The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Through the information obtained from scholars, Leo and Silvia readjusted their understanding of Theresa Kingdom.

Before that, they all subconsciously ignored the existence of Teresa's royal family. From the information they have seen, they analyzed that King Teresa's royal family should be more like a national symbol. In fact, they don't have much real power. The kingdom's rights They are all in the hands of military nobles and scholars in the academy.

But from the mouths of these scholars of the Academy City, they discovered that things were not the same thing at all. The Teresa royal family has almost absolute dominance over the entire kingdom. Not a kingdom.

The reason for this is that the Theresa royal family has always been the embodiment of wisdom and strength. This is not a worship-style boast, but a fact, because the members of the royal family will join the mercenary regiment or enter the school city to study according to their own preferences. .

During this process, they will use special methods to completely change their appearance and temperament, and hide their identities. Only after they have obtained enough military exploits and scholar titles, will they be allowed to regain their royal status and return to the royal family, otherwise, It will be regarded as an accidental death, and in the end, he can only live his life as a civilian.

Under such a harsh royal trial, every member who completes the trial and regains the status of the royal family is the most outstanding member, and naturally can be recognized by military nobles and scholars of the academy city.

This is just the process of becoming a full-fledged member of the royal family. If you want to take a step further on the basis of members of the royal family and become a king, you must have top-notch achievements in military merit and knowledge, and pass the qualification test shared by military nobles and scholars of the academy. To be able to successfully sit on the throne.

It stands to reason that this method of passing the test to become a king can easily lead to a dystocia in the selection of the king. As long as there is a little interference from internal or external factors, the selection of the king may be delayed infinitely.

But in fact the situation is completely different. Regardless of external interference or internal influence, the tests of the kings of the past dynasties have been carried out extremely smoothly. There will always be an outstanding member of the royal family who can easily complete the various difficulties set by the military nobles and the scholars of the academy. Therefore, the king selected through this method will always receive the loyalty of the vast majority of military nobles and scholars in the academy city, and his control over the kingdom will be extremely stable.

After the new king ascends the throne, he will usually choose one of the great tutors of the academy or the several dukes of the kingdom to serve as the prime minister. If there is no accident, the position of the prime minister is basically a lifetime tenure. Therefore, when choosing the prime minister, it also determines the future of the Teresa kingdom. The policy trend of more than ten years or even decades, and the countries of the Old Continent also adjust their diplomatic strategies through the selection of prime ministers.

However, there are exceptions to everything. In the past so many years, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Teresa has been served by members of the mysterious Belmont family several times. Even domestically, they are at a loss about the future situation, because compared with foreign countries, Teresa Kingdom knows very little about the Belmont family.

Belmont Castle is in the mountains, surrounded by cliffs or virgin forests. Getting to Belmont Castle is no less than a life-and-death adventure, so the Belmont family is basically isolated from the world If it wasn't for the fact that the kingdom had several Belmont prime ministers, and that the kings of all dynasties grew up in Belmont Castle, perhaps the common people in the kingdom would not know that there is such a prominent family in the kingdom.

It is precisely because of the mystery of the Belmont family that some scholars in the academy who are too curious spontaneously formed a Belmont research society, specializing in the study of the Belmont family. Can get some financial support from the school city.

One of the scholars in the exchange team happened to be a member of the Belmont Research Society. When Sylvia asked about the Belmont family, he was often the one who answered Sylvia’s questions, but even he It also couldn't provide enough information to allow Sylvia to fully understand the Belmont family in this world.

Now Sylvia only knows that the relationship between the Belmont family and Theresa's royal family is very close, so close that they can almost be regarded as two branches of the same family.

In addition, the relationship between the Belmont family and some churches in the Old Continent is also very good, and some members of them can even serve as the head of the Holy Knights or the head of the Inquisition Tribunal of those churches as non-believers.

In addition, any member of the Belmont family has extraordinary power, and some of them are even comparable to some gods, but the Belmont family has never believed in any gods, and no one knows where their power comes from, so there are also It was rumored that the Belmont family had mastered the secrets of the gods, and they were trying to create their own gods belonging to Belmont.

However, this statement has never been confirmed, so it is considered to be a rumor made by the enemies of the Belmont family or the Kingdom of Teresa. The purpose is to let the church designate the Belmont family or the Kingdom of Teresa as Heresy, start a jihad.

However, after hearing this statement from the scholar, Leo and Sylvia thought that this statement might not be false. The Belmont family with the blood of the abyss dragon did have the foundation to become gods in this world. After all Like the abyssal superior behind the Church of the Happy People can become a god and be included in the Church of the True God, it is not impossible for the abyss dragon to become the god of this world.

It's a pity, I don't know if I don't want to say more, or I really don't know. In short, after revealing some secrets about the Belmont family, the scholar never revealed more, even if Leo passed the spirit If they can hint with skills, then the scholars are not saying anything new, they are just talking about some minutiae in the information that has been revealed before.

However, at the end of the conversation, the scholar revealed a useful piece of information, that is, there are members of the Belmont family in the investigation bureau of the Kingdom of Teresa that specializes in handling special events, but he doesn't know that Belmont is in the investigation bureau. identity of.

This news may not be useful to others, but it is very useful to Leo and Sylvia, because as long as there is an opportunity to contact the investigation bureau frequently, then Sylvia can easily find out who Hidden members of the Belmont family.

Therefore, when they came to Dashu Town and heard about the mayor's curse, and knew that there was a three-person investigation team stationed in Dashu Town in the Kingdom of Teresa to continue investigating the curse, they felt that they could use This matter was used as an opportunity to contact the investigation bureau in advance.

So, while they sent Penny and Joan to inquire about related news in the town, they went to the mayor's mansion to investigate on the spot. Although they all thought it was difficult to find any useful clues in the mansion, even the church Neither the investigation team nor the investigation team could find any clues here. If they could find some useful clues, then the investigation team would definitely contact them after hearing the news.

However, what they didn't expect was that the scholars in the academy city were also interested in this matter, and they organized a group to come to the mayor's mansion to investigate.

Facing Delkan's enthusiastic attitude, Leo put down the book in his hand and responded with a smile: "Scholars' curiosity is never-ending. Isn't this the motto of the school city that Delkan told us yesterday? Although our husband and wife People are not scholars, but I believe that curiosity will never be weaker than you."

At this time, another scholar who was following Delkan also said to the two of them with a very respectful attitude: "Your Excellency Leo, Ms. Silvia, you two are too humble, if you are not If we are scholars, what are we people?"

Delkan also nodded in agreement, and said: "Actually, before we came here, we sent someone to invite the two of you to investigate this matter together, but the person we sent said that the two of you left early in the morning. The idea fits so well with ours, and we both thought of investigating the mayor’s curse.” He, who was not good at communicating, didn’t continue to exchange pleasantries, but went straight to the topic and asked: “The two of you came here first, did you find anything? Woolen cloth?"

Leo shook his head, and said: "After being searched by the official investigation team of the Kingdom of Teresa, the church investigation team, and various folks, plus the cleaning of the servants of the official residence, all the traces left here have been destroyed. It's all clean, how could there be clues waiting for us to discover?"

"It's the same as I thought." Delkan nodded, and added: "However, it may not be that there is no clue at all. When I was looking at the decorative patterns of the house just now, I found some special symbols. What kind do you think they are? symbol?"

"It's an ancient text, right?" Leo quickly answered.

Just like the Gamore language in the world of Velen, there are also some characters that contain special powers in this world, and the ancient language is one of them.

Leo saw a book on this kind of writing in Stave's private collection. This book was hand-copied in church cursive script. It should be a research material written by a priest of a certain church. Therefore, the whole book is full of hostility and condemnation of the ancient texts, because most of the primitive beliefs that are regarded as heresy use the combination of ancient texts to form extraordinary powers to confuse the people.

Although there is not a lot of content in that book that actually studies the ancient variant text, Leo, who is a master of extraordinary symbols, is enough to deduce the complete ancient variant text grammatical rules, text composition, and application methods from those fragmented contents.

Delkan himself is also an expert in the study of ancient texts, but his research only stays at the level of text composition. In the previous communication between the two, Leo's research depth on ancient texts easily convinced Delkan , and Delkan also expressed his willingness to write a letter of recommendation to Leo, recommending Leo to become a specialist tutor of ancient Yiwen in the academy.

With Delkan's mastery of the ancient script, he was able to find the existence of the ancient script in the various decorative patterns of the mayor's mansion. Naturally, Leo couldn't miss this clue, and he and Sylvia are also coming to the mayor's study now. Just to find out the follow-up clues.

Delkan looked at a pile of books flipped by Leo and Silvia, and said: "I can barely make out that these ancient texts should contain some kind of meaning, but I don't know the specific content, Mr. Leo, What about you? Can you decipher these ancient scripts? Maybe these ancient scripts are the reason for the curse of the mayor."

"You're mistaken! These ancient texts are definitely not the cause of the mayor's curse," Leo shook his head, denying Delkan's guess, but said somewhat contradictoryly: "However, he and the mayor's curse may Some connection."

Delkan and other scholars in the room looked at Leo with puzzled expressions.

"Those ancient texts mean protection, and judging from the carving marks and the newness of other decorations around them, they should have been completed in the recent period." Leo explained, picking up a copy of the mayor's letter on the table. The archives of the mansion’s records were handed over to Delkan, and said: “This is the latest renovation record of the mayor’s mansion. The mayor personally participated, and that mayor seems to be the first mayor to die from the curse."

Delkan took the document from Leo and read it seriously. After listening to Leo's words, other scholars gathered together to check the renovation record.

"You mean that the mayor knew the existence of the curse, and he tried to use the power contained in the ancient text to protect himself?" A scholar asked confirmingly after reading the information.

Leo shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this for the time being, because I don't know if the mayor really mastered the ancient script, or if it was done by someone who participated in the renovation of the mansion." Asked: "Is there any way for you to find the details of the mayor?"

"This shouldn't be difficult." Delkan handed the file to other scholars, thought for a while and said, "I remember that the investigation team sent by the Kingdom is still in the town, and they should have the mayor's detailed information on hand. .”

"Investigation team?" Leo pretended to be hesitant, and said, "Will the investigation team show us the information in their hands?"

Delkan responded: "It might be difficult if there are only two of you, but it should be easier if we learn from the city."

After finishing speaking, he signaled Leo and Sylvia to stay here for the time being, and then he left the study quickly. It seemed that he was going to find the leader of the exchange team, the head mentor, and wanted the head instructor to come forward to negotiate with the investigation team, so that Leo and Silvia also join the investigation.

In the study, Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and smiled. It was obvious that things were going in the direction they had imagined. The next thing they had to do was to be attractive.