The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Feeling that the gravity falling on his body began to cause damage to his body, Leo retreated from the footprints again, until he retreated to the edge of the footprints before stopping.

It has been almost half a year since I came to this sea of ​​trees world, which is equivalent to the normal world. Leo has always stayed near this footprint, while studying the civilization and knowledge contained in this ruins, while adapting to and mastering the knowledge contained in the footprints. The power of the earth.

Although the two places have been separated for half a year, the connection between Leo and Sylvia has not been severed. Almost every day they will communicate for a fixed period of time through the inexplicable connection in the soul, and with the number of such exchanges Increased and skillful techniques, the content of communication has become more detailed and specific.

In the beginning, the soul connection between them could only vaguely sense each other's state and convey some simple emotions and thoughts, but after half a year of continuous practice, they can already communicate with each other as if they were face to face. The shortcoming is that the time can only be maintained within five minutes, otherwise, if the time limit is exceeded, both he and Sylvia's core consciousness will be damaged to varying degrees.

The damage to the core consciousness is not bad for Sylvia, because even if Sylvia is not a god, the blood of the abyss dragon in her body is only one step away from the god after all, and the core consciousness is more or less condensed. Divinity, coupled with the fact that she has absorbed more than one god's source of divinity, made her core consciousness begin to condense divinity in advance, and these divinities can help her quickly repair any damage to her core consciousness.

On the contrary, although Leo has the stone throne in his core consciousness, he doesn't know if it is because of the influence of the surrounding environment that when his core consciousness is injured, the stone throne does not give enough protection, otherwise, he should not Just take any damage.

Although his core consciousness was injured, it took him less than three days to fully recover from this injury, and this was a blessing in disguise, allowing him to realize some of his own flaws before things became irreparable , For example, he is a little too dependent on the power of the stone throne now.

This is not to say that there is a problem with the power of the Stone Throne. In fact, after such a long time of familiarization and use, Leo has become very clear that the power of the Stone Throne and his soul consciousness are one. hurt.

The reason why he artificially relies on the power of the Stone Throne is a flaw, entirely because he has subconsciously believed that the power of the Stone Throne is omnipotent for a long time, especially for the defense and protection of the soul, which even gods cannot break through. It wasn't his arrogance, but the cognition left by his past encounters, but the injury to his core consciousness this time made him immediately understand that the power of the Stone Throne is not perfect. The power of the Stone Throne has blind confidence, so the next time the protection of the Stone Throne fails, it may not be as easy to solve as this time, and perhaps what he needs to face is the real fatal injury.

Therefore, after realizing his own flaws, Leo began to consciously use his other powers to increase the protection of soul consciousness, and at the same time, he also consciously began to train the control of other powers in his body, so that he could pass without passing through the stone pillar square. He can freely display the extraordinary power that was swallowed and analyzed by the stone throne.

However, among all the powers, the power that Leo has trained the most is the power of the earth that has newly joined the Stone Pillar Square.

Although there is a stone throne to analyze this power, Leo's mastery of this power is not very smooth, mainly because this power seems to be an extraordinary power composed of a special strong gravity, but in fact it is But it contains another kind of power, that kind of power is the core, and that kind of strong gravity is just a disguise on the surface.

Even if it is analyzed by the Stone Throne, it can only resolve the mystery of gravity on the surface. With the resolved mystery, Leo can barely create and control this kind of gravity, but the effect is not particularly good. The most intuitive expression is that it has passed For almost half a year in the normal world, he was still only able to move at the edge of the gravity field formed by the footprints, unable to go deeper.

Leo knows very well that the way to completely control this kind of gravity is to master and use the real core of this kind of power, and the specific method of using it has already been acquired when he was just familiar with this kind of gravity control method half a year ago. And it was not the throne of stone that gave him this method, but the power itself.

Half a year ago, when he stepped into the gravitational field formed by giant footprints for the first time by relying on his mastery of gravity, with the squeeze of the surrounding gravity, a method of using power appeared in his consciousness out of thin air, and after this method of using power appeared Suddenly, it seemed as if it had already existed in an undetectable corner of his consciousness, and it was only because of the special gravity field in the footprints that it was stimulated, allowing him to recall the details again.

After repeatedly checking that there is no danger in the use of this power, Leo tried to use this method, and the result was that he could control the gravity perfectly, even better than the one he created after analyzing the stone throne. The method is more efficient, but this method of using power is not specially used to control gravity. After using this method, he felt an extremely powerful force pouring into his body from the ground under his feet. At the same time, it began to spread to the whole body, with the potential to replace other forces in his body.

The power of the Stone Throne just plays a protective role at this time, not only restraining the expansion of this force, but also capturing, swallowing, and analyzing part of it, and finally turning it into a stone pillar on the Stone Pillar Square, and The mystery contained in this power was also grasped by Leo at the same time.

After learning the mystery of the core power of the power of the earth, Leo immediately realized that if the power of nature is the world's original power in the air above the ground, then the power of the earth is the core power of the world's underground, and he also understands The mysterious existence that left this footprint is actually the incarnation of the land of this world.

The reason why it is said to be an incarnation, not a god, is because it is impossible to have a god in this world. This world itself is a god. Leo and all the creatures around him are things that inhabit the gods, just like some human beings. Like some parasitic cells, and more importantly, from a certain aspect, the current Leo can be regarded as the incarnation of the gods in this world, because the way to become the incarnation of the gods in this world is very simple, that is to master the power of the earth or nature Any method of using the power of the power.

At the moment when the gravitational field of the footprints directly put the use method of the core power of the power of the earth into his consciousness, he was already the incarnation of the gods in this world.

However, Leo was not happy at all, and he was unwilling to become such an incarnation of a god from the beginning to the end, even if the god itself did not have any consciousness, because there was an unavoidable disadvantage of becoming an incarnation of a god, that is, his body He would be transformed by the power of the earth into what the incarnation of a god should be, and he guessed it should be a stone giant. At the moment when the power of the earth poured into his body just now, the skin on the surface of his body began to show signs of petrification. It wasn't the power of the stone throne that suppressed the power of the earth and swallowed it up. At this moment, Leo's skin might not only have been transformed into stone, but even his muscles and bones had also been transformed.

And Leo also discovered that this petrification phenomenon is irreversible, so he had to peel off that layer of petrified skin and let the normal skin grow back to completely eliminate the adverse effects of the power of the earth on him.

Although the power of the earth in this world has brought Leo a lot of trouble and caused some damage to him, he still spends a lot of time researching this power, mainly because he found that when he studied the power of the earth. At the same time, he has become more and more proficient in controlling the power of the stone throne, and the stone throne in the depths of his consciousness has become more and more materialized after absorbing the power of the earth in this world, so this makes him doubt this Whether there is a certain connection between the power of the earth in the world and the power of the stone throne is also the focus of his research on this power.

While trying to improve his control over his own power and research new powers, Leo is also constantly exchanging information with Sylvia. There are two main types of information, one is Sylvia's current situation, and the other is Discuss the state of the world.

Sylvia's current condition is very good in her own words. Less than a month after entering this world, her original blood power has already crossed the hurdle of mortals and demigods and entered the world. Equivalent to the demigod level of a seventh-level psyker.

The reason for this is that after passing through the space rift, she appeared directly in a ruin. Inside the ruins lay the remains of a god, and the remains still retained their complete divinity. Leo's footprints in the ruins are the same. If there is no restraint from the stone throne, maybe he also transformed into the incarnation of the gods because of the mysterious power given by the footprints.

Sylvia didn't know who the god's remains were, she just knew that the complete divinity was very compatible with her blood, so she felt that maybe the god's remains belonged to a hunting god.

At first, Leo also thought that the remains of the gods that Sylvia saw were some fallen gods belonging to this world, and the ruins where the gods lived were also one of the civilizations produced by this world.

The reason why it is called one of civilizations is that through the exchange of information, both Leo and Sylvia quickly discovered that the ruins they were in, whether it was architecture, decorative art, or even text symbols, were all different, and there was no similarity at all. , so they all judged that the two ruins belonged to two civilizations that developed independently without any communication.

However, after Leo obtained the mysterious knowledge from the power of the earth, they determined that there is only one god in this world, and that is the world itself. It is impossible to breed other gods, so the remains of the god must be an outsider. Regardless of whether it is the ruins where the god's remains are, or the ruins where Leo is now, these two completely different civilizations should also be civilizations that inadvertently entered this world of trees and seas from other worlds.

In addition to the discovery of civilization, Leo and Silvia exchanged more and more information, and they also had more doubts. For example, the creatures that inhabit this world may not be native organisms, which made them have such doubts The reason is because Sylvia found corpses that may belong to the native organisms of this world.

Yes, what Sylvia found was indeed a corpse, and it was a complete corpse.

Leo had already confirmed that the natural force of this world can indeed corrupt the corpses of insects, strange birds and other creatures, and even some collapsed plants will quickly decompose into rotten soil on the ground. In the forest on Via's side, it has also been confirmed, but now there are corpses that are not affected by the force of nature and are still well preserved.

At first, Sylvia, who was the discoverer, thought that the corpse was another corpse of a god, but she soon discovered that the corpse was just an ordinary biological corpse. From the strength of the corpse itself, it can be judged that the corpse should be a corpse when it was alive. An extremely powerful creature, but the corpse itself does not possess any extraordinary power, it is only physically strong.

Although the skin part of the corpse is somewhat rotten now, the skeleton is still well preserved. From the analysis of the shape of the skeleton, the corpse should be a creature similar to a sea jellyfish when it was alive, but the place where Sylvia is now There is no ocean, and after listening to Leo's description of the power of the earth, she has some doubts that the creature represented by the corpse may be able to control the power of the earth, forming an anti-gravity effect, and suspending itself in the air.

However, after she told Leo this suspicion, Leo immediately denied it, because he knew very well that if the creature represented by the corpse could really control the power of the earth, then the corpse would not be a biological form now, but petrified form.

Judging by common sense, only protozoans can resist the corruption of the natural force of this world, but Leo and Sylvia are still not completely sure that the corpse is a protozoa, because Sylvia is around the ruins. Only this corpse without any extraordinary power was found. If it is a protozoa, there must be a biome, not just this isolated case.

However, they did not completely deny this guess, because Sylvia still found some traces of biological activity around the corpse, but those traces seemed to have existed for a long time, but the direction of the traces could still be analyzed, and She also used the talent endowed to her by her original blood after she was promoted to a demigod, extracting a trace of life from the traces, and restoring the appearance of the creatures that left the traces.

Because the traces have existed for too long, she has been unable to extract too many traces from the breath of life, and the restored biological form is not complete, but from the tentacles hanging on the ground, it can be judged that the creatures that left the traces should be the same as hers. The body found was that of the same creature.