The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The sphere at the top of the black tower turned suddenly, and everyone on the top of the tower was stunned. They gathered under the sphere one after another, looked up at the sphere that had become a disc, and could not speak for a long time.

"What did you do? How did it become like this?" After a while, everyone who woke up from their astonishment asked Belen who was standing on the ladder.

But Beren looked at the scrub cloth in his hand with a blank and surprised face, then looked up at the place he had wiped before, and said puzzledly: "I didn't do anything? I just wanted to wipe it clean." That's all."

While speaking, three pillars of black clouds rushed out from the tops of the three chief wizard towers in Silvermoon City, and soon flew to the airship docking platform outside the top of the black towers, all the black clouds gathered together, It turned into three wizards in black robes and hoods.

Seeing the three wizards standing on the platform, the porters and engineers in the room on the top floor all stopped discussing and bowed their heads respectfully. Beren, who was standing on the ladder, also jumped down rolling and crawling, bowing his head. Standing next to his companion.

Although the manager of Silvermoon City is the Municipal Council, everyone knows that the Municipal Council is just a management tool, and the real controllers of Silvermoon City are the ten chief wizards of the Wizarding Association. Externally, the ten chief wizards are equal in status, and there is no distinction between high and low, but in fact, everyone knows that the three black-robed wizards are the strongest and the highest among the ten chief wizards.

Except for some major celebrations, the three black-robed wizards rarely appear in front of people, and even if they do appear, they have never appeared at the same time, but now the three black-robed wizards appear at the top of the black tower with such fanfare at the same time, which makes people in the room Both the engineers and the porters felt that something big was about to happen.

After the three black-robed wizards appeared, they ignored the other people in the room, but walked directly under the sphere and looked up at the disc-shaped sphere.

"There is still some magic power left on it, the magic power should come from here." A woman's voice came from under the hood of a black-robed wizard embroidered with blood-colored patterns, and then she took off the hood, revealing a cold and beautiful The face and the bald head covered with various patterns.

"Do you remember what this thing is called?" Another black-robed wizard was embroidered with purple patterns on his clothes, and he was also the tallest, with a lot of scars visible from the half of his face exposed under the hood.

The last black-robed wizard was embroidered with white patterns and had the oldest voice. The hood was deliberately pulled down to cover the entire face, and only a beard that grew to his waist could be seen hanging down. He said in a deep voice, "I remember this thing is called a boundary ring."

"However, how do I remember that this thing seemed to be a sphere?" The blood-striped black-robed wizard pondered for a while, and then asked, "Do you know what this thing is used for?"

The other two black-robed wizards looked at each other and didn't know the answer. Then the white-patterned black-robed wizard coughed twice and said, "There are too many books and inheritances lost in the turmoil back then. I'm afraid the function of this thing needs to be learned from those Look for it in the remaining ancient books, and you may not be able to find it."

"How did it get into this shape?" the blood-striped black-robed wizard asked again.

As they said that, the three black-robed wizards looked at the engineers and porters standing beside them with their heads bowed.

The person in charge of the five engineers quickly stood up and carefully explained the situation just now.

"Is it just to wipe off the rust?" Hearing this, the purple-patterned black-robed wizard muttered with some doubts, and then saw his body float up from the ground and float to the side of the disc. Then he raised his hand from under the robe, and took off the leather glove, revealing the palm with metallic skin, and lightly touched the disc. Where he touched, the rust disappeared little by little like stains that had been wiped away, and the disappearing effect gradually spread, and the disk was completely renewed in the blink of an eye, revealing the golden surface and those fine patterns .

"Huh?" When they saw the patterns on the surface of the ring-shaped bearings on the disc, the three black-robed wizards let out a soft cry at the same time, and then all their eyes fell on those patterns.

"It seems that there are one hundred and six levels of magic patterns?" The white-striped black-robed wizard quickly calculated the number of Turing radicals in the outermost ring, and added: "This is still the surface of the outermost ring shaft. The number of magic lines, according to my observation, the number of magic lines in each layer of the ring shaft is more than that in the outer layer, that is to say, the number of magic lines in the innermost core bearing may be more than a thousand."

"What? So many?" The words of the white-patterned black-robed wizard surprised the other two black-robed wizards. Although they felt that there were a lot of magic patterns on the ring shafts on the disk, they never expected that there would be so many more. .

The purple-patterned black-robed wizard asked in a deep voice: "How many magic patterns are there in the strange object with the most number of magic patterns in our hands?"

The white-patterned black-robed wizard quickly gave the answer: "The dream catcher placed in the foggy area to guard the castle, the seventy-six level magic pattern."

Hearing this, all three of them gasped in unison.

The blood-patterned black-robed wizard asked with a puzzled expression: "Why haven't we discovered the mystery of this thing before?"

"Maybe it's because I often see it, so..." The purple-patterned black-robed wizard's explanation was a little blunt, and he himself might feel that such an explanation was unreliable, so he stopped before he finished speaking.

The three black-robed wizards did not continue to stand here to discuss, but directly ordered that this place be classified as a restricted area, and all the supplies shipped outside the lake area were transferred to other airship sites, and the three were sending some wizards to stay here to guard After that, they entered the warehouse that had been dusty for many years, and searched for information that might be related to this world ring from those old objects and ancient books.

The actions of the three black-robed wizards naturally attracted the attention of other chief wizards. They came to the top of the black tower to look at the disk, but they didn't show much interest in it. The first subordinate wizard was stationed in the room at the top of the tower, and they continued to quarrel over the successor of the tenth chief wizard.

The other chief wizards who have long been secularized are more concerned about the power in their hands, the resources they have obtained, and the territory they control, and they are no longer interested in the knowledge of so-called wizards. Because there are three black-robed chiefs, no matter how hard they try, their status and power cannot be improved, not to mention their power comes from blood, even if they don't delve into various witchcraft, their power will grow with age. Enhancement, so there is no need to pay too much attention to these useless things.

Leo, who was far away in the forest, didn't know that the animal skin in his hand had caused a reaction from the most core wizard in the world, and he didn't know that because of this reaction, the black-robed wizard who controlled Silvermoon City had begun to pay attention to some early Forgotten, his attention was now on finding suitable clothing at the second supply point.

Compared with the first supply point, the second supply point Leo found is not very far from the hut. With his walking speed, it took him less than ten minutes to get there, and he only encountered two enemies in the middle. An attack by the dream spirits.

This supply point is not a wooden house, but a converted cave. The interior of the cave is very dry, but there is no such thing as a fireplace. The entrance is also hung with some mesh to block and torso the dream spirit like the log cabin. Wizard Wonders.

There are no weapons stored in this cave supply point, but there are a lot of silver-white gravel that caused the reaction of animal skins before, and there are also clothes of various sizes. Leo quickly found some suitable for him to wear. clothing.

Although the clothes were found, Leo did not mix them indiscriminately. Having done more than one infiltration mission, he knows that every place has different ways of wearing clothes. striking.

Fortunately, Valentin, whom he had seen before, was used as a reference. He quickly analyzed some rules for the people here to wear clothes. He changed into a lined vest and a hunter half-length coat. In order to avoid mistakes, he even The trousers and boots were replaced by the linen trousers here and those very old-fashioned boots.

Leo did not throw away the changed clothes, but carefully folded them and put them in his backpack. After all, these clothes were specially made for him by Rembrandt, and the value and function of the clothes themselves were not comparable to ordinary clothes. of.

After changing his clothes, Leo checked to see if there were any omissions.

"By the way, there are weapons!" Soon Leo found a loophole that he had overlooked just now, and took off the king and queen, the holster and the bullet belt, and put them in the backpack, and then took out the The set of weapons that the hut took away is equipped on him.

From Valentin's previous reaction, it is not difficult to see that only night watchmen can use firearms, and other ordinary people can only use blades, machine crossbows and other cold weapons.

After hanging the machine crossbow and a bag of silver-white gravel around his waist, Leo checked the condition of his clothes again, and found no loopholes, so he picked up a hat rack that was still popular decades ago. Putting the three-cornered hat on his head, he walked out of the supply point and walked towards the nearest town on the lake.

When looking at the map, Leo felt a little strange, because according to common sense, a city's public cemetery should be built not far from the city, or even inside the city.

But it is different here. The cemetery guarded by Valentin is 30 to 40 kilometers away from the nearest Hushang Town, and it is still deep in the forest. If ordinary people walk, it may take more than one or two days to reach it. The danger in the forest may take longer, so this seemingly unreasonable city layout must contain mysteries that he has not discovered yet.

However, when Leo found several abandoned cemeteries on the way to the nearest lake town, he had a faint guess in his heart, thinking that these cemeteries might have something to do with the foggy area Valentin mentioned. These cemeteries are not so much for burying the dead, but rather for using the corpses of these dead to perform certain rituals to generate some kind of power against the fog zone.

In these abandoned cemeteries, Leo couldn't find any corpses under each of the tombs, but from some traces, it can be seen that a large number of corpses were buried here, and there are many and dreams in the forest around the cemetery. The traces of the battle of the spirit.

Perhaps because it has already entered the actual control area of ​​Crescent Lake, the dream spirits encountered on the road to Leo are less and less, and groups of dream spirits such as strange birds and white shadows have almost disappeared. , most of them are some individual dream spirits.

It's just that these dream spirits can live alone in the forest near Crescent Lake without being wiped out by the Night Watchman Organization or the Wizarding Association, which is enough to prove how powerful they are.

When approaching the habitat of these dream spirits, Leo could feel from a long distance that some of them were absolutely no more terrifying than the Wilson Matthew he saw underground in the cage city. How much weaker is the old wizard.

For this reason, he didn't even dare to let go of the spiritual net, because when his spiritual net perceives the other party, the other party must also be able to perceive him, so he only dares to judge the spirit of the dream through spiritual vision or spiritual perception. Habitat range to avoid these places.

After walking in the forest for about six hours, Leo finally saw the outer wall of Lake Town.

This outer wall is a very majestic enclosure for ordinary people. The wall is nearly 30 meters high, and the two ends extend into the lake, showing a semicircle, enclosing the entire lake town. The wall has no entrances and exits, but there are some large steam elevators that can be used by people.

Just like the net-shaped wizard wonders that are equipped with the gravekeeper's hut and supply point, there are also a large number of similar wizard wonders on this wall, and these wizard wonders are no longer woven with rough plant vines. It is made of some high-tech metal wires, and its durability and effect are far beyond other plant vine nets.

Because of the existence of these wizards and wonders that repel the spirit of dreams, the entire wall forms a huge repulsive force field. The range of influence of this force field is not only in the area near the wall, but can even be felt in places several miles away from the wall. to this strong repulsive force.

It is precisely because of this strong repelling force of the dream spirits that the land around the wall becomes safe land to use.

All the trees in these lands were cut down, the roots were dug out, the land was reclaimed, and turned into farmland, and the food crops planted in the farmland were not common grains such as grains in the world of Vinen, but a kind of food that looked like Cotton, but tastes like bread.

However, Leo found that after he ate this kind of food, the chaotic stomach pouch would not absorb the food directly, but let him digest it slowly like a normal person.

Perhaps it was because the people here had too much trust in the power contained in this high wall, so no manpower was deployed to patrol and guard the wall at all. So much so that Leo easily climbed onto the fence without alarming anyone, stood on the edge of the seven-meter-wide wall top, looked at the lake town protected by this high wall, and saw this Crescent Lake, the center of the world.