the demon hunters, under the long-term influence of the secret blood, the demon hunters themselves already have a complete hematopoietic system, it can be said that they can produce a certain amount of secret blood themselves, they and this demon are in harmony with each other, plus the knowledge of the Book of Revelation, to create these. ”

"But...... I'm collecting corpses for research, but what are you collecting them for? ”

The plague doctor asked with some curiosity, and when he said his needs, he thought that Lawrence would attack the Holy Gospel Papal States and kill a few Protestant witchers, but he directly threw out a large number of corpses of witchers.

"Be prepared, you'll never know what I've done and what I've done to meet this. ”

Lawrence didn't want to explain more, he just looked with some nostalgia at the flesh mural below, on which there was a familiar face.

It was an old and haggard face, it had been dead for a long time, but it seemed that it could not be released by the will of anger, and even if it was fused with the demons, it could not soothe the cold iron blue.

"yes, I thought you would bury it and erect a monument or something, but I didn't expect you to keep it and throw it here, really using all the resources......"

The epidemic doctor also saw the iron-blue face, shook his head and sighed.

That's Lawrence...... At least it used to be.