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And here, it has also become the news focus of the entire federation. Many journalists come from different news industries in different cities, whether it is newspapers, magazines, or broadcasting. Many journalists carry cameras and travel thousands of miles. Various ways to get to Novigrad.

However, the truth of what happened here will only be known to a few people or individual groups.

……

a week later.

The city of Novigrad, which is able to maintain order, is short of basic supplies such as food and water at this time. Fortunately, the traffic jam is not too serious, and the railway facilities are basically intact.

Therefore, materials from other cities can be easily transported into the city, and with the army stationed there, even some lunatics with ulterior motives have to give up their thoughts in the face of this situation.

On this day, a special military car drove through the desolate streets, passed through a desolate urban area, and drove towards the blocked and forbidden area under the numb eyes of many refugees.

"Poor people, being involved in an unexplainable disaster, and unable to know the truth of the matter, can only struggle to survive in numb pain."

A sharp voice sounded in the car, and a pair of bright eyes couldn't help showing pity when they scanned the refugees sitting on the ruins or beside the houses.

At this moment, the girl with short gray hair sitting in the front seat of the car and holding the steering wheel suddenly spoke.

"But at least they are still alive, unlike the people who were involved in the incident, and now almost all of them have no bones left."

"Well, you really deserve to be a secret agent. It's really a cold and ruthless way of saying it."

Bright eyes turned from the scenery outside the window to the gray-haired girl, and the blue pupils reflected Black Lizard Star's face in the rearview mirror.

"This is the same as when you were a child, but there are two people, An Jie."

"The nuns of the Destiny Church don't need to tease me like this...and I don't know you very well." Black Lizard responded sarcastically.

"Tch, you're really narrow-minded."

The nun covered her mouth and smiled softly. "You were so cute when you were young, but now you are wearing different faces. It is impossible to guess whether your true mood is the same as the mask you are wearing on your face."

"boring."

After the black lizard star replied, he stopped talking, and the nun sitting in the back seat of the car didn't say anything, but turned his eyes out of the car window and watched the city after the riots.

Soon, the car stopped and came to the edge of a golden crystallization area.

"Here we are." Hei Lizard star said, unfastened his seat belt, opened the car door and walked down, without the slightest intention to help the nun open the door.

"It's stingy."

The nun muttered, but didn't care much, pushed open the car door beside her and stepped out, and then saw the golden crystal land with a diameter of hundreds of meters in front of her at a glance.

"Well, it's spectacular." She looked at the scene in front of her dumbly, and said in amazement, "How did this happen?"

"I don't know, that's why I asked you to come here." The black lizard star on the side sneered coldly, "Why, could it be that the nuns of the Destiny Church can't tell?"

The nun ignored Black Lizard Star's sarcasm, but frowned and walked to the edge of the crystallization ground, squatted down, put her hand on the crystal stone on the ground, and closed her eyes.

"track."

Whispering softly, on the back of the palm she pressed on the ground, there was a golden cross that lit up with golden light, and then several dark golden chains extended from above the cross, spreading towards the entire crystallization land.

"Is the material change and reorganization infected by some kind of energy, and then transformed into crystal?"

The nun muttered in a low voice.

"This means that ordinary rock and soil can maintain a certain integrity after transformation. If it is a flesh and blood body, if it is swept by this energy, it will inevitably turn into crystals and fall apart."

As if he had made a judgment, the chain that stretched and spread out quickly gathered back and disappeared on the cross on the back of his hand.

"Is this caused by something you made?"

Seeing the nun stop her hands, the black lizard star who was leaning on the car hood behind asked.

"Unfortunately not."

The nun patted the dust she had picked up when she half knelt down and stood up.

"This is not the [God's Key], or rather not any of the [God's Keys] that I know of... The people who solve all the troubles here do it by their own strength."

As she spoke, the nun looked at Black Lizard Star, pupils of almost the same color looked at each other.

"It's a very dangerous force. I probably understand why you guys are looking for me. Indeed, this kind of power is so dangerous that once it breaks out in a dense crowd, it is almost certain that there is no way to save it."

"So, if you don't mind, can you tell me who made this?"

"Charlotte."

Black Lizard Star replied, opened the car door again and sat in.

"Oh? I remember, you like to add an accent after the pronunciation, so the real name should be Charlotte?"

The nun's eyes lit up.

"Who am I talking about? After a long time—"

"—So they are all childhood sweethearts!!!"

Chapter 84 Setting the Background of Water

The sea breeze is blowing, the waves are sparkling, looking around, the blue sea and the blue sky, the sea and the sky are connected into a line, if it is not above the sky, the sun is shedding endless rays of light, and there are white clouds floating by from time to time, which may make people unconscious Immerse yourself in the scenery where the sea meets the sky.

The huge steamship was emitting black smoke, relying on the propulsion provided by machinery and steam furnaces, allowing this behemoth to cut through the waves and move forward on the sea.

And the creativity of human beings is fully demonstrated on this steel ship. The hundreds of meters of steel giant ship is already far beyond the miracle of the past history. Even the most glorious magic civilization Netheril Empire is absolutely impossible. to make a vessel of this size.

Perhaps magic can really provide considerable convenience, but the lack of industrial system, inefficient steel production share, and the forging method relying on traditional manual manufacturing techniques have fundamentally locked the once glorious magic civilization. .

A prosperous civilization cannot be achieved by relying on one or two great arcanists who can live for a long time to raise the floating city.

Among other things, just this giant ship and the tonnage of steel that make up it can easily replace an entire army with the highest quality armor and weapons, and there are even a lot of surplus.

You say magic is omnipotent?But it's a pity that even if a great arcanist who is best at transmutation spells is exhausted to death, it is impossible to arm an army by himself.

But for today's human civilization, it doesn't take much effort to build this ship. Those companies that are committed to developing maritime trade, and their size is not small, can afford all the costs of building this ship alone.

And this cost, converted to the wealth of the old era, can completely scare the king of any kingdom to death, scare any mage who is short of money, and even the arrogant metal and five-color dragons have to be scared to the ground.

This is the era of money, the era of capital, and the era of multi-tasking.

For the good and bad of this era, Charlotte never gave an absolute evaluation. Of course, he would never eat the black bread mixed with sawdust, wheat straw and other messy things in the old era.

After all, in terms of food alone, the old era was hell, and this era is heaven.

Basically, as long as you have a skill, even if you don’t, you can work hard and find a job to support yourself in this era.

So generally speaking, this is a good time.

Compared with bad times, good times have many advantages, just like religious issues.

The religions of the old era were simply a bunch of neurotics and persecutors. If you don’t believe in God, then you are an unbeliever. After death, your soul will be used to paste the wall, and you will never be free.

If you believe in God, you have to create a large group of high and low gods. It’s fine if a few gods don’t fight each other. As for letting believers kill you to the death?This is not counting the beliefs of various evil gods and demons.

To sum up, in the old days, if you believed in God, you had to die if you didn’t believe in it or if you made a mistake, you had to die. In the end, you couldn’t escape the fate of becoming a lamb. So what’s the point of believing in those messy gods?

Today, Charlotte quite agrees with a sentence that the demigod said: Good and evil will be rewarded in the end.

The gods of the old era, whether they were order or chaos, whether they were good or evil, all paid for their actions.

The following is unreliable gossip, telling the hunters of this era with relish, making all the mages rejoice, making all the dick warriors burst into tears, and making the former priest and the current priest collapse and despair:

According to rumors, at the end of the old age, that is, in the last days of the gods, a great accident happened.

The demons of the bottomless abyss collectively convulsed and took medicine, crowding the battlefield of the bloody battle, and messing up Bator Hell. The defense line of the bloody battle was completely broken, and the demon lords ran away, so the gates of the upper plane opened, and the battle of Ragnarok began .

Facing the threat of demons, the gods opened up their respective kingdoms, allowing the petitioners and believers accumulated over countless years to form an army to resist the invasion of demons.

However, there are a large number of demon lords who are always threatening the precarious gods. Coupled with the habit of fighting in the nest, the evil gods of many evil camps stabbed their knives, and the situation has reached a critical moment.

Therefore, the subordinates of the Goddess of Magic, the God of Prophecy and the God of Mage teamed up to use a powerful spell in an attempt to summon a very powerful hero from another world to counter the threat of the demon lord.

Then, a pale, red mark, wielding a pair of chain blades, a brave man from another world named Kratos was summoned by the spell.

Then there is no more.

The god of prophecy and the god of mages, after the arrival of this brave man from another world, was slaughtered by the brave man from another world wielding a chain blade on the spot with a set of extremely brutal methods.

Afterwards, this brave man from another world carried out his violent journey to save the world, killing gods and demon lords along the way, slaughtering demons passing by, from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, from the endless wilderness to the heart of the spell.

Later, after all the participating parties couldn't bear this shit-stick-like powerful hero from another world, the god of war and the goddess of magic were hacked hundreds of knives, and the remaining gods, big and small, paid a lot of money. At the price of minor injuries, he finally sent this brave man from another world back to hell.

During the whole process, the demon lords, who were also shit-stirring sticks, tacitly did nothing, and let the powerful brave warriors from another world who would cause serious damage to them and their enemies without discrimination.

Of course, they had suffered heavy losses, and it would be difficult to end without fighting for a victory. Therefore, the old era came to an end, and the theocracy collapsed in the death of the gods.

Although the above is just a gossip, it has been widely circulated for some reason.

The Northland Skyrim Province, to which this trip went by boat, is the area where this gossip spreads the most.

According to the Nords, the local residents of the province of Skyrim, the greatest warrior in history, Kratos, the mighty brave from another world, tore apart the sky, dragged Dagon into the sky with chains, and fell headlong into the sky. Songard.

Then in Songarde, the dreadful demon Dagon was slain by the great warrior, and Kratos, bathed in the blood of the demon, held the chain blade stained with the blood of the gods, and walked to the bridge guarded by the Baron of the Shield, Killed to Shuer's palace.

Since then, the souls of the Nords who died in battle can no longer go to Songgard.

And the great warrior also warned the ancestors of all the Nords with practical actions. The heaven is on the left, and the warrior is on the right. A real man is ashamed to go to the kingdom of God, and proud to kill through hell and despise death.

Well, let's not talk about the above nonsense.

At least for now, the religion has been relaxed a lot.

For example, Charlotte, who learned and participated in the multi-turret religion in private for fun, is at best an academic delusional organization in the name of the church.

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PS: As in the title, first look for an opportunity to discuss the background setting that will appear in the second volume, so as not to appear again. It is not a farce that has not been mentioned or mentioned before... Alas, as the author Since I was criticized for saying that it doesn’t count if I didn’t write it out, I’m really tired!In this way, you should not upload background settings!

Well, just water this time.

Chapter 85

Life at sea is indeed quite boring. Although the speed of going to Skyrim Province by sea is faster than taking a train, I am afraid that compared with the retrograde railway scene, the sea where the water and the sky always meet will make people feel Severe aesthetic fatigue.

In fact, after boarding the ship named the Black Baron, Charlotte was still very interested in the scenery of the sea at first.

And when he saw the endless blue sea and the same blue sky meet each other, and felt the oncoming sea breeze, because of what happened in Novigrad, he became a little depressed and quickly recovered. .

However, after a long time, there was almost no change, only the seabirds that I saw from time to time, or the scenery with nothing else besides the waves, suddenly made Charlotte feel annoyed and irritable.

At this time, Charlotte more or less understood why in the age of sailing, everyone who went to sea would rush to the red light street happily every time they docked, and almost all sailors were addicted to gambling and alcohol. Why exactly.

Going to sea is really boring and boring.

Obviously, the ship he took was not a luxury cruise ship, and there were no entertainment facilities such as dance halls, bars, casinos, and open-air swimming pools on it, and there was no fishing here.

As for the other passengers, they seldom watch the scenery on the deck and enjoy the sea breeze. Most of the time they stay in their respective rooms, and only a few times they go to the restaurant.

Fortunately, there are other ways to pass the time.

"Hi, friend."

Charlotte, who couldn't bear the idea of ​​playing cards, was wandering outside the cabin when she suddenly saw a person who was also wandering behind her, her eyes lit up, and she took out a deck of cards out of nowhere and began to say hello.

"Would you like a gwent card?"

"Ah?" It seemed that he was stopped by someone unexpectedly, and the person who was stopped turned around with a look of astonishment.

This is a middle-aged man with a black moustache and wearing retro-style clothes.After being stopped by the sudden call, he turned his head weirdly and wanted to say something, but when he saw the deck of cards in Charlotte's hand, he immediately swallowed the remaining words and changed his words immediately.

"Um, this passenger, although...well, well, I will fight as I want, but I will never lose. I swear by the Black Baron's three consecutive Gwent card competition champions, let's go!"

……

Gwent is a collectible card game. Its rules are quite simple. The winner is judged by two out of three rounds. There is no magic draw, no mustache, no on-site card printing, etc. in the whole process, which is unscientific and even less Magical bugs exist.

Easy to learn, deep and simple, this kind of card game is quite popular, from rich and powerful politicians and businessmen to ordinary civilians who live their lives, can easily get started with this kind of game.

Just like it is now.

The two strangers reached an agreement in an instant because of this insignificant set of cards, and then sat down in a rough corner at random.

"How to bet?"

The middle-aged man with a black mustache took out a deck of cards from nowhere, stared at Charlotte and asked.

"Should I bet on a rare card, or bet directly?"

"Chips." Without hesitation, Charlotte took out a few dim gold coins from her pocket and threw them down. "Four golden dragons."

"Yes, I'll follow."