The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

At the moment when they came in just now, Leo and Sylvia saw the badge on the shield at first glance, because they were so familiar with this badge, in order to avoid attracting attention, they didn't pay much attention to this badge, It wasn't until the others left that it was confirmed that the coat of arms on the shield was indeed that of the Belmont family, as they had expected.

The Belmont family is a very old family that existed before the establishment of the French Empire, and with the change of the first, second, and third dynasties of France, the Belmont family also rose and fell, and arrived in Sylvia This generation of the Belmont family is almost dead.

However, now in this different world, there is another Belmont family appearing here, and judging from the appearance of the shield, this family should still have some size and power at that time, which is really surprising.

"Judging from the traces on the shield, it's either a trophy or a meritorious weapon." Leo took the shield off the wall, put it on the table, looked at it, and said.

I saw that this shield was made of an iron alloy that was common in the past. This iron alloy was the most important raw material of iron in the New World for a long time in the past. It was not until the appearance of steel that it replaced this iron alloy.

There are various gaps and scratches on the surface of this shield. These marks are real and not imitated for decoration, so this shield is a shield that has experienced a lot of battles.

Many of these damaged marks have been seriously damaged, which also makes it basically impossible for the shield to be used on the battlefield again. However, it is not difficult to see from the subtleties of the shield that it has been carefully maintained, which shows that the shield holds The reader loved this shield very much, so Leo judged that this shield was either a trophy or a meritorious weapon.

However, Leo feels that the possibility of loot is less, because judging from the damage marks on this shield, the owner of the shield is very good at using the shield, and if he wants to take the shield from such a shield fighter, it will only happen when the shield is destroyed. Severely damaged, with fatal damage, but looking at all the damage of the shield, although a large number of damages have caused cracks in the shield structure, making the shield close to a scrapped state, but this scrapped state is formed by the superimposition of various damages. Yes, there was no real fatal injury anywhere.

That is to say, until the shield left the battlefield, none of the enemies encountered by the shield could break through the defense of the shield, or even cause great damage to the shield itself, so this shield was so meticulously maintained and placed in a conspicuous place , more like a boast of his past achievements.

After hearing Lei Nuo's judgment, Sylvia only glanced at the shield twice, and came to a judgment similar to Leo's. Then she checked the shield twice with great concentration, and found some clues , said: "I may know which Belmont family this shield belongs to."

Just like most aristocratic families, when the family declines, things like family separation are inevitable. As an ancient family with such a long history, the number of family separations of the Belmont family is also very impressive. Second-rate.

It's just that most of the separated Belmonta branches died out very quickly, and almost none of them could survive successfully, at least not in the world of Velen.

"Are there any features on it?" Leo asked.

Sylvia pointed to the flowers inside the arabesques on the edge of the badge on the shield, and said: "The Belmont family has a habit of placing the vines on the edge of the badge when they have made great achievements or accomplished a feat. Add a Hell Flower to the badge. My family is in my hands, the number of Hell Flowers on the badge is seventeen, but there are only five on the shield."

Hearing this, Leo carefully recalled the history of the Belmont family he had seen, and said: "If there are only five flowers, it should be from the middle to late period of Shimen in the first dynasty. Because your family's Shimen period ended in the year when the big During the war, the patriarch of Belmont at that time made great contributions on the battlefield. He allowed the Belmont family to enter the power center of the first dynasty of France, so the Belmont family at that time unanimously agreed to add a fire to the shield. Prison flower, let the fire hell flower become six." He paused, and then said, "Is it Caius Belmont?"

Sylvia nodded and said, "Yes, he was the only family member who successfully separated the family at that time."

Before the Belmont family made illustrious military exploits in the chaos of the Great War that ended in the Shimen period, successfully squeezed into the elite circle of the First Dynasty of France, and reached the first peak of power, the Belmont family as a whole was at the bottom of the valley, and the family was on the verge of collapse. Fortunately, The patriarch at that time tried his best to maintain the integrity of the family, so that the Belmont family did not really collapse, and successfully survived the most difficult period.

However, even so, some members of the Belmont family still chose to split up, and the leader of this part of the family was Caius Belmont, the younger brother of the patriarch at the time, and this Kaius Belmont was also a very famous at the time. He is a warrior, and has the title of a shield bearer. It can be seen that Caius Belmont has extraordinary skills in using shields, which also coincides with the information contained in the shield in front of him.

There is very little information about Caius Belmont, and only a part of it is mentioned in the Belmont family history. After Caius Belmont separated his family with his people, there is no more information about him in the family history. It is recorded, and there is no record of him in various historical materials of Fran.

Including the Belmont family, everyone who knew Caius Belmont felt that he must have encountered some accident and died somewhere in the world, because if he was still alive, he would be killed in the chaos of the Great War not long after. , You can definitely see him, after all, he is such a famous fighter.

Now it seems that Caius Belmont probably came to this world with the Belmont family he took away for some reason, settled down, and spread out.

At this time, Leo turned his head and looked at the wall where the shield was hung, and saw an obvious shield imprint on the wall. It was obvious that the shield had been hanging on this wall for a long time, and it was probably the first time the manor was built. It was already hung up at the beginning.

Leo then reminded: "Looking up the construction information of this manor may be able to find some relevant clues."

Sylvia nodded when she heard the words, and while handing the shield to Leo for him to hang back, she picked up the bell on the table and shook it.

Soon the butler came in, bowed and stood upright, and asked what orders he had.

Sylvia ordered: "Bring all the construction materials about this manor, and even the materials related to this piece of land."

The butler immediately responded when he heard the words, and then walked out of the room. Not long after, he saw him directing a servant to bring in a large box half a person's height and put it in a place in the room. In the slightly open space, fifteen boxes of similar size were neatly arranged.

"So much information?" Seeing so many boxes, Leo and Silvia were also a little surprised.

The butler immediately explained that he started to collect relevant information after he came here, because as a butler he needs to guide his employer's preferences, and when he was in the manor in Beruk City, he felt that Leo and Sylvia He likes to study the things around him, so he feels that it is safe to collect these materials, and now it just confirms his guess.

After listening to the butler's explanation, Leo and Sylvia also looked at the butler they hired a little differently, and also expressed that they were very satisfied with the other party's approach, and hoped that he would continue to play in the future.

After the butler led the people away and closed the door of the study, Leo and Sylvia each opened a box, browsed, sorted, and classified the materials inside.

Although the steward collected a lot of information, but because most of the servants around him were illiterate, the collected information was not able to be sorted and categorized. They were just neatly placed in the box, and the content was still very messy.

However, whether it was Leo or Sylvia, sorting out the information was easy. In less than half an hour, they sorted out all the information in the fifteen boxes according to the time when the information appeared.

Then, Sylvia and Leo each picked a box of materials and began to read.

Although there are a lot of materials, the content of most of the materials is repetitive, and it does not take a lot of time to read through them completely. Leo's reading speed is faster, and it only takes an hour to read them thoroughly, and it is all read. It took about the same amount of time for Sylvia to read it, but she only selected those materials that were not repeated and read them again.

Although there are many materials, they do not have the materials that Leo and Sylvia want, because almost all of these materials are after the religious wars, not before the religious wars.

According to the data, this manor existed before the religious war. The manor was divided into two parts, and one part was donated by the owner of the manor to a church of gods called the Gate Tower as a missionary church.

Later, in the religious war, this place was not affected, so the buildings were preserved intact. However, after the war, the Gate Tower Church was driven from this land, and the former owner of the manor also left with the church.

Later, the newly established Ott Federation army took over the manor, and they smashed the other half of the manor, the Gate Tower Church Church, while the manor villa was kept, and later it was slightly renovated, and it was used as a sanatorium for government officials. , until it was traded to Leo.

Although the changes related to the manor are very simple, almost a linear process without any waves, the manor itself is not simple. Among the fifteen boxes of materials, at least fourteen boxes record all kinds of troubles in the manor. Accidents, after some of these accidents, people in black robes from the Education Department even came here to investigate, but they found nothing, so the manor stopped being used as a nursing home decades ago, only some employees in charge of cleaning, will Come here from time to time for cleaning.

The contents of these accidents are almost the same. After the people living here reach a certain period of time, some mysterious power will be triggered. Under the action of this mysterious power, some inexplicable things will happen to the residents.

For example, when going up the stairs, there are obviously only a dozen steps, but no matter how you go, you can't finish it, and the same goes for going down.

There is also a door that looks normal. After opening the door, it turns into various places behind the door. The person who opens the door will walk in uncontrollably. If you are lucky, you may only appear in the garden of the manor. Those who were unlucky even appeared directly in the air. According to records, at least 20 people fell to their deaths because of this reason.

However, what is interesting is that as long as the occupants leave the manor villa before the limited time, stay outside, even if they just stay at the gate for a day, and then return to the manor, the limited time will be reset.

"The Tower of the Gate." After reading these materials, Sylvia said the name of a god without thinking, and Leo nodded in agreement.

The god of the Gate Tower is not a particularly famous god in the New World, and there are not many believers, but unlike other miscellaneous believers, some of the believers in the Gate Tower are very firm, and can even be said to be pious. These believers are Those thieves, thieves.

It is also because of this that the Gate Tower Church has not been a mainstream church since the old continent, but it has always existed, and it can even be said to be a church with an extremely ancient heritage.

In addition, I don't know if it is because most of the believers are thieves and thieves. The Gate Tower Church has rarely had a fixed church site. Most of the senior clergy in the Gate Tower are walking around. The place is used as a preaching place, and it is precisely for this reason that even though the Tower of the Gate Church will encounter attacks from some hostile churches, it has never suffered fatal damage.

However, one thing is certain, once the Church of the Tower of the Gate establishes a fixed church, then that church will play an extraordinary important role in the Church of the Tower of the Gate, as can be seen from the few materials of the Church of the Gate of the Tower , once this kind of fixed church is attacked by foreign enemies, the clergy of the Gate Tower Church will fight desperately and become like berserkers. Both will suffer heavy losses.

However, the problem is that the information that Leo and Sylvia read before said that the Church of the Gate Tower voluntarily abandoned this intact church, and the newly established Otto Federation took over here without a single soldier, and even forcibly demolished the church No one stopped it, and there was no retaliation afterwards. This kind of thing seemed very strange to the Otter Federation at the time. Even the black-robed people from the Ministry of Education and Culture conducted a special investigation, but they did not find out the reason.

However, although the investigation by the man in black did not achieve any results, one thing is certain that the various incidents in the manor villa should be related to the Gate Tower Church that was destroyed back then. As for how it is related, there is still no clear one Answer.