The grand and solemn voice, the dreamy and magical city, made the dwarves fall into a deep shock, what they saw in front of them, what they heard in their ears, they were all encounters for the first time in their lives, even if they imagined it, they had never thought of such a scene.
tens or hundreds of meters of tall buildings make them feel shorter and shorter; The starry lights make the city appear vast and vast; All kinds of magical things, the sophistication and complexity are far better than steam civilization.
Facing such a city and dreamy things, Harold and other dwarves have a feeling that they are standing in the infinite starry sky, set off as humble and insignificant.
This is just like the awe they had for the brilliant civilization when they first heard about it.
This is a force from civilization.
After staying for a long time, the eldest elder woke up, his heart trembled, he knelt on the ground, and despite the heat of the yellow sand, he crawled and saluted:
"Great god of steam, your kingdom is the dwelling place of the gods, and your kingdom is the ultimate in steam."
Awakened by the prayer of the Great Elder, Harold and the other dwarves knelt down devoutly in the face of the city that seemed to be the embodiment of the kingdom of God, and prayed:
"Your gifts are as vast as the sea, and your majesty is as heavy as a mountain."
The holy and solemn voice sounded again:
"If you are not a like-minded person, you must not show my name in front of others."
The elder was stunned for a moment, then reacted quickly, and took Mirna and the other dwarves to comply: "If you are not a fellow traveler, you will not tell me your holy name."
The voice that seemed to come from the sky continued:
"Whoever turns his back on me will be consumed by steam."
The dwarf, who was already prepared, replied, "Whoever turns away from the glory of the Lord will be consumed by steam."
The voice became ethereal:
"For my servants, for my family, and no more slaves to others."
The dwarves said in unison: "I will not defame your glory!"
After several consecutive questions and answers, the voices in the sky gradually disappeared, and suddenly, Harold saw the city in front of him swell, turning into countless bubbles and rushing towards himself and others.
In the "bubble", the strange vehicle made of steel became bigger and bigger, more and more transparent, revealing the complex and exquisite structure inside, revealing the core machine composed of pistons, bearings, etc., which is different from that of a steam engine, as well as various mysterious and mysterious patterns.
In the "bubble", the steel monster bird also became larger and more transparent, exposing the neat rows of seats inside, and exposing the precision machinery and pipelines hidden by the steel.
In the "bubble", the general structure of many buildings such as high-rise buildings, factories, chimneys, roads and bridges emerges little by little.
……
Dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, Harold, Quakins and other dwarves all have a feeling of being about to explode, all of this is incomprehensible, incomprehensible!
The bubbles turned into clumps of light and crashed into their arms, and everything in front of them rippled like water waves and began to fall apart.
"This is what you want to get, and everything else must be searched for with strength, courage, persistence and unpointlessness." The grand and vast voice seemed to sound in the ears of every dwarf.
The great elder did not forget to lead the dwarves to pray in a trance:
"Honor your holy name and practice your word, and your kingdom will be established on the earth."
The yellow sand desert was completely shattered, and Harold and the others only felt that the world was spinning and fell into a deep sleep.
I don't know how long it took, they slowly woke up, opened their eyes, and found themselves in an underground cave that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
"What happened?" The Great Elder looked blankly at the altar in front of him, which seemed a bit strange.
Harold was stunned and looked strangely at the thick books that appeared inexplicably in his hand.
He had just studied dwarf script with the Great Elder for two years, and the complex words on the cover were difficult to recognize:
"Elementary Mechanical Forging".
"God, the god of steam has really come!" Harold blurted out, excited.
The other dwarves also found the books in their hands, startled by Harold's uncontrollable voice, and then began to cry bitterly, crying bitterly for the first light in a dark and desperate life.
At this time, their "memories" all returned to their minds:
He and other dwarf rebels accidentally discovered this cave where the steam civilization worshipped the gods, so they used it as a hiding place and resumed worship of the gods.
Just in the midst of despair, the altar suddenly lit up, and the gods descended, instantly purifying Tess and the others.
Then, the "god" guided himself and others into an underground palace, a palace carved with dwarf murals, and after pushing open the palace door, they saw a yellow sand desert.
After a difficult trek and countless hardships, they finally saw the unimaginably magical city in the oasis deep in the desert - "Atlantis", the heaven of the god of steam!
The Great Elder Augustus, who felt that his memory was very confused, sighed: "It turns out that underground palaces, murals, deserts, oases, and Atlantis are all scenes that the great steam god makes our souls see, not real things."
In this chaotic situation, most normal people who know magic will suspect that their memories have been passively tampered with, but those who have just experienced "miracles" and opened their hearts take it for granted.
Sometimes, a kind of illusion magic doesn't work, it's just about whether it works.
Just like the cursed eye Atlante wrote in a paper: "As long as you find the loopholes in the mind, even if you don't use illusion, you can still create false memories!"
"No, Great Elder, that's the real thing, but it exists in the Steam Heaven!" Quinns, the leader of the Dwarven Rebels, protested loudly, "One day, we will let the Lord's word work on the earth!"
Harold recalled "Atlantis" and suddenly became stupid: "I always thought that the steam giant city with many mechanical products was the most grand and shocking city, but I never imagined, I didn't expect that there would be a miracle city like Atlantis beyond imagination!"
"Every piece of machinery and every detail in it is so magical, it is simply the development of steam invention to the extreme, no, it has completely surpassed steam civilization." A dwarf said madly.
If it were normal, the rest of the dwarves who worshiped the ancient steam civilization would definitely mock him mercilessly, ridicule him, curse him, and even beat him up, but now, almost all the dwarves couldn't help but nod quietly, not only because it was the heavenly kingdom of the steam god, but also because of everything they and others had witnessed.
A dream city!
Harold's expression became excited, and he clenched his fists: "Atlantis, Atlantis, my goal is to build an Atlantis on the ground, which can have half of its magic, no, one-third is enough!"
"I will never forget the bright and gorgeous light 'Galaxy'." Myrna said as if in a dream, "It's a pity that I couldn't see the structure of the 'giant metal arrow'."
"Yes, it's a pity...... All the dwarves looked very lost, yearning and fearing the weapon that seemed to be created by the gods to destroy the world, and at that moment, it was as if a new sun was born!
"Also, the memory of other structures is vague......" Harold was a little frustrated, but he quickly cheered himself up, "We need to lay the foundation first!"
He raised the book in his hand, and then saw a piece of parchment mixed with the book.
Pulling out the parchment, he found that it was a contract that stipulated the promise of everything in the dream.
"The great god of steam sent an oracle to let us follow the principle of 'equivalent exchange', which is an important tenet of the kingdom of steam and machinery." The Great Elder sensed the hint of the gods and said excitedly and excitedly, and then he signed the contract without hesitation.
Harold and the others had no doubts about the steam god who saved himself and others, and owned the miracle city "Atlantis", and signed a contract with the Great Elder. And the most important thing for them is the last clause of the contract: "In the near future, devout dwarves will be born again, and they will leave the plateau of night and free from the slavery of vampires."
The light flashed, the contract took effect, and Lucian, who was invisible outside the crypt, nodded lightly and turned to leave.
After the illusion ended, he spent a lot of effort to transfer them to the underground cave discovered by the "Secret Eye" without alerting anyone, and then confused their memory order and fabricated a little guided false memory to avoid the problem that he was not yet capable of weaving real memories.
But if they are sure of this memory, it will be difficult to distinguish between true and false after a while!
The yellow sand desert and Atlantis were simulated by Lucian's five-ring illusion "Mirage" with the blood of Africe, and the specific blueprint is some big cities on the earth.
After leaving the underground cave, Lucian's face gradually became solemn, because it could be known from the dwarves' "opening their hearts" that the two vampires who died were the wives and housekeepers of the nearby lord, Count Vlad, especially the female dwarf vampire, who was also the bride of Count Vlad.
"Ordinary vampires disappear when they disappear, but the disappearance of these two vampires will definitely make Vlad angry and track down to the end, with the connection with the descendants, with his familiarity with the territory and the keen sense of high-level vampires, he may definitely find the location of the underground palace and discover the space node."
"This matter must be dealt with."
Lucian walked towards the castle where Count Vlad was.
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The next day, when the constellation position changed and the morning came, the dwarf coolies began to work again under the whips of several other overseers.
The overseers didn't care about the lady and the housekeeper's absence overnight, the "deputy housekeeper" had already explained, they found traces of the dwarf rebels and were pursuing them, it was normal for similar things to take two or three days.
In the basement of the gloomy castle, in the place wrapped in layers of dark magic circles, there was a blood-colored coffin, and thick black gas came out from time to time.
This is the place where the vampire Count Vlad sleeps and heals, and is the core of control of the entire castle.
Whenever Vlad falls into a deep sleep, he will fully open the magic circles and traps around the basement to avoid being taken out by vampire enemies sneaking in.
According to Vlad's boast, the defense of the core of his castle took thousands of years to arrange, even if the vampire marquis and duke arrived, it was absolutely impossible to break the magic circle without alarming them.
Therefore, in comparison, the attack power of this core defense magic circle is quite insufficient.
The means of contacting Count Vlad in the basement are in the hands of Madame Tess, the Galata butler, and two other vampire brides.
It seems that the best way to assassinate Count Vlad is to fake information and use the remaining two vampire brides to deceive him.
However, if you can't kill quickly or trap and then slowly strangle them, the ability of high-level vampires to save and escape is very amazing, and everything will be exposed at that time.
Moreover, an ancient blood count who participated in the Dawn War and survived was definitely not a fool who was deceived, and the slightest loophole was easy to see and use in reverse.
This is an operation that cannot afford to fail.
(End of this chapter)