The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Is someone coming?" Although the heavy rain caused a lot of noise, Leo could still hear some movement outside the corner fort.

Sylvia thought about it quickly, ran to the ruins of the meeting hall, put the Book of Fear in his hand on a pile of ruins, and then ran back to Leo, saying: "First Hide and see what those people are up to."

Hearing this, Leo stretched out his hand to hold Sylvia's hand, retreated into a shadow in the corner, and used the shadow to completely hide the two of them.

Not long after, heavy and orderly footsteps were heard, and among these footsteps were mixed with the sound of metal knocking.

"Soldier." Sylvia immediately made a guess when she heard the footsteps.

Leo also nodded in agreement.

It didn't take long to see a group of people wearing cloaks and hoods covering their heads quickly entering the corner fort.

Although the bodies of these people are well covered, it can be seen from the unevenness of the top of the cloak that more than a dozen people in this group are wearing armor and weapons, but what makes people feel puzzled is that they The weapons they carried seemed to be all cold weapons, not to mention firearms with special bullets, it was a bit strange that they didn't even carry a powerful steam crossbow.

In the past, steam engine crossbows were used as military supplies, and civilians were not allowed to hold them. In addition, they were expensive, small steam engines were bulky, inconvenient to use, and required a period of preparation time. They could not cope with emergencies and other reasons, so they entered dangerous areas such as wilderness Adventurers in seldom use steam crossbows.

But the situation is different now. After more than 20 years of development, the Dodd Group has reduced the main parts of the steam crossbow by leaps and bounds through the notes left by Leo, and has also strengthened the power of the crossbow. To cope with the endless emergence of mutated monsters, countries around the world have also opened up weapon restrictions, and ordinary people can also buy weapons that used to be considered contraband, such as steam engine crossbows.

So now almost the vast majority of people entering the wasteland, whether it is a large number of caravans and expeditions, or individual explorers and smugglers, will wear a set of steam engine crossbows as long as conditions permit, after all, it can save their lives at critical moments.

But now this pair of men and horses would rather wear armor that is not suitable for activities in the jungle, and they are not equipped with such a set of standard equipment. Either these people are strong enough to survive without the help of a steam engine crossbow, or their armor actually has special features. strength.

Of course, there is another possibility that they don't have the money to buy such expensive weapons as the steam engine crossbow, but they can wear a rare and precious full body armor for everyone, and they don't look like the kind of people who are short of money.

As for the strength of these people, judging from their wearing heavy armor and carrying a lot of baggage on their backs and still being able to walk quickly, their bodies are indeed very good, and they can be regarded as the top fighters in any country, but that's all. That's all, because none of these people are extraordinary, and they don't have the energy fluctuations that mean extraordinary.

And the armor on their bodies was covered by the cloak, so they couldn't tell what kind of armor it was, but no matter how good the armor was, it wasn't a strange thing with special power, it was just ordinary armor.

After these people entered the corner fort, they seemed to be very familiar with it. Some of them came to the open space on the side of the central square of the corner fort, and began to make some preparations silently, taking out the things in the backpack one by one, And several other people entered the chamber, as if they were looking for something.

It didn't take long for them to take out the Book of Fear of Mitelius that Sylvia had left in the ruins of the meeting hall before, and then set up a suggested reading shelf, placed it in the middle of the square, and held it The person with the book of fear placed the book in his hand on the shelf.

At this time, these people also took off the obstructive cloaks on their bodies one after another, revealing the appearance under the cloaks.

I saw that these people were all wearing armor as Leo expected, and the armor was of the same standard. Judging from the appearance, it seemed to be some kind of early knight armor of the French Empire with some modifications.

Although the early knight armor of the French Empire also paid attention to defense, they paid more attention to the magnificence and solemnity of the armor, because they felt that it could make those who faced the knight's attack feel fear and panic, so they not only inlaid some armor on the armor For the extra patterns, some shapes of monsters and extraordinary creatures are also added to eye-catching places such as helmets, shoulder armor, and breastplates.

Now the armor on these people is this kind of knight armor, the gaps in the armor have complex decorative patterns, the helmet is in the shape of a bird's head, and the shoulders are the head of a ferocious night leopard, this kind of night leopard only lives in Velen Continent , and has been almost extinct for hundreds of years. As for the breastplate, it is a three-headed beast that only appears in legends. The shape of the entire armor looks exaggerated and bulky.

What's also interesting is that the people wearing these armors are not Frans, but some mixed-race tribal aborigines.

During the colonial period, a large number of mixed-race children appeared in the Mozambique continent. No matter what the reason for the appearance of these mixed-race children, their status was almost the same, and they were all at the bottom. The colonists would not treat them as human beings, nor would the wilderness tribes They think they are their own people, so in the end they either die in a corner of a plantation, or they die in the jungle of the wilderness.

These mixed races are very recognizable, whether it is because of their blood or other reasons, almost all the mixed races of the wilderness tribes and other continental countries have a head of obvious yellow curly hair and a straight nose bridge that is in line with the slope of the forehead.

So it was almost difficult for the mixed-race slaves on the plantations in the colonies to escape from the plantations at that time, because their appearance was so obvious that they could be recognized at a glance on the street.

However, there are exceptions to everything. During the most prosperous period of the colonial independence movement, many mixed-race people were caught in wars everywhere, successfully escaped from the colonists' plantations, and joined forces to form a considerable force. Before the war subsided, they entered some unowned land on the edge of the wilderness, and established a tribe belonging to the mixed race.

After so many years, some of these mixed-race tribes have died out, and some have survived and even grown gradually. However, no matter how powerful their tribes are, they will not be accepted by the tribes in the wasteland, because these mixed-race tribes have no shamans, nor any Shamans are willing to go to such a tribe, even if they are apprentice shamans.

Therefore, in order to allow themselves to survive in the wilderness, these mixed-race tribes will do everything possible to enhance their strength, from early knights to later mechanical arms, etc., are all ways for them to enhance their strength, and even some The tribe also developed its own system from the development.

Judging from the attire of the members of the mixed-blood tribe in front of them, this tribe should have been inherited from an ancient knight family in Frankenstein and developed into its own system, so their equipment can be so unified.

"Akeros." Sylvia seemed to have noticed something, and after using her strength to isolate the sound, she whispered to Leo.

Leo heard the words, and quickly found the relevant information, and couldn't help muttering: "Is that the Akeros family?"

"Hmm." Sylvia nodded, then pointed to the decorations of monsters and beasts on the armor of the knights and said, "The ritual bird, night leopard and three Mikashas are the guardian beasts of the Akeros family."

Although there is no relevant information in Leo's memory, he still trusts Sylvia's discovery, and Akeros can also be connected with the name Fabius, and the connection is very close.

Akeros was also the most famous knight family in the early days of the Frankish Knight Dynasty, but this family was not famous because of the brave knights in the family, but because the family's deep research on rituals made them famous. , so many people prefer to call Akeros a ritual family rather than a knight family.

The Akeros family, from the patriarch to the general family members, are very obsessed with various rituals. They believe that any ritual contains mysterious power that they cannot understand. As long as they understand the rules of these rituals, they will To be able to grasp the power contained in it.

It is this top-down family concept that made their family use all means to collect various ceremonies at that time from the beginning of their establishment, including normal religious ceremonies and honor ceremonies, etc. And they compiled these ritual methods into books, and improved them, creating various new rituals.

It is no exaggeration to say that the various ceremonies carried out by the French Empire later, such as the coronation ceremony of the emperor, the triumphal ceremony after the victory of the army, etc., were all created by this family, even the sermon ceremonies and mass ceremonies of various churches, etc. They were all improved from the encyclopedia of rituals created by this family, and for this reason the Akeros family had a very special status at that time.

The founder of the Fabius family and the founder of the Akeros family are a pair of cousins. They created two families, and because of their blood, the relationship between the two families is extremely close, and the number of marriages between the two parties is far It far exceeds other families, and many people even think that two families can be regarded as one family.

This kind of thinking is not unfounded, because in the process of the inheritance of the two families, there have been one or two situations where the direct blood of the family has no heir, and the collateral blood has no suitable heir, so they simply choose from the other family. A member of noble blood was selected to inherit the position of the patriarch of the family, so it can be seen that the two families have completely merged into one at least in terms of blood.

So when the Fabius family died, the Akeros family was naturally not spared, and they perished almost at the same time.

Now the half-blood knight wearing the traditional armor of the Akeros family appeared in the abandoned corner castle of the Fabius family, which was enough to attract the attention of Leo and Silvia.

Just when Leo recalled the information and guessed what these people were going to do, these knights suddenly became vigilant, as if they had discovered something unusual, some of them drew out their knight swords to protect the square, and each drew their swords from their waists. He took out a bottle of medicine, opened the cork, and was ready to take this bottle of medicine at any time.

But the few people in the lead didn't pay attention to the movement around them, and still took out the things in their backpacks and placed them in different places in an orderly manner, as if they were about to perform some ceremony.

The things used in these ceremonies are some specially processed mutated monster heads, and there are also some religious items, and there are many churches involved, such as the holy emblem of the Lord of the Sky, and the sacrifice of the bishop of the Church of the Hill King. Robe, judging from the untreated bloodstains on it, the process of obtaining these things must have been uneven.

Although Leo is also very familiar with the various mysterious rituals in the world of Velen, he can't tell what kind of ritual these people want to perform from the things that will be used in the ritual now.

However, Leo and Sylvia's attention was soon shifted from the ceremony they were preparing to other places, because the objects that the knights who were preparing to fight had already stepped out of the fog.

I saw that the things that came out of the rain and fog outside the corner castle were all grotesque monsters, and there were even some transparent things that looked like ghosts.

"Rotten Horned Demon? Mita? Resentful Woman?" Seeing these monsters coming out of the rain and fog, both Sylvia and Leo quickly recognized that these monsters were all the lower races at the bottom of the abyss, and some even It can't be called a race, it can only be regarded as an abyssal beast.

It's just strange that although these monsters are products of the abyss in appearance, they don't have any fluctuations in the power of the abyss.

At the same time, when the mixed-race knights around the square saw the monster appear, they took the potion in their hands without hesitation. Almost at the same time they took the potion, a strong energy wave emanated from them immediately, which The wave of energy fluctuations did not only originate from the bodies of these knights, but also from the armor worn by the knights, and the eyes of the knights also turned blood red at this moment.

Before the monsters could attack, the knights who took the medicine seemed to be in a state of berserk. They let out various roars one by one, raised their knight swords and rushed towards the monsters that came out of the rain and fog continuously.

If these knights were not taking drugs, these knights were just ordinary warriors, but now after these knights took that special drug, it seemed that they had aroused the extraordinary power hidden in their bodies, and even inspired the extraordinary power contained in the armor, which made the knights Their combat effectiveness has doubled,

When the knights rushed into the crowd of monsters, the monsters that bore the brunt didn't even have time to attack, and died under the ferocious long swords of these knights, and every monster that was killed would turn into a black mist Incorporated into knight swords, armor and knights, as if these knights devoured the essence left behind by these monsters by killing.