The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When the sun advanced to a certain angle, a ray of light on the lake happened to shine on a pillar in the middle of the ruined pavilion where Sylvia and Leo were, and Leo immediately felt a burst of energy emanating from the pillar. The wave merged with the energy waves at the top of the three surrounding peaks, as if some kind of restriction had been activated.

"It's already turned on, let's go in!" Sylvia suddenly said to Leo at this moment, and then saw her walking quickly towards the lake, stepping into the reflection of the setting sun on the lake, and disappearing instantly not see.

Seeing this scene, Leo seemed to understand, followed up, stepped on it, and when his feet landed on the lake, what he felt on the soles of his feet was not the water without force, but the solid ground At the same time, the scene in front of him is no longer a lake and mountain view, but an island in the lake that is not too big.

"This is the secret library I discovered back then." Sylvia stood beside Leo, looked around with a little nostalgia, and said with emotion: "After so many years, this place still remains the same. In 2019, there may not be any changes here.”

"Well, you're right!" Leo looked around and agreed, "As long as this subspace debris doesn't collapse, everything here can be preserved forever."

"Subspace debris?" Sylvia looked at Leo suspiciously.

Leo didn't explain too much, but looked around seriously, and opened the spirit net to investigate the surrounding situation.

I saw that although this island looks like an island in the middle of a lake, its location seems to be in the lake on the top of the mountain before, but in fact all this is an illusion, and now Sylvia and Leo are no longer in the position of Panier The old capital is no longer even in the world of Velen, but in a subspace plane attached to the world of Velen. This can be proved by the fact that Leo's spiritual network is no longer affected.

The island is not big, the surface is very flat, and there are no buildings. Standing in Leo's position, one can have a panoramic view of the island at a glance.

The entire island is covered with polished rocks except for a line near the water that is covered with mud. Except for a few places that are slightly arched, the rest of the island is very flat. If you look down from the air, the island It's more like a big platform in the water.

There are five identical buildings on the island, all of which are palace-shaped buildings, built according to the orientation of the four corners in the middle, and the interior of the buildings at the four corners are all solid. The building is a normal building, but the normal is only the appearance of the building, and the interior is very strange, because there are no decorations or facilities inside the palace, only a square stone house, surrounded by the house and the roof. Each has a relief door that looks like it was carved.

After surveying with the Spirit Net, Leo said in a deep voice, "This place was not built by the Paniers. The style of these buildings is completely different from that of the Panirians."

"I think so too. The architectural style here is a bit like Savile's desert style." Sylvia nodded, then walked to the nearest solid building, pointed to the densely carved patterns on it, and said: "However, the embossed text on it is not Savile's text, nor is it any kind of Velen's text. I have rubbed a copy before and consulted some linguists. They all said that these texts do not belong to any kind of text in the world. writing system."

"Of course not." Leo also looked at the text on the relief and said, "They are not text at all, but a fragmented pattern of a wiring diagram."

"Wiring diagram?" Sylvia was also a little surprised.

Leo didn't explain, but quickly selected a dozen different patterns from the wall, and then spliced ​​them together according to certain rules to form a complete wiring diagram, followed by Hill, who hadn't fully understood it yet. Via said: "This is a fragment of the concentrator wiring diagram of an energy weapon. Its function is to divide the incoming energy into five levels so that the concentrator can control the output intensity of the energy beam."

Although Sylvia still didn't understand what Leo was talking about, she already understood what Leo meant, that is, the picture he put together was part of a certain device, and the other pictures should be similar , so this is not the language she thought.

"Is this place built by starry sky civilization?" Sylvia guessed again.

Leo had already talked to Sylvia about cosmic civilization in the past, but because it was difficult to explain the meaning of the universe in any language of the Velen world, he used the starry sky instead, describing the cosmic civilization as that kind of Civilization in the sky.

Hearing Sylvia's guess, Leo shook his head and said, "No, I suspect that this place was built by the tower wizard."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to an inconspicuous decoration on the edge of the roof of the building. This decoration looked like the head of some kind of monster, and it seemed that several symbols were intertwined. Although it was very strange, because of the surrounding There are other decorations too, so it's easy to overlook.

"What's that?" Sylvia asked puzzled.

"That's the badge pattern of the Ninth Tower." Leo explained. If it was before, Leo might not be able to tell the origin of this decoration, but since he planned to rebuild the tower, there were many wizards in the wizard's assembly hall. The lone wizard joined in. They all had more or less books and notes left over from the tower in the past, so that he had a better understanding of the internal structure of the tower, and thus recognized the hidden ninth tower at a glance. Tower coat of arms.

"The Ninth Tower?" Sylvia thought for a while and said, "I remember you mentioned that the wizard of the wilderness is the wizard of the Ninth Tower."

"Yeah." Leo nodded.

"Is this place built by the wizard of the wilderness?" Sylvia asked again.

"Based on time, it shouldn't be." Leo shook his head and said, "However, it should have something to do with the ninth tower. After the tower was disbanded, the ninth tower was transferred to the wasteland. The reason for choosing to go deep into the wasteland, and many witches of the wilderness wizards have something to do with the wasteland."

"Perhaps the inheritance of the Ninth Tower is preserved here." Sylvia smiled, and then regretted: "It's a pity that the key to open the secret vault is gone now, otherwise..."

Leo interrupted Sylvia's words and said: "The eye of the astronomical torch may not be the key, and even if there is no key, it may not be impossible to open the secret vault."

Sylvia also smiled, and then walked towards the building in the middle, and Leo followed.

The two soon came to the building, stood in the empty hall, and looked at the boxy sealed house in front of them.

It’s no wonder that after Sylvia saw the Eye of the Astronomical Torch, she immediately said that the Eye of the Astronomical Torch is the key to the secret library, because there is a groove on the embossed door on the wall, the size of the groove is the same as the key of the Astronomical Torch. The eye can be said to be exactly the same, and the groove has been polished by a very special method. Although its smoothness cannot be compared with the eye of the astronomical torch, it is not polished by any mechanical process in the world of Vinylon. Leo I even feel that even witchcraft may be difficult to create such a smooth surface.

The entire sealed room can provide too little information to Leo. There are no carvings on the surface except for the embossed door, and the embossed door can't see anything hidden.

Leo tried to use the mental net to infiltrate the sealed room to see if it would be useful, but his spiritual net gave him back information that there was nothing in front of him, that is to say, in the perception of the spiritual net, this could be seen, A tangible house does not exist.

Afterwards, Leo tried to use various powers to stimulate the hidden prohibition in the sealed room, but the result was still nothing, neither psionic power, divine power, witchcraft or abyssal power could bring any power to this room. Influence.

"Stay farther away." After various attempts failed, Leo thought of using the last method, so he gave Sylvia an order and began to use the thunder gun.

After hearing the order, Sylvia immediately felt a long spear formed by thunder light condensed in Leo's hand, and there was a terrifying destructive force in the long spear.

So, she immediately walked out of the building hall, hid behind the outer wall, and carefully watched the situation inside.

Although the thunder gun quickly condensed in his hand, Leo felt that it might not be enough, so he continued to superimpose the spiritual energy on it, and the shape of the thunder gun also began to change. It was originally only the size of a short spear, but now it has become elongated. Big, it became like a flagpole, and the thunder and lightning on the surface became thicker and more explosive, and even the scattered thunder light was like a lightning whip hitting the surrounding stone wall, pulling the stone wall away. One after another, the building became riddled with holes and cracks under the whipping of the thunder whip.

Sylvia outside also felt that she was still too close, and retreated a long way, until she retreated to the edge of the island before stopping. At this moment, the thunder snakes had smashed the building and swept the other surroundings. Four buildings transformed with hills, tearing these buildings together with the hills.

Seeing that the thunder in front of him was about to get out of control, but in the blink of an eye, all the thunder disappeared, and the thunderstorm formed by the thunder collapsed and shrank into the thunder gun in Leo's hand as if captured by some invisible force. At this moment, the thunder gun shrank again, and it was even smaller than before, only equivalent to the size of a piccolo. From the inside to the outside, the thunder gun no longer had any interesting lightning, but instead showed a nebula-like deep purple.

Leo also seemed to feel that his superposition of the thunder gun had reached the limit, so he projected towards the square room in front of him.

Almost as soon as he made the projection action, the dark purple thunder gun had already hit the square room, and without any shocking scenes, the whole square room collapsed and dissipated together with the thunder gun, and finally turned into a pile of dust .

At this time, Sylvia might feel that the commotion inside had ended, and walked over again. After bypassing the ruins of the building, when she saw Leo standing alone in the middle of the original hall, she couldn't help but froze for a moment. , asked: "Where is the secret library room?"

Leo smiled awkwardly, and said: "I seem to have used too much force, the house has been completely destroyed, and the things in the house may not be preserved."

"Ah?" Sylvia didn't expect such a result, she was stunned for a while, looking at the ruins in front of her, she couldn't laugh or cry, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Just when Leo was about to check again to see if there was anything left, the entire island or the entire space suddenly shook, and then an invisible force grabbed Leo and Silvia respectively and took them from The island was thrown out.

When the two feet landed, they found that they had reappeared in the ruins of the small pavilion by the lake where they set off before, and the lake water in front of them was flowing rapidly in a vortex shape, and the water surface gradually receded downwards, just like the lake at the bottom of the lake. A hole was opened in the middle to pump out all the lake water.

The lake receded very quickly, and the bottom of the lake was exposed in a short while. At this time, Leo and Sylvia did not pay attention to the bottom of the lake that was about to be completely exposed, but looked behind them, and saw The shaman apprentices of the Guling Pilgrimage who were practicing on the altar came over under the leadership of Rustav.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other. Although they didn't speak, their eyes had already exchanged views. Obviously, both of them thought that people like Rustav had just been attracted by the movement of the lake. Yes, because these people appeared too early, if it is the movement on the lake, then it will take a long time for these people to discuss with the altar, and then come over, but now it is such a short time Just appearing here, it can only show that these people have been hiding in this garden before.

"It seems that you have found the biggest secret hidden in Sky City." After walking not far from Leo and Sylvia, Rustav couldn't wait to ask: "What is it? What is the secret? What is it?"

Both Leo and Sylvia ignored Rustav's inquiry, but glanced at the people around them. Although these people looked normal, both Leo and Sylvia could feel that there was a certain power in them. It is similar to the fanatic temperament of a fanatic, and Rustav's current reaction is also very wrong.

Rustav, who used to work in Sylvia's hands, should be very aware of Sylvia's strength, and if he is not so closed to the outside world, he should be able to recognize Leo, but now he is facing a The mighty Witch and the Tower Wizard had acted so recklessly and disrespectfully, which obviously didn't match his past character.

Thinking of this, and looking at the people around them, Leo and Sylvia both thought that these shaman apprentices might be controlled by a certain existence.