I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

This land, or rather this world, had an indescribable weirdness. When they looked up, they could only see a full moon, and apart from that there was not even a single star.

At the same time, wherever they passed, they could see piles of corpses and remains along the way, hundreds of miles of barren land with no human habitation, and some... monsters that they didn't know how to describe.

These monsters were extremely severely mutated. The black bear that rushed out of the jungle had human eyes all over its body. There were also a variety of humanoid monsters, including skeletons, zombies and the like, which were countless.

There were also long-legged spider monsters with their limbs disguised as bamboo on the top of the bamboo forest they passed. The sharp bamboo thorns that fell from the sky caught many ordinary soldiers off guard and chilled them from head to toe.

It was a bit difficult to command in this situation where it was unclear who was the enemy and who was the enemy. In just a few days, most of the ordinary soldiers at the bottom were killed. Remember, there were a total of 400 people.

All in all, there was hardly a safe area on this moonlit land. After clearing out a rest area, several team leaders gathered together to discuss separate actions.

The previous promotion system allows teams to be divided into small groups to respond flexibly. Small groups in a region can cooperate with each other. In this way, 10 captains will lead a small group of more than 10 people to fight, which will be faster in terms of combat power and coordination and reaction.

Su Chen had no reason to refuse. He had the system with him and was not afraid of ordinary monsters. Even if things got bad, he could still run away. But he was a little worried about his big brother Soke.

To be honest, Soke was really nice to him. This was the first time in his two lifetimes that he could experience the affection between blood brothers.

Sok seemed to understand his thoughts and patted his shoulder with a smile: "Don't worry about me. On the contrary, you should take care of yourself. Call me as soon as there is any problem."

'Um...'

By acting as a team, the abilities of Su Chen and others were liberated. They only needed to concentrate on dealing with possible dangers and did not need to worry too much about their teammates next to them.

Too many people is sometimes a problem, unlike a small team that can see everything at a glance and provide support and protection easily.

Under the moonlight, the candlelight in the distance was so eye-catching. Su Chen parted the grass and observed the candlelight through the low-light night vision goggles under the mask at a magnified magnification.

As the camera zoomed in, Su Chen couldn't help but get goose bumps on his skin. Under the illumination of a few candles was a portrait that looked like an altar and portrait made by the people of the alliance for the deceased.

Even though they had experienced so many disgusting and twisted monsters in recent days, this combination was still terrifying.

"Captain, do you want me to shoot it?"

A soldier with an anti-material sniper gun on his back asked Su Chen, the lethality of this thermal weapon is still terrifying in this world.

Su Chen shook his head: "Wait, I'll go meet her first to see if she has any intelligence. We currently know too little about this world. If you see her trying to attack me, I can just shoot her."

With the assistance of biological intelligence AI, as long as there are certain reference objects for language comparison, subsequent language deciphering will not take much effort and communication can be achieved.

Su Chen has a system to assist him, so this process can be skipped directly, which is why he wants to try to communicate.

He moved quickly, without any intention of hiding his body. The portrait that was moving unsteadily in the distance also stopped and disappeared in the moonlight.

Su Chen did not stop. Under the dim night vision, he could see that the other party just turned around to face him, he did not really disappear.

When he got closer, Su Chen took a breath of cold air. The creature in front of him was more like a moving skeleton than a human.

He subconsciously reached back to draw his sword, but the skeleton spoke instead in a very pleasant female voice: "Are you also a pilgrim heading to the church?"

"Ah? Yes! You too?"

"Yes, I... I want to pray to God to take back the blessing on me..." She touched her skull face. Although her expression could not be seen, Su Chen could hear the sadness and despair in her voice.

While Su Chen was questioning, the woman turned around, revealing a canvas on her back. The canvas was painted with a beautiful blonde girl. In the candlelight, her big eyes were bright and lively, as if she were a living person.

'This is... me.'

'I once prayed to God for a miracle to keep me young and beautiful forever. The miracle did happen, locking my face on the canvas, but my body quickly aged and decayed into what you see now, a skeleton that will never die.'

Su Chen: “…”

System: [I've already told you that the things here are very weird and perverted.]

Su Chen did not respond to the system, but followed the other party to a small church in a very hidden location. The inscription outside read:

[Under the Father and the Mother, the sins, repentance, mourning and suffering of all kinds of souls will be manifested in all of us and everywhere.]

[Sometimes in the form of blessing and grace, sometimes in the form of punishment and corruption.]

[That kind of pious and cruel divine will, the kind of will that we cannot and will never be able to unravel, is what is called a "miracle"]

Chapter 432 Painful Miracle

Pushing open the church's old door, Su Chen followed the woman into the church. The church was very dilapidated, with only a few candles lighting up some areas, and most of the space was shrouded in darkness.

Su Chen did not let his guard down. He kept his position at the side where he would at least not be double-teamed, and the scanning system on his armor was also turned to the maximum.

[Watch your step, stranger from afar~]

A kind and old voice sounded beside Su Chen's ears, but Su Chen's foot had already exerted force. With a "crack", a human skull was crushed by his big feet.

Su Chen: "...Sorry."

A hunched figure in a gray robe walked slowly to Su Chen with a cane, and stretched out his wrinkled hands to collect the skull fragments that Su Chen had crushed:

[The bodies of the deceased were considered a symbol of uncleanness, and the places where the bodies gathered were called dirty places, so the bodies of the deceased were often abandoned in the wilderness...]

[We gather here the remains of those who were dismembered and forgotten, so that we can hold a holy funeral for them according to the teachings of mercy and let them rest in peace in the other side of dreams.]

Although the small church was shrouded in darkness and bones were scattered all over the ground, Su Chen did not feel any uncomfortable or eerie feeling from the old woman in front of him.

Instead, it made him feel calm and relieved the negative emotions that had accumulated along the way.

The skeleton girl couldn't wait to beg the old woman to take her to pray in front of the statue of All Mothers. The old woman shook her head but did not refuse. She took her to the statue and came back to continue doing what she had not finished.

This was the first time Su Chen saw someone from another world who looked relatively normal, so he took the opportunity to strike up a conversation with him. This continent was called Gustdia, and the people living here once believed in a god named Allah.

The Holy God has been completely integrated into the hearts of the people on the mainland. People living on this land have established churches with different doctrines based on their different interpretations of the Holy God and live in harmony with each other.

The continent of Gustdia also traded with other continents, and many people from other continents took root here, bringing mathematics, alchemy, magic, martial arts and gunpowder to the continent of Gustdia, which made the continent enter an unprecedented prosperity with a hundred flowers blooming. This is also the reason why the other party was not very surprised by his attire.

The True Burial Church where the old woman belonged was one of those sects. Its doctrine was just as she had said before, that the remains of the deceased should be collected and buried fairly for all, rich or poor, so that their souls could rest in peace. At its peak, there were hundreds of thousands of believers.

But when a young man, later called the Twisted Father, prayed for his sins, a 'painful miracle' occurred and the balance of the continent was broken.

Before the miracle happened, the young man prayed to God to bring suffering and pain upon him so that he could atone for his sins by becoming a martyr.

The young man's limbs turned into branches, and his torso gradually merged with the wood and finally became one with the wood. His whole body was entangled in the wood in a twisted and deformed manner, unable to move.

The young man left a sentence before his death: "My sin is great"

The miracle that happened before their eyes made other believers around them believe that as long as they suffered enough pain and suffering in body or mind, they would be qualified to receive a miracle from God.

Thus, a fanatical worship of pain began to sweep across the continent, and the dead young man eventually turned into a dead tree with three spirally twisted roots, with boiling golden hot oil flowing in the cracks of the dead tree.

The devout monks used a golden chalice to collect the hot oil and blood, and honored the young man as the "Twisted Father" and the "First Miracle."

The Distorted Church was founded based on the worship of the painful and distorted Holy Father. The image of the Distorted Holy Father became the proof of the existence of the Miracle of Pain. The Mother of All Mothers was the [Second Miracle] many years later when the statue of the Distorted Holy Father pierced her chest and turned into a stone statue.

Therefore, the distorted church revered her as the Virgin Mary, the Mother of all mothers, and used this as the new name of the church.

More and more miracles spread across the continent, but they did not want to go along with the Wanmu Society, and thus became a stumbling block to the Wanmu Society's expansion.

For this reason, the Church of All Mothers launched a round of purges against other churches on the continent that believed in the Holy God to ensure that suffering was the only situation in which miracles could occur.

All faiths and sects were labeled as heretics and destroyed, and the remaining sects lost popularity. As Su Chen saw now, there was only one believer and the last True Burial Church left.

If it weren't for the choice to worship the Mother of All Mothers, even this dilapidated church would have been razed to the ground.

After listening to this, Su Chen murmured: "Believing in pain can bring about the gift of miracles... Why does it sound familiar?"

[This is the process that most religions go through after they are born, but unlike you, there is a real God here.]

"If you put it that way, I understand. It's a theory of guilt."

In the former World Alliance Northern Military District Base, several heavily armored combined divisions are gathering for combat readiness, and a steady stream of military supplies are being transported to nearby underground warehouses via various vehicles.

Heavy tanks painted in military green and scrubbed clean as new, multiple rocket launchers, and wheeled howitzers are neatly arranged, stretching as far as the eye can see.

In front of them, a huge portal was opened in real time, and engineering convoys consisting of military trucks loaded with various machines kept driving in to militarize the teleportation point city before Su Chen and others left.

A large number of fully armed heavy mechas are stationed and patrolling near the teleportation point. They are also the combat group that may be the first to enter the other world.

In the operations room, Medea, wearing a holy and luxurious long dress, sat in the main seat, and her fingers in lace gloves gently tapped the golden light curtain.

The scene above where the skeleton woman kneeled down to worship the Mother of All Mothers was rapidly magnified. He did not stop until the stone statue of the Mother of All Mothers with the Broker's Sword transformed from the distorted Father's image stuck in its heart was clearly visible. He asked the staff members around him, "What do you think?"

"Should we observe for a while, or send an elite team in? I have a feeling that the Redemption Corps won't survive for long."

In addition to Su Chen's camera perspective on the big screen, there are more than a hundred light spots moving around in different areas, which together draw a map spectrum of the exploration area.

This is the role of the Legion of Redemption. The medal she bestows is itself a medium beacon that allows her energy to be linked across boundaries.

This is also a kind of temptation. If the Legion of Redemption can use her abilities without being severely retaliated or targeted, it means that there won't be any troublesome opponents in this world.

The medal can indeed protect them. She was not lying. It's just a bit of a gamble.

No leader would place his bet on a team with ulterior motives, unless they were disposable or experimental products.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that we observe for a while. The power of the thermal weapons in this world seems to have been weakened to a certain extent."

'I also think we should wait a little longer. This painful miracle is a bit weird. I suspect that if we drop napalm or even God bombs, we might even have to help them induce a God miracle...'

"Yes, the upper limit of this so-called pain still needs further observation."

"We were not well prepared at the beginning. We should have tried to get them a few 75mm or even 155mm guns. Even if they only had a few rounds of ammunition, at least we could have roughly confirmed the effect through observation."

Medea looked around and found that no one had any other opinions. Everyone's focus was on when to fight rather than whether to fight.

But this is normal. After entering a short period of peace and post-war recovery, the speed of technological development and iteration has not slowed down but increased, and electrification has gradually entered thousands of households.

The Seris Alliance is now under a bit of pressure from old military supplies inventory, and Medea is not very willing to sell them. The International Arms Trade Alliance already accounts for the majority of the stocks, and if the supply continues to increase, things will easily get out of control.

The market is limited in size, and as the alliance's control over surrounding countries deepens, the international market is gradually shrinking. If we want to increase supply, we will have to open up new markets.

Wouldn't that start a war? So I really turned into a bald eagle.

I don't want to be a bald eagle, but I have to find a place to vent these stocks. After thinking about it, the only feasible way is to explore another world.

[When fellow villagers meet, they shoot each other in the back.]

Glancing at Su Chen who seemed completely unaware on the screen, Mitia let out a breath to dispel the slight reluctance in her heart:

"In that case, let's continue to observe. However, I suggest that we mobilize two Holy Light Legions to station here. It's hard to say whether hot weapons are effective or not. It's true that they have very low resistance to divine arts and the power of faith."

"If the final analysis of the General Staff is not ideal, we can use the Holy Light Army, which is mainly based on the power of faith, as the vanguard."

At the same time, the remaining members of the Legion of Redemption far away in another world received a tremendous force of light through their medals. The biomass that the Hundred-Man Group had previously buried in their armor was desperately absorbing it, while at the same time strengthening and transforming the host's body.

This is organic matter separated from the extreme source fluid, which has very good energy conductivity. As they can become part of a living organism, they can be naturally implanted into the human body without any side effects.

After many days of implantation and adjustment, they have become part of the hosts' bodies to some extent. As long as there is energy supply, they can continue to absorb and supply it to the hosts, so Medea is used as a medium.

Therefore, how powerful the combat power of the elite soldiers of the Alien Redemption Legion can be depends largely on the degree of her care.

As long as she wants, it is not impossible for all members to become disposable candle-like Spartan warriors.