The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the belief in the tower of the gate of the gods has been spread in the old continent for a long time, for a long time, other churches did not recognize the god of the tower of the gate, because the ancient books of the church of the gate tower The description of the tower is too beyond ordinary people's understanding.

As the name suggests, the Tower of Gates is a tower. No one knows how tall this tower is, and no one knows how big this tower is. They just know that there are countless doors in this tower, and these doors can lead to any place. It's not just the real places, you can even go in dreams, and what's even more exaggerated is that you can go to the residences of other gods as well.

This kind of statement completely puts the god of the Tower of the Gate above the gods, and naturally all churches will not admit that there is a god or place like the Tower of the Gate.

However, with the appearance of the bandit Wood, even those churches still deny the existence of the gate tower, but in the hearts of the people at the bottom, the gate tower is a real god, and the tower with countless gates exists, and can arrive.

Robber Wood is a slave in a remote kingdom in the Old World, where the slaves only have numbers but no names, and the name of Robber Wood comes from the author of the article that first reported him, that person is called Wood.

In the world, there are not many materials about the robber Wood. Except for the fact that his slave origin can be confirmed, most of the other materials come from some unconfirmed folklore.

According to legend, the thief Wood accidentally entered the Tower of Gates when he was still a slave, and got a key from the Tower of Gates. Through this key, he can open a gate leading to any place. With the ability of the key, He escaped from the slave camp and started his legendary life.

No one knows how many things Thief Wood has stolen, and no one knows how many treasures fell into the hands of Thief Wood. People only know that at that time, not only nearly 80% of the secular kingdoms in the Old World were looking for him, but even all the churches were looking for him. To capture him, and even send out some terrible figures like the Inquisition.

However, even if people from all over the world arrest him, or even use the power of the gods, they can't catch him. He can always mysteriously escape from all kinds of encirclement and traps in the dead place that is considered inescapable.

However, although the thief Wood escaped arrest, he could not escape the hearts of the people. In the end, he was betrayed by a lover he trusted most during a leisure trip that he thought was just a vacation. Some of them fell into the trap carefully arranged by several big churches.

Knowing that he could not escape again, he knew exactly what would happen if he was caught by the church, so he took the poison he had prepared long ago, and when the people from the church found him, he was already a corpse.

Although the thief Wood is dead, his legend has not disappeared because his body is still there, and some churches have the ability to find out his secrets from his body.

For example, the churches that soon got the corpse of Thief Wood found several treasure places of Thief Wood. No one knew how many treasures there were at that time, but the diaries written by the priests who participated in the treasure hunt were leaked later. Come out, and the most words on it are "this is the treasure house that the gods also covet." It can be seen that there are so many treasures in it, even the senior priests at that time couldn't help writing such blasphemous words.

This is just one of Thief Wood's treasure troves, and there are more Thief Wood's treasure troves that have not been found. So far, many people are still looking for Thief Wood's treasure trove. There is even a guess that Thief Wood The power of the tower came to the New World, and he hid most of his treasures in the New World, so no matter how he searched in the Old World, it was impossible to find those treasures.

However, it is different from the folks who focus on the treasure of Thief Wood. In addition to paying attention to the treasure of Thief Wood, the church also pays more attention to the secrets of the door tower on Thief Wood, especially the one that can lead to the door. The key to the tower.

According to the records left by the clergy who participated in those years, several people who mastered the highest divine arts in those churches at that time joined forces to find the Gate Tower through the corpse of the thief Wood, and they all saw the Gate Tower, but they were blocked by the Gate Tower. The Tower of the Gate was expelled, and afterwards they only remembered that there was a tower soaring into the sky, and they didn't remember anything else, but this also confirmed that the Tower of the Gate really existed, and the Church of the Tower of the Gate became a recognized church. Church of God.

When those churches are constantly digging out the secrets of the thief Wood and gaining huge benefits, other churches and the secular kingdom are not willing to just watch those churches take everything away, so they jointly deal with those churches. They made an attack and asked to share the corpse of the thief Wood, but those churches naturally disagreed, and conflicts arose between the two parties.

However, when the conflict between the two sides reached its peak, there was news that the corpse of the robber Wood was missing. Naturally, no one would believe this news. Everyone only thought that the churches were lying, so the conflict not only did not subside, but even worse. Big, and eventually war broke out.

The result is very simple. Naturally, the few churches that got the corpse of the thief Wood could not resist the cooperation of other churches and secular kingdoms in the Old Continent. Personnel escaped.

Previously, the treasure found through the corpse of the thief Wood naturally fell into the hands of the coalition forces of the church and the kingdom, but the body of the most critical thief Wood was not found. After the investigation, it was found that the claims of the churches were correct at the time. The body is indeed missing.

After that, there are different opinions about the whereabouts of the thief Wood's body. Some people say that the thief Wood's body was taken away by the surviving priests of the destroyed churches, and some people say that the body has actually fallen into the first few churches In the hands of the forces of the Holy Land, but they deliberately hid it.

However, the most mentioned of all the rumors is that the Church of the Tower of the Gate stole the body of the thief Wood, because after the war caused by the corpse of the thief Wood, the Church of the Tower of the Gate publicly declared that the thief Wood is a saint of the church, and he is called by St. Wood, and in the hands of some senior clergymen, they hold holy objects made from the relics of the thief Wood.

The Gate Tower Church has become more secretive since then. Although other churches are often able to capture the believers and clergy of the Gate Tower Church, they have not been able to capture its core members, and the Gate Tower Church seems to be avoiding the old continent church. Surrounded by China, they actively participated in the great migration to the New World.

In the New World, although the search for Thief Wood's treasure and the key to the door tower were not as frantic as in the Old World, many churches and countries still set up special departments to deal with related matters.

There is also a similar department in the Otter Federation. This department is under the Ministry of Education. When something strange happened to the manor villa in the hands of Leo, they also sent people to investigate. The final result of the investigation is unknown. , I just know that the Otter Federation doesn't seem to pay much attention to this matter, otherwise this manor would not fall into Leo's hands, of course, there must be Bachelor Langnus playing some role in it.

Because, when Leo and Sylvia were researching the manor villa, Longnus's people in Josh County rushed over and took Langnus's letters and some of the materials Langenus had investigated in the past. handed over to the two.

Judging from the content of the letter, Longanus had been curious about this manor villa more than 20 years ago. At first, he was because of the strange things that happened in the villa, but when he came to the villa and saw the manor hanging in the study After the shield on the mantel, his attention shifted to the Belmont family crest on the shield.

With the knowledge of Longanus, like Sylvia, he quickly discovered the secret hidden in the badge, and judged who the badge belonged to, and like them, he used the manor itself as a clue to find the world of the Belmont family.

Longanus has much more resources and time than Leo and Sylvia now, so the depth of his investigation naturally far exceeds the information collected by the fifteen boxes of housekeepers, even some of the Ministry of Education Unpublished investigation materials can also be found by him.

During the investigation, he discovered that the owner of the manor who donated half of the manor to the Gate Tower Church to build the church was not the original owner of the villa. He judged from various collected materials that the villa appeared very early , as early as or even before the Great Migration of the New World, that is to say, this villa, like the ancient ruins he discovered, was a product of the native civilization of the New World before the Great Migration.

It is recorded that the first owner of this villa was named Ross Schneider. This name has appeared in almost all the textbooks of the New World countries. He is considered to be one of the greatest adventurers in the New World. The first species encyclopedia in the New World is From his hands.

According to Langenus' investigation, when Ross Schneider got this villa, he didn't think that this villa was a product of New World civilization, but only thought that it was a hermitage built by a certain old continent dignitary who lived in seclusion. It was abandoned, so he renovated the villa, lived in it for a while, and then sold the villa to his friend.

Afterwards, the villa continued to circulate in the hands of different people. Basically, everyone who got the villa would only live in the villa for a few years before changing hands, and what is interesting is that no matter who gets the villa in the end , which country they come from, which religion they believe in, which customs they have, they will not make any changes to this villa, they will only renovate it, which means that the style of this villa has changed from the first occupant that year. In the beginning, it has not changed until now.

In addition, Longanus found out that the reason why the Church of the Tower of the Gate established a church here was because they felt that there was a breath of God in this villa, and they also carried out some religious ceremonies in the villa at that time.

And the strange things that happened in the villa happened not after the church of the Gate Tower Church was destroyed, but after the servant’s room in the southwest corner of the villa was remodeled. Water was drawn here, so a door in the servant's room was removed, and a water reservoir was dug beside it.

After the renovation was completed, strange things happened in the villa that day. The investigators of the Ministry of Education and Culture at that time also discovered this, so they restored all the places that were renovated at that time, but the result still did not prevent the strange things from happening.

Langenus also failed to investigate the cause of the strange incident, and he did not find anything related to religion, occultism and other extraordinary powers inside and outside the villa. During the investigation, he had two outstanding The student also died because of the accident, which also made him brood. Although it is not a heart disease, he always remembers it.

When Longanus found out that Leo and Sylvia had also come to this world, he had the idea of ​​asking Leo to investigate the villa, so he secretly led this matter, Leo It was because of Langenus that he was able to know Truber Mountain and the mysterious power of Truber Mountain that promotes the rapid growth of plants from other people during that time. He believed that Leo would definitely be curious about Truber Mountain and Black Mountain. The relationship between the forest, in this case, Leo will definitely go back to Truber Mountain, and he just transferred the villa to Leo.

What happened afterwards was indeed as he expected. Leo became interested in Truber Hill, and obtained a property in Truber Hill through a transaction, and Langenus just put the villa in the property of the transaction. middle.

"It seems that we were all tricked by that old guy!" After reading Longanus's letter, Sylvia was displeased and couldn't help cursing.

However, Leo didn't have any thoughts. He was more suspicious of Longanus's intentions for this villa. He asked the angry Sylvia, "Do you think Longanus, Or is old Rembrandt the kind of person who would be very upset over the death of a few students?"

"Of course it's impossible. When he was in Velen, many of his students died, and I didn't see him being sad at all." Sylvia gave the answer without hesitation, and also thought of what Leo discovered. A suspicious point, said: "You mean that the reason why Langenus has paid attention to this place for many years is actually because of other reasons."

"There is also information that the cause of the accident here is because the house has been remodeled, but if you look carefully, the rituals performed by the Gate Tower in the villa should be regarded as the source," Leo analyzed carefully, and said: "And the villa Over the years, so many people have passed by, but the main architectural style has not changed at all, which is doubtful."

Sylvia pondered for a moment, and said, "Do you think it is possible that the key to the door tower in the hands of the legendary robber Wood is in this villa?"

Leo was noncommittal to Sylvia's guess, but just smiled and said: "There are so many interesting things waiting for us, it seems that our life here should not be too boring!"