Struggle in the Steam Age

After losing the guidance of Amon-La Church's remains of saints, Lawrence's search work suddenly became much more difficult.

Fortunately, Nora had firmly remembered the characteristics of this god's power just now, so after spending some time, they still sensed the power clue left by the other party again.

"I have a question." Lawrence asked suddenly as Nora steered her ship towards the little bit of Amon she felt—the location of La's divine power.

"You just said that this area will not allow those dead beings to remain for too long, so what is the source of this power we are tracking now?"

The reason why Lawrence had such doubts was also very simple, because in just a few minutes just now, more than 1/3 of the remains of the saint disappeared inexplicably. Under such circumstances, he did not believe that those mummies thousands of years ago could be preserved to this day.

"I don't know, but what I can confirm is that the thing I'm locking on is indeed Amon—the source of the release of Ra's divine power." Nora pursed her lips and said.

"But you don't need to worry about any danger, because this is the home field of the ancient god of death, and even a god with powerful divine power may not be able to defeat him here."

"So from a security point of view, we are actually very safe now, because it is impossible for other people to do things in that place, and the existence of the most powerful force in this area really wants to deal with us and there is no need to use traps."

"You're right." Hearing what Nora said, Lawrence immediately nodded approvingly. If you can easily crush an ant to death, there's really no need to take out a bomb just to kill the ant. .

The next journey is not very pleasant, because on both sides of the Styx and in the Styx are all the undead that are slowly dissipating, and the process of a soul completely disappearing into the Styx will definitely have a negative impact on the spirit.

"Basically none of the souls who come here come here voluntarily, and they will never leave. So they have an unforgettable hatred for everything around them." Nora sighed softly.

"This is an important reason why the living people who can get here can't stay for too long, otherwise, it is easy to be infected with hatred for the living in this environment."

As the ship continued to advance, the surrounding conditions also underwent various changes. Finally, the boat driven by Nora left the main stream of the River Styx and sailed towards a tributary.

After leaving the gray water surface as wide as the ocean, the field of vision suddenly became narrow. At the same time, some red and black rocky mountains slowly emerged from the thick gray mist, echoing on the water surface with one after another whistling sounds.

"This should be the Prison of the Forsworn." Nora whispered after looking at the caves looming on the stone walls of the mountains on both sides. "Used to imprison some defaulters who violated the oath of the lower Styx."

In this world, the Styx oath is not as aloof as Lawrence read novels in his previous life, but is very close to the people. It's just that if existences of different levels make vows, they will naturally be treated differently.

For example, the souls imprisoned in the caves on both sides of this tributary of the Styx River are just the souls of ordinary people, and the price they pay is only to be imprisoned in this dead space for tens or even hundreds of years.

But for ordinary people, this is already an unbearable punishment. According to the statistics of some churches, the souls of those who suffer such punishment will be severely injured, and at the same time lose the opportunity to go to the kingdom of the gods they believe in.

In this world with gods, it is obviously a very bad thing not to be able to go to the kingdom of gods after death. From a certain point of view, this kind of wandering on the banks of the Styx is a little better than hanging on the wall of the unbelievers.

"Where should we go next?" Lawrence suddenly became nervous after feeling that the power of death around him began to become chaotic. "Why do I feel that the energy around me is getting more and more chaotic."

"The thing we want to find is probably on this tributary of the River Styx." Nora said to Lawrence while operating the boat they were driving to stop and go to sense the surrounding situation.

"As for the surrounding energy flow to become chaotic, it is also a very normal thing, because compared with the main stream of the Styx, the tributaries will have a lot of things from other planes mixed in, so purely from the perspective of energy, it is not caused by pure death. The power to form—"

"Is it over there—" Before Nora finished speaking, Lawrence felt the phantom of Jianmu tremble deep in his soul, and then several branches pointed in one direction.

"It should be over there." After being reminded by Lawrence, Nora immediately closed her eyes and sensed the place that Lawrence pointed to, then quickly opened her eyes and steered the ship to drive over.

A few minutes later, the black ice boat that Lawrence and the others were riding on approached a river bank, and then the two of them jumped off the boat and stepped on the bones piled up on the river bank towards the place they had perceived before step by step.

creak -- creak --

After stepping on this mountain of bones, there were some gritty sounds, and the faint crying and sighing around made everyone's heart tremble.

However, as they continued to move forward, these cries weakened again, and the thick fog around them slowly faded along with the cries.

"I feel—as if the sun is shining on me!" After walking forward for about a few hours, Lawrence suddenly exclaimed in a low voice.

Because he felt that his surroundings were full of warmth, as if soaking in warm water. And the reason why he was so shocked was because theoretically, all kinds of warmth should not appear in the Styx, which is considered to be the darkest.

"It's indeed sunshine, it's just—" Nora also had a shocked expression on her face, but soon he discovered the problems in the sunshine. "My lord, do you feel that this sunshine is a bit like the sunshine in the evening?"

"It seems to be true." Hearing what the little puppet said, Lawrence immediately mobilized all his strength to observe the sunlight carefully, and then found many things that were really wrong.

"Although this sunlight does give people a warm and bright feeling compared to the dead silence around, but if you perceive it carefully, you can feel that this sunlight gives people a sense of decay, as if—"

Speaking of this, Lawrence paused for a moment, because he didn't know what words to use next to describe the sunshine that he usually saw that gave people a completely different feeling.

"—It's like the light emitted by a dead sun." Nora said suddenly at this time, because of the ignited fire, the little puppet can better perceive the essence of various existences.

"Under normal circumstances, the concept of the sun or sunlight should be inclined to light and life, but now the source of sunlight here should be distorted by the Styx, so it gives people a weird feeling that is opposite to the normal situation. "

"You're right." Feeling the power of death carried by the surrounding sunlight, Lawrence nodded and continued. "Do you think the source of this power is the kind of goal we were looking for before?"

"After all, the target we are looking for used to hold the power of the sun and life, but he has completely fallen now. So it should be reasonable for the remaining power to be affected and undergo some kind of mutation."

"What you said is very possible, because I can feel that the source of this sunlight seems to coincide with the target we are looking for this time." Nora said after briefly perceiving the surrounding environment, and at the same time her face showed A serious look.

"However, this also represents a possibility that I don't know good or bad, that is, the ancient god of death should know the existence of these things, and we probably need his permission if we want to obtain this thing."