The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

This wizard tower is not high, about 20 meters. Judging from the construction structure, it should have three floors. A wizard circle is engraved on the surface of the wizard tower, and bursts of energy light are scattered outward from the magic circle, covering the surrounding area. At the same time, the surrounding trees also shone with fluorescence under the stimulation of energy. These lights also dispelled the surrounding darkness, allowing people to see the surrounding situation clearly.

The wizard's tower doesn't have a normal entrance such as a gate, but there is a wall at the bottom that is completely empty, without depicting anything, which looks very abrupt.

Leo is standing in front of this wall at this moment, looking at this wall through his spirit vision. Although there seems to be nothing on the surface of the wall, under Leo's real eyes, the things hidden inside the wall are inevitably revealed. in front of Leo.

I saw a topic related to wizards was carved on the wall in a special way. This topic is very simple. It uses three Gamore words to form a Turing radical that can circulate itself in advance. What is interesting is that The language used to write this topic is not any language produced in the world of Velen, nor is it any language in the world where the Kingdom of Teresa is located, but the common language of the Earth Federation that Leo is extremely familiar with.

When he saw the topic written in the common language of the Earth Federation, the first thing that Leo thought of was that someone from the Earth Federation had come here and became a wizard here, and also became a member of this city. The owner of the wizard tower, that's why he left this topic written in the lingua franca of the Earth Federation as the key to unlock the wizard tower. Identify language without knowing the true content of the question.

However, this guess was rejected by Leo as soon as it was generated, because he felt that if the wizard tower owner really didn't want anyone to enter the wizard tower, there was no need to be so troublesome, and he could just use some wizard circles to prevent others from approaching.

Now that the owner of the wizard tower has written down the question, it means that he must also hope that someone can solve the question and open the entrance of the wizard tower, so naturally he will not intentionally use an unfamiliar language to make things difficult for visitors.

Just when Leo felt that the topic on the wall was a bit weird, the text used to write the topic in front of him suddenly changed, and it became another language he was familiar with, French. Although the language of the topic changed, it still The content remains unchanged.

After discovering this, Leo had a pensive expression on his face, and then he stared at the wall in front of him, and began to recall another language in his mind, and the words written on the wall changed again, becoming the language he was recalling in his head.

Seeing this scene, Leo already understood that on this wall, the wizard at that time should have imposed a conceptual witchcraft, that is, to let anyone who saw the topic see that the language in which the topic was written was the first in his mind. Think of the language, so as to ensure that no matter who sees the topic, they can understand the content of the topic.

Leo had never seen this kind of witchcraft, nor did he see any relevant records in the wizard notes he had seen before. According to his opinion, this kind of witchcraft is more advanced than any witchcraft he has learned now. The magic is complicated, because the effect of this kind of witchcraft is completely conceptual. The witchcraft just records the concept of the content of the topic, and what kind of effect will be produced after others see this concept depends entirely on the person who sees it. Decided, not to mention that this kind of witchcraft is also mixed with the ability to spy on the spirit and soul. At least Leo didn't feel any sign of being spied on just now, but the witchcraft on the wall did indeed spy on him. Let the language in his mind appear before his eyes.

Although this kind of advanced witchcraft made Leo have a strong interest, he was not surprised by it, because although he had never seen or even heard of this kind of witchcraft, there were similar ones in the psionic skills he knew. A psionic skill called communication.

This kind of psionic ability is also an advanced psionic ability, the method of using it is very complicated, and he still hasn't mastered it yet. Its effect is similar to this kind of witchcraft. Pass it to the corresponding language and characters in the spirit of the other party. Once you master this kind of psychic ability, then the psyker can communicate with any kind of cosmic intelligent race without learning special alien languages ​​and characters. Psykers with this psionic skill in the Earth Federation are usually assigned as diplomats.

Now that he has just seen the first wizard tower, the wizard knowledge displayed on the wizard tower is already so advanced, which makes Leo look forward to the other wizard towers and the huge city that looks like a wizard academy. He hoped he could discover more advanced wizarding knowledge from there.

However, Leo is not in a hurry now. He will not go to other wizard towers to check the situation until he has a clear understanding of the situation of the wizard tower in front of him.

I saw that I stood in front of the wall and thought for a while, and quickly thought of the answer to the question, then stretched out my finger and pressed it on the wall, and quickly drew three Turing radicals composed of the basic radicals of Gamore language , When he connected the last strokes and finished drawing the entire Turing radical, a ray of light shone from the wall, and then the entire wall dissipated like mist, showing the situation inside the wizard tower to Lei In front of Ou.

"Shards of the subspace plane?" Leo couldn't help muttering after seeing the situation in the wizard's tower.

It turns out that the interior of the wizard tower is not a huge indoor space layer by layer as he thought, but a whole, and the entire tower space is fused with a fragment of a subspace plane, forming a very unique space. environment.

The reason why it is unique is that the entire subspace plane fragment is a huge lava pool. Even if it is blocked by the wizard circle on the outer wall of the wizard tower, Leo standing at the entrance can still feel the high temperature in the lava pool.

The entire lava pool is full of boiling lava, and there is no other place to stay except in the middle of the pool, and in the middle of the pool is a small obsidian land, on which a fire tree grows. The surface has a metallic color, and the branches and leaves are all flames, which looks very magical.

There was a stone chair under the fire tree, and a humanoid creature wearing a wizard robe sat on the chair. Because the robe covered the whole body, and the hood also covered the head, Leo could not recognize the specific shape of the humanoid creature. , he also tried to use the spiritual net, but the energy of this lava pool is very violent, and it also contains unknown mysterious energy. As soon as his spiritual net was extended, it was greatly disturbed, and it was impossible to perform any effective scanning .

After observing for a while, Leo still decided to take a trip to the land in the middle of the lava pool, so he cast his psionic wings, flew into the wizard tower, and then, driven by the rising energy of the lava pool in the wizard tower, He quickly flew towards the only piece of land, and soon flew to the edge of the land. As he closed his psionic wings, he glides in the air for a certain distance, and landed in front of the seat under the fire tree .

Leo didn't rush forward to touch the humanoid creature sitting on the seat, but carefully checked the surrounding situation, found no danger, and checked his own defenses before going forward to check on this person The case of type organisms.

"Master Wizard, can you not bother him?" Just as Leo was about to touch the humanoid creature on the seat, a voice sounded in his mind, stopping his movements.

Although this voice sounds like a woman, Leo doesn't think so, because this voice is not a voice in the normal sense, but just a kind of spiritual power with voice imitation.

Afterwards, Leo, who heard the movement behind him, turned around and looked towards the lava pool outside the land.

Immediately afterwards, a giant stood up slowly in the tumbling lava, and didn't stop until half of his body emerged, which was about the same height as the flame metal tree.

I saw that although the giant's body looked like a human being, its arms had three pairs of wings, and where the head should have been was a mass of flames.

At the moment when the fire giant took shape, Leo felt the powerful energy fluctuations emanating from the opponent, but judging by the energy intensity, this fire giant was at least not weaker than a fifth-level psyker, and this fifth-level psyker was still A psyker who can release all energy in the universe without any suppression.

When Leo was observing the fire giant, the fire giant did not remain silent, but said with doubts and expectations: "Many years have passed, and I didn't expect that there would be a wizard coming here. My lord wants to return to Kansas." Root?"

According to this form, the fire giant imitates and uses a soft female tone, which makes people feel very inconsistent after listening to it, but after listening to the fire giant's inquiry, Leo's focus has already been placed on Kanru The name of the place was on me, and I couldn't help but ask in a confirmation way: "Is this Kanrut? Kanrut, the city of stars?"

Hearing Leo's inquiry, the fire giant's flaming head shook for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "It seems that you are not a member of the academy, Mr. Wizard, I misunderstood, if you want to know something, please go explore it yourself, but please You don't want to disturb those grown-ups who have fallen into a long sleep."

After speaking, the fire giant sank into the lava again, even if Leo spoke to stop him, he ignored it, making people feel its disappointment clearly.

Watching the fire giant disappear in front of his eyes, Leo fell into deep thought. Information about Kanrut, the city of stars, kept appearing in his mind.

The earliest information Leo saw about Canrut, the city of stars, was in the study of old man Rembrandt. Among those ancient books, there was a book called Canrut, the city of stars.

The content of that book is very simple. To celebrate his wife's birthday, the city lord of Kanrut held a storytelling contest. Ten great men under him participated in the competition, and each great man used the stars as his story. The background tells a story about the gods on the stars, and finally when the tenth great one finished his story, Kanrut, the city of stars, flew into the sky and became one of the stars.

Judging from the content of the book, this book is a fable written by the ancients, but the background of the story is covered with a star god, but the star gods mentioned by these great people have another meaning in Leo's eyes , because many of these stories can correspond to the legendary stories of certain Omega-level advanced life forms in the universe, as if someone knew the stories that happened to those Omega-level high-level life forms and adapted them into Velen Allegory of the world.

After that, the information that Leo came into contact with Kanrut, the city of stars again, came from the inheritance memory of the abyss serpent. In the inheritance memory of the abyss serpent, a war broke out in the abyss. One side of the war was the upper races of the abyss. On the other side is Kanrut, the city of stars.

What is the final result of the war? There is no record in the inheritance memory of the abyss serpent, but Leo felt that with the power of the abyss and the home court advantage of the abyss, it would be difficult for Kanrut, the city of stars, to escape the fate of falling, so Leo I feel like the end result speaks for itself.

As for the third time he saw the information about Kanrut, the City of Stars, it was in the library of the Academic City not long ago, and he also saw a fable book called Kanrut, the City of Stars.

The background of the book is exactly the same, the city lord of the city of stars held a storytelling contest for his wife's birthday, but the people who participated in the storytelling contest have changed from the ten great men under the city lord to ten ancient gods. And the content they told was completely different. The ten stories were all ten wars that took place in the City of Stars, and when the last story was finished, the City of Stars disintegrated and disappeared under the rays of light bestowed by the ten gods.

The reason why Leo pays special attention to the information of Kanrut, the City of Stars, so that he immediately reacts when he hears the name Kanrut, is entirely because of the book Kanrut, City of Stars in the Academic City Library. Among the ten war stories recorded in the special fable book, there is a war story that is very similar to the war in the memory of the abyss serpent, except that the names of the participants are different.

Another difference is that the war stories recorded in the book have results, and that result is that the city of stars escaped from the battlefield after sacrificing the three most precious things, but specifically the three precious things things are not written.

Now, from the words revealed by the fire giant, Leo found that the place he was in turned out to be the legendary city of stars Kanrut, which made him surprised, but also full of curiosity, curious about this legendary city The past, also curious about the final outcome of the ruler of this city.

Although the fire giant didn't say much just now, Leo has already heard some information from its two words, for example, there are wizards in this city, and these wizards have fallen into a kind of long sleep just like the wizard around him State, but this long sleep state is not death, it can be awakened, but what will happen after awakening is unknown.

Another piece of information is that although the owners of this city have left, they may come back in the future. Otherwise, the fire giant would not mistake Leo for a returning wizard after seeing him.