Although the anomaly on Eileen's body happened in the middle of the night, many people in the castle had already rested, but there were still many people who were still awake, and these people saw that the entire castle had become transparent under the red light, and a few of them accidentally looked down to see the dark and deep underground.

That kind of dark and deep scene would make Leo feel uncomfortable even if he saw it, let alone a few ordinary people, so those unlucky people passed out at that time, and after waking up the next day, they all went crazy without exception.

The red light erupted at night, the castle became transparent, and suddenly someone went crazy and all kinds of strange things happened together, which made people have to have some associations, so some rumors spread in the castle, and some rumors about Sylvia were also re-mentioned, and connected, making the whole castle panic.

When Sylvia first got the fief of Landauer, there were many people in the kingdom who were envious and jealous, and many people even made obstructions when she took over Landauer, creating all kinds of rumors unfavorable to her, such as deliberately revealing her identity as a witch and creating all kinds of rumors according to her identity as a witch.

Although witch hunting in the Orthodox Church has ceased for many years, the legends and stories related to witch hunting continue to circulate among the folklore of the world of Viron, and many of them have become well-known folk tales.

In all the stories, witches without exception like to do evil things such as refining harmful poisons, torturing ordinary people, and even spreading plagues, so the attitude of the people towards witches is hatred and disgust.

Faced with this rumor, Sylvia debunked it in the most direct way, she directly put on the costume of the Orthodox court magistrate and walked directly through the center of Landauer, accompanied by the chief priest of the Poseidon Church and other clergy of the church.

Although the people of Randall knew a lot about the Orthodox Church, and it was impossible to know what was going on with the inquisitor's costume, they could recognize the church badges on the clothes, and the entourage of the chief priest and clergy of the Poseidon Church showed the attitude of the church, and those witch rumors were naturally self-defeating.

It's just that even if the rumors are broken, the rumors have not disappeared, and they are still used by Randall's people as after-dinner conversations, but no one believes them anymore.

But what is happening now feels weird no matter what, and how similar it is to the description of the witch harming people in the story, so the legend of the witch who has fallen silent resurfaces in my heart.

It's just that the only people who are affected by the witch's story are the servants and workers of the outer castle and the inner castle, and the housekeepers and servants of the main castle all know the identity of the Sylvia Witch, and they have passed various loyalty tests of Sylvia, and they are people trusted by Sylvia, so they don't have a big impact.

"Aren't you going to deal with it?" Leo said early in the morning, hearing some of the servants turn to Sylvia, who was freshening up with the help of the maids.

Sylvia said calmly: "It doesn't matter, they won't have any effect on me if they discuss it like this, as for reputation, I was too kind in the past few years, it's time to add some majesty." As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Leo, who had already changed into a suit, and said, "If you go to the port, the officials there may be a little deliberately difficult, you don't need to be polite, just use your own method to solve it." ”

Leo nodded, left the room, and came to the courtyard of the main castle, at this time the butler had prepared the carriage and the accompanying attendants, Leo got into the carriage and directly ordered to go to the municipal archives, the attendant jumped into the front seat of the carriage, and the carriage started slowly and drove towards the outside of the castle.

Located on the northwest side of Port Randall, there is a forest and plantations in between, just like most of the seaside areas at the southern end of the Veron continent, where the plantations are also planted with grapes, and the grapes here are still famous varieties, transplanted from the Portoux, after hundreds of years of improvement, it has now become a new grape variety.

Every year, the grapes are made into wine by Castle Black, and it is named after Castle Black.

There were many wine lovers who thought that the value of the vineyard was even more than the value of Castle Black, and many of those who were jealous of Sylvia's acquisition of the fiefdom of Landauer were jealous of her acquisition of the vineyard.

Because of the cold weather, all the vines need to be warmed, and the plantation manager not only covered all the grape trellis with a layer of breathable and light-permeable gauze, but also lit some braziers around the planting area at night to raise the temperature, which also doubled the manpower required by the plantation, and many unemployed fishermen in Port Landall came here to work part-time.

The sea blockade by the gray fog is a fatal blow to all the seafaring industry, and almost the entire seafaring industry of the Velon world has fallen into a desperate situation, and now it can only rely on some shipping near the sea to support the entire endangered industry.

Equally in the case of the fishing industry is the fishing industry, where fishermen who make a living from fishing have lost their source of income, and although they have been able to catch some fish close to shore, the amount of fish caught is insignificant compared to the harvest from inshore and distant-water fishing.

And I don't know if it's because they concentrate on overfishing, or the fish are smart, all in all, there are very few fish that can be caught near the shore, and the skilled old fisherman can catch dozens of them at a time, which is already very good, and many fishermen usually catch nothing.

In this way, these idle fishermen have become a security hazard in almost all port cities, these fishermen spend their days in taverns, drinking cheap home-brewed wine, and fearing the future, all kinds of pressures fall on them, and when they get drunk, they release all these pressures, and the way to release them is by fighting.

In addition, some fishermen who have no way to survive will also make cameos as robbers and thieves, which makes the local prison quickly full.

A few days ago, Sylvia had obtained documents from the intelligence services that had shown that within the United Kingdom, these fishermen had become some big troubles, and that the United Kingdom, which had just been established, was somewhat unstable.

However, Rupert Fitz seems to have found a solution, and he approved a large number of infrastructure projects within the kingdom, such as the urban sewer widening plan, the kingdom road project, the urban slum renovation plan, and other costly kingdom building projects, which required some of the people in need of relief, some of the prison prisoners, and the last part of the fishermen who had nothing to do.

This greatly relieves the pressure of prison containment and urban security, and the only thing that needs to be paid is enough money, which is probably the least headache for Rupert Fitz.

The situation in Landauer is slightly different from that of other fishing ports, although the fishing industry here has also been hit, and some fishermen have become industrial, but because of the Poseidon Church, the vast majority of fishermen can still fish inshore, but the number of fishing is not comparable to what it used to be.

The Poseidon Church holds a ritual once a month, in which they will bless some fishing boats, and after entering the fog, as long as they are not too far away from the port of Randall, they will not lose their way, nor will they be attacked by unknown beings in the black fog, and they can safely catch fish in the offshore waters.

Although the catch is much less than in the past, the income of these fishermen who have a good relationship with the Poseidon Church has not decreased much, because with the gray fog sealing the sea, the seafood is rapidly decreasing, whether in the United Kingdom or in the French Empire, seafood is in short supply, and the price of an ordinary marine fish has risen several times, and the growth has not yet flattened or even declined.

There are also some fishing boats that are very unlucky, every time they can't get the blessing of the Poseidon Church, most of the fishermen on these fishing boats have been diverted by the municipal construction plan of Port Landall, and the rest have also been absorbed by industries such as grape plantations, all in all, even if the sea has been closed for so long, Port Landall, a major fishing port, can still maintain peace and security, and there is no sign of panic in other places in the market.

And one more important thing that affects people's hearts is not a bad thing in Port Landall, the mutants here are not only not discriminated against and suppressed like other places, but have become the envy of others, because in Port Landall, a city where the Poseidon Church occupies an absolute dominant position, those mutants all show the direction of the Poseidon clan without exception, some have some scales such as sea fish on their bodies, and some have obtained the ability to breathe in the sea and so on.

After verifying that these mutants are indeed mutated in the direction of the Poseidon family, the Poseidon Church will openly admit that these people have been tribalized and incorporated them into the Poseidon Church, becoming one of the clergy that everyone envies, so now on the streets of Landauer, you can see many mutants wearing the costumes of the Poseidon Church clergy preaching in various squares.

"Stop. As the carriage passed through a small square, Leo knocked on the carriage and commanded.

The carriage soon stopped, right on the outer edge of the small square, just enough to hear the mutant clergy preaching their doctrine loudly from the pulpit in the middle of the square.

The head of this mutant clergyman has obvious fish-like mutations, such as growing scales, ears becoming fin-shaped, and the palms of the hands have an extra layer of webbing, etc., but the overall appearance is still similar to that of a human.

Although he had just joined the Poseidon Church and had not been a clergyman for a long time, he was very familiar with Poseidon classics, and he was able to tell a story in the classics casually when preaching, which shows that he was already a devout disciple of the Poseidon Church before he became a mutant.

The citizens of Port Landall standing around him did not show any disgust and disgust for the mutant in front of him, but looked at each other with reverence and envy, and every time the other party recited the name of the god, he would draw the sea god emblem on his chest with great reverence.

Leo listened for a while, but only heard some sparse and ordinary sermons, and then lost interest in continuing to listen and prepared to leave.

Just as he was about to tell the coachman to move on, the mutant's sermon caught his attention again.

It turns out that the sermon content of the mutant is no longer the sermon content of the Poseidon Church in the past, but the sermon content that has been rewritten according to the current situation of the gray fog sealing the sea.

In the sermon, the gray mist is described as a test for humanity by the god of the sea, and it is also a gift, and only the devout believers who pass the test can receive the blessing of the gods.

Generally, people with a little bit of brains won't believe this kind of flawed temporary sermon content, but the problem is that in the entire Velun continent, among all the churches of gods, only the Poseidon Church can bless through rituals, so that the sea ship can sail safely in the sea covered with gray mist, and other gods and spirits can't do this, which also makes this leaky sermon content have innate evidence to prove its authenticity.

Because of this, some of the followers of the Poseidon Church in the entire port of Randall continue to become extremely devout believers, and even many of them have become fanatical believers, and the Poseidon Church has also developed its faith to the surrounding cities for the first time.

"Is the Poseidon Church planning to take advantage of the changes in the world to expand its faith?" Leo instructed the coachman to continue his journey towards the archives after listening to the new sermon, and a trace of doubt appeared in his mind.

Poseidon Faith is one of the oldest beliefs in the world of Velon, and it is also one of the largest churches, Poseidon Church not only has church churches in the surrounding port cities of the three continents, but also the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Sigmar, the two major maritime overlords, all take Poseidon Church as the state religion, and there are countless believers, almost everyone who begs for a living at sea will more or less believe in Poseidon.

Although the Poseidon Church is so large, because the faith is too scattered, the Poseidon Church has never had a unified general curia, which also makes the Poseidon Church look like a plate of scattered sand.

Both the Kingdom of Inge and the Kingdom of Sigma consider themselves to be the orthodox Church of Poseidon, and the churches of these two countries are also opposed to each other, and both have set up holy places in their own countries, and the situation of the Poseidon Church on the three continents is similar, each has its own holy land, and they do not belong to each other.

As a direct result of this, the status of the Poseidon Church in the Orthodox Church has always been in the middle, and even the number of devout believers is shrinking year by year, which is definitely bad news for the Poseidon Church, and the best way to solve this declining situation is to let the Poseidon Church show its unique strength to the world, and the gray fog gives them the best platform to show.