The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In the wasteland, although there is no belief in gods like the Church of the True God, the animism of shamanism can be regarded as another kind of belief in gods to a certain extent, but the ultimate goal of this belief is not to obtain the favor and gifts of the gods. Instead, become part of some kind of wilderness spirit.

Among the countless wilderness spirits, the Mother of Plants can be said to be the most worshiped wilderness spirit among the various large and small indigenous tribes in the wasteland. No matter what kind of shamanism the tribe follows, they will not be stingy with one place to place a statue representing the Mother of Plants.

If a tribe can get a seed of the mother of plants, it means that the tribe no longer needs to worry about food, because as long as it is within the range of the seeds of the mother of plants, no matter what they plant, they can get a good harvest, There is no need to worry about wild beasts attacking in the middle of the night, because the power of the mother of plants can calm the killing heart of any beast.

Therefore, for any indigenous tribe, the seeds of the mother of plants are the most important items. Even the shaman church counts every plant seed to ensure that the plant seeds will not be lost to the outside world. Now the entire Velen world, except for the wilderness, has Except for the seeds of the Mother of Plants, only a few major events in the world, such as the founding of the Kingdom of America and the establishment of the city of Miria, will send a seed of the Mother of Plants to the Holy Mountain of Shamanism.

However, after the seeds of the mother of plants leave the wasteland, it will not take long for them to become ordinary plant seeds, so the shamanic holy mountain does not care about those plant seeds that are strayed outside, they only care about the plant seeds in the wasteland.

The plant seed under the altar that Leo sees now is not an ordinary plant seed, nor is it a dead seed, but the real seed of the mother of plants, and what Rustav is doing now should be Using the power of these people to catalyze the seeds seems to want to let them germinate and grow, which is completely different from the method of planting the seeds of the mother of plants that Leo knows.

According to Leo's understanding, as long as the seed of the mother of plants is within the scope of the wilderness, after it is planted, the growth ability of the seed can be stimulated through a shaman sacrifice ceremony, and the seed will grow into a tree in a short period of time. tree, and establishes a bond with the Mother Plant, providing shelter to its tribe.

But the current method of using external force to catalyze the seeds is completely superfluous, and may even damage the seeds, so the abnormal situation in front of him made Leo guess whether this seed was defective and unable to germinate and grow, so he decided to This force-induced method will be required to stimulate the seeds.

Leo briefly talked about his guesses and doubts, and Sylvia was silent for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, and exclaimed in surprise: "I know! I know where this seed came from, Rusta Why did the husband use this method to produce seeds?"

After the shock, without waiting for Leo to ask, she took the initiative to tell Leo what she thought of.

When Miria City was built, Shaman Holy Mountain gave Miria City a seed of the mother of plants as a gift, but that seed was taken away by the Faran Empire and sent to the royal family The castle in the Black Forest was preserved, and it is not known what method the French royal family used. In short, this seed has never germinated, but it has not transformed into an ordinary seed, and has always maintained the essence of the seed of the mother of plants.

Later, Sylvia heard that some research involving extraordinary power funded by the royal family of France involved this seed, and this seed was also taken out of the Black Forest several times and placed in the Royal Academy of France for research.

Rustav himself is an academician of the Royal Academy of France and has received three royal highest degree medals. He is the most prestigious one of the Royal Academy of France. He left the Farland Empire when the Farland Empire was captured by monster waves. He fled south to cross the sea, and also took away a large number of items and books from the Royal Academy of France, most of which have been accepted by Sylvia and placed in the Bodo Academy of Truth that was built later.

It is also because of these books and items that Rustav was able to gain the attention and trust of Sylvia and became the dean of the Porto Institute of Truth. Otherwise, his status as a member of the Heterogenetic Society would not be enough to obtain such an important position of.

Since Rustav was able to take away so many valuable books and items from the Royal Academy of France, the seed of the Mother of Plants with research can naturally be taken away by him.

Now Rustav’s method of stimulating the seeds of the mother of plants can naturally be reasonably explained, because after so many years, the research of the Royal Family of the Faran on the seeds of the mother of plants must have changed the nature of some of the seeds of the mother of plants, and Frank The royal family’s method of preserving the seeds of the mother of plants, and the long-term storage of the seeds of the mother of plants in the Black Forest, have been eroded by the power of the Black Forest, and have caused some changes to this seed of the mother of plants, so now this seed is still not the same. The seeds of the mother of plants are hard to say.

"Are you interested in this seed?" Leo asked after listening to Sylvia's words.

Sylvia froze for a moment, then shook her head and said, "Not interested! I haven't planned to give up the witch power and become a shaman yet."

After hearing this, Leo didn't say anything more, he motioned to Sylvia, then took out a small box from the storage space, and then quickly sneaked into the house around the base of the altar, and then the house He completely concealed his figure, and then took out pills the size of bird eggs from the small box, ignited them and threw them at the corners of the surrounding ruins.

After throwing around the ruins around the altar, Leo put away the box and returned to Sylvia's side, like two bystanders paying attention to what might happen later .

"Is this the veterinary drug you researched?" Sylvia asked curiously.

"Yeah." Leo nodded.

The reason why Leo made this kind of medicine to attract mutated monsters was mainly for some materials in the monsters that could be used to configure wizard potions, so as to attract these mutated monsters together, hunt them together, and harvest them together.

But after the medicine was made and used for a while on Aodorine's city wall, Leo also discovered another function of this medicine, which is to help people around the town clean up mutant monsters regularly to prevent monster tides, and even It is also possible to set up traps in advance to lure those mutated monsters into the traps, greatly reducing the mutated monsters, making it easier to hunt and kill, etc.

Although he thought of some practical methods of this pill, Leo felt that the range of influence of this pill after use could not be controlled, and it might accidentally injure the user when using it, so he just mentioned this matter to Sylvia a little bit. He said, but didn't say the specific content. He planned to wait for the pill to be improved to better control the scope of use before it was officially handed over to Sylvia.

However, now seems to be a good time to experiment with the effects of these pills. By the way, let's take a look at the abilities of people like Rustav, find an opportunity to record the abilities of these people, and spread the word.

Not long after the pill was ignited, there was a movement on the hillside outside the old capital. Leo and Sylvia looked over there. Sylvia could only vaguely see some strange figures, but Leo It can already be clearly seen that a large number of monsters are rushing towards this side.

Seeing this situation, Leo took out some medicine powder and sprinkled it on himself and Sylvia respectively, then took out three metal plates engraved with the magic circle of runes and threw them around after activating them. The runes on the metal plates The power was instantly stimulated, forming an isolating force field that enveloped Leo and Sylvia. From the outside, it seemed that the two of them had disappeared from this world.

Just when the two disappeared, Rustav, who was presiding over the ceremony at the top of the altar, seemed to sense something. He looked at the place where Sylvia and Leo were before, and then heard the sound of the hill outside the old capital. There was a loud noise, and the figure of the mutated monster was vaguely seen in the darkness, and his gloomy face immediately became gloomy.

I saw that Rustav quickly walked to the bonfire in the middle of the altar, took down a few items baked on the bonfire, then took out a basin of water, and splashed a little on the faces of the surrounding shaman apprentices.

The shaman apprentices who were still in that psychedelic state woke up one after another, and took back the power they emitted. If Leo used psychic power to observe at this time, he would find that when they withdrew the power, the similar seed in the altar The object also derived a force that was injected into each shaman apprentice.

"The mutated monsters are here. Let's all take action. Don't let them enter the old capital and destroy the altar!" Rustav ordered the shaman apprentices after they woke up.

When the shaman apprentices heard the words, they all looked outside the old capital. After seeing the situation outside, they stood up one after another, divided into four well-trained teams, and ran towards the dilapidated city wall of the old capital.

Rustav did not leave the altar, but took out a few weird items that looked like animals and plants from the package, hung them on the bonfire, and then chanted.

At this time, his body emitted an energy wave, and the energy wave also had a connection with the seeds in the altar, and resonated with all the other shaman apprentices together. This resonance made them a whole, a bit like It is the same as the life community in Leo's memory.

Leo, who was hidden by the rune magic circle, naturally felt such obvious energy fluctuations, and now he is more and more sure that the objects in the altar are the seeds of the mother of plants, because in his memory, the world of Velen seems to have only Only the mother of plants has a high probability of being a life community.

At this time, the shaman apprentices had already rushed to the edge of the city wall, and quickly stood in a row, and those mutated monsters also climbed up the hillside, and the distance from the city wall was already very close. As long as they attacked, they should be It can directly destroy the low city wall that has already been dilapidated.

However, Rustav and all the shaman apprentices suddenly sang a very strange-sounding melody, and this sound wave containing the melody contained very powerful penetrating power and transmission power, and it easily spread throughout the world. The group of mutated monsters outside the city also penetrated Leo's rune magic circle and spread to Leo and Sylvia's ears.

All the monsters who heard this melody stopped moving, and their bodies swayed slowly in accordance with the melody. If you use spiritual vision to observe, you will find that some parts of these monsters' bodies will produce a net light, which is in the melody. Constantly flashing while changing.

At the same time, Sylvia and Leo also heard this melody, and also felt a very strange energy that appeared along with this melody, this energy was like a living thing , trying to get into the body of two people.

However, before this energy approached, Leo had already activated a rune trap in his hand to capture this energy, and used this energy as a bait to attract more energy to approach the capture.

"It seems that he is really controlling the mutated monster and opening up the monster's wisdom." Sylvia looked at the rune trap in Leo's hand, looked at the situation near the distant city wall, and said to herself.

Leo didn't speak, but raised his hand, activated the recording function of the universal recorder, recorded the scene where the shaman apprentice controlled the mutated monsters, and watched the shaman apprentice drive the mutated monsters out of the veterinary drug, Retreat from the old capital.

After that, Leo picked out some suitable images from the recorded images and sent them to Su who was in Audorin, asking Su to remake them with the imaging technology researched by the group, and use these images The article on Rustaff in the newspaper to increase the persuasiveness of the article.

For anyone who cares about mutant monsters, after reading the content of that article, no matter whether they believe in Rustav's ability or not, they will send people to investigate this matter. Stave's blow will definitely not be small, even if there are some people with ulterior motives who hope to obtain this ability from Rustav, but on the whole, they will attack and eliminate Rustaf, completely cutting off the ability of mutated monsters to gain wisdom. The root should be mainstream thinking.

After doing these things, Leo and Sylvia also felt that there was no need to stay here any longer, so Leo stopped activating the rune magic circle, closed the force field, and walked with Sylvia from the other side of the old capital. The road left, bypassed the shaman apprentices, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

Just when Leo and Sylvia left, Rustav also felt it, and he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and his nervousness and body also eased a little.

Through the past arrangements in the city, he knew very well what Leo and the others were doing. He originally thought that Leo and Sylvia were going to use those mutant monsters to lure away his shaman apprentice helper, and then come to deal with him, so he He also made some defensive measures just now, but Leo and Sylvia left suddenly. This made him feel a little lucky, but at the same time he couldn't help but feel puzzled, and felt that this place was no longer a place to stay for a long time. After the first stage of the seed is bred, the place is transferred.