Leo, who returned to the ship, stayed in his room, carefully sorting out the water storage magic array he had just gotten from the fountain, and then made a few physical objects from the existing materials, because it was a rune trap method, so there would be a time limit when it was used, and it would be invalid after a while, and it would need to be re-injected with psionic energy to continue to use, and it could not be operated continuously like that fountain.

When it came to studying something, time passed quickly, and before you knew it, the night had passed, and the passengers had returned to the ship one after another, except for the passengers who had boarded the ship in Port Seth, and some more passengers had also boarded the ship, and these passengers were very unusual, they were all traveling priests of the Poseidon Church.

For example, the Church of the Lord of the Sky will have the Church of the Lord of the Sky to find a high mountain top where they can practice the teachings of the Church and sense the will of the Lord of the Sky, while the King of the Hill will ask the Traveling Priest to find an abandoned mine and dig ore in the depths of the mine every day like a miner until he realizes the true meaning of the Church.

Whatever kind of church procession, it is an ascetic ritual that opens up the detachment of the mind through physical suffering.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and the parade ritual of the Poseidon Church is an exception, for the itinerant priests of the Poseidon Church, their parade has nothing to do with asceticism at all, they only need to circle around the seas of the world, whether you are on a freighter or a high-class cruise ship, it doesn't matter.

In the early days, the Poseidon Church would perform the same ascetic rituals as other churches, such as hiding the identity of the Poseidon clergyman, boarding an ordinary ship as an ordinary sailor, or even running away to become a pirate.

But when someone found that the effect of the parade ritual completed by ascetic practice was not much different from the effect of the parade ritual completed without asceticism, the procession ritual of the Poseidon Church went in a different direction.

Every parade held by Poseidon Church for the priests is more like a publicly-funded tour, and the church pays for the priests to buy tickets for luxury cruises, and other expenses on the road are also paid by the church, which is very comfortable.

It's just that the traveling priests of the Poseidon Church who boarded the ship from Tinstus this time seem to be different from other itinerant priests of the Poseidon Church, but they are more like the itinerant priests of other regular churches, wearing an old priestly robe, bare feet, using an old hemp rope as a belt around their waists, and holding a Poseidon canon in their hands.

The moment these itinerant priests of the Poseidon Church boarded the ship, Leo, who was in the cabin, had already sensed the presence of these people. It wasn't because they walked so loudly, but because the energy fluctuations they emanated from their bodies were so similar to the mysterious power that Leo felt terrified of in the temple that it would be difficult for him not to pay attention.

During the meal, Leo came to the ship's dining room, where the traveling priests also dined, but their food was very bland, a piece of dry bread and a glass of water, no different from that of a low-ranking sailor.

At this time, someone who knew the situation whispered to his companion next to him, "They should be from the Arminon sect." ”

When Leo, who was at the table not far away, heard the man's words, he quickly remembered the relevant information about the sect.

If the Poseidon Church is an outlier of all the churches in the Velen world, then the Arminon Sect is an outlier within the Poseidon Church.

The person who founded this sect was called Arminon, and he was not a great figure in the Poseidon Church, and his position was always only that of an acolyte, and according to the hierarchy of the church, he was not even a regular priest, but only a probationary priest.

He lived to be seventy-six years old, an orphan from an early age, adopted by the priests of the Poseidon Church, and spent the next seventy years in the Poseidon church. He did not have any special achievements in his life, according to church records, his greatest achievement was that he paid for the repair of the glass windows of the church where he was located, and there were also no commendable writings, and the only thing left after his death was an unfinished copy of the sacred book of the sea.

However, it was such an ordinary probationary priest with no talent, but for seventy years he had been practicing the austerities of humility and poverty, and had been barefoot in sackcloth all his life, although he could not say a single word of the scriptures, and he would not speak a single truth, but his consistent ascetic practice was highly respected by some high-ranking members of the Poseidon Church, and these people recorded the deeds of Aminon and compiled them into a book, and spontaneously enshrined him as a saint of the church.

The reason why these high-level Poseidon Church leaders have such behavior is mainly because the Poseidon Church has interfered in the power of the Inge Kingdom for a long time, and even some church members have served in the kingdom.

At the same time that the church exerts a strong influence on the kingdom government, all kinds of bad tendencies in the kingdom also have a strong influence on the church, and for a time greed, lust, power struggle, and profit-seeking all kinds of filthy things continue to occur within the church.

Seeing that the church is about to decay like this, some people of insight in the church naturally do not want to see the church fall, but they cannot find a suitable way to fight against the corrupt forces in the church, and the appearance of Arminon just gives these people of insight an opportunity and direction.

After they used various methods to promote Arminon as a saint, they immediately used Arminon's lifelong behavior as the denomination's code of conduct, and founded the ascetic Arminon sect within the Poseidon Church, gathering all kinds of members who were corrupt within the church, forming an extremely powerful and solid force.

In the end, in the struggle against the corrupt forces within the church, and the royal family and the parliament also resented the church's meddling in secular affairs, the internal and external cooperation finally cleaned up the corrupt forces within the church, and the church returned to the original pure church state.

However, after the internal cleanup of the church was completed, the Arminon sect lost its central role, after all, not everyone was willing to practice asceticism for the rest of their lives, and a large number of members of the sect left the sect and began to return to normal church ceremonies.

Although there are not many people in this sect, the people of the entire kingdom of England still respect the members of this sect very much, so when these Arminon priests arrived at the restaurant, everyone behaved very calmly, and even the sound of drinking soup was much quieter.

Leo was intrigued by the mysterious power of these Arminion priests, and although this power made him feel dangerous, it was not very strong, and while he ate in the restaurant, he tried to use the spirit web to analyze the composition of this mysterious power.

It's a pity that this mysterious power is obviously not something that his current spiritual network can analyze, no matter how hard he tries to use the spiritual network, he can only barely sense the fluctuations of this power, and there is no way to go for other more detailed details.

However, for the Arminon priests themselves, Leo did find something interesting through the spirit web. He discovered that the mysterious power was not produced by the priest Arminon, but by an external force. Their bodies have been immersed in this power for many years, and they have inevitably been assimilated by this force, and their bodies have also undergone some supernormal mutations.

For example, behind the ears of these Arminon priests appeared gills-like organs, like Vasqui, and there were also some scales on their bodies and some tentacles hidden in their hair. Because of the robe on the body, these changes did not attract the attention of others.

It stands to reason that the Arminon priests who have undergone these mutations in their bodies should be counted as the Poseidon Clan, but Leo can't feel any of the unique energy fluctuations belonging to the clan from these people, and Leo's other reason why they are not clan is that all the mutated parts of their bodies are the same.

The Wizard Tower had studied the Clan in detail and compiled the research materials into a book, and Leo had read the Clan Research Materials. In this book, the Tower Wizard begins by listing several common characteristics that all clans have, one of which is that all clans are uncontrollable in their mutations.

It would be fine if only one or two Dependents had the same mutations, but the problem was that the mutations on the bodies of these Arminon priests were all the same in position and shape, so Leo judged that these were not Dependents, and the mutations on their bodies were probably a different kind of mutation.

However, in any case, this mutation has brought extraordinary power to these Arminion priests, although Leo does not know what kind of power those mutated organs can give these Arminion priests, but it is certain that the density of the muscles of these Arminion priests is at least three times that of ordinary people, that is, the strength of their bodies is far beyond that of ordinary humans, and they are already considered transcendent.

If it were an ordinary priest parade, it wouldn't attract much attention from Leo, but the Arminon parade was very different, because the Arminion sect did not have a tradition of pilgrimage, and some good deeds had counted that every time the Arminion priest went on a pilgrimage, some inexplicable events would occur in countries around the world, some were power struggles, and some were natural and man-made disasters.

Obviously, the passengers on this ship also knew the rumors that the Armaean pilgrimage was an omen of calamity, so when the Arminion returned to the cabin on the lower deck after finishing his meal, the dining room immediately exploded, and the passengers who were dining together were almost unanimously discussing what kind of calamities would happen around the world.

If it had been before, Leo would not have believed the rumors of this kind of calamity prophecy, but after experiencing the incident in Turin City, he became particularly sensitive to disasters and other things, although he was not able to see the silk threads of the weavers on the heads of these Arminon priests through his spiritual vision just now, but he could still feel the aura of impending catastrophe that he felt in Durin City that day, but it was not as strong as that felt in Durin City.

After confirming that these calamities would not befall him or the ship he was on, Leo did not pay too much attention to the Arminon priests, and returned to his cabin to continue trying to study various psionic potions, Turing roots, and rune magic circles.

After a night's overnight dock at Tinstus, the Snow Queen left the last port on the English mainland, heading southeast for the Pearl Island chain.

The passengers on board were still very excited for the first few days, most of them were on an ocean-going ship for the first time, and it was also a sailboat, so they were naturally curious about everything, and some even taught them knots and ropes by the sailors on board.

But no matter how new things are, after a few days of repetition, they will feel bored, and in the end no one botheres to go to the deck again, but stay in a specially opened playroom in the lower cabin, playing cards and chatting to pass the time.

The cards played by these passengers are a kind of fighting cards handed down from the Moissanite continent, because they are simple and easy to understand, and they quickly spread, replacing the royal power that was very popular before, and becoming a good thing for everyone to pass the time after tea and dinner.

There are a total of eighty cards in a set of this kind of cards, the rules are simple, that is, the strong eat the weak, the weak Ke is strong, even if the ten-year-old child follows the play of two can also be easy to get started, but because this set of cards can be expanded to four sets when playing, the play will also change because of the number of cards, so it is difficult to play the beast card well.

Just like most board and card games, the passengers on the ship will also gamble a little when they play the Beast Cards, and the people who can sit on this Ice Queen are either rich or expensive, and they are not short of money, so most of the things they play cards and bet on are some valuables that they carry with them.

Playing cards is sometimes very lucky, some people even if they don't know how to play cards, luck comes to draw a few cards can draw a good deck of cards, and some people are proficient in the way of playing, are frequent visitors at the table, but bad luck even if they are proficient, it is impossible to win the opponent.

Among the people who played cards was such a bad luck, even very bad poker master, from the moment he sat at the table, nearly sixty games, he had never won once, some good gadgets on his body were lost, even a sterling silver cigarette case he had someone to make was just lost.

Kunstan took out the handkerchief in his breast pocket and wiped the sweat drops from his forehead, and looked at the jewel chain that was still in front of him with great reluctance to be pocketed by the fat-headed and big-eared traveling merchant on the side, and regretted it in his heart.

It's not that he regrets losing his stuff to someone else, but that he regrets that he just made a mistake with a card, and in the end he lost the hand when he had a chance to win.

"Alright, let's stop playing! I've had enough of today. The traveling merchant who won the chain was also the one who won the most among the many card players present," he said.

"Wait, I'm not done!" Quinstein immediately stopped the crowd from arriving.

The traveling merchant looked Kunstan up and down with contempt, and said, "You don't have anything on you anymore that can be used as a bet, so you don't want to use the money, do you?"