The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For a long time, people from all countries in the New World have been curious about the decisive battle of the religious war, especially the unknown power that caused such great damage, but all the people who participated in the decisive battle died on the battlefield. The churches in the church were also annexed by other churches after the war, and the materials in those churches were destroyed by the people of other churches as heresy. Later, when the Otter Federation was established, it paid more attention to the reconstruction work and the relationship between neighboring countries, so there was no The relevant documents are effectively protected, so that there is no unified statement about the churches that participated in the religious war that year.

The only place where clues related to the religious war can be found is the battlefield of the decisive battle, but the problem is that the battlefield was flooded, so what happened in the decisive battle has always been a mystery.

Because Lake Beruk is very deep, and there are a lot of deadly undercurrents at the bottom, almost all people who dive into the bottom of the water will never return, so the exploration of Lake Beruk has not made any progress.

It was not until a few decades ago that there were developments in diving equipment, and the invention of bell submersibles and air pump devices enabled people to make some effective explorations of Lake Beruk.

Because the area of ​​Lake Beruk is too large, the Oeter Federation knows that it is difficult to carry out effective exploration by relying on its own power alone, and it also costs a lot of money, so they are also interested in the exploration of Lake Beruk. open to the outside world.

According to the records, it was a trend to explore Lake Beruk at that time. Expedition teams from all over the world came to Lake Beruk to explore. Unfortunately, their final harvest was not ideal. They just found a large number of fish at the bottom of the lake. The remains, and from the remaining clothing of the bones, it was analyzed which church these bones belonged to, so as to deduce which churches participated in the religious war that year.

As for the unknown power that everyone was concerned about in the final battle, there was no clue about the unknown power that had already appeared in Lake Beruk, and it was not even clear whether there was an underground river at the bottom of the lake.

With the bankruptcy of several companies specializing in the exploration of Lake Beruk, the craze for exploring Lake Beruk has also weakened. A large number of items related to Lake Beruk have been auctioned, and what is interesting is that they bought all of them back then. The people who salvaged the remains of church believers from the bottom of the lake belonged to the Monte family.

In other words, none of the bones found in the Monte Manor were made by the Monte family killing the people at that time, but the remains of the church's armed believers who died in the religious war hundreds of years ago.

It is also because of this that the excavation of a large number of remains from the Monte Manor did not arouse the anger of the entire society, and the Monte Manor has been preserved to this day. Otherwise, the Monte Manor would have been completely destroyed by the angry people. up.

Leo guessed that the special energy contained in the Monte Manor was not only related to the special religious arrangement in the manor, but also to those remains. The Monte family should have discovered something from the remains, so they used this A special method guided the power from the remains, and the end result was that everyone in Monte Manor disappeared.

Now, Leo doesn't know what this power is, where it comes from, and what its function is. If those remains are still there, maybe he can find some clues from them, but now no matter how profound his knowledge and ability are, , It is impossible to solve this mystery out of nothing.

Although the mystery of the unknown power in the manor cannot be solved, this does not prevent him from using this power.

The moment he entered the manor, he had already planned to use the rune circle to mobilize the mysterious power shrouded in the manor, create a barrier, isolate the energy practice inside and outside the manor, create a small world in the manor, and thereby Let Sylvia complete the bloodline promotion, and also prevent the power of the abyss dragon from causing the world's backlash when her bloodline is promoted.

When he was in Vinylon World, Leo already had a draft in mind. Although the world is different and the environment is different, some places need to be revised, but fortunately there are not many places to be revised. He only took two days to complete the rune method. The array is arranged.

It's just that it's one thing to arrange it well, but it's another thing to make the rune circle work normally. Just like his witchcraft and psionic skills, after the power of the rune circle is activated, it will move toward the The chaotic and disorderly development, even if Leo carefully controls it, it will inevitably cause some small disturbances.

During this time, the manor was busy with the banquet. Sylvia directed the hired housekeepers and servants to set up the banquet venue. Except for the basement, the manor was full of people, so the little movement caused by the rune circle was natural. I was met by those who came in and out of the manor.

For example, someone hangs some paintings for decoration in the villa, and suddenly the people and objects in those paintings seem to come alive, saying hello to the people around them.

For another example, a cloud of thick fog suddenly appeared in the woods in the manor. Anyone who entered the thick fog got lost in the woods and did not come out until the thick fog cleared.

After these abnormal events happened, there was quite a commotion in the manor. Everyone believed that the previously missing Monte family had become ghosts and entrenched in the manor. Now the manor has changed hands. As the former owner, the Monte family Unwilling to give up the manor, he came out to make trouble.

For a while, the manor became panic-stricken. Many servants were afraid to continue to stay in this haunted manor, so they chose to resign, and it became very difficult to recruit new people, because this incident happened in Beiruk City in just one day. Rumors spread, the former Monte Manor, and now the haunting of Belmont Manor has become the hottest topic in the city, and people in the hiring market are afraid to go to Belmont Manor.

For this reason, Sylvia increased the employment price by four times, which made some people forget their timidity and accepted the employment, and the arrangement of the banquet returned to the right track, and those haunted things did not happen again.

This is not because Leo has solved the problem of using the rune circle, but because Sylvia told him not to fiddle with the rune circle for the time being, until after the banquet.

Although the small disturbance created by Leo caused some adverse reactions, it also caused some unexpected effects, that is, he and Sylvia became famous in Beruk City, and also entered the upper level of Beruk City In the eyes of the society, these dignitaries are also interested in the haunting of Belmont Manor. Some people even boldly speculate that the Leo couple is actually a branch of the Monte family from the name Belmont Manor, which is somewhat similar to the Monte Manor. It's just a fake name.

This also caused these upper-level dignitaries to become interested in the banquet that will be held at the renovated Belmont Manor, so they contacted Sylvia through the senior management of the Commonwealth Bank, hoping to get an invitation to the banquet.

Originally, Sylvia just wanted to invite some neighbors around to perform a routine etiquette, and the banquet preparation was just a small banquet. Now because of this accident, the banquet had to be enlarged ten times, and the invitation letter also changed from a dozen to The number of copies became hundreds, so she had to hire two more banquet companies to participate in the organization of the banquet.

According to Leo's meaning, what to do with the banquet before, what to do now, there is no need to expand, and there is no need to pay attention to those dignitaries in Beruk City. Their main purpose of coming here is to help Sylvia get promoted smoothly.

But Sylvia did not agree with Leo's idea, because since they came to this world, the book of the tower wizard has become almost like an ordinary book, and it is not clear whether the power in this book will be restored , and it is not clear whether the space rift opened after the restoration of power leads to the Velen world, so they cannot be sure how long they will stay in this world.

Since the duration of stay in this world is uncertain, naturally one cannot just do nothing during this period of stay, one must find something to do, such as exploring the secrets of this world and so on.

However, judging from the period of time since this world, this world seems to have extremely strict controls and bans on all kinds of knowledge. It is impossible for ordinary people at the bottom and middle class to have access to this knowledge. The only people who have the opportunity to access this knowledge are Those dignitaries in the upper class, so all the information Leo and Sylvia collected during this time is some information that does not involve the core secrets of the world.

Now that the upper class dignitaries of Beruk City have taken the initiative to make friends with each other, Sylvia thinks that this opportunity cannot be missed, and she just uses this banquet to infiltrate into the upper class society of this world to prepare for the future.

In this regard, although Leo still felt that it was unnecessary, because in his opinion, if he wanted to, he could use other methods to obtain various secrets from those upper-level dignitaries, but he did not argue with Sylvia, but let Xi Sylvia to do it.

Because the scale of the banquet has expanded, the previous layout also needs to be changed, so that the time of the banquet has to be deduced later, and when Leo is busy analyzing the mysteries of the power of this world and Sylvia is busy arranging the banquet, responsible The policewoman who investigated the disappearance of the Monte family came to the manor again.

"I hope that Your Excellency will allow me to excavate these places." After being brought to Leo's study, Solander didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out a design drawing of the manor, pointing to a few places marked on the drawing. said the place.

"Where did you get this blueprint?" Leo picked up the design blueprint and looked at it. He didn't comment on Solander's request, but asked a little seriously.

Solander didn't hide anything, and said: "This blueprint is stored in the archives of the Architects' Union, and I got it through some connections." She paused, and continued: "The Monte Manor passed by. Six transformations, this drawing is the last transformation, and the designer is that Rudolf Hans."

Hearing Solander's words, Leo frowned and said, "Who is Rudolf Hans?"

"Don't you know him?" Solander couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then showed a look of surprise, and said, "I forgot that you are a foreigner, and your accent is so confusing that I thought you were a local." People. Rudolf Hans is known as the greatest architect in the New World. The landmark buildings of sixteen countries are all from his hands. The designer, and he also has an unknown name called Smiling Todd, you should be familiar with this name."

"Smiling Todd? Is that him?" Leo was slightly surprised, because he had seen the name of Smiling Todd in some newspapers in the past, and after that, almost every year at the same time, the vast majority of the Otto Federation Some large and small newspapers will mention this name, because this name represents terror in the Otter Federation.

Smiling Todd is a mask, one of the most common masks in carnivals in the New World. Its source is a folklore that has been circulating for a long time in the Old World. In that legend, Todd is a very great architect. He built the Some of the greatest buildings in the world have been admired by kings and achieved great fame and fortune.

It's just that Todd was not happy, because he had a disease since he was a child, which made his face as stiff as a stone, and he hadn't smiled since the day he was born.

So he found the gods, hoping that the gods could help him and make him smile. As a result, the gods agreed to his request, but they needed him to give his most precious things.

He thought that his most precious thing was his own wealth, so he donated his wealth, but the gods said it was not, and he gave his identity again, but the result was not right, he gave his wife and children again, but still no.

In the end, he gave all his knowledge and talents. This time, the gods accepted his dedication and gave him a smile. Since then, Todd has become an idiot who only knows how to smile.

However, the smiling Todd mentioned in the newspaper has always been wearing a Todd mask, never showing his true face, and what he does seems to be influenced by the story behind the mask, because he was in a dozen years. In a period of two years, a total of nearly 2,000 people were killed, and all of them were put on a smiling Taut mask, and all their brains were poached.

This incident caused great panic in the society of the Outer Federation at that time, and the Outer Federation government also set up a special task force for this purpose and provided all resources to investigate the case.

In the end, the case was successfully solved. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, the official name of the criminal was only the code name, that is, Smiling Todd, and the interrogation and judgment followed special procedures, and the details were not released to the public.

This incident caused a lot of commotion at the time, and the people were extremely dissatisfied with it. Various demonstrations were also triggered in various parts of the Otto Federation, but in the end this incident was suppressed, because not only the Otto Federation government, but also Both parliament and the Supreme Court upheld the decision not to reveal the smiling Todd's real identity.

Leo questioned: "How do you know he is Smiling Todd? This should still be a secret, right?"

Solander gave an explanation, saying: "Because the victim of a case I handled before was a survivor of the Smiling Todd case, the reason why Smiling Todd was caught was entirely because of her, only But because she is a lunatic, no one believes her except those who handled the case back then."