How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 85 Stage Equipment and Fieldwork

"Deus ex machina?" Kaelia chewed on this unfamiliar High Gothic phrase.

As a child living in Great Ultramar, she also had a required course in High Gothic in grammar school.She is still learning and dare not say that she has completely mastered the language, but even so, she clearly feels that Fujimaru Ritsuka's pronunciation is obviously different from what she learned in school. The order of these three short words It's also a bit grammatically weird.

"This is a Latin phrase that originated in the ancient Greek era." Fujimaru Ritsuka explained, "At that time, humans had just built civilization on Terra, and the performance form of 'drama' was very popular in ancient Greece. At that time, When the conflict in the plot reaches a stalemate, in order to clean up the mess, the playwright will design a powerful god to suddenly appear on the stage and solve the problem. The actor who plays the role of this 'god' will be in the plot. When this plot was carried out, he was carried on the stage by a mechanical device instead of coming from behind the scenes normally. Therefore, people later called this type of plot "the god who came out of the machine" - this phrase has nothing to do with the Mechanicus. .”

Kaelia digested this explanation.Due to her preference for various elements in this passage, she skipped the two questions "What is ancient Greece" and "What is Latin?" and asked directly: "But this will not make the whole play more interesting." Does the twist seem too abrupt?”

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded in agreement and added: "Some people think that this blunt twist just creates false comfort for the audience and should not be promoted. But my point of view is that false comfort is also comfort - not to mention , we are not acting in a drama, but we are truly living in this world. As long as we can get a happy ending, then what’s the point of having a deus ex machina and a blunt twist?”

"...It seems to be the case, but I don't understand," Kaelia walked one step at a time among the rubble scattered on the church square, "What does this have to do with our work?"

"To put it simply, the Chaldean Bureau is the department responsible for 'Deus Ex Machina'. This is the first thing we need to clearly define. Of course we can jump to the center of the battlefield and use the emperor's spiritual power to achieve fruitful results and become Undoubtedly an important role in a battle - but we usually don't do that, because the success or failure of a battle often does not affect the entire campaign, at least on the scale of the galaxy."

Fujimaru Ritsuka said:
"Our task is to observe carefully, peel off the cocoons, and while providing help to the characters on the stage, find the real key point that affects the overall situation, and then 'mechanize' there to make the whole The story becomes a 'good ending'."

"...I don't know, I probably won't be able to do it." After a brief thought, Kaelia said with some frustration, "This sounds a lot like what those imperial heroes in fairy tales would do. I don't think I can do it." It can be done well.”

"You just don't know what to do yet. I will try my best to teach you these things." Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged, "But this is my first time as a teacher, and I don't know if I can do it well."

Under Kaelia's slightly surprised gaze, Fujimaru Ritsuka stopped in place and looked at the towering facade of Tyros Cathedral, which had been blown up but still towered into the sky.Although the huge brass Aquila statue at the top of the church was covered in dust due to the war, it still stood high on the tower, overlooking everything on the ground.

They were accompanied by Lan Mallock, who was in charge of security, and Sister Iolanth, but neither of them, for different reasons, joined the conversation between the two girls.

Until Fujimaru Ritsuka turned to the direction of Sister Iolanth: "I noticed that most of the buildings in Tyros are in the tower style."

"Yes!" While answering, the nun puffed up her chest as if she had received a great honor. "The people of Parmenio believe that tall buildings can bring them closer to the God Emperor spiritually. But even in Before the bombing began, no building in the entire city was higher than the residence of the God-Emperor here."

"That's it. Thank you, Sister Iolanth. This is pretty much what I guessed." Fujimaru Ritsuka said, forcing herself not to pay too much attention to the senior nun who was silently falling into overexcitement again, and began to look around the square. Broken walls and ruins.

This area had obviously experienced more than one round of violent bombings, and they had passed several precarious remains of towers on the way here. However, there were almost no standing buildings nearby.Obviously, after surrendering to Chaos, enemies who know how to skillfully use the power of subspace also understand that "the church is the residence of the gods on the earth" is not a completely empty statement. As a place where faith gathers, a church is necessary Completely wiped off the map.

But the Plague Marines obviously didn't do this very successfully.Among the ruins, the only Gothic facade of the church that still towers into the sky silently demonstrates this.Perhaps the regent's orbital support arrived in time, perhaps the church itself was of excellent architectural quality, or perhaps it was the God-Emperor's blessing. In short, the enemy left before completely blowing the place to the ground, and did not appear for a long time after that. Send the aircraft back again.

Whether they thought that the main body of the entire church building had collapsed and therefore were negligent, or were unable to carry out another round of bombing for some other reason, the fact was left to Fujimaru Ritsuka at this moment... "But Take advantage of the opportunity.” "'Tall buildings are closer to the sky.' Objectively speaking, this is a matter of course." Fujimaru Ritsuka recited, "Beyond the sky is the Milky Way. In the Milky Way, there is Holy Terra, and there is Holy Terra. There is a throne on it. Therefore, we can also say that 'the towering building is closer to the emperor'."

Kaelia, who received a little scientific education in a grammar school and had a certain understanding of the universe and the Milky Way, was a little confused: "Although this is a fact,... the distance between Parmenio and Holy Terra is measured in light years. , relying only on buildings, can we at most approach a negligible value like a few kilometers?"

"Things in occult science should not be understood with too scientific thinking." Fujimaru Ritsuka explained, "One possible argument is that 'height itself does not have a special meaning, but when humans give it meaning, it does. Another possible explanation is, 'When most people who have lived in a place for a long time believe this statement, as time goes by, the meaning itself will be embedded in the subspace through the collective unconsciousness of the crowd. Among them'. I don't know which statement is correct, or both are wrong, and there are other correct explanations - I don't intend to study the principles of this phenomenon in detail like a scholar. For us, as long as As long as this symbolic rule can be used."

Kailia looked confused, and Fujimaru Ritsuka realized that it might be too early to explain this part right away.

"Regarding the knowledge of mysticism, maybe we can arrange courses to discuss in detail later when we have settled down for the time being." Fujimaru Ritsuka brought the topic back to Chaldea's responsibilities in the empire, "Remember the 'mechanical thing' just now? A séance metaphor?"

"Remember, we need to find the key points and 'deus ex machina' at the right location to make the story have a 'good ending'."

"Yes, we are in 'Deus Ex Machina'. But we must remember that it is often the emperor who can play the role of 'god', not us." Fujimaru Ritsuka raised his hand towards the only remaining part of the church. The Sky Eagle Scepter, looking up at the other brass Sky Eagle on the top of the towering broken wall, "We are connected to the Emperor's spiritual power, so we can do things that most people can't imagine. But we must always remember, This is not our power, it is the Emperor's power. We are only responsible for channeling the Emperor's powers so that they manifest in the right place and in the right way - in other words, we are in the 'deus ex machina' part, The site worker responsible for building the mechanical device that 'brings God onto the stage'."

As she spoke, the eagle on the top of the scepter in her hand shimmered.Then in the next second, the Aquila statue standing on the top of the broken wall also burst out with golden light from the position of its eyes.There was no wind around, but the sand on the ground moved automatically, followed by small pieces of rubble, and then larger stones. After a few seconds, even large pieces of building materials that should have required cranes and cranes to move Or metal, naturally joined this parade of inorganic objects, taking off from the ground in a harmonious order, flying towards the ruins of the church.

Whether it was out of reverence for religion, for the power itself, or both, the other three people on the square watched all this happen in silence: the destroyed materials returned to their original positions, burned or The bent carvings became complete and bright again; the huge church rose again from its own ruins in a few minutes, and the cracks filled with sand after patchwork were eliminated in the golden light; neat artistry emerged from the architecture once again Emerging, the self-ringing bell behind the church also sounded the sacred melody appropriately at this time, spreading throughout the ruins in the city of Tyros, like a celebration and an announcement; some kind of invisible wave centered on the church, moving towards the entire city diffusion.Whether it was civilians, Astra Militarum, Battle Sisters, or Astartes, at this time, they all felt this warm ripple almost simultaneously.

"'The spirit of the God Emperor resides here.'" Sister Aiolans held the national religion pendant on her chest, knelt down on the spot, and murmured a prayer with tears in her eyes under this sacred scene.Lan Malok moved quietly and quietly, a little further away from her.It was the dumbfounded Kailia who accepted this incident the best, curiously asking Fujimaru Ritsuka:

"how did you do that?"

"Good question, I don't know either." The latter replied confidently, "You probably have to ask the emperor about this matter - just like you didn't know what was going on when you purified the well water before, I just did it He was the transfer station for the Emperor's psychic energy, allowing his power to cross the barrier of the veil and seep into reality. It was he who actually repaired the church, it was he who made the bells ring, and it was he who protected the entire city. ——You see, we are just the field workers responsible for setting up the stage equipment, and the essence of the work we do is just to allow the 'gods' who should come on stage to stand on the stage at the right time."

Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged indifferently and turned to Lan Malok:
"Tell Captain Afuppa that the enemy's offensive may intensify next. He may need more armed forces to hold the line. I will try my best to have the Imperial Regent send reinforcements to the city before noon tomorrow. Before that , the battle line may have to be maintained by the power carried by the Lion's Mane itself, and the ship will need your airdrop permission - in addition, I also need to issue an air defense warning notice."

——The Plague Warriors who also rely on the power of subspace, and even the demons who are happily preparing everything behind the curtain, will not fail to understand what the vision that occurs in the city represents.

　Mi (six o'clock)
　　The buildings in Tyros are all like towers. The original author wrote it. Why Tyros people like to build towers was made up by me (you).

　　Haha, I forgot the time again! (hearty)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)