The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The city has been a bit tense recently. If it is not necessary, it is best not to go out. Even if you want to go out, you need to report to me. I will arrange a few soldiers to protect you." Delkan gathered all the students in the apartment, He ordered very seriously.

After listening to the students, they responded sporadically. It could be heard that they were all disappointed. After all, before coming to the Verdant City, they were already curious about this famous city, and they had already made plans to visit. But now all plans have been abandoned due to safety issues, which really makes them a little regretful.

Although Delkan mentioned that they will arrange soldiers to protect them when they go out, these students are not idiots and know how to choose between life safety and visiting the city.

So these students from different countries dispersed in groups of twos and threes with regrets, and returned to their residences, discussing how to spend the past few days in the apartment.

Delkan discussed with the instructors in charge of safety of the other two teams, and sent people to the government of the city of emerald green, asking for more manpower to protect the safety of the students, although they did not think that the chaos caused by the nature shaman would affect the Here in Xuecheng, but be careful, it’s always good to be prepared.

After arranging all kinds of affairs, Delkan went to the small courtyard where Leo and Silvia were placed to ask them what they needed.

"I hope to have a tour map of the Emerald City." Leo asked.

"Traveling the map?" Delkan was stunned for a moment, then frowned slightly, and said, "Now is definitely not a good time to visit this city, although the investigation bureau in the city has already removed those Man has temporarily taken care of it, but this does not mean that there is no danger in the city, after all, the cause of this incident has not been investigated clearly, and there may be hidden things in the city..."

"Don't worry, Delkan, even if we encounter any danger, we have the ability to solve it." Leo smiled and interrupted Delkan, and then looked at Joan who was standing aside.

On the way to the Emerald City, there was an episode. Joan had a little conflict with the mercenaries hired by the academy, and then showed amazing strength, defeating all the provocative mercenaries in a short time, making everyone around People have seen his strength, and at the same time, they also know that he is an extremely dangerous Paladin of False Heart.

For Delkan, the natural shaman who caused the incident may be dangerous, but the paladins of the false heart church are even more dangerous, because no one can predict when they will go crazy, and based on past experience, every false heart that goes crazy Paladins are the most dangerous existence.

However, Leo and Sylvia have always brought such a dangerous person by their side, and this dangerous person even called Leo as a teacher, which made some people in the exchange team of the school city even more aware of the mysterious and intelligent Leo. In addition to being in awe, I am more puzzled about his identity. Some people even speculate that Leo may be a big figure in the Church of False Heart, such as the true man who sees through all the illusory in the world and looks directly at the truth in the False Heart Bible, the Apostle of False etc.

Delkan weighed in his mind which one was more powerful, the natural shaman who went crazy or the false heart paladin who might go crazy at any time, and he didn't worry about Leo any more, and turned to the local scholars stationed in the academy city. I asked for a very detailed city map and handed it to Leo.

Leo glanced at it quickly, and after memorizing the details above, he returned the map, and then, together with Sylvia, left the apartment arranged by the school city and walked towards the shaman city on the edge of the emerald city.

Before coming to the Kingdom of Teresa, the Green City was one of the cities that Leo and Sylvia planned to go to, and the reason they chose the Green City was because it was the largest and only shaman in the Old Continent Most of the remaining shamans and witch doctors are scattered in virgin forests and remote areas all over the mainland, and it is inconvenient to contact them.

However, the shaman gathering place in the Emerald City is not without flaws, because according to the information they collected, the shamans who settled here are all natural shamans, and the shaman witch doctor who implanted pseudo-divine cells for Joan It shouldn't be a category, so they don't know whether the knowledge mastered by these natural shamans is of reference.

Before the accident, the Shaman City was definitely the most distinctive city in the Emerald City. Many tourists would use the Shaman City as one of their sightseeing goals, so the flow of people here is much more than other places.

However, the current shaman city has become extremely clean, and most of the shops on both sides of the roads in the city are closed, because the people who run these shops are natural shamans, and they are now under the supervision of the Bureau of Investigation.

The place where the accident happened a few days ago was in the shaman city. Although the corpses and bloodstains there had been cleaned, and the natural shaman also used their shaman power to control the plants covering the entire city to purify the air here, but People who entered this urban area could still smell the rusty smell of blood from the fragrance of various plants around them.

The city government's ban on the shaman city has not been completely lifted. There are still some city guard soldiers holding their hands at some streets in the city, and from time to time on the streets, some people can be seen wearing special leather armor and wearing Heretic hunters with all kinds of weird weapons patrolled back and forth.

Although the urban area is no longer prohibited from entering and leaving, some places are still restricted areas that need to be thoroughly inspected before they can be opened, such as the upper urban area of ​​Shaman City.

The reason why the shaman city in the Green City became the most distinctive city in the city was not only that it was the only place in the old continent where the shaman culture was publicly displayed, but also because of the special urban structure of the city.

Unlike other places in the Verdant City, three-quarters of the buildings in the entire Shaman City are built on seven intertwined Pulo trees.

The Pulo tree is a very special kind of tree in this world. The growth cycle of this kind of tree is almost infinite, because there is no dead Pulo tree found in the entire continent. Almost all dead Pulo trees are caused by external forces, such as encountering lightning, Get knocked down by a storm, etc.

It is precisely because of its almost infinite growth cycle that the Pulo tree can continue to grow and grow taller as long as it is not damaged by external forces. According to legend, the largest Pulo tree in the world is in the northern snowfield, with a height of more than 1,000 meters. , the surrounding highest peaks are all lower than it.

The reason why it can grow so high without breaking is because the branches of the Pulo tree will hang down to the ground after it grows to a certain height, and gradually become a branch supporting the main trunk, and this kind of branch will continue to appear. It spreads to the surroundings and grows together with the trunk, and the guards support the trunk, so the huge Pulo tree looks like a tree mountain from a distance.

Naturally, the Pulo trees in the shaman city of the Verdant City cannot be compared with the Pulo trees in the northern snowfield, but they also have some special features, because they were planted by the shaman who settled here, and they were controlled by shaman witchcraft. The Puluo tree city created by growth.

Under the suppression of shaman witchcraft, even though the seven Pulo trees have grown for a hundred years, their heights are all average, and the tallest is less than 50 meters, but their coverage area is amazing, and the entire shaman city is covered by it. Within the range, and under the control of the shaman, its branches and leaves intertwined with each other, forming roads, walls and rooms in the air, and finally forming the upper city of the shaman area.

Perhaps it is because while controlling the growth of the Puro tree, the natural shaman also imposed some special methods on the Puro tree, so that the entire shaman city was shrouded in a kind of natural energy, which would not exclude other On the contrary, it will form some stimulating effects on other extraordinary forces. After Leo and the others entered the shaman city, they immediately felt that all kinds of forces on their bodies became more active.

And this kind of situation also reminded Leo and Sylvia of the magic net of the gods covering the entire Old Continent. Although the energy fluctuations of the two are completely different, their underlying structures are very similar, both through a special structure. Energy fields to create an environment that promotes supernatural power.

Out of curiosity, Leo and Sylvia temporarily changed their itinerary. Instead of going to the bookstores in the urban area that sell various shaman books, they planned to go to the upper urban area composed of the branches and leaves of Pulo trees that constitute this special energy field. , See if you can find out the mystery that constitutes the energy field, and use this to deduce the secret of the structure of the law net of the gods.

It's not that Leo has never tried to use the Spirit Net to scan this urban area, but the energy field covering this urban area has extremely powerful interference power. Even if Leo uses various anti-interference methods, it has no effect. The feedback information is all vague, like data garbled, without any analytical value.

Different from the blocks on the ground, the upper urban area of ​​the shaman area is still in a closed state, mainly because the natural shamans who caused the incident usually live in the upper urban area, and these streets and houses freely created by the shaman with branches and leaves They can’t be viewed as regular streets and houses. Shamans can easily hide a room or even a street in a clear place. On the surface, there is only one floor in the upper urban area, but in fact it may have three or four floors, after all. The height of tens of meters is placed there. If estimated according to the conventional building height, it is enough to build a five-six-story urban area.

It is precisely because of the complexity of the upper urban area that the investigation work of the investigation bureau and the heretic hunters is not going very smoothly. Even if there are natural shamans who are willing to cooperate with the search, this kind of cooperation is still discounted, and almost does not involve the upper urban area. search.

The city government of the Emerald City has obviously been aware of the hidden dangers in the upper urban area of ​​the shaman area, so they decided to take advantage of the tragedy caused by the natural shaman to completely eliminate the hidden dangers in the upper urban area. On the one hand, they sent people to the surrounding cities to seek human support On the other hand, most of the natural shamans were temporarily imprisoned on the grounds that they were involved in the tragedy, and the upper urban areas were also temporarily banned during this period, except for the natural shamans who had been released and registered on the list , other shamans are not allowed to enter and exit, and ordinary people are even more prohibited.

The identity certificate issued by Leo's middle school city is obviously not very useful here. Although the investigation bureau personnel guarding the entrance to the upper urban area respect Leo and the others, they don't care about letting people enter the upper urban area. He didn't let go, and finally Leo used some small tricks to change his mind and put Leo and the others into the upper urban area.

Perhaps it was consciously referring to the structure and architectural style of the ground city when building the upper city. The upper city that Leo and the others saw was almost a replica of the ground city. It is a kind of stone, but here is the layered and intertwined branches and leaves.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, these branches and leaves look no different from ordinary branches and leaves, but in Leo's spiritual vision, these branches and leaves are more like the blood vessels and pores of some extraordinary creatures. Ordinary bark, in fact, hides some lines containing mysterious power in the bark, these lines produce a breathing effect, just like the photosynthesis of plants, breathing all kinds of energy shrouded in the surroundings, forming this energy field environment.

"It's really uncomfortable here!" Joan and Penny frowned as Leo observed the hidden secrets around him through his spiritual vision.

In the urban area on the ground, although this kind of special energy field also exists, the two of them don't feel anything unusual, but when they arrive at the upper urban area composed of various branches and leaves, they both feel a sense of suffocation, and their bodies seem to be a little bit Discomfort, feeling a lot weaker, and walking for a while makes them feel tired.

Hearing what the two said, Leo immediately checked the situation of the two, and found that there was nothing unusual about them, but their bodies were a little weaker.

The physical condition of the two made Leo think of something in an instant. He took out two rune nameplates that could form a protective position, and after activating them, let the two wear them on their bodies.

After the two of them wore it, they immediately became more comfortable. Not only did the boredom disappear, but their bodies gradually returned to normal.

"This is extracting the vitality of living things." Sylvia, who was quietly standing aside, said thoughtfully after seeing the changes in the two of them: "It feels very familiar, like an abyss species."

Saying that, Sylvia's eyeballs suddenly turned into those of the abyss dragon, and her whole state also turned into an abyss. In this state, she seemed to have discovered some hidden secrets that Leo's spirit vision did not discover.

"Spirit-absorbing vines, the branches and leaves of these Pulo trees have the breath of spirit-absorbing vines," Sylvia said while exiting the state of the abyssal dragon, "The breath of spirit-absorbing vines is very weak. It’s hard to find if you look carefully.”

"Spirit-absorbing vines?" Leo frowned. In his data, there was information about abyssal creatures such as spirit-absorbing vines, but the information was very negative, because these information came from the memory fragments of the abyssal serpent. This thing in the heart of the abyss snake is like the number one natural enemy.