Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 372 - 10: Your Emperor Has Returned! (Part 2)

But the Priest Duncan in front of him was the complete opposite; he was searching for very ancient mechanical knowledge, some of which were antiques from the Middle Ages, even before the rise of the Mechanical Divine Sect, which no one is interested in now.

Duncan reached out to take it, nodded slightly, and said, "Thank you."

After speaking, he placed that thick stack of books on the corner of the desk, and after casually picking up a few ancient texts from the Mechanical Church, he quietly sat down to read.

After opening a very old parchment book, Duncan quickly browsed through and found two critical keywords within.

——"God of Craftsmanship."

——"God of Steam and Mechanics."

In the history of the Mechanical Divine Sect, it can be traced back to the Third Era. At that time, their predecessor was the church of the God of Craftsmanship, an ancient and forgotten divine spirit.

His divine positions were fire, forging, engraving, craftsmanship, similar to one of the Greek Twelve Main Gods, Hephaestus.

This divine spirit fell at the end of the Third Era.

Approximately over a hundred years later, at the end of the Mysterious Era, a new divine spirit replaced His divine positions, the earliest God of Steam and Mechanics. However, He was denounced as a pseudo-god in the scriptures, and reigned for less than a few decades before falling during the divine conflicts of the Fourth Era.

In this process, the true God of Machinery, Master of Ten Thousand Machines, was born!

He was not an entity that ascended to godhood in the conventional way, but a divine spirit summoned and descended by seven Guardian Angels, marking the origin of the first ’Mechanical Divine Descent’. The day of His arrival was the God’s birth day of World Three and also the New Year of ordinary people.

Hence, the world began an ongoing industrial revolution, developing to a very astonishing degree in just a few hundred years!

The end of the Mysterious Era is marked by the seclusion of the gods.

However, even before the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ descent, the world had already initiated the ’First Industrial Revolution’, and it was this information Duncan was seeking.

"How come it feels like this world evolved from the fantasy magic civilization side to the current level?"

Duncan flipped to the last few pages of the ancient texts.

There are brief titles, the content recorded is sparse, summed up in just a few sentences.

——"The Decline of Traditional Wizards": With the end of the Mysterious Era, traditional Wizards, Mages, Warlocks, Secret Art Masters, Druids, and other spellcasters gradually vanished. They abandoned the decayed pantheon of gods and converted to the faith in the great God of Ten Thousand Machines.

Yet, the craftsmanship of forging curiosities in the Mysterious Era still persisted; constructs, golems, mechanical puppets, etc., from that era became the earliest mechanical servants.

After the Fourth Era commenced, magic’s power declined massively, traditional spellcasters transformed into Esoteric Buddhism traditions, and early constructs and golems were gradually eliminated following the Magic God’s demise."

There is a hand-drawn illustration of a golem here.

It looks like a heavy lump of iron, resembling ancient steel sculptures, the kind that are handmade, with a rough appearance, labeled as a ’Steel Golem,’ creations of Mages during the Mysterious Era, gradually disappearing after the Fourth Era.

Yet, in some ancient relics, it is still possible to encounter them.

Beside it is a note, evaluating it as ’primitive and crude craftsmanship, yet quite powerful, can be severely damaged by electromagnetic weapons, but caution must be taken with the release of toxic gas, a few ancient golems might awaken self-awareness’ etc.

There is a time gap in all the church texts here.

Precisely during the end of the Mysterious Era, which coincides with the onset of the First Industrial Revolution, the era of the God of Steam and Mechanics, His downfall came through the siege by other divine spirits, but His demise also heralded the real God of Ten Thousand Machines’ descent.

Among the chaotic records from this period, within a few decades, the Magic God reclined, the God of Justice slumbered, the Master of Nature fell, etc. The God of War seemed to be the last to endure, but He also gradually died out in the early Fourth Era.

The God of Ten Thousand Machines completed the unification of the world’s faith, hence transitioning from the Mysterious Era to the Industrial Era.

"Found it!"

Duncan spent half a day before finally discovering more records about the God of Steam and Mechanics from that pile of old books. On the ancient parchment, Duncan even saw designs for the steam engine and weaving machine.

This marked the beginning of the transition from the God of Craftsmanship to the God of Machinery!

Dimension Space.

Duncan opened the ancient book before him, his expression solemn, and said, "Engraving related data!"

"Mark related knowledge of the [First Industrial Revolution]."

In the projection page.

Soon a divided panel emerged, a vast amount of information was scanned and recorded, simultaneously stored within the Dimension Space.

After all this was done, Duncan flipped to the last page of the ancient text, where there’s an illustration depicting the divine country of the God of Steam and Mechanics, a nation built on massive gears, with winding tracks on either side, steam trains scattered throughout the divine country, and believers residing in reinforced concrete high-rises, appearing like incredibly busy workers who merely need to step out from their homes to board a train, directly reaching another enormous gear, crowded with towering chimneys, and factories spread across the divine country.

"Among all these ancient texts, divine spirits from the Mysterious Era all had divine countries, but only the God of Ten Thousand Machines didn’t!"

Duncan quickly discovered another blind spot.

Unnoticed, much time had passed, and when Duncan reached the last section, it recorded the downfall of the God of Steam and Mechanics. The industrial revolution incited animosity from the Nature Gods, and soon He faced the siege of many divine spirits, especially the Natural Pantheon. At least several powerful divine spirits conducted a massive crusade against Him and His church.