The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The old capital of the Panier Kingdom is also known as the city of Yunding, the city of the sky, because it is a city built on the top of a mountain. Once the clouds rise in the mountains, if you look at it from a distance, you will see the city of the old capital in the sky. Looming in the clouds, this scene was faithfully recorded by the first group of adventurers who came to Cancantotan that year, and also drew a very detailed panorama picture, which many writers and poets from other continents followed Of these records, various works of literature were written about Cancantortan.

In addition to the city of Yunding and the city in the sky, the old capital is also called the city of gold, because all the buildings in this city are engraved with various patterns, and the patterns are inlaid with gold. When the sun shines on the city, , Those who look at the city from a distance will see a city of gold.

It is precisely because of the magic of the city of Yunding and the wealth of the city of gold that all the colonists who came to Mozambique mainland wanted to conquer this city and become the master of this magical city, and even colonists for a while There is a very absurd but far-reaching legend circulating in the middle. This legend claims that whoever conquers Cancantotan can become the master of the Mosang continent.

However, as long as anyone with a little brain can hear how absurd such a legend is, because even the Panier indigenous tribe who now controls Cancantotan is not qualified to be the master of the Mosang continent, let alone other foreign tribes. the ones.

But it was such a lie that could be easily dismantled that made many people feel credible. Among them were some generals and dignitaries who held real power. A large number of troops were sent to the mountains of Panier to search for this city. Only a handful of these troops were able to leave the forest alive. It was not until the establishment of the United Kingdom of America and California that this rumor gradually subsided, and the relocation of the capital of the Panier Kingdom was probably related to this incident. The Panier royal family was afraid of themselves. What unnecessary troubles have been caused by the big trees in the capital city.

However, that magical city whose reputation resounded throughout the world of Velen has now become a pile of ruins. Face to face, a large number of buildings have already collapsed due to disrepair for a long time, and the remaining buildings can only be supported by the vines that grow all over the city.

At present, the only building in the old capital that can still maintain its previous form is the altar that was transformed from a mountain top in the city center. Because it is supported by the mountain inside, the whole building still stands majestically in the center of the city, and it can generally be kept intact. And the most amazing thing is that there are no vines all over the city on this altar, as if there is a power in the altar that can drive away vines.

When Sylvia was adventuring in Mozambique, although the old capital of Panier had been abandoned, it was not completely in ruins. Some old Panier still lived in this dying city. In the movie, they seem to be ready to die with the city.

But now, this city in the sky is completely dead. Apart from plants, there are only some small animals in the city, without any human breath. Walking in the city will make people feel inexplicably eerie.

Leo and Sylvia had arrived at the city in the sky before noon, but they found that they were not the only two of them in the city, and there was also a team of shaman apprentices consisting of more than a dozen people. Study here.

Judging from the uniform costumes worn by these shaman apprentices, these shamans should all come from a shaman sect called the Way of the Ancient Spirit Tour, and the place where they practiced is in the altar in the city.

There are many sects within Shamanism, not counting the various sects that have sprung up like mushrooms in recent years, there are more than 4,000 sects of Shamanism in the past alone.

If other churches have so many sects, it will definitely cause the church to be on the verge of splitting, but for shamanism, the number of factions will not affect the specifications of shamanism, because those shaman believers do not necessarily only believe in a single type of shamanism They can believe in many kinds of shamanism, and can even use the shamanism of various factions to combine into new faction doctrines and form new shamanism factions. The Guling Pilgrim Sect is such a faction.

The Ancient Spirit Pilgrimage Sect is composed of three shaman sects, one is the Spiritual God Sect with the animism as the core, the other is the Ancient Spirit Sect with the belief in wild gods, and the last is the barefoot shamanism with asceticism. The Pilgrimage Sect, these three sects were mixed together to form the current Guling Pilgrimage Sect.

The believers of this sect will spend their whole lives looking for ten ancient wild gods, and then get a little spirituality from the wild gods from the wild gods, and finally use the spirituality of these ancient wild gods to ignite their own spirituality, so that they can finally become new wild gods.

Among the current shamanism, the Guling Pilgrimage sect is not the shaman sect with the most believers, and there are not many official shamans in this sect, but this sect is one of the few shaman sects that allow the spread of teachings in the northern and southern tribal alliances. There are shamanisms with seats in both the north and south holy mountains.

When Leo and Sylvia came to the old capital of Panier, they were a little surprised when they saw this group of shaman apprentices who were on a pilgrimage, and at the same time thought it seemed reasonable. After Via, the look of surprise on their faces was stronger. At the same time, they did not show any kindness, but were full of vigilance and hostility. They seemed to regard Leo and Sylvia as enemies, and even stood in the city. The gate entrance blocks the way of entry.

"It looks like we've come to the right place." Seeing this, Sylvia smiled, turned her head and said to Leo.

"Yes, you've come to the right place!" Leo looked past the shaman apprentice who was blocking the way ahead, and looked towards the towering altar.

The reason why the two had such a conversation was because the reaction of the shaman apprentices of the Ancient Spirit Pilgrim Sect after seeing them just confirmed their previous guess, that is, there was a powerful existence hidden here, This existence may be some kind of extraordinary creature, or it may be some kind of intelligent mutant creature. All in all, these shaman apprentices now regard them as desolate gods they worship.

Among the many sects of the Shaman Church, the Guling Pilgrim Sect is not very powerful, and there are not many members, but it can be highly valued in the Shamanism of the two holy mountains in the north and the south, and even arranges a seat to win over, because of the sect's The shaman possesses an extremely miraculous ability, which was once regarded as the ability to save humans from being destroyed by mutant monsters in the world of Velen. A mutant monster lives in peace, and the mutant monster will not attack these people.

When the shamanism publicized this ability to the outside world, the outside world thought it was a fake, because there were countless examples in the past that showed that mutant monsters had no intelligence and only knew how to kill and hunt.

Knowing that the shaman of the ancient spirit patrol school appeared in the monster tide, when everyone was fighting with the monsters, those monsters turned a blind eye to the shaman of the ancient spirit patrol school. As long as the shaman of the ancient spirit patrol school did not attack the monsters, they would Riding on the monster, the monster will not attack him, or throw him away, as if it regards him as its own companion.

For a while, the Ancient Spirit Pilgrimage became the most popular theory at that time. Almost everyone was studying the Ancient Spirit Pilgrim, even the various True God churches of the Orthodox Church. Shamanism also relied on this matter to spread rapidly in the Mosang Continent. expand influence.

However, people in the church soon discovered that the teachings of the Ancient Spirit Pilgrim Sect were not the reason why those shamans could coexist peacefully with mutant monsters, but that the shamans of the Ancient Spirit Pilgrim Sect had unknown characteristics that had not yet been solved. , this characteristic is the reason why those shamans can live in peace with mutant monsters.

Afterwards, with further investigation, someone discovered that the Ancient Spirit Patrol Sect actually captured some powerful and living mutant monsters, and then regarded these mutant monsters as the wild gods they believed in, and obtained a little spirituality from these mutant monsters, and that This kind of spirituality derived from mutant monsters is the reason why these shamans can live in peace with mutant monsters.

Although they know the method, there are very few people who follow the method of the Ancient Spirit Pilgrim Sect, because the probability of success of this method is very small. Most people either go crazy and die, or die while gaining spirituality. It is a direct mutation and collapse, and even if he succeeds in obtaining spirituality without going mad or dying, that person will be like a different person, completely abandoning all past customs and beliefs, and becoming a devout shaman apprentice of the Ancient Spirit Pilgrimage Sect. Taking the path of pilgrimage and practice, even if that person was a senior priest who was blessed by the true God before, this result cannot be changed.

Although the current Ancient Spirit Pilgrim Sect has not split internally, their pilgrimage practice has begun to show signs of bifurcation. Because the south is deep into the wilderness, although there are mutant monsters there, there are even more powerful extraordinary creatures. These creatures They are all regarded as wild gods, so the worship objects of the ancient spirit pilgrimage in the south are these wild gods, but it is difficult for the ancient spirit pilgrims in the north to find suitable wild gods, they can only worship the shamanism The object is placed on a powerful mutated monster.

Although the ultimate goal of the two is the same, the process of the two is very different. The ancient spirit pilgrims who worship the wild gods have a special temperament called natural breath, even ordinary people You can also vaguely feel a little difference.

However, the Guling Pilgrims who worship those powerful mutated monsters are more or less infected with the crazy aura of some mutated monsters, making people who come into contact with them feel extremely uncomfortable. There is an illusion of being eaten.

It is also this obvious difference in temperament that makes it easy for Leo and Sylvia to identify the affiliation of these ancient spirit pilgrims, and it is almost confirmed that there should be a powerful mutant monster here. I can't be 100% sure, because if the ancient spirit pilgrims in the north meet a suitable wild god, they will also use it as an object of worship for practice.

"There's nothing you're looking for here, you'd better leave!" A voice speaking in standard American Calican came from behind the crowd, followed by shaman apprentices step aside one after another, an elderly man in formal shaman costume The shaman came out from the crowd and stood opposite Leo and Sylvia, and then he said to Sylvia as if he knew Sylvia: "You are in trouble and dare to come here to mess around Go shopping, aren't you afraid that your Dodd group will be annexed during this time?"

"If I'm not here, the Dodd Group is so easy to be annexed, then it has no value in existence." Seeing this old shaman, Sylvia retorted like an acquaintance, and then fought Relatively sarcastically said: "When did you, Rustav, start to believe in Shamanism? You also chose the Ancient Spirit Pilgrimage School. Don't you really plan to be a human? Or are you not a human?"

The old shaman ignored Sylvia's provocation, turned his head to look at Leo, his eyes were full of vigilance, then turned around and gestured to his apprentice shaman, and led the shaman who were blocking the way The apprentice turned around and walked towards the altar, seemingly not intending to stop the two of them.

However, Sylvia didn't intend to just let the other party go, and shouted at the other party: "Are these little guys the sacrifices you selected this time, just like the ones you selected back then. "

Hearing Sylvia's words, the old shaman stopped for a while, didn't turn around, and continued to walk forward, seemingly unaffected by it, while those shaman apprentices were stunned, looked at each other, as if Because of Sylvia's words, they had some thoughts, but they didn't show it, and they still followed behind the old shaman.

"Is he that Rustav?" Leo also found a file with the same name, and confirmed, "Calanson's Rustav?"

"Well, that Rustav who goes to school with the beast first." Sylvia nodded, and the disgust on her face didn't weaken in the slightest.

It's no wonder that Sylvia has such an expression. After seeing the old shaman, she will mock him one after another. The main reason is that the shame that this person brought to her back then is too great, and it is still the result of her life experience. If you want to say who in this world wants the old shaman to die the most, then Sylvia is definitely one of the top five.

This Rustav is one of the members of the Alien Society and a well-known scholar of the Royal Academy of the former French Empire. His theory of human nature and animal nature is regarded as the originator of the school of self-reflection philosophy.

After the fall of the French Empire, he fled to Mozambique as a refugee, and because of his relationship with members of the Heterogenetic Society, he also gained Sylvia's attention, and was appointed by Sylvia as the newly established Porto Truth Academy. the Dean.