The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Although the magic seal of a demon hunter is not powerful, it does not require long-term preparation like a warlock. You only need to do a few standard seal postures with your body's magic power..."

In the mechanical secret room with a relatively larger area, Jivie El explained the characteristics of the witcher's sign to Leo in detail for the third time, and watched Leo cast a sign of Arden, forming a small circle around him. magic circle. It's just that before the magic circle formed a magic circle, it dissipated automatically because of the slight error in the posture of the magic seal in Leo's hand.

"Leo, in fact, you are already very good." Seeing Leo frowning and thinking after the magic circle dissipated, Ji Weier mistakenly thought that Leo was frustrated with his failure, so he comforted: "The real demon hunter If a person wants to truly master a seal, it takes more than ten years or even decades of continuous practice and use to achieve it. It only takes you less than a day to master the basic posture of the seal of Yaden And triggering the magic, that's pretty amazing."

"Shirley, you misunderstood." Leo recovered from his contemplation, and explained with a smile: "Although the magic circle established with the Arden Sign just now failed, I am not frustrated, just like you said, As long as I practice more, I believe it won't be long before I can truly master these witcher seals."

Ji Weier was puzzled and said: "If that's the case, then why did you..."

Leo replied: "I feel that the seal of the demon hunter is a bit incomplete, as if... It seems that it is a part that was split from a certain kind of magic, and then added part of another kind of magic, and finally pieced together. It's done."

"Your feeling is not wrong. The witcher's seal is made up by the warlock's magic modification." Ji Weier nodded and admitted Leo's guess, and explained: "When the monsters first appeared in my world , it was solved by the warlocks. However, the status of the warlocks is very noble. They are either the lord's cronies or the king's favorites. Although it can deal with most of the monsters, but in the face of powerful monsters such as royal griffins and advanced vampires, the power is not enough, so the warlocks specially selected several kinds of magic from their own magic and transformed them into monster hunters. the seal of man."

"So that's how it is." After Leo showed a dazed look, he fell into deep thought again.

In fact, Leo had already succeeded when he used the Seal of Arden just now, but when the magic circle created by the Seal of Arden was about to form a magic cycle, he felt that the Seal of Arden seemed to have further changes in magic power, and also There were some defects, so the magic circle was temporarily removed to reduce the consumption of spiritual energy and avoid accidents.

The reason why Leo is so concerned about the Demon Hunter's Seal is because he found that the Demon Hunter's Seal does not require the power of nightmares like the Demon Hunter's alchemy. psionic skills. It's just that this kind of psionic skill is different from witchcraft and other psionic skills. There is a unique way to cast it, which needs to be learned and mastered again.

According to Jillier, there are a total of five sigils for a demon hunter, but she only knows three of them, namely the sigil of Arden, which can create a magic circle, the sigil of Quin, which can form a magic defense mask, and the sigil of short-term control. The Axii sign of another's mind. As for the other two sigils, they are attack-type sigils, one is the Alder sigil that can create shock waves, and the other is the Igni sigil that can create flames.

Perhaps because she already regarded Leo as a friend, she also mentioned a little why she didn't learn the other two seals, and this reason was also related to her personal affairs.

It turned out that her adoptive mother was a sorceress with great power and strength. She looked down on the witcher's sign very much, thinking that the witcher's sign was just some useless gadgets, and that Jivie Elle should learn the magic of a warlock, so she didn't After Javier learned all the knowledge of a witcher, she took her to a forest temple to learn the knowledge of a warlock.

After learning about the demon hunter's sigils, Leo could feel that these sigils were all specially created for combat. All the sigils could be displayed instantly while fighting with weapons. Skills, not much slower.

The only thing that makes Leo feel regretful is that even if he has been able to cast the Demon Hunter's Seal, he still can't turn the Demon Hunter's Seal into a psionic skill that can be recognized by the secondary brain system. Like witchcraft such as Wen magic circle, you can get familiar with it through repeated practice.

Although it is impossible to turn the demon hunter's seal into a skill recognized by the sub-brain system, after getting familiar with the demon hunter's seal, Leo still decided to use the demon hunter's seal as one of his main means of fighting the enemy. The reason is It was because the Demon Hunter's Seal consumed so little psionic energy that it was incredible to him.

Using the power of nightmares to make a bottle of the simplest demon hunter swallow potion requires two points of nightmare power, that is, four points of psionic energy, but casting the Quen's seal, which consumes the most psionic energy, only requires three points of psionic energy, and The psionic energy consumed by the other two seals only needs two points. And the power displayed by these demon hunter seals after being amplified by the twins is not much worse than the similar witchcraft he knows.

The fact that the twins have a boost effect on the Demon Hunter's Seal was discovered by Leo when he cast the Demon Hunter's Seal, and this is one of the reasons why Leo is so concerned about the Demon Hunter's Seal.

Because of the need to use the sign of the witcher, the demon hunter can only use a single weapon, and swordsmanship such as double swords cannot be used, so Leo also learned it when he asked Ji Weier about the sign of the witcher The fighting style and sword skills of the witcher.

When imitating the battle of the demon hunter, Leo only changed the twins on his right hand into the cross sword mode, while his left hand remained in the glove mode. In this way, he found that when he cast the seal of the demon hunter with his left hand, , Gemini Gloves can actually form a strong boosting effect on Fayin, and this effect far exceeds the boosting effect of Gemini Gloves mode.

Afterwards, he changed the crossed long sword in his right hand into sacrificial knife mode, and this time the boost effect was strengthened again, thus he affirmed that the enhancement effect of the twins on the witcher's seal is the strongest among the three modes One is the standard of increase.

However, it is precisely because of this amplification effect that the originally inconspicuous flaws in the witcher's seal become particularly obvious, as eye-catching as the cracks that appear after the rock expands.

Although these defects will not affect the casting of spells, after the double boost of the seal, they will make these defects become unstable factors.

In normal practice, it's nothing, but if there is any mistake when facing the enemy, it may cause fatal consequences. So what Leo wants to do now is to repair the defects of the Demon Hunter's seal, even if it can't be completely repaired, it must be stable after the increase, so that there will be no mistakes.

It's just that the composition principle of the witcher's seal is completely different from the wizard magic that Leo knew. Like ordinary people who get a car, they know how to use it, but they don't know how it works.

Before he knew the deeper magic principles of warlocks in another world, it would be difficult for Leo to make up for the flaws in the witcher's seal even if he had the sub-brain system as his right-hand man.

"Ciri, can you tell me about the magic of a warlock?" Leo couldn't help asking Jiviel after thinking for a while, without any clue.

"Sorry!" Things didn't go according to Leo's intentions, Jivie Elle didn't think about it at all, she just shook her head and rejected Leo's request, but then she explained, saying: "I need the consent of another person to do this." Teaching others about warlocks, so...sorry!"

"No, no! My request is too much!" Leo said sincerely: "The knowledge of demon hunters you taught me in the past two days has been of great help to me. I believe in exchange of equal value. Since you The knowledge taught to me in the past few days, I should also give you something equivalent."

Ji Weier shook her head and said, "No need! There is no need between friends..."

"No, it's only between friends that these gains and losses should be clearly calculated, otherwise, it will be difficult for friends to do it for a long time." Leo interrupted Jivie El's words, and then expressed his attitude without any objection, and followed him to scrutinize After looking at Jivie Aier, her eyes fell on the hand crossbow hanging on Ji Wei Aier's waist, and said: "Your hand crossbow should not be very powerful, I will help you make a new hand crossbow, by the way Make some more destructive explosive arrows!"

After speaking, he didn't wait for Jivie Elle to refuse, and started fiddling with the parts directly on the workbench.

Seeing that Leo insisted on this kind of equivalent exchange method, Jivie Aier didn't say anything, and she had long been interested in those mechanical parts on the workbench, seeing Leo using those mechanical parts for herself I was quite curious about making a bow and crossbow, so I stood next to Leo and watched the assembly process carefully, hoping to learn something.

Leo also seemed to know what Javier was thinking. He was not in a hurry to make a crossbow, but picked up every part on the table, explained the functions of the parts to Javier, and in order to show The functions of these parts are also assembled with some tools such as mechanical locks and timers.

It wasn't until Javier figured out the functions of these parts and the general manufacturing method that she began to formally make bows and crossbows.

The blade crossbow is the main weapon used by the city guards in Hushang Town to deal with the dream spirits, so naturally a lot of related mechanical parts are stored in this secret room.

However, Leo didn't plan to assemble a blade crossbow directly, because it might be difficult to replenish suitable blades for the crossbow after leaving Hushang Town, so he still chose to make a conventional crossbow.

Leo did not assemble the crossbow with too complicated mechanical parts, because these parts are very delicate and have special power, although in this dream world, the crossbow assembled with these parts can exert extraordinary power , but it is unknown whether these parts can still have the same amplification effect after leaving this world.

What's more, these parts are special products of this dream world. Once they are worn out, if you want to replenish them in other worlds, even the world of Vinylon, which has also entered the mechanical civilization, will be difficult to replenish. Naturally, the world can't do it.

In the old earth era, although people at that time had adopted gunpowder weapons as their main weapons, the improvement of primitive long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows continued until entering the cosmic era.

In the Weapons Museum of the Earth Federation, there are more than one bow and crossbow weapon exhibits, and each exhibit has a very detailed structural description. Leo has now directly selected a weapon with suitable power and structure from these exhibits. Simple crossbow improved.

Because of sufficient materials and detailed structural diagrams, Leo had already assembled a mechanical crossbow in less than 20 minutes.

"Try it." Leo handed the assembled crossbow and arrows to Javier beside him, and taught her how to draw the bowstring and how to reload it, and then pointed to the steel plate wall facing the lake, signaling to go there. Side shot.

Although it was only the first time to use this weapon, Javier quickly got used to it, and skillfully put the arrow that Leo taught her into the arrow case, and then shot at the steel wall not far away. past.

I saw that as Jivie Aier pulled the trigger, the arrow shot out from the arrow slot quickly, nailed to the steel plate, and stopped halfway into it. At this time, the bow and crossbow were activated by the internal mechanism. Driven by the kinetic energy created by the bow and crossbow just now, a new arrow was buckled on the arrow slot, and it was automatically wound up, achieving the continuous shooting effect.

"How is it? Are you good?" Although Leo knew very well that under the supervision of the sub-brain system, there would be no mistakes in the bow and crossbow he made, he still asked politely.

"Very good! Very good!" Although Ji Weier didn't show much joy on her face, it was not difficult to hear from her tone that she was very satisfied with this crossbow.

Leo then asked for the bow and crossbow again, and explained the structure and assembly details of the bow and crossbow in front of Javier, while disassembling the bow and crossbow bit by bit according to the order of assembly.

After completely dismantling the crossbow, Leo made way for Jivie El to sit next to the workbench, and then reassembled the crossbow that had been turned into dozens of parts with his own hands.

After several repetitions, Javier is already very familiar with the structure and maintenance methods of this crossbow.

After completing the bow and crossbow, Leo started to make bomb arrows again. He did not use the gunpowder of special bullets as the raw material of the arrows, but used a witcher bomb called Foehn taught by Jill Elle. , using the existing alchemy materials to make more than a dozen bomb arrows.

Due to the problem of arrow capacity, there are not many explosives in the arrow, so this kind of bomb arrow cannot directly kill the enemy through explosion. It is mainly that after the arrow is pierced into the enemy or prey, the explosive in the arrow will be detonated, and the fragments of the arrow after the burst can cause damage in the enemy's body, enough to cause fatal damage.

Because making arrows is very simple, Leo only made a dozen of them as a demonstration, and Jivie Elle started to make them. At this moment, there was a knock on the door downstairs from the sound transmission pipe in the secret room. .