Chapter 173 Guardian Inscription

The nun with orange-red hair grabbed the rotten wooden door, lifted it carefully, and slowly pushed it open.

The door hinges creaked, and sunlight shone on the weathered floor tiles.

"This church was built by the first group of immigrants who came to Castel. At that time, the Candlelight Society was still trying to expand outward. We, the Fire Moths, were chased everywhere all day long. Who would have thought that we could live in their church today." She walked straight into the church. "Come in, I'll show you my latest discovery."

Hughes walked in slowly. He had been here many times, but had never looked at the church so carefully. The outer layer of the old stone wall had been weathered a bit, while the white paint on the inside was newer, but it could not cover the gaps between the bricks and stones.

"Is this the church you are talking about?"

Hughes' tone was full of doubt.

"Yes, in fact, we should thank the fact that we lost contact with the outside world this time." Chloe crossed her arms over her chest, looking very proud. "When I was checking the anchor point, I remembered that since there is an anchor point here and it is an old church, there is a high possibility that there is a protective inscription."

"Then I searched the entire church, and I actually found it!"

Her tone gradually became excited: "Guardian Inscription! Do you know how precious this thing is? Ever since the last white disaster, the Candlelight Society has been unable to engrave new guardian inscriptions. Now this thing is as precious as a holy relic. If one is broken, there will be one less. If it wasn't tied to the church and couldn't be moved, they would have sent people here to dig it up long ago."

Guardian Inscription? It was the first time that Xiu Si heard this word. It sounded like some kind of defensive thing, which must be related to the extraordinary world.

But speaking of it, he seemed to have some impression of this. When he first entered the church, Zeus had used the detection ability he obtained from the symbiotic contract to detect the church. What was the conclusion he came to at that time?

Hughes naturally placed his hand on the stone wall.

Granite, inscription: #￥%@&Yes, that's it.

But what's the use? He looked up at the rotten pillars and leaky windows, and shrugged: "You called me here just for this? Not to mention how powerful this protective inscription is, even if it can really protect this church, it doesn't have much value, right? We can't fight with sea urchins here."

This dilapidated church is located almost in the center of Castres, just slightly to the east. If the front line is really pushed here, it will make little difference whether it can be defended or not.

Zeus really couldn't imagine what the purpose of the guardian inscriptions here was. If it could protect against pollution, it would be of some use, but the banshees were not afraid of pollution.

"No, no, no, my dear lord, your thinking is still too narrow." Chloe stretched out her index finger and waved, "Although the protective inscription of this church can only protect the church, it does not stipulate how big the church can be."

"???"

"If I expand the church, for example, I can extend the wall outward to the coast, or make the rooms bigger, so that they can accommodate several factories."

"?!?!"

"We could even be bolder and turn the entire island of Castel into a church."

“!!!!”

Xius was stunned when he heard this. How could it be like this?

It only guards the church, so why expand the scope of the church? "Can you really take advantage of the loophole like this? It sounds like a word game." Hughes looked suspicious.

"Originally it's not possible, but I can make a small change to the church's protective inscription. Although it won't expand the range infinitely, it can still cover Castel completely. However, the original energy source will not be enough, so I have to add a new energy supply device."

"Wait, didn't you just say that the Candlelight Society had lost the technology related to the Guardian Inscription? How could you modify it?"

"The candlelight may be lost, but the fire moth is not." Chloe said as a matter of course. "They seal up their technology all day long and use various confidentiality measures. Often they can't find it after sealing it up. We are open source, so of course we are not afraid of losing it."

The word "open source" came from Hughes. He just said it a few days ago, and Chloe happened to hear it. As a result, she liked the word very much and felt that it was very consistent with the characteristics of Fire Moth, so she used it immediately.

It’s just that the knowledge in this world is polluted. Open source on Blue Planet costs money, but open source here costs your life.

"Anyway, I found the core of the inscription here. It's underground. I checked it and it won't be a problem to modify it. As long as we expand this church big enough, it will be stronger than those reinforced concrete fortresses!"

Chloe's eyes sparkled as she spoke, Hughes had seen her enthusiasm for technology before, and she had no hesitation in using herself as an experiment on that time. Now it was just a matter of demolishing a church, a Candlelight Society church at that, and she didn't feel any psychological burden at all.

And if this thing can really resist the enemy, Zeus doesn't mind if the church on the island is a little bigger.

He sighed: "Tell me about the effect of the guardian inscription."

Chloe showed a satisfied smile, and pointed to the outer wall of the church not far away. "Look at those walls, they have hardly ever been maintained, and have been badly weathered. Moreover, no protection was considered when they were built. But as long as I activate the guardian inscription, this thing can withstand the frontal impact of the battering ram!"

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"Has the impact resistance at all angles been improved? Also the weight?"

"That's right! It will improve the strength of the building in all aspects. It's somewhat similar to the flesh magic of the Banshee. Oh, and it can even prevent pollution. It's even more like flesh magic!"

All-round improvement? It seems that it is not just about improving the shear and compression resistance. If it is said so, it is indeed very useful. Those sea urchins are rampaging underwater, and the Banshees will be rubbed off with blood and flesh if they are slightly touched. Zeus was a little worried whether the fortifications he built could withstand it.

Now with the guardian inscription, there is an extra layer of insurance.

"You just said they can also prevent pollution?"

"Yes, but I don't know much about this. I have never seen Candlelight activate a protective inscription. I also found the method of modifying the inscription from a book."

Xius blinked: "Never activated?"

Come to think of it, how often does a church need to be protected? Or, what is so big that it can threaten the church?

Hiss, thinking in this way, candlelight will engrave protective inscriptions in every church, which is terrifying when you think about it.

Did believers often need to hide in churches in the past? Did they even need special protective inscriptions to increase the strength of the church and prevent it from collapsing?

(End of this chapter)