The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Your Excellency stopped me just now, just to do business with me?" Leo asked directly after each of them collected the trading items.

"No." Seeing that Leo had put the words back on track, the merchant immediately explained with a smile on his face, "I just think it's a pity that you just gave up exploring this Hall of Valor. You must know that there are many treasures hidden here baby."

"Hall of Valor?" Leo hesitated for a moment, looked around, and said, "This is the Hall of Valor?"

The merchant was stunned when he heard the words, and asked in confusion: "Don't you know? Then how do you know the correct way to open the Hall of Valor?"

"Is there any special way to open the Hall of Valor?" Leo didn't understand, "Isn't it just a matter of pushing the door?"

"Push the door? What push the door?" Hong Shang was even more at a loss.

Leo was also puzzled when he heard the words. He turned his head to look at the giant steel door that hadn't been closed, and then at the bewildered merchant. Suddenly he realized that he might have fallen into a misunderstanding. I may not be in the same time dimension as other people who come and go living in the urban area around me, but for some special reasons, the two of them can contact each other in different time dimensions.

After realizing that the other party and himself might be in different time and space, Leo didn't dwell too much on the issue of how to open the Hall of Valor, and made up a random reason, saying: "I entered here by accident. The situation is completely unclear, just now I found that the people in front of me can't see me, and my body seems to be transparent, I think this place is too weird, so I want to leave, so as not to cause any trouble."

"Break in by accident?" Hongshang obviously didn't believe Leo's fabricated reason at all. In his opinion, to enter here must go through all kinds of dangers, and there must be no wrong choice in the whole process to enter here smoothly. There is no possibility of inadvertent intrusion or anything like that.

However, he continued not to ask Leo, because in his opinion, everyone has some little secrets that they don't want others to know. If they break these little secrets, it might be self-defeating, and instead make him lose a companion who can cooperate to explore the Hall of Valor .

Therefore, he quickly hid the doubtful expression on his face, and then took the initiative to change the subject and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know the situation here, you will know after I tell you, I can be sure that after listening to you, you must I don’t want to leave anymore, after all, you are able to come here, which means you are very lucky, if you can get a treasure from here, it will definitely give you extraordinary benefits.” He said, turning his head Looking into the city, he said: "I only learned about this Hall of Valor from ancient books not long ago. I thought it was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be true. After all, Loki is known as the god of deceit. Who knows if he will intentionally Create a fake Valhalla to tease the greedy."

When Leo heard this, he suddenly asked, "Does this Hall of Valor belong to Loki? The Loki who caused Ragnarok?"

"You know Loki? Do you know about Ragnarok?" The merchant looked at Leo and smiled, "Didn't you just say that you don't know anything about the situation here? You actually know that Loki and Ragnarok are at dusk. Obviously you are right Ancient myths have been deeply researched. You must know that even the professors of ancient theology in the college have only a half-knowledge about Loki and Ragnarok. They are still wondering whether Ragnarok was caused by a wolf or two. Argued by wolves."

Leo listened quietly, and heard a lot of extraordinary content from the traveler's mouth. For example, from his words, it is not difficult to hear that the time dimension of the traveler may be in the future. At that time, the myth about the past has become Ancient myths, and the records have disappeared and may even be blurred, which is completely different from the current situation in Vanaheim.

In Vanaheim, not to mention the creators who claim to be the descendants of the gods, even the Muniyom people in the sky city and the earth city have a set of holy scriptures, which record the myths of the past in detail The stories, especially the twilight of the gods and the battle of the gods, are just because of different angles and identities, these contents will be deleted, but the overall content is still complete, and it seems that the civilization has retreated to the cracks of the primitive society. The tribes of the plains also have some stone tablets that record ancient legends in the tribe, and many myths related to the twilight of the gods are also recorded on them, so there is no such thing as the merchant said that even the cause of the twilight of the gods needs to be debated Condition.

The only thing that can explain this situation is that the time dimension where the merchants are located is already far away from the present, so far that perhaps the sky city, the earth city, and the holy city have all disappeared, and so far that this world has regenerated a new one. civilization.

After having such a guess in his heart, Leo asked before the other party continued to talk about the Hall of Valor: "Do you know the Holy City?"

"Holy City?" To Leo's inexplicable question, Hong Shang was at a loss.

Then Leo asked again: "Do you know Sky City?"

The merchant is still puzzled.

Leo finally asked: "Do you know Dixing City?"

This time, the merchant's reaction was different. He looked at Leo in shock and said, "Have you been to the ruins and seen the Dixing City?"

Although it is just a rhetorical question, it has already let Leo know what he wants to know. Things should be as he guessed. The time dimension where the merchant is located, the Sky City and the Holy City have completely disappeared from Vanaheim, and even There is not even a legend. As for Dixing City, it is in ruins, and it seems that the ruins are still very dangerous, and you need to risk your life to enter and exit.

After learning about this, Leo brought the topic back to the place in front of him and asked, "You didn't answer my question just now, why did you say this is Loki's Hall of Valor?"

Seeing that Leo didn't answer his question, the merchant frowned slightly, and then pointed to the surroundings, explaining: "Didn't you see it? This is an illusion created after the death of Loki, the god of deceit. Among the ancient gods, which god can create such a false but meaningless illusion?"

Leo asked again: "Why do you say it is an illusion created after death? Couldn't it be before death?"

"Of course it's impossible. The Hall of Valor can only be produced after the death of the gods. Don't you even know this?" The merchant looked at Leo with a puzzled face, as if what he said was common sense that ordinary children should know, but People like Leo should not know, and then he took the initiative to explain: "In the several halls of Valor that have been discovered and explored, the remains of the gods have been found without exception, and these remains of the gods are also from the Hall of Valor. The source of power, so the Hall of Valor can be said to be born on the remains of the gods, that is to say, the Hall of Valor can only be formed after the death of the gods, and the power displayed by the Hall of Valor represents which god it belongs to. Just like Now this Hall of Valor is full of all kinds of real illusions, and among the known ancient gods, only Loki possesses such divine power."

After listening to the merchant's explanation, Leo couldn't help but think of the god's remains in the energy fog area. Although the god's remains could not be the remains of the deceitful god Loki, the remains and the three major city-states, The holy tower should have a very close relationship, otherwise, how could the Valkyrie created by the divine power in the remains gather around the holy tower and become the guardian of the holy tower?

Although there were many thoughts in his mind, Leo's face did not show any strangeness. He then asked: "You just said that there are many treasures hidden in the Hall of Valor. Could the treasures you mentioned be the remains of gods?"

"Of course not. Although the remains of the gods are also treasures, and they are the most precious treasures, you can't take them away if you put them in front of you." He took out an item from the leather pocket with the storage function, displayed it in front of Leo, and said, "The treasures I'm talking about are these things, the weapons used by the ancient gods. You must know that these weapons are very powerful. I have been to so many worlds and encountered so many dangers, and I can come back safe and sound only by relying on these weapons."

Seeing the treasure that the merchant brought out for the Hall of Valor, Leo couldn't help being stunned, because he was very sure that the treasure should be a wizard's wonder, and the manufacturing principle of this wizard's wonder was 100% from him. .

In the past, Leo had a lot of whimsical ideas, and applied these whimsical ideas to the manufacture of wizards and wonders, creating some wizards with strange functions but useless to him. He discarded all these wizards and wonders along the way, leaving only a part of the wizards and wonders that he thought were useful to him, and now the merchant took out this so-called treasure that he found in other Halls of Valor. A wizard's strange object that he once discarded. The function of this strange object is very simple, that is, mimicry.

As long as this wizard wonder is activated, the image of a certain object stored in this wonder can be completely applied to the user in advance, so that the user can become the person to be mimicked.

This magical object of wizards was a tool specially developed by Leo for Sylvia's spies when it was still in the Bodo area of ​​the Velen Continent. The manufacturing materials are too expensive, and there are not many people who can inspire this strange object, so Leo only made a few and didn't make any more. As for the prototype strange object, it was left in the lighthouse and was not used. Sylvia took it to Mozambique.

Although the appearance of the strange object in Hong Shang's hand and his strange object has changed somewhat, he can still tell at a glance that the power core of this strange object still comes from the mimetic strange object he made.

Under such circumstances, Leo asked curiously, "Can I take a look?"

The merchant hesitated for a moment, and finally handed it to Leo, saying: "Of course, but be careful, it can be used at least twice, and it is not a waste product."

Leo took the strange object and carefully checked its internal structure. As he guessed, the core of this strange object is indeed a set of Turing radicals specially designed by him, but someone made some changes to it. Improvement, adding a lot of mysterious symbols and patterns that Leo can't understand now, and these mysterious symbols and patterns can be perfectly connected with the set of Turing radicals, without changing its basic function, and giving this strange thing Additional, even stronger capabilities.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but want to stimulate the strange object in his hand to see what effect this strange object can produce.

However, he finally resisted the urge and handed the item back to the merchant who had been staring nervously at the strange object in Leo's hand, and then asked in a deep voice, "What's so magical about this treasure? What can it be used for? "

The merchant carefully took the strange object, put it away again, and said: "It is the sacred object of Frey, the God of Sunshine. Only Frey's closest heroic warriors can have it. It contains a piece of Frey's divine power. As long as the holy object is activated, the user will be able to get the help of this divine power, and have Frey's power for a period of time, especially the ability to use Frey's most powerful magic, the Sunshine Spear."

"Sunshine Gun?" Leo looked at the merchant suspiciously.

The merchant said a little excitedly: "That is a very powerful force. It is to condense a spear made of sunlight in your hand and then throw it out. The spear of sunlight has the magical property of penetrating and burning any object. Any object concentrated by it, no matter how thick the defense is and how powerful it is, will be pierced by the sun gun and then burned to ashes." He said in a very proud tone, "I will I once used the sun gun in a giant world and killed a giant king as tall as a small hill, and because of the giant rules, the person who killed the giant king became the next giant king, so I was even a few days It is a pity that I will leave soon, otherwise I would still be my giant king in that world."

Leo didn't pay too much attention to the experience of the merchant becoming the King of Giants. What he cared about was that the use of the Sunshine Gun was somewhat familiar, much like the way he used his Thunder Gun.

In his memory, he never taught anyone the thunder gun, but before leaving the world of Velen, he recorded his use and training methods of supernatural powers such as witchcraft and psionic power in a notebook, at the end The method of using the thunder gun is attached, and the notebook is reserved for himself and Sylvia's son, but he can be sure that his son has no spiritual talent, that is to say, he cannot use the thunder gun.

However, the ability of the so-called Sunshine Spear contained in the strange object in the hands of the merchant is too similar to his own thunder gun. Coupled with the Turing root of the mimetic ability in the strange object, Leo can't help but suspect that the ability to make this The person who bought the strange object came from the world of Velen, and that person also obtained the wizard's strange object made by himself and the notes left behind.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately asked, "Did you sell that item just now? I am willing to exchange twenty bottles of wizard healing potion."

After hearing this, the merchant immediately fell into deep thought. After a while, he raised his head and said to Leo, "I want forty bottles."