Chapter 1151: Reference
Like the Heavy Armor, the Codex Warhammer in Malus's hand also has a similar steam device inside, which, when necessary, will instantly spew powerful steam that will propel the Warhammer into a stronger attack.
Such a set of heavy-armored warhammers powered by divine power and the steam industry has now been recognized as a god-given weapon by the Church of the Lord of the Sky, believing that this is the key to victory against mutated monsters, and also an opportunity for the Church of the Lord of the Sky to become the Church of Savior.
Therefore, under the influence of this ideology, several important departments throughout the church are focusing on this device, and they hope to use less divine power to power the same steam device, so that ordinary holy warriors or clergy can also equip this device.
The Holy Judge Malus is the direct beneficiary of this device, and he has also deeply experienced the power of this device in the past dozens of battles with mutant monsters, and even deep in his heart, he also feels that without this device, it will be difficult for him to escape from the siege of mutant monsters several times.
Therefore, he was one of the main participants and supporters of the simplicity and normalization of the device in the church, and even played a very important role in convincing those in the church who disagreed with it.
However, the mysterious attacker just now made him feel that his past actions seemed to be wrong, as the bearer of the divine blood of the Lord of the Sky, as the most devout person of the Church, when he encountered difficulties, he did not want to pray to the gods for divine revelation, did not want to work hard to discover and master more powerful divine powers, did not want to learn the legendary great divine arts of the past, but put his hope and placed on other objects, what a blasphemous act, this is equivalent to denying the greatness and omnipotence of the Lord of the Sky, and it is not an exaggeration to call this behavior blasphemous。
If the attacker hadn't shown a more powerful Sky Lord divine power, Malus wouldn't have reacted much even if he heard the other party's question, and now he saw how the more powerful Sky Lord divine power was used, and saw a path that could be more powerful without the help of external forces, which made him fall into deep reflection, and he began to realize that his past actions were indeed a blasphemous, and the whole church was completely immersed in this blasphemy without knowing it.
Thinking of this, the Holy Judge Malus, who would not frown even in the face of the siege of countless mutant monsters, couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and he suddenly thought of a rumor he had heard in the church in the past, rumors that the upper echelons of the church were falling, and the church was also deviating from the holy scriptures of the Lord of the Sky, and when the Lord of the Sky fully returned, those blasphemers who deviated from the holy scriptures would be judged.
At this moment, Malus sensed that the conflict between the Church and the Shamanic Spiritual Order had suddenly become less important, and that the Church's current blasphemy was the crisis that led the Church into the abyss.
As a result, Malus did not have the idea of continuing to go to Odolin to support the local church according to the instructions of the church, but turned around and returned the same way, he now needed to return to the main church of the church, re-read the holy scriptures left by the ancient sages in the church's vault, and re-establish and strengthen his now collapsed faith.
Just as Malus pondered for a long time and decided to return the way he came, Leo had already landed on the roof of the Odolyn IRS branch from the sky, and he also sensed that Malus was leaving through the spirit network for the first time.
He was also a little surprised and puzzled that Malus would choose to leave, in his opinion, although the three battles he had with Malus just now were absolutely suppressed, if it weren't for the powerful protective effect of the Sky Lord in Malus's body, maybe Malus would have been killed by him by now, but with his understanding of Malus, it was absolutely impossible for Malus to retreat because of the strength of his opponent, he would only charge towards a stronger enemy.
Now that Malus's retreat was completely contrary to what Leo had obtained from the bishop's memory, he couldn't help but wonder if Malus was playing some tricks, disguised as a retreat, and then turned around and sneaked back to Odorin secretly.
So, he once again expanded the sensing range of the spiritual network, only retaining the extreme sensitivity that could sense Malus, and secretly followed Malus, until Malus had gone deep into the surrounding no-man's land forest before readjusting the spiritual network, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, not understanding what Malus was thinking.
Leo didn't know that his casual blasphemy and experimental use of the divine power of the Lord of the Sky inadvertently caused a series of associations in Malus, and finally began to doubt whether his current faith was still religious, of course, this was also because of Malus's original belief problems, which made him start to self-deny and self-doubt because of a little stimulation from the outside world.
Although Leo didn't understand the reason for Malus's retreat, he knew that it should be impossible to fight against the strongest combat force of the Church of the Lord of the Sky at least for a short time, and he didn't need to think about how to break the other party's tortoise shell for the time being.
"How's it going?" Leo returned to Sylvia's room on the top floor of the IRS, and several people couldn't wait to ask, apparently the famous Marus was also putting a lot of pressure on them.
After a little move, he gained a lot, and now he has gone back the same way. Leo replied simply.
"Retreated?" Hearing Leo's words, several people were a little surprised, because as Leo had thought before, they had the impression that Marus was not a person who would retreat in a difficult way.
"You hurt him badly?" asked Emily.
"Nope. Leo shook his head and said truthfully: "The divine power of the Lord of the Sky contained in his body is very powerful, and my attacks can hardly cause fatal damage to him, and of course he can't make any effective counterattacks. However, since he can complete the Divine Descent Technique twice, then he must also be able to complete the third time, if he uses the Divine Descent Technique, even I can only choose to retreat, so in practical terms, he should have more advantages. ”
"In that case, why did he retreat?" Sue couldn't help but ask.
"I also feel strange. Leo shrugged his shoulders and showed a helpless expression, this question he didn't figure out on the roof just now, and naturally there will be no answer now, and then he didn't continue the topic, turned to Sylvia, and said: "I got a nice good thing in the process of fighting Marus just now"
He then briefly and quickly talked about the information about the set of god-given equipment on Malus's body obtained through the scan of the spirit web.
"That's great!Can you restore that set of equipment?" Sylvia heard this, and a surprised expression immediately appeared on her face, she had already heard of the divine power steam equipment that the Sky Lord University would study, and she also knew some details about the power of this equipment from Malus's various achievements, but unfortunately this set of equipment was regarded as a top secret by the Sky Lord Church, even if it was her, it was difficult to get the relevant information through some people inside the Sky Lord Church.
Now she can only rely on some information that has been made public by the Church of the Lord of the Sky to get a glimpse of some of the mysteries of this equipment, and through the internal research and development team of the Dodd Group, she has developed some imitation steam armor.
It's just that these steam armors have some flaws to a greater or lesser extent, and they also require extremely high physical fitness from the user, so it is difficult for even ordinary transcendents to use this kind of steam armor.
This is mainly because the power of these steam armors is a small steam power furnace designed by Leo, which is purely mechanical and does not involve any extraordinary power, so it is heavier and larger than the steam power furnace of the armor on Malus, and only super soldiers who have undergone a lot of body modification can fight the enemy when wearing such heavy equipment, otherwise even if it is a powerful body like Malus that has been transformed by divine power, it may be difficult to make some simple movements freely in such a steam armor.
Before meeting Malus, Leo had envisioned further improvements to the steam armor, and had mentioned it like Sylvia, except that his idea of improving the materials used to make the armor would be improved, the steam-powered furnace would be smaller, the weight of the armor would be reduced, and the armor would be enhanced with supernatural powers such as magical runes.
Although this improvement can also allow the armor to be worn with the ability to use extraordinary power, this ability is foreign, not its own, and there is a limit to the number of times it can be used each time, and after it is used up, the corresponding transcendent needs to re-energize the runes on this set of armor.
However, the heavy armor on Malus's body and the warhammer in his hand gave Leo a different direction of transformation, which was the perfect combination of supernatural power and steam devices, and the solution he had in mind was not just in the single combat armor, but in the larger steam mechanical devices, such as the super-large war fortress, the flying fortress, and so on.
Leo didn't hide his thoughts, but directly narrated them to Sylvia, after listening to Leo's idea, not only Sylvia felt a little incredible, even the other people in the room looked at Leo like they were looking at monsters, and even Sue bluntly said whether Leo was paranoid.
It's no wonder they're so surprised, because in their mindset the world's largest steam mechanism would be the floatship of the former French Emperor, and now Leo tells them that he intends to build a giant steam device the size of a city that can fly in the air or walk on the ground, making it hard for them to imagine what it would be like.
However, they didn't know that Leo wasn't doing nothing, as he already had a prototype in his mind, which was the steam war fortress that Lake Town had set up in the border zone to ward off the fog monsters.
Although with the changes in the world, the energy efficiency generated by the operation of the mechanical devices in the Velen world is several times stronger than in the past, but compared to the mechanical energy efficiency of the foggy world in Lake Town, there is still a big gap, and it is difficult to directly copy the war fortress in Lake Town to make it operate normally in this world, but if you combine the combination of the extraordinary power contained in Malus's equipment and the combination concept of steam mechanical devices, then Leo is sure to create a more powerful steam power furnace, and may also use extraordinary power to further amplify the energy efficiency of the mechanical operation, and it is no longer a fantasy to create a war fortress。
"Can you really make something like that?" Sylvia, recovering from shock, couldn't help but ask in a reassuring tone.
Leo said a little conservatively: "I can't guarantee it 100%, but even if it fails, I can use the technology to make other useful things." ”
Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia was not disappointed, but showed a thoughtful expression, and after a while, she turned to Su and said, "It seems that we have to change the development plan we made before, and the abandoned plan can also be restarted." ”
"Abandoned plan?" Su was stunned, suddenly thought of something, and said, "Do you mean the founding plan?"
Sylvia nodded, Sue hesitated a little when she saw this, as if she was worried about something, while Emily looked excited and looked very happy.
After Sylvia led her property and subordinates in the United Kingdom to move to the New Porto region of the Moissanite mainland, she has been aiming to control the New Porto area, from the people to the government, from the chamber of commerce to the army to carry out various infiltration, and now the Dodd group has become the de facto power in the New Porto area, and every decree needs to be taken to the Dodd group to Sylvia or Tolan after the discussion of the municipal council of the New Porto area.
Therefore, a long time ago, the high-ranking officials of the Dodd group and the political leaders of the New Bodo region had secretly discussed whether they should break away from the Kuishan Alliance and establish a Bodo kingdom, with Sylvia or Tolan crowned as king.
Although Sylvia was a little tempted by this, she finally chose to shelve the plan after considering the surrounding environment and her own strength.
The Dodd Group is the top in the Mozambique Continent in terms of local forces and business organizations, but if it is put at the national level, the overall strength of the Dodd Group is obviously not particularly outstanding, even if the First Witch Group of Sylvia is one of the best transcendent forces in the Velun Continent, but this is not enough to make up for the shortcomings of the Dodd Group's strength.
The governments of mainland Mozambique have already taken care of the Dodd group, using various justified decrees to restrict the Dodd group's development to the south, and also using various overt and covert means against the Dodd group.
Although the relationship between the Kuishan Allied State and the Dodd Group is also very poor, for the huge taxes paid by the Dodd Group every year, it will more or less resist some attacks from the national level for Dodd and ensure the stable development of the Dodd Group.
However, if the Dodd Group establishes a state in Bodo, then without the protection of the Kuishan Alliance, the various blows and restrictions encountered by the Dodd Group will be more violent and stronger than now, so Sylvia, who saw the drawbacks, will suppress the establishment of the country and put it on hold for the time being.