My Liver Experience in the World of Cthulhu

Chapter 134 Holy Fire Cathedral

The next day.

"Bang, bang, bang."

The monotonous and repetitive sound of the rail locomotive was like a lullaby, and Croun felt as if he had returned to a dream, as if he was riding a green car from a distant era again.

The good thing is that the car they are in is considered a VIP car, and the passengers inside are all extraordinary people from the church.

There are no crowds in the aisles here, and there will be no embarrassing situation where you want to go to the toilet but when you squeeze to the door of the toilet, the inventory has been squeezed out.

Nick kept walking around, saying hello and reminiscing with old friends, while Krone came to the corner of the carriage and began to meditate on the golden light spell.

Being busy with the march these days, he had much less time for contemplation than usual.

No matter what the future of the world is, what kind of undercurrents there will be in the kingdom, and where the fate of everyone will go.Only the power in one's own hands is real. Being strong is a person's confidence, making people fearless of challenges and dangers.

The day goes by quickly.

"Woooo."

A dull and long whistle sounded, and Crown ended his visualization and summoned the golden wall.

[Golden Light Spell: 41536/50000; Level [-]]

This was the longest day he had meditated in the past month.

The train had slowed down, and Crown turned his head to look out the window.

In the distance, the setting sun struggled to cast its last afterglow.There was an orange-red glow in the gray sky.

Nick walked over at this time and smiled with memories: "The rail locomotive will stop at the station soon, Crown, welcome to the Rhine City. Except for the air, life here is not as good as in the countryside, everything else is great."

"I am looking forward."

. . . .

The tower towered into the gray clouds, and the sacred fire on the top of the tower glowed like the blazing sun.

High-rise buildings tens of meters high rise from the ground, and the streets are bustling with people.

Various small motorcycles were crowded, and the drivers were honking their horns desperately, knowing that doing so was in vain and would only aggravate people's anxiety.

Travelers poured out of the station. Nick pointed at the roaring silver-white ellipsoid object in the sky that was bigger than the giant whale in the ocean and said:
"Look, that's a Zeppelin. I have to say that those ordinary people created many amazing creations, and the mysterious combination of steel and steam occurred."

Crown looked up at the sky, then turned to look around.

Hot white gas sprayed out from the huge metal pipes on the street, and then condensed into countless small water droplets and dispersed. The diffuse fog rose up and enveloped the sky above the city.

"Let's go, you can see enough in the future. Let's go back to the Holy Fire Cathedral." Fanny led everyone in the church out of the station and entered the nearby huge underground passage.

Nick still acts as the city's commentator:

"That group of crazy mechanical experts imitated the lunatics of the Mechanical Institute of the Kingdom of Ribia, hollowed out the underground of the city, and built huge and heavy steam engines here. The water from the Rhine River was introduced to burn day and night, providing a large number of mechanical factories. Provide motivation.”

The lights in the underground passage are bright, and there are several lamp holders connected to pipes not far away.

The priest pointed to the lamp holders and said: "Those are gas pipes, which experts call another type of energy, mainly used to provide lighting and cooking."

Soon after everyone entered the passage, they came to a row of neatly parked carriages.

Crown saw that the carriages were engraved with the symbols of the Holy Emblem of Fire.

"Get in the car and stay at the guest house provided by the church at night. We will go through the relevant procedures tomorrow and see what arrangements the church will make for us."

Everyone got on the carriage, and the driver shouted to the animals and started to drive on their way.

After several extraordinary people from Zach Town arrived at their residence, they had a hurried dinner and went back to their rooms to rest.

Silent all night.

. . . .

Holy Fire Cathedral.

Early in the morning, Crown, Del and Nelson came to the tribunal for a soul purity test.

There were about thirty other people undergoing examination with him.

People lined up outside and walked into the room one by one.

The person in front of Croun walked in, and within 2 minutes, a scream came from inside.

"what"

He then heard the sound of fighting coming from inside. After a few muffled sounds, the fighting subsided.

At this time, a priest wearing heavy armor came out dragging the lower limbs of a 'humanoid monster'.

Croun saw that this monster had black tentacles growing on its face, sharp fangs growing from its mouth, its skin was blue-black, and there were many fine scales in many parts.

The rest of the people were talking and speculating about what happened.

The priest sneered and said: "This man's spirit and body have been polluted, and evil has irreversibly eroded him. The church's detection can stimulate this pollution.

Unfortunately, he is irredeemable.He must have stayed in the gray fog for a long time for some reason.The next one goes in and gets tested. "

Crown took a deep breath and walked in. Del behind him clenched his fists unconsciously.

The room is not big, but very spacious.Except for the lamp holders on the four walls, there are no other furnishings.

There was a silver eight-pointed star array pattern painted in the center, and there were pools of fresh blood outside the array.

Crown made a rough identification and found that this magic circle was somewhat similar to the magic circle when he received the holy baptism at the beginning of his time travel.

A priest in robes stood at the edge of the circle holding a flame Bible with a metal cover, and another priest in heavy armor stood behind him holding a stack of pages.

Three flails were placed on the wall behind the two of them, one of which had an iron ball spike with blood hanging on it.

"Standing in the circle to be tested," the priest in robes asked calmly: "Name, which subordinate parish are you from, and who is the priest in charge of the combat team?"

"Clauen Moya, from Zac Town, belongs to Father Nick Mizon's team."

The priest in armor responded: "Verified."

The robed priest nodded slightly and began to recite biblical prayers.

The magic circle began to shine, and Kroun felt like a hairy crab thrown into a steamer. The air around him was getting hotter and hotter, as if he was breathing high-temperature steam.He unconsciously started the fire breathing method, and the hot feeling slowly disappeared, turning into the comfortable feeling of soaking in a hot spring.

"You can stop," the priest wearing heavy armor shouted. At this time, he was holding a compass-like object in his hand. The edge of the object was inlaid with crystals that emitted orange-red light, and several others emitted golden light.

So fast, I came in less than 2 minutes, right?Kroun was a little stunned, and he stopped running the breathing method.

"Passed the test." The heavily armored priest pressed a seal on the page, handed the page to Crown, then pointed to the door on the other side of the room and spoke again: "Leave through the door here."

"Thank you."

Crown took the things and turned to leave.

The robed priest asked his companion in confusion: "Why did it pass so quickly this time?"

"The soul-finding compass shows the pure crystalline fire-red light of life, and..."

"What else?"

"A few of the crystals turned out to be golden auras."

"The golden aura means the understanding of the law. Some level [-] experts have never understood the power of the law. Are you sure you read that correctly?"

"How could I be wrong? This warrior has great potential and we can be friends with him in the future."

. . . .

Kroun left the room and found that it was a corridor. Hamfa came up to him and said, "Nick has something else to do. Once you are all tested, I will take you to the logistics office."

"Thank you."

"What are you talking about? I'm one of my own, so you're welcome."

After the two Dels had finished testing, the three of them followed Hamfa in the church and came to the logistics office.

They took out the personal information form given after the test and quickly went through various procedures.

Crown received a holy symbol, two pieces of leather armor, two star steel swords, and four months' supply of medicine.However, the supplies are distributed according to the standards of a first-level transcendent.

The staff informed him that supplies could only be received according to the standards of a second-level transcendent starting next month.

After completing the formalities, Hamfa led them to the church library, where breathing techniques must be learned and cannot be taken out of the church.

. . . .

Library.

"What, I can't redeem the training method for the second stage of Breath of Fire? Why?"

Croun asked, and the priest told him clearly that if he passed the soul purity test, he could learn the next stage of breathing.

The person in charge of the library is an old priest. His eyebrows are as white as snow and there are layers of wrinkles on his face.

The pastor said extremely calmly: "The church's new regulations were implemented shortly after the gray fog fell, and have been implemented for more than three months. You can only use contribution points to exchange for various core secrets of the church. Your information shows that you do not have contribution."

Crown turned his head and asked Hamfa beside him with his eyes.

The other party nodded and said: "This new rule has indeed been issued. In the past few months since the gray fog came, many people have been promoted. More importantly, the church members who were originally scattered everywhere are now gathered together. The church has to bear a lot of burdens every day. resource consumption, so this regulation is in place.

The welfare standards of the church have also been reduced a lot. Everyone needs to complete tasks in exchange for contribution points to exchange for secrets and more resources.It’s not about you alone, though.”

"I'm back." Nick ran into the library slightly out of breath. "I feel like you are still here."

Hamfa smiled and said: "Done?"

Nick nodded, and he showed a page with several badges printed on it to the priest in the library: "Crown can choose the training method for the second stage of Breath of Fire."

The priest took the page and read it carefully: "Yes, Lord Sith has this right, please come with me."

Crown knew that Nick must have used his connections to open the door for him, otherwise, he would really not be able to obtain the second stage of the breathing method.

"Thank you," he said sincerely, putting his hand on his chest.

"Haha, we are members of a combat team. The stronger you are, the safer our team will be." Nick patted him on the shoulder. "By the way, you must want to stay here for a while. I will pick you up in the evening. "

"Thank you", Crown bowed again.

. . . .

For the next five consecutive days, Crown stayed in the library in the morning, reading eagerly books that did not require contribution points, and in the afternoon and evening he forged his own weapons and armor.

During the holidays given by the church these days, their team was assigned to the Seventh Precinct of the Security Bureau.

The Security Bureau is an abnormal case handling agency jointly established by extraordinary persons from the church and the patrol force. It is responsible for the pursuit of monsters and supernatural cases.

With the migration of the population of each subordinate parish, the image of the Rhine City expanded outward in circles as ripples appeared on the water surface of the stone.

The outermost towns were built into large castles. These castles were actually far away from the city center and were more like small acropolis.

The Seventh Precinct is responsible for the Whitechapel district of the city and the large Acropolis district to the north.

At noon, Del ran to the library and informed him: "Sir, Father Nick told us to remember to report to the Security Bureau tomorrow."

"Okay", Crown closed a map book in his hand and nodded slightly.

The days of leisure are finally over, and from now on he will have to live a life of 'clocking in' or going on missions every day.

"Let's go back together." Crown stood up and put the borrowed books back to their place.

He summoned the golden wall and checked the results of the past few days. From now on, he would not be able to spend a lot of time in the library.

[Farouk: Extreme] (You have mastered all the vocabulary and grammar of this language. Special effect: Language proficiency. Learn languages ​​twice as fast)
[Geography: 2145/3000; Level [-]] (You can memorize the landforms, vegetation, regional climate, etc. of Faruk Kingdom by heart)
[Devil Scholar: 238/5000; Level [-]]

[Hermes: 51/5000; second level]

[Herbology: 726/10000; Level [-]]

[Cooking: 4827/5000; Level [-]]

There has been considerable progress in various knowledge and skills, and what was even more surprising to him is that his proficiency in herbalism and cooking has also increased.

Not only did his knowledge and skills improve, but Croun got the second stage training method of the Giant Bear Breathing Method and another breathing method that felt very helpful to him.

The Rock Breathing Technique, which focuses on physical exercise, is said to be able to significantly increase physical defense.

(End of this chapter)