Diego continued to speak until the middle of the night, telling the townspeople about the existence of Silvermoon Harbor, the Second Merchant-Religious War that had taken place in that land not long ago, and the flourishing scene after the Mercantile War.

The gods are real, but she will never treat her followers as consumables for sacrificial rituals, and the Lord of the Tides, who has ruled the town for thousands of years by exploiting people's fears, is just a monster with the slogan of the gods, and he also brings up Paladin's notes, which record the kingdom that once existed in this land, and where it belonged to them.

Paladin, on the other hand, was probably the only person in town who knew how to read.

However, it is not easy to give people hope, and the Lord of the Tides still looms like a shadow over the hearts of the locals, so that they do not dare to challenge the Lord of the Tides.

Maintaining the status of a sacrifice makes it possible for more people to survive.

Moreover, even in the story told by Diego, their ancestors had already failed once a thousand years ago, the commander and his proud fleet were wiped out, and they were cursed for generations, living humbly as sacrifices.

Before dawn came, the people in the square had dispersed.

"It's useless."

Paladin came to Diego, who had been in the crowd and listened carefully to what the Father had to say, "I understand their concerns, and the change of mind does not happen overnight. ”

However, he didn't expect that the "Father God" in Diego's mouth was not the leader of the mechanical army.

"I have another question, how do we become believers in 'God the Father.'"

He felt that perhaps the "God the Father" that Diego referred to was a better outcome than being assimilated into a machine, and the only problem now was that the child did not tell the crowd about the steps to becoming a believer.

As far as he knew, the Church of the Tides had a strict screening system, one of which was to prohibit them from being members of the Church, so they recruited Protestants mainly in some coastal cities, and they would regularly bring Protestants back to the Misty Islands, and these Protestants not only expanded the number of Church, but also brought them a lot of technology outside the islands.

That's a good question indeed.

Even Diego was asked.

Come to think of it, he met the Father's messenger in a dream, and he and the other orphans were also sacrifices of the Tides Church, and the messenger taught them the means of praying to the Father, as well as those obscure incantations.

They did escape from the fishing boats.

"First of all, you need the approval of the Father's messenger."

Diego was also a little unsure, at least the messenger had never introduced the process of becoming a believer, and he didn't even know the name of the church.

In retrospect, their beliefs do seem a little irformal.

"So, how do we get the approval of the messenger?"

Paladin asked.

"Sleep...... Meditation. ”

Halfway through speaking, Diego quickly changed his words, realizing that when the standards for recruiting believers were already so irregular, if he told the other party that they usually only met the messenger by sleeping, he would probably be treated as a fraud gang.

"Meditation?"

Diego tried to make it sound as high-end as possible, "That's the way to condense the spiritual power, and God the Father perceives each of his followers through the spiritual power. ”

"I see."

Fortunately, Paladin did not continue to ask, "It seems that this is not a step that can be completed in a short time. ”

And now there is more important business waiting for them to complete.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to tell a secret to the two people in front of him, "Actually, I hid one thing from you before, and I know how to go to the Church of the Tides. ”

He hadn't mentioned these things before, partly because he couldn't fully trust the two of them, and partly because he knew that it wasn't an exaggeration to describe this trip as a life of nine deaths.

Perhaps no one on this island knows the horrors of the Lord of the Tides better than he does.

At that time, the people tried their best to exert the strength of the whole country, but in the end they could not really touch her existence, her power has long been beyond the scope of people's understanding, even through those broken inscriptions, he can feel the deep powerlessness of the people at that time.

"This method was told to me by the person who taught me how to read."

Speaking of this, Paladin seemed to recall those good memories, and it was that memory that accompanied him through the loneliest and difficult days of his life, "I am sure that she has royal blood in her body......"

Paladin paused.

This is also the reason why he calls himself Paladin, and he hopes that he can become a knight who guards the princess like Paladin, the former hero of the kingdom.

"Where is she now?"

The Emperor asked, and after a night, he had finally heard some news that would bring them substantial progress.

"She's gone, back to where she belongs."

The story of the princess and the knight doesn't always end in a happy way.

Paladin took out a long-sealed music box, he opened it, and the melodious music echoed in the ears of the three people, "All the secrets are hidden in this box." ”

The Emperor waited patiently for the music to finish, and then he was disappointed.

Because according to the results of the prosthetic eye, this is just an ordinary music box, and it has been around for some years.

"When did she give you this music box?"

"About seventy years ago, time is so long, I can't remember a little, living in this kind of place for a long time, it's hard to feel the passage of time, every day looks more or less ......"

More than seventy years ago.

This answer was much older than the "Emperor" had imagined, when the Dark Ages had just come to an end, the Gold Rush had not yet arrived, and the coalition government knew little about the "outside world".

Now, they need to travel through one of the most dangerous areas of the ocean through a music box from more than seventy years ago to reach the sunken ruins of Atlantis.

For a person who believes in science, the "Emperor" thinks that a small submarine may seem much more reliable.

What's even more cruel is that, according to statistics, the average life expectancy of the "outside world" is only in the early 70s, and after seventy years, the princess of the kingdom in Paladin's memory may have died long ago.

Still, he had a fantasy in his heart, "Maybe this music box is the key to a certain device?" ”

"The princess once said that the melody that is played will shelter the traveler so that they will not get lost in the sea.

……

Even though their hearts were full of doubts about the music box, the "Emperor" still embarked on their journey.

This time the island was along the edge of the inland sea, and the high priest said that the Church of the Tides was located deep under the sea, but the road did not seem to be smooth.

Traces of battle were scattered throughout the island, and they found a large number of Tidal Cultist corpses in this barren land, and their deaths were horrific, some cut into pieces by sharp objects, others turned into almost a lake by highly corrosive objects.

The Emperor's operating system did not record the existence of such weapons, and he suspected that it was caused by laser-type weapons that he had never seen before.

It's not hard to see that the mechanized forces have taken control of the land, and the bells and whistles of the Tidal Church can't stop them from advancing.

Then, unexpected problems stood in their way.

The mechs marched much faster than they had expected, and when they arrived at the Inland Sea area, they found that they had established a defensive line along the coast, and in addition to the heavily armed mechanized troops, there were many war fortresses that even the "Emperor" had never seen.

They have completely sealed off the Church of the Tides' access to land, and it is not hard to tell from the structures in the ocean that they are trying to dive underwater.

“…… Wait a minute, aren't you with them? ”

Paladin asked nervously.

The corpses along the way cast a shadow on these mechanical creations in his mind, and he thought that the 'Emperor' would intervene, but since he was close to the sea, the latter had been hiding from the patrol team on the periphery.

"I never said I was with them."

"I'm guessing they're all equipped with radios, and most likely anti-stealth fields. ”

"What are these for, I'm not very good at mechanics."

"All you need to know is that once a patrol team discovers us, it won't take ten seconds for the entire coastal fort's mechanized forces to know we're coming."

If the efficiency of mechanical communication is taken into account, this time may be shorter.

It was clear that this mechanical force did not want the people of the Church of the Tides to come out, nor did it want others to cross them and enter the inland sea of the Misty Isles.

"Are you sure?"

Paladin's face turned pale, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Of course."

The Emperor glanced back at Paladin in a strange way, pondering how to escape the patrols and make his way through their stations to the Inland Sea.

The facts also proved his judgment.

After about ten seconds, the surrounding patrols looked at them almost at the same time, and the distant station immediately flashed red for alarm.

The sirens of the base sounded across the coast, and the mechanical creature approached them menacingly.

Paladin finally gave up his last chance and raised his arm.

At first, he thought that it was only the mosquitoes on the island that had bitten him, but when he took a closer look, the appearance of the insect made his heart rise to his throat, "...... This shouldn't be an ordinary insect, right? ”

The thumb-sized mechanical creature did take the shape of an insect, but when its sharp mouthparts pierced Paladin's skin, its body flashed as red as a distant alarm bell.

"It's their signaling device."

As he spoke, the mechists had surrounded the three of them.

An encounter is the worst option here, and the deserted island makes it difficult for them to find cover.

It is strange that these patrols just raised their weapons and surrounded them, and did not immediately open fire on them, they just stood quietly in place, as if waiting for something.

Approximately five minutes later, a flying object resembling a hovercar docked in the clearing in front of the trio, and a figure that looked almost identical to any other mechanical creature approached the trio.

Its mechanical prosthetic eyes looked at the 'Emperor' curiously, and after a moment, it suddenly spoke, "Hey, isn't this an RT6's pet?" What are you doing here? ”