The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It's ugly!" Leo couldn't help complaining in his heart as he looked at the shaman totem scepter that he had just finished by himself.

Although before making this shaman totem scepter, Leo designed it according to the shape of the cane, and the design was very perfect, neither the shape of the cane nor the shaman totem runes engraved on the cane had any flaws, But when he picked out a suitable branch to make the stick, things turned a little different.

First of all, when he cuts the material into the shape of a cane, the branch as the material seems to have its own ideas. No matter how perfect the shape he cuts, the material will automatically change its shape when he stops his hand, changing into another A very different shape.

Leo also tried to stop this change, but he found that even if he stopped it with his hands at the time, the change stopped, but once he withdrew his power, the change would happen again. In the end, he judged that this should be the same as the surrounding environment. It is related to the force of nature, and the cane he designed does not conform to the law of the force of nature.

Although the shape of the cane he designed is very perfect, but that perfection is only relative to his aesthetics and understanding of his own strength, not the perfection in the natural state, so the material of the cane will be used without his interference. With the action of the surrounding natural force, it automatically changes its shape until it conforms to the law of the natural force.

In this regard, Leo has no choice but to try to cut the material in a small area, and gradually let the material be shaped as close as possible to the shape of the cane under the action of the force of nature.

After trying several times and spending a lot of materials, he finally made a few canes that fit the style, and then he needed to carve totem runes on the canes.

All the totem runes are shaman runes created by Leo after studying the original shaman totems and adding them to his own rune system. Before coming to the tree sea world, he had already tested these totems The effect of the runes is not bad, but compared to Leo's witchcraft rune system, the power of the runes is obviously not one star and a half, so in that world he never thought of using this totem rune to make anything.

But now this sea of ​​trees world is different. The strong natural force around them undoubtedly provides these shaman totem runes with advantages that other extraordinary powers cannot match. Even psionic power and witchcraft have to take a back seat here. Shaman The totem rune obviously became the absolute main force.

The rune that Leo is going to use to make the shaman totem stick is the totem rune chosen to control creatures, because after repeated analysis, he feels that in this plant-based world of trees and seas, it is possible to control plants, animals, The totem runes of creatures such as insects are obviously more suitable for this special environment than those that mainly manipulate energy elements.

And another point is that after the totem runes that mainly control creatures are made into a totem cane, it doesn't mean that the cane can't cast shaman spells that control energy elements. The additional support obtained from the cane will not be much, or even none. Conversely, if the totem runes on the totem cane are runes that mainly control elemental energy, then it will be difficult for this totem cane to cast those shamans that control creatures. Full spells, because elemental energy will affect the stability of casting such shaman spells, and the most important thing to control creatures is stability.

Carving totem runes on the cane was a very simple matter for Leo, and the whole process went smoothly. Even though the shape of the cane was quite different from what he expected, the way the runes were carved and the layout haven't changed too much, just a little adjustment to the connection problem can be easily solved.

On the contrary, after engraving the totem rune pattern, the shaman enlightenment ceremony performed had a very abnormal reaction. The spiritual enlightenment ceremony he used was not the spiritual enlightenment ceremony of the natural shaman of Huajing City, but from the wizard tower. A primitive shaman's spiritual enlightenment ceremony recorded in the library. The wizard who recorded this spiritual enlightenment ceremony felt that this spiritual enlightenment ceremony could be used in wizard spells and wanted to improve it, but I don't know why, maybe that A wizard died halfway, or maybe the wizard felt that his ability was limited and gave up halfway. In short, the method of improving the shaman enlightenment ceremony recorded in the book is just a beginning, and there is no follow-up.

Leo didn't think about continuing to improve the shaman's spiritual initiation ceremony, but only regarded this content as an accumulation of information. Now he chooses to use this primitive shaman's spiritual initiation ceremony mainly because the spiritual initiation ceremony is primitive enough. It is older than the shaman enlightenment rituals that Leo knew, and it is the source of those spiritual enlightenment rituals.

Although this kind of spiritual initiation ceremony is very old, it does not mean that the effect of this spiritual initiation ceremony is better than other derived spiritual initiation ceremonies. In fact, other derived spiritual initiation ceremonies are stimulating certain objects or When things are spiritual, the effect produced is far beyond this primitive shaman spiritual initiation ceremony. The only advantage of this primitive shaman spiritual initiation ceremony is that it is stable enough. This is the only reason why Leo would choose this spiritual initiation ceremony. reason.

During the spiritual enlightenment ceremony, Leo took out some items that were compatible with the totem runes on the totem cane, and also captured some giant insects and strange birds, and used them all as a guide to the unknown in the spiritual enlightenment ceremony. Sacrificial offerings exist naturally.

As he expected, the primal shaman enlightenment ceremony did not have any abnormalities during the process, and soon communicated with an unknown natural existence in this world, and successfully sacrificed those sacrifices to this world. The name existence, successfully got the feedback from this natural existence, based on a part of his own spirituality separated from him, to stimulate the natural spirituality of the shaman totem walking stick.

At that time, Leo's attention was attracted by the mysterious natural existence communicated in the ceremony, and all his energy was put on the matter of stripping and absorbing a trace of the power of this natural existence, because of the isolation effect of the sacrificial ceremony, making He couldn't directly perceive some of the conditions of this natural existence, and he didn't know how powerful this natural existence was. He could only secretly strip away a little bit of power when this natural existence gave spiritual blessings to the shaman totem stick. Absorbed into the stone throne, borrow the power of the stone throne to analyze the details of this trace of power.

I don't know if it's because this trace of power itself is the core power, and it's still undefended, or because the analysis effect of the stone throne is too similar. All in all, before the ceremony is over, the mysterious and natural power has already disappeared. It was resolved, and a stone pillar was also produced in the stone pillar square.

It is not appropriate to say that it is a stone pillar, because apart from the fact that the base of the stone pillar is made of stone, the shape and material of the pillar look more like the trunk of some kind of big tree.

At the moment when this pillar was formed, Leo also learned something about the object of his sacrifice in the enlightenment ceremony. There is no doubt that the mysterious natural existence should be a person who has almost reached the final stage of evolution and completed the sublimation of life form. The natural demigod, whose body is just like the pillars show, should be some kind of divine tree. The reason why it is called a divine tree is because in the trace of power analyzed by the stone throne, there is a little bit of power that only gods have. At this moment, the natural demigod also possesses this kind of divinity. The only thing that can be explained is that the natural demigod possesses divinity at the beginning, and it is a divine creature, just like the white deer.

Leo just had a rough understanding of the information revealed by the power of this demigod of nature, so as to make sure that there was no conflict between this demigod of nature and himself, and it would not become a hostile relationship, at least not for the time being.

After Leo figured out the situation of the sacrificial object of the spiritual enlightenment ceremony, Leo returned his attention to the spiritual enlightenment ceremony that was always running normally and was nearing its end, but what he didn't expect was that the spiritual enlightenment ceremony Although there were no abnormalities in the ceremony, and it went smoothly from beginning to end as if blessed by God, there was a problem with the shaman's totem walking stick, which was used as an enlightenment.

Just like when cutting the cane before, when the enlightenment ceremony endowed the totem cane with spirituality, the surrounding natural forces began to adjust the cane to conform to the natural laws of the world. Finally, after the adjustment, the totem that was originally shaped like a gentleman's staff Now the cane has become a scepter that is a head taller than Leo, and the material has changed from tree material to metal-like material. In addition, there are dozens of twisted and twisted scepters in the middle of the scepter that look like It is an unsightly tree tumor of the eyeball, and two streams of miserable green and dark red gas are drilled out of these tree tumors, shuttle repeatedly among the totem runes on the surface of the scepter, and finally inject into the seven tree hole-shaped mouths on the top of the scepter middle.

Different from the disgusting shape of this totem scepter, the aura emanating from the scepter has no evil feeling in it at all. It is an extremely pure force of nature, and even though the scepter has been distorted and deformed, the totem on the scepter However, none of the runes showed any damage. According to common sense, the effect of the totem scepter should be the same as he imagined.

So after complaining that the scepter was ugly, Leo tried to use the scepter in his hand to cast the insect summoning technique in the shaman spell, and the effect was somewhat beyond his expectations. All the giant insects hidden in the surrounding forest They all gathered together, densely covering the entire forest, roughly hundreds of thousands of them, and various noises could be heard from the forest in the distance, it seems that there should be other insects in the distance Under the influence of shaman spells, they gathered here.

Seeing this situation, Leo quickly selected a giant worm suitable for riding from the surrounding giant worms, imprinted an insect repelling totem mark on the giant worm with the totem scepter, and then cast the insect repellent technique to drive away These bugs were forcibly gathered by shaman spells.

Just like the powerful effect of the summoning insect technique, after he cast the insect repelling technique, except for the giant insect that had already imprinted the totem imprint, which was restrained in place by his spell and did not escape, all the other giant insects seemed to be Encountering some kind of heaven and earth, he quickly escaped from Leo, and the giant insects that were rushing over in the distance also turned around and fled one after another. After a while, the forest became extremely silent, and all the insects disappeared. gone.

Leo then canceled the effect of the insect repellent technique, then waved his cane, and projected a shaman power towards the vines on a big tree next to him, and then saw that the vines hanging on the big tree looked like a living Like a dead python, it coiled down and came to the giant worm. Then, around the fixed giant worm, weaved a fixed strap on the worm's body, and then wove a comfortable vine on the worm's back. The seat and the vines returned to their normal state.

Turned over and jumped on the back of the giant worm, and got into the not-too-comfortable seat. Leo then identified the position, raised his hand and tapped the scepter on the back of the worm next to the seat, and settled his mind. The following movement directions and instructions were put into the totem imprint on the giant worm.

The giant worm instantly understood Leo's instructions, and began to move its dozen or so pairs of legs. With a leap, it spread its huge insect wings in mid-air, vibrated the wings, suspended in the air, and flew towards the direction Leo had set.

Because all the worms were dispersed, the giant worm did not encounter any attacks from other giant worms when it moved in the forest to the area of ​​other swarm breaths, but this does not mean that Leo could walk through the forest safely, because the forest The aggressive ones are not only the swarms that live here, many plants and fungi in the forest also eat meat.

For example, there is a vine parasitic on a big tree. This vine is similar in appearance to the vine controlled by Leo to make a seat. When it hangs down, it mixes with other vines, and it doesn't look dangerous, but Once a living creature moves beside it, the vines will instantly burst into hundreds of small vines, enveloping the living creature at a very fast speed. Spray in the direction of living things.

It is basically impossible for ordinary giant worms to escape when encountering this kind of attack, and once they are entangled by this kind of vines, it is difficult to break free, because this kind of vines have a strength comparable to steel bars, Moreover, the surface of the vines also emits a corrosive mucus with an anesthetic effect. After a giant worm the size of an elephant is wrapped, it only takes a few minutes for it to be completely corroded and digested by the vines.

In addition to the vines, there is also a kind of fungal creature that lives in the moist rotten soil under the tree. This kind of creature feels that it has a certain amount of wisdom. It usually hides in the rotten soil, and only one tentacle that resembles a mushroom emerges from the soil. Once a living creature enters its attack range, a large number of mushrooms will emerge from the ground instantly, covering the entire area, and the mushrooms will naturally split and eject a large number of spores. Once the living creature is stained with spores As if it was being controlled, it fell into the mushroom group and was either decomposed by the spores or became the culture of the spores.

The reason why Leo said that this kind of creature has a certain amount of wisdom is because when Leo passed through the area covered by this kind of fungus, he felt that there was a pure consciousness hidden underground, and when the spirit net scanned it, But only some fungi were found, and the power breath emitted by the spiritual net he used for scanning made these fungi feel dangerous, so all the mushrooms on the ground were taken back by them, and they completely wiped out the fungi. All traces of his existence were erased from the ground, so as not to be discovered by Leo.