The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After Leo and his party got ready, they walked towards the giant's gate like those of the previous Baijiao group.

When he came outside the Giant's Gate, Leo immediately felt a strong suction force coming from the door, pulling him into the door. He didn't resist, and let this force pull him into the door. After experiencing a sense of weightlessness, he felt the weight again, but the surrounding scene had changed, and he came to a place he was both familiar with and unfamiliar, the place where everything ended.

"Why are you here?" Leo frowned as he watched the ashes falling from the sky. Before, he thought that the so-called trial site of entering the Black City was in a certain urban area of ​​the Black City, but what he didn't expect was to come to the place where everything ends.

"It's not right!" But Leo's face changed quickly, and he took out the necklace that the female leader gave him before, felt the spiritual energy fluctuations in it, and tried the chip pasted behind his ear , and found that both things were out of order. He could neither feel the position of the elder of the Baijiao through the necklace, nor could he contact other people through the chip. If it wasn't that the distance between each other was too far, it had already exceeded the range of action of the two items, or he was not in the trial area of ​​the Black City.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but took out the phalanx of the Ash Butterfly that he got before, and saw that this phalanx was emitting bursts of subtle light, as if it was sending some signal.

It's just that there is no Ash Butterfly in the place where everything ends where Leo is now. He is not in the seaside ruins full of ruins of lost civilization, but in a strange looking jungle,

I saw that this jungle was shrouded in endless gray fog. There were no shrubs in the jungle, only a very shallow layer looked like wild grass carved from stones, and there were countless trees similar to banyan trees everywhere. Everywhere, if you look carefully, you will find a human face with closed eyes on the trunk of these banyan trees.

Leo is not in a hurry to leave here, because he knows very well that if he walks blindly here, it may make things worse. What he has to do now is to identify his position and find the direction to leave.

Beforehand, Alice and the others didn't tell Leo how to pass the test, maybe they didn't know it themselves, which also made Leo have no idea how to get out of here, but obviously in this forest, something didn't want to Seeing Leo standing like this.

A rustling sound sounded around, as if many reptiles were approaching.

After Leo heard the abnormal noise, he immediately turned the twins into cross swords. At the same time, he also took out a few previously made runes and mechanical traps from the storage space, and arranged them in suitable places.

Not long after, I saw some spiders crawling out of the gray mist. It is not correct to say that they are spiders, because the bodies of these spiders are all heads facing up. These heads include both human heads and monsters. Heads, and many heads of alien races that Leo knew.

The human-headed spider rushing out of the gray mist had no intention of stopping, and rushed towards Leo directly, but the mechanical traps and rune traps around Leo's sight all played a role, especially the soul bonfire rune trap , directly ignite all the approaching bugs like firewood, and these ignited monsters will quickly turn into ashes, and provide stronger power to the soul bonfire rune trap, increasing the power and range of the trap .

Compared with the soul bonfire rune trap, the effect of other traps is obviously much weaker, especially the mechanical trap. Although the trap shrapnel can easily tear those human-headed spiders, it is just that after the human-headed spider is torn, the split limbs will be on the ground. In a short time, it turned into two smaller human-headed spiders and continued to attack Leo.

Facing these human-headed spiders, Leo quickly swung the cross sword in his hand, cutting each approaching spider into two pieces, and slowly moved towards the position of the soul bonfire rune trap.

Perhaps because of the special power of the twins, all the human-headed spiders cut by the cross swords of the twins, with the exception of no doubt, cannot split into two smaller individuals like the same kind split by the mechanical trap, but always maintain the cut shape , neither died nor recovered.

Although there are so many human-headed spiders, it may be difficult for ordinary people to survive the spider tide when they encounter them, but Leo's physical fitness after several evolutions and cross sword sword skills are enough to deal with such attacks. It can last for a few days and nights, and now with the assistance of the soul bonfire rune trap, it is impossible for these human-headed spiders to regenerate, making the so-called crisis in front of them extremely easy.

Although the human-headed spiders came ferociously, they were not really endless. After the situation was stalemate for about ten minutes, the number of human-headed spiders that followed gradually decreased and finally disappeared. In addition to the human-headed spiders that were burned to ashes by the soul bonfire rune trap, there were only those spiders that had been cut in half by Leo and hadn't died yet.

At this time, Leo discovered that after burning a large number of human-headed spiders, there were changes in the soul bonfire rune trap that he didn't know about before. In addition to condensing some soul crystals in the soul bonfire rune trap, There was even an extra group of flames that only spiritual vision could see.

Leo didn't feel any danger from the flame, so he tried to reach out and touch it. He found that although his body didn't feel the temperature of the flame, his soul felt an indescribable warmth.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that his soul seemed to have undergone some changes under the influence of this warm feeling.

In the past, Leo would always feel that his emotions, thoughts, etc. were uncontrollable. Taking curiosity as an example, if the matter of cooperating with Alice was decided according to Leo's nature, it would be He would never agree to this cooperation without knowing the whole situation and collecting enough information, but he did not make a rational decision to refuse cooperation. Instead, he was driven by curiosity and agreed to cooperate without hesitation. This obviously goes against Leo's biochemical personality.

Now Leo feels that his uncontrollable emotions seem to have become a lot more docile after he came into contact with the flames. He was still thinking about whether he should take this opportunity to explore the place where everything ends. Secret, but now he has begun to rationally want to leave here as soon as possible and return to the black city. There are two completely different attitudes before and after.

However, maintaining this kind of flame requires the soul crystals around the soul bonfire, and it consumes a lot, and soon there are only a few fist-sized soul crystals left.

Although Leo wants to keep the flames going, the soul crystallization is also useful to him, and it can also be used to arrange new soul bonfire runes if necessary, so he can only dispel the soul bonfire rune traps and clear the ground. Pick up the soul crystal and store it in the storage space.

Just as Leo was checking how many rune traps and materials for making rune traps were left in the storage space, the untouched crystal magic book that had been stored in the storage space suddenly shone with bursts of light, and What caused the abnormality was the soul crystal sent to the storage space just now.

What made Leo a little puzzled was that he had put the soul crystals produced by the soul bonfire into the storage space before, but the crystal magic book did not show any abnormalities, but now the same item made it resonate, Then the reason for this name is probably not just the soul crystal stone, the surrounding environment should also be one of the reasons.

In order to confirm his guess, Leo took out the crystal magic book and a piece of soul crystal from the storage space, put them in his left and right hands respectively, and then tried to touch each other.

The moment the two objects came into contact, a burst of intense white light immediately shone on the surface of the crystal magic book, but soon the white light disappeared, and the piece of soul crystal disappeared along with the white light.

Ordinary people might think that the mutation produced by the crystal magic book is just a white light, but Leo, who has extraordinary observation ability, found something in the white light, so he tried to call the language chip in the back of the ear. The flashback function recalls the temporary memory of the moment when the white light was generated, and thus discovers the hidden things in the white light.

"Soul gun." Leo sorted out the content and found that it was an unheard of witchcraft that directly attacked the soul. No matter how calm he was, he couldn't help showing a surprised expression on his face.

Because he remembered that in all the witchcraft books he had read, there was no record of a witchcraft that could be used to directly attack the soul. For example, the soul bonfire rune is only a passive attack on the soul, and it must only have a soul, like a living person, it can't work at all.

But the soul gun is different. This witchcraft can directly kill the soul, no matter whether the soul is in the body of a living thing or not, and it can be cast instantly like the witcher's seal, and only needs a little psionic power. .

This means that if he faces some powerful beings, he also has attack methods to deal with these powerful beings, and even counter-kill them.

In the excitement, Leo tried his best to calm himself down, and carefully read the method of casting the soul gun, but after reading it, he felt a little disappointed, because he found that there must be a prerequisite for casting the soul gun , That is the soul crystallization, otherwise, to perform this witchcraft, he needs to provide the special power required to perform the soul gun at the cost of his own soul.

Although it is mentioned in the related content that if you use your own soul to cast the soul gun, as long as it does not exceed the limit of the soul, it will not cause harm to the caster. At most, there will be mental exhaustion after casting the spell. You only need to rest for a few days to recover. .

But Leo couldn't believe these claims, because after all, it involved the soul, and any witchcraft that affected the soul could not be harmless, at least from all the witchcraft and occult related things he had seen before. That's what it says in the books.

In addition, Leo also found that this witchcraft seems to have room for further evolution, because at the end of the witchcraft description, there is a sentence that may be left by the crystallized old man, saying that the strength of the soul determines the essence of the soul gun, and the quality of the soul crystallization Determines the power of the soul gun.

If Leo's guess is correct, the strength of the previous soul should refer to the caster's soul strength, or the caster's psionic level. As long as the psychic's level is high enough, then the cast soul gun will also be different.

As for the soul crystals, this reminded Leo of the two parasitic mutated Velen heroes he encountered in Baicheng. After they were burned by the soul bonfire rune, different soul crystals remained.

Thinking of this, Leo also felt the preciousness of the soul crystals, and he couldn't help but regret that he burned so many soul crystals with the flame created by the soul campfire rune just now. If he kept those soul crystals, the means he could use against the enemy would also be Much more.

"Do you want to stay here for a while longer?" A thought suddenly appeared in Leo's mind, but at the same time as this thought came up, his instinct warned him that if he continued to stay, he might encounter unexpected troubles.

Although Leo felt that it would be more beneficial for him to stay here for a while and attract some human-headed spiders to create soul crystals, he also believed in his instinctive feeling, because when a psyker evolves to the fifth level , there are already some perceptions similar to premonitions, especially when it is related to their own safety, this kind of premonition is becoming stronger. In the Earth Federation, no psyker will ignore this kind of crisis perception, because people who ignore crisis perception will eventually All kinds of accidents will happen.

Leo chose to follow his instinctive perception, quickly gestured to the battlefield, and then no longer relied on rational judgment, but relied on vague perception judgment, chose a direction that made him feel most relaxed, walked into the gray fog, and walked into the gray mist. Walk through the jungle full of all kinds of strange trees.

Just like the jungle outside, there are all kinds of dangers hidden in the jungle here. In addition to the human-headed spider that I saw before, there are also all kinds of strange monsters, such as a big snake with a head completely made of bones, Thunder Ou took a little effort to kill this giant snake whose strength was comparable to that of a fifth-level psyker.

Just like the jungle, there are also a lot of resources here, because all the monsters he solved will be turned into ashes after death, and there will always be some things left in the ashes, some of which can be used to make various wizards and wonders Some of the psionic substances and rune traps are soul crystals. All in all, his storage space has been supplemented with a lot of psionic substances, and there is no need to worry about the material problem in a short period of time.

Through the timing function of the chip behind the ear, Leo walked for about four hours. The surrounding jungle remained unchanged, but the ground had some changes, from the grassy muddy ground of the primitive jungle to a relatively flat ground. It seemed that there were many traces of human trampling, and later some bricks and stones were found on the ground. He realized that he should have come to the edge of the jungle, and he was about to see the remains of a lost civilization.