The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Through Viper's narration, Leo and Sylvia had a general understanding of the situation of the Belmont family, which were unknown to the outside world.

For example, the official population of the Belmont family is not very large, there are only more than a hundred people. Only those who truly stimulate the bloodline power are eligible to be named Belmont. as a surname.

The Belmont family is now a family system with one master and three branches. This family system was not formed later, but existed before the Belmont family migrated to the Kingdom of Theresa. clear.

He just knows that the relationship between the main family and the branch is not so divided. Many times, the people of the main family will be transferred to the branch and join the branch family, and the people of the branch family will also have the opportunity to enter the castle to become the main family. It has even happened in the past that someone from a branch family became the lord of the castle.

The Belmont family usually refers to the main house as the castle, and their own family name is also called by the additional part of the family crest. For example, the Viper's family crest has a pair of dragon wings, so it is called double wings. The other two branches are Talon and Dragon Burn.

As shown in their family badges, the two branch families of Claw and Dragon Burn are the armed forces of the Belmont family. They are usually knights and warriors, and each family has two full-staffed regular mercenary regiments. They accept foreign employment all year round to fight in the killing field.

The Wing Wings are responsible for protecting the territory of the Belmont family. The members are rangers and heretic hunters. The family village is not too far from the castle because of their functions.

Although Belmont Castle is located deep in the mountains, and the dukedom is also mountainous, the people living here are no less than those in the small territories outside. According to rough statistics, there are at least 300,000 people scattered in the territory. In more than a hundred small villages, these people are almost all managed by the Shuangyiyi family. From this perspective, the Shuangyiyi family not only serves as guards, but also the stewards of the castle.

The reason why so many people would rather leave the prosperous outside world and choose to enter the deep mountains and live a simple life as mountain people is mainly because most of the more than 300,000 people are refugees who have suffered from the flames of war , which also includes some special ethnic groups that can be recorded in the list of heresies of the church.

These special groups eventually attached to the Belmont family to avoid being hunted as heretics. Viper also focused on a special group attached to the Wingwing family. People in this group were born with a powerful The psychic ability of some people can sense the thoughts of the interrogated when interrogating some people, but at the same time they will be more or less affected by the emotions of the interrogated, and this effect cannot be eliminated. When it accumulates to a certain extent, it will affect the minds of these people. They will hear some mysterious voices, and their bodies will mutate uncontrollably, eventually mutating into monsters.

It is for this reason that this group of people has been included in the list of heresies by the Church of Justice and other churches. They have been hunted by hunters, and the people have been displaced until they migrated to the territory of the Belmont family. Because the Belmont family and the church It seems that there is some agreement that after heretics enter their territory, they will no longer be hunted and killed by the church’s heresy hunting team, but will be controlled by the Belmont family. From a certain point of view, the Belmont family’s territory is more like a prison for heretics .

It's just that for those special groups who have suffered from hunting, it is a paradise for heretics, so they are very willing to serve the Belmont family. For example, among the entourage brought out by Viper this time, there is one who is good at spiritual power A member of the ethnic group, and he was able to find out how the three-person investigation team solved the mayor's curse so quickly because of the ability of this follower.

Compared to telling about his own family, Viper seems unwilling to tell about the other two branches. Even if Leo or Sylvia asked about Claw and Dragon Flame, he would use the excuse that he didn't know vaguely.

Sylvia didn't care about this, she cared more about the affairs of the castle's own family, and when Viper mentioned his own family's situation, he would also mention the castle's affairs by the way.

Sylvia could easily tell from Viper's narration that Viper didn't know much about Belmont Castle. It seemed that even if they had the same surname Belmont, their identities were quite different.

At the same time, Sylvia also understood why Viper answered her questions in such a cooperative manner through some words and phrases that Viper casually said, and even took the initiative to sell her family information, because the other party completely regarded her as Trey. Her Majesty the Queen of the Kingdom of Teresa even imagined that she and the Queen of the Kingdom of Teresa were playing a game of double king rotation.

The reason why Viper had such a misunderstanding was entirely because Sylvia was so similar to the Queen Teresa he had seen, especially because both of them had the noble temperament unique to queens, and The special power that belongs to Belmont's bloodline, in the eyes of Viper, they are almost the same person, the only difference is that Sylvia's power is stronger and her temperament is more mature.

After understanding Viper's misunderstanding, Sylvia couldn't help being curious about Her Majesty the Queen who had the same appearance and temperament as herself, but she couldn't ask Viper for information about the queen, because Viper would definitely Realizing that his guess was completely wrong, it would be difficult for him to tell more information about the Belmont family so honestly.

Therefore, Sylvia simply followed the other party's misunderstanding, disguised herself as the queen, and then guided the other party a little bit, revealing more about Belmont Castle, especially the location of Belmont Castle.

However, what surprised Sylvia was that the person in front of him who already had the surname Belmont didn't even know the specific location of Belmont Castle. The only thing he knew was that he could only go to the castle by taking the castle's Nightwing carriage.

"Night Wing Carriage? Is that Night Wing the one mentioned in the Land of the Gods?" Leo, who had been sitting by the side without opening a word, suddenly interrupted and asked when Viper was talking about this.

Viper couldn't help being stunned when he heard this question. He was not stunned because the question was difficult to answer, but because he realized that not only he and Sylvia existed in this room, but also There was a third person sitting in front of him, but before the other person asked questions, he didn't notice the existence of this person at all, as if this person was an invisible and invisible person.

At this moment, he felt that he seemed to have made a big mistake, because the things he said just now were all internal family information that could not be passed on to the outside world. If he found out that there were other people in this room just now, he would not have said those things. , but at this moment the mistake has been made, but he has no idea how to recover it, so he can only stand there in a daze, looking at a loss.

"Is my husband's question difficult to answer?" Sylvia, who noticed the change in Viper's mood, asked, and only emphasized a little when she said her husband once.

After hearing Sylvia's words, Viper was stunned for a moment, and soon thought of something, and his overwhelmed look disappeared. He realized that although this extra person who suddenly appeared was not a member of the Belmont family, he was It is true that the queen's husband can be regarded as half a member of the family, and it doesn't matter if the other party knows some secrets of the Belmont family.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but relax his tension, and answered Leo's question truthfully, saying: "Yes, that Ye Yi is the Ye Yi you said can bring people into the land of gods."

"The castle is not in this world, it's in a piece of subspace debris." Leo whispered to Sylvia with certainty.

The Town of God is a novel that is widely circulated in this world. It tells the story of a person who meets a monster named Ye Yi, and this monster takes him into a place called the Town of God. It is a place under the kingdom of gods. All heroes and sages who do not believe in gods but have great achievements will come here after death. Only after completing the atonement of the unbelievers and finding their own beliefs can they leave the gods The hometown of the gods, the corresponding kingdom of the gods, otherwise, it will eventually perish completely in the hometown of gods.

The reason why this book has spread so widely is because the person who wrote the book is a saint recognized by several major churches, and the Church of True God also believes that this book is very beneficial to preaching, so it will actively promote this book, but because of interests, Because of beliefs and other reasons, each church promotes a slightly different God's Township, and each church will add something according to its own needs.

It's just that the God's Land that Leo saw was one of the most original versions. Although it was not the original version, the version he saw had very little modification, especially when Ye Yi brought the book with him. There is no deletion in the process of the protagonist entering the Land of Gods, which allows Leo to judge from the key features in the description that the extraordinary creature named Nightwing can open a space rift and enter some of the world's surface. In subspace plane fragments.

Therefore, he can be sure that the land of gods mentioned in the book is a relatively complete subspace plane, and now it seems that Belmont Castle should also be built in a fragment of a subspace plane.

It is this kind of space-isolated protection that makes the Belmont family so mysterious. Even the Church may not know the location of Belmont Castle. This may be the reason why the Church allows the existence of a non-church extraordinary family like the Belmont Family. The main reason for the world.

After all, if they fall out, they will not be able to find the location of Belmont Castle, nor will they be able to harm the foundation of the Belmont family, but the Belmont family can hide without any security concerns. They can attack the church whenever they want, which is enough Keep the churches busy.

Sylvia has also read the book The Land of the Gods and knows what the Land of the Gods is all about. She was also surprised that the Belmont family was able to master a fragment of a subspace plane, because to some extent, this kind of Fragments of subspace planes are equivalent to a world, but this world is incomplete.

After thinking for a while, she asked Viper, "If I want to visit the castle, what conditions or procedures do I need?"

Viper replied truthfully: "As you, you can visit the castle at any time without any conditions or procedures."

After hearing Viper's answer, Sylvia frowned slightly.

Judging from all the circumstances, it is obvious that Teresa's royal family should be a branch of another Belmont family, or it can be said to be the second of the main family, because members of the royal family grew up in Belmont Castle. The three branches of the Belmont family are not eligible, so the status of the king or queen as the leader of the royal family is probably similar to that of the head of the Belmont family. Their return to the castle is equivalent to going home, and naturally no additional conditions and procedures are required .

But the problem is that Sylvia is not the real Queen Teresa. Naturally, she cannot freely enter and leave the castle like Queen Teresa, and the problem is that the reason why this Sheldon Belmont has such a big misunderstanding, It was entirely because Sylvia was very similar to Queen Teresa, and he was not familiar with that queen. He had only seen the queen from a distance, so he mistook her for Queen Teresa.

But the people in Belmont Castle are different. Queen Teresa obviously grew up in the castle like other members of the royal family. Member of the Belmont Inner Family Queen Reza grew up with.

Under such circumstances, there is no way for Sylvia to disguise herself as Queen Teresa like she is now. She appears as Queen Teresa, and I am afraid that before she enters the fragment of the subspace plane where the castle is located, she has already been killed. People have been seen through.

So after hearing Viper's answer, Sylvia added: "I don't want to go to the castle as a queen, I just want to enter the castle as an ordinary person without the people in the castle knowing."

Sylvia's request sounded a bit weird to Viper, but he didn't understand why Queen Teresa was doing this. He just thought that Sylvia was doing this to surprise the people in the castle. .

So he thought about it seriously, and said: "The castle's collection of books is the most complete collection in the world. It is said that there are many secrets hidden in it, and even the church and the city of learning are coveted. Through the exchange of interests, they got the family's promise that every year You can send five people to read the books in the castle for ten days. As far as I know, this year’s candidate church has already been selected, but the school city has not yet been selected. It needs to pass the assessment to determine the candidate, and the assessment standard is enough The knowledge that impresses everyone. Judging from His Majesty's performance in the reception hall just now, there shouldn't be any problems with your knowledge, and you have a great chance of getting a place, but the premise is that you need to become a scholar of the Academy City."