Chapter 623: Face the Stellar Furnace
Most of the priests in the Church of Silence have stubborn tempers. If something is good, it is good. If it is not good, they may not say it out loud, but it is also difficult for the priests to praise something against their will.
After walking around the Castel Cathedral for a while, even a steady undertaker like Helena could not find words to praise it.
The priests in robes just nodded and greeted each other without any solemn rituals. The believers were discussing enthusiastically in the hall without any respect for the church itself.
Those tall banshees simply left the corridor without any greetings or praises, as if they were no different from ordinary people.
The surrounding walls, halls and corridors were not decorated with ingenious details, nor were there any words from the Holy Scriptures engraved on them. There were also no statues or paintings of sages or saints in the church.
Instead, there are many pipes of varying thicknesses on the ceiling and walls. There is no sense of sacredness at all, and I don’t know what they are used for.
To put it simply, this doesn't look like a church.
Helena sighed inwardly.
If it were up to her, she would definitely not design it like this.
If the scriptures of the Church were not inscribed throughout the church, how could the faithful learn the sacred text? If the church was not sanctified by decoration, how could people feel reverence for it?
If we don't have these, then what will we rely on to gather believers? Will we rely on those pipes and those machines?
"Everyone, please follow me to visit the stellar furnace." Nini's voice sounded from the side.
Helena finally perked up a bit. She had heard the word "stellar furnace" many times. She thought it should be something that the church could show off, right?
It's just a church, but its most proud thing is the furnace.
Shaking her head, suppressing the arrogance that arose involuntarily in her heart, Helena reminded herself to be humble and sincere, as they were just guests.
Walking into the atrium, Helena's eyes suddenly lit up.
The hall of Castres Cathedral is unremarkable, but the atrium here is much more presentable.
The Castres Cathedral is a typical fortress, surrounded by tall buildings as walls, but hollow in the middle.
Like a bundle of firmly tied wood, take out a few of the middle ones.
In the middle is the empty atrium.
Surrounding the atrium is a spiral staircase that connects the various floors. Sunlight shines from above, and the graceful geometric angles create a neat beauty.
Countless pipes snaked out from underground and led to various parts of the church.
Between the floors, there are grooves that connect the upper and lower floors. The square boxes in them rotate up and down continuously. Occasionally, someone seizes the opportunity to step in and is quickly taken to several floors away by the transmission structure.
The Paternoster Elevator, which Castel had previously only installed underground where the Banshee was, now has several installed in the church to facilitate going up and down the atrium.
The principle of the elevator is very simple. The priests of the Church of Silence understood it after watching it for a while. Even the most stubborn burialist could not help but marvel at the ingenuity of the design.
It seems that Castel is capable of doing some design, but why is he unwilling to use it in the right way and instead uses it all to make machinery and equipment?
Helena felt somewhat regretful.
"We've installed several elevators here, mainly because there's a lot of underground space in the atrium, and it's not convenient to go up and down, so we'll take the elevator down."
As Nini led the people of the temple, she explained, "Originally, the atrium here was open, but then too many people developed Caster's syndrome. Looking directly at the stellar furnace here can easily cause an attack. Someone once fell in. If the banshee on duty hadn't caught them, they would have died serving Caster's purpose."
"So since then, a locking mechanism has been installed in the cathedral."
Nini stepped into the courtyard and tapped the ground with the tip of her tail, making a dull sound of steel clashing.
"This floor can be opened. It's usually only opened when an airship is taking off, or to inspect and hoist the stellar furnace. Hmm?"
Nini paused for a moment, then smiled.
"Everyone, the Lord has just granted me special permission to open the cover to facilitate the visit of our distinguished guests!"
Nini looked at the operating mechanisms around her, but before she could speak, a banshee who was eager to watch the fun took the initiative to come over and start them.
The banshees pulled down the lever, the gears made a clicking sound, a harsh mechanical sound was heard, and a crack suddenly appeared in the original ground in the atrium.
The buried people in the Church of Silence came over curiously and were surprised to find that the underground part of the church was quite deep. In terms of height, it was even higher than the above-ground part.
What is there down there that warrants building so deep?
Accompanied by a huge roar, the ground in the atrium first sank slightly, and then retreated to the surroundings from the hidden groove in the ground like petals.
The steam engine roared, and it seemed as if the whole church was shaking slightly.
The first thing that catches your eye is the densely packed thick pipes.
They had seen many of these pipes in the church, both in the corridors and in the halls, but they had never known what they were used for.
But at this moment, seeing these pipes coming together and leading underground, the buried people had a vague guess in their hearts.
The underground part was a little darker, and the sunlight above the atrium could not shine in here, but there seemed to be a huge light source below, which turned the surrounding walls orange-red.
The air seemed to be burning hot.
The unique stuffy and dry feeling of the furnace suddenly surged out from below. The heat suffocated the priests and they couldn't help but take a step back.
Taking a step back, their view below was greatly reduced, but they seemed to have sensed something.
thump.
Like a heartbeat, the powerful rhythm instantly swept through all the priests in the silent church. Their bodies were standing normally, but at that moment they felt as if their souls had experienced a storm.
There seems to be something huge underneath.
Yes, huge, that was their only feeling.
That existence must have more noteworthy features, but all they could feel was its vastness, like a towering mountain with cliffs, waterfalls, and deep valleys, but they could only see the cliff in front of them.
The priests in the church suddenly realized that perhaps it was not that this existence was too huge, but that they were too small.
But they are the priests of the Silent Temple, the extraordinary beings above the mundane, the buried ones who have penetrated the high walls of reality with their will and touched the sea of unconsciousness. What kind of existence could it be, so huge that they cannot even see the whole picture?
Helena was startled and felt a chill in her heart. She looked back and found that she could no longer find her anchor.
The moment she realized this, she was already lost.
(End of this chapter)
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