The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hearing Leo's self-introduction, the Duke of Belmont was completely stunned, and looked at Leo in surprise, his eyes were full of disbelief, and at the same time, there was a strong sense of vigilance and hostility.

The expression of the Duke of Belmont's emotions was so obvious that everyone else in the room could clearly feel it. It was the first time that Queen Teresa on the side saw the Duke of Belmont have such obvious emotions. Feeling extremely curious about this thing, they still chose to remain silent, while both Leo and Sylvia felt surprised, and thought of the behavior of some wizards in their hearts, and vaguely guessed something bad.

"Wizard? How could you be a wizard?" Duke Belmont couldn't help the inexplicable emotion in his heart, and said in a deep voice.

Although Leo knew that unforeseen things might happen if he continued to admit his identity as a wizard, he still asked, "Why can't I be a wizard?"

"You are completely different from the wizard in my memory." Duke Belmont walked up to Leo, looked at him seriously, and said, "I don't have any dislike for you, but if you are really the one in my memory That kind of wizard, then you are the enemy of our Belmont family."

Leo froze for a moment, turned his head to look at Sylvia, and Sylvia interjected at this moment: "Can I know why? Why is Your Excellency so hostile to wizards?"

The Duke of Belmont didn't answer, but just looked at Sylvia, then turned around and saluted Queen Teresa, and then walked out of the room, apparently not planning to say another word to Leo and the others.

Leo and Sylvia didn't expect this sudden situation at all, they looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.

"I think I know why the Duke has such a big reaction?" At this moment, Queen Teresa, who was silent, suddenly said.

When Leo and Sylvia heard the words, they both looked at Queen Teresa, waiting for her to give her an answer.

Queen Teresa did not hide what she knew directly.

It turned out that when she was studying in the Belmont family castle when she was a child, she had read some books about the origin history of the Belmont family, and one of the books mentioned a period of experience that was regarded as a dark age by the Belmont family.

During that time, the ancestor of the Belmont family was the slave of a certain powerful being, along with his companions, relatives and friends who became slaves of the Belmont family ancestor.

In the book, that powerful being is a complete lunatic. He not only tortured the ancestor of the Belmont family, but also used him as an experiment, and even killed his relatives, friends and companions, and let him eat the corpses of relatives, friends and companions.

All in all, during that time the ancestors of the Belmont family suffered as much torture and torture as the world could bear.

Later, that powerful being died together in the battle with the gods, and the ancestors of the Belmont family were able to escape.

However, this does not mean that the nightmare is over, because the torture during that time was so intense that all feelings and memories were integrated into the bloodline. This memory hidden in the bloodline will be awakened, and the people of the Belmont family will be subjected to inhuman torture again and again, and this torture will not end. Every time the power of the bloodline is used, this torture will be repeated. Appear.

The reason why the Belmont family has been sparsely populated for so many years is because many Belmonts could not bear the torture over and over again, and finally chose to commit suicide.

After listening to Queen Teresa's description, Leo and Sylvia felt a little bit dumbfounded. They didn't expect that they would suffer such an indiscriminate disaster, but at the same time they could understand why the Duke of Belmont showed such strong hostility just now. , They even admired the Duke of Belmont for not breaking down after suffering for so many years.

"Do you have a way to solve this?" Sylvia asked while feeling sorry for the Belmont family in this world, and turned to look at Leo.

"I don't know the situation yet, so I can't give an answer." Leo thought for a while, and said, "And the important thing is that I still don't know whether this kind of blood inheritance memory is my own feedback caused by too strong torture, or Cursed by a wizard?"

"Curse?" Sylvia and Queen Teresa exclaimed at the same time, and then they looked at each other again. Maybe it was interesting to see a person with exactly the same appearance making the same actions and expressions, so they couldn't help but smiled.

Leo ignored the small movements of the two, and while thinking about the problem, he explained: "The conditions for achieving bloodline memory inheritance are very harsh, or the development and awakening of bloodline power from generation to generation follow the same route. Complete the solidification of bloodline memory, just like those upper races in the abyss, or surpass mortals, and the life form has reached the level of gods, and use the power of gods to forcibly solidify the bloodline memory." Leo looked at Sylvie Ya, said: "You are the best example. Your life form has reached the demigod state, but you still have no way to solidify any memory in your own blood, can you?"

Sylvia nodded when she heard the words. On the contrary, when Leo mentioned that Sylvia was already a demigod, Queen Teresa showed a shocked expression on her face again. , The shock she felt today is definitely the most shock she has felt in the past so many years.

Leo continued: "Although I don't know how powerful the ancestor of the Belmont family had at that time, judging from the development of the Belmont family afterwards, his power should not have reached the level of a demigod, so relying on him It is obviously impossible for the powerful power to solidify the inherited memory in the blood." After speaking, he paused, and then said thoughtfully: "This kind of inherited memory full of extreme torture is not so much a gift from the ancestors. It is said to be the curse of the enemy, but judging from the experience of Belmont's ancestors that Her Majesty just told, the wizard can die with the gods, and must have the same power as the gods, so he has no obstacles in terms of basic conditions. If I'm not wrong, the ancestor of the Belmont family should have played a key role in the death of wizards and gods, so..."

At this time, the Duke of Belmont, who had left before, reappeared at the door, and said in a deep voice: "Yes, the ancestors did destroy the wizard's tower during the battle between the wizard and the God of Hunting, which directly led to the god-killing witchcraft performed by the wizard. There was a deviation, and he and the God of Hunting were killed together."

Apparently after leaving the room, Duke Belmont calmed down quickly, and he also thought of going with Sylvia, thinking that if Leo was really a wizard, then he might be able to solve the eternal torture in his family blood , So I went back outside the room, heard the conversation in the room, and looked for an opportunity to return to the room at the right time.

"It seems that it should be a curse." Leo knew that the Duke of Belmont was outside the door, so he didn't show any surprise, but calmly said to the Duke of Belmont, "I can try to help you solve the problem of blood inheritance memory. But I can't guarantee that it can be solved, after all, the wizard your family ancestor encountered is far more powerful than me now, and I may not be able to undo the curse he cast before he died."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you do your best." Although the tone of the Duke of Belmont was still cold, it was much more relaxed than before, and then he couldn't wait to ask: "What do I need to do?"

"Now? Now you don't need to do anything, and I can't do anything." Leo shook his head and said, "Cracking the curse is not an easy task. It takes repeated attempts. Otherwise, the problem will not only be impossible. Solve it, but it will worsen further." As he said, he thought for a while, and said: "After the wizard and the god died together, the ancestors of your family should have taken away all the inheritance of the wizard and the god? For example, the books of the wizard , the remains of the gods."

The Duke of Belmont immediately thought of something when he heard the words, and looked at Leo vigilantly again, but he didn't see anything unusual on Leo's face, so he thought about it, and then looked at Sylvia , then nodded and said: "Indeed, only my ancestors survived at that time, and everything left after the death of wizards and gods was inherited by my ancestors."

"Is Belmont Castle part of the heritage?" Sylvia asked curiously at this moment.

"Yes, it's part of the inheritance." The Duke of Belmont nodded and admitted, and then said to Leo: "I don't think you can find any content about curses in the books left by wizards. Our family has studied those books several times. It’s been a hundred years, and there’s still nothing to gain.”

"That's because you're not wizards." Leo pointed out the problem unceremoniously, and said, "And I don't need those books to find any clues about the curse, but to understand who the wizard was back then. What system, what is the source of his power? Although they are both wizards, each wizard has his own system, and different wizards have different original powers. Wizards are just a general term, just like scholars in the Academy City .”

"In a way, you are the same as the scholars here." Duke Belmont also felt.

"The same desire to explore the unknown." Leo summarized himself.

The Duke of Belmont said with great disdain: "The same is crazy, bold, unscrupulous, and equally inhuman." After finishing speaking, he returned to the subject, saying: "I can give you the things left by the wizard to study, but you must go to the castle , Deciphering the bloodline inheritance memory must also be done in the castle."

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, then nodded, and said, "I have no objection to this, and I'm also curious about what the Belmont family's castle looks like."

Seeing that the matter had been settled, Duke Belmont felt that there was no need to stay in the room any longer, and he was still very shy about Leo's status as a wizard, so he turned around and prepared to leave.

"Wait." Leo immediately stopped the other party and said, "I promised to help you solve the problem of blood inheritance memory, so what reward will your Belmont family plan to pay?"

"Remuneration?" Duke Belmont was taken aback.

"Of course it's the remuneration," Leo said with a smile, "I pay attention to the exchange of equivalent value. Since I have done something, I naturally need to get the corresponding reward. You will not let me do things for nothing, right?"

Hearing Leo's words, the Duke of Belmont opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a while. In his memory, there seems to have never been a person like Leo who asked for compensation face to face. He asked people to do things, either The family has already negotiated the remuneration, or that person is willing to help him do things, in short, there is no need for him to consider such things as remuneration with others, so he, who is inexperienced, does not know how to speak for a while.

Queen Teresa also felt very interesting seeing this scene. She had seen the stable and majestic Duke Belmont, and had never seen a Duke with such a blank expression on his face, which made her feel like a Bystanders are also good, so I always sit on the sidelines with a smile, without the slightest thought of interrupting.

Duke Belmont turned to look at Sylvia.

Sylvia shook her head and said, "This is your business, it has nothing to do with me."

The Duke of Belmont couldn't help but smiled angrily, and said, "I asked you to study the books and items left by the wizards. Isn't this considered a reward?"

Leo shook his head and said: "This is just the basic condition that you must provide. The fundamental purpose of my research on those things is also to solve the problem of your blood inheritance memory. Of course, this cannot be regarded as a reward."

"Say it yourself, what do you want?" said the Duke of Belmont sullenly.

Leo thought for a while, and said: "I can't think of what I want for the time being, and I will tell you when I think of it, but please rest assured, the reward I offer is definitely what you can pay, and it will not exceed your psychological tolerance." Bottom line stuff."

After hearing this, the Duke of Belmont didn't give any response. He just snorted coldly, turned around and walked out of the room again. Judging from the sound of footsteps gradually going away, he really left this time.

"Is this a promise?" Leo turned to Queen Teresa and asked.

"Yes, I should have agreed." Queen Teresa said with a smile: "It's the first time I've seen the Duke like this. It's really interesting. It seems that I made the right trip to the Academy City." Said Then, she turned to Leo and Silvia seriously and asked, "Can I know the real purpose of the two of you coming here?"

Sylvia replied on behalf of the two: "You don't have to think about us too complicatedly. We came here because there are enough books here, and the research atmosphere is also very good. By the way, let's get to know the Belmont family in this world. We I don’t have any thoughts about your country.” As she spoke, she paused, as if thinking of something, and said, “Even we can carry out some cooperation that is beneficial to each other.”

"Cooperation? What cooperation?" Queen Teresa asked with an interested look.