Struggle in the Steam Age

Although Lawrence and the others disclosed the existence of this astral plane in their hands, it was a matter of good and bad.

The good side is that from the perspective of future development, making this public is enough to reflect the strength of the newborn church in the future and gather more believers.

At the same time, in this case, Lawrence and the others can openly conduct material exchanges between the two planes and promote the development of the two planes, especially the astral plane.

You know, in the past, in order to keep secret, Lawrence and Nora had to do all kinds of preparatory work whether they were replenishing the astral plane or taking out the specialty planes in the astral plane.

This has also led to a very slow speed of material exchange, and the volume of transactions is also strictly controlled. In turn, the speed of development of the astral plane was greatly slowed down.

However, the exposure of the astral plane now has a bad side. To give the simplest example, after this plane is disclosed, those who want to attack Nora and the others are likely to target this plane.

But neither Lawrence nor Nora has the energy to think about this issue. Because at this time the ceremony has come to an end, and it has attracted all their attention.

As the burning of the divine fire gradually stabilized, the rule runes that were attracted into the divine fire also flew out of the scope of the divine fire one by one and dissipated between the sky and the earth.

But not all the regular runes disappeared. Lawrence saw that one large rune and several small runes remained within the range of the flames.

Those runes left in the flames began to draw power from the surrounding divine fire flames little by little, and then began to slowly transform from their original illusory state.

I saw these runes began to roll and change in the flames, and then slowly melted under the catalysis of the fire, and then condensed together and transformed into some kind of crystal.

"This should be the formation of a priesthood." Lawrence looked at the situation in front of him and said silently in his heart, and at the same time fixed his eyes on the situation in Shenhuo.

You must know that the god-ascension ceremony is very important for the existence of this ceremony. It is basically impossible for anyone in this situation to be willing to open their core divine fire to others.

Because the information contained in this kind of divine fire is too core for the owner of the divine fire, if it is known to outsiders, it may cause a fatal threat. Only the relationship between Lawrence and Nora can let him see this.

In this ceremony, the divine fire and the indescribable changes inside the divine fire are very valuable to every transcendent. As long as they are willing to observe, then the observer's future path to transcendence will naturally be smoother.

However, when the entire ascension ceremony entered the last moment, Lawrence suddenly discovered that the rune at the core of the divine fire hadn't solidified together as planned, but was still vibrating non-stop, with no tendency to crystallize.

"What's going on here?" Lawrence immediately became nervous after seeing this scene which was completely different from the normal situation. But in order to avoid disturbing the little doll, he could only silently pray for Nora at the side at this time.

At this time, the little puppet obviously also discovered that the core priesthood cannot be solidified, so it stimulated its own divine fire immediately after discovering it, hoping to use stronger power to promote the formation of this priesthood.

For a moment, Lawrence could feel that the power contained in the golden flame was much stronger. At the same time, the entire group of divine fire came alive completely, forming silk threads one after another to wrap around the rune.

However, in this case, the power of the rune and Nora's power still formed a stalemate, and they did not condense into a priesthood crystal as they expected.

"Yes, that's right, it should be like this, I'm too greedy—" After many attempts, the little puppet shook its head as if suddenly thinking of something.

"—Obviously, even if you ignite the divine fire and embark on the path of the gods, if you want to get something, you need to pay the corresponding things. If this is the case—"

"Calm down, Nora." After hearing what the little doll said, Lawrence finally broke the silence and persuaded. "Compared with seeking power, your safety is the most important thing."

"Of course I know this, my lord brother." The little puppet first smiled lightly, and then said.

"But the difference between going forward and taking a step back is too big now, so I don't think it's possible to go back now. More importantly, I can afford the price."

After finishing speaking, the little puppet reached out to his left eye and took it out, then held the eyeball in front of his hands with both hands, kissed it lightly, and then held the eye with green pupils in his hand Turned into a ball of green light.

Then, she held the ball of green light the size of a ping-pong ball with both hands and pressed it fiercely into her chest.

This group of green light immediately passed through the body of the little doll and entered her body, and then flew towards the group of golden divine fire burning blazingly at the heart.

And when the ball of light emitting green light entered the divine fire, those golden flames immediately gave way to the core rule rune.

In an instant, the green light from the left eye of the puppet was sucked in by the biggest rule rune.

And after absorbing the light, the rule rune representing the priesthood that was still struggling before became quiet like a beast that had been fed, and then slowly solidified under the calcination of the surrounding divine fire.

Finally, after a flash of golden light, a large and several small golden diamond-shaped crystals quietly floated in the divine fire.

"How are you doing now?" After confirming that the whole process was over, Lawrence immediately asked the little puppet that fell back to the cave floor.

"It feels very good, my brother." The little puppet Nora closed her eyes and felt it for a few seconds before smiling. "Truly, I now feel like I have more power than ever before."

"Leave this alone, Nora." Seeing the calm expression on the little doll's face, Lawrence immediately interrupted her.

"What I'm concerned about now is what happened to your left eye. If I read correctly just now, you seem to have taken your eye out."

"Yes, just like you saw before, I lost my left eye, and it was permanent." Nora smiled and opened her eyes, and at this time her eyes looked exactly the same as before.

However, Lawrence, who has a soul connection with the little doll, can clearly feel that her left eye is just a sphere at this time, not a part of the little doll's body as before.

"Can't this be recovered?" Although there was a certain omen in his heart, Lawrence still asked with some luck in his heart.

"I hope it is possible, but in fact it is not possible." The little puppet shrugged humanely and said, "Now my left eye has been conceptually erased, and even the gods cannot restore it."

"Actually, this is just like Odin, the Norse god in your original world. I exchanged one of my own eyes for powerful power."

"Of course, my future priests absolutely don't need to take the initiative to hurt their own eyes." Having said that, Nora seriously warned Lawrence as if she had thought of something.

"I know that some priests like to imitate their gods, but I absolutely don't want my priests to imitate me, because this kind of behavior that actively hurts oneself is really too stupid."

"You're right, but the arrangement of this matter may be later. Because we have countless tasks to do now." Lawrence shrugged helplessly and said.

"A few days ago, I looked at the list given to me by several friendly churches, and found that we are too little prepared for the things we need to do after the success of the Ascension Ceremony."