The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Why are you suddenly interested in coming here?" Leo stood under the wall of Alente Mountain City, looking at the rolling clouds and mist under the cliff outside the wall, he couldn't help asking.

Sylvia patted the city wall, felt the cold and hard rock, and said, "It's not because I suddenly became interested, but when I was in the new territory of the Belmont family, I thought about coming here."

"Why?" Leo asked puzzled.

"Because of the red-haired Beluv who built this city." Sylvia responded: "According to the records of the Belmont family, he should be a member of the Belmont family, and he came from Villen."

"Ah?" The answer really exceeded Leo's expectations.

Sylvia explained in detail: "Beluv Belmont is also a celebrity in my family, but he is not actually a direct bloodline of the Belmont family, because he and the Belmont family The blood connection is very distant, dating back to his great-grandmother generation, but because his grandfather and father have always been the housekeepers of our family, they are extremely close, so he also got the surname Belmont. However, when he was an adult I didn't intend to inherit his father's position, nor did I plan to work within the Belmont family. Instead, I accepted the funding of the Belmont family and became an adventurer. I went to various parts of the world for adventures and ancient monuments. Speaking of my early adventures It was also because I came up with the idea after seeing records related to him in the family collection."

Leo asked a little puzzled: "Listen to you, this Beluv Belmont should be a very successful adventurer, otherwise it won't inspire you, why have I never heard of it?" past this person?"

"It's very simple, because apart from our Belmont family, he can be said to have no reputation in the outside world." Sylvia explained: "At that time, in the funding terms he signed with the Belmont family, all the adventure gains belonged to Belmont. The Monte family, and it is not allowed to disclose any information related to its adventures, so all records about Beluv Belmont can only be found in the internal documents of the Belmont family."

"This seems a bit too much. Is this Beluv willing to be squeezed like this?" Leo frowned, and said: "If it is an ordinary person, I am afraid that there is no ability to resist being squeezed like this, but From what you said, it is not difficult to hear that this Beluv should be very powerful. He survived a lot of adventures and even left a very detailed record in your family's information. This all shows that this person is not ordinary. , Didn't he resist?"

"Of course I resisted." Sylvia continued walking along the city wall towards the top of the mountain city, "One day, he disappeared suddenly, and I didn't know where he went. According to the previous rules, , if he wants to go out on an adventure, he will first tell the family, and then the family will prepare all kinds of equipment needed for him, arrange routes and other logistical preparations, but that time is completely different, he just disappeared in the family manor , no one was notified. At that time, some people thought that Beluv disappeared on purpose and wanted to use this to negotiate new conditions with the family, or someone secretly funded Beluv to let him leave the family, so the family immediately They sent a large number of people and used various underground forces to find him, but they found nothing. Later, the family believed that Beruf had a sudden whim to venture to a dangerous unknown place and died there. He cannot be found, and there are no rumors about him in the outside world."

Leo asked curiously again: "How did he come to this world?"

"Our old friend got it here." Sylvia explained.

Leo guessed, "Old friend? You mean White Deer."

Sylvia nodded, then stopped suddenly, turned her head, looked through the undulating piers, and looked at the situation in the mountain city, only to see that there were a group of people in the mountain city where there were no people. , these people are all dressed in light hunting clothes, and you can also see that everyone is wearing various weapons, including swords and swords in close combat, and bows and crossbows in the distance. It's very scattered, but if you look closely, you can find that they are actually walking while guarding the person in the middle.

If you know the most popular political figures in the Middle Kingdom, you should be able to recognize that the old man guarded in the middle is Moffman, the quasi-kingdom prime minister who was appointed by the future King Barbarisa of the Middle Kingdom not long ago. And the affairs that the quasi-kingdom prime minister is currently presiding over are various matters related to the founding of the country. Now that he appears in Alent Mountain City, he should come here for the purpose of establishing the country and establishing the capital. He wants to see if the environment here is really time to use to be the capital of the country.

"How likely do you think the Middle Kingdom will be here?" Sylvia asked suddenly.

"The possibility is zero." Leo gave his answer very positively, and explained: "If it is just a conservative king, then there is no problem here in Dingdu, but Barbarisa is not a conservative king. He will not be satisfied with looking at a piece of land in the Middle Kingdom. I think he will expand outward after the aftermath of the founding of the country is dispersed. After the military power of the Middle Kingdom is completely consolidated, the country will be located in the area where the current Castle of the Protector is located. It's more appropriate."

"I think it's more likely that Barbarisa's capital will be here." Sylvia gave a completely different answer, saying: "Setting the capital of the country here is the best disguise to confuse those around you." The kingdom and territory, let those people think that he is just a conservative king, and the great cause of building a country is enough to satisfy him. When these people are deceived by the disguise and think that he has no ambitions, he will treat these people Show your fangs."

After hearing this, Leo felt that what Sylvia said was another possibility, but he didn't think he was wrong, because no one could be completely sure where the capital would be in the end, even now Some people feel that the Middle Kingdom cannot be built.

"Speaking of which, Barbarisa has some blood relationship with our Belmont family." Sylvia said suddenly.

Leo was stunned for a moment, and soon thought of something, and confirmed: "Barbarisa is a descendant of Beluv?"

Sylvia withdrew her gaze and continued to walk up. As she walked, she said, "It can't be regarded as a descendant of blood, but there is a blood connection. There is the name of grandfather Barbarisa on the genealogy chart of the Belmont family. This time the Belmont family The reason why they spared no effort to support Barbarisa's founding of the country, and even used the political power of the Kingdom of Teresa to help Barbarisa hire three legions of troops, was because Barbarisa was a descendant of Beluv, and the Belmont family was born in Complete the career that Bellev did not complete."

"Career?" Leo asked, "Can you explain in more detail?"

Sylvia nodded, and then carefully narrated what she knew. In addition to the content recorded in the Belmont family's documents, there were also some guesses she made based on the content.

When Beruf Belmont disappeared suddenly in the Belmont family's manor, it was because he accidentally inspired a strange object in the Belmont family's collection, and was brought to this world by the white deer that appeared in front of him. Lost in the territory of Teresa Kingdom, this experience was recorded in that document in great detail, even the appearance of the white deer was recorded. According to Sylvia's description, there is also a sketch, just a sketch The shape of the white deer inside was very different from what they had seen.

Beluv is a very professional adventurer, and adventurers like him usually master realistic sketches or sketches, which is to record when they see any special mysterious discoveries or rare species, There are many portraits painted by this adventurer for members of the Belmont family in Villen Belmont Manor, so the white deer he painted must be the white deer he saw, and the reason why the white deer is in his eyes and in Lei Ou and Sylvia have completely different eyes, which may be related to whether Bailu is willing to show his true appearance in front of others, or it may be related to the strength between them.

After Beluv came to this world, he was very lucky to be involved in a heresy incident in the Kingdom of Teresa. He met people from the Belmont family, and used the language that only members of the Belmont family can listen to. Knowing French, he also inadvertently displayed the family emblem of the Belmont family in the Velen world, and then got in touch with the people of the Belmont family in this world.

It's just that Beluv didn't know that he had come to another world, but thought that he might have come to a new continent beyond the sea of ​​mist, so the Belmont family in this world didn't know where Beluv came from, and it was the same. It was because Beluv's family blood was not particularly pure, and he thought that Beluv might be a branch of a family from the New World. It was these misunderstandings that made Sylvia really understand after reading the relevant information. The origin of Bellev.

Originally, the Belmont family planned to arrange for Belmont to work within the family, but Beluv rejected the offer. Instead, he left the Belmont family and went to the Middle Kingdom alone. When he left, he gave the Belmont family a The reason is that he has a mission to carry out.

Later, it was a few years later when the Belmont family heard the news of Beluv, and at that time, Beluv already had the nickname of Red-haired Beluv, and became the most powerful person in the Middle Kingdom. The warlord has become the most promising hero who can unify the Middle Kingdom.

The Belmont family also saw the potential of Beluv, so after learning about the situation of Beluv, they secretly gave a lot of support. One-third of the funds used in the construction came from the secret funding of the Belmont family.

However, even so, the Belmont family did not disclose their relationship with Beluv, and everything was done in secret, because the Belmont family could also feel that the secular and church forces on the mainland were preventing the central government from The kingdom region is unified into one country. If they disclose this relationship, it will only make the Belmont family fall into a passive situation. It would be better if one is in the open and the other is in the dark, taking care of each other and acting in cooperation.

However, what happened afterwards caught the Belmont family completely by surprise. When the situation was good, Beluv had already received the support of two-thirds of the real power lords in the Middle Kingdom, and when the establishment of the country had begun to be discussed publicly, Beluv encountered An assassination.

It is not known how many killers participated in this assassination, but after the investigation, it was found that a large number of extraordinary people were involved, and Belvf and his hundred guards all died in this assassination. The cronies were also assassinated one after another, and only a few of them managed to escape and remain anonymous. As for who sent the killer, it is still a mystery.

However, many people think that there is no force other than the Church of True God that has the ability to send so many extraordinary people. Even though the church has never admitted this, it does not hinder people's speculation.

Although Beruf died, the Sylvia family did not give up on taking care of Beruf's offspring. Perhaps Beruf knew that he might be in danger, so he has always protected his wife and children. Very strict, so tight that even his closest subordinates did not know that he had a wife and son, and the Belmont family also learned that he had descendants from the heirs left by Beruf after his death.

In order to prevent accidents, the Sylvia family did not directly contact the descendants of Beluv, but indirectly took care of their descendants in other ways. For example, Barbarisa's grandfather was a businessman, and the Belmont family would Give it some help commercially, but it won't be so big that it will be doubtful.

At first Sylvia did not contact the descendants of Belvf just to prevent accidents, but later, they discovered that there were other people secretly observing the descendants of Belvf, and these people were all from the Church of True God, which made them They dared not contact Belvf directly, but secretly prepared to prevent the Church of True God from attacking the descendants of Belvf. After all, they also believed that Belvf died at the hands of the killer of the Church of True God.

However, the development of things afterwards caused the Belmont family to have doubts, because they discovered that the Church of the True God not only did not attack the descendants of Beruf, but was secretly protecting and helping the descendants of Beruf. Lisa was canonized, and this series of operations of the Church of True God has completely made the Belmont family unable to understand, and it also made them wonder whether Barbarisa has completely surrendered to the church. It is this suspicion that makes the Belmont family Stopped the secret support of Barbarisa, a descendant of Beluv, to avoid being exposed to the eyes of the Church of True God. Until now, Barbarisa is going to establish a country in the Middle Kingdom, which makes them feel that the relationship between Barbarisa and the church is not like as they thought.

Because in their view, the mission that Beluv said is to establish a country in the Middle Kingdom, and whether Barbarisa joins the church or not, there is no doubt that he will complete Beluv's mission, so they re-investigate Barbarisa. Give military and human support.