690 A Minor Experiment Acciden (1/2)

Augustus continued his prayer after hearing Harold's report. Unless it was something very important, he would never interrupt the tributes to 'God of Steam', 'Lord of Life and Death' and 'Glowing Morning Star'.

After several minutes, Augustus stood up agilely and said, covering his eyes with his right hand. ”Supreme Steam!”

That was a symbolic movement of prayer that he had designed after witnessing the explosion of Eternal Blaze in Rentato with consideration of the view of 'Atlantis' in his dream. It was like how the believers of the Saint Truth drew crosses!

”The Kingdom of Dwarfs?” Augustus finished his prayer and asked in confusion.

His face was healthily red, and he was wearing a special silver armor whose parts were connected through complicated mechanical craft. Filled with a delicate but cold sense of beauty, it was the ritual suit that he had designed for the God of Steam.

As the leader of dwarfs, Augustus was the honorary manager of many alchemical workshops. He did not have a lot to do, and the miserable life on the Night Highland was long gone. He was quite grateful and spent most of his time preaching and praising the God of Steam.

Because Rentato was not secluded, Augusta had a basic understanding of the continent. He knew that the surviving dwarfs had been gathered in the northwest of the Dark Mountain Range, where they established a kingdom named 'Dumute'. In the language of dwarfs, 'dumute' meant 'glory'. However, what they worshiped was Okun, the God of Valiance and Heit, the God of Craftsmen, instead of the God of Steam, the Lord of Life and Death, and the Great Existence Whose Name Must Not Be Invoked.

Therefore, Augustus was rather confused that an emissary of the God of Steam came from the kingdom of dwarfs.

Harold scratched his head. ”I found it odd, too. The Lord has never issued any oracle asking us to go to Dumute. They do not worship the Great Lord, either…”

Puzzled as he might be, he had to be prudent since it concerned the Lord, and he dared not kick the guy away.

Cleaning his armor, Augustus picked up the steam hammer and said, ”Bring him here.”

Harold turned around and left. Very soon, he returned with a dwarf in leather armor.

The dwarf's face was covered in a gold beard, making it impossible to infer his age from his face.

He was rather polite in the way he spoke. ”Honorable elder of the Night Tribe, I am Ham from Dumute. I am a temple warrior who serves the great God of Steam. I received an oracle a while ago, which asked me to contact you in Rentato so that you could really be embraced by the Lord.”

”The God of Steam?” Augustus expressed his confusion, not entirely sincerely.

Ham nodded solemnly. ”Yes. Not a long time ago, the great Lord Heit announced his real identity. As it turns out, he is not just the God of Craftsmen but also the God of Steam who has been looking after dwarfs for generations. It was only because he was sleeping that his incarnation walked the earth…”

He introduced what happened in the kingdom of dwarfs. ”…The dusk of gods is about to come. Therefore, the Lord has been woken up from his sleep and arrived again. That's why you were freed from the Night Highland…”

”The God of Craftsmen…” Augustus recited the name quietly.

Seeing no apparent objection from him and Harold, Ham said solemnly, ”The Lord hopes that you can spread His glory in Holm and let everybody praise His name.”

While talking, he took out a dwarf figurine from his storage bag. It was holding a hammer, with its beard and hair stretching out, giving the feeling of sacredness and profundity.

”You must feel very strange that the reverends and cardinals of the Saint Truth can perform divine powers while you can't. That's because you have never passed the test of the Lord until right now! Just place the Lord's figurine on the altar and worship it according to this ritual, and the pious will be granted divine powers very soon, just like me!” Ham brought out a ritual book and announced. In the meantime, he stepped forward, his body glowing in ivory brilliant that called for reverence.

He was a 'Saint Warrior', a fake reverend who was more inclined to face-to-face battles. That was why he could perform the spell of God's Grant.

”A divine power…” Harold and Augustus both beamed with interest. It had been their greatest worry that the God of Steam never gave them any divine power.

Ham laughed and transferred the figurine and the ritual book to Augustus. ”In the future, we will be fellows!”

After seeing Ham off, Harold came back. He looked at the stunned Augustus and asked, ”Senior elder, do you believe what he said?”

”I don't.” Augustus looked gloomily, ”We are the dwarfs who left the Night Highland thanks to the grace of the great God of Steam. We are His favored people. Even if He has any oracle, it shouldn't be forwarded by an external dwarf; the Lord would've given it to us directly!”

The issue made him feel that his position as the senior elder was threatened. Always considering himself as a spokesperson of the God of Steam on the earth, he did not receive any oracle and had to wait for a common dwarf to inform him!

Therefore, after a brief contemplation, he firmly denied the possibility that the God of Craftsmen was an incarnation of the God of Steam, unless the Lord said otherwise to himself directly!

Until then, he would not waver at all but would continue his devotion. If words and divine power were enough to confirm that a being was the great God of Steam, all the fake gods would be Glowing Morning Stars!

Harold thought the same, but he was less determined. ”What about divine power…”

If the God of Steam never granted divine powers to them, part of their compatriots would definitely be attracted by this. Also, he was personally fascinated by the divine power, too.

”Divine power? Can the common divine powers be compared to Eternal Blaze and Atlantis? Can they compare to the burst guns we manufacture?” Although Augusta was also tempted by divine powers, he was not intimidated at all. ”The oracle of the Lord asked us to construct the Atlantis on earth. The development of Rentato fit the vision we saw perfectly. As for Dumute, you must know that everything there is underdeveloped and against what is expected of Atlantis!”

”By the time we can create a weapon of Eternal Blaze, will divine power deserve any attention?”

Harold nodded heavily. ”The life in Rentato is the life that I always dreamed about. I feel that my every effort makes me closer to Atlantis!”

But it will be even better if there are divine powers! he thought to himself.