The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Why did you come here?" Seeing Miranda appearing in front of him, Redwin, the governor of Yanon City, was a little surprised.

Although Redwin is also a branch of the Belmont family, his bloodline is extremely pure, only a little worse than the direct line of the Belmont family. It is precisely because of this that he was able to sit in Yanon City as a branch. The position of consul, you must know that in the past, only direct family members were eligible to hold this position.

This is not just because of the identity of the direct lineage, but more importantly, the issue of pure blood, because some of the most important protective methods and weapons in Yanon City require people with pure blood to open them. It was already arranged at the beginning.

Although the Teresa Kingdom is very peaceful now, in such a war-prone world, who can guarantee that an unexpected war will not break out around him in the next moment, so some defensive measures are still necessary.

It is precisely because of the pure bloodlines that their clan members have a very good relationship with the direct family. Compared with the almost superior-subordinate relationship of other branches of the family, they and the direct line members are more of a kind of companion or brother and sister. There is no need to be too polite when talking.

For example, now, when Miranda Belmont, who is an important member of the direct lineage, appeared in front of Redwyne, Redwyne asked the other party completely as an equal, and didn't even stand up from his chair.

Hearing Redwin's question, Miranda frowned slightly. Obviously she didn't like Redwin's attitude very much. In her opinion, a side branch was a side branch, no matter how pure the blood was, it was still a side branch. When you are a descendant, you should have proper etiquette.

However, even though she was dissatisfied in her heart, she still didn't show it. She just responded calmly: "I'm here to pick up two guests, and these two guests should arrive in Yanon City within two days."

"Guest?" Redwyne was stunned for a moment, then asked again: "From the royal family?"

In Redwyne's memory, guests who could send an important figure like Miranda to receive them would all go to the castle, and the only people who could enter the castle were members of Theresa's royal family.

In his memory, the royal family is currently busy mediating some war conflicts in the neighboring countries of the kingdom, and the Belmont family has never been involved in such wars and conflicts outside the kingdom, so the possibility of the royal family sending people over is very small.

"No." Miranda shook her head, denying Redwyne's guess, but she didn't give any further explanation.

It wasn't that she didn't want to explain, but that she had nothing to explain, because what she knew about the two guests was not much more than Redwynn.

Before she set off, she asked about the guests, so that she could identify the real ones after seeing the guests, and the answer given by the patriarch was very simple, she would know the guests after seeing them.

Later, she inquired about some news from other members of the family, and learned that the guests came from the City of Academics, and they met the patriarch Duke Belmont and Queen Teresa after they went to the City of Academics not long ago, so she guessed that they probably came from the City of Academics. city ​​scholars.

It's just that she doesn't have much confidence in this guess, because in her memory, the scholars in the academic city are not very fond of the family. It seems that this is because many times in the past. There were various problems in the special research, and it ended in failure. Therefore, most of the scholars in the family have extremely negative views on the scholars in the city of learning.

Seeing that Miranda didn't say anything, Redwin didn't continue to ask. He knew the reason not to ask more about things that shouldn't be asked, so he asked instead: "What do I need to do?"

"Get the Stormhawk ready," Miranda demanded.

Hearing Miranda's request, Redwin couldn't help being stunned for a moment, then showed a look of embarrassment, and said, "You should know that you need to use the Storm Eagle..."

Before Redwyne could finish speaking, Miranda took out an order personally signed by the Duke of Belmont and handed it over.

In the end, Redwin ordered to check the authenticity, then nodded, and said, "I see, how many do I need to prepare?"

"Five." Miranda gave the number, thought for a while and said, "We need to prepare a driver."

"Understood." Redwyne quickly signed a document, then shook the bell on the table, handed in the assistant officer, and asked him to send the signed document to the nearby Storm Cliff, where he would hand it over Director of Stormhawk.

Just after Redwin ordered someone to deliver the documents, Miranda's accompanying officer hurried in from the outside, and after saluting to the two, he told Miranda that the guests had arrived at the family's residence in the city.

After hearing this, Miranda immediately asked the accompanying officer to lead the way, and without saying hello to Redwin, she hurried out of the room, while Redwin thought for a while, and followed quickly.

Soon the group came to the residence of the Belmont family in Yanon City. Although the Belmont family was the actual controller of the city, the army and government officials here belonged to the Kingdom of Teresa in name, but in fact It is indeed the private arm and manager of the Belmont family, so in order to look good on the surface, the Belmont family also established a station in the city like other outsiders, and asked all the Belmont family or people who work for the Belmont family After coming to Yanon City, they can only live in the hotel built by the resident, and are not allowed to live in the official residence of the consul in the name of the family.

Although this is a bit of a cover-up, the effect is not bad. At least in the eyes of most ordinary people, Yanon City is one of the cities belonging to the kingdom, not the private territory of a certain family.

On the way to the station, Miranda also asked his escort who were the two guests and how did he know they were guests.

However, the accompanying officer's answer was a bit hesitant, with a strange expression on his face, and his answer can be summed up in one sentence: when he sees the other party, he will know whether the other party is the guest to be received on this mission.

Therefore, when Miranda returned to the family residence, she saw the guests mentioned in the mission for the first time, and immediately instinctively saluted the women among the guests, and Redwin, who followed behind, also formally greeted each other. salute.

When Miranda and others saluted, it seemed that it was not the first time for a female guest to face this kind of scene, and immediately explained: "You are mistaken, I am not Queen Teresa, I just look a little like her .”

Hearing the female guest's transformation, both Miranda and Redwin couldn't help but stand up, and carefully looked at each other's appearance, with strange expressions on their faces.

Although they couldn't see any abnormality from the appearance of the other party, but in terms of appearance, the other party was exactly the same as Queen Teresa, but they still found some differences, the biggest difference of which was that the other party's body was emitting all the time. An inexplicable breath, and the moment they felt that they were enveloped by this breath, the blood in their bodies was suppressed to varying degrees, and this kind of breath alone made them feel the pressure on the blood. The abnormality seems to only happen between clansmen with the same bloodline but different concentrations, which is the bloodline suppression that clansmen often feel.

Both Miranda and Redwin have seen Queen Teresa more than once. Although they can also feel the suppression of blood from Queen Theresa, the suppression is very weak, which means that Queen Theresa's blood Development is just a tier above them.

But now, the female guest in front of her, who looks exactly like Queen Theresa, exudes blood pressure that doubles the pressure on Miranda and Redwyne. As the other party said, she is not Queen Teresa.

"I'm Sylvia Belmont, and this is my husband, Leo Dodd." In order to prevent the other party from continuing to speculate and waste time, Sylvia took the initiative to introduce her identity.

And after hearing Sylvia's introduction, Miranda, who stayed in the castle all year round, did not show any abnormalities. She was not even surprised to know that the person in front of her was also surnamed Belmont. After all, how could someone with such pure blood not be family members.

On the contrary, after hearing Sylvia's introduction, Redwin showed a surprised expression, but his surprise was not caused by Sylvia, but from Leo.

I saw that Redwin couldn't help being curious, and confirmed: "Could it be that you are the master Leo Dodd who is called the incarnation of the spirit of knowledge?"

As an important member of the side branch, Redwyne, like most other side branch members, went to the city of learning to study for a period of time.

The attitude of the rest of the same family towards this study trip is muddled. It is different from a routine. He is really serious about learning all kinds of knowledge in the academic city, and because of this, he does not agree with the vast majority of the family who think that academic He really thinks that scholars in Academic City are knowledgeable seekers.

It is precisely because of his experience in the academic city that he felt extremely incredible after learning about Leo's related rumors, and was even more curious about Leo, who was so respected by all the scholars in the academic city. For a period of time, he even thought about taking a leave of absence, going to the academic city, meeting Leo, and trying to see if Leo could answer some questions that had troubled him for many years.

Although Redwyne showed a very different enthusiasm from Miranda, Leo still just nodded calmly, which was regarded as a response.

After seeing him, Redwin probably realized that this is not a good occasion to ask questions, so he suppressed the curiosity in his heart and did not continue to ask.

Miranda didn't understand why Redwin paid special attention to Leo. In her eyes, Leo was just an inconspicuous entourage. If it wasn't for Sylvia's introduction, she wouldn't even look at him, and even introduced Leo. At the moment when it was her husband, she was more surprised, wondering why Sylvia married such an unremarkable man, and even this emotion made her subconsciously block the information about the incarnation of the Spirit of Knowledge statement.

However, even though she had some disdain for Leo in her heart, she still showed the courtesy that a receptionist should have. After Sylvia's introduction, she saluted Leo, and then asked Sylvia if she needed Rest here for a day, or hit the road immediately.

"Let's go right away! We're not tired, and we really want to see the legendary Belmont Castle." Sylvia quickly gave the answer.

Hearing this, Miranda didn't say anything, or that it was just what she wanted, but Redwyne opened his mouth, as if he wanted to persuade the other party to rest here for a day, so that he would have the opportunity to be able to speak to the so-called Leo, incarnate as the Spirit of Knowledge, sought answers to some questions, but in the end he still didn't speak.

Afterwards, Miranda and his party led Leo and Sylvia out of Yanon City and rushed towards the storm cliff outside Yanon City.

On the way, Miranda also introduced in a timely manner the Storm Eagle, the vehicle they were going to take later.

The storm eagle is not a native creature of the original continent, but a giant creature from the depths of the New World. The early pioneers of the New World once went deeper into the New World, and found some huge creatures there. The cubs were captured and brought back to the continent of origin, and the Stormhawk was one of them.

It's just that these giant creatures died one after another after leaving the New World perhaps because of unacceptable conditions. Only the eggs of the Storm Eagle survived under the protection of divine magic.

Later, these eggs fell into the hands of the Belmont family, and they were hatched safely by the then patriarch of the Belmont family through a special method. Afterwards, under the careful cultivation and care of successive generations of the Belmont family, these Stormhawks born on the source continent were able to They multiplied and eventually made their way to the Storm Eagle Group on the Storm Cliff.

Perhaps it was due to the population variation after leaving the environment of the New World, or maybe it was because the method used by the Belmont family was mixed with some abnormal methods. All in all, the current Stormhawk of the Belmont family is smaller in size compared to the Stormhawk of the New World. They are much larger, but they have a stronger desire to attack than the storm eagles of the New World. Even the eagle people who specialize in taking care of the storm eagles are easily attacked by them, so it is difficult to train these storm eagles into obedient sky mounts.

Over the years, the number of Stormhawk mounts that the Belmont family can control has never exceeded ten. This also makes the Belmont family rarely put the Stormhawk on the battlefield, and the outside world knows very little about the Belmont family Stormhawk.

Soon the group came to Yingman Village under the Storm Cliff. The people living here are the Yingren who are in charge of taking care of the Stormhawk, and their occupations are inherited from the family. When the father dies, the son will inherit his position. , Most of these people can be traced back to the Belmont family from the bloodline, so they can be regarded as distant relatives of the Belmont family with extremely thin blood.

When everyone came to Yingman Village, the document signed by Redwyne had just been delivered. At this time, the Ying people were preparing the special eagle saddle and erected the horn-like eagle whistle on a high platform. Blow it up.

After a while, I saw a few black dots swooping down from the sky. When they were about to reach the ground, they suddenly spread their huge wings and whipped up a whirlwind. on a huge scaffold.