The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The girl was completely shocked by Leo's question. What she thought of just now was whether the two suspected spies in front of her would silence herself in order to cover up her whereabouts, but no matter how much she thought about it, she never thought that the other party would ask if she would like to become a spy. His student? This question was so different from what she thought, that she couldn't react for a while.

At the same time, Sylvia also had a look of surprise and surprise, and she also did not expect that Leo would ask such a question.

In the past, she had discussed with Leo about letting Leo accept an official wizard apprentice, but Leo never answered directly, and it was obvious that he had never thought of accepting an apprentice at all.

But now, without warning, Leo wanted to accept a girl from another world whom she met for the first time as a student. This really surprised and puzzled her. knowledge gained there.

"Aren't you willing?" Leo saw the girl staring blankly in front of her for a long time without speaking, and said disappointedly, "Since you don't want to, forget it."

"Wait!" Sylvia stopped Leo at this moment, and said, "If you suddenly ask her if she wants to be your student in such a reckless manner, anyone who is a little normal will hesitate and hesitate, you at least Give her a little time to think, and tell her who you are and what knowledge you are going to teach her, otherwise how will she make a judgment. After all, this kind of thing is not a small matter for you or her. "

Leo showed a really troublesome look, but he still thought about it seriously, nodded, and said: "Yes! You are right, I was indeed too hasty, I'd better heal your injury first."

After speaking, he saw Leo raise his hand, gathering a spiritual energy ball in his palm, and then controlled the spiritual energy ball to touch the girl's slightly torn muscles.

The girl suddenly felt the extremely sore and swollen parts of her body, and felt a cooling sensation, and then the sore and swollen discomfort quickly subsided, and her spirit that had not recovered was overcome by exhaustion again, causing her to fall asleep again involuntarily. past.

Seeing that the girl had passed out, Sylvia helped her to the campfire, found a booth to cover her, and asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly think of accepting a student? Did you receive the invitation?" The influence of the knowledge imparted by the karita demon?"

"It does have some influence, but not all." Leo nodded, and then explained: "This girl is a spiritual talent."

"Psychic talent?" Sylvia froze for a moment, then said, "You want to train her to become a psychic?"

"Yes." Leo admitted, while looking at the girl with a little strange emotion.

To be honest, he was also a little surprised by the appearance of this girl, as if some kind of force powerful enough to manipulate fate was arranging everything for him, and he was just sorting out the things that the Karita Demon traded for him in the past two days. When you have a huge amount of knowledge and information, consider finding a person with psychic talent, and pass on the ability of psykers to affect a universe. Not long after, a strange girl who exploded with psychic talent and directly became a quasi-psychic appeared on the scene. in front of him.

You know, in the past so many years, he has indeed met some people who are suspected of possessing psychic talents, but he is the first person like this girl who has the power of a quasi-psychic after directly stimulating her psychic talents. encounter. This made it hard for him not to suspect that everything was arranged.

Even though he was skeptical, Leo still did not change his mind about accepting this girl as a psychic apprentice, because it didn't matter to him whether the girl was guided by some mysterious power or not and appeared in front of him. He just wanted to find someone to continue the inheritance of psykers. From this point of view, even if there was a mysterious force secretly plotting, the purpose of the two was still the same, which was enough for him.

On the other hand, Sylvia was also curious. Although she had heard Leo explain the profession of psykers a long time ago, her understanding of psykers still remained in the professions similar to wizards. She didn't know much about the abilities that psykers possessed. She could only know from Leo's words that psykers were his core profession. As for wizards, they just learned it by the way.

When Leo proposed to accept girls as students, Sylvia thought of accepting wizard apprentices, because as far as he knew, the tower wizards were first taught by teachers to guide apprentices while traveling and learning, but she never thought that it was Lei Ou turned out to be accepting a real student for his core profession, so the nature would be completely different.

If it is a wizard apprentice, or other mysterious knowledge apprentice, then this apprentice is just an ordinary student, but if it is a psionic apprentice, then obviously this apprentice is the inheritor chosen by Leo, so even if his status is not as good as that of his family , but not by much.

"You really intend to accept her as a psyker apprentice?" Sylvia reconfirmed.

"Yes." Leo nodded again.

Sylvia asked again: "Are you going to take her out of this world?"

Leo shook his head and said, "Of course not! She will stay in this world, and when she masters the method of leaving this world and has the ability, she will leave by herself."

Sylvia then asked: "Then we will also take her with us on the next journey, or will we stay here for a while?"

Leo thought for a while and said: "If she agrees to be my apprentice, then if conditions permit, we will naturally take her on the road together. If conditions do not permit, we may have to stay for a while. After a while, I will teach her the psychic knowledge she needs to master, and then directly leave the relevant training materials for her to let her explore by herself."

"This is the Holy Kingdom of Purifying Fire, and it is at war with the Otter Federation." Sylvia reminded.

Leo smiled and said, "I know, but we don't seem to be from the Otter Federation."

"But the problem is that some of the sharp weapons used by the Otter Federation to kill the enemy are from your hands!" Sylvia reminded again with an emphatic tone: "If your identity and mine are discovered, this church will definitely be attracted. The country's army, when the time comes, are you going to let go and get rid of all those people?"

Leo smiled again: "Don't worry, they won't be interested in confirming our identities at this moment. Don't forget that the rat wave has already broken out. Who cares about two foreign nobles at this time?"

Seeing that Leo seemed to have a complete idea, Sylvia didn't say anything more, although she still felt something was wrong, so what, with her and Leo's strength, as long as the gods don't do it themselves, then Danger is something that doesn't exist to them.

Penistan didn't know how long she had been in a deep sleep. When she woke up, the sky was already bright, and the sunlight squeezed in through the gaps between the branches and leaves, shining on the dark forest below. It didn't bring any warmth to the forest, nor could it make people Tell time by the position of the sun.

The bonfire and the strange men and women in front of her made her understand that what happened last night was not an illusion. Two strange men and women who were probably Otto spies rescued him from the rat swarm, but the strange man suddenly said that he wanted to take her in. As a student, and also treated her injuries, all this made her feel like a dream.

In addition, perhaps because her body and mind have been fully rested, she suddenly found that she seemed to be a little different from before. She couldn't tell what was different, but she felt that her body strength seemed to be much stronger, and her ability to see things There were also some strange images from time to time, for example, in her eyes, the surrounding trees emitted some turquoise mist, and the surrounding air could also see some indescribable distortions from time to time.

She didn't know if she was affected by the strange scene around her. After looking at these things for a long time, she couldn't help feeling dizzy.

After the girl woke up, Leo had been observing her, and also noticed the abnormal fluctuations in her eyes and body, and judged her current situation, so he stepped forward, stretched out his hand and tapped on her forehead, Said: "Your current psychic power is still very weak, and the burden of psychic sight is too heavy for you."

As he let go of his fingers, the girl found that all the strange scenes in front of her eyes disappeared, and the dizziness also disappeared.

"Is it spiritual vision?" Sylvia guessed.

Leo shook his head and said, "No, it's a kind of psionic talent, similar to spiritual vision, but different from spiritual vision." He paused for a while, and added: "Being able to wake up has a gifted skill. , she has great potential, at least greater than me in terms of psychic power."

Leo didn't just talk casually, but really affirmed the girl's talent, because in the universe, after the first awakening, if a psychic can possess one or two natural abilities, then his psychic potential will far exceed that of ordinary people. of psykers.

Such vision-like psionic abilities similar to spiritual vision like girls are rare among psykers in the universe. If this kind of psionic innate ability is developed as the main psionic ability, in the end this kind of innate ability may be It can become a strategic-level psionic skill, and the strategic-level psionic skill evolved from this natural skill is much better in terms of skill power and use consumption than similar skills learned later.

Leo then introduced himself to Penistan: "My name is Leo Dodd, and she is Sylvia Belmont. Although the two of us are from the Outer Federation, we are not from the Outer Federation. We It was only to avoid the war that is currently happening around the Otter Federation, that I walked through the Petain Mountains and came to the Principality of the Ruth Church."

"You really passed through the Petain Mountains?" Penistan looked at Leo and Sylvia in disbelief.

At this moment, Sylvia took out a pair of pure white stones from her pocket and gave them to Penistan, saying: "This is the highest peak of the Petain Mountains, where there is a moonstone. Keep a suitable size as a souvenir, and give this one to you!"

Penistan frantically held the moonstone thrown by Sylvia in her hand, and then looked at the indescribably white stone in her hand with incomparable curiosity.

For the believers of the Holy Church of Purifying Fire, although the moonstone is not a gem, it is better than a gem, because the container of the purifying fire in the main church of the Purifying Fire Church is carved and polished from a whole piece of moonstone. The moonstone is the most pure and unblemished product in the teachings of the gods, and the only earthly object capable of containing the purifying fire.

Because this kind of moonstone is only produced in the Tangiers Peak of the Petain Mountains, surrounded by mountains and abysses, it is basically impossible for ordinary people to mine it, and even the moonstone fragments cannot be picked up.

It is said that the Purifying Fire Church used hundreds of thousands of people to collect a moonstone of suitable size. Thousands of people died just to transport the mined moonstone from the mountain, not to mention those who searched for the moonstone. The prospectors who froze to death on the mountain, and the subsequent mining personnel, all in all, Moon White Stone has a special meaning to all those who believe in the teachings of the Purifying Fire. The king or grand duke of the country under the control of the Purifying Fire Church can have one Moonstone's jewelry is proud.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Sylvia threw the moonstone to Penistan, if she entered the palace and gave it to King Russ IX, she would at least be able to get the hereditary title of baroness.

Although Penistan couldn't tell whether the moonstone in her hand was real or not, she could also tell that a lady like Sylvia, who was as noble as a goddess, would disdain to deceive a strange little girl with a fake stone. It's just that she still wonders why the other party treats her so well.

Leo seemed to see what Penistan was thinking, so he further explained what he mentioned last night, saying: "The ability you used just now comes from a kind of power called psionic power, that kind of power It is the power that was accidentally inspired when you were chased by rats last night. There are very few people in the world who have this power. At least I have only seen you for so many years, and there are even fewer people who know how to use this power. So far I am the only one, so I want to take you as a student and teach you how to use psionic power and how to improve psionic power."

After listening to Leo's explanation, Penistan couldn't hide the excitement in her heart. What happened now made her think of some plots in knight novels. A farmer met a mysterious character by accident and was taught by that character. Knowledge, gained power, and finally became a big shot who attracted worldwide attention and so on.

Although she had often heard similar stories sung by bards in taverns, and had seen similar plays in traveling troupes, it never occurred to her that such things would happen to her.

It was also because it happened so suddenly that she didn't know how to make a decision for a while.

Leo looked at Penistan who opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, and said: "You don't need to decide now, we will send you home now, and after we return to your home, we will discuss with your elders before telling me the answer. "

"My father is on the front line, and I am the only one at home." Penistan hesitated for a moment, as if he had made a decision, and said, "I am willing to be your student, but I hope to wait for my father to return home."

Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, smiled, and said, "No problem, we can stay here for a while now, and we don't have to rush on the road."