The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

As the current topic figures in Beruk City, Sylvia and Leo would receive a large number of invitations every day, some of which Sylvia would choose to go to, but Leo ignored them.

The outside world is not too surprised by this, because outsiders see Leo as a scholar who studies knowledge and likes to do experiments, and it is normal behavior not to accept these invitations.

However, this gave those boring upper-class people a reason to bet. They decided to bet on Leo, and sent Leo invitations to various events or private banquets every day. Look at Leo. Who will choose the invitation letter at a time.

Ever since, all kinds of invitations were sent to the Belmont Manor. Only a dozen of the invitations they received each day were from Sylvia, and the rest were from Leo. Most of them are invitations for private banquets, some invitations for public welfare, and some invitations for club activities.

Leo refused all of these, but Sylvia would find a few invitation letters for public welfare undertakings to reply on his behalf, and by the way, when sending the reply letter, a check was also attached.

However, this situation has changed with an invitation letter sent by Bojie Hans. If Bojie Hans is also one of those bettors, he is obviously the winner of this bet.

The reason why Leo chose Boger Hans' invitation letter to participate in this private event is because this private event happened to be the event he was waiting for related to the mystic knowledge of this world. In fact, Boger Hans held This event is not the only event that Leo is waiting for. There are several similar events in Beiruk City that are also his choices. It is a pity that the organizers of those events did not send invitation letters.

When planning to infiltrate the upper class of the Otter Federation to find knowledge related to mysticism and mystical power, Leo and Sylvia used various methods to collect relevant information.

It's just that the Otter Federation officials and the church are very strict on such things. In addition, it is much more difficult for them to collect information for foreigners who are newcomers. In the end, they only got a few vague and useful information.

These news all mentioned that some people in the upper class of Beruk City were very obsessed with those mysticisms, and even formed secret clubs for this purpose, and also mentioned that several dignitaries in Beruk City had publicly stated that they belonged to certain secret clubs. Members, among them Boger Hans.

The secret club that Bojie Hans joined was called the True Knowledge Club. It was a semi-public secret club. The reason why it was said to be semi-public was that the club had an office in the city government building called Gu The Civilization Investigation and Research Committee is a non-profit organization jointly organized by the government and the people. Its stated purpose is to investigate and collect all things related to ancient civilizations. Bojie Hans is the founder and president of this organization.

Leo gave the shotgun to Boger Hans, not just to make friends with Boger Hans, and then to get in touch with the Hans family who should have in-depth contact with mysterious forces. His real purpose is to use A little thing left on the shotgun attracted Boger Hans and made Boger Hans his guide to the other side of the world.

However, what he didn't expect was that Bojie Hans found out what he had left on the shotgun so late, and sent himself this invitation letter, making him wait for a while.

However, fortunately, things were still under his control, and the invitation letter was finally delivered.

After giving the reply, Leo began to prepare for the appointment at night. After all, he wanted to pretend to be a scholar with some knowledge of ancient mysticism. .

After nightfall, the carriage sent by Bojie Hans waited outside the gate of the manor early. After Leo got on the carriage, the coachman drove the carriage half a circle around the Great North Point area, and then drove into a private path. Then he walked through the trail, passed through private manors one after another, and finally took an intercity road that left Beruk City and headed to the neighboring city.

Leo was not surprised by this. On the contrary, he thought this situation was normal. Although the True Knowledge Society is a semi-public secret club, it is a secret club after all. If it is in someone's home, then it loses its mystique, otherwise, if a mysterious organization loses its mystique, then it loses most of its appeal, and no one would want to join a secret club that is not mysterious.

Therefore, the True Knowing Society must have one or many secret meeting places, and judging from the several hooded clothes and masks found in the carriage compartment, it is obvious that he will need to dress up later.

The carriage had been driving on the road for a while, and gradually stopped, followed by the sound of footsteps outside the car, the door opened, and Bojie Hans, wearing a hooded costume and a mask, came in from outside the car, and then patted The wooden board behind him signaled the carriage to continue driving.

"I knew that Lord Leo must be interested in my invitation letter. Do you know how much money your reply letter earned me?" Bojie Hans took off the mask on his face, with an excited expression on his face, as if he was waiting Leo asked.

However, Leo obviously didn't cooperate with his plan, just looked at each other with a smile.

"You are such a boring person." Without waiting for the desired response, Bojie Hanston felt bored and lost the interest to continue. He directly turned to the topic, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and opened it. I saw a complex-looking mysterious pattern drawn on it, and asked, "Your Excellency Leo, I saw this pattern on the shotgun you gave me. May I ask where you found this pattern?"

Leo took the paper and looked at it, but did not answer, but asked instead: "Your Excellency Bojie, why are you interested in it, do you know what it is?"

Bojie Hans naturally wouldn't tell the truth, so he found an excuse and replied: "I don't know, I just think it's very beautiful, as if it has some mysterious meaning."

Leo explained: "Like Your Excellency, I also felt that this symbol seemed to contain some mysterious knowledge, so I engraved it on the shotgun, hoping that the shotgun can obtain that mysterious power."

Although Leo made an explanation, and the content of the explanation was in line with Bojie Hans' ideas, he still didn't say the origin of this symbol, which made Bojie Hans feel a little unhappy, but he didn't Without showing any emotion on his face, he thought for a while and said, "Actually, I have seen a similar symbol before, but I just don't understand the meaning of this symbol. Your symbol may be different from the one I saw. Contact, if you can know where the symbol comes from, go there and investigate, maybe you can decipher the meaning of the two symbols."

Leo shook his head and said, "There's no need to investigate. You shouldn't be able to find anything related to this symbol, because I've already looked for it, and I don't know anything other than this symbol."

"Already looked for it?" Bojie Hans was stunned for a while, as if thinking of something, he asked, "Did you see it at Belmont Manor?"

Leo didn't answer, just nodded.

Bojie Hans immediately fell into deep thought. Obviously, Leo's answer provided him with a lot of clues and information.

As Leo tacitly agreed, this symbol was indeed discovered during the renovation of Belmont Manor. The construction team at that time just regarded it as a general decorative slate and didn't care, but Leo could see the brokenness of the slate at a glance. The pattern is somewhat related to the wizard's circle of the tower wizard. After researching, he found that the pattern symbol was indeed converted from the wizard's circle. This pattern symbol can be regarded as a kind of wizard's circle specially modified to operate in this world.

Although this wizard circle has been broken and completed, it also made Leo's process of improving the rune circle a lot smoother, and the transformation of the rune circle was quickly completed, although this transformation will still make the rune circle There are disorderly and chaotic changes during operation, causing different effects, but it also makes Leo's understanding of the mysterious power of this world advance a lot. This is why Leo is confident that even if he does not find any knowledge and knowledge related to the mysterious power Information, the reason why he was able to completely improve the rune circle in a short period of time.

Because this symbol was incomplete, when Leo engraved the symbol on the shotgun, he completed the incomplete part according to his own rune circle system.

"Is it like this when you saw this symbol?" Boger Hans asked after a moment of contemplation.

"Yes, that's how it is." Leo nodded and asked casually, "Is there anything wrong with that?"

"No, no! This symbol..." Bojie Hans looked at the symbol drawn on the paper in his hand, without further explanation.

Even though Bojie Hans didn't explain it, Leo could still see from the other party's expression and behavior that the other party should have seen this symbol, and what he saw was the complete version, not the modified version filled in by himself. It also further proved that the Hans family had in-depth contact with the mysterious power of this world.

At the same time, Bojie Hans was unwilling to continue this topic, put the piece of paper back into his pocket, and then asked Leo: "Your Excellency Leo, do you like to study mysteries?"

"I've studied it for a while." Leo replied vaguely.

Bojie Hans said suspiciously: "It's really surprising. The scholars I know who study industrial machinery and metallurgy are almost incompatible with those who study religion and mysticism. They will make a lot of noise when they meet. I have never seen a scholar with such profound smelting knowledge as you would be interested in mysticism."

Leo replied vaguely as always: "I'm just interested in all the secrets."

Although this kind of answer was still the kind of panacea answer, Bojie Hans looked understanding, as if he could understand what Leo wanted to express.

"How much do you know about true knowledge?" Boger Hans asked again.

Leo thought for a while and replied: "I don't know much about it. I just heard some news recently. I know that this is a secret club established by Your Excellency. It is said that it only recruits people who are interested in occultism."

Bojie Hans shook his head and said: "Some of what you said is right, and some are wrong. We are indeed a secret club, but I didn't establish it. I just established a branch in Beruk City. The Truth Society There will always be other places. In addition, we are not only recruiting people who are interested in occultism, but recruiting those who have been exposed to real occult knowledge."

"Real occult knowledge?" Leo pretended to be puzzled.

"Yes, real occult knowledge." Bojie Hans' expression became serious, and he said: "Although there are various organizations in this world that study occult knowledge, most of these organizations have contact with The mystical knowledge that I have received is just the fake knowledge and false knowledge thrown out by the church. There are not many people who have actually been exposed to the correct mystical knowledge, and even fewer organizations, and our True Knowledge Society is one of them."

Leo looked at the boastful Bojie Hans, and said calmly: "The real mystic knowledge you are talking about should not be the complicated mysterious symbols?"

"Yes, that's the symbol." Bojie Hans was a little dissatisfied with Leo's calm attitude, but after thinking about it, he felt that this seemed to be a matter of course, because his and Sylvia's identities might represent their knowledge There are more mysterious things, that's why he behaves so calmly.

Leo questioned: "It would be too rash to decide whether a person is eligible to join the secret club just by having come into contact with a real mysterious symbol. You must know that I was not the only one who saw and touched the symbol at that time. People, are those people also eligible to join?"

Leo's reaction seemed very normal to Boger Hans. After all, he was invited to join a secret party that had never happened before, and any normal person would question this.

Bojie Hans explained: "Of course not, exposure to real mystic knowledge is only one of the prerequisites. In addition, there are many preconditions that will filter out those who are not suitable. Even if this is the case, you can't join immediately. You must pass some Assessment and trials are the only way to truly join us."

"The rigorous review of its own members is the key factor for the continuation of an organization." Leo nodded in agreement, seeming to approve of this review method, and then he asked: "If I join, what's the benefit? ?”

"Of course there are benefits. Being able to get in touch with real mysterious knowledge and knowing the reality of this world is one of the benefits," Bojie Hans said with a confident smile. Now that it’s all said and done, it will affect your experience, knowing that exploration is part of the fun.”

Seeing this, Leo didn't ask any more questions, and then Bojie Hans asked Leo to put on the prepared hood, picked a mask to put on, and asked him to give himself a code name, and the code name Leo gave himself was It is the wizard.