The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the old steward of the Alcott family is only a servant according to his status, he is a servant with noble status, and he has served the ruler of Seventh Lake Town for three generations. His status is not weaker than those high-level members of the family, and even the power in some aspects is far above those family members, and he has won the trust of the rulers of Seventh Lake Town in the past.

For a long time, the old butler's attitude almost represented the attitude of Andre XIII, so the old butler's every move naturally attracted the attention of the nobles here.

At this time, some nobles recognized that Leo had sold a batch of healing potions a few days ago, and now the attitude of the old housekeeper made them wonder. The two connect and start to generate some interesting ideas.

Before entering the monthly period, the health of Andre XIII had already become the focus of attention of the nobles in the city. Because at that time, Andre XIII suddenly handed over the management rights of several factories to his two grown-up sons, and it seemed that he wanted to choose heirs from among them.

For the other eight noble families in the city, every change of the seventh Alcott family's successor means that the internal power of these eight noble families has changed, and the relationship between the eight noble families and the Alcott heir It also means that the noble family's status in the town of Seventh Lake in the next few decades will be high or low.

This time the Alcott family held a Silver Moon Banquet as usual, and the invited nobles not only wanted to take advantage of this banquet to hit some people's reputation and improve their own status, but also wanted to see if they could find out a little The health of Andre XIII, so these caring people are very sensitive to everything related to the health of Andre XIII.

Leo appeared as a merchant in the Seventh Lake Town, and he was so amazing when he shot it. Ten healing potions were very rare in the First Lake Town. This made many people speculate whether Leo was behind him. Stands an apothecary or wizard who can make wizard potions in batches.

The Alcott family bought four of the ten, and Wizmir gave three potions as gifts to the Alcott family, thus obtaining the right to purchase a batch of special springs. These things were seen by the nobles in the city. In their eyes, they all guessed that these potions were probably prepared for Andre XIII.

But now, Sir Wescheck, the housekeeper of the seventh Alcott family, actually came out to greet this foreigner who claimed to be a businessman, and apparently allowed him to bring contraband including weapons into the manor. All kinds of extraordinary treatment It made the onlookers feel that the seventh Alcott family attached great importance and respect to this person.

This can't help but make people suspect that Andre XIII probably wants to find this mysterious merchant to do business, such as asking the wizard or pharmacist behind the merchant to order special healing potions, and this guess can't help but make people feel that Andre Lie XIII's health may have been very bad.

Because of the special status of the Alcott family in Ten Towns, there are dedicated pharmacists in the Silvermoon City Pharmacist Association to take care of their bodies. Only when these pharmacists are helpless, they will turn to other people, especially the wizards of the wizard association, so the old butler's unintentional actions made those nobles who are interested think a lot.

However, Sir Wescheck, the old butler who was involved, was unaware of his unintentional actions, which caused many self-righteous nobles to think too much, and even made some wrong judgments. However, even if he knew that his actions had caused adverse effects, he might not change them, and might even add to the flames. After all, a peaceful aristocratic circle was not in the interests of the Alcott family.

Therefore, in the view of the old steward, as long as the Alcott family survives, what will happen to the other so-called nine noble families in the city, even if they all die, it doesn't matter.

Under the deliberate guidance of the old butler, Leo and Wizmir staggered from the path that other servants led the merchants to take, but directly crossed a flower path and walked to the manor villa not far away.

Wizmir didn't have any feeling for this garden path, but Leo could feel that when he was walking on this path, a disturbing force field caused his mental net to fail, and there was also a wave of psionic energy similar to the spiritual net coming from him. He scanned his body to check what was on him and in his backpack.

Leo didn't resist this psionic energy wave, and let it sweep across his body. On the contrary, the piece of animal skin in his backpack automatically shielded it after touching this psionic energy wave, making the opponent lose the psionic energy wave this time. effect.

After walking through the garden path, the wave of spiritual energy also disappeared. At this time, the scene ahead suddenly became clear. All kinds of gorgeous lamps and lanterns covered the entire courtyard of the villa. The people who arrived first had already gathered at the dining table in groups Next to him, he was talking in a low voice while eating the delicacies on the table.

What made Leo feel a little incredible was that he could clearly hear every word spoken by the nobles who were talking, but he was at a loss for the meaning of their words, as if the language they used had another set of meaning rules. For example, the content of a few nobles' conversations is obviously to praise the delicious food, but from their demeanor and tone, it can be felt that these words are definitely not what they sound on the surface, and they seem to be arguing about some important matter of life and death generally.

In the courtyard, like Leo, there are still many people who feel at a loss about the content of these nobles' conversations. It is not difficult to guess from their courageous breath that has not completely dissipated and their completely ancestral bodies. A newly promoted nobleman who has accumulated enough meritorious service from guarding the castle in the fog zone and won the title of nobleman.

If he had a choice, Leo would definitely stay in the banquet courtyard, talk to these newly promoted nobles, and try to extract the mysterious fog area and the guarding of the castle from these people.

Unfortunately, after entering the courtyard, the old butler did not bring Leo and Wizmir to the main venue of the banquet. Instead, he bypassed the main building from another fork and walked towards the auxiliary building on one side. People brought to the annex building and other merchants who were invited to the banquet.

"It seems that the person who gave us the invitation is not that adult." Wizmir frowned slightly when he found out about this situation, and leaned close to Leo, whispering.

"Who do you think it will be?" Leo nodded approvingly and asked again.

Wizmir was silent for a moment, then quickly thought of something, and said, "Steam car."

"The youngest son of Andre XIII?" Leo recalled what Witzmir had said before. Although he didn't understand why Witzmir thought so, he knew very well that he should not say anything in this situation. , just nod in agreement.

Wizmir obviously didn't see Leo's details, and simply thought that Leo was thinking the same as him, and when he was about to say something more, he seemed to be worried about the old housekeeper, and closed his mouth just now Get up, and gave Leo a look that he thought Leo would understand, and then silently followed behind the old housekeeper.

The three of Leo, along with other merchants and the servants who led the way, quickly walked to the annex building of the villa from this neatly laid stone road, and when they saw the shape of the annex building, they couldn't help frowning, because the auxiliary building The style of the building really didn't meet their aesthetics. They felt that this supposedly luxurious villa building looked as simple and rigid as those ordinary buildings in the outer city.

However, Leo was an exception. When he saw this villa building, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, with an expression of surprise on his face that couldn't be concealed, and there was a hint of a smile in addition to his surprise.

The reason why Leo showed completely different expressions and emotions from everyone else was because the building that appeared in front of his eyes was exactly the same as No. 9 Golden Oak Street in Vinylon World. The only difference was some decorations. The reliefs on the exterior walls and the statues on the eaves are different.

"Why is the shape of this house... so weird?" Seeing this situation, Leo deliberately showed doubts, as if talking to himself, and asked.

The old housekeeper who led the way did not answer, but Wizmir on the side took the initiative to respond: "You also think this house is weird, right? This is the masterpiece of that young master. Had a bad run-in with the rest of the Alcott family."

"It's him." Leo said in a deep voice in his heart. At this moment, he was very sure that the youngest son of Andre XIII should be the one who could enter the world of Velen, which made him look forward to meeting him even more.

While speaking, under the guidance of the old housekeeper, Leo and Wizmir entered the building and were taken to the living room on one side, which happened to be the place where Leo and the wasteland shaman panicked. The side hall where people from the dark world of Velen enter the dream world.

At this moment, about a dozen peddlers from different places have gathered in the room. These peddlers seem to know Wizmir, and they all stepped forward to say hello to him. Although there were some people who wanted to make friends with Leo, they were hesitant because of Leo's complexion. They just simply said hello and turned their attention to Wizmir.

For Leo, he was happy and relaxed, which gave him extra energy to do other things, such as observing the large and small paintings hanging in the room.

These paintings are very interesting. They are all landscape paintings of mountains, rivers and the like. Although the trees and flowers in the paintings are different from this dream world, it is not a big problem. What really makes Leo feel interesting is painting The artist sketched out the sunlit scene with copious amounts of gold, yellow and red paint.

For the residents of the dream world who have lived in the dark all their lives and have only seen moonlight and never seen the sun, these paintings are really absurd. No one in this room would give the paintings a second glance.

"Peter Alcott." Although the signature was in a twisted cursive, Leo could still make it out.

Seeing this signature, Leo found it very interesting. According to a book that records the study of surnames, ordinary people in the dream world are like free citizens in the world of Velen, who only have first names and no surnames. Only nobles have their own surnames. Even if someone like Witzmir has power not weaker than that of the nobles, he is still not eligible for a surname.

All descendants of hereditary nobles, including the Alcott family, are not considered nobles until they reach adulthood, and they will be assigned certain positions in the town guard after they reach adulthood. Only after working for a certain number of years can they obtain noble status, and To be able to bear the surname of the family.

Although this approach is only a formal approach until now, almost all descendants of nobles hold civilian positions in town guards, and there will be no danger, but because of certain psychological reasons, they regard this experience as a Shame on life.

Therefore, before assuming a position, most of them will give themselves a false name, and after obtaining a noble surname, they will return to their original name, and that false name will be engraved on a tombstone together with the time when they served as a guard. All the clothes used sank into the lake together.

Because it is a fake name, these nobles will not spend too much thought on this kind of name that is destined to be discarded. Most of them will randomly choose one of the fake names used by the nobles in the past, which also makes people with the same name There are many phenomena.

Among these commonly used pseudonyms, the name Peter is the one most used by the nobles of Ten Towns. According to the statistics of a boring scholar in Silvermoon City, the aristocrats who used the false name Peter accounted for more than 70% of all the aristocrats in the towns of the entire Lake District Union, so in the aristocratic circle, the name Peter became a symbol of filth over time. .

However, now a member of the Alcott family, and a member of the direct line, would actually give himself such a name, which is really surprising. I am afraid that the Alcott family also regards this matter as a taboo. Even when Wizmir mentioned Peter Alcott before, he was only saying that he was the younger brother of Andre XIII. Son, instead of addressing him by his first name and title.

Time passed for a while, and another seven or eight merchants were brought here one after another. More than forty merchants had gathered in the room, which could be said to be almost all foreign merchants that could be found in Seventh Lake Town.

What's interesting is that these merchants all seem to know each other, and it's not difficult to hear from their conversations that they all have a master behind them. The purpose of coming to Seventh Lake Town is the same as that of Witzmere, and it's not just for some business. More is to find the way for the master behind them.

As for the purpose of exploring the path, although none of them explicitly mentioned it, Leo could vaguely see from Wizmir's attitude that all the people present seemed to be there for that mysterious matter that he didn't know yet.

Just when the dance music sounded at the noble banquet in the main hall, indicating that the noble ball in the banquet had officially started, the door of the room was pushed open again, and a young man who looked very thin was sitting in a wheelchair and was surrounded by a nun dressed as a nun. The maid in uniform pushed in.