Struggle in the Steam Age

The carriage stopped in front of a small manor. Considering that this kind of manor is not built for the owners of those manors, at most there will only be family stewards or persons in charge who occasionally come to live for a day or two, so the entire manor It looks a bit shabby, like a large farmhouse.

But now, the manor is full of people who basically don't live here. Just when Lawrence and the others got off the carriage, they saw a few members of the Agricultural Church in uniform walking into the manor from outside with a bunch of things at the gate of the manor. On the other hand, there were several piles of cotton stalks that were larger than the carriages in the place where the manor used to be an open space or a lawn, and several priests were casting spells around those cotton stalks with serious faces.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Looking at Lawrence and the others, they got out of the carriage and came straight to the gate of the manor. The two were wearing khaki metal breastplates, with a large-caliber revolver hanging from their waists, and an ax spear in their right hands. The paladin saw Lawrence walking towards Nora, and stretched out his hand to signal them to stop. Because they came in the dirt carriage of Viscount Doropia, the two paladins stopped Lawrence and the others, but their attitude was very good when they asked.

"I am Earl Sauer." Lawrence said slowly stretching out his left hand to show the two paladins the signet ring representing his identity. Soon, a paladin stepped forward to confirm Lawrence's identity and motioned for them Can enter the manor. After nodding to the two paladins, Lawrence entered the manor with the doll.

"Give my aunt what they said, it seems that they have listened to them." After passing by the piles of cotton stalks surrounded by the clergy and seeing what they were doing, Lawrence said to Nora. "It seems that they have also discovered the things we discovered before, but they don't know the specific situation?"

"The situation should be normal." Nora was not optimistic about the work progress of these clergy. "According to their extraordinary level, it is estimated that at most they can judge that there are some unclean gods in this cotton field. After all, the power of gods left on these things is too weak, and it is difficult for them to accurately judge the specifics inside. Condition."

Nora's judgment was probably right, because when Lawrence and the others passed by the clergy, they found that although they were all using magic to check the pile of cotton stalks in front of them, the expressions on everyone's faces showed Feeling puzzled and helpless, it seems that they didn't find what they were looking for.

"You are finally here!" After entering the room, Aunt Mia greeted them. After a few simple greetings, Aunt Mia talked about the current situation of their inspection of several farms. As she told a little bit, Lawrence slowly frowned, showing a troubled look.

It’s no wonder that Aunt Mia, who has always been very aristocratic, was able to tell Lawrence and the others about the current situation regardless of the aunt’s greetings, because during the half a day since they arrived here, Mr. His son, several grandsons, and the priests have checked seven or eight farms scattered on this land, but the result of the inspection is that all the farms have found traces of the power of the gods.

"All of them?" Lawrence frowned, "Do you have a map here? Can you show me where the sampled farms are distributed. Because I think that if you want to find out the specific situation, you need to figure out these The exact location of the location is a very important thing.”

"Yes. Of course we have the map." Aunt Mia said as she rang the bell next to her, and then gave a few instructions to a servant who walked in. Soon, the servant came in carrying a huge map half a person's height, and then slowly unfolded the map hanging on the wall with another servant.

"These are the manors we sampled." After the two servants retreated, Aunt Mia came over and took out a slender stick and pointed on the map. Following her guidance, Lawrence and Nora found that the manors that were randomly checked were distributed on the land on both sides of the river, which can be said to be fairly evenly distributed.

"In other words, this kind of power has already been distributed on the entire land?" After looking at the specific situation, Lawrence realized that things were simple. He originally thought that these strange powers might come from some kind of existence related to the gods, gradually radiating from a core, but now it seems that this is obviously not the case.

"At least the result of the inspection is indeed like this now." Aunt Mia said, her face looked a little ugly. "If there are no accidents, the pollution of the entire land is much more serious than imagined. At least I heard from the priests of the Agricultural Church that they found that the entire small plain was polluted."

"You mean pollution?" After hearing what Aunt Mia said, Lawrence keenly heard a key word in his words. After all, power contamination and pollution are completely two concepts, and he must ask clearly. "In other words, have these people from the Agricultural Church defined this force as pollution?"

"This—I don't know too well, I just heard what those church members said." After all, Aunt Mia was just a standard aristocratic woman all her life, and she had a husband and an adult son. So her usual job is to arrange the situation at home, and just socialize with the women in this circle by the way, so she doesn't know much about these things about extraordinary people.

"Then I'll go out and ask, you can rest here." Lawrence said and Nora saluted Aunt Mia at the same time, and then exited the reception room together. After all, there is nothing else to ask here now, and if you want to know more detailed content, you must ask those professionals.

Soon, Lawrence took Nora to the second floor of the room where the priests of the Agricultural Church were. After knocking on the door and entering, he found that the house had been transformed into a temporary laboratory filled with various instruments. Several researchers from the Church of Agriculture were busy checking what was among these instruments. .

After revealing his identity, Lawrence was quickly welcomed by the agricultural church staff. After all, they were able to check out the problems on this land so quickly this time, which is directly related to Lawrence's previous insights. If it hadn't been for the phenomenon of divine power impregnated by him, they probably haven't discovered the cotton hidden in these cottons until now. The power of an extremely tiny god.

"I heard from my aunt just now that you have classified this divine power as pollution. Is this true?" After a few simple greetings, Lawrence looked at the cleric of the Agricultural Church who received him and asked . "Is this a definition you have privately or has it been confirmed?"

"This is the definition that has been confirmed." The clergyman said seriously, "According to the method you proposed before, we checked out the wrong place from the pests on these cotton stalks. Then through a large-scale prayer The power that attracted our lord confirmed the traces of divine power pollution on the lower plane."

Checking the pests is the method Lawrence proposed before, because compared with the retention of divine power that is difficult to detect, it is much easier to check for abnormalities in these insects. It is easier to gather this kind of divine power pollution.

Obviously, after checking out the situation of these cotton bollworm larvae according to Lawrence's opinion, the clergy of these agricultural churches here decisively organized a sacrificial activity and received a response from the goddess of agriculture. Defined as pollution.

"This is troublesome—" Lawrence muttered in his heart, because he knew how troublesome things would be behind him once this kind of thing was defined as pollution. "Hopefully things will go a little better this time."