The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A long time ago, Leo knew that the tower wizards were very good at using subspace fragments, and those remaining ruins of the tower wizards still had some usable half-plane space to use, so when Leo guessed When there is something in this wizard tower on the shore of Lake Narnia in the shadow world, the half-plane space composed of subspace fragments is naturally indispensable, which makes him not surprised at the scene in front of him at this moment .

A complete half-plane space looks like a piece of land suspended in the void of the universe. There are forests, shrubs, hills, lakes, and insects on this land. There are no animals, and there are stars in the sky on land, but these stars are not real stars, but the tower wizard projected the starry sky scene of a certain world onto this half-plane space through some unknown method.

Although it seems that the entire half-plane space is the same as the real world, Leo feels that it is full of dead silence. His position is a fork in a river, and a column engraved with runes is set up here as a space anchor. And not far from this spatial anchor is an old town.

As soon as Leo found the town, he used the spirit net to investigate the situation there. As a result, he didn't find any human beings in the town, but there were many traces of human life, and what's more interesting is that these traces of life Still new, looks like it should have been left over recently.

In the central square of the town, there is a spherical metal object. Leo has never seen the metal used to cast this object, and the metal data in the general recorder does not match it. It should be a kind made by the tower wizard himself. Metal, and the mysterious runes on the surface of this spherical object represent that this object should be the key to the upper space of the wizard's tower.

Leo was also a little surprised that he could find the key to the upper space so easily, and wondered if it might be a trap, but after repeated inspections by the spirit net and other means, he confirmed that there was nothing in the town. After the danger was arranged, he was relieved a little, and then walked towards the town.

Soon he entered the town, but he didn't rush to the center of the town to crack the method to open the key to the upper space, but turned around and walked to a house he picked out through the spiritual net.

The house picked out by Leo is not an ordinary house. It is located in the center of the town, not far from the square where the spherical object is. This house is not only the largest house in the entire town, but also the only one with a garden in the town. houses.

However, the house itself was not the reason why Leo chose it as the object of exploration. The main reason why he selected it was because there were a large number of bookshelves in this house. Except for a few rooms, such as bedrooms, Except for the kitchen and the living room, the rest of the rooms are study rooms, and the study room is full of cheeks, and the shelves are also full of books. From this point, it is not difficult to see that the owner of this house is either a profound scholar or a a wizard.

Because in addition to the large number of books on the bookshelves, the more important thing is that all the bookshelves are wizards and wonders. From the mysterious runes on the surface of the bookshelves and the powerful energy fluctuations emitted by the runes, it is not difficult to judge that these bookshelves are all high-end. Strange things, and the energy contained in the bookshelves can feel a little fluctuation of space energy, from which it can be judged that the functions of these bookshelves may also be related to space, and it is precisely because of the power contained in these bookshelves that the spirit net cannot Know what books are on these shelves by scanning them.

Although it is impossible to quickly scan and record books through the spiritual network, Leo is not sorry, but even happier, because since he does not hesitate to use so many high-level wizards and wonders as storage books, the contents of these books may not be simple. He was even more curious about what books these were.

When he came to the main entrance of the house, Leo didn't rush to open the door and walk in. Although his mental network didn't find any abnormal situation or danger, he didn't think it was really safe. From that moment on, Leo felt that the whole town revealed a strange meaning, not that the fact that there was no one in the town made people feel weird, but that the town itself was the embodiment of weirdness, but the problem was that his intuition did not It has never made him feel dangerous, so now he can only temporarily put his intuition aside and use rational analysis to judge whether the house is dangerous or not.

Leo stayed at the door for a while, then pushed the door open and walked in, but at the same time as he walked in, he also arranged some defensive means on his body, and used a few magical objects such as rune magic circles for defense Hold it in your hand and fire it up anytime.

However, there was no danger in the house, which made his cautious movements a bit ugly.

Even so, Leo still did not relax his protection, still holding on to the wizard's strange object, and then walked towards the nearest study room.

After passing through the corridor next to the living room, Leo came to the door of the first study room. There was no lock or door, but he couldn't enter immediately because the door frame was densely engraved with mysterious runes. The mysterious rune contains great power, which may erupt at any time, but because of the interference of the power emanating from the many bookshelves in the room, Leo's mental network did not detect any abnormalities in advance.

The mysterious runes on the door frame are very complicated. It seems that the person who arranged these runes wanted to allow people to decipher the comfort of these runes and rearrange these runes to the correct position, so that people can enter the study safely. Just like the celestial globe at the entrance of the wizard's tower, otherwise, the power contained in it would be released and kill the intruder.

There is no doubt that with the complexity of the mysterious runes on the door frame, it may take a long time for Leo to analyze and compare before he can find out the rules and crack them. There are such runes, and all the runes are different. The door frame of each room needs to be re-analyzed and deciphered, which will take a lot of time.

Naturally, Leo didn't want to waste too much time here, so he decided to use a tricky method. He took two steps to the side, and then came to a wall facing the room, and took out a The sacrificial knife was inserted directly into the wall, cutting the wall supported by a special alloy like a cake, cutting a hole for him to enter and exit.

In fact, when Leo checked the mysterious runes on the door frame just now, he found something wrong, because he found that only the door frame had these mysterious runes, but not the surrounding walls, and the power of the runes on the door frame was only for the door frame. As for the surrounding walls, it is not included in its protection.

This obvious defensive loophole surprised Leo to the point of being unbelievable. In his opinion, a tower wizard who can arrange such an exquisite protective rune array should not make such a low-level mistake, but he thought again, maybe The owner of the house has already considered the defensive capabilities of the walls, and believes that the alloy metal plates used to build these walls are already hard enough to prevent anyone from destroying them, so there is no need to use additional extraordinary strength for defense.

In fact, the owner of the house did not think wrong, because the alloy metal plate on the wall is indeed hard and tough enough. If compared with the armor of a spaceship, it is comparable to the armor of a star field-class spaceship. Ordinary tools Not to mention breaking a hole in it, even leaving a scratch is very difficult to do, and this kind of alloy metal plate accounts for more than 90% of the building materials of the entire house, and all the walls of the study room are made of this metal plate.

However, the owner of the house obviously did not expect that someone would have the cutting power of the sacrificial knife. The cutting ability of the sacrificial knife is almost equivalent to the power of the law. Cutting those alloy metal plates is as simple as cutting a piece of bread or butter. So much so that Leo easily bypassed the study's defenses with this tricky method and entered the study.

After entering the study, Leo did not immediately pick up the books on the bookshelf to look through the records, but walked to the only desk in the study, searched in the desk, and found a book that looked like Record book of borrowers.

Leo quickly flipped through the record book, and there was something that looked like a name written in a language that Leo had never seen before. He simply compared the number of overlapping words representing the name, and soon The number of borrowers recorded in this register is 2,127.

Because each name is handwritten and signed, Leo can also judge from the beauty of the font that the more than two thousand people who wrote these names are very well-educated people, who may be scholars or wizard apprentices.

In addition to this record book, Leo also found something that looked like a badge, and the pattern on the badge Leo had seen before, and that pattern represented the first tower among the tower wizards.

In the past, Leo always thought that the tower wizard was divided into ten towers, and the rest of the tower wizards were attached to these ten towers, but after he mastered so much knowledge about the tower wizard Finally, I realized that there are not only ten towers for the tower wizard, and the total number of towers should be far more than ten, because some towers are plural in number.

For example, the first tower represented by the badge that Leo sees now has five tower wizards in the world of Velen at the same time, but now this badge only represents one of them.

Each tower represents a different way of thinking. For example, the first tower represents the truth. The tower wizards of this tower are all seekers of truth in the world, but because of some of their behaviors and ways of doing things, they make They are divided into different first towers. Now the badge in Leo's hand is engraved with a half-open book, which represents knowledge. That is to say, the first tower of this faction is mainly for collecting knowledge. , which exactly corresponds to what Leo discovered now.

Among the many towers that Leo knows, the tower representing knowledge is not known for being dangerous, but this does not mean that they are kind and gentle. After all, no one is willing to take the initiative to give all the knowledge they have to Others, so the final collection of knowledge will inevitably involve the use of some force, and it often ends in the death of the people and forces whose knowledge is collected.

From this clue, it can be judged that even if this wizard tower was not built by the people of the first tower, I am afraid that it has a special relationship with the first tower. Otherwise, it is impossible for the first tower of the knowledge faction to appear here stationed down.

Apart from the record books and badges, Leo found nothing useful, and he turned his attention to the bookshelves.

He was not in a hurry to take the books from the bookshelves, but carefully checked the bookshelves, and after finding no dangerous traps, he tried to take a book from one of the bookshelves, and when he reached out and touched the book At that moment, he immediately found that his spirit seemed to have entered a huge space. This space was neatly filled with books. If you count them roughly, there may be as many as a million.

Seeing this scene, Leo couldn't help but take a deep breath. It is obvious that the tower wizard made this kind of bookshelf from fragments of subspace planes, and put every book he collected into the bookshelf. In the bookshelf space, and now in this house, there are about a hundred similar bookshelves, which means that there are hundreds of millions of books in this house now, and according to the habits of wizards who collect knowledge from the first tower, they should Books will not be collected repeatedly, so these hundreds of millions of books should not be repeated.

In the Earth Federation or any civilization in the universe, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of millions of books. Even through certain technological means, tens of billions of books can be stored in the human brain in the form of memory chips, and then through the first Two brains or other intelligent reading devices to read, record and organize, just like Leo's database.

But now these hundreds of millions of books can be regarded as a happy burden for Leo. The happiness is because he feels that he can find the complete inheritance knowledge of the wizards of the tower from these books, which will be helpful for him to go to the Wizarding Academy in the near future. Surface exploration is of great help, and it can also improve his overall strength in a disguised form, but it is a burden because the number of books is too large. Without technological means to record the contents of these books and organize them into data chips, If he wants to record the contents of these books, he can only read them one by one, and he feels that if he reads them one by one, even at the fastest speed he can read through books, it may take decades to read all of them. Books, and this does not include the time spent recording and organizing these books.

Feeling the burden, Leo couldn't help but take a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then thought for a while, smiled wryly and said to himself: "It seems that I can't completely record these books without using some extreme methods, but Which method is safer to use?"