Although it is called a castle, it is actually very different from the current knight's castle of Fran, and in terms of its overall form, this castle is more like a city-state with a huge internal area, similar to the desert city-state of the Kingdom of Savile.

However, the internal buildings are not the kind of low bungalows, all of them are very simple brick and stone houses, and there is nothing special about the shape, the only difference is that these houses are high and low, the high ones have more than a dozen floors, and the low ones have three or four floors, and all the houses are spires at the top, and they look like spires when you look at them.

Although all houses are the same, the identity of the owner of the house is high and low, and the identity of the owner of the house cannot be distinguished from the height of the house, but can only be judged from the uniform pointed roof.

Those of higher status would use more expensive materials to build their roofs, and would make their family coats of arms and some legends into eaves reliefs and place them around the roof, and the holy badge of the Mother of Filth at the top of the roof would also be made of different materials, and the difference between these materials was also the difference between their status.

Of course, the lowest material is wood, which is the most common here, while the most important material is gold.

Throughout the castle, among the thousands of houses, large and small, only the Holy Badge at the top of the Lord's Mansion was made of gold.

Although Lord Prodi is the most noble person in the entire Lyon Domain, this is only for ordinary people, and the fact that his mansion is not the center of the castle shows that he is not the real ruler here.

The entire city-state was built around the Altar of the Mother of Filth, which was not only the center of the castle, but also the tallest building in the city-state, and the altar was very oddly shaped.

The upper part of the altar is a common stepped tower building, but the lower part of the supporting building is a clump of intertwined irregular objects, which from a distance looks like a ball of hemp rope, and the painting that is close to it looks more like a coiled snake, but unlike snakes, the surface of this irregular building is not carved with scales, but a thin layer of black oil flowing on it.

These black oil substances flow down the edge and fall into the pool below to form a pool of black oil, and this black oil seems to be endless, always flowing down, and the pool is like a bottomless pit, no matter how much black oil flows down, it cannot make the black oil in the pool rise by a point.

For there were no religious ceremonies, and there were no people in the square around the altar, except for some of the devout members and clergy of the Mother of Dirt who were doing something like prayer.

When Leo and Sylvia arrived at the edge of the altar's square, they found a place to sit down, and then each observed their surroundings to gather useful information.

With his extraordinary hearing, Leo listened to the scriptures sung by the clansmen and clergy around him in a specific tone, although the content of these scriptures was vague for various reasons, he still collected and sorted them over and over again, and quickly restored this piece of scripture.

Like the prayers of the vast majority of churches, the prayers of the Mother of Filth are full of praise for the Mother of Filth, but even in these worthless sycophants, there is still something useful hidden.

For example, in the first sentence of the prayer, the origin of the Mother of Filth is mentioned, and this origin provides Leo with very useful information, which says that the Mother of Filth was originally the brightest light in the starry sky, and all the gods were prostrate on her, but she saw that the world was shrouded in filth, so she felt compassion for all the creatures in the world, and voluntarily fell into the world, absorbing the filth of the world, so that all creatures could reproduce normally, but because the filth was concentrated on her body, she could not fly up and return to the starry sky, and only when all the filth on her body disappeared, she could return to the starry sky and shine the gods。

After stripping out the meaningless praise and boasting of this prayer, two points are mentioned, one of which is the origin of the Mother of Defilement.

Contrary to outside research on the Mother of Defilement, this prayer mentions that the Mother of Defilement came from the starry sky and later fell into the Defilement, rather than from the Abyssal Defilement in the first place.

Leo believed the prayer because he suspected that the Mother of Filth might also be an omega-level higher life form from the universe.

In addition, there is also the strangeness of the abyssal power in the bodies of those dependents they just discovered, which also proves that the origin of the Mother of Filth does not originate from the abyss, because whether it is the abyssal serpent or the abyss demon dragon, no matter how these abyssal products are controlled by Leo and Sylvia, their chaotic and disorderly power essence will not change, just like their nature.

However, the power of the abyss in the bodies of the Filthy Mother's family and clergy is regular and orderly, which is obviously not in line with the nature of the products of the abyss, but if the content of the prayer is brought in, and the side of the Filthy Mother is defined as an abyssal outsider, then all this makes sense, and even the presence of the Filthy Mother in a place like the Black Forest makes sense.

In addition to the fact that the origin of the Mother of Filth is answered in the prayer, the prayer also mentions an important ritual of the Church of the Mother of Filth, which is to reduce the filth of the Mother of Filth so that She can return to the stars.

Therefore, whether it is a family member, a clergyman, or an ordinary believer, every time after reciting a prayer, they will go to the pool full of black oil, pick up the black oil in the pool, and swallow it.

Leo could feel that after drinking the black oil, the energy fluctuations in their bodies would have some abnormal reactions, but these reactions were very weak, and they quickly regained their calm.

Sylvia didn't know the content of the prayer, and she couldn't feel that the energy fluctuations on these people's bodies were temporarily abnormal after drinking the black oil, but she still got some information from the conversations of the people around her.

"According to what I just said, a group of prisoners have been captured at the front and are ready to be sent over today to prepare for tomorrow's bright day. Sylvia barely understood what the men were saying, and then leaned over to Leo and whispered, "There should be a sacrifice here tomorrow." ”

"In that case, we'll leave tomorrow after we've finished watching the sacrifice. Leo nodded, made a decision, and then told Sylvia about his discovery.

After hearing this, Sylvia couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and after a while she said: "If this is the case, then this Mother of Filth may really be a great god, and it makes sense that he can become the largest church at that time after the First Dynasty, after all, even in that chaotic period, it is difficult for the evil god to become the largest church, after all, according to common sense, the vast majority of believers will not die in a religion and god that will kill them at any time." ”

The two of them then stayed at the edge of the square for a while, and suddenly saw a few people hurrying outside, and then stepped over the pool full of black oil, and entered the altar, and after a while they saw several maggot-like high-ranking clergy crawling out of the altar, crawling through the pool and the square, and moving towards the other exit of the castle.

When many people saw the maggots appear, their emotions immediately became excited and fanatical, and they got up from the ground one after another, and followed behind the maggots, Leo and Sylvia had no intention of following, but stayed where they were, watching the maggots disappear around the corner of the road with the vast majority of the believers and clergy in the square.

After a while, a noise came from the road, and then I saw the maggots before them wriggling at the front of the procession, leading the group slowly forward, and in the process, the maggots all raised the scepter in their hands, dangling in the air, chanting some scriptures in their mouths.

In the middle of the procession was a wooden platform that required at least a hundred men to carry, and on top of it was an idol of a god, a deity of the Mother of Filth.

The statue of the Mother of Filth looked very strange, her lower body was in the shape of maggots, covered with a layer of black oil, her upper body was a perfect woman, and on her back was a pair of transparent wings that wrapped around her body like a burqa, and in her arms was a snake that had just hatched from an egg, and half of her body was in the egg.

"Is this the Mother of Defilement?" Sylvia said when she saw the idol, "It's completely different from what I imagined, he seems to be ......," she suddenly listened, lowered her head in vigilance, did not look at the statue of the Mother of Filth again, and reminded Leo: "Be careful, don't stare at the idol, that idol seems to affect the mind of the person who watches." ”

Although Leo didn't react as much as Sylvia, he also turned his head away and didn't look at the idol again, as Sylvia said, when he saw the idol, a voice immediately appeared in his consciousness, this voice was saying something he couldn't hear anything, but he felt that the voice was good, and he had the urge to listen to it forever.

"Let's go, let's get out of here for a while, and come over when the sacrifice begins. Leo put the hood of his robe back on, gestured to Sylvia, and turned away from the square.

The two soon found a hotel for outsiders, and there were only two such inns in the entire castle.

Because of the grand ceremony to worship the Mother of Filth tomorrow, many believers of the Mother of Filth and other than Lyon have gathered here, making the hotel here can be said to be overcrowded, and Leo and Sylvia can only share a room with a dozen believers.

It seems that this is not the first time that these believers have come here to participate in this kind of sacrificial ceremony, so they are not disgusted by the situation of a dozen people living in one room, they are very excited about tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony, and when they gather together, they can't help but chat with the others, Leo and Sylvia both sat quietly in the corner of the room, quietly listened to their conversation, wrote down the content of their conversation, and obtained a lot of useful information from these contents.

For example, the area where they are located is called Filth Pond, which consists of a total of nineteen territories, and the Lyon Territory is one of them, neither the largest nor the smallest, but because of the several kinds of wine produced here, it has become one of the richest territories in the Filth Pool, and because of this, the Lyon Territory will hold a large sacrifice ceremony to show the Lyon Territory's respect and faith in the Mother of Filth.

Most of the sacrifices used for sacrifice were captured after wars with other regions, and according to the conversations, it seems that the Shochi is in contact with the other two regions, and the relationship with the other two regions is particularly poor, and there are frequent wars.

In addition to tomahawks, many of these sacrifices were voluntary sacrifices.

Almost all of these believers are old enough to die, but their bodies have not yet undergone any mutations. In the belief of the Mother of Filth here, only when the body has mutated can it be considered the true family of the Mother of Filth, and can return to the embrace of the Mother of Filth after death, and those believers who do not become a family will be swallowed up by the Black Forest after death and disappear forever.

Therefore, some believers have thought of a way, that is, to voluntarily become a sacrifice and merge with the Mother of Filth, although it is also absorbed and completely disappeared from this world, but compared to being swallowed by the Black Forest, for believers, it is obviously more in line with their hearts to give the Mother of Filth as a snack.

In addition, although all the territories of the Filth Pond believe in the Mother of Filth, they do not have a unified church, basically each territory is an independent small church of the Mother of Filth, each small church has its own understanding of the teachings of the Mother of Filth, when these believers of the Mother of Filth from different territories gather together, the first thing they have to do is to have a doctrinal debate.

Unfortunately, when Leo and Sylvia arrived, the doctrinal debate in the room they were in had already ended, otherwise Leo would have been able to gather more information about the Mother of Filth from the debates of the followers of the Mother of Filth.

In the end, Leo and Sylvia also get some things about Lancey during their conversation.

These believers were very strange when they mentioned Lan Xi, they were extremely disdainful when they mentioned Lan Xi's Filthy Mother Faith, and even described Lan Xi's Filthy Mother Faith as a shame of faith, but at the same time, they also showed obvious awe for Lan Xi, and they were all referred to as wise people of Lan Xi.

These believers were also curious about Leo and Sylvia, as they had never seen any mutations on their bodies, and they were dressed differently, but they did not think of them as Lanxi people like the old hunters, because some of these people had been to Lanxi and knew what Lanxi's clothes looked like.

However, because Leo and Sylvia ignored their questions, they quickly lost interest in them.