The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What are your plans now?" Leo asked, looking at Penistan who had just woken up.

Penistan didn't go into a coma for too long, and woke up within an hour or two. This time, she was in a coma not only because of her extreme sadness, but also because her extreme sadness stimulated the psionic energy in her body. It caused an explosive increase in spiritual energy, which had an impact on her spirit, causing her to fall into a coma.

If she wasn't on the sidelines, a quasi-psychic like her would probably be mentally injured when encountering such a burst of psionic energy, and would eventually fall into a coma.

Fortunately, Leo discovered Penistan's abnormality, helped her sort out the explosive growth of spiritual energy, suppressed the intensity of this spiritual energy impact, and kept it within the range of intensity that would not cause damage to the spiritual consciousness. , but it will not suppress this impact, allowing this impact to continuously temper Penistan's spiritual will like a blacksmith's hammer and iron felt.

Although this approach will more or less cause some damage to Penistan's spirit and body, but compared to shortening the time to increase the spiritual power level, this damage is nothing.

So when Penistan woke up from the coma, she had already stepped into the level of a first-level psyker in terms of psychic strength, and all she needed now was to improve other qualities of her body and learn some basic skills. With psychic knowledge, she could almost be considered a real psychic.

It's a pity that Penistan doesn't have the joy of improving her psychic power now. Her mind is empty as if she has lost her soul. After a while, she came back to her senses and realized that Leo was asking her a question, so she thought After thinking about it, he said, "My father is still in the army, he is still alive."

After speaking, he looked at Leo imploringly.

Leo thought for a while, and said: "We will stay here and make a decision when your father has news. During this time, you will follow me to learn the basic knowledge and basic training of psychic power. Next time your psychic power If there is an abnormal outbreak, I will not rescue you again, you need to find a way to solve it yourself."

"Okay, teacher!" Pennistan nodded.

In this way, Leo and Sylvia temporarily put down their plan to go to the Old Continent, but stayed in a town in the Principality of Russ, and temporarily lived in this deserted town that was destroyed by the rat tide.

Sylvia has no objection to this either. Going to the Old Continent is not something urgent. She has also acquired a lot of knowledge on Truber Mountain. She needs some time to calm down and sort it out. At the same time, she also needs to think about Kari. What the tower demon said belonged to her own power.

In the first few days, Leo did not teach Penistan any skills and methods of using psychic energy, but told her the concepts and knowledge related to psychic energy.

Although Leo has tried his best to use easy-to-understand language to tell the story, but because the level of knowledge is very different, a Orion's daughter has never attended a formal school, just a lady's club opened by the Purifying Fire Sisters. She has learned some words and knowledge, let alone compare with Leo, even a ten-year-old child on the most remote planet in the Earth Federation is much better than her. It was like a bible. After a few days, she only understood that psionic energy is the power in her body. She can use this power to do many things, and even become a god.

Although Penistan is not a pious believer of the Purifying Fire Church, she has been influenced by the teachings of the Purifying Fire Church all the time since she was a child. For her, the gods are always aloof and can only be in awe of, but cannot directly look at. Now Lei Ou told her that there was a mysterious power in her body, which gave her a chance to become a god. When she understood these words, she was completely terrified.

This also made her feel more and more that Leo and Sylvia were not from the Otto Federation as they said, because in her cognition, only a country composed of unbelievers would have such arrogance and boldness. idea.

Leo can easily judge Penistan's thoughts, and he doesn't care about it. What he has now is even more troublesome is how to teach Penistan those basic psionic skills, because even the most basic psionic skills are not enough. They all need a lot of basic knowledge of psionic abilities to understand the nature of the power in the skills, and to be able to use them correctly, and to derive their own unique psionic skills based on these basic psionic skills in the future, but the problem is that now Penistan has no He couldn't even grasp a little spiritual knowledge, which made him miss the convenient knowledge introduction devices of the Earth Federation.

However, in the absence of a knowledge importing device, it may not be possible for Penistan to completely learn all kinds of knowledge and common sense related to the basic knowledge of psionics, or even a year or two. things that can be done.

Therefore, Leo had to change his original teaching plan after teaching Penistan the basics for a few days, and directly teach Penistan the skills of using psychic powers. As for the basic knowledge, he will teach Penistan later when he wants to learn .

Although it only teaches the most basic psionic skills to psykers, it cannot directly copy the basic psionic skills of the Earth Federation and other civilized psykers. He needs to modify these psionic skills and eliminate those that need to use the basics For the knowledge part, only the simple use part is left, just like a knight does not need to know how the knight sword is forged, he only needs to know how to swing the sword.

What is surprising is that after the modification, the psychic skills that only use pure psychic powers are very suitable for Penistan. After casting it once or twice, and correcting some small mistakes, she will be able to cast the psionic ability with the same effect as Leo.

This also allowed Penistan to learn a complete set of basic psionic skills in less than two days. Although she is not very proficient in using it, as long as she spends a little more time practicing, she can basically do it. To use these psionic skills like Leo is as simple as eating and drinking.

This situation surprised Leo, so he spent a little time checking Penistan's body, and soon he discovered the problem, because he found that Penistan did not resist the foreign psionic energy introduced into his body , can even control the psionic energy he introduced into his body to perform psionic skills without him controlling his own psionic energy, so he suspects that Penistan may be the special psionic ability called psionic affinity in the universe By.

As the name suggests, psychic-friendly people are people with psychic sensitivity and psychic control that far surpass ordinary psychics. They are born users of psychic power. Any kind of psychic skill, as long as the power used is Psychics, even the psionic skills of Omega-level advanced life forms, they can also display them, provided that they have enough psionic energy in their bodies to support them to fully use this type of Omega-level advanced life forms. psychic skills.

For a long time, people with psychic affinity like Penistan were called children of psychic energy, but soon some people discovered that although these children of psychic energy had a strong affinity and control over psychic energy, they However, it is difficult to use their own psionic energy to promote the evolution of life forms to a higher level. Even when they reach the limit of psionic energy level, their affinity and control over psionic energy will become an obstacle, making them far more powerful than other psionic users. Higher risk of loss of control.

Therefore, there has never been an Omega-level high-level life form among these children of psychic energy. There are even very few people who have reached the ninth level of psychic energy, and most of them are wandering in the middle and low levels.

Leo didn't know much about the children of psychic energy, and he was also curious about the children of psychic energy. You must know that even if the children of psychic energy cannot become Omega-level advanced life forms, their power is not weak at all, because There are no restrictions on the use of any psionic skills in their hands. They can easily master and use them, even some strategic-level psionic skills. It exists like a turret, and its attack power far exceeds that of ordinary psykers. It can even kill higher-level psykers regardless of the difference in psychic power and life level.

Things like a fifth-level psyker killing a seventh-level psyker may be a rare thing for an ordinary psyker, but it is completely common for a child of psychic power.

Therefore, after learning that Penistan is likely to be a child of psychic energy, Leo also began to design a set of psychic skill sequences specifically for Peristan, so that her advantages as a child of psychic energy can be fully utilized.

Leo even brought Sylvia in as a combat instructor and partner for Penistan, so that Penistan could quickly master the skills of using psychic powers in actual combat. As for teaching Penistan psychic powers, Leo has temporarily given up on this point.

In this way, the three of them lived leisurely in this uninhabited town for more than ten days, and lived a fulfilling life every day. Leo and Sylvia would strictly supervise Penistan's study progress, and Penistan also It seems that he wants to forget the tragedy of his family and devote himself to his studies.

However, such leisurely days did not last too long, because some refugees began to notice that the surrounding rat swarms would not approach this uninhabited small town. They found that it was safe here, and they did not have to worry that rat swarms would appear and eat them at night. , So began to live in small towns to avoid the rat tide.

Although the rat tide is very terrifying, almost all the living things that fell into the rat tide did not survive, but there are still some lucky people who were on a boat on the water or hid in a strong cellar in time when the rat tide broke out Inside, they escaped a catastrophe, and after the rat wave launched the first wave of attacks, it immediately moved to the next target, without cleaning up whether there were any living things in the previous target.

Those who survived this period of time are not easy, because although the main force of the rat tide has gone to other places, there are still many rat groups remaining on this land. There were dozens of them, which were more dangerous than any ferocious beast. Almost one-third of these survivors died in the bite of these scattered rats after more than ten days.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the small town where Leo and the others hadn't been discovered, in a few dozen days these survivors would probably die in single digits.

The small town is protected by the power of the abyss dragon leaked by Sylvia from time to time. When the rats approach here, the consciousness of controlling their hives will be washed away by the power of the dragon, and these jerry rats will return to their original timidity. By nature, he ran away and never dared to approach small towns.

At first, it was only a team that was chased by a small group of rats and found this situation. Although they didn't know what was going on, they knew that this place was safe, especially after learning that the three of Leo had lived here for ten years. A few days later, he settled down here.

However, there are also many warm-hearted people in these convoys. They think that since this place will not be attacked by rats, other survivors should also be allowed to live here to avoid the rats.

So, a dozen of them, who should be warriors or hunters, found some weapons, equipped themselves, and then rode on the horses that pulled the carts along the road to other villages and towns, not only to see if there were any survivors, but also by the way. Spread the word that there is a safe haven here.

In this way, survivors from various towns gathered here one after another, and the number of survivors here also increased to several thousand. Later, among the survivors were a priest of the Purifying Fire and a very famous knight-lord in the Duchy of Russ. , They used their identities to reorganize the survivors, established a temporary town council, and built walls while accepting new survivors.

Although, after so many days, they have already confirmed that this land seems to have been blessed by the gods, and no rats will come in, but they dare not pin all their hopes on the protection of the gods. It is hoped that there will be a tangibly visible wall protecting this sanctuary.

So on the matter of building the wall, these survivors almost agreed.

Afterwards, the priest of the Fire of Purification church ignited the fire of purification through his magic in the center of the town again, and contacted the outside world through the fire of purification, and learned what the situation is now.

It's just that he didn't spread the news, because he knew very well that if the Church of Purifying Fire had already sealed off the Duchy of Russ and other duchies of the Cult that were contributed by the Rat Tide, there would be no rumors that there would be any reinforcements. If they go out, the newly recovered morale of these survivors will completely collapse, and it will be difficult to recover by then, and it may even cause some uncontrollable riots.

So the priest of the Purifying Fire Church just told the knight lord about this, so that he could make preparations based on the news, such as collecting food, etc. The blockade of the Duchy may last until next year.

In addition, he also asked the people who built the city wall to reserve a place where the purifying fire container could be placed in some places on the city wall, because he already knew from the church that the purifying fire can stop the rats. The mysterious power of the soul disappeared, and the purifying fire could continue to protect it.