The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo stayed in the laboratory for a day and then left. The project directors and scholars in the laboratory were reluctant to part with it, because in this day, Leo helped them solve the problems that had troubled them for several years or even ten years. It is no exaggeration to say that in the next few months, various projects in the laboratory will have breakthroughs by leaps and bounds, and even the final results will appear. This will be an overall strength for the Dodd Group, or the Bodo Kingdom. leap.

However, compared to what the project directors and scholars in the laboratory gained, Leo did not get the answers he wanted from this trip to the laboratory. The blood wizard and Jean Valjean did not contact Rupert Fitz In other words, after Rupert Fitz obtained a new body, he deliberately disconnected from the two of them. It seemed that when he met Leo or that Sylvia would track him down through the two, even in the laboratory , and did not leave a single eye or ear.

Through various materials, Leo found five people who were probably Rupert Fitz's eyes and ears among the past staff of the laboratory, but those five people were all after Rupert Fitz got his body. , and died one after another due to various experimental accidents. Obviously, this is the trace of Rupert Fitz trying to understand himself.

If it was before, Leo would not have paid too much attention to Rupert Fitz, a hidden force in the dark, because the strength and purpose of this force have nothing to do with him, but now that the Bodo Kingdom is established, His descendant has become the king, so standing at the height of a country, it is not a good thing for such an unknown force to hide in the dark anyway.

So when he was in the laboratory, Leo had already considered finding out the dark power of Rupert Fitz before he and Sylvia left Velen and went to other worlds to help her become a demigod. Eliminate it, but also figure out his intentions.

After leaving the laboratory, Leo didn't go back to Deer Park immediately, but instead went to the valley where he found the universal recorder in his hand, to see if he could find anything of value.

However, the result made him feel a little disappointed. After discovering the universal recorder, Sylvia's people should have carried out a blanket search of the entire valley, and basically all the valuable things that could be found were taken away. And judging from some subtle traces, after Sylvia's people left, other forces should have searched the valley several times.

In the end, although there were still some fragments of the spaceship that had not been found, these fragments were of little value to Leo, because these fragments were armor fragments of the spaceship, and the larger fragments had already been picked up. , now these are some small fragments that are not easy to find, the largest of which is no more than the size of a fingernail, and there is basically no way to remelt these fragments at the current industrial level, so these fragments are used as materials for research. No other value.

However, the fragments found in the valley and the analysis of the shape of the valley confirmed Leo's previous guess that the valley was indeed created when a spaceship crashed, and judging from the degree of fragmentation of the spaceship fragments, the spaceship I'm afraid it had already disintegrated in the air, and what landed here was only a slightly larger fragment.

Judging from the material of the armor fragments, this spaceship should not be a battleship, because most of the metal fragments he found were a kind of civilian inner armor resistant to energy rays, mainly used for transport spaceships of intermediate space civilizations.

After not finding anything else of value, Leo left the valley and helped the patrol team deal with some mutant monsters that appeared in the Bran Forest.

Because of the function of the energy monitoring module of the general recorder, Sylvia was able to know the location of the mutated monster group in advance through the energy changes produced by the small-scale mutated monsters when they gathered, and sent patrols to encircle and suppress them.

Although there are other reasons for similar energy fluctuations, such as gathered thunderclouds, violent activities of extraordinary creatures, etc., these energy fluctuations will cause some false alarms without an analysis system for analysis, but compared to silent A large group of mutated monsters appeared in a certain place without interest and destroyed the town. The manpower and material resources consumed by this kind of false alarm were insignificant.

This also makes the Bodo Kingdom have far more patrols and fixed sentries than other kingdoms, because each key fixed sentry and patrols in each area can quickly assemble into an effective battle after receiving the alarm. Force to destroy those mutated monsters.

The Bran Forest was originally a forest where mutated monsters emerged endlessly. When Sylvia was building the laboratory, she also arranged for an elite warrior of 5,000 people to station near the laboratory. However, since the white deer appeared in Bran, In the forest, and a deer garden was built on the edge of the forest, the number of mutated monsters that appeared here decreased rapidly. Usually, only a single mutated monster appeared. Even if they gathered in groups, the number was much smaller than other groups of mutated monsters.

Inversely proportional to the reduction of mutated monsters, the number of deer in the forest has increased a lot, and the species of each herd are different, some are even extinct in the world of Velen, but no matter what kind of deer, as long as the body In terms of size and temperament, they cannot be compared with those deer in the deer garden.

However, if you compare the deer in the Deer Park with the deer in the Black Forest, I am afraid that they are much worse. It is not the difference in body shape. The difference lies in the soul and wisdom. The deer in the Black Forest are intelligent creatures, while the deer in the Deer Park are just It's nothing more than a beast. It may be difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the two, but this gap is still obvious in Leo's eyes.

So, when Leo returned to the deer park and saw a herd of deer playing by the nearby lake, he immediately found a few deer from the Black Forest among the herd, which made him think of a possibility.

Sure enough, when he came to the Deer Park Temple, the priests of the White Deer Church in the Deer Park Temple stayed outside the temple respectfully one by one. Temple visits.

After Leo arrived, the Holy Warriors of the White Hart Church guarding the door did not stop him.

After entering the temple, he immediately saw the white deer lying on the golden platform specially built for him. There were several dryads standing beside him, and Sylvia was sitting beside them, and the two were talking about something.

Compared with the vague and powerful feeling that the white deer gave Leo twenty years ago, now Leo can clearly feel the strength of the white deer, and he can also feel the gap between each other, which also means The white deer should not have truly become an Omega higher life form.

It's just that from the perspective of his promise to create his own church, he is not far from that level, and he just missed the door, and he may want to use the power of the church to complete this last step.

If this is the case, the situation of the White Hart Church is very important to him, and the relationship between the White Hart Church and the Dodd Group is so close, and the establishment of the Bodo Kingdom will naturally affect him, so at this time, he It is reasonable to appear here, and even Leo guessed that he should appear at the enthronement ceremony.

When Leo entered the deer garden, the White Deer naturally sensed Leo, and was a little surprised by Leo's current situation, so much so that when Leo came to the temple, the surprise in his eyes still did not fade away.

During the time when Leo lived in the Black Forest, he had a very deep communication with Leo. At first, he just felt that Leo's body was very special, that it could hold all kinds of power, and the strength of these powers The original owner is an enemy, but these forces will not conflict with each other, and there is no such thing as backlash.

At that time, he left his imprint in Leo's body out of curiosity, just to observe what would happen after his power entered his body. As a result, his imprint lost control after entering Leo's body. Can feel that the imprint is still there, and can't do anything else.

However, before the control of the imprint was lost, He still received some information from the imprint, that is, the powers from different existences in Leo's body did not seem to be Leo's core power, and Leo's core power was a kind that he also The only thing he can be sure of is that the mysterious power that he has never touched is that that power has great potential.

This is why even if Leo is not in the world of Velen, he will still maintain a good relationship with Sylvia, and even serve as the religious backing of the Dodd Group, because he believes that Leo will definitely come back, and in a stronger state .

Now it seems that his original judgment was not wrong. Leo did return to Velen in a stronger state, and judging from Leo's current state of strength, he has also reached the level close to the gods, but Leo This demigod is a bit special, and it seems to be different from the demigods he knows, so he judges that it should be related to Leo's core strength.

"Long time no see! Leo Dodd." Bailu stood up from the golden platform and said to Leo.

"Greetings to you, Master Bailu." Leo stepped forward and saluted Bailu.

Although both are demigods and belong to the same level of life forms, there is a huge gap in power between the two, just like a newborn baby and a battle-tested adult warrior, so Leo is very clear about his own strength. He will not be arrogant because he is a seventh-level psyker.

White Deer was obviously also very satisfied with Leo's attitude, and then said to Sylvia: "I will attend the enthronement ceremony of that little guy, and I will bless him on behalf of the Black Forest."

"Thank you very much." Sylvia also showed a smile on her face.

You must know that the white deer represents the Black Forest to send blessings for the coronation of a king. This kind of thing is a very symbolic thing in the world of Velen. You must know that the last person to receive this blessing was the King of Knights, who founded the Faran Dynasty A man of glorious history.

Although Sylvia doesn't think that Tolan can be compared with the existence of the King of Knights, the blessing of the White Hart undoubtedly has an extremely important stabilizing effect on the Bodo Kingdom, a new kingdom composed of various refugees. Bodo people who have joined long ago, or those who joined recently have greatly improved their sense of belonging.

"Don't be too happy." The white deer suddenly showed a humane and sly smile, and said, "If you want to get my blessing, you must wear the crown of thorns in the Black Forest."

Hearing Bailu's words, Sylvia was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion, "Isn't the crown of thorns ruined?"

The white deer said in a deep voice: "The crown of thorns of the French Empire has been destroyed, but the crown of thorns of the Bodo Kingdom has just grown."

Sylvia fell silent, and turned to look at Leo.

Leo also found some information about the Crown of Thorns at this time, and frowned.

The King of Knights not only received the blessing of the Black Forest and the right to freely enter and exit the Black Forest from the White Deer, but also obtained a crown of thorns representing royal power.

It's just that among the various materials Leo saw, the content about the Crown of Thorns was the least recorded, because the Crown of Thorns was destroyed by a fire in the early days of the Second Dynasty of France because of a royal turmoil, and it and the Crown of Thorns The materials related to the crown were also sealed up or destroyed by the royal family of Farland, and some unreliable legends finally spread.

However, even those legends can judge the role of the crown of thorns from some clues. The biggest role should be to control the creatures in the Black Forest. According to the legend, when the royal family of Farland encountered danger several times, it was summoned by the crown of thorns. The otherworldly creatures of the Black Forest come to the aid of nearly every tale involving the Crown of Thorns.

It stands to reason that this should be a very useful function for the owner of the crown of thorns, because it means that the owner of the crown of thorns carries a powerful bodyguard with extraordinary creatures.

However, it is not difficult to see from Sylvia's expression that the crown of thorns is not as simple as Leo thought. I am afraid that there are some dangers in the crown of thorns that he does not know, which will make Sylvia worry. .

Sylvia seemed to read what he was thinking from Leo's expression, so she took the initiative to tell the complete content about the Crown of Thorns.

As Leo judged, the crown of thorns is indeed a supernatural creature that can summon and control the Black Forest, and the type of supernatural creature summoned will be determined according to how much the owner of the crown of thorns pays. The gods of the forest are not a problem, just like the church's god descending ceremony.

The fact that users of the Crown of Thorns need to pay a price to complete the summoning is not the biggest defect of the Crown of Thorns. There are two real defects of the Crown of Thorns. One is that the user of the Crown of Thorns needs to go back to the Black Forest for a trial. Those who have been tested can continue to hold the crown of thorns. In the historical dynasty of Faran, four emperors died in the test, and among them was Arusius I, the son of the King of Knights.

As for the second defect, it is more worrying, that is, after using the crown of thorns for a certain number of times, the user's body and mind will have problems, and even go crazy. This is how the mad king in the early days of the Faran Empire came.