Chapter 1041: Gathering Intelligence
"What a magical place?" Sean looked at the fire tree in front of him dumbfounded, reached out to catch the fire chips falling from the air, felt the slight heat coming from his palm, and couldn't help but sigh.
"What's next?" Leo didn't have much interest in the fire tree, he just glanced at it, and then immediately returned to business and asked.
"What's next?" Sean came back to his senses, an embarrassed look on his face.
Seeing Sean's expression, Leo couldn't help but guess, "You haven't thought about what you're going to do after you enter here, right?"
"According to the original plan, the place where we came out should be in the Holy Tru Mountain," Sean quickly explained: "When we come out, we will have the mark of the sea god on our bodies, and there will be reception personnel arranged by the spirit clan here at the exit of the Holy Tru Mountain, they will receive us and arrange everything, we only need to make some undue demands on them, but now ......" said, he smiled bitterly and said: "I don't know what to do next, maybe I can have the answer to the Holy Tru Mountain." β
"Are you going to go to the Saint-Tru Mountains to meet the Eldar and reveal your identity?" Leo sighed and asked, "But the question is how can you prove your identity?"
"I have ......" Sean was about to say something, but couldn't say anything.
Leo knew very well that Sean wanted to say that he had the mark, but the problem was that the place where they came out was not the entrance and exit of the Santa Tru Mountain, but an entrance and exit of the Desperate Mountain, and that entrance and exit did not leave a Poseidon mark on people, which meant that the two of them were now unidentified foreign intruders.
"So what do you think we should do now?" asked Sean helplessly.
Leo pondered for a moment and asked, "How are we going back?"
Sean didn't understand why Leo suddenly asked this question, but he still answered truthfully: "There is a time limit for us to come to this world, and when the time is up, we will be sent back directly by this world, but everyone stays for a different time, some for a few days, some for more than ten days, so the time to leave is also different." He paused and said with some doubts: "But the strange thing is that no matter how big the time interval is, they will eventually return to Wanghai Cliff at the same time, and the time over there has only passed less than a day, and at most it is no more than five days. β
"Will everyone be able to go back?" Leo asked as he thought of the missing Poseidon Church devout members in Randall City recorded in the archives he had seen earlier.
Sean shook his head and said, "I don't know the specifics. β
Sean is not lying, the largest part of all his information about this place comes from the records left by the ancestors of the Donald family, and the other part is from the Poseidon Church and the royal family, but there are very few records of those who participated in the sacrificial ceremony, including the reasons why the Poseidon Church of Randall deliberately concealed it, and the memory loss of those who participated in the ceremony after returning to the world of Veron, and there is no way to provide more useful information.
"Let's get to the Saint-Trux hill first. Leo looked at the team in front of him and decided.
After saying that, Leo gestured to Sean, and then, without the people in front of him noticing, broke away from the group, blended into the crowd next to him, and quickly disappeared into the town market outside the checkpoint.
The town where Leo and Sean are located was supposed to be used exclusively for sentry guards, but by this time, the role of the town is no longer so simple, and some of the blacksmiths, taverns and other facilities that can be found everywhere in the town indicate that this should be a logistics base for desperate mountain adventurers.
Although the Desperate Mountains are very barren, and even no grass grows, it seems that they can't find anything valuable, but in fact, those monsters in the Desperate Mountains are valuable things in themselves, at least some of the high-energy parts of these monsters can be used to make potions and strange things.
Judging by the number of taverns and makeshift inns, there were probably tens of thousands of people gathered here at its peak, but now it is deserted, with few pedestrians on the road and even fewer people in the taverns, all of whom sit there drinking and passing the time like the unemployed sailors in the Tavern of Landauer.
It seems that because of the Long Spirit Festival that is being held here, all exploration, hunting and other activities against the Desperate Mountains have been temporarily suspended, the checkpoints in and out of the Desperate Mountains have also been closed, and the hunters and explorers who originally gathered here have also gone home, or gone to the Saint-Tru Mountains to participate in the Long Spirit Day.
Leo and Sean walk around the town, and through observation, Leo finds several grocery stores that buy prey, and imitates the locals who sell the high-energy substances he had previously swept from the monsters in the Desperate Mountains to the grocery stores in exchange for some local money.
Later, he found another tavern, ordered some local liquor and food, and chose a place by the window with a good view, and sat down, just like other local adventurers who were temporarily unemployed, drinking and eating, and passing the time of boredom.
Sean was silent on the sidelines, although he was anxious about the sea monster snail he wanted, but he didn't show it, but Leo did whatever he wanted him to do, he knew very well that now if he still wanted to gain something, he could only rely on Leo to achieve his goal, and he could only hope that Leo would do this to help him get the sea monster snail.
The reason why Leo did not follow the team to Mount Saint-Tru, the center of the land, but stayed on the edge of this desperate mountain, was to be able to make himself more like a local, and he made himself perfectly imitate the locals by observing the words and deeds of the blood-washed locals, so as not to run to Mount Saint-Tru and be discovered for his inappropriate behavior.
The level of civilization in this Poseidon world is equivalent to the knight era of the Velen world, but the people here are not as ignorant as the ordinary people in the knight era, everyone here is proficient in a kind of writing, can read and write simply, and has also mastered some civilized etiquette, making their overall temperament look more like the people in the current Velen world.
The reason why everyone here has a certain amount of knowledge is because the Poseidon Church and the Spirit Clan here provide free education, as well as free skills training, such as the skills of using weapons to fight, and so on.
From the conversations of the people in the tavern, Leo learns that the main reason why these people who stay here and wait for the Desperate Mountains to open again is because they don't want to participate in the Long Soul Festival, or that they are all somewhat anti-spirit.
If the Sea Clan and the Spirit Clan are compared to the two classes at the top of the pyramid, then under their rule, there are a large number of other races living in this ocean world, most of these races are from the Sea Clan and the Spirit Clan, but some are from the outside world, such as the human world similar to Vilon.
Yes, this Poseidon World is also connected to other worlds, Leo was also surprised after hearing the news, but he also felt that it was reasonable, after all, the Velen World can be connected to this world through the Poseidon Faith, then other worlds can naturally also be connected to it through the Poseidon Faith, and what really surprised him was that from the conversations of those people, he found that the connection channels of the other worlds connected to the Poseidon World were very stable, and even stable to the point that people in the two worlds could communicate freely.
Therefore, those island lords are not all from the Sea Clan and the Spirit Clan, but also some from other worlds.
For example, now in the tavern, there is a person from other worlds who has settled in the world of the sea god, and these people take on the form of a human as a whole, but the skin on the body has a piece of special organs similar to leaves, and the use of these organs is not clear for the time being, but Leo estimates that the function of these organs should be similar to that of leaves.
In addition, through the conversations of these people, Leo also found that the Desperate Mountains are not barren, and even extremely rich, because in addition to the monsters that grow in the Desperate Mountains, there are some extremely special mines under the Desperate Mountains, and the Sky Sea will also drop some things from time to time, most of these things will fall in the Desperate Mountains, these things are extremely valuable treasures, and someone once found one of the dropped things, sold them to the Poseidon Church, and then obtained an island under the control of the Poseidon Church and became an island lordγ
Therefore, as long as the Desperate Mountains are open, there will be a large number of people entering the Desperate Mountains, hoping to get rich overnight, but most people will never return after entering the Desperate Mountains, because in addition to those monsters in the Desperate Mountains, the environment of the mountains is also very dangerous.
After Leo also heard this information, he felt that he and Sean were very lucky to appear in the Despair Mountains at this time, because from time to time there will be a strange power called the Death Ray in the Despair Mountain, this power will appear out of thin air, and the location of the appearance is not regular, all the people who are irradiated by the Death Ray will mutate in just a few days, and eventually either die of organ failure in the mutation, or mutate into a real monster and be killed by others.
Although Leo has not seen the dying ray with his own eyes, but judging from the description of those people, this ray should be some kind of energy ray that can cause biological gene mutations, in the universe this effect of energy rays is very common, there are tens of thousands of types, the solution is also very simple, a set of radiation protection clothing that filters rays or a filter generator that disturbs the frequency of the rays is fine, but if there is no radiation protection clothing and filter generators, let alone ordinary people, even if it is a psionic person below the third level, there will be some irreversible mutations when encountering this kind of rayγ
In addition to some miscellaneous information, Leo also knew some information about the Poseidon Church team that they were with before, in fact, the incident that appeared not long ago was very big here, so that when the Poseidon Church sent people to the Desperate Mountains to investigate, many people also paid attention to it, and now the Poseidon Church team has returned from the investigation and brought back some things, which naturally arouses the curiosity of many people, so there are people discussing these things in almost all the local taverns, and it is difficult for Leo to listen to it.
Among the information collected from the local Poseidon Church, the first information confirmed by Leo was the identity of the centaur bishop, Archbishop Chriss, who was almost certainly Princess Chrissy, but her bloodline had mutated, or atavistic.
As for how Chrissy came to this world, the information that these people talked about did not mention it, but only mentioned that Chrissy's status in the Poseidon Church in this world is very high, to what extent? Even if it is the Spirit Clan Patriarch or the Sea King of the Sea Clan, when he sees her, he needs to salute, and the one who can be equal to her in the entire Poseidon World is another god archbishop.
The reason why she has such a high status is not because of how powerful she is, but because of her god-descendant status, she is now the only god-descendant in the Poseidon Church who has been recognized by the Poseidon, so she can use all the artifacts given by the Poseidon.
Subsequently, these people revealed another piece of information, that is, the previous trident light was the power of this Chrissy Divine Archbishop after using the artifact.
In addition, they also mentioned some things about the Poseidon Church, but these things all involved disputes within the Poseidon Church, and most of them were hearsay, so Leo didn't particularly care about it.
What really made Leo a little interested was that the Archbishop of Chrissy's godborn seemed to be preparing to take advantage of this Long Spirit Day, when the Poseidon believers from various islands gathered here, ready to recruit a large number of people to expand her subordinates.
After listening to the recruitment conditions they mentioned, Leo felt that this might be an opportunity to infiltrate the Holy Tru Mountain, because according to the normal situation, it is very difficult for people like them who have no identity to enter the Holy Tru Mountain during the Long Spirit Festival.
If Leo is only one person, he doesn't need to worry about his identity, he can just use a little witchcraft, abyss spells, and psionic skills that affect the spirit of others to get by, even if he is discovered, he can easily escape, but there is now a Sean who is similar to an ordinary person by his side, and Sean has no way to escape once something happens, so he has to modify his way of doing things and choose to enter Mount Sant Tru from the normal way.
Thinking of this, Leo turned to Sean and asked, "Sean, do you know how to sing?"
"Singing?" Shaun didn't understand what Leo meant by asking this question, but shook his head truthfully and said, "I can't sing, but I can play instruments," he said, pointing to a strangely shaped piano hanging from the tavern wall, "I can play the camosa, and I've practiced it since I was a child." β