The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"You should calm down, this is just the heart of an abyssal monster." Leo stared at Sylvia, his voice used a certain spiritual vibration frequency, and said in a deep voice.

At this moment, Sylvia's situation doesn't seem to be very right. Although she has stopped exerting her power and the phantom of the abyss dragon above her head has disappeared, some of the characteristics of her body that turned into a dragon have not disappeared, and her eyes are still bright. The eyes and neck of the abyss dragon also have the horny skin of the abyss dragon.

Especially when Sylvia looked at the heart of the abyss monster in her hand, the look in her eyes was completely different from her past behavior, and she felt like an abyss dragon seeing treasure.

The reputation of the abyssal dragons being greedy for money is well known in the abyss. Almost all the slain abyssal dragons were attracted by the bait set by the hunters and fell into the trap without exception. The desire for treasure has penetrated deep into the soul, and the treasures that can be seen by them are not ordinary treasures, let alone some common things such as gems, only the truly rare and powerful treasures will drive them crazy Obviously, a gemstone transformed from the heart of an abyssal demon has an almost absolute attraction to the abyssal demon dragon.

Although Sylvia is not an abyss dragon, she can also control her own blood, but because of the heart of the abyss monster, the blood of the abyss dragon in her body has an almost instinctive reaction, and this reaction directly feeds back After seeing Sylvia, her mind changed a bit.

However, after Leo was appeased by a spiritual skill that stabilizes the spirit, Sylvia quickly got rid of the influence of the original power of blood on her. As she closed her eyes slightly and took a few deep breaths, her body The characteristics of those abyssal dragons also faded quickly and returned to their original state. When they opened their eyes, their eyeballs became normal eyeballs. Although the heart of the abyssal dragon in his hand still showed a look of liking, it was not as fanatical as before. , the overall feeling is like a woman seeing a piece of jewelry.

"I'm fine!" Sylvia took a deep breath, handed the heart of the abyss dragon in her hand to Leo, and said, "Leave it to you to keep!"

Leo reached out and wanted to take away the heart of the Abyssal Demon, but he couldn't pick it up. He looked down and found that Sylvia's fingers were still tightly clamping the heart of the Abyssal Demon. Jing Shi, has no intention of letting go.

Leo frowned, then forcefully opened Sylvia's fingers, and took away the heart of the abyssal demon. At the moment of taking it away, Sylvia instinctively wanted to grab it back, but in the end She still controlled her behavior and took her hand back.

"You are in a bad state." Leo looked at the heart spar of the Abyssal Demon in his hand, then at Sylvia, and said with a serious expression: "You are unknowingly receiving the power of your blood." Influence, I didn’t find it before, maybe it’s because there are not enough precious things to cause the instinctive reaction in the blood, now the heart of the abyss demon just arouses your blood desire.” He said, and he was a little lucky, and said: “ But it’s good now, it’s not too late to find out, and with your ability, it shouldn’t be difficult to completely eliminate the influence of the original bloodline consciousness.”

Sylvia also showed a serious expression, and said in a deep voice: "Although I know what you said is right, I still can't tell whether the fanatical love for these things comes from the influence of blood power, or my own. thinking." She was silent for a while, and said: "It seems that when I return to Xinbodo, I should put down all my affairs and find a quiet place to rest."

Leo was noncommittal about Sylvia's thoughts. He took out a string of rune necklaces made by himself from the storage space, buckled off a gemstone that was about the same size as the heart of the Abyssal Demon, and placed the heart of the Abyssal Demon on it. , and then put it on for Sylvia, saying: "Whether it is the influence of blood, or your own thoughts, this is part of your own nature, there is no need to suppress it, just a little restraint and let nature take its course."

Sylvia looked at the rune necklace around her neck, and her eyes fell on the heart crystal of the abyssal monster. Although her eyes were still full of affection, they were much weaker than before. few.

Seeing that Sylvia had recovered a lot, Leo asked, "Should we go back to the railroad track now and follow the railroad track, or should we find another way?"

Sylvia pulled her eyes back from the necklace, then looked around, and seemed to find something, pointed to the distance of the swamp, and said, "Is there a castle there?"

"Castle?" Leo was stunned for a moment, and then looked in the direction of Sylvia's finger. Although it was stormy now, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the surroundings were as dark as night, Leo was still able to rely on his own spirit. The ability to see things in the distance clearly.

As Sylvia said, the edge of the swamp lake in the distance is indeed a castle, and judging from the style of the castle, it is still the kind of horned castle from the era of the French knights. This kind of horned castle is very good for early siege warfare. However, with the advancement of the times and the emergence of new means of warfare, the defensive effect of the corner fort has been declining, and it was finally completely eliminated.

Although the horn fort was eliminated, a large number of horn forts were built in the knight age of the French Empire, some of which have been demolished and rebuilt, and the other part has become a private estate of nobles, but there are more horn forts that have been abandoned. , so there are a large number of ruins of corner castles in Velen Continent, and most of the bricks and stones on the ground of the ruins have been used by local people for other purposes. Only a few abandoned corner castles near sparsely populated places are still well preserved.

If you are in Velen Continent at this moment, you will not be surprised to see such a corner fort, but the problem is that this is the wasteland of Mosang Continent, and it is really surprising that a corner fort that represents the ancient way of warfare appears here Some surprises.

"That's a corner castle!" Leo told Sylvia what he saw.

Sylvia was also taken aback when she heard the words, and said, "Could it be built by the early colonists?"

"Impossible!" Leo shook his head, and said, "The time when the horn castle was completely abandoned is hundreds of years away from the beginning of the colonial era on the mainland. Except for architects who like ancient architectural styles, few people know about horn castles. The construction method and specifications of the fort. And what is the use of building a corner fort in the wasteland to defend against the siege of the Knights? To put it bluntly, even if the height of the corner fort is doubled, those who are good at Mosang wasteland Soldiers of various abilities can also climb over the walls of the corner fort and directly enter the interior, so the corner fort does not have any defensive effect at all."

Sylvia also nodded in agreement with Leo's opinion, and then said: "It's useless to think too much here, let's take a look, we may not find anything, and the Abyss Demon was beaten to death, But he chose to come here to recover, maybe not a random piece of land, only if it gives him enough sense of security, he will be willing to come here to hide, and recover from feigning death, maybe we can find out from that castle and the abyss monster some clues about it."

Leo didn't say anything more, and nodded in agreement with Sylvia's proposal.

The two did not go around the swamp lake to the corner fort by the lake, but directly stepped on the mud of the swamp lake, and quickly moved towards the corner fort.

It didn't take long for the two of them to cross almost the entire swamp lake and arrive in front of the horned fort.

This corner castle is very complete. The integrity here is not complete in the literal sense, but a truly intact corner castle. Even in Velen Continent, I am afraid that such a complete corner castle cannot be found, and the construction style of the corner castle is still In the early days of the Knights Age, the corner forts at that time were five-corner forts. Later, most of them were nine-corner, thirteen-corner, and eighteen-corner forts. Basically, five-corner forts with the worst defense were not built.

The area of ​​this corner fort is not very large, it is only equivalent to an ordinary sentinel castle, but the materials used in the construction of the corner fort are very solid, all of which have been cut and polished rocks. Obviously, when it was built at that time, it should be for defense Foreign enemies attacked, and the pitted war marks on the walls of the corner fort showed that this corner fort had experienced many wars.

Undoubtedly, such an ancient war-torn fort appeared in the wilderness of the Mozambique continent, standing alone on the edge of a swampy lake, no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel extremely abrupt and inconsistent.

The two walked half a circle around the corner fort and came to the main entrance of the corner fort.

At this moment, Sylvia looked up at a half-broken badge on the main entrance of the corner castle, and then she was stunned, and said, "Is it the badge of the Fabius family?"

"The Fabius family?" Leo hesitated for a moment, quickly searched the relevant information in his mind, and then showed a look of surprise on his face, and asked in confirmation: "It is the Black Crown Fabius The Us family?"

"Yes!" Sylvia nodded.

Anyone who studies the history of the French Empire must study the famous families in the history of the empire, and the Fabius family is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, because the code of chivalry that circulates throughout the world of Velen is compiled and revised by the Fabius family. Yes, they are not only the guardians of Farland and even the entire Velen World Knight Code, but also one of the royal families of the Faran Empire.

When the Fabius family was at its strongest, they had the titles of the Shadow Emperor and the Black Crown. Even the head of the Fabius family at that time arrogantly added a crown to his family's badge to show his nobility.

Just like those careerist families in the history of the French Empire, the Fabius family could not escape the end of extinction. Ironically, as the guardian of the code of knights and one of the initiators of chivalry, Fabius In the end, all members of the family were executed for treason, a felony against chivalry, and even the family crests were destroyed from the aristocratic crest archives of the French Empire. Only some ancient family family records recorded Something about the Fabius family.

It wasn't until the French Empire entered the academic era that some historians of the empire reorganized the history of the Fabius family and incorporated it into the history of the French Empire.

After learning about the Fabius family, the corner castle with the Fabius family badge in front of me is even more weird, because the French royal family hated the Fabius family at that time and almost destroyed it. Everything related to Fabius, so even in the continent of Velen, it is difficult to find a complete Fabius family fortress. At most, you can only find some foundations in some noble manors that used to be Fabius. The renovated building of the family fortress.

But now there is a complete Fabius family fortress in the wilderness of the Mozambique continent. Anyone who knows the situation will feel that this is impossible.

Hundreds of years after the demise of the Fabius family, the talents of the Vinylon continent crossed the ocean and came to the Mozambique continent, and entered the colonial era. Even if there were people from the Fabius family who survived and came to this continent, They will never spend money and manpower irrationally to build such a useless corner fort in such a dangerous place.

The most important point is that it is not too far away from Badisha, which belongs to the area tightly controlled by the early colonists. In order to prevent the attacks of the wilderness tribes, the colonial troops of Badisha will regularly patrol around, so such a huge It is absolutely impossible to avoid the eyes of the colonists' army, and it will definitely be recorded by the colonists, and it will definitely become a very popular news or rumor in the local area.

None of these, however, is clearly unreasonable.

Just when Leo was wondering why this corner castle appeared here, Sylvia seemed to have discovered it again, pointing to the bottom of the corner castle wall, and reminded: "Look over there."

Leo looked in the direction of his fingers, and only saw some plants growing in the gaps in the castle stones, and there seemed to be nothing worth noting.

It's just that after a little thought for a while, Leo quickly understood the reason why Sylvia pointed out there for him to see. Plants, those seemingly ordinary plants that grow in the crevices of the stones, are the biggest problem, because Those plants will definitely not appear in the wasteland, they will only appear in the Black Forest of Velen Continent.

Leo and Sylvia lived in the Black Forest for a while, and they knew that some plants were unique to the Black Forest. They were affected by the Black Forest environment, and once they left the Black Forest, they would gradually die.

The plants that Leo and Sylvia saw growing in the cracks of the rocks are such plants. This plant is called Cardinal, and its shape is somewhat similar to an elf named Cardinal in the Black Forest. This plant Eat it directly, it can be used for detoxification, or it can be extracted by alchemy to make other potions. Now there are several bottles of potions made in the Black Forest in Leo's storage space, which contain this plant.

"This castle comes from the Black Forest!" So after confirming that the plant was a cardinal, Leo turned his head and said to Sylvia.