The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What is this?" Leo looked at the thing in his hand, frowned, and said to himself.

After returning to the hotel room from the museum, Leo washed up a bit before opening the box Dawson Quivan gave him.

However, he was puzzled by what was inside the box, because what was inside was just a very ordinary-looking stone carving. Judging from the style of the stone carving, features such as animal faces, plant patterns, and fire and rain symbols all showed that it came from A tribe in the wilderness.

Leo remembered that Shamanism in Mozambique belonged to the belief in natural gods. As many species as there are in nature, there are as many gods they believe in.

Among the tribes in the wilderness of the Mozambique continent, the most believed are plant gods and animal gods. All born children will regard a plant or an animal as a patron saint and serve them for life, so they usually regard themselves as a patron saint. It looks carved into a statue of a god or an accessory to carry with you.

Right now, this stone sculpture is not very big, and it looks like a statue of some kind of tribal protection god, but if you look carefully, you can find something wrong, because there is no spiritual rune of shaman on this statue .

Although not any tribal statues of patron saints need spiritual runes of shamans, stone carvings of gods like this one must have spiritual runes.

Because according to the traditional thinking of the tribes in the Mosang mainland, nature is not only full of nature protection gods, but also full of various evil spirits. If the god statues worn with you do not have spiritual runes, evil spirits may occupy the god statues, and then Causes damage to the owner of the deity, so spiritual runes are not only used to attract nature gods, but also to protect against evil spirits.

And another thing that puzzled Leo was the animal face of the stone statue of the guardian god, which he had never seen before, and there was no corresponding animal.

Scholars in the Kingdom of England are very obsessed with the primitive civilization of the Mozambique continent, and many of them are extremely advocating shamanism, conducting systematic research on shamanism, and have a deep understanding of tribal nature protection gods, which are closely related to shamanism Research, published more than 30 books before and after, and recorded in detail about the pictures and texts of the statues of nature protection gods, animal faces, plant patterns, etc.

Among them, the animal face patterns on the statues are the most recorded, reaching more than 3,900 kinds, covering almost all the wilderness tribes that have been discovered.

However, in the records of those animal-mask patterns, there is no animal-mask pattern on this stone carving, and the carving technique of the animal-mask pattern on this stone carving is different from that of traditional animal-mask patterns.

The traditional animal face pattern is to use a special flat knife to depict the animal face through the chisel marks of the flat knife. The number of knives used for each animal face is different. The simplest one is the one knife pattern, which represents a kind of fish in the wilderness. type, and the most complicated one is the thirty-seven knife pattern, which represents a very ferocious beast in the wasteland.

But now on the statue that Leo saw, sixty-nine knives were used to depict the animal face, and the various features of this animal face are also different from other animal face patterns, which seems to be a brand new Animal mask system.

However, when Dawson Quivan handed the thing to Leo, he told Leo that this thing would be useful when he went to the wasteland, which made Leo feel a little puzzled.

It would be fine if Dawson Quivan didn't know anything about Leo. After all, the wilderness of the Mosang Continent is definitely a dangerous area recognized by the whole world, not worse than the Black Forest.

But the problem is that Dawson knows who Leo is, and even thinks that Leo is a tower wizard, but even so he still thinks that Leo will be dangerous if he goes to the wasteland, and he will give it to Leo, who has no mysterious power, no feeling A portable stone sculpture like a keepsake, it means that in Dawson's heart, this stone sculpture is really useful to him.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Just when Leo was wondering what the purpose of this statue was, someone knocked on the door of the hotel. Leo felt it outside through the spiritual network. After knowing who was coming, There was a little smile on his face, and he walked over to open the door, and said to the people outside: "You arrived earlier than I expected."

"I came here by airship." After seeing Leo, Sylvia also showed a smile on her face, and stepped forward to hug Leo, looking very intimate, and then walked into Leo casually. In Ou's room, he put his clothes on the chair beside him, picked up the cup and wine from the wine cabinet and poured himself a glass, as if he was at his own home.

Leo didn't dislike Sylvia's intimacy. He walked up to Sylvia, took the glass, and asked, "Is the airship already practical?"

"Of course not, this airship is the one you took when you came here, but I have already bought it now." Sylvia shrugged and said, "Although it took some hands and feet, it went smoothly. Before leaving, the airship will be temporarily used by me, and after leaving, it will be handed over to the Church of the Hill King."

Leo didn't ask Sylvia how she bought the airship. Some means must have been used, and it seemed that the Church of the Hill King was also involved.

However, it is not difficult to imagine that the airship represents a tool comparable to, or even far beyond, the steam train. It is said that whoever masters the airship will master the next era.

Leo drank the wine in his glass and said, "The world is changing."

"I know." Sylvia was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "A lot of things have happened recently, and many of the family members under surveillance have suddenly lost control. The other witches and I can also feel the rapid growth and change of power. If it weren't for clearing up the out-of-control family members and familiarizing myself with the current power, maybe I could come here faster. That guy Seran is planning to come with me, but that guy can't control the flames on his body at all, burning non-stop... "

"You don't know, the world is changing, and the changes you see are only small changes," Leo shook his head, interrupting Sylvia, and said, "And the changes I'm talking about are the kind of big changes , For example, the gods are returning, and it won’t be long before the church regains the rights they lost in these years. For example, there are other things that came to this world with the gods, and these things may completely change the price of civilization in this world.”

"Other things?" Sylvia frowned and asked, "Are you talking about evil gods?"

"No, or not only." Leo was silent for a while, and said: "It may be something more unimaginable. Those things may come from the abyss, or they may be from other places."

The expression on Sylvia's face also became a little serious. Although the abyss is the origin of witches, they have an instinctive aversion to the abyss.

Although Leo's words sounded alarmist and seemed groundless, Sylvia chose to believe Leo's words, and did not ask how Leo came to this conclusion, because at least the changes mentioned by Leo , the return of the gods has occurred.

"The civil war in Marris will soon end." Sylvia suddenly said something inexplicable, and then got to the point, saying: "This is the decision of the king of the hill. Before I came here, the King of the Hill issued an incomparably clear oracle to the Pope of the Church to stop the civil war in Maris and rebuild the Knights of the Holy Helm."

The news revealed by Sylvia also surprised Leo. He was not surprised that the church intervened in the civil war in the Kingdom of Marris, but he was a little surprised that the hill king issued an oracle to rebuild the Knights of the Helm.

In the past, because of interference in secular affairs, the church created armed forces within the church to deal with various duties and functions. Among them were ordinary Christian warriors and more sophisticated knights, but in the church there were only A knight order will be named after the saint, that is, a knight order mainly composed of paladins.

The Knights of the Holy Helm of the King of the Hill is definitely one of the best among the Holy Knights of various churches in the world of Velen, and unlike the Holy Knights of other churches, the Knights of the Holy Helm are not standing knights.

In normal times, the Knights of the Holy Helm will be disbanded, and all the holy knights will take up different positions in other churches.

In the history of the Church of the Hill King, the Knights of the Holy Helm have only been reorganized eleven times, and each time is a major event of life and death for the Church of the Hill King. It means that in the near future, there will be big things happening in the Kingdom of Maris, or the entire Minsk continent.

"Where is your witch group?" Leo couldn't help asking: "What are your witch groups going to do?"

"The one in the north has already issued an invitation letter, and I hope that the witch group can go to Deliyat," Sylvia pouted, and said, "However, Saran is still considering it."

"Because of the grievances with the one in the north?" Leo asked.

"No." Sylvia shook her head, gave Leo a white look, and said, "She is the king of choice, and she is not so small. The main reason she considers is that she loves Sheli Forest. If the entrance is moved to the north, then she must stay here, which is the duty of the gatekeeper."

"There shouldn't be any problem with her relationship with the Church of the Hill King," Leo said again.

"That's not necessarily true." Sylvia denied Leo's painting again, and said: "The person who got the oracle is Archbishop Sith of Iron Thorn, he is the leader of the Primitive Church in the Hill King Sect, and Saran's The relationship is not good at all, that is, because he is the leader of the Church of the Hill King now, and he is also the person who is most likely to become the next pope, so the witch troupe will consider moving north." As she said, she seemed Unwilling to mention this matter, he changed the subject and said, "You said earlier that you encountered some interesting things on the road. Could it be from those interesting things that you discovered that the world has changed?"

"Yes." Leo nodded, and he didn't ask about the internal affairs of the Witch Group any more. Instead, he followed Sylvia's words and briefly explained what happened on his way to Moonlight City.

Although Sylvia also guessed that Leo must have encountered a lot of things, but after listening to Leo's narration, she was still a little surprised.

Because whether it is the ascension ceremony of the demigod on the top of the snow mountain, or the attack of the Lord of the Birth and Death of all things, every incident is spread enough to cause a sensation in the entire dark world, and the fact that the real eye man-made family found in Kugang City is more likely Sylvia also felt a little tingly about the big conspiracy involving some schools in the medical school.

"Damn it, damn it!" Sylvia suddenly thought of something, cursed again and again, walked back and forth in the room, and said angrily: "I knew it, I knew that guy Lawrence was upset and kind, damn it, he must be with you That life school colluded," she suddenly stopped and said with worry, "If this is true, Misha Town will be over."

"Misha Town?" Leo suddenly heard an unfamiliar name, thought for a while, and said, "Is it Misha Town in the south corner of Bowang?"

"Yes." Sylvia gradually calmed down, and told Leo about Misha Town without waiting for Leo to ask.

Misha Town is actually just a small town on a small cape at the southern end of Velen Continent. This town is famous in Fran for catching a kind of delicious silvery fish, and it is also very famous for its sea moon scenery.

However, under the influence of a strange disease that swept across the entire town, the town was completely isolated from the world. Even though the strange disease had passed, the people in the town were deformed due to the illness, which made outsiders dare not The town is getting closer, and there are fewer and fewer people in the town. According to the latest statistics, there are only less than 20 households.

However, before Sylvia came to the Minsk mainland, the town was reopened, because a large number of refugees from Miria poured into the United Kingdom of France, and many of these refugees were sick and unable to To identify whether it is a plague, so in order to resettle these refugees, the blood wizard Lawrence proposed to resettle these people in Misha Town, and invited the Life School of the Medical College to assist him in treating these people.

When Sylvia left, about 5,000 sick Miria refugees had already been placed in Misha Town, and the person in charge of treatment was the Life School of Medicine.

Compared with Leo, Sylvia must have more information channels. After Leo mentioned the matter of Dry Steel City, she knew that there was a medical school behind it, and she could easily find the source.

Moreover, she also thought of some of the past actions of the blood wizard Lawrence, and she almost didn't need to think too much before she had a judgment on the current situation in Misha Town.

As for, after listening to Sylvia's narration, Leo couldn't help but recall the blood wizard Lawrence he saw in the ruined Miria City after he returned to the world of Velen. I was puzzled about what the blood wizard was doing in Miria City, just because he didn't think much about other things. Now it seems that Lawrence, the blood wizard, may still have not given up on his experiments and is selecting suitable experimental products in Miria City.