Chapter 543: Soothing the Machine Soul
At this time, not only are there no answers to prayers, but divine magic has also become unavailable. Priests in many temples are trying every means to please the gods every day, hoping to regain their Divine magic and divine attention.
But that is impossible, after all, the gods have fallen, and things that do not exist cannot respond to you.
Since the gods no longer responded to believers, many believers who were not devout enough even chose to leave the church.
When you used to have magical powers, we were close friends of life and death, but now you are not, so I'm sorry, we don't know each other very well.
Don't blame everyone for being so realistic. After all, there are many gods, and they are all competing for jobs. If you don't have any magical skills, you are of no use to me, so why should I trust you?
As time goes by, the loyalty of some devout believers begins to waver, not just because of the loss of divine magic, but because the more devout the believers are, the more they feel that they may be abandoned by God for no reason. Okay, this huge psychological gap is hard to accept, and there are not a few people who commit suicide.
Logically speaking, only Li Chengqi's priest can still cast divine magic. Hasn't the Spider Goddess been defeated as well?
According to the information Aldai heard from Li Chengqi, even Pharazma, the Mother of Souls, one of the oldest goddesses, was defeated. Compared with this uncle, the Spider Goddess can only be said to be a loser. Damn it, there is no reason for him to still remain on the throne of God.
Aldai raised her head vigorously, trying to see more clearly, but the distance was still a bit far, and Aldai's height did not have much of an advantage, so she could not clearly see the movements of the drow priest.
After hesitating for a moment, Aldai hooked her fingers, and a prying eye quietly flew to the top of the drow priest's head. Now Aldai could see clearly that these priests seemed to be performing divine magic, but in fact they were just tearing apart divine magic. reel.
Magic can be made into scrolls, and divine spells can of course be used as well. Although priests and mages cast spells in different ways, casting spells requires the consumption of their own magic. Therefore, priests must master making divine scrolls in case of emergencies. Skill.
To put it more clearly, these drow priests are using their old stocks and pretending to be able to cast spells.
As I said before, the drow are too ambitious. Once the drow men discover that the female priests have lost their ability to cast spells and have lost the favor of the Spider Goddess, do you think the men will turn over and become the masters?
Once they lose the power to maintain the social structure, male drow with higher physical ability and force value will inevitably drag all the female priests above them to feed the dogs.
It can even be said that this kind of subjugation belongs to the tradition of drow, but in the past, when the Spider Queen was around, male drow did not dare to make mistakes.
That's why these priests secretly tore up the scrolls to maintain the appearance that they could still perform magic.
Aldai had a strong urge to shout down below, 'Those black-skinned old women can no longer use magic', which might muddy the water even more.
Fortunately, she held back. After all, after shouting this voice, it was unclear whether the male drow would stab the female priests. Aldai was afraid that she would immediately become the most handsome boy in the room.
In fact, there is some overlap between divine magic and magic. This is because the original magic was imitated according to divine magic. Therefore, magicians are called magic thieves, people who steal the laws of gods.
But this does not mean that mages can imitate all divine spells. Divine spells are good at buffing their own people, but magic is difficult to imitate.
The drow priests are also very decisive in taking action, or they will not take action. Now that they take action, they will spend their money.
One after another, spells were blessed on the desperate drow warriors below, and debuff spells were thrown one after another on the heads of the Glow Ion Yin Order and the wild bear mercenaries.
Originally, alchemical creatures were not very afraid of debuffs. Golems, for example, were almost immune to this aspect and could only use control spells to interfere.
But the magic casing was too cheap, and it immediately became helpless under the influence of magic, and its numerical advantage could not be used at all.
The wild bear mercenaries didn't just watch. The man in black robe who was busy performing the ceremony immediately threw spells at the drow under the protection of the mercenaries. Fire, frost, lightning, strong acid and sound waves, all kinds of energy spells erupted on the battlefield. It didn't matter who the person who exploded was. Anyway, as long as it was not one of your own, you would gain blood.
Using magic and magic at the same time, the result was that the Glow Ion Yin Order, which had suppressed both sides just now, was now beaten by both sides, and was so suppressed that it was almost knocked back into the portal.
Having said that, generally speaking, any religious order should be a believer of a certain god. Even if the gods have fallen and can no longer grant magical spells, can't you, like the drow priests, have some inventory of magical scrolls?
The result was that they really couldn't. Even though they were being held down and beaten, and the magic machine casing was scattered all over the floor, they didn't even touch the scrolls and come out.
Therefore, this group of guys is more puzzling than the drow priests. Aldai has no information about them at all.
However, if the current situation continues, it may end up being a 1V1 between drow and wild bear mercenaries, and the Glow Ion Yin Order will most likely be kicked out.
However, it turned out that although they did not have a magic scroll, they did not only have this trump card.
To the left and back of the Aldai trio, a large shadow suddenly appeared in one of the purple-black cracks under the basin. A strange machine was pushed out of the portal by prosthetic enthusiasts of the Glow Ion Order.
This machine looks like some kind of artillery. The barrel and body can be easily identified, but there are eight mechanical legs underneath it. The huge coils connect the entire gun base layer by layer. Wrapped, densely packed cables connect from the barrel to the breech block position.
It's roughly the size of an oxcart. If you include the length of the barrel, it's much larger than an oxcart.
This is not the weirdest thing. You pull out a cannon and fire it directly. The result is even more confusing. Behind the cannon is a member of the Glow Ion Yin Order wearing a golden-red robe. In his hand Holding a portable incense burner, he burned incense and prayed while swinging it towards the breech block.
Not only did Aldai and the others at the scene find it strange, but Li Chengqi, who was watching the show through the screen, also found it strange.
What is this, burning incense and praying to appease the machine spirit, right?
Don’t say it, don’t say it, it seems that the machine soul is really happy.
The members of the Glow Ion Yin Order squatting behind the gun block were burning incense and praying, and the coils on the mount of the gun in front of them lit up with bright electric light.
This electric light was transmitted along the large cables to every corner of the entire cannon, and finally, the cannon fired.
As the brightness of the current increased, the cannon let out a roar, and it was impossible to see what kind of physical cannonball it was. It easily tore a hole in the battlefield. No matter what the cannonball was, everything turned into a mass of blood mist on the spot. , didn’t say a word, just disappeared.
The shell itself was embedded in some rock walls, stirring up large amounts of smoke and debris.
It looks very lively. In fact, in terms of caliber, this gun is only about 20 to 30 millimeters. However, from the firing method, it doesn't feel like a simple gunpowder weapon. It has a mixed propulsion of electromagnetic plus gunpowder and gas. Meaning, so the penetrating power is very strong.
Cannons of the same caliber are generally equipped on armored vehicles or aircraft on Earth, and are not powerful enough.
But power can actually be compensated by quantity.
The electric arc covering the cannon not only did not decrease, but became brighter. With the harsh scream of the servo motor, the cannon barrel actually rotated, and the cannonballs swept towards the enemy camp like raindrops.
This is not a cannon that fires one round after another, but a machine gun that fires continuously!
Today I have finally settled a bunch of things for the Chinese New Year. If nothing unexpected happens, I will resume the fourth update tomorrow_(:з ∠)_
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