The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Their situation is very similar to that of the abyssal creatures." After seeing those knights fighting the abyssal creatures that came out of the dense fog and devouring the remaining essence of the abyssal creatures, Sylvia couldn't help saying in awe.

As she said, almost all abyssal creatures grow up by killing other abyssal creatures and devouring their essence. It is their nature to plunder and devour. In the inheritance memory of the abyssal dragon, there are a lot of devouring and digesting various abyssal creatures The method of essence, so she can recognize the situation of these abyssal creatures at a glance.

"Where do these abyssal creatures come from?" It's just that Leo is more concerned about the origin of these abyssal creatures than how these knights hunt and kill the abyssal creatures.

At first, Leo didn't feel any aura of abyssal power from those abyssal creatures, so he thought that these abyssal creatures might be some kind of illusion, but when those knights killed the abyssal creatures and devoured their remaining essence, he realized The obvious breath of abyssal power can be clearly seen, thus confirming that these are not illusions.

Only in this way, doubts arise, unless there is an abyssal rift nearby, otherwise, it is impossible for this number of abyssal creatures to appear in the world of Velen.

And there is another more important doubt, that is, these abyssal creatures always give Leo a false feeling, which is why he still has doubts about their real existence after confirming that these abyssal creatures are not illusions.

"No, there is absolutely no abyss rift here!" Sylvia, who has inspired the blood of the abyss dragon, has far more perception of the abyss than Leo. She is very sure that at least within the range of her perception, there is no abyss rift , there is not even a trace of abyss erosion, so she said with some doubts: "These abyssal creatures seem to be directly created by the surrounding rain and fog."

"Rain and fog?" Leo pondered for a while, looked at the battle below, and looked at the knights who had prepared the ritual items in the center of the square, and said, "Maybe it's not rain and fog, but the book?"

"That book?" Sylvia frowned and said, "But haven't we already confirmed that the book is just an ordinary book?"

"Yes, it's an ordinary book in our hands," Leo said meaningfully, "but maybe it's not the same thing in other people's hands." He pointed to the ground and then pointed to the book. Pointing to the center of the square, he said, "Look at the feet of those knights."

Sylvia heard the words, followed the direction of Leo's finger, and transferred the realization to the feet of the knights on the square. I saw that those knights who were fighting, although they had improved their strength by several levels with the help of potions, had The ability to kill these creatures at the bottom of the abyss, but no matter how powerful they are, they are still ordinary people, and they will still be injured under the siege of monsters.

After several rounds of fighting, almost every knight who was fighting suffered injuries of varying severity. Among them, a severe gash was directly opened in the abdomen, and the intestines and other internal organs flowed out. The effect of the potion not only increased the actual strength , and made him forget the pain, he was still able to swing his sword and slash like a normal warrior with such a serious injury.

At the same time, the blood from the wounds of these knights did not spread in the rain, but gathered at their feet, and moved towards the center of the square along the stone pattern of the square at their feet, and finally gathered at the simple reading shelf It climbed up the reading shelf like a vine, and gathered together with the Mitelius Horror Book that Leo and Sylvia regarded as an ordinary book, and the color of that book gradually turned light red , and the color continues to deepen as the blood is injected.

Although the book has undergone such obvious changes, Leo and Sylvia still did not feel any abnormal power from the book. Instead, they felt some power fluctuations on the lines mixed with blood under the square, and also Being able to feel this power fluctuation seems to have an impenetrable connection with the castle itself and the rain and fog outside the castle.

At this time, there were casualties among the knights who resisted the monsters of the abyss. A knight was bitten by several monsters and torn into pieces. The strange thing is that the knight's body also quickly melted after his death, turning into a The puddles of blood melted into the pattern under the square.

When the first casualty appeared, the knights had to shrink the defensive circle, and the leaders in the center of the square seemed to have waited for the right time. One of them picked up the prepared censer and lit it, lifted it up, and hanged Shaking on the book, and reciting a kind of prayer that sounds extremely vague, and the language used to read the prayer is not a normal language, but more like the roar of some kind of wild animal.

The other knights who did not recite the prayer stood in different places, each holding a ritual item from a different church, pointing it at the book.

As the ceremony unfolded, Leo also felt an abnormal energy fluctuation in the surrounding environment out of thin air, and this energy fluctuation did not belong to the world of Velen, but was related to the subspace energy fluctuation recorded in Leo's database. very similar places.

However, before Leo had time to savor the details of this energy fluctuation, the knights of those abyssal monsters seemed to have reached their limit, and the speed of swinging their weapons slowed down a lot, and those abyssal monsters also seized the opportunity They broke through the knight's long spears one after another, causing direct attacks on the knight's body.

Although the knights were all wearing heavy armor with excellent defensive power, they still couldn't resist the attacks of these monsters. They fell down one after another, being overwhelmed by the monsters of the abyss, and soon died in the attacks of the monsters.

And after these monsters killed the knights in charge of defense, they didn't stop for a moment, and rushed towards the remaining few knights who were performing the ceremony.

Seeing this situation, Sylvia wanted to take action to deal with these abyssal monsters, lest the monsters hinder the ceremony. She really wanted to know what these half-blooded Akros knights wanted to do, and what was going on with this castle.

But Leo reached out to stop Sylvia at this time, and motioned Sylvia to watch.

Afterwards, Sylvia saw that the abyss monsters easily drowned the knights who were performing the ceremony. The sharp claws tore apart the armor and bodies of the knights, and soon all the knights died in the hands of the abyss monsters. .

At this time, Sylvia also noticed a few abnormalities. One is that although the knights presiding over the ceremony were all dead, the ceremony did not seem to be over. Floating in the air, turning at a constant speed towards the books below, at the same time, the ritual objects of the surrounding churches are still suspended in the air, moving according to the way the holders waved just now, as if the knights who were eaten by the monsters of the abyss are still alive generally.

Another unusual thing is that no matter how fierce the battle between these abyssal monsters and knights is, the various ritual items placed on the square are still intact, as if both of them are deliberately avoiding these ritual items during the battle.

As for the last abnormality, if these abyssal monsters follow their greedy habits, they will immediately look for other targets after solving their targets, and they will not stop hunting until they are completely full, so these abyssal monsters are normal. They will leave the castle that has no prey, and go to the wilderness and jungle outside to hunt prey, and may also use other abyssal monsters around them as prey to kill each other.

But the actual situation is that these abyssal monsters seem to be full, and they all lie on the ground to rest. If only the abyssal monsters that swallowed the knight's body are like this, that's all.

As if all the monsters of the abyss were affected by some unknown power, as long as they got close to the reading shelf and the Mitelius Book of Fear, they would not be able to bear the drowsiness and fell asleep one after another .

However, these monsters don't seem to be as simple as sleeping in the past, because after Leo used his spiritual vision and activated the power of the eye of truth, he discovered that a special power was being drawn from these sleeping monsters and merged into the Dao. in this book.

Leo felt a little familiar with this situation, but he couldn't remember what it was. He just knew that it should be related to the abyss, so he passed what he saw to Sylvia next to him, and looked at Sylvia. Will Via be able to find some clues.

"This is? Is this casting a law code?" After seeing this scene, Sylvia thought of something, and said in surprise.

"Code? Code of the Abyss?" Leo questioned.

"Of course it can't be the Codex of the Abyss." Sylvia shook her head immediately and said, "It's the Codex of Fear."

The doubt on Leo's face not only did not disappear, but became more obvious. He said, "What does this have to do with the Book of Fear of Metellus?"

"The Code of Fear is just a strange thing made by the race at the bottom of the abyss. Its function is to enslave slaves. It has nothing to do with Mitelius' Book of Fear. At least as far as I know in the past, there is no cooperative relationship." Xi Sylvia explained, and said with the same doubts: "But now I'm a little confused."

Almost as soon as the conversation between the two of them fell, the book on the reading shelf suddenly burst out with an extremely powerful energy, and this energy formed a beam of light that wanted to spread around. The strength of the energy even exceeds that of Leo, a seventh-level psychic, and is almost as strong as the power of a god. However, facing this sudden powerful force, Leo and Sylvia were overwhelmed by the light before they had time to react. Both of them lost their eyesight in an instant.

However, their eyesight lost quickly and recovered quickly. Almost after one or two breaths, the two regained their eyesight, but the scene in front of them was no longer the ruined corner castle full of monsters from the abyss that they had seen before. Instead, it was the complete corner fort they first saw.

The previously damaged buildings were all intact and restored to their original state, and the rain and fog outside the corner fort also disappeared. As for the abyssal monsters, they also disappeared. There was no blood on the ground, and there was no abyssal power or other abnormal energy fluctuations around. It was as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

But Leo and Sylvia knew that this was definitely not an illusion, because the knights who should have been torn into pieces by the monsters of the abyss before were all lying on the square intact at this moment, and the various items used for the ceremony were also gone. It disappeared, only the book that was suspected to be the Book of Fears of Metelius was still lying in the center of the square, letting the rain from the sky fall on it.

In addition, what is different from the knights just now is that the armor on these knights has now turned bright red, and the appearance of each knight seems to be much younger, especially the leaders. It's old age, but now they all look like young people in their twenties.

"I didn't expect it to be true. The rebirth ceremony really exists." Seeing these knights in a coma on the square, Sylvia seemed to understand something, with some unbelievable expressions on her face, and she muttered language.

"You mean that what they just performed was the rebirth ceremony?" Leo was also a little surprised.

Leo's understanding of the rebirth ceremony comes from the notes of the tower wizard. In the notes, a legend is mentioned. It is said that there is a mysterious ceremony in the world that can be performed by ordinary people. This ceremony is called the rebirth ceremony. Gaining a new life, to put it simply, is to rejuvenate a person and become younger.

No one knew the details of the rebirth ceremony, not even the tower wizard, so when the rebirth ceremony was mentioned in that notebook, it was recorded as a legend rather than a real secret ceremony. It also repeatedly mentioned that this legend is just a legend, without any basis for existence.

However, these rejuvenated knights are undoubtedly living evidence that the ritual of rebirth is real, and even the creator of the ritual may be Akros, the father of Velen World Rituals.

However, the question arises again, how do these mixed-race Akros knights know about this ritual that even the wizards of the tower and the church of the gods do not know? Is the book that is the core of the ritual the Book of Fears of Metelius? .

At this time, these knights woke up one after another in the icy rain. They saw that each other was fine, and they had regained their youth. They all seemed excited and joyful. Some of them even prepared to take off their armor to check whether their bodies were healthy or not. Rejuvenated just like his appearance.

However, the actions of these knights were immediately stopped by the leading knights. After scolding the other companions, the leading knight walked to the middle of the square, picked up the book on the ground, wiped it clean with his cloak, Then he walked into the meeting hall, and came back empty-handed after a while. It seemed that he had put the book back to its original place.

After the incident last night, they put on their cloaks again to cover their heads, walked out of the castle without stopping, and quickly disappeared into the rain outside.