Chapter 800: When you want to build something new, you’ll always run into this and that.

Chapter 798 797.If you want to build something new, you’ll always encounter problems of one kind or another-New Year’s Extra [3030].

The conversation between Murphy and Professor Malcolm continued until the airship dropped into its berth at Fort Scarlet.

At this time Murphy was incredibly glad that he had appointed such a talent as Prof. Malcolm as the ambassador of Transylvania, and only a person with both experience and ability like the professor was able to give Murphy a clear picture of the current situation of the Genoa Peninsula in just a few tens of minutes of description.

To put it simply, the biggest problem over there at the moment didn’t lie in the black plague of jackals that might come over the Gorgon Pass at any time, because the Polut Pass closest to Chardonnay Harbor still had the Shield Dwarf Clan holding out, and the jackals didn’t come over that easily.

But even before the jackals arrived, the halflings were in a state of panic brought on by the possibility of war.

To put it simply, these dwarves had frightened themselves, which was closely related to their current situation of not having encountered a war for nearly a thousand years, but the professor also said that he suspected that this fear had come so suddenly and erupted in clusters, and that there must be some other forces behind the scenes taking advantage of the opportunity to make waves.

Murphy was not surprised by this.

Dusk’s style of action is like this, their pursuit is to exterminate the world, under this premise all behavior that is conducive to this goal can be used.

Moreover, according to Murphy’s observation, the various factions of the Dusk do not act in the same way to achieve the same goal, so it is possible that there is a faction that is better at inciting public opinion.

However, this guess was immediately rejected by the self-same Countess Sicomel after Murphy met with little Sheridan.

“Of course it’s not like that, the situation is not as complicated and dark as you think. On the way here, Uncle Glendower told me that those agitations and rebellions are all the work of an underground sect called the ‘Spirit of Machinery’.

Professor Malcolm doesn’t know much about this, he didn’t see the shadows hidden beneath the surface of Chardonnay Harbor, so he made a wrong judgment, but I can’t say it’s completely wrong, after all, there’s really a force behind this matter that’s pushing it.”

After not seeing her for many days, little Sherron was still the standard height of that small potato, but her dress this time back was more refined than that mechanic style before.

The windshield on her head had been replaced with more sophisticated chunky engineering goggles, and multiple light discriminating mechanic’s eyepatches hung around her neck.

With a mechanic’s coat similar to an aviator’s jacket draped over her body, and straight work pants with work boots underneath, and giving herself a backpack style to go with the plaid shirt she wore, she looked both competent and full of the mechanic’s sense of practicality and precision.

Especially the little Xue Lun’s work belt on the set of mechanic’s purse and her left hand with the engineering gauntlet, so that this little potato every move is full of a kind of engineering masters should be cool and punk sense.

It’s a good thing she didn’t color herself with black eyes or anything, otherwise she’d be a mechanical girl alive and well.

When Murphy found little Sheridan, she was directing a group of halfling mechanics to move some complicated and precise machinery out of the cabin, this is her packing her own laboratory in Chardonnay Harbor as a whole back, but also represents Sheridan’s “return home”.

She will definitely stay in Scarlet Fortress after this.

This is also a kind of expression of Countess Sicomel’s determination to return to her hometown and add bricks and mortar to the cause of war in her hometown.

“You’ve really grown up, you’re a lot more composed than before, you should really show that monkey burner Fimis how much you’ve grown now.”

Murphy watched with relief as little Sherron possessed the true style of a great general, he then glanced at the halflings surrounding Sherron not far away from him who were probing and surveying him, the vampire lord keenly noticed that all of these halflings had a special house emblem on their clothing, and Sherron’s mechanic’s tunic had a similar house emblem on it as well.

With an instant realization, he tapped Sherron on the shoulder and said to her:

“These are members of the Glendower family, aren’t they? Are they your relatives?”

“Uh-huh, members of my mom’s side of the family, a few of the elders of which watched my mom grow up, and they were present at mom and dad’s wedding.”

Sherron said nodding vigorously:
“Your Lordship needn’t worry, I’ll be supporting my relatives with the Sicomair family’s estates, it won’t put a strain on Transylvania’s finances.”

“Nonsense, although I’ve never met Mr. Glendower, I do know that we were able to bring back so many things from the port of Chardonnay some time ago thanks to Mr. Glendower’s help in the middle of the process, he’s an old friend of Transylvania.

Although he is now out of power due to an accident, Transylvania never treats our friends badly.”

Murphy reached out and bounced his hand on little Sheridan’s head as he said seriously:
“I will instruct Miriam to grant your uncle a knighthood for his contribution to this war, there will be a retirement allowance to ensure Mr. Glendower’s quality of life, as for the people of your mother’s family, those who are talented can be commanded and commanded by you to set up Transylvania’s own Mechanical Design Bureau, and those members who want to go on a career path can be arranged in our administrative village.

The prerequisite is that they have to voluntarily participate in the administrative ability test organized by the Administrative Division.

I also have good news to tell you, during the time you went to Chardonnay Harbor, the little mummy Nefertari who came over from the Land of Origins has awakened your parents, they are now maintaining a certain degree of sanity in helping the Church of the Dead Moon to reshape the undead ecology of Xicao City, where the Church of the Dead Moon is going to shape a holy land of death.

So if you want to meet your parents, you can go over there now.”

“Wow, that’s great.”

Little Sherron’s eyes widened in joy all of a sudden, but she quickly calmed down and said:
“I have to do my part first, and when Uncle Glendower awakens, I’ll bring him over with the elders. Let me tell you about this ‘Mechanical Spirit’ church first, they can be a hidden force in Chardonnay Harbor.

In fact, we also have their members in Transylvania.”

“Hmm?”

Murphy narrowed his eyes at once, but quickly said with realization:
“You mean the old Flywheel?”

“Yes, Mr. Thicke Flywheel, the favorite student of the greatest halfling mechanic and scientific pioneer, Professor Bach Vaslight Sr. If he hadn’t turned against his own master because of his youngest sister, he would have been the principal of the Chardo Artisan University by now.”

Little Xuelen flew beside Murphy while explaining for him:

“As for the origin of the Church of the Spirit of Machinery and Old Flywheel that pulls up to no bounds, these were all told to me by my uncle, back then, the case of Old Flywheel messing up and causing the deaths of innocents and being expelled was the case that he was in charge of, and he also tracked down the matter about this underground church for a while.

They showed up a long time ago.

Basically, it was in the era when old Professor Bach developed the Spiritual Energy Differential Machine that the conflict between the Church of the Spirit of Machinery and the orthodox mechanics arose.

They were all very powerful mechanics, but practiced a very strange philosophy.

The Church of the Spirit of Mechanics believed that machinery was also a kind of faith, and they were paranoid enough to claim that it was the only faith of the halflings, and they regarded all mechanical mysteries as gifts from the ‘God of Mechanics’, making all the manufacturing processes as if they were faith-based ceremonies, and also formulating strict rituals and prayers.

In short, it’s a bunch of guys who worship knowledge, but they worship it in a very different way than other truth seekers.”

“Well, it sounds a bit like Mechanical Theism.”

Murphy asked with interest:
“So, what is the purpose of the Church of the Mechanical Spirit in secretly inciting the Halfling parade to disrupt the order?”

“It’s to bully the Steam Lords into recognizing the existence of the Mechanical Spirits and granting them the same power as the orthodox Mechanics!”

Little Sherron answered with great precision:
“Because these followers of the Mechanical Doctrine were branded as heretics during the time of the old Professor Bach, they were forced to go underground but never disbanded, instead gaining new powers due to the ever advancing steam technology of the Halflings.

Like I said, while they are all a bunch of believers, they are really, really well versed in the use and construction of machinery, and as opposed to orthodox mechanics who have to explore the principles embedded behind mechanical movement, these guys care about the simple purpose of using and spreading machinery.

This made them completely no match for orthodox mechanics on a theoretical level, but they were always able to utilize the power of machinery in a pragmatic way better than orthodox mechanics.

Uncle Glendower told me that the Church of the Mechanical Spirit has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

If the Jackal Black Plague does come, the probability is that the Steam Lords will agree to the Church of the Spirit of Machinery’s request to come on stage, so you don’t have to worry at all that there is a Twilight’s shadow behind this, and during the time that Venerable Lord Paying was forced to be stranded in Chardeau Harbor, we have already uprooted all of the cultists in the city. You didn’t see how terrifying His Holiness was at that time.

He went out every night to hunt down some cultists to vent his frustration, and I’m pretty sure that Chateau de Chardonnay is now the cleanest place in the entire continent. Well, theoretically it should be!”

“But the birth of any church and faith is sure to have a source, a faith doesn’t appear out of thin air, so I guess the so-called God of Machinery worshipped by this Church of Mechanical Spirits should refer to that ‘Evil Spirit’ you encountered in Chardo Harbor?”

Murphy asked in a small voice:

“Your Holiness told me that it is called ‘Eden’?”

“Yes, that’s it, but Eden should have never responded to the call of the Church of the Mechanical Spirit, otherwise they wouldn’t have lost their power in Chardonnay Harbor, where mechanical power is so advanced.”

Sherron said with some embarrassment:

“There’s also the fact that I actively searched for it before, and then it got angry and stopped playing with me as if it had disappeared, and it hasn’t been around me for half a month now.

I’m sorry, Lord Murphy.

My immaturity has disappointed you and His Holiness, I clearly should have been more stable.”

“It’s nothing, it’s not your fault, that’s just part of a broken AI that moves logically in ways no one could have predicted, now that you’re back, do your job.”

Murphy reassured:
“You can form your own lab now, or go help out over at Brother Loyalty, they have a couple of really good new weapons designers that have taken a lot of the concepts that you guys designed earlier and have already turned them into reality.”

“There’s no rush, I’ll check in with His Excellency Old Flywheel first, I’ve been asked to bring him a letter.”

Yukirun Jr. hemmed and hawed and squeezed his eyes:
“It’s his senior brother Minx Steam Valve oh, that’s the third party in the love scandal related to Old Flywheel, the current president of Chardo Artisan University and the honorary elder of the Mechanic’s Guild, a very powerful grand mechanic then.

The fourth generation core pearl in your hand, Lord Murphy, was designed and developed by him.

He also said that he will definitely come to Transylvania to see it in the future if he has the chance.”

“Hmm, it does sound like a very powerful person.”

Murphy nodded.

Now that he knew about Old Flywheel’s other identity, he headed to Old Flywheel’s mechanical office with Sheridan, intending to find Old Flywheel and ask him about that Church of the Mechanical Spirit.

The instinct from the dog planner was telling him that this power would definitely be liked by the players in the future.

The act of treating science and technology as beliefs and mystical rituals sounded silly, however, Omnissiah’s previous experience was telling the players that this kind of silly behavior could become very, very cool under certain circumstances!

Well, if Old Flywheel was popular in the Mechanical Spirit Church, then Murphy would have to seize this line and find a way to invite some Mechanical Spirit Priests over to Transylvania through Old Flywheel’s connections.

If they were willing to preach here, Murphy could even personally get involved in this matter and write a cool doctrine for them.

Ha, the Mechanical Spirit Cult is actually in Transylvania?

Wow, now the Mechanics and Manufacturing players are going to be bullish!

Just a pre-war ceremony to enlighten all the mechanical creations is enough to make those senior hammer fans excited to the climax.

However, when the two vampires pushed open the old flywheel’s workshop, a strange thing standing in front of their eyes immediately subdued Murphy and the little Sheridan who had just returned from Port Chardonnay.

It was a steam walking machine.

But definitely not a walking machine in its normal form.

Because it didn’t have a crew cabin while also giving the walking machine a lot of strange things inside its outer armor, although Murphy didn’t know what those things with mysterious colors were for, he was certain that normal mechanical creations would never have spells similar to spirit streamers on them.

And when they came in, the old flywheel was chanting about installing a fishbowl-type contraption above the walker’s power core, with four black coil electrodes, which looked full of a mysterious feeling.

“What are you doing?”

Murphy asked, the old flywheel in its working state was very cranky and the wrench in his hand almost whirled as the old halfling shouted:
“Leave me alone!
The little mummy from Westcott City had gone mad for some reason and had to link her undead constructor experiments with my mechanical knowledge, and I don’t know what kind of madness I was smoking, but I thought it was a pretty great idea, and then I jumped into the damn pit with one foot.

The steel of the walker had a hard time conducting psychic energy, forcing me to make an inner frame out of psychic alloy.

But that pure spirit body couldn’t fit into this steel creation either, so I still had to use the wetware as a spirit body bearer before I could figure out how to control the arithmetic jewel by way of current conduction and thus manipulate the entire walking machine.

This meant that I would need to re-write from scratch a set of manipulation factors for use in this strange creation.

Geez!

I’m going crazy, this isn’t even a project I can do alone!
Curse that damn whimsy!”

The guy roared insanely, making Murphy, a vampire who didn’t understand mechanics, feel the pressure of that annoying technical problem.

He shrugged his shoulders, not intending to discuss with the old flywheel on this issue, but this genius idea of manipulating a walking machine with a spirit in front of him was definitely not something the little mummy could come up with, this classic reproduction of the divine dragon rider definitely came from some player’s brainchild.

“Cheer up.”

Murphy said lightly, then took the letter in little Sherron’s hand and waved it at the old flywheel, saying:

“A letter from your love rival, in addition, the Church of the Mechanical Spirit is causing a ruckus in Chardonnay Harbor, I heard that you were once one of them?”

“That was a long time ago, that organization is stupid and staying there would only harm my intelligence.”

The old flywheel disdainfully placed the wetware in his hand in its intended location and activated the power without looking at the letter.

Blue current traveled down the cables into the special walking machine, instantly burning several electrodes making sparks fly, but failing to make the behemoth move even a little.

“Fuck! I knew this thing wouldn’t work!”

The cranky old mechanic cursed, tossed his own wrench aside, jumped down and grabbed a handful of the letter Murphy handed him, swept another glance at Murphy and said:
“Come with me, now that we’ve mentioned those mechanical-worshipping fools, there just happens to be something to talk to you about. That little vampire over there, don’t just touch this thing, I’ll have to write a report on the failed experiment to the Xike City side in a little while, so that they can die of this damn heart.

Undead gargoyles and war machines?
Yuck!
These are two completely incompatible fields!”

(End of chapter)