The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

While Leo was researching the defects and loopholes of the abyss sacrifice method in Huajing City, Sylvia felt that something was wrong with the various conflicts that erupted around Huajing City. There is no possibility of falsification of the things on the surface, but she still feels that these conflicts are not as simple as they appear on the surface from the fact that the timing of these conflicts has expanded beyond restraint.

So, while notifying Vera Thothmuller, she also asked the Belmont family to collect various information about the city-states and tribes involved in the conflict around Huajing City, such as the cause of the conflict, such as the various responses to the conflict. Means and so on, in the end she found some clues from a lot of information.

Without exception, all conflicts originated from an extremely tragic genocide, and the victims were basically hawks from certain city-states and tribes, advocating tough measures against their enemies. It was discovered that the clues to kill these hawk families all came from some inconspicuous gossip, and then followed through these gossip, and finally fell on a family of the same hawk in a hostile city-state or tribe.

After that, those city-states and tribes handled this matter in a very strange way. According to the normal situation, they should first send someone to account and ask the other party to hand over the murderer. will do it.

But the reality is that the city-state and tribe where the victim was located immediately attacked the caravan of that city-state and tribe or the affiliated villages stationed outside the city in the name of revenge after investigating the hostile city-state and tribe that might be the murderer. and other places, and the city-states and tribes that were attacked did not intend to conduct any negotiations. They also directly sent troops to carry out targeted attacks, which eventually made the conflict more and more serious. From the current point of view, it only takes half a month at most. In time, it could turn into an all-out war.

It is precisely because of the concentration of so many coincidences that Sylvia discovered from the numerous intelligence materials collected that all the conflicts in Huajing City, including the war between Bishan City and the Haider tribe, were all caused by events. It is caused by the manipulation behind the forces, and it is not controlled by one force behind the scenes, but a dozen forces. It is just because it is well known that tribes and city-states have accumulated grievances for many years, so when the conflict broke out, these forces all You can hide your traces in old grudges.

Compared with the various intelligence materials temporarily collected by the Belmont family, the information collected by Willa Thothmuller to the Nature Shaman Society is more comprehensive, because a long time ago, the Nature Shaman Society He has realized that the safety and prosperity of Huajing City depends entirely on the stability of the surrounding city-states and tribes, so naturally the shaman will consciously collect various intelligence materials early on, and even mediate conflicts between city-states and tribes when necessary.

And this time the conflict that broke out around Huajing City came too suddenly, without any warning beforehand, and the scale was very large, and the speed of spread was very fast. Naturally, the shaman would have no time to react, and waited to At that time, they were held back by the refugees from Bishan City and the Haider tribe who had fled to Huajing City. In the end, they completely lost the possibility of mediation, and could only choose to protect themselves in future wars.

Because of this, when Sylvia reminded Vera that all these conflicts were likely to be man-made, Vera also used the shortest time to collect the most detailed information from the surrounding city-state tribes.

It's just that Vera Thothmuller is not bad at managing a natural shaman society or a flower mirror city, but asking her to analyze useful information from a lot of scattered data is obviously not what she is good at Things happened, so even though she collected a lot of information, she still couldn't find any clues from the information to artificially promote the conflict.

And Sylvia was in this line of work when she was in Velen, and she can be said to be the top. After the information was handed over to her, within two hours, she had already found out what she wanted from the information. In this intelligence, we even found out which black hand forces are hiding behind the scenes to control all this, and which of these forces are hawkish city-states or tribal forces that are immersed in years of hatred and purely want to go to war. , which are abyssal organizations that simply want to provoke war and create chaos.

At that time, Sylvia judged from experience that these abyssal organizations were coming to Huajing City, and she was very sure that these abyssal organizations had already lurked in Huajing City, and their purpose was probably for the underground Tokatni.

Therefore, Sylvia cooperated with Vera to find out the members of the abyss organization hidden in Huajing City, and even found out their plans.

Originally, according to the idea of ​​the elf Teresa, it was to directly find out the members of these abyssal organizations, solve them, and never cause future troubles.

But Sylvia and Vera disagreed. They felt that they could use these people from the abyss organization as pathfinding stones to deal with the abyss superiors underground in Huajing City, because according to the plan of those people from the abyss organization, they believed that The abyss superior was suppressed in Huajing City, so we had to find him out, so as to gain the favor of this abyss monster, and thus gain more pure abyss power.

But what these abyssal organizations don't know is that the underground abyss superiors are more likely to pretend to be suppressed to repair their injuries, so the abyss superiors definitely don't like being taken from the cultivation lair he carefully arranged After waking up and appearing in the real world, it is foreseeable that the two will inevitably conflict. Those who initiated this so-called rescue have become the pathfinding stones for Vera and Sylvia.

Sylvia and Vera, who made the decision, had known the plan of these people in advance, so they used their tricks and deliberately pretended to be trapped in a trap. In fact, they had already secretly returned to Huajing City, secretly After monitoring the people from the abyss organization, it turned out that Leo had also noticed these people and planned to deal with them, so he came out to meet Leo and told Leo the real situation.

As for Leo, after hearing their decision, his first feeling was that it was too risky for them to do so, because no matter whether the people from the abyss organization could see the underground abyss superiors in the end, the abyss rituals they performed would definitely Alarm the sacrificial field in Huajing City. Once there is something abnormal in the sacrificial field, there will inevitably be some chain reactions, such as a sudden earthquake, or the extinct volcanoes around Huajing City starting to move, etc., no matter what kind of chain reaction it is. Any reaction has the potential to cause devastating damage to any city-state or tribe within the range of the reaction.

The elf Teresa thought the same way, but she couldn't convince the other two. Seeing that Leo also had the same opinion as her, she was also happy. hand.

However, neither Vera nor Sylvia had any plans to stop. Facing Leo's questioning, Vera was extremely confident and said, "Don't worry about this, Leo Your Excellency, even if things get to the worst, nothing will happen." The things that your Excellency is worried about may happen."

Seeing Vera with such a look, Leo looked at Sylvia again, and felt that the two of them must have some secret protection arrangement, otherwise, they would not be so bold, out of respect for Sylvia Trust me, Leo didn't continue to ask further questions, nor did he ask what their arrangements were, but instead asked, "What do you need me to do?"

Seeing that Leo trusted her so much, Sylvia showed a smile on her face, and then asked, "How is the cracking of the abyss sacrifice method in Huajing City? Have you found any flaws and loopholes that can be exploited?"

Sylvia's inquiry was just a casual talk, she was well aware of the complexity and mystery of the abyss sacrificial method, even the abyss superiors who are proficient in this method may not be able to find out the places that can be used in a short time, so she did not He never expected to hear a useful answer from Leo.

However, what surprised Sylvia was that after hearing her question, Leo nodded and said: "We have found the flaws and loopholes, and also found the core sacrificial pillar of this abyss sacrificial method." Where, and I also saw the real situation of the abyss superior. Our previous inference is correct. He is indeed very weak now, and he is using the abyss sacrifice method to heal his wounds. As for the healing, whether to complete the sacrifice method I don't know."

After hearing Leo's answer, Sylvia, Vera, and the elf Teresa were all stunned. They never expected to hear such an answer from Leo's mouth, and they were immersed in surprise for a while. , did not slow down.

However, Teresa, the elf who only knew the power and complexity of the Abyss Sacrifice, but didn't know how powerful and complicated it was, first recovered from the shock, and then confirmed for the other two: "Mr. Leo, you Are you telling the truth? Have you cracked the abyss sacrifice method in the city?"

"Yes." Leo nodded unceremoniously, and said: "If it is a pure abyss sacrifice method, it may take me a long time to find a loophole, and I am not sure whether I can use this loophole, but Our luck is good, this abyss sacrifice method has been modified. In order to make the abyss sacrifice method play a healing role, the fire walker Perunia made some deletions and changes to the original abyss sacrifice method, adding Shaman and sacrificial secret technique. Although he modified it perfectly and the effect he produced completely echoed his requirements, after all, the power of shaman and priest is completely different from the power of the abyss, and there are even conflicts and rejections, so there must be There are loopholes and flaws, and I'm just figuring them out."

As he said that, after he discovered these loopholes and flaws, he carefully described the experience of his temptations, specifically mentioning the illusion of the abyss created by the sacrificial domain, the sacrificial pillar in the illusion that represented the core of the sacrificial domain, and Tokatni, the upper race of the abyss, coiled around the sacrificial pillar.

When Leo told these things, Vera and Teresa the elf were just listening. They didn't understand the meaning of what Leo said, but Sylvia was different, she already had the abyss While the magic dragon passed on her memory completely, while Leo was telling these discoveries, she also understood the meaning behind each discovery for the first time, and also realized the true intentions of Tokatni underground in Huajing City.

"We were wrong! We all deduced wrong at the beginning!" Just after Leo finished telling what he had seen and heard, Sylvia couldn't wait to take the words, and said with a serious expression: "He is not for healing and Sacrifice only arranged this modified abyss sacrifice method in Huajing City, I am afraid that he intends to turn the entire Huajing City and the surrounding area into a real abyss domain, and he wants to become the abyss lord of this world."

Hearing Sylvia's words, both Vera and the elf Teresa were puzzled, and at the same time felt that the matter might be more serious than they expected. The elf Teresa couldn't help but asked: "What is the abyss?" Lord? Abyssal Domain?"

Sylvia didn't answer the question, but Leo explained, "You treat the Abyss Domain as a certain country or territory in this world, and the Abyss Lord is like a king or duke." Then, he felt that this analogy was a little inappropriate, so he added: "In his own abyss domain, the power of the abyss lord far exceeds that of the king or duke, or even the gods. In his domain, He is the incarnation of all the laws of the abyss, an existence similar to the will of the world."

After Vera and the elf Teresa learned about the abyss domain and the abyss lord, their faces became a little gloomy. They couldn't help but look at Sylvia. Obviously, Sylvia's performance during this time has convinced them , vaguely let them follow Sylvia's lead.

"It's not right!" At this time, Sylvia showed a confused look, and said, "As far as I know, the abyss domain and abyss lords only exist in the abyss, and it is absolutely impossible for them to be outside the abyss." If it can be produced outside the abyss, then the abyss will not fail to corrode so many worlds. After all, with the abyss domain as the source of corrosion, the laws of the world will completely fail, and no world will may escape eventual corrosion."

"I think so too. Abyss domains and abyss lords can only appear in the abyss." Leo nodded, expressing his agreement with Sylvia's statement, but he changed the subject and said: "But It is not impossible for the abyss to appear in this world, don't forget, this world is too close to the abyss."

Under Leo's reminder, Sylvia remembered the situation she had seen in the world tree. It is no exaggeration to say that this world is almost about to fall into the abyss. There is only one branch derived from the world tree. Branches, leaves and vines hang from this world. Judging from this situation, if the power of the abyss sacrifice is used to attract the will of the abyss, then it is not impossible to establish an abyss domain in this world.