The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It's true, the real entrance to the holy tower is the giant wraith." Leo had just escaped from the illusion of the maze of giant monuments when he heard Loki's excited voice.

Leo ignored Merchant Loki's excited shouts, but looked up at the scene in front of him, and saw that the two of them were no longer in a city, but in a void. There are tens of thousands of land fragments of different sizes around, and these land fragments are suspended in the air in a spherical shape. In the middle of this void sphere surrounded by countless land is a building composed of various wedge-shaped bodies. The tower, the tower is not static, but is constantly rotating around the center, just like a clock.

There are some protruding platforms at the joints of the wedges on the outer wall of the tower. On these platforms, a large number of Valkyrie can be seen standing there, but it is different from the Valkyrie that Leo saw before. Valkyries are all complete humanoid forms, with a human body, a human appearance, and wearing human armor. The only difference is that they all have a pair of wings. From the appearance point of view, they are similar to the Valkyries recorded in those books. Kiri is exactly the same.

It's just that these Valkyries are not the focus of Leo's attention at the moment. He only pays attention to two things now. One thing is the human-shaped reliefs on the outer wall of the holy tower. All the reliefs are lifelike, and even expressions can It can be seen clearly, as if it was transformed from a real person, and each relief is the same shape protruding from the wall, as if trying to escape from the outer wall of the tower.

And Leo can clearly feel that the bust reliefs on the outer wall all contain extremely powerful energy fluctuations, the weakest of which are at the level of a sixth-level psyker, and the strongest can even reach eighth. The level of a super psyker, that is to say, the level of a demigod.

"Loki, where is the remaining soul of Loki?" Loki the trader stepped forward at this moment, walked to the edge of the land under their feet, pointed at a statue full of pain on the suspended tower, and shouted loudly.

The statue pointed out by Trader Loki was one of the few statues that Leo felt possessed the strength of demigod energy, and one of the other statues had energy similar to that of God's Punishment Thunder. Being imprisoned in that statue, electric sparks can still be seen emerging from the statue, and it should be the statue belonging to Thor.

However, compared to these human-shaped reliefs, Leo is more concerned about the two huge broken stones suspended at both ends of this suspended tower.

Although the two crushed stones are two different stones from the appearance, the only characteristic is that they are a little big, but compared with the floating land debris around them, this size is so inconspicuous, even if they are placed at this height. On the platforms at both ends of the tower, its size is still so inconspicuous.

However, even so, after Leo came to this void, the first thing he paid attention to was the two stones, because he felt the energy fluctuation of the stone throne on the two stones, but the stone throne among the two stones The strength doesn't seem to be very strong, because in his feelings, the power of the stone throne contained in these two huge stones is not even as strong as the fragment of the stone throne he got at the bottom of the lake.

However, no matter how thin the power of the stone throne contained in these two crushed stones is, it belongs to the power of the stone throne after all, and judging from all indications, this tower should be specially built for these two stones, Because the high tower can guide the power in the stone fragments at both ends to circulate each other, and the circulating power is amplified by some devices inside the high tower, which makes it produce a very powerful effect, such as the statues on the outer wall of the high tower. Generally, the so-called remaining souls are bound by the power of the magnified stone throne, just like the stone pillar square owned by Leo.

At this time, one end of the revolving tower happened to pass by the fragments of the land where Leo and the others were, and the statues with the strongest energy fluctuations happened to be located on the outer wall at the top of this end, very close, and Loki the trader immediately As if he had received some kind of revelation, he covered his head and knelt on the ground, groaning in pain, with a mad look on his face, and murmured repeatedly in his mouth: "I saw it, I saw it It’s here! So it’s like this, I know, I know my mission!”

Seeing that Loki the Merchant fell into a state of madness, Leo did not act to save him, because judging from Loki the Merchant's situation, he should have resonated with Loki's incomplete soul bound on the outer wall of the tower just now , to obtain new memory fragments.

Sure enough, after a period of painful reaction, Trader Loki also quickly returned to normal, but the painful reaction just now consumed a lot of his energy, so he could only lie on the ground, gasping for breath, slowly recovering the consumed energy.

After a while, he changed his posture and sat on the ground. He turned his head and looked at Leo, who had been standing silently by the side since just now. Said: "Your Excellency must have a lot of questions in your mind, and I can answer them one by one now."

Seeing Loki the trader suddenly showing a look of wanting to confess everything to himself, Leo not only smiled, but he didn't show any look of distrust, but asked very directly, "Should there be any There are other ways to get out of that labyrinth called the Giant's Monument, right?"

"Yes, according to my exploration, there are at least four ways to get out of there safely." Loki the trader answered Leo's inquiry with a candid look, and then continued to explain: "But I don't know any of the four ways. I have tried many times, but I have never been able to come to the real holy tower of this place, so I chose to try the most dangerous method in the legend, but I did not expect the legend to be true, and it can only be opened through the giant wraith The correct entrance."

"This is how many times you have tried to capture the giant wraith?" Leo asked again.

"I can't remember clearly, it must have been thousands of times!" Loki the trader shook his head and said, "But those all failed, only this time it succeeded."

"It's been so many times? It looks like you've been here for a long time?" Leo said in a deep voice.

"It's really long. I've already forgotten how long it was. Maybe it's a thousand years, or maybe it's longer." Loki the trader showed a little bewildered expression, and said, "But there is one advantage here, that is, not I will grow old, just like time is completely static, only when I leave here and go to other worlds, time will start to run again, so if it is not necessary, I will try to shorten the time in other worlds, but even so, I I am still ten years older than when I came here." Then, he turned his head to look at the rotating tower, and said, "But it doesn't matter, as long as I fuse the incomplete soul of the ancient god Loki, I can get a part of it. The power of the gods, to rejuvenate and never grow old."

After hearing this, Leo speculated: "You should have taken the initiative to come to this so-called Loki Hall of Valor, instead of falling here just for an ordinary exploration like you said at the beginning?"

"Yes." Loki the Trader nodded and said, "Since I was born, some pictures and some memories that don't belong to me have often appeared in my mind. Everyone thinks that I am a lunatic, but I know I am not, I think I want to know the answer, so I came here according to the content in my memory.”

"You knew from the beginning that this wasn't the Loki Hall of Valor, right?" Leo continued to ask.

Trader Loki shook his head and said, "No, I always thought this was Loki's Hall of Valor, but until just now."

Leo questioned: "Presumably you should know where this is by now?"

"Yes, I just found out." Loki the Trader nodded, then paused for a while, and continued: "This is the temple of the gods, the temple of the ancient gods." Then, he pointed to the tower and said: "And that is the World Tree."

Leo's expression was very calm, and he didn't express any opinion on this astonishing information, but just motioned for Loki, the trader, to continue talking.

On the contrary, Loki the Merchant was a little surprised by Leo's calm attitude. In his opinion, Leo who heard the news should have been more or less surprised, instead of such a calm attitude.

Although Leo's reaction surprised him, he didn't stop, but continued: "The ancient gods discovered a long time ago that this land contains mysterious power, which can stop time. They all wanted to master this kind of power, but there was no result. However, they used the power here to peek into the future and predicted the arrival of the twilight of the gods in advance, so before the arrival of the twilight of the gods, they sent everyone The temple was moved to this place, and some preparations were made for future resurrection, such as creating a World Tree for the souls of the gods to live in. After the World Tree was made, they stored part of their souls here, and put them on their bodies. The divine blood spread out, and anyone who has the blood of the divine blood will be guided by them to this place, and will eventually become their resurrected body."

Then, he looked at Leo, as if he wanted to see some emotional fluctuations on Leo's face, but the result still disappointed him, and Leo still acted calmly.

However, he didn't know that after listening to his narration, some associations appeared in Leo's mind.

In the Earth Federation, there are a lot of scientific researches on uploading human consciousness data, cloning body regeneration, etc., and there are indeed many achievements, but there is always a big gap between these achievements and the goals that related researches want to achieve. In the end, these Many projects are maintained in a half-dead state.

Now, from the words of Trader Loki, Leo feels that this Asgard, which may be inherited from the civilization of the earth, may have researched results, which can upload human consciousness or soul in the form of data to a certain device for storage. , and then transmit it to a suitable parasite at the right time to complete a certain sense of resurrection.

This approach has the same effect as the bloodline consciousness body that Leo encountered before. Although the method is different, the final resurrection effect is very similar, and in Leo's view, the so-called pantheon in front of him is not only a transmission The function of the incomplete soul of the gods may have other functions, such as introducing power, allowing the life form of the parasite to complete one or several evolutions in a short period of time.

However, Leo could feel that there might be some mistakes in the plans of the so-called gods in Asgard, because from what he saw now, the tower in front of him, which was called the World Tree in the mouth of the trader Loki Something unexpected should have happened to those Asgardians. At least Leo can be sure that the so-called pantheon should not be the broken scene in front of him at first, and the tower in front of him seems to him not so much It is some kind of device for storing consciousness or soul, but it is more like a cage for these conscious souls.

"What are you going to do now?" Leo didn't express his opinion after thinking for a moment, but asked Loki the trader.

"I will find a way to fly over and touch the statue that stores the soul of the god Loki." Loki the trader pointed to the statue of Loki and said, "But those Valkyrie will definitely stop me, so I hope you can help me stop it." them."

"What's in it for me?" Leo asked again.

Trader Loki thought about it seriously, and found that he really couldn't come up with enough things to attract Leo now.

When he first met Leo before, he just regarded Leo as an ordinary adventurer or treasure hunter with a little supernatural power, so he felt that he had a lot of valuable things that could be exchanged for Leo. However, with everything he experienced afterwards, he found that the power of the person in front of him was strong enough to rival the ancient gods in his memory, so that everything he had prepared before would not be used.

After repeated thinking and no answer, Loki the Merchant had no choice but to throw the question back to Leo and said, "What do you want? As long as I can get it, I will give it to you."

"I don't want anything for the time being." Leo shook his head, and when Loki, the trader, showed disappointment, he added: "I can keep the condition of assisting you for the time being, after you accept Loki's inheritance , and then discuss how much we should pay, what do you think?"

"Okay, okay! That's it." Loki the Merchant immediately agreed upon hearing this, and in his opinion, he didn't suffer a bit from this approach.

Seeing that the merchant Loki agreed, Leo didn't ask the other party to sign any agreement. It felt like he believed in the other party's integrity, and then indicated that the other party could start at any time.

Trader Loki didn't waste any time, and immediately took off the bulky space suit on his body, and then took out a close-fitting combat suit specially designed for fighter pilots on space battleships from his pocket, and then took out another set to match it. The matching energy generator and a set of personal flying devices were worn on the body, and then looked at Leo. After seeing Leo signaled that he could start, he quickly ran to the edge of the land where he was, and then jumped out, and at the same time activated the The small engines of the flying devices of the limbs rushed towards the target.