The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It seems to work." Sylvia took out the soul crystal condensed after absorbing the witch doctor's soul from the soul trap, looked at it in her hand, handed it to Leo, and said.

After taking it, Leo carefully looked at the soul crystal in his hand, frowned, and said, "It works, but it's not complete."

Sylvia looked at Leo puzzled.

Leo took out a previously made soul crystal from his pocket, and put it together with the witch doctor's soul crystal. This comparison, Sylvia could also see the obvious difference between the two soul crystals. From the soul crystal of the witch doctor, the soul crystal made before is obviously darker in color.

Leo simply accepted: "Before the soul rune trap took effect, part of the witch doctor's soul had been transferred by the device organized by the transcendent, and in the end the soul rune trap only captured part of the witch doctor's soul."

Sylvia thought for a while and smiled: "Even if there is only part of the soul, it should be fine. Even if the remaining part is resurrected elsewhere, the situation will be very bad."

While Leo was talking with Sylvia, hundreds of strong middle-aged men were standing in front of an erected iron coffin device in a fragmented small plane attached to the world barrier, using a The language composed of a large number of tongue-tapping voices recited a prayer, and while chanting, they kept throwing some metal ore into the cavity of the iron coffin base.

I saw that these middle-aged people were all tattooed with special symbols. When they recited prayers, the symbols would change and shine with their voices, and there were three tubes of different thicknesses inserted on top of their heads. The thickest tube , covering almost the entire back of the brain whistle, the thinnest tube is also as thick as the handle of a long sword, and the other end of these three tubes is connected to a transparent crystal backpack, and it can be seen that there is a monster placenta full of eyes in the crystal , and the placenta seems to be alive, and blinking from time to time.

In addition, this small plane is a large platform like a square. Thousands of iron coffins of different sizes are regularly distributed on the platform. Each iron coffin is marked with a name in an extremely ancient language. A huge ruby ​​was laid out, and the high-tech lines distributed on the iron coffin were all connected to the ruby, but some lines were only distributed on the edge of the ruby, while some lines had penetrated deep into the ruby ​​to form a new one. pattern.

In the studio where these middle-aged people are feeling their daily life in an orderly manner, one of the iron coffins on the platform suddenly made a piercing mechanical sound. The sound was not very loud, but there were unique prayer sounds all around. In the surroundings, it was particularly eye-catching. Almost at the moment when it sounded, everyone's eyes turned to the iron coffin in unison, and the middle-aged man who was closest stopped his hands. His work walked towards the iron coffin.

When he walked in front of the iron coffin, the door of the iron coffin was opened, and a freezing mist spread out from the iron coffin, and then he saw a naked young man walking out of the iron coffin, walking along The steps went down the base of the iron coffin, and stood in front of the middle-aged man.

The scene in front of him was not the first time for all the people who worked here. Everyone showed envy to the young man, as if it was a great thing that the other party could walk out of the iron coffin.

Soon the middle-aged man put away his emotions, and then routinely congratulated the other party on his rebirth with his own unique language, and asked the other party to verify his identity.

However, what puzzled the middle-aged man was that the other party did not inform him of his identity code as in the past precedents, but looked at him blankly, as lifeless as a stone.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged man had doubts on his face, so he repeated the routine inspection instructions again, but he still didn't get any response, and the other party's expression didn't even change.

At this time, he already felt that something was wrong, so he stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the other party, but the other party still did not respond, and even made a gesture of inserting eyes into the other party's eyes, but the other party's eyes did not blink. It's a living person, more like a dead body.

The middle-aged people who noticed something was wrong immediately yelled in panic, and soon attracted their supervisor, and told the young people what was wrong before the supervisor reprimanded them.

After hearing the report from his subordinates, the supervisor couldn't help being stunned, and tried the method of the middle-aged man, and found that, as the middle-aged man said, the young man in front of him was like a dead body.

The supervisor also noticed that something had happened, and he quickly knew the identity of the other party from the name on the iron coffin. At the same time, he also realized that this matter was beyond his ability to handle, so he ordered someone to carry the young man to the nearest resting place. At the same time, he also returned to his office to report the incident as soon as possible.

After about an hour or so, several old men in robes of detachment came to this place, asked a little about the situation, and under the leadership of the supervisor, they came to the room where the young man was placed.

The moment they saw the young man, the elderly knew immediately that something was wrong.

Although the rebirth device can help the recorder to be reborn, it cannot help the recorder rejuvenate. Although the body created by the rebirth device looks like a youth, once the rebirth process is completed and the recorder walks out of the rebirth device, the new body will be in a short time. Time rapidly ages, and eventually returns to the physical state of the recorder during the time recorded by the rebirth device. If that time is youth, then after rebirth, he will be youth. If that time is old age, then he will be old.

In fact, there are a few unlucky people in the organization who were awarded record qualifications because of their meritorious service a few days before their death. As a result, they can only live for a few days each time they are reborn, and the cost of rebirth is not at all. In the end, those people spent all their savings and could only be sealed up.

Right now, the reborn person still maintains a youthful appearance, which means that there may be a problem with the rebirth procedure.

"Taros! Talos! How are you, Talos?" All three of them knew the reborn, and they were familiar with each other. At the first moment, they were sure that the other party was indeed a reborn body of a friend, so they stepped forward and called a few Voice.

However, as the maintenance director of the rebirth device said, the other party did not respond to any external situations, just like a living dead.

Afterwards, the three of them conducted various tests, but they still didn't know what happened to the other party. They just knew that the rebirth device had functioned and the rebirth procedure was completed normally. The young man in front of him was the rebirth of the witch doctor Talos, but This reborn body seems to have no soul, only a physical body.

After not finding any clues, the three immediately sealed up the rebirth of the witch doctor Talos, and then directly reported it to the maintenance organization of the inner circle through a special report, and ordered all the staff maintaining the rebirth device not to use this Pass a word out of the matter.

After this news was transmitted to the maintenance organization of the inner circle, it immediately attracted the attention of those in charge of the inner circle, because all things related to the rebirth device and the rebirth program are not trivial. The cornerstone of the core, once there is a problem with this cornerstone, the organization of the detached people will also be in danger of falling apart.

Now a senior member of the inner circle has a problem during the rebirth process. If the problem is not found and resolved immediately, then any member of the inner circle recorded by the rebirth device will not be able to live well.

As a result, a secret investigation about whether the rebirth device malfunctioned and how it malfunctioned began to spread rapidly among the various factions and institutions in the core circle of the detached organization, and soon wrapped the entire core circle in it, a kind of The inexplicable tension that has never been seen before is gradually arising in the hearts of some people who have noticed the strangeness.

Leo didn't know that using the soul rune trap to ingest the soul of the witch doctor Talos had caused such a big commotion in the Transcendence Organization. Prepare for your journey to Belmont Castle.

This trip was not his and Sylvia's plan. In fact, he and Sylvia originally planned to go to the Wizarding Academy of the High Tower Wizard to explore the floating land of other wizarding towers floating around the land of the academy. Take a look, get a little understanding of the situation over there, and then consider other things.

However, what I didn't expect was that when they were preparing, the Duke of Belmont sent someone over to inform them, or more accurately, to inform Sylvia that the ancient ritual of the Belmont family was about to be held every 20 years. , At that time, not only people from the Belmont family will participate, but even people from Theresa's royal family will participate, and the participants will more or less be able to gain some benefits from the ancient ritual. This opportunity is very rare, so the Duke of Belmont I hope that Sylvia can also participate in this ancient ceremony, and even become the chief priest of this ceremony if necessary, responsible for presiding over the entire ceremony.

Sylvia had also seen the ancient family ritual mentioned by the Duke of Belmont in the family's ancient books, but the specific content had been lost in the past several family changes, and she only knew that it was related to the family blood. The development of the family has a great relationship, and it is the most important part of the coming-of-age ceremony of the next generation of the family in the past.

Although Sylvia felt that it was completely unnecessary for her to participate in this ancient ritual, she still planned to take a trip. One was out of curiosity, the other was to make up for the lost traditions of the family, and the third was because she and Ray Eupen planned to go to Belmont Castle in the near future, and now that the Duke of Belmont personally invited him, he would not have to go hastily and appear abrupt.

In fact, the so-called preparation is just that Leo selected some parts that can be used from the other party's parts and equipment in the warehouse, and took them away to see if they could be assembled into a usable device on the road.

Joan and Penny didn't intend to go to Belmont Castle with Leo and Sylvia this time, and they didn't know whether it was a temporary decision or a long-planned plan. The two of them decided to go to the Middle Kingdom to meet Barbarisa.

In this regard, neither Leo nor Sylvia objected, but before they left, they formulated a new training plan for each of them and taught them some wizards, wonders and potions to ensure that they could meet the real ones. Ability to protect itself in times of danger.

After getting ready, Leo and Sylvia left Book Town, and instead of riding horses, they directly used their respective abilities to fly in the air and flew towards the northern mountain range where Belmont Castle is located.

The Kingdom of Teresa is a mountainous kingdom. More than 90% of the entire country is mountainous. The overall terrain looks more like a lying long sword. The east and west ends are far apart, and the north and south ends are close. According to academic Judging from the location of the city, it should be located in the province at the southern end of Teresa, while Belmont Castle is in the virgin forest at the northern end.

Although the straight-line distance between the two is not very long, there are a lot of towering mountains in the middle. If you want to reach the other end, you need to take a long detour.

It's just that these mountains, which are difficult for ordinary people to climb, are obviously not enough in front of Leo's psionic wings and Sylvia's dragon wings.

Sylvia used the power of blood to create a pair of huge dragon wings behind her. The huge lift generated by just flapping the dragon wings was enough to make it fly in the air, and the speed was very fast.

And Leo's psychic wings use the airflow to soar more. For this reason, he followed Sylvia when the airflow was small, and then flew quickly with the huge airflow generated by the dragon wings.

The two of them slid across the sky, passed through the peaks of snow-capped mountains, and flew from the southernmost point of Theresa Kingdom to the northernmost point in just one day.

It's just that at this moment they found a problem, that is, they seemed to be lost.

Compared with Leo who used the psionic wings to fly more than once, and even used the psionic wings to move in the subspace vacuum environment, Sylvia, who was flying with dragon wings for the first time, was very impressed with this kind of god-like bird's-eye view. The state of the human world was so exciting and exciting that she was completely immersed in the fun of flying, and completely forgot to distinguish the road, but roughly discerned a north direction, until she saw the primeval forest in the northern region, and saw some special It was only when they saw the unique trees in the northern mountain forest of Leisa that they realized that they had come to the northern province.

In order to identify their current location, the two took advantage of the darkness to quickly find a logging town deep in the forest in the air, landed outside the town, and walked towards the town.

However, the two of them stopped at the same time when they were a few hundred meters away from the entrance of the town outside the town, and then looked at each other, as if they saw an unexpected look in each other's eyes.

Following the two of them, they continued to walk forward, and soon came to the gate at the entrance of the town.