The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This skull doesn't seem to have anything special, it's just an ordinary skull." In the middle of the night, in the empty hall of the Forbidden Books Building in the City of Academics, Sylvia casually picked up the skull on the display stand. He put an ancient human skull in front of his eyes and looked at it repeatedly, but didn't see any clues, so he handed it to Leo casually, and said disapprovingly at the same time.

Leo, who took the skull, also carefully inspected the skull. As he thought before, there is nothing special about this skull. Except that the head part is slightly larger than normal, the other parts are just a An ordinary skull, even with the mental network scan results are the same.

As for the mark on the forehead, judging from its surface traces, it is not so much an artificial mark, but more like a scar formed by corrosion after years of exposure to some corrosive liquid.

"Maybe I made a mistake." Leo, who didn't see anything unusual at all, said with some disappointment: "It may be that things have gone too smoothly recently, which made me overconfident."

As he spoke, Leo put the skull in his hand back on the display stand, but when he put the skull down, he still tried to perform the most common cleansing technique unwillingly, and did not use the witchcraft after casting it. The power is acting on himself, but instilled into the skull, and wants to see if it is possible to test whether the skull is really just an ordinary skull through this method.

I don't know if the skull itself is already very fragile, or the witchcraft power injected by Leo is too strong. The moment the witchcraft power was injected into the skull, the skull shattered into dozens of pieces of different sizes in Leo's hands. Fragments fell onto the countertop of the display stand and the surrounding ground.

Seeing this scene, Leo also completely gave up. Obviously, if the magical object made of the skull of the head of the Wizarding Academy is so fragile, then it may not be possible for this thing to carry the powerful power of a four-ringed wizard.

Leo, who felt that he had made a mistake, tidied up the pieces and put them all on the display stand. Then he and Sylvia walked towards the outside of the Forbidden Books Building. The next thing they had to do was to find a suitable place , Let Sylvia open a space rift, go to the new world that can help Sylvia improve the power of the original blood.

And just when the two were about to walk out of the Forbidden Books Building, they didn't know if it was because they sensed something, or because they were simply unwilling. In short, Leo casually glanced in the direction of the exhibition stand, and what he saw immediately made him He stopped in his tracks, with surprise and doubt on his face.

Sylvia, who stopped when she heard the footsteps, looked at Leo behind her in confusion. At the same time, she noticed the abnormality in Leo's expression, and followed Leo's line of sight to look at the booth. When she saw clearly Behind the things on the booth, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he saw that the ancient human skulls that had been shattered before were placed on the booth intact.

"It seems that I have not made a mistake. There is really something wrong with this skull." Leo couldn't help but feel joy in his heart. While talking, he turned around and walked back to the booth, picked up the skull, and put it in front of his eyes. I checked it carefully, but the result was still the same as before, and I didn't see any abnormalities.

"Give me a try." Sylvia also walked over at this time, asked Leo for the skull, and then she injected her power into the skull without hesitation.

This time the situation was different. The skull did not shatter into pieces immediately after the extraordinary power was injected, but remained intact. The power injected by Sylvia disappeared completely like a stone sinking into the sea, without causing any movement.

"Try again." Seeing this situation, Sylvia handed the skull to Leo again, and suggested: "This time, use psionic power instead of witchcraft."

After listening to Sylvia's words, Leo didn't say much, and directly used spiritual energy to inject it into the skull, and the reaction of the skull was the same as Sylvia injected the power of her original blood without any response.

Leo then tried several times, from the power of devouring to the power of the abyssal serpent, he tried them all over and over, and the result was exactly the same, all the power disappeared in the skull, without causing any abnormalities in the skull.

Seeing this scene, Leo performed a witchcraft again, this time the witchcraft was no longer an ordinary cleansing technique, but a kind of apprentice witchcraft blood boiling technique recorded in the wizard tower book, this witchcraft is the wizard The wizard apprentices in the tower can learn one of the three offensive witchcrafts. Its function is to make the activity in the blood boil and hurt the subject from the blood level. If the control of witchcraft reaches a subtle level, it can also be used to stimulate one's own vitality when cast on oneself or a companion. In that case, this witchcraft becomes the vitality technique in apprentice witchcraft.

Just like using the witchcraft power of the cleaning technique, when the witchcraft power of the blood boil technique was injected into the skull, the skull also shattered into pieces of different sizes, but this time the number of shattered pieces was a little less, only a dozen or so. piece.

Leo put the dozens of fragments together, and then stood with Sylvia to watch the changes of the fragments.

After a while, the two saw that the fragments seemed to be drawn by some invisible force, quickly gathered together, and rebuilt into a skull.

Sylvia picked up the skull that had been restored to its original shape, and tried it again. After getting the same result, she concluded: "It seems that only the power of witchcraft can make this skull react." After finishing speaking, She said with a little sarcasm: "But what's the use of this? It can't be used to attack the enemy, nor can it bring benefits to oneself. Is the wizard of the Wizarding Academy just to make a display that will not break? Let the later wizard apprentices see the greatness of the former head of the academy from this skull?"

However, Leo ignored Sylvia's taunt, but took the skull back in his hand and looked at it while meditating. After a while, he performed witchcraft again, and this time the witchcraft he performed was changed again. One, and this time the skull was also broken into dozens of pieces, and after being placed for a period of time, it recovered.

At this time, Leo picked up the skull and checked it carefully, with a smile on his face.

After Sylvia saw the smile on Leo's face, she couldn't help asking curiously: "Did you find something?"

"Well." Leo nodded, and said, "I know what it does." As he spoke, he saw him perform witchcraft again, and this time the witchcraft performed returned to the original cleansing technique , the skull was broken into pieces again, Leo put the pieces together and said, "Remember the number and size of the pieces."

After hearing this, Sylvia memorized the number and size of those fragments as Leo thought, until the skull was restored.

Leo didn't explain either, and performed the cleaning technique again, injecting witchcraft power into the skull, causing the skull to shatter.

"So that's how it is." After the skull shattered into a pile of fragments, Sylvia immediately noticed that the shape, size, and quantity of those fragments were the same as those of the previous fragments. After this kind of witchcraft was injected into the skull, the fragments of the skull were all the same.

After the skull returned to normal, Leo handed the skull to Sylvia, and then reminded: "Look at the lines on the inside of the skull, remember it."

After Sylvia took the skull, she followed Leo's prompt and memorized some lines that looked like cracks inside.

Leo took the skull back again, performed the blood boiling technique again, injected it into the skull, and shattered it into fragments of different sizes. Sylvia also quickly noticed that these fragments were different from the previous fragments.

After the skull recovered from its fragmented state, Leo handed the skull to Sylvia again, and motioned her to look at the lines inside the skull. This time, the lines inside the skull became different.

"The purpose of this skull is to test witchcraft," Leo held the skull in his hand again, and said with a smile: "In addition to testing whether the witchcraft is correct or not, it can also provide suggestions for optimizing witchcraft. These suggestions are shown in the form of cracks and lines in the skull. In the eyes of ordinary people, those cracks and lines have no meaning, but in the eyes of wizards, those lines can form some runes similar to Gamore language, which are added to witchcraft. After the power represented by these runes, the power of that kind of witchcraft can be improved by leaps and bounds."

Perhaps to prove his words, Leo directly performed a cleansing technique that he had just improved based on the skull prompt. Originally, the cleaning technique he performed could only target individuals, such as himself or his companions, but this time the cleaning technique he performed directly It works in the entire forbidden book building, and even the jammers in the building that suppress the extraordinary power cannot affect the power of the cleaning technique.

As a bystander, Sylvia only felt a cool breeze blowing over her body, and then saw that some of the dust on her body had disappeared, and the dust on the surrounding ground, lamps, etc. had all disappeared, The ground even became as smooth as a mirror. This is not the most exaggerated. Sylvia also found that the old registration form and information booklets in the cabinet of the guard office of the Forbidden Books Building were all completely new. All sorts of stains and signs of age are gone.

"This is not just a leap-forward improvement, it's a different kind of witchcraft." Seeing this amazing effect, Sylvia couldn't help being shocked in her heart, and murmured.

Leo didn't show too much surprise, looked at the skull and asked: "It seems that as long as it is the witchcraft from the Wizarding Academy, the skull can respond, but what about using the witchcraft I created myself?"

While speaking, Leo cast a rune witchcraft of his own creation, the effect was to create a silent field, and when his witchcraft was injected into the skull, the skull did not immediately shatter into pieces as before.

"It seems that it is really only useful for the witchcraft of the Wizarding Academy." Seeing this scene, Leo couldn't help but said with a little disappointment.

It's just that after his words fell, the skull immediately shattered into hundreds of pieces of different sizes, and then reassembled together, and the lines on the inside of the skull were no longer ordinary lines similar to cracks, but It is a strip of golden silk pattern, which looks more noble and mysterious.

Leo's face could not conceal a joyful smile at this moment. Although he hadn't improved his witchcraft based on the patterns on the skull, he was sure that these patterns should have very high reference value, and this skull And definitely more useful than he expected.

Now that he has confirmed that the skull is useful to him, Leo will naturally not put it here as a display, but he did not take this skull for nothing. The objects were placed on the display stand where the skulls were placed before, and the usage methods of these wizard wonders were written on sticky notes.

These wizard wonders are guns and crossbows. This kind of wizard wonders do not require extraordinary people to use. Even ordinary people can use these wizard wonders as long as they use them in the correct way. strength.

For Leo, the power of these magical objects is very average, and they were made for Penny and the others, but now he can't see Penny and the others, and from the performance of the White Deer, Penny and the others should They have their own way to go. Giving these magical artifacts to them may only cause obstacles, so they are restricted. Now they are used to exchange this skull. Even if the real value is not equal, it is still in line with the city of academics. Benefits, after all, this skull can only be used as an exhibit here, and those few wizards and wonders can add some deterrence to the academic city.

After putting away the skull, Leo and Sylvia left the City of Academics. They didn't go to see the familiar scholars in the City of Academics. They came and left quietly.

In the next few days, they crossed the Kingdom of Teresa again, went to the Grand Duchy of Musor in the north of the Kingdom of Teresa, and entered the Katya Mountains of the Grand Duchy.

The reason why they wanted to go to the Kajia Mountains instead of just finding a place to open a space rift was because the world that Sylvia was going to needed to be in a specific location to be able to open a space rift, and this specific location was not fixed. , but keeps changing with the passage of time, and Sylvia is not clear about when she will arrive at what location, because she can only vaguely sense the location of a specific location, and knows that the time of each location change is based on years. For counting, and among those particular locations, that one of the Katya mountains is the closest to them.

If Sylvia fails to open the correct space rift at a specific location in the Katya Mountains, then they need to go to another specific location to try, and that specific location is located in the southern sea of ​​the old continent, it may be a small island on, or possibly somewhere under the sea.

But it's nothing. If the correct space rift is still not opened, then they need to go to the New World.