The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"He should be Leo Dodd." A witch whispered.

Hearing the reminder from their companions, everyone came to their senses and showed stunned expressions.

As Sylvia's confidant, most of the members of the First Witch Squad know the reason why Sylvia has been single for so many years, and they are also very curious about Leo Dodd, because it is difficult for them to imagine a Such a powerful and intelligent witch would fall in love with a man, and had a child for him, living like a day for more than 20 years, which can be said to be unique among the witches in the entire Velen world.

Because after the witch's power begins to awaken, the character of the witch will also start to change with the power, and they will become extremely proud. No matter how outstanding a man is, they are just a plaything in their eyes, and no witch will treat a Playthings love.

Sylvia is definitely an outlier among the witches in the world of Velen. Therefore, when Sylvia founded the first witch group, many witches were willing to take the risk of crossing the sea for this reason, and went to the Minsk mainland to seek refuge with the king and the king. The Ice Queen was also unwilling to join Sylvia nearby.

If it weren't for Sylvia, she showed extraordinary strength and wisdom in several major events, and the Dodd Group she founded became one of the world's industrial giants, mastering huge financial resources and influence, turning around Otherwise, the No. 1 Witch Squad she founded would only be an empty shell instead of one of the three major witch forces.

Because of this, the members of the First Witch Squad are also extremely curious about Leo Dodd, a man who has made Sylvia fall in love with him and has remained unchanged for more than 20 years.

So they also tried to inquire about the news related to Leo Dodd, but after sorting out the information they collected, they were even more confused about Leo Dodd, because Leo Dodd was like a A universal person who knows everything, wizards, alchemists, scholars, adventurers, mechanical masters, smelting masters, etc. Others need to learn knowledge for a lifetime, and Leo Dodd seems to be able to master it easily.

And such an extremely miraculous person was extremely ordinary in his early years, so ordinary that he couldn't make a splash when thrown into the sea of ​​people, and all the changes in Leo Dodd came from the war between the Kingdom of England and the Empire of France. Or more correctly, it comes from the adventure that Leo Dodd and his comrades fled the battlefield after the war and chose to go through the Black Forest. Obviously Leo Dodd gained something in that adventure.

Not only the members of the First Witch Squad were curious about Leo Dodd's experience in the Black Forest, but even other people who studied Leo Dodd, or because of Sylvia, were also curious about Leo Dodd's experience. Curious.

Because they all believed that Leo Dodd should have experienced something in the Black Forest back then, which turned him from an ordinary person into an indescribable magical figure, and they also felt that Sylvia and the Black Forest The relationship between Leo Dodd was established because of Leo Dodd, so Leo Dodd must have seen the gods of the Black Forest back then, and received the blessing of the Gods of the Black Forest, which made him have an earth-shaking accident Change, because only the gods can change a person from the inside out.

For this reason, they even found Nelson Matthew and Jason, the comrades-in-arms who walked through the Black Forest with Leo Dodd back then, but they did not get any useful information from these two people. There is no useful information in the content, but because the two people's current identities are not ordinary, one is the president of the Special Forces of the Kingdom of England, and the other is the chief dean of the Kingdom's Medical College. As long as they don't want to say it, they are considered The King of England can't even expect to hear any useful information from them.

Because of this, Leo Dodd has become more and more mysterious in the eyes of those curious people, and the witches of the First Witch Group are among the group of people who are most curious about Leo Dodd. one.

Now, they have determined Leo Dodd's identity from Sylvia's behavior, and the curiosity in their hearts naturally drives them to look up and down Leo Dodd with eyes full of inquiry and examination. If they are by the side, they will even use their witch abilities to test Leo to see if Leo is as magical as the rumors say.

"Somewhat ordinary." After looking Leo up and down, a witch said in a low voice.

The other witches around nodded in agreement.

In their minds, their leader Sylvia is a unique existence, so the man whom they fall in love with should also be unique, so the Leo Dodd they constructed in their hearts, no matter temperament, appearance, or ability and wisdom All should be outstanding.

Although Leo's ability and wisdom have not been seen with his own eyes, the answer can be found in various related materials, and there is no need to judge, but his appearance and temperament are obviously unqualified in the eyes of these witches. , at least the appearance is completely unqualified, because Leo's appearance is really ordinary.

Although Leo's appearance cannot be said to be ugly, when he stands with Sylvia, he looks too ordinary. If it wasn't for the unique temperament of his high-level life form to make up for the complement in appearance, perhaps when he and the current Sylvia When Via stands together, people who see it will subconsciously have an illusion of Beauty and the Beast.

Although the witches were far away from the two of them, and their voices were very low, and their words were concealed and did not say clearly, their actions were still perceived by Sylvia, and it was easy to guess that these subordinates were now What are you thinking.

Sylvia was a little displeased, left Leo's embrace, turned to the witches and said, "Are you all doing nothing now? Or have you found the cause of the boiler explosion?"

Although Sylvia's tone seemed very calm, the same as usual, the witches couldn't help shivering. They already felt that Sylvia was angry.

So they immediately dispersed and investigated the cause of the explosion in the smelter according to their own methods.

After Sylvia watched the subordinates disperse, she turned her head, looked at Leo, and said with a wry smile: "I spoiled these guys too much in the past, and let them have no rules. It seems that I should add a section to them in the future." etiquette class."

Leo smiled and said, "You should know that I don't care about these things, nor these people."

"But I care." Sylvia emphasized, and then said with resentment while arranging some wrinkled clothes on Leo's body: "You have been away for too long this time, if Sean Donald hadn't come back alive , I saw the mark you left on him, maybe I thought you were dead. Next time if there is such a thing, I will not allow you to go alone, do you understand?"

Listening to Sylvia's resentful words, Leo could feel the change in her at this moment. This change is not a change in appearance, but a change in inner emotion. If it was Sylvia more than 20 years ago, Ya would never say such a thing. Obviously, the twenty years of waiting alone have changed her a lot.

"Okay, I will never be separated from you in the future." Leo also held Sylvia in his arms full of apology, and promised with absolute certainty.

Although it was just a simple emotion, an action and a promise, it made Leo feel that his emotions had been fulfilled at this moment. He was no longer a monster who accidentally acquired human emotions, but his thinking was still in the state of a biochemical person. But a real, flesh-and-blood human being.

Sylvia, who was held in Leo's arms, could clearly feel Leo's changes. She didn't know the details of Leo's changes, but she could feel that this change was a good thing.

The two hugged each other like this, standing quietly in the dust and fog, ignoring everything around them.

Although the dust covered the entire area, none of them fell on them. Any dust that came close would be pushed away by an invisible force, which made the two of them form an incongruous environment that was extremely incompatible with the surrounding environment. dust area.

It's just that the accidents happening around obviously don't want Leo and Sylvia to continue to be gentle, and a burst of explosions sounded again, and the surrounding dust was pushed by waves of heat, spreading towards the surroundings. Something happened to a steelmaking furnace.

"Hey! I wish we were in Aishali Garden instead of here." Sylvia reluctantly left Leo's embrace, looked at the fire in the distance, and said helplessly.

Leo reached out and stroked Sylvia's cheek and said, "It's okay, let's deal with the current matter first. Neither your experience nor mine can be explained clearly in one or two sentences during this period of time, so talk slowly." Afterwards, he said seriously: "This smelter did not have an accident due to man-made reasons."

Sylvia also calmed down and turned her attention back to the current factory accident. After hearing Leo's prompt, she immediately subconsciously said, "You're talking about the curse of this land."

Leo nodded.

Sylvia wondered: "I've also heard the rumor, so I checked the factory repeatedly before building it, but I didn't find anything unusual."

Leo didn't explain much, but reached out and touched Sylvia's forehead, and passed on the scene he saw through the Eye of Truth.

After seeing the scene that emerged in her mind, Sylvia immediately showed a shocked expression, because she never thought that such a big secret would be hidden in the city of Aodorine.

This also caused her to have some bad associations. She instinctively suspected those who proposed to build a factory in Aodolin, and also suspected that the Aodorain city government deliberately transferred this land to her at a low price.

Sylvia didn't need to say it out loud, Leo could easily guess what she was thinking at the moment just by Sylvia's expression, so he explained, "I think this secret is something other than me and you. No one else should know, even the people of the Church of the Lord of the Sky probably don't know about it, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to just set up a chapel here to provide support for the holy emblem of the city wall gods, but would Send a large number of people here to study the cause of this flesh giant. In addition, the city government of Audorin probably doesn't know about this flesh giant, but they should know that there is a problem with this land. They sold you this land, or they want to borrow it. Depending on your ability to solve the problems on this land, or because you want to see you suffer from this land, no matter what the reason is, the Odoline City Government should be regarded as uneasy and kind."

"Very well, since this is the case, I don't feel any guilt." Sylvia didn't show too much anger, she just said something to herself, and it's not difficult to hear from her words that in Before the incident happened here, she already had a plan to attack the city government of Aodorain, but now that the accident happened in the factory, it might become a useful pawn she used to deal with the city government of Aodorine.

"What are we going to do now?" Although it doesn't matter to Sylvia that the factory is completely destroyed, if the factory can be preserved, then it is still a very good thing for the Dodd Group, at least there is no need to At an additional cost, the site was re-selected and built from scratch.

"You go to deal with the aftermath of the accident, I'll go over there and take a look." Leo thought for a while, pointed to the smelting blast furnace where the blast first exploded, which is where the heart giant appeared, and said.

"You alone..." Sylvia was worried and hesitant.

"Don't worry, I've crossed that barrier now." In order to alleviate Sylvia's worry, Leo released his strength, and then quickly restrained it.

Although it was only a momentary event, the energy fluctuations caused by his release of power spread quickly and greatly, covering almost the entire factory area of ​​Aodorine, and almost everyone had the urge to kneel down and worship .

Fortunately, Leo quickly restrained his strength, so that those people did not take that impulse into action, and subconsciously thought that impulse was just an illusion.

Compared with other people, Sylvia, who was right next to Leo, could feel the details of Leo's power more clearly. Although she also had a similar impulse, the blood of the abyss dragon in her body made this This kind of natural influence from the high and low suppression of life forms has been reduced to the extreme.

Counting it, Sylvia has already half-stepped into the form of a higher life form, and just waiting for the opportunity to trigger her life form to complete the final transformation, she can become a real higher life form, that is, a demigod, so she He is particularly sensitive to the power of demigods, and knows Leo's current situation instantly.

Although she already knew about Leo's situation, Sylvia still couldn't help but asked in confirmation, "Are you a demigod now?"

"Yes." Leo nodded and said, "Now you don't need to worry about me too much. Even if something happens, I can get out smoothly."

Sylvia didn't say anything more, nodded, and then couldn't help telling: "But you still have to be careful, remember the promise you just made, I don't want you to break the promise just after you finish it." She said He paused again, and said complainingly: "And I don't have the energy to wait for you for another twenty years."