The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After reaching an agreement with Prince Philip and the others, Leo did not stay in the attic room any longer, nor did he plan to participate in their negotiations with Duke Dewen, so he left the attic decisively, and by the way, the book The Night Book took away.

Rupert Fitz didn't seem to care about Leo taking the reward before completing the task, or more correctly, he didn't care about the gains and losses of the Book of Night.

When he took away the Book of Nightfall, Leo felt that Rupert Fitz was relieved, and his whole body seemed a lot more relaxed.

This is not Leo's illusion, but Leo's spiritual vision really saw a cold black spiritual energy radiating from Rupert Fitz's body, and this spiritual energy reappeared on him gather.

"Curse?" Leo felt that this spiritual energy was penetrating into his body, drilling into the bone marrow, he couldn't help frowning, and smiled again.

Compared to five days ago, Leo at this time already has a deep understanding of the mysticism of this world. With the support of a large amount of information in the sub-brain database, he dare not say that he is the person in the world who understands all kinds of mystical knowledge of the dark world best. , but it will definitely not be much worse than the people who specialize in the knowledge of the dark world from the Hearing Society.

At the moment when he felt the black spiritual power seeping into his body, Leo could easily determine what this black power was, and he also knew it source.

He is not worried about what harm this spiritual power will do to him, on the contrary, he looks forward to the effect that this power can produce, so that he can experience the effect of this magical power for himself, and use it to study its mystery.

By reading a lot of occult materials, Leo knew that there are many more types of psionic power called magic power in this world than the psionic power of the Earth Federation. Statistics may be more.

The psychic energy of the Earth Federation is mainly two types of control and destruction. For example, the spiritual net and the spiritual chain are control-like psychic powers. The goal pursued by psykers.

However, this world is more willing to divide the psionic power called magic in a very detailed way. In addition to the psionic powers such as destruction and control that the Earth Federation already has, there are also various other psionic powers with different effects such as curse, healing, and protection. able.

In addition, power and scope are not the main pursuit of psykers in this world. Control is the most frequently mentioned word in all books about magic in occultism. Almost all books related to magic, including wizard notes, constantly emphasize Uncontrolled magic can be fatal to the user.

Among all the magical powers, the most difficult to control is the curse. A book that records curse cases mentions more than once that anyone who uses curse witchcraft to curse others will also be hurt by the cursed power. Every time in the book The final result of a story is that neither the cursed nor the cursed end well.

In the old earth era of the Earth Federation, there were many stories about curses, but the Earth Federation has proved that the power of curses does not exist.

So when Leo confirmed from the book that this world possesses this magical power called curse, he became curious about this power. Now he can feel that this cursed spiritual energy is penetrating into his body little by little, and he feels even more in his heart. More excitement than fear.

At this time, Leo directly activated the three psionic skills of mechanical will, perfect control and spiritual vision, making his control and observation of psionic power reach the limit at this stage.

It's just that he didn't control his psychic power to expel the curse, but just observed from the sidelines, allowing the power of the curse to seep in and gradually attach to his bones, forming the same Turing root one by one.

At the moment when the root of Turing was formed, Leo felt a psionic energy that had never been produced in his brain out of thin air, and this psionic energy penetrated into some nerve cells in the brain and merged with it , became part of his brain.

"Dream factor?" This situation reminded Leo of a hypothesis of the Earth Federation.

A scientist who is also a psychic proposes that the reason why human beings dream is that some nerve cells in the cerebral cortex are infected by some kind of psychic energy, which passively connects the human spirit with a certain dream subspace, and finally produces a dream. dream, and the person who put forward this hypothesis called this kind of spiritual energy the dream factor.

"What's the matter with you? Did they make any embarrassing demands?" At this time, Wayne Thomas, the ambassador of the Kingdom of England to Miria, who had been waiting in the corridor, saw Leo walking out of the room with a look on his face. A little dignified, he couldn't help but greeted him and asked.

At this time, after discovering that the curse psychic power had ceased to be active, Leo also released all kinds of psychic power skills and returned to normal. In front of the police headquarters in Miria City tomorrow."

"What? Asked you to assassinate the head of the First Legion in front of the police headquarters?" Wayne Thomas couldn't help showing doubts after hearing Leo's narration, and asked in a deep voice: "Did you assassinate?" Is it possible to be discovered?"

"Why do you ask that?" Leo asked suspiciously.

Wayne Thomas said with a serious expression: "Recently, the Kingdom is preparing for peace talks with Duke Devin. If someone finds out about your assassination of the head of the First Legion at this time, it may be detrimental to the peace talks."

"Peace talks?" Leo was stunned, and couldn't help sneering: "I'm curious, in the eyes of the nobles of the kingdom, what are the soldiers who died in Bretui? ​​Toy soldiers that can be discarded at any time?"

Hearing Leo's words, Wayne Thomas didn't refute. In fact, when he got the news, he also felt the same atmosphere, but he also felt helpless.

Wayne Thomas was silent for a while, and said: "Three days ago, the Duke of Devin rented fifty Veyron-class warships from the Kingdom of Sigmar, and cooperated with the fleet of the French Empire itself, to blockade the surrounding waters of Venaya Port. , the Seventh, Ninth and Thirteenth Legions of the French Empire on the ground have blocked all the passages on the land. Now there are more than 100,000 British soldiers trapped in Venaya Port. If it were you, what would you do? ?”

Leo replied coldly: "If it were me, I would not start such an inexplicable war, at least not without preparation."

Wayne Thomas chuckled slightly mockingly, and said: "Don't say it so confidently, it's because you didn't sit on that chair at all, and when you sit on it, you will find out how much you said today. naive."

"Don't you two think your current conversation is ridiculous?" Annie stood beside the two and said with a smile: "A fringe politician who was thrown into the enemy country, a low-level soldier who was nothing, is now arguing about this completely The state affairs that are not close to the hands, even I feel a little absurd when I hear it?"

Hearing what Anne said, Leo was stunned, feeling that he seemed to see himself more and more as an Englishman, he couldn't help but smiled at himself, and Wayne Thomas also showed the same self-deprecating smile.

Leo quickly put away his smile, thought about what Wayne Thomas said, was silent for a moment, and then asked Wayne Thomas: "Your Excellency, please send me the information about the First Legion outside the city later." Leave it to me, and the information of the head of the First Legion should be as detailed as possible, and it would be best to have a map of the camp.”

"What are you going to do?" Wayne Thomas was stunned for a moment, hearing the meaning of Leo's words, it seemed that he did not intend to follow Prince Philip's request to deal with the head of the First Legion in public tomorrow, but otherwise idea.

"Your Excellency, you just need to send the information, and don't ask any more questions." Leo didn't explain, turned to Annie, and asked, "Where are Jason and the others? I have something I want to tell them." .”

Annie replied immediately: "I have arranged them in the Stone Palace now, it is safer there than here, I will take you to meet them!"

After speaking, Annie led Leo out of the red house and walked towards the stone palace not far away.

On the way, Leo opened his mental net to check the surrounding situation, and soon a large amount of information was fed back to his retina. Seeing these data and information, he frowned, walked to Annie's side, and asked in a deep voice: Said: "Do you know who appointed the person who attacked you?"

"I don't know!" Annie shook her head and said, "We thought it was Rupert, but he didn't admit that he did it. Rupert is a man who doesn't bother to lie about this kind of thing. Why do you suddenly ask This question?" After speaking, she immediately became alert, looked around calmly, and said, "Is there danger around?"

"It's just some eyes and ears." Leo confirmed the location of the eyes and ears closest to him, and motioned to Annie. Annie also cooperated with him to cover, hooked his arm, turned around and walked to a women's cosmetics shop. middle.

Then, when Anne was picking cosmetics, he used the excuse of going to the toilet, climbed over the high wall from the small courtyard behind the shop, attached his spiritual energy to the soles of his feet, stepped on the red tiles of the roof silently, and came to the distance. The second floor of a residential building not far from the cosmetics store.

After standing at the window for a while, he saw Leo slam the window open and jump directly into the room on the second floor of this residential house. Clasping it in his hand, he directly performed psychic spells, driving the spirit chain into the other person's brain, and absorbing the information in the brain.

A large amount of information was ingested from the other party's brain and was absorbed and archived by the sub-brain system. When the extracted information became chaotic and fragmented, Leo stopped the psychic technique and let the spiritual chain dissipate naturally, and the old man whose memory was extracted by him also Without exception, they turned into dementia.

As Leo expected, the old man was indeed a spy, and he was also a leader with a high status, but what surprised him was that these spies were not the spies of the enemy country of France, nor the spies of the Kingdom of England. , but a secret agent of the Kingdom of Marris.

Since the psionic power has reached level three, the ability to control the psionic power has also been raised to the third level, so that the effect of spiritism has also been improved, and the extracted memories are no longer chaotic fragments, but relatively complete memories, which saves a lot of time. It was time for the sub-brain system to sort out and analyze the memory, and the moment he returned to the shop, he had already sorted out the secret agent's memory.

Through these memories, Leo knew that this spy was a small leader of the Maris Kingdom's black organization in the Miria area, and controlled part of the Maris Kingdom's secret agents in the city of Miria.

The people who attacked the Red House last time were not from Duke Dewin or Rupert, but from the Kingdom of Marris. The reason was not because of what happened in the Faran Empire, but because of the flint in Jason's hand. Hand cannon.

The Kingdom of Maris has always favored gunpowder weapons. The first organized gunpowder army in the world of Velen came from the Kingdom of Maris, and the first artillery army composed of special gunpowder also came from this country. There are rumors that this The country has begun to improve newer types of gunpowder, but the results are unknown. In short, this country has an unusual obsession with any kind of gunpowder weapon.

When Jason maintained the flintlock guns on hand in the red house, and tried firing a few rounds, he was accidentally seen by the officers of the Maris Kingdom embassy passing by here, which aroused the interest of the Maris Kingdom. Then a series of things happened.

The reason why the Men in Black organization still sends spies to monitor the red house is because they discovered that Wayne Thomas, the ambassador of the Kingdom of England, suddenly visited the house, and there were some more people from unknown forces around the house.

Some people from the Men in Black organization had some conflicts with people from these forces. Not only did they not gain the upper hand, but they also lost some of their manpower. Therefore, the Men in Black organization, out of curiosity, sent people to continue to monitor this place in order to find out Some useful intelligence information.

After leaving the cosmetics store with Annie, Leo told Annie about what he had just found out. Annie was also a little surprised when she heard this. Like Leo before, she believed that the attackers were not from Rupert. It was the Duke of Devin, who never thought that he would be related to the Maris Kingdom.

"Nelson and Jason are in the Stone Palace now, will there be any trouble?" Leo asked in a deep voice as he quickened his pace.

Annie shook her head and said, "There shouldn't be any trouble. The Church of the Hill King and the Kingdom of Marris are not one. The church does not need to obey the orders of the Kingdom of Marris. In addition, Nelson and Catherine have The world's first set of battlefield emergency care manuals have been sorted out. The medical school and the medical association have decided to award the highest level of the seven-leaf clover medal. The Maris Kingdom should not do anything bad to them. Jason's weapon was taken away for surveying and mapping."

The two were talking, and soon came to the main entrance of the Giant Stone Palace.