When Leo returned to the ship, he stayed in his room, carefully sorting out the water storage magic circle he had just obtained from the fountain, and then made several physical objects using the existing materials, because he used the rune trap method.

, so there is a time limit when using it, and it will become invalid after a while. It needs to be re-injected with spiritual energy before it can continue to be used. It cannot run continuously like the fountain.

When studying something, time flies by very quickly. Unknowingly, a whole night has passed like this. Passengers have also returned to the ship one after another. However, in addition to the passengers who boarded the ship at the Port of Set, there are also some more passengers.

They also boarded the ship, and these passengers were very extraordinary. They were all traveling priests of the Poseidon Church.

Most formal churches will have a procession ceremony, but the method of the procession ceremony is different. For example, the Church of the Lord of the Sky will ask the traveling priests to find a mountain top, where they can practice church doctrine and sense the divine will of the Lord of the Sky.

The King of the Hill will ask the traveling priests to find an abandoned mine, and like miners, they will go into the depths of the mine every day to dig for ore until they realize the true meaning of the church.

No matter what kind of church parade ceremony it is, it is an ascetic ceremony that opens up the transcendence of the soul through physical suffering.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and the Poseidon Church's parade ceremony is an exception. For the Poseidon Church's roving priests, their parade has nothing to do with asceticism. They only need to circle around the sea areas of the world, regardless of

It doesn't matter whether you are taking a cargo ship or a luxury cruise ship.

The early Poseidon Church would also perform ascetic practices like other churches' traveling rituals, such as hiding the identity of Poseidon Church priests, boarding an ordinary ship as an ordinary sailor, and even going so far as to become pirates.

But when someone discovered that the effect of the parade ceremony completed by asceticism was not much different from the effect of the parade ceremony completed without asceticism, the Poseidon Church's parade ceremony went in another direction.

Every parade ceremony held by Poseidon Church for a priest is more like a publicly funded tourism activity. The church funds the priests to buy tickets for luxury cruise ships, and other expenses on the road are also paid by the church, which is very comfortable.

However, the group of itinerant priests from the Poseidon Church who boarded the ship from Tinstus this time seemed to be different from other itinerant priests from the Poseidon Church. Instead, they were more like the itinerant priests from other regular churches, wearing an old-fashioned

He was wearing a priest's robe, his feet were bare, an old hemp rope was used as a belt around his waist, and he was holding a Poseidon scripture in his hand.

The moment these traveling priests from the Poseidon Church boarded the ship, Leo in the cabin had already sensed the presence of these people. It was not because they made a lot of noise while walking, but because of the energy fluctuations emanating from them and the temple.

The mysterious power emanating from it that made Leo feel terrified was so similar that it was difficult for him not to notice.

During the meal, Leo came to the restaurant on the ship. At this time, the traveling priests were also dining here, but the food they ate was very crude, just a piece of dry bread and a glass of water, which was no different from what the lower-class sailors ate.

At this time, someone who knew the situation whispered to the companion next to him: "They should be people from the Arminon sect."

Leo, who was sitting at the dining table not far away, quickly remembered the relevant information about this sect after hearing this man's words.

If the Poseidon Church is an outlier among all churches in the world of Velen, then the Arminon sect is an outlier within the Poseidon Church.

The person who founded this sect is called Aminon. He is not a great figure in the Poseidon Church. His position has always been just an acolyte. According to the church's holy order, he is not even a regular priest, but can only be regarded as a trainee priest.

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He lived to be seventy-six years old. He was an orphan since childhood and was adopted by priests of the Poseidon Church. He spent the next seventy years in the church of the Poseidon Church. He had no special achievements in his life. According to the church's records, his greatest achievement was

Even though he spent his own money to repair the glass windows of the church where he lived, he also had no commendable writings. The only thing left after his death was an unfinished Poseidon scripture.

However, such an ordinary trainee priest with no talent has been practicing ascetic principles such as humility and poverty for seventy years. He has been barefoot and sackcloth all his life. Although he cannot speak any classics or preach any truth, he

This consistent practice of asceticism was highly respected by some of the higher-ups of Poseidon Church, and these people recorded Aminon's deeds, compiled them into books, and spontaneously regarded him as a saint of the church.

The reason why these high-level officials of the Poseidon Church behaved like this was mainly because the Poseidon Church had interfered in the political power of the Kingdom of England for a long time, and even some church members had served in the kingdom.

Just as the church exerted a strong influence on the kingdom's political power, various bad habits in the kingdom also exerted a strong influence on the church. For a time, greed, lust, power struggle, and profit-seeking all kinds of filthy things continued to occur within the church.

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Seeing that the church is about to continue to decay like this, some knowledgeable people within the church naturally do not want to see the church fall, but they can't find a suitable way to fight against the corrupt forces in the church, and Aminon's appearance is just the right time.

It gave these insightful people an opportunity and direction.

After they used various methods to promote Arminon as a saint, they immediately used Arminon's life behavior as the sect's code of conduct, and founded the Arminon sect, an ascetic sect within the Poseidon Church, and punished various corrupt behaviors within the church.

Members gathered together to form an extremely powerful and solid force.

In the end, in the repeated battles against the corrupt forces within the church, and the royal family and Congress were also disgusted with the church's interference in secular affairs, in the end, through internal and external cooperation, the corrupt forces within the church were cleaned up, and the church returned to its original state.

of purely ecclesiastical status.

However, after the internal cleanup of the church was completed, the Aminon sect lost its core role. After all, not everyone is willing to practice asceticism for the rest of their lives. A large number of sect members left the sect and began to return to normal church rituals.

After that, the church no longer favored the Arminon sect in terms of resources, and the Arminon sect also declined. Except for a few steadfast believers, few people would join this sect.

Although there are not many people in this sect, the people of the entire Kingdom of England still respect the members of this sect very much, so when these Aminon sect priests arrived at the restaurant, everyone behaved very calmly, even when they drank

The sound of soup has become much quieter.

Leo was very interested in the mysterious power of these Aminon priests. Although this power made him feel dangerous, it was not very strong. While eating in the restaurant, he tried to use the spiritual network to analyze this power.

The composition of mysterious power.

It's a pity that this mysterious power is obviously not something that his current mental network can analyze. No matter how hard he uses his mental network, he can only barely sense the fluctuations of this power, and there is no way to deal with other more detailed details.

However, Leo discovered some interesting things about the Arminon priests themselves through the spiritual network. He found that the mysterious power was not generated by the Arminon priests, but came from external forces. Their bodies

Having been immersed in this power for many years, I have inevitably been assimilated by this power, and my body has also experienced some abnormal mutations.

For example, there are gill-like organs behind the ears of these Aminon priests, just like Vashqi. In addition, there are some extra scales on the body and some tentacles hidden in the hair. Because they are covered by the priest's robes,

These changes didn't go unnoticed by others.

It stands to reason that the Arminon priests whose bodies have undergone these mutations should be counted as Poseidon Familia, but Leo cannot feel any unique energy fluctuations belonging to the Familia from these people, and Leo thinks that they are not the Familia.

The reason is that all the mutated parts of their bodies are the same.

The Wizard Tower once conducted a detailed study on the Familia and compiled the research materials into a book, and Leo has read this Familia research material. In this book, the Wizard of the Tower first listed the characteristics that all Familia have.

There are several common characteristics, one of which is that the mutations of all Familia are uncontrollable.

It would be fine if only one or two Familia had the same mutation, but the problem is that the positions and shapes of the physical mutations of these Arminon priests were all the same, so Leo judged that these were not Familia, and the mutations on them were probably from other people.

A variant situation.

However, no matter what, this mutation has brought extraordinary power to these Aminon priests. Although Leo still doesn't know what kind of power those mutated organs can give these Aminon priests, it can

It is certain that the body muscle density of these Arminon priests is at least three times that of ordinary people, which means that their physical strength far exceeds that of ordinary humans, and they are already considered extraordinary.

If it were an ordinary priest parade, it would not attract Leo's attention too much, but the Arminon priest parade is very different, because the Arminon sect does not have a tradition of pilgrimage, and some good people have counted that every time Arminon

When priests go on pilgrimage, some inexplicable events will happen in various countries around the world. Some are power struggles, and some are natural and man-made disasters. In short, the beginning of priest Aminon's tour has almost become a harbinger for some people to identify the coming disaster.

It was obvious that the passengers on this ship also knew the rumors that Padre Arminon’s pilgrimage was a harbinger of disaster, so when Padre Arminon finished his meal and returned to the cabin on the lower deck, the restaurant immediately seemed to explode.

The passengers at the dinner party were almost invariably discussing what kind of disasters would happen around the world.

If it were in the past, Leo would not believe such rumors of disaster predictions, but after experiencing the incident in Durin City, he became particularly sensitive to disasters and other things, although he had not been able to detect these through spiritual vision just now.

Priest Arminon saw the threads of the web-weaver on his head, but he could still feel the aura of impending disaster that he felt in Durin City that day, but it was not as strong as the feeling in Durin City.

After confirming that these disasters would not befall him or the ship he was on, Leo did not pay too much attention to these Arminon priests and returned to his cabin to continue trying to study various psychic potions and Turing roots.

and rune magic circle.

The Snow Queen followed the normal schedule and after docking at Tinstus for one night, it left the last port on the mainland of the Kingdom of England and headed toward the Pearl Island Chain in the southeast.

The passengers on the ship were very excited in the first few days. Most of them were sailing on an ocean-going ship for the first time, and it was also a sailboat. Naturally, they were curious about everything. Some even asked the sailors on the ship to teach them how to tie knots.

Tie a rope.

But no matter how novel things are, they will become boring after being repeated for a few days. In the end, no one is too lazy to go on the deck again. Instead, they stay in a specially opened amusement room in the lower cabin, playing cards, chatting, and passing the time.

The cards played by these passengers were a kind of beast-fighting card passed down from the Moissanite continent. Because it was simple and easy to understand, it quickly spread, replacing the previously popular royal power card, and became a good thing for everyone to pass the time after dinner.

There are a total of 80 cards in this set. The rules are simple, that is, the strong eats the weak, and the weak defeats the strong. Even a ten-year-old child can easily get started by playing two games, but because this set can be expanded to four during play,

The set and gameplay will also change due to the number of cards, so it is somewhat difficult to play the Beast card well.

Just like most chess and card games, passengers on the ship will also bet something when playing card games. The people who can board the Snow Queen are either rich or noble and are not short of money, so they

Most of the things you take for gambling are valuables you carry with you.

Things like playing cards sometimes rely on luck. Even if some people don’t know how to play cards, they can get a good deck of cards by just picking up a few cards. Some people are proficient in the gameplay and are frequent visitors at the card table, but they are not lucky.

Well, no matter how proficient you are, you can't win against your opponent.

Among the people who play cards, there is such a person who is unlucky and can even be said to be a very bad card player. From the time he sat down at the card table, he has never won a single game in nearly sixty games. He has some good skills.

All the knick-knacks were lost, even a sterling silver cigarette case that he had someone specially made for him was lost just now.

Kunstein took out the handkerchief from his chest pocket and wiped the sweat on his forehead. He watched with extremely unwilling eyes as a gemstone pendant that was placed in front of him just now was taken into the pocket by a fat traveling businessman.

Here, I felt regretful in my heart.

He did not regret that he had lost something to others, but regretted that he had made a mistake just now, which ultimately caused him to lose the hand when he had a chance to win.

"Okay, no more playing! I've had enough fun today." said the traveling businessman who won the chain and who won the most among the many card players present.

"Wait a minute, I'm not done losing!" Kunstein immediately stopped everyone.
Chapter completed!