Chapter 1001: The Lighthouse
"Although he is a hardliner, he is not inflexible, among the senior clergy of the Poseidon Church that I have seen, he should be the most like a politician, everything is considered in terms of interests," Sylvia explained when she saw Leo's suspicious face: "So when dealing with people like him, as long as you can afford to pay enough benefits for him or enough for him to sell benefits, then things will be easy to negotiate," said in her tone, adding a little resentment, " Unlike other clergy who take a bite of God's will and don't give you any room for negotiation. ”
Although Sylvia didn't elaborate, it was not difficult for Leo to sense her resentment in her tone, it was obvious that she should have been angry with the clergy of the Poseidon Church in the past.
Seeing that Sylvia had already found a good negotiator, Leo, who didn't know much about the Poseidon Church, didn't have much to do, and gave random advice, he just asked Sylvia to ask the servant to call him when Bishop Barron arrived, and then he left the office and walked towards the Castle Black Lighthouse located on the edge of the cliff.
The lighthouse, which existed before Castle Black, was built on the edge of the cliff of the Lookout Cliff protruding from the bow rock, which is famous for its protruding shape of the bow, although it was also known as the Death Rock in ancient times.
Because just below the top of the bow rock, is the most famous dark tide coast of Wanghai Cliff, jumping from here, you will be swept away directly by the dark tide, and even the body is impossible to find, so for a long time there was a rumor that this leads to the kingdom of God, but because the living cannot withstand the power of the sea, they will be swept away by the ocean currents on the way, and only the dead can safely reach the final destination.
Therefore, Landauer has long been popular in throwing people into the cold tide coast below after death, so that the corpse and coffin are swept away by the undercurrent and disappear into the sea forever, and in the eyes of the deceased's family, the deceased has entered the realm of gods and enjoyed eternal happiness.
Later, the Poseidon Church developed in Landauer, and Bow Rock became the designated place for the Poseidon Church to hold various ceremonies, and most of the religious ceremonies that Leo saw from the materials were held here, and there are still some religious ceremonies that are held here today.
However, this place has become private land after all, so the Poseidon Church also needs to pay some price for the ritual here.
When the Black Castle was built, the Inge royal family did not remove the lighthouse because of the intervention of the Poseidon Church, but built a wall around the lighthouse, and opened an exclusive road from the inner castle to the lighthouse bypassing the main castle.
After Sylvia took over Castle Black, she built two more gates at each end of the road, which were made of a kind of exorcism wood and carved with some Turing roots, the main purpose of which was to dispel special energy.
I don't know if Sylvia thinks that the effect of Turing roots alone is not enough, and she also installed two improved energy jamming devices on both sides of the gate.
When Leo said last night that he was going to visit the lighthouse, Sylvia told him about the lighthouse.
When she took over Castle Black, she had also heard about the lighthouse, so she also paid special attention to the lighthouse, and conducted a series of inspections on the lighthouse, but the result was that nothing abnormal could be detected.
But even so, Sylvia was still in awe of the lighthouse, because she always felt that the lighthouse was full of a powerful force, but she didn't know what this powerful power was, where it came from, and even she couldn't find any evidence of the existence of this powerful force that made her vaguely feel through various methods.
If it were an ordinary person, it would only be an illusion that this was just an over-nervous person, but Sylvia didn't think so, and still attached great importance to this lighthouse, which led to these two doors and two energy interference devices.
Leo checked himself as he passed by the two doors and the energy interference device, and found that although they did not play a big role, they also had some effect, at least he could feel that the abyssal power in his body was also affected by these two things.
As he walked through the gate and into the range of the lighthouse, Leo felt that the repulsion of the supernatural power around him had reached the extreme, and even the psionic energy could no longer be used, which was more than ten times stronger than the repulsive power of the black castle.
The same abyssal power is no longer excluded, but this also makes Leo discover a detail, and this detail makes Leo feel that the situation here is completely different from the abyss rift, this detail is that the repulsion power here only repels all forces except the abyss, but it does not give the abyss power a certain blessing effect like the abyss field created by the abyss rift, so that the abyss power can exert extraordinary power here that cannot be exerted elsewhere.
It was this subtle difference that made Leo certain that the situation here was not the Abyssal Realm, but simply the exclusion of all transcendent powers except the Abyss.
This lighthouse is a typical flanged lighthouse, with a huge square base, a straight tower body, and a bulbous lamppost at the top, which the Flangers call the Hammer of Light, while people in other countries prefer to call it by the male genitalia.
This lighthouse does not have anything to show for it on the surface, it is a lighthouse, and the only thing that distinguishes it from other lighthouses is that in front of the lighthouse, at the most prominent place in the bow corner, there is an additional altar, judging by the stone, this altar should have been built later.
Instead of climbing the lighthouse, Leo walked to the altar to take a look, and then to the top of the bow corner at the front of the altar, perhaps to facilitate the sacrifice of the offerings, there was no protection in place, and a smooth stone path stretched to the front, and then disappeared, replaced by a towering cliff.
Standing on the edge, Leo stretched out his head to look down at the Dark Tide below, and what caught his eyes was a calm, deep sea, a strange sea.
Not far away, the rolling waves were more than ten meters high, slapping heavily on the reef along the coast, as if to break the reef, but the moment the waves approached this sea area, the angry ocean seemed to be appeased by some unknown force, and all the waves instantly calmed down and became as calm as the rest of this sea area.
However, it was this calm sea that produced a power that Leo could not perceive, and this power easily passed through all the defenses of his body, affecting his thinking, and making him involuntarily have a strong urge to jump down.
However, Leo's willpower was extraordinary, and he quickly suppressed this urge, withdrew his gaze from the sea, and retreated to the altar behind him.
Leo knew that the situation was not entirely due to the mysterious power contained in the ocean below, but that this special environment would also give people looking down from above a strong urge to jump, and that supernatural power only amplified this impulse.
Leo also felt that this situation should not be the norm, it was just a coincidence, and even the others did not know about this situation, otherwise, Sylvia would definitely remind him to pay attention.
However, Leo can be sure of one thing now, that is, the mysterious power contained in the dark tide sea below Wanghai Cliff is not the same as the mysterious power contained in Wanghai Cliff itself, because the essence of the two forces is completely different.
In order to confirm his guess, Leo once again stuck his head out of the platform and looked at the sea below, but the strong impulse he had just now did not appear again, the mysterious power of the sea below had disappeared, and what remained was only the impulse generated by normal psychology.
At this time, the sea is not absolutely calm, and the waves that come from outside gradually push the sea surface to rise, and finally the water below becomes as choppy and splashing as the rest of the coast.
Seeing this scene, the first thing that came to Leo's mind was the corpse collector who had become a mortal enemy with him, and it felt like the corpse collector had just taken advantage of his unpreparedness and exerted his strength to try to make him jump into the sea and then catch him.
But this idea was quickly rejected by Leo, because if he was really the corpse collector, his strength would never be so weak, and entering the world of Veron would be extremely dangerous for a non-Veron god like him, just for his uncaught prey It is obviously not cost-effective to risk such a big sacrifice, and no one with a little wisdom and knowledge of calculating gains and losses will do so, let alone a god.
This can only show that in the sea below, there is a hidden force, this force does not appear in normal times, and it will only be revealed when certain conditions are met, as for what this specific condition is, Leo is not clear for the time being, as for whether this force is the power to sweep away those corpses, further evidence needs to be found to get the answer.
Leo stepped back, examined the altar again, and found nothing of any use, and then walked up to the lighthouse.
The interior of this lighthouse is very simple, consisting of four spiral staircases, a lighthouse top, and three platforms, each of which was supposed to be used for stacking debris or for the tower keepers, but now everything has been cleared, leaving only an empty platform.
Originally, Leo thought that there was nothing to investigate on the platforms that had been emptied on these floors, after all, when emptying the debris on the platform, whether it was the people of the Poseidon Church or others, they should have carefully inspected this place, and there could be nothing that was not found, but when Leo walked through the first platform, walked up the spiral staircase leading to the upper floor, walked halfway up the spiral staircase, and casually looked under the platform, he found some unusual places.
"Is this ......?" Leo stopped immediately after discovering the anomaly, and then carefully examined the anomalies he found, and after making a little sure that he was not mistaken, Leo walked up quickly, and then stood in different positions on each spiral staircase, looking at the platform, and finally he said with a suspicious face: "The tower wizard is also involved?"
The anomaly that Leo found just now is actually a very special tower emblem, this emblem is composed of dozens of stone slabs, these stone slabs are not much different from the color of other stone slabs on the surface of the platform, only standing in a specific position of the spiral staircase, can you vaguely see a little abnormality, even if ordinary people see it, they will involuntarily ignore it, but Leo, who is not a tower wizard, but a person who knows the tower very well, has an extremely deep impression of this emblem.
This emblem is the exclusive mark of a Tower wizard named Karesius Brick, who is not the most powerful Tower wizard, but he is the most famous of the Tower wizards, because the tower is named after him, he is the standard setter for all wizarding towers built by the Tower wizards, and the builder of the first tower.
In order to commemorate this ancestor, the later tower wizards would use various special methods to imprint their insignia on the tower in the tower they built, which also made the tower last for a period of time. A game called Find the Emblem became popular, and there were even do-gooders who wrote a booklet dedicated to the game, and it was from this booklet that Leo got information about Carresius Blake and his emblem.
This lighthouse is obviously the wizarding tower built by the wizards of the tower, but this wizarding tower is completely different from the wizarding towers that Leo has seen before, and there is nothing mysterious about wizarding towers.
For this reason, Leo returned to the outside of the lighthouse, examined it carefully, and then entered the lighthouse, starting from the bottom to inspect one by one, but never found any clues related to the more mysterious powers, and finally Leo could only solve the doubt in the hope of placing it on the top lamp.
Leo came to the top of the lighthouse, and instead of rushing around to find clues, he walked to the outer circle of the lookout corridor and looked towards the sea ahead.
Although the sea in the distance was shrouded in gray mist, one could still feel its magnificence, and with Leo's supernormal perception, he could still vaguely feel that there was a behemoth moving slowly in the gray fog of the sea.
Leo didn't look long before he withdrew his gaze and returned to the huge light at the top of the tower.
The lamp is exactly the same as that of a lamp from hundreds of years ago, with a huge brazier in the center, surrounded by three rotating copper mirrors and crystal glass that has been polished in a special way.
When night comes, as long as a bonfire is lit here, the light of the bonfire will fall on the surrounding copper mirror, and then refract from the copper mirror to the surrounding glass crystal, and the light is projected through the concentrating effect of the glass crystal, which is extremely bright, even if it is a ship on the open sea, it can be seen.
Although the type of lamp is an ordinary lighthouse lamp from hundreds of years ago, the parts that assemble the lamp are not ordinary at all, for example, the copper mirrors whose surfaces have been corroded by the sea breeze to rust are not ordinary bronze mirrors, but three wizarding objects, at least when they are well preserved, because Leo has found very hidden and complex Turing roots on these three bronze mirrors.