The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The bug moved very fast, and it took about a few hours to reach the mountain with giant footprints that Leo saw earlier. Although there were some troubles on the way, these troubles were easily resolved Yes, there is no obstacle at all.

It's just that after coming under the high mountain, the giant worm controlled by him lost control and was unwilling to continue moving up the mountain.

At first, Leo thought it was a problem with the shaman spell, but after inspection, he found that the shaman mark on the giant worm was still functioning as it should be. It is the giant worm's biological instinct that is so strong that it has exceeded the effective range of the insect control technique, which makes the shaman spell infinitely weaker.

This also made Leo realize the flaws in some shaman spells he knew. This flaw is that shaman spells cannot violate the laws of nature, such as the fear of encountering natural enemies or dangers. The full spell cannot be changed, the shaman spell can only make the influence of the natural law as small as possible, but once the influence of the natural law exceeds the scope of the shaman spell, then the shaman spell will lose its effect, what's more The latter will also cause the backlash of shaman spells.

The reason why the giant worm has a strong biological instinct, so that the shaman spells are abnormally out of control is because the giant worm is afraid of the mountain. This fear may come from the creatures with breath on the mountain, but it may also be the mountain itself, because Leo is in Before approaching the mountain, it became a little unusual to feel the power of nature permeating the surrounding air.

Although they are both the force of nature, there is still a clear difference between the force of nature in the forest and the force of nature on the mountain. This difference is like the gap between a calm ocean and a stormy ocean. Even though it contains danger, it seems to make people feel inexplicably calm, while the other one directly puts the danger on the surface, and it feels like it will be torn to pieces.

The power of nature contained in this 10,000-meter high mountain is the ocean in the violent wind and waves. As it gets closer to the mountain itself, the power of nature also shows its violent side. There are also two temperatures mixed with extreme cold and extreme heat, and even the air will turn into poison gas in a blink of an eye. Being extremely fragile, the biological instinct to sense danger is naturally beyond the control of shaman spells.

Seeing this situation, Leo had no way to forcefully drive the giant worm into the mountain, so he could only release it at the foot of the mountain, erase the shaman mark on it, and loosen the shackles of the spell, but even if the giant worm is released now, I'm afraid It was also difficult for the giant worm to get through the forest it had walked before and return to its original habitat. There were too many predators waiting for it on the way.

I don't know whether the giant worm has wisdom and knows its own destiny, or because of the biological instinct. After the shaman mark was erased, it did not choose to escape into the forest and stay away from the mountains, but went directly to the previous controller Lei. Ou bit it, as if he wanted to swallow the delicious-looking creature in front of him.

Facing the giant worm's attack, Leo just shook the scepter in his hand, and then saw a powerful tornado coming from under the giant worm, directly blowing the giant worm to the sky, and then heading towards the high mountain ahead Dumped it.

The giant worm flew a certain distance in the air and fell towards the ground. Suddenly, bolts of lightning appeared around it out of thin air, wrapped it up, and shone a silver-blue light. After the light disappeared, the giant worm It also disappeared from Leo's eyes.

The lightning produced by the violent force of nature has such a powerful lethality, which did not exceed Leo's expectations. The only thing that surprised Leo was that the location and timing of the lightning appeared to be aimed at the giant worm, which made him suspicious. Whether any destructive energy generated by this violent force of nature is directed at living things.

Leo didn't capture other living creatures nearby to verify his guess, because there was no need, no matter whether the guess was correct or not, he was definitely going to climb this mountain, so he waved the shaman totem scepter in his hand and cast a A protective shamanic spell similar to a psionic shield, which creates a translucent, silver leaf-covered energy shield around one's body.

After completing this layer of protection, Leo walked towards the huge footprint on the mountain.

The moment he climbed the mountain, a large number of violent natural forces rushed towards him, and these natural forces instantly transformed into various offensive energies around him, attacking the shield around Leo in turn.

However, although these energies are extremely destructive, their cores are formed by the forces of nature after all. Facing the energy shields that are also formed by the forces of nature, their power is also greatly reduced, and the remaining attack energies have not waited. When it played a role, it was guided by the silver leaf pattern on the shield to the shaman scepter in Leo's hand, and the totem pattern on the shaman scepter also shone bursts of metallic light.

After all, this scepter is not an energy storage device, and the energy that can be guided and absorbed is also limited. After Leo walked a certain distance up the mountain, the energy storage of the scepter reached a limit. Seeing this situation, Leo waved it again. In order to wave the scepter in his hand, he used the energy in the scepter to form another shield outside the original energy shield, so that he had the protection of two shields, and the two shields The required power output is also transferred to the shaman totem scepter, which is provided by the energy absorbed by the scepter, reaching a state of balance, and all Leo needs to do is grab the scepter.

After passing through a dense forest, Leo felt that the violent force of nature around him had changed. It didn't mean that it became stronger or more violent, but that it weakened on the contrary, and the surrounding In addition to the power of nature and the power of the stone throne in the air, there is also a force that feels as thick as the earth. It is this force that greatly weakens the surrounding natural force, and at the same time makes the surrounding gravity ladder style enhancement.

The weakening of the force of nature and the enhancement of gravity are most intuitively reflected in the trees in the forest. All the trees were thousands of meters tall just a moment ago, but when they entered this range, they began to become shorter, and Just like a landslide, the further you go, the shorter the trees, and after walking a certain distance, almost all the trees are about the same height as Leo's previous world, and the gravity here has also increased several times, and the force of nature also It has weakened to the point where it is similar to the previous world, or even less.

Going forward for a further distance, the gravity will increase again, the force of nature will completely disappear, and the surrounding trees will disappear. Only a small amount of moss-like plants are spread on the ground, and these moss-like plants did not last too long. Soon, there will be no more plants on the ground, only the ground that is as hard as a rock under the pressure of gravity.

For Leo, the disappearance of the power of nature and the emergence of new powers have no effect at all. On the contrary, there are many benefits. First of all, the most intuitive benefit is that this kind of power, which Leo calls the power of the earth, can be The stone throne absorbs the analysis and forms the corresponding stone pillars. After the formation of the stone pillars, the threat of this power to him is gone, and even the most threatening gravity is created after he analyzes this power and cooperates with spiritual energy to create a gravity spell. , directly flipping the surrounding gravity, so that he doesn't need to walk with his feet anymore, and he is directly suspended in the air and moves forward.

Secondly, after the natural power of the world's core power disappears, he no longer has any worries about using psionic skills. All psionic skills can be used within the scope of the power of the earth, not only psionic power, but other The same is true for power, even the power of the abyss, which can be regarded as a taboo power, can also be displayed without hindrance.

And finally, the most important benefit for Leo is that this power of the earth indirectly helps Leo strip the power of the stone throne mixed in the force of nature, so that Leo can perceive without any restrictions and interference, Absorb and fuse the power of the surrounding Stone Throne, and quickly improve your control over the Stone Throne.

Under such circumstances, Leo immediately decided to stay here for a while, using the good environment here to improve his core strength, and at the same time, he planned to study the civilization here.

The reason why Leo was sure that there was civilization here was because when he was about to reach the giant footprint on the mountainside, he saw the ruins of a man-made building. Part of this ruin was within the footprint, while the other part came from its scale. Judging that it should be a large city, there are at least 100,000 intelligent creatures living here, and from various circumstances, the giant footprint may have fallen on this city.

It is not wrong to say that it is a giant's footprint, because Leo flew into the air to observe it at a close distance, and he can quickly judge that this footprint is indeed the footprint of a humanoid creature. The situation of the footprints can determine the position of the force point when the footprints fall, the hardness of the heels, etc., and the giant's footprints can't help but remind Leo of the giant group he once saw that fought against the civilization of the universe. The giant inside is the largest. The transformed body seems to be able to step on such a large footprint.

Although Leo had come to the edge of the giant's footprints, he did not continue to approach and entered the footprints, because he could feel that there was a huge power of the earth in this footprint, and this power of the earth seemed to be compressed It is also extremely solid.

This kind of power of the earth may not be dangerous on the surface, but once it enters it, the gravity within its range will be thousands or even times higher than that of the surrounding area. According to Leo's current analysis of this power of the earth, He definitely couldn't bear such a strong gravity. Even with his current body and strength, he would still be injured under the pressure of this gravity, and he might even die if he continued to bear this gravity.

Therefore, Leo chose to stay in the ruins around the footprints, while improving his control over the power of the stone throne and strengthening his analysis of the power of the earth, he studied the surrounding ruins like an archaeologist.

Originally, Leo wanted to find some biological remains from the ruins, so as to analyze what the intelligent creatures in the tree sea world were like, but the result was a bit disappointing, because there was no corpse in the ruins, and even he was outside the ruins. In a cemetery-like site discovered, no bones were found, only spherical objects engraved with vine-like symbols that should be tombstones.

Obviously, either the corpses of the intelligent creatures here will be quickly decomposed by the force of nature, and nothing will be left in the end, or the intelligent creatures here will take the initiative to dispose of the corpses of their own race, such as eating them. Customs of the same kind are not uncommon among the eccentric customs of the worlds.

However, compared to eating the same kind, decomposing the corpses by the power of nature is more in line with the current environment, because in the forest when he came, Leo did not find any traces of insect corpses, even those as hard as rocks. There is no shell at all. Obviously, the power of nature far surpassing other worlds has also caused some special effects in the air of this world. What's more, this ruin without any corpses can also have a reasonable explanation.

Although it is also possible that there were no intelligent creatures in the ruined city when the footprints fell, this certainly cannot explain why there are no corpses of other insects or ordinary creatures in the ruins. After all, the place where the ruins are located should have been a forest before. If the intelligent creatures here move away, the creatures in the forest will definitely re-occupy this place, and the corpses of those creatures should stay more or less instead of nothing like now.

Although Leo is temporarily unable to determine how civilized the intelligent race that built this ruined city is, he can be sure that the intelligent creatures here must be very powerful, at least not weaker than fourth-level psykers, because according to him According to the analysis of the surrounding environment, only the physical strength of a fourth-level psyker can barely survive in such an environment.

In addition, this intelligent race should have a very high aesthetic in terms of art. Leo saw a large number of exquisite patterns and patterns on the relatively well-preserved large fragments in the ruins. Those patterns are reliefs of some creatures, including In addition to the giant worms and strange birds flying in the sky that Leo had captured before, there were also some other strangely shaped creatures, which seemed to be creatures that inhabited this area before.

As for why there are only giant worms and strange birds left in this area, Leo guessed that these two creatures can depend on each other. For example, strange birds feed on giant worms, and the excrement and corpses of strange birds are very suitable Insect eggs inhabit, and giant insects have a strong reproductive ability so that strange birds do not need to worry about food, more importantly, the destruction and long-standing power brought about by these footprints have caused earth-shaking changes to the surrounding environment. As a result, the creatures that originally inhabited here either migrated to other places, or were unable to adapt to complete extinction.