The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Is that the World Tree of the Black Forest?" Sylvia, who had stayed in the Black Forest for so long, was no stranger to the phantoms produced by the leaves, and quickly expressed her guess.

Leo nodded, threw the leaves under him on the table, and said: "Basically, it is certain that there is a mysterious existence hidden in this Truber Mountain, which has some connection with the World Tree of the Black Forest, but this connection is not Very strong."

Sylvia picked up the leaves on the table again, and found that the state just now had not been stimulated, so she put the leaves back in disappointment, and asked curiously, "Can you find that mysterious existence through these leaves?"

Leo pondered for a moment, and said, "It might be possible in Velen, but it's almost impossible here, and Trouble Mountain is too big,"

Although Truber Mountain is named after a mountain, its area is actually a small mountain range. This mountain range occupies half of Josh County. It has a very large area. At the beginning of the Otter Federation, there was a An army of old aristocrats hid in Truber Mountain, and it took the Federation nearly twenty years to completely wipe out this army.

It was said to be exterminated, but in fact, the leader of the noble army fell ill and died. The remaining people thought it was unnecessary to persist, so they left their hiding places and ran outside to surrender. Otherwise, the Otto Federation would probably need dozens more It will take two years to completely wipe out this army.

When consulting the information on Truber Mountain, Leo suddenly discovered a place that cannot be said to be a coincidence. The surnames of the lumberjack families around Truber Mountain seem to be the same as the surnames of some leaders of that noble army.

Leo told Sylvia about this discovery. Sylvia thought for a while and said, "From this point of view, these lumberjack families may really be the descendants of the noble army back then."

"My information records that after the aristocratic army surrendered, it was dispersed by the federal government to various parts of the federation." Leo thought for a while and said, "If they still maintain contact with each other and use the local forest farm after many years The opportunity for the Lord to hire out-of-town lumberjacks came back to Trube Mountain..." He paused, and then said: "Purpose? What is the purpose of their coming to Trube Mountain?"

Sylvia quickly gave an answer, saying: "It may be for the treasures left by the noble army. You must know that when the noble army fled into Trube Mountain, they brought a lot of treasure, but they surrendered. Those treasures were not brought out by them at that time, isn’t there still a legend about the treasures of the noble army in Mount Trube?”

After hearing this, Leo shook his head and said, "It can't be a treasure. If they really have a treasure, they won't develop into what they are now. They can buy the forest farm, manage it and cut it down by themselves."

Sylvia retorted, "No, I think they've found treasure, but it's not what they thought it was, and it's not what we thought it was."

"You mean the Truber contract?" Leo said.

Sylvia closed her eyes and thought for a while, then said, "This Truber contract gives me a feeling of déjà vu."

"Déjà vu?" Leo looked at Sylvia suspiciously.

Sylvia said bluntly: "It's like the kind of soul contract made by some disgusting guys in the abyss."

"Is it the Orochi contract?" Leo quickly thought of the upper race Abyss Orochi who likes to sign various contracts with people from other worlds in the abyss.

"No, it's not them." Sylvia shook her head and said, "It's some guys who are clearly abyssal races but claim to be gods."

Leo was stunned for a moment, and quickly found the relevant content from the memory of the abyssal snake, and confirmed: "The Karita magic contract?"

Sylvia nodded.

As Sylvia said, for the upper races of the abyss, the Caritas are indeed a group of disgusting guys. They are obviously the upper races of the abyss, and the contract power they use is also the power of the abyss, but they always Thinking that they are gods, the value of their existence is to make all the abyssal races agree with them. They even set up a church-like organization for this purpose, even if the only abyssal races willing to join are themselves.

It would be fine if the Kalitas just closed the door and played by themselves, but they like to promote their own ideas, so when they see intelligent creatures from the abyss, they always like to go forward to promote their gods Thought.

Those ordinary abyssal races did not dare to resist the Karita demons due to their strength, and could only passively accept the propaganda of the Karita demons. Although many of the upper-level abyssal races were stronger than the Karita demons in terms of strength, they were not as good as the Karita demons. The incomparable movement speed of the Rita Demon is helpless, and the final result is not much better than that of ordinary abyssal races, so the Karita Demon is definitely the most disgusting race recognized by the abyss.

Although the Karita Demon has various disgusting behaviors, he never uses his own power to force the abyssal race to believe in their ideas. Only when they are willing, they will use their power to create a Karita Demon. The contract, let the abyss race sign it.

Like the Orochi contract, the Karita magic contract is the most famous contract in the abyss. This kind of contract is very binding, and it has a characteristic. After the Karita magic contract is created, it is not just a contract. , but an abyssal creature called a contract.

At the moment when the Karita Demon contract is signed, the contracted creature will exist beside the contract signer in another way that the Karita Demon does not know, supervising the contract signer to implement the terms of the contract.

If the contract signer can fully implement the terms of the contract, the contracted creature will give the contract signer corresponding benefits according to the conditions in the contract. It is said that the upper limit of this benefit is the tolerance limit of the abyss, that is to say, this kind of contract The binding power of creatures comes directly from the abyss itself.

If the contract signer breaks the terms of the contract, the contracted creature will give corresponding punishments. At first, the punishment is only warning, such as causing the contract signer to be injured, etc., but if the contract signer ignores it, then the real punishment will be It will come, and this kind of punishment is to erase the existence of the contract signer family from the bloodline, and there is no trace of the process, as if fate is controlling the life and death of the contract signer family, which is why Sylvia will The death of the Venorin family and the reason why the so-called Truber Pact feels so familiar.

After recalling the information about the contracted creatures of the Caritas, Leo asked, "If the signer of the Caritas contract dies, what will happen to the contracted creatures?"

"This is not very clear." Sylvia also showed a contemplative look, and said after a while: "If they are in the abyss, they should return to the abyss, but if they are in other worlds, according to some higher races It is speculated that they may evolve into the God of Contract in that world."

"The God of Contract? This is very in line with the idea of ​​Karita Demon." Leo suddenly thought of something, and said: "I remember that there seemed to be a God of Contract in Velen World before, but then it disappeared suddenly. Do you think that would be wrong? will be……"

"Very likely." Sylvia said with certainty.

Leo said jokingly: "Then if we speculate according to this situation, there is a god of contract in this world who is being conceived."

Sylvia repeated the same sentence: "It's also very possible."

Leo smiled, noncommittal to this speculation, and then asked: "What did you find at the Vinolin family's residence?"

"Same as your side, they were looking for the Truber contract of the Venolin family, and they also found nothing. When I came back, they were discussing whether to demolish all the houses there, turn the whole ground over, and see if they could Can’t discover the hidden chamber of the Venolin family.” After Sylvia replied, she paused and said, “Don’t you think their behavior is weird? The contract of the Venolin family should only be for the Venolin family. It’s useful, what’s the use for them to get it?”

Leo was silent for a moment, then said, "Maybe it's not for them, but for their own contract."

Sylvia said with a tacit understanding: "You mean these contracts can swallow each other?"

"No, it should be that the owned contract can swallow the unowned contract, and the owned contract cannot swallow each other." Leo made an inference: "As for the benefits of doing this, it is easy to guess, nothing more than The harvest from the contract will be given back to the signer. The greater the contract gain, the greater the benefit to the signer. I remember the legend about the lumberjack family. At first, those lumberjack families were only healthy, but now there are There are many rumors that those lumberjack families have mastered some magical powers, and these so-called magical powers may be the benefits brought by the mutual devouring contract." He paused for a while, and asked suspiciously: "Ka Does the Rita Devil contract have this ability?"

"No." Sylvia answered decisively, but added: "However, even the upper races in the abyss know very little about the Karita magic contract, especially the changes after the contract is formed because it is signed Therefore, the upper races of the abyss cannot further understand its details. Maybe this is how the Kalita magic contract operates in the world where the signer is. You must know that they devour each other and then evolve. This evolution method is very It smells like the abyss."

Leo stood up and walked around the room, saying, "If the so-called holy deed signed by those lumberjack families is really a Karita magic contract, where would the Karita magic contract be now?"

Sylvia tapped the armrest of the sofa lightly with her fingers, and said slowly: "The Karita Demon Contract is a contracted creature, and also an abyssal creature, and the abyssal creature knows to avoid danger from the moment it is born. The family violated an unknown contract clause and had to exterminate the Venolin family and become a contract without an owner. Then it must know that it will face the engulfment of other contracts, so it will definitely choose to escape or hide. From logging The Gong family has never left Trube Mountain to see it. Obviously, these contracts must be restricted within the range of Trube Mountain for some reason. Habits..." As she spoke, she suddenly stopped, as if she had thought of something, she was stunned for a while, and then said immediately: "I know where the Venolin family's Karita magic contract is."

And Leo also thought of something, looked at Sylvia, and said, "I also know where the Karita magic contract is."

After finishing speaking, he opened his spiritual net and carefully searched the inside and outside of the manor. Soon an inexplicable smile appeared on his face, and he walked outside.

It didn't take long to see Leo holding a golden scroll with wings in his hand, and then placed it on the table in front of Sylvia.

"Where did you find it?" Sylvia asked while picking up the scroll and looking at it.

"In the soil under the steps at the door." Leo patted the rare dust on his body. replied.

The appearance of this golden scroll is indeed very good-looking, not to mention the golden texture and the pair of wings that look different at first glance, the large number of mysterious symbols on the surface alone can already make people feel the extraordinary of this golden scroll up.

When Sylvia opened the scroll, a spiritual power like a god's majesty instantly filled the entire study room, and both Leo and Sylvia could vaguely hear the sacred chant from the voice of nature, like It was like praising a certain god, and even they all had the illusion that there was some mysterious existence looking at them in the void.

It is no exaggeration to say that any ordinary person who sees this situation will instinctively think that this is a sacred object of a sacred existence. He has obtained some kind of divine enlightenment, and if he goes further, he may completely lose the ability to think.

However, this kind of bewitching power obviously has no effect on Leo and Sylvia. In their view, it is more disgusting like a mosquito that keeps flying around their ears.

"Hmph!" Sylvia snorted coldly, slightly releasing the power breath of the abyssal dragon on her body.

The sacred phenomenon of the golden scroll disappeared instantly as if it had encountered a natural enemy. The surface of the entire golden scroll was not as dazzling as before. Instead, it seemed to have been thrown somewhere for more than ten years. The surface was dull, and some There are even cracks in the place, and it feels like it may break in two at any time.

Sylvia looked at the scroll that had returned to normal, then looked at the inside of the blank scroll, and suddenly said to Leo, "Are you interested in cultivating a god?"

Leo couldn't help but smiled when he heard the words, and said, "Have you confirmed that it's the Karita magic contract?"

Sylvia nodded and said: "It's very difficult to get a volume of the Kalita demon contract that is still alive. Since this guy chooses me as the asylum just like the lower abyssal creature, then I can just test whether the legend is true or not. real."

After hearing this, Leo thought for a while, didn't say anything, but nodded in agreement.