The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Book of Distortion is very famous in various churches in the Velen World, mainly because this book is the only banned book that both the Church of True God and the Church of Evil God in the World of Velen jointly banned, and when this book was banned, the Orthodox Church The family has not yet appeared, and all the churches are still just a single church in its own way. In the era when even the churches of the true God will attack each other, it is enough to make all the churches make the same decision. Banned books are among the most famous banned books in the world, none of them.

Although the Book of Distortion is very famous, this kind of fame is only limited to the various churches in Velen and some caring people. The vast majority of ordinary people have not even heard of this book.

Leo's understanding of the Twisted Book comes from a collection of banned books written by Rembrandt himself in his early years, in which he recorded various banned books in the world of Velen.

It's just that the content inside is not complete for some reason, and most places have been deleted, so the reference value is not very great.

But this anthology has already made Leo remember the forbidden book of the Twisted Book, because in that anthology only the name of the Twisted Book is written on the first page, and the content is completely blank, while other books in the anthology, such as Madman Thirteen Ancient God knowledge, there are some text introductions, which also makes him take the initiative to find information related to the Distorted Book in the future.

After that, all the information he got about the Twisted Book was fragmented, but this was enough for him to piece together a complete picture of the Twisted Book.

In the minds of various churches, the threat level of the Twisted Book is at the top, so much so that they even erase the author's name from all written records, let alone the folks don't know who the author of the Twisted Book is. , not even the wizards of the tower know the author's name.

It's just that the tower wizard tried every means to collect all kinds of information, and finally found a clue, confirming that the author of the twisted book should be the canonizer of a certain church at that time.

In the early days of the development of various churches in the Vinylon world, the canonization of believers was very strict. It is far from the requirements for canonization as it is now, and the requirements for canonization have become very low. You only need to contribute a little to the development of the church, and it is possible to be canonized after death.

At that time, among the various churches in Vilen, only those who received the extreme favor of the gods, were qualified to be called the sons of God, and made great merit were eligible for canonization, and this was only a qualification. It only depends on the attitude of the church where the person canonize, other surrounding churches also need to agree with the canonization of this person in order to be truly canonized.

This is only the difficulty of canonization after death. It is a hundred times more difficult to be canonized after death. There are only two cases of canonization of living people clearly recorded in the world of Velen. The first one is St. Pran who established the city-state civilization, the second is St. Cameron who established the Orthodox Church, and the person who wrote the twisted book should be the third living person to be canonized, but his record has been completely erased I can't find the reason for its canonization.

However, according to various historical documents, the tower wizards and a small number of banned books scholars believe that this disappeared saint is very likely to be Luo Pulang, who founded the first empire in the world of Velen, the Black Forest Empire. He is a descendant of Saint Pulang , and disappeared suddenly after the establishment of the Black Forest Empire, and the Black Forest Empire also fell apart afterwards. The first dynasty of Faran was established under the wreckage of the Black Forest Empire.

Because the appearance and disappearance of the Black Forest Empire is too short, according to estimates, it is less than two months, so many scholars doubt whether there is such a thing as the Black Forest Empire, but compared with folk scholars, the tower wizard seems very sure The existence of the Black Forest Empire suggests that they should have conclusive evidence.

It's just that not everyone agrees that Luo Pulong is the one who disappeared and canonized. Even if the world history of Velen is counted, it seems that only Luo Pulong has the qualification to be canonized as a living person, but the existence of Luo Pulong There is a very large gap between time and the time when the Distorted Book appeared. It has been more than 500 years. If it is to be canonized, it has already been canonized by the tribal beliefs of primitive religions at that time, just like Saint Pu Like Lang, there is no need to wait for more than five hundred years before he can be canonized.

However, those who questioned Luo Prang's canonization hypothesis can also find an explanation, that is, Luo Prang received the blessing of the Lord of the Black Forest, gained endless life, and also gave him a kind of ability The ability to travel through the void world, which eventually helped him complete the Twisted Book.

No one knows the specific content of the Twisted Book, because all the churches have recorded that the Twisted Book was banned and destroyed by all churches on the day it was completed. Even the churches only know about the Twisted Book. Names, and some fragmented information that cannot be verified.

However, the wizard of the high tower deduced the general content of the book of twists by collecting fragments of information. This content is not a magical thing, it is just a traveler's travelogue, but the traveler's visit is not the world of Velen The various towns and forests in the world are different worlds that cannot be understood by normal people.

Just because it cannot be understood by humans, anyone who reads the contents of this book will be instantly distorted from body to mind, turning into a distorted monster whose shape cannot be described. This is also the reason why this book will be destroyed.

However, the banned book that should have been destroyed now fell into his own hands. Both Leo and Sylvia were very curious people, and they really wanted to see what was in it.

However, Leo was still a little puzzled, and said, "Do you think that if this book is really a book of twists, then it doesn't deserve the name?"

"Why do you say that?" Sylvia asked puzzled.

"As you imagine, both the importance of the church and the mystery of the book itself far surpass the madman's knowledge of the thirteen ancient gods, but..." Leo said as he looked at the twisted book covered by his clothes, Said: "But the effect shown in this book now seems to be very different from those records. It feels that it is not as strong as in the legend, and there is even a gap compared with the knowledge of the thirteen ancient gods of the madman. It is far from being called the first book. Such a reputation as a banned book."

Sylvia nodded in agreement after hearing this. Although she was hit just now and her sanity was affected by the book, it was only because she was not defensive. Now she is defensive and even does some Necessary protective measures, when reading this book again, the impact will be much smaller, and may not even be affected.

From this point of view, the twisted book she thinks is indeed a bit of a misnomer, because in the church, the twisted book is called the source of disaster, as long as it appears, it will bring endless disasters to the world, so it is necessary to use it destroy.

But even if this distorted book is distributed among the people, it may be difficult for this book to have a greater impact on the world. After all, the monsters produced by this book's distorted mind and body may not be as powerful as those raging in the world of Velen. How dangerous are mutants.

However, even after making this judgment, Sylvia still felt that this book was the Twisted Book, not because the shell of this book was exactly the same as the Twisted Book she knew, but because of an inexplicable It felt as if the name of Book of Distortion was engraved in her mind the moment she saw this book.

"Forget it, we don't need to know whether this book is really a book of distortion, we just need to know whether the content in this book can let us know the secret of Wanghai Cliff." Leo looked at Hill With a pensive look on her face, Via reached out and patted her on the shoulder, and then said seriously: "You were not in the right state when you read this book, so don't touch this book. After I read the contents, Let me tell you what's inside."

Sylvia opened her mouth to veto Leo's proposal, but she didn't say it in the end, because she also felt that something was wrong when she read the book. Before finding out the reason, it was indeed not right. Should read that book again.

Thinking of this, the original words of veto have also become words of approval.

The two returned to the castle, Sylvia went to take care of the two little ones, and Leo came to the lighthouse on his stomach, where he was going to read the book of distortion.

In addition to worrying about any accidents when reading the Distorted Book, he hoped to reduce the impact of the accident through the hidden power of Wang Haiya. He also hoped to resonate with the power of Wang Haiya through reading the Distorted Book. , to take a peek at the secret of Wang Haiya's hidden power. After all, this book has the answer to Wang Haiya's hidden power, and it may resonate with this power.

However, it is obvious that these things are completely over-thought by Leo. He has made complete preparations in the lighthouse, and has arranged various rune magic circles inside and outside the lighthouse. He took it out and opened it cautiously, but in the end nothing happened, as if what he opened was just an ordinary book.

"How could this be?" Leo looked at the opened Book of Distortion with some puzzlement, and began to incline to the previous speculation that this book might really not be the Book of Distortion.

When he opened this book, Leo only felt a slight discomfort, just like his first subspace voyage, he felt a little nausea, but this feeling disappeared quickly, as if it had never happened Similarly, this situation is really far from the number one banned book in his mind.

It's just that, soon Leo didn't worry about whether this book was a book of twists or not. It didn't matter to him whether it was a book of twists or not. What he liked was the book mentioned by Bailu. The secret of Wanghai Cliff recorded in this book.

So he quickly cleared the distracting thoughts in his mind, and began to flip through the ancient book in his hand.

The text used in this book is an ancient Black Forest tribal language called Gajaluka. Because this language is one of the original languages ​​of the French language, this language is also very well preserved in the French Empire. in the literature.

Although the details of this language were lost several times due to the war, but due to the relatively complete preservation of the documents and the continuous excavation of ancient tribal relics, a large number of Gajaluka scripts were found on some relics. The patterns are formed, and the characters of this language become more and more complete.

Leo has also learned this language, although because this language is not a language with special power like Gamore, he did not spend too much effort on this language, just staying in the reading of general characters. Writing and meaning cognition.

So much so that when he reads this book written entirely in Gagaluka, it is a bit difficult for him to read, and the reading progress is very slow. There are even some contents in the book that cannot be confirmed because of damage, so he has to stop. Contrast the context and analyze the content before continuing to read.

Fortunately, this situation will not last for too long. As Leo gradually mastered the laws of this language, his reading speed also began to speed up, becoming a normal reading speed.

About three hours later, Leo finished reading the last page of the book. He closed the back cover, looked at the distorted patterns and symbols on the back cover, and muttered to himself: "This book looks like a book. It really looks like a twisted book."

The reason why Leo made this judgment is entirely because the content of this book is the same as the legendary book of distortion, which is a travelogue describing the void and different worlds. In this book, the author uses large paragraphs of text to describe The things he saw, but most of the words were chaotic and disorderly, without any interpretation value.

But it is the kind of spiritual shock produced by the blending of disordered and chaotic words, which even Leo who is prepared can't avoid, and it appears in the heart along with this shock, There are still some blurry images of things in the mind.

Leo could see twisted branches, distorted landscapes, and dead black skies in those blurred images, which in every way indicated that what he saw was a human being. A world on the verge of destruction.

And this reading state also made him understand why this twisted book made him and Sylvia feel that the name was not worthy of the name. The reason is very simple, that is, after so many years of consumption, the power contained in this book has already Not much left.

But even this little remaining power can still cause Sylvia and him to have some negative reactions. It can be seen that when this book was written, what kind of impact the power contained in it would have on the society at that time. There will be some damage to the environment, so it is not unreasonable for various churches to call it a source of disaster and destroy it.

In addition, Sylvia's judgment is correct. There is not only one Book of Distortion, there should be many. As for how many Leo there are, I just know that there are at least eleven books, because he The distorted book in hand is the eleventh volume, and how many distorted books were destroyed by various churches at the beginning, and how many distorted books were preserved are still mysteries.