Chapter 659: The Chosen King

After guessing that the designer of this canyon railway is most likely the king of the king, Salan Meyer, Leo quickly thinks that Saran wants to destroy the canyon railway as a means to collapse the economy of the Savile Kingdom, then she will definitely plant a trap on this railway that is enough to destroy the entire railway in an instant, and then she only needs to use this trap to complete her purpose.

So for everyone who rides the Canyon Railroad train, they sit on a bomb that will explode at any moment, and maybe they will be wiped out at that time.

It's just that Leo, who was aware of this, quickly calmed down after cursing, because in his opinion, the railway was safe for a short time.

The reason for this judgment is that the timing is not right, if Saran wants to destroy the kingdom of Saville, then the only ones she can rely on are the kingdoms of Dyyat and Mares.

Dyad was not interested in the desert of Savile, and since Her Majesty was clearly not on good terms with Saran, the Chosen King, there was little chance of cooperation between the two.

In this way, the only one who can help her is the Maris Kingdom, Leo thinks of the current civil war in the Maris Kingdom, and he feels that this civil war may be led by Saran, and its purpose is probably to stage a big drama here to elect the king and regain the power of the Maris Kingdom.

It's just that Leo thinks that her plan may be in vain, because with the return of the gods, the power of the church will inevitably return to its heyday, and at that time, it will not be whether she can become the chosen king, and she may not even have a chance to gain a foothold in the kingdom of Mares, after all, how can the church's methods tolerate a witch standing on top of their heads, maybe the church of the king of the hill will launch this witch hunt again.

Just as Leo's mind was spurting, a loud whistle came from the direction of the locomotive, and with a faint vibration, the train slowly moved away from the platform. Gradually increasing the speed towards the next city site.

In the days that followed, the train went smoothly, stopping at four cities in turn, with a few new passengers coming up in each city, and the three explorers got off at the nearest city, and the old puppeteer had not left his room since he got on the train, and even had the waiter take him to his room for dinner.

Leo would ask the first-class waiter to come to the station and buy all the newspapers at every time the train stopped, and judging by the news reported in these newspapers, the situation seemed to be developing towards the worst that Leo had predicted.

First of all, the fog on the sea surface is not only not weakening, but it is getting thicker and thicker, and it is still advancing towards the shore, and today, the dense fog is less than a hundred meters from the coast, and the fog wall is very flat and reaches hundreds of meters, and from a distance, it looks as if the giants have built a huge wall on the Minsk continent.

Faced with this strange situation, some marine companies tried to send some veteran sailors who were familiar with the route to sail their sailboats into the fog, but the result was never to return, even to the offshore islands close to the mainland, as if there was some monster in the thick fog to devour everyone who dared to enter it.

In addition, extreme weather has begun to occur in the countries of the Minsk mainland, such as extremely high temperatures and prolonged drought in the south, and several southern rivers have dried up to the point of exposing their beds.

The north, on the other hand, was plunged into extreme cold, and snowstorms that should have occurred in the winter began to appear, and cities in the north were in trouble because they did not have time to stock up on food, fuel and other supplies for the winter. Queen Dalyat had to send the national army to deliver all sorts of supplies to protect against the cold.

As for the kingdom of Savile, it has become a place where windstorms are raging, and various tornadoes that are rare in a century frequently appear in the desert, and several of them even appear in the center of the city, sweeping through several cities, causing countless building damage and casualties.

On the train, Leo saw a tornado forming out of thin air on the edge of the desert near the canyon, and moving slowly towards the canyon, fortunately the train quickly passed through the section of the railway, and was not swept by the tornado, and the iron frame of the railway was hollowed out, and the succession weighed, connected to each other and stuck in the rocks, even if it was a tornado, there was no way to shake it.

It's just that the natural disasters caused by the world changes are not a particularly serious problem compared to **, and the three major countries on the Minsk continent seem to be very quiet only the Dailyat controlled by the Iron Fist Queen, even if there is a natural disaster in the north, it still does not disrupt the order within the kingdom.

The Savile Kingdom is also very calm on the surface, but from the various reports in the newspapers on the affected cities, it can be seen that the Savile Kingdom is full of internal contradictions, and the cities are enemies of each other.

And there is another thing that is also very noteworthy, that is, the Church of the Lord of Life and Death began to expand its influence and collect power from the Saville nobility by taking advantage of the extraordinary performance of the world change, one of which was that the clergy of a certain church proposed to the local council to abolish several unreasonable tax items and restore the church's tithe.

It is conceivable that in the near future there will inevitably be a fierce power struggle in Savile, and perhaps even a civil war will break out as a result.

As for the Kingdom of Mares, where a civil war has broken out, it has not stopped the war because of the disaster, but both sides have invested more troops and manpower in various battlefields, trying to completely solve each other in a short period of time.

Diametrically opposed to the secular struggle for power, the Church of the Hill Kings seemed very quiet at this time, and did not take any action, but only sent some clergy to do various prayers, rituals of atonement, and so on for the soldiers on both sides on the battlefield.

Leo felt very clever about the approach of the Church of the Hill Kings, because no matter who the victor of the Mares Kingdom was in the end, the influence of the Church would not weaken, and it might even strengthen, and the influence of the Church of the Hill would also penetrate into the armies of both sides, and once the Church of the Hill Kings began to get involved in the secular rights they had given up for many years, then they would be unstoppable.

With such a clear advantage of the Church of the Hill King, it is impossible for Elisaran Meyer's wisdom not to see it, and if the Chosen King is really the controller of this civil war in the Kingdom of Mares, then she will definitely make a move.

"Leo. Just as Leo had finished reading all of the day's newspapers and was lying in the carriage thinking about things, Sylvia once again used her power to pull Leo's consciousness into a garden illusion.

"How did you connect with my consciousness and pull it into the illusion?" Seeing Sylvia appearing in front of him, Leo asked before the other party could speak.

"I'm sorry, I ......" Sylvia was stunned, thinking that Leo was extremely disgusted by her direct move to pull Leo's consciousness into the illusion, so her face became a little ugly, and she was about to apologize to Leo.

But Leo interrupted Sylvia and said, "You misunderstood me, I want to know how to connect, and if there is anything in the future, I can contact you directly." ”

"Huh?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, seeing that Leo did not mean to blame at all, a smile immediately appeared on her face, and then pointed to the king and queen on Leo's waist, and said: "The thing is in there, you only need to touch this, this, and this rune with your power in turn, you can enter here, and then you can summon my consciousness from here." ”

Hearing Sylvia's explanation, Leo couldn't help but smile, he had always thought that Sylvia had left some kind of power on his body, so he would repeatedly and carefully search every place on his body, but he never found it, and he was shocked by Sylvia's power in his heart. As a result, he didn't expect that he was completely thinking about the wrong place, the other party didn't do anything on him at all, but just added some extra things when helping him overhaul his weapon, he thought in the wrong direction at the beginning, and did a few days of useless work.

Leo smiled self-deprecatingly, then ignored the matter and turned to Sylvia and asked, "How's your situation going over there?"

"Do you mean the clan that suddenly got out of control, or the fog on the sea?"

Leo nodded and said, "The world has changed, you have to be prepared. ”

"Is it the return of the gods you mentioned earlier?" Sylvia asked in a restorative manner.

"Yes. Leo replied, and said with a serious expression, "And it may not only be the gods who have returned, but also other things." ”

"Anything else?" Sylvia looked at Leo puzzled.

"The abyss, and the abyss. Leo gave a clear answer.

Although Sylvia had never seen the Abyss, from some of the things Leo had mentioned before and some of the things she had encountered, she knew that the Abyss was a very dangerous thing, and although she also knew that the witch was from the Abyss, it didn't make her feel good about the Abyss at all.

"Is there any way to go back to the United Kingdom?" asked Sylvia with a little expectation, although according to his knowledge, Leo was also a first-time visitor to the Minsk continent and was not familiar with the situation here, but for some reason, she always felt that Leo should have a way to return to the Veron continent.

"You can wait until winter and take the continental ice bridge to the north. Leo didn't think much about it before he came up with the answer.

Sylvia was stunned, and soon the matter of the ice bridge sounded, and a smile appeared on her face.

"Let me ask you something," Leo suddenly asked, "Did Salan Meyer participate in the civil war in the Kingdom of Mares?"

"I don't know about that. Sylvia shook her head slightly and said, "But I think she should be involved, because she's been doing some weird things lately." ”

Subsequently, Sylvia carefully told Leo about some of the things that Saran had done recently when the world had mutated, and Leo couldn't help but show obvious surprise when he listened, and then doubts appeared on his face again.

Saran's recent actions can be summed up in two things: she is secretly supporting the rebels and government forces with large quantities of weapons and supplies, as if she is fanning the flames on both sides at the same time, hoping that the civil war will be fought more fiercely.

Obviously, this is not good for Saran, because no matter which side she secretly supports, the final victory will only be a miserable victory, in which case the only one who will benefit is the church.

"Ah, I see!" Leo suddenly came to his senses when he thought of this, and said in a deep voice, "It turns out that Saran Meyer's partner is neither the rebel army nor the government, but her partner has always been the Church of the Hill King. ”

"Be specific. Sylvia didn't understand what Leo meant.

Leo carefully told Sylvia all his conjectures after reading the newspaper on the train.

After hearing this, Sylvia was stunned for a while, and then said in disbelief: "How could she cooperate with the King of the Hill? She is a witch? In the first place, the Church of the King of the Hill first launched a witch hunt on the Minsk continent, they should be enemies!"

"Yes, you see, even you, a smart man who has been in contact with Saran Meyer for a long time, think that they are enemies and cannot cooperate, so I am sure that they have cooperated a long time ago, because only such cooperation will not make anyone doubt it, and I think that the cooperation between the two was before Saran Meyer was not in charge of the Kingdom of Mares. ”

As he spoke, Leo squatted down, picked up a branch from the ground, and drew a circle on the ground under his feet, with the words Kingdom of Mares written on it, and then drew four circles around it, respectively Salan, the Church of the King of the Hill, the old nobles, and the new nobles.

After writing these things, Leo wrote a number next to it, which happened to be the time period when Saran led his men to drive away King Saville's ** team and clean up the old aristocratic forces of the kingdom.

Leo asked in a deep voice, "Who is the beneficiary of this war?"

"Saran. Sylvia replied decisively.

Leo shook his head and said, "Saran is only the beneficiary on the surface, and the beneficiary in the dark is someone else, think about who is the biggest beneficiary of the war besides Saran." ”

"Church of the Hill Kings. Sylvia thought about it for a moment and then gave the answer, saying, "During the war, the clergy of the Hill Kings Church gained great respect, and after the war, the Hill Kings Church also developed rapidly. In that era of the retreat of the gods, the strength of the church not only did not weaken, but expanded, which attracted the attention of many churches. ”

Leo nodded, and asked again: "Think about it again, who is the biggest beneficiary of Saran's series of reforms?"

"Church of the Hill Kings. Sylvia said: "The Church of the Hill Kings changed its doctrine and incorporated all kinds of industrial machinery into its doctrine, and also took the initiative to invest in various forging machinery factories, and in the heyday of the Church of the Hill Kings, it almost controlled nearly eighty percent of the factories in the Kingdom of Mares," she said, she was silent for a while, and said: "That period was the period when Saran ruled the Kingdom of Mares. ”

"Now you now compare the situation in the Kingdom of Maris with the situation of the year, the rebel army replaces the new nobles of the year, and the king ** replaces the nobles of the year. Leo smiled, "Don't you think it's like history repeating itself?" 8)