The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It's okay, you'll get used to it soon." Seeing Sylvia who had turned back into a human form, Leo comforted him, then took out a bottle of wizard medicine and handed it over, saying, "Drink, this It will make you feel better."

At this moment, Sylvia hadn't recovered from the severe pain caused by the body mutation process, and she was lying on the ground, not wanting to move at all. After hearing Leo's worthless comfort, she still couldn't help but look towards her. Leo rolled his eyes, but didn't reach out to take the bottle of potion.

She didn't take the medicine not because she was angry with Leo, who didn't tell her in advance that it would be so painful, but because she was so sore now that she couldn't even lift her hands, let alone pick up things.

Leo also seemed to realize that Sylvia's condition at the moment was much worse than expected, so he stepped forward to help Sylvia up, leaned against the rock beside him, and then poured the medicine in his hand to her little by little. drink.

After drinking the potion, Sylvia only felt a cool breath emanating from the stomach and spreading to the whole body, and the soreness on her body was also weakened a lot under the effect of this cool breath. He also involuntarily showed a comfortable look.

"This is different from what you said. I almost didn't make it through." After the physical pain eased, Sylvia glared at Leo angrily and complained.

Although Sylvia complained openly, she had to admit in her heart that the entire process of blood banning was actually very smooth, and everything was proceeding as Leo had predicted in advance. The power of blood between Leo and her Under the joint control of her, she was peeled off smoothly, and then sealed in the magic circle of runes carved on her back by Leowen.

The only mistake in the middle was that during the process of her body transforming from the abyssal dragon form back to the human form, there was pain beyond expectation, and the severe pain made her roll over her body, and her hands were in the process. It directly broke the rune magic circle arranged by Leo, touched a piece of petrified heartwood placed outside the magic circle, aroused the power contained in the petrified heartwood, and thus interfered with Leo's spellcasting .

Leo told Sylvia before performing the spell on Sylvia that those stones and heartwood can restrain the blood power of the abyss dragon in his body, and can help him strip the power of the blood smoothly, so when performing the spell, He did not put away the petrified heartwood, but placed it on different nodes of the rune magic circle.

However, although Leo knew that the petrified heartwood contained the effect of restraining the power of the abyss, he still didn't know much about it, so he never touched it with his own hands. Whether it was moving or dividing, he used tools indirectly, so when When Sylvia touched a cut piece of petrified heartwood, he only saw the petrified heartwood turn into dust in an instant, but he didn't know that the power contained in the petrified heartwood had caused great harm to Sylvia. what kind of impact.

It wasn't until later that Sylvia told him that the power from the petrified heartwood poured into her body, speeding up the original slow process of stripping the bloodline power by more than ten times, and the extreme pain caused by stripping the bloodline was also intensified. More than ten times, this is the reason why she said that she almost didn't make it through. Fortunately, her will was still tenacious, and she forcibly survived this wave of extremely painful shocks, and completed the entire process of sealing the power of bloodlines.

At this moment, hearing Sylvia's complaints, Leo felt deeply guilty. He looked at Sylvia apologetically, but his tone was calm, and he said, "This matter is indeed my fault." , did not expect these accidents, but fortunately the result was good."

If it weren't for the obvious guilt and apology on Leo's face, just hearing Leo's unusually calm tone, Sylvia might be very angry, and even feel sad. After all, she suffered so much, but her husband didn't. A little emotional fluctuation, and now Sylvia is more worried about Leo's mental abnormality than her own physical state.

So, she asked with great concern: "What about you? How are you doing now? Why do I feel that your physical and mental separation is getting worse?"

"Don't worry, I feel fine, and I will be able to adjust after a while." Leo said while trying to give Sylvia a relieved smile, but the actual smile on his face was very rigid stiff.

The reason why Leo has this abnormal situation of physical and mental separation is entirely because he sorts out, fuses, and absorbs the side effects of his past real memory fragments. As he recovers more and more real memory fragments, these memory fragments Inevitably conflicting and repelling the original complete biochemical warrior memory, which made him unable to smoothly control the body to make some subtle expressions through the spiritual consciousness, for example, sometimes emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow and joy cannot be reflected on the face. It becomes a corresponding expression, or there is a corresponding expression, but the tone of speech does not match it, etc.

However, Leo had expected this abnormal situation long ago, and he knew very well that the current separation of body and mind is only temporary. , he was able to return to normal.

After the wizard's potion was fully released, Sylvia was able to move her hands and feet and stand up from the ground, but the expression on her face did not relax because of this, but showed a look of loss that had never been seen before. , after checking his body through his own method, he said to Leo: "I feel bad!"

"Is your body still in pain?" Leo asked with concern, without any expression on his face.

"No, it's not physical pain!" Sylvia shook her head, raised her hand and grasped it, as if feeling the power in her hand, and said at the same time: "Although my body hurts, it can make me feel It's true, and what really makes me feel bad is that my body feels so empty, like if I push it a little bit, my body will completely collapse and shatter into countless pieces."

Hearing Sylvia's description, Leo frowned, and said: "This should be a side effect of the power of the blood being blocked, your body and soul have not yet adapted to such a large drop in power, just like I just now That being said, it takes a while to get used to it."

Sylvia didn't respond, just nodded, and then signaled Leo to do her own thing, leaving her alone for a while, then sat on the ground and checked her body again, but this time the focus of her check changed. Become the power of the witch in the body.

After losing such a powerful bloodline power of the abyssal dragon, the power of the witch that was covered up by bloodline management became extremely clear at this moment, although the power of the witch at this moment is already stronger than when it was the main force back then Several times, compared to the world of Velen who has not yet become a demigod Ice Queen, it is not bad at all, but if compared with the power of the blood of the abyss dragon who has infinitely approached the gods, the gap between the two is not even a star.

If it is to be divided by the level of psykers, Sylvia's witch power is only equivalent to a sixth-level psyker at this moment, which seems to be very close to a seventh-level psyker who can be regarded as a demigod, but In fact, there is a big gap. Unless some external assistance is obtained, it is difficult to cross this gap between man and god in a short time.

The extreme emptiness caused by the power drop is not the most important problem that Sylvia needs to solve now. As Leo said, this emptiness takes time to get used to, and does not require special targeted treatment. What she devotes herself to at the moment is that she needs to re-master and analyze her own witch power, and then create a set of witch power practice methods that can help her continuously improve until she reaches the realm of gods.

A long time ago, the power of blood has become the core power used by Sylvia, and the power of the witch has always been buried under the power of blood. Although it cannot be dispelled, the number of times it is used is very small. Poor, it's more about stimulating the witch's power to increase at the same time as the power of the bloodline increases, and this increase is very small.

This makes Sylvia's understanding and mastery of her own witch power still remain at the initial cognition, and even to some extent, her understanding of witch power is not as good as that of Leo, and the more problematic It's because her cognition of her own witch power in the past is no longer applicable to the present, and everything needs to be restarted.

This is mainly because even if her witch power is independent of the power of blood, it will still be affected by the power of blood, and this influence changes her power of witch little by little, so the power of witch she possesses at the moment It is already very different from the past, and using the witch's power according to past experience will only backfire.

For example, now she can no longer use her witch power to change gender and become a male body. This is not because she has given birth to a child, because she can still use witch power to change gender when she was in Velen. The same can be done when she first entered this world. The reason why the power of the witch finally changed was that the power of the bloodline increased rapidly, causing this power to become her core strength. Later, the power of the bloodline broke through the barrier and reached a level close to that of a god. At such a high height, the body even showed blood returning to the ancestors, and transformed into the form of the abyss dragon, so that the power of the witch was completely changed by the power of the blood.

Now even Leo is not sure whether the witch power in Sylvia's body is the witch power he knows, or it may be mutated into another strange power due to the influence of blood power. All in all, Leo can't give Sylvia any help now, and can only rely on Sylvia to solve this problem by herself.

At this moment, Leo began to tidy up the rune magic circles in the cave that were still intact and used to cast spells.

In order to help Sylvia seal the power of the bloodline, Leo made a total of 360 rune magic circles, which almost emptied all the high-energy substances that could be used in the Natural Shaman Society and the Belmont Family Liaison Office As well as extraordinary materials, more than two hundred of these rune magic circles were completely destroyed by the impact of the blood of the abyssal dragon in the process of using them just now, while the remaining one hundred and thirty remained intact. And more importantly, these rune magic arrays have received the second tempering of the bloodline power while bearing the impact of the blood power of the abyssal dragon, making these rune magic arrays better than before, and can even be regarded as miracles. thing.

After taking back these rune magic circles and waiting for the right time to use them again, Leo went to check Sylvia's situation again. Seeing that she had fallen into a state of deep thinking, he turned around and walked to those few places without disturbing her. Next to a block of Petrified Heartwood.

Because of Sylvia's inadvertent touch, Leo was sure that the power contained in these petrified heartwoods would not cause him any harm, so he decided to try to touch these petrified heartwoods as well. , See what kind of benefits you can give yourself.

However, what surprised him was that he carefully touched one of the petrified heartwoods, and he was ready for the power to invade his body. At the same time, he also had a plan to control and contain the power that invaded his body. But the result surprised him very much, because there was no difference between touching these petrified heartwoods and the surrounding rocks.

At first, he thought that Sylvia had also used the power of these petrified heartwoods in the process of sealing the power of the blood just now, thus depleting the power contained in it, but he quickly denied this guess, because In his perception, the power of each piece of petrified heartwood is still so clear, this is absolutely impossible to be an illusion.

After that, Leo tried various methods to stimulate the power in the petrified heartwood, but the result was surprising, because even the power of the abyss serpent could not cause any reaction from the power contained in the petrified heartwood. This is completely different from when Sylvia touched the petrified heartwood before, the power contained in it was immediately activated, invaded Sylvia's body, and suppressed the power of the abyssal dragon's blood.

With doubts, Leo picked up another piece of petrified heartwood and came to Sylvia, and touched Sylvia's arm with it, but the result was still the same as when he touched it himself. no response.

"What are you doing?" Sylvia, who was interrupted by Leo's movement to think deeply, opened her eyes and looked at Leo who was holding the petrified heartwood, frowned, and asked.

Leo immediately told Sylvia what he had just discovered. After hearing this, Sylvia was also a little puzzled, and she took the initiative to stick her hand on the petrified heartwood, and at the same time activated her witch power, intending to fight with Lei. To stimulate the power contained in the petrified heartwood as Ou did before.

But this time the result was different. Sylvia's witch power hadn't even touched the petrified heartwood. It just started to work in Sylvia's body, and the power contained in the petrified heartwood was automatically activated instantly. Before Leo could react, it poured into Sylvia's body and merged with the power of the witch, and the petrified heartwood in Leo's hand collapsed into a pile of dust again in an instant.