The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Snake Mother Church is definitely one of the oldest underground churches in the world, and it is also the underground church with the most believers. You can see its believers on almost all three continents of Velen World. Leo, who has seen the statue of the Mother of All Herbs, I feel that the Snake Mother Church may be an extension of the Mother of All Mothers Church, or it may be a disguised shell.

As for the Church of the True Eye and the Church of the Snake Mother, they are completely two extremes. In the underground church, it is almost a synonym for weak, and it is also an important church of evil gods pursued by the Orthodox Church. It's good enough to survive.

Obviously, the huge casualties of the church's high-level leaders five years ago brought a devastating blow to the Church of the Eye of Reality. Even if they can still maintain the church form and continue to preach in the city of Miria, they have to surrender to other powerful churches. The underground church became a subordinate church. For example, now, judging from the behavior of those believers of the evil god, it is obvious that the overall status of the believers of the Snake Mother Church is higher than that of the believers of the True Eye Church, even if one of the three members of the True Eye Church is a family member of the evil god who is transforming.

Leo quickly found a suitable open space in the ruins. This open space is located at the intersection of three psionic magnetic fields, which also makes the psionic fluctuations here very chaotic, but it is also extremely strong. It is so strong that even ordinary people approach There will also be some feelings here, such as falling into some illusion, or the body is out of control, and so on.

Obviously, the monitors following Leo knew the danger of this open space, and when they were about to approach the open space, they stopped and did not approach.

Because of the psionic magnetic field, the dust and gravel in this open space will automatically move to the place where the magnetic field diffuses under the influence of the magnetic field, which also makes this open space exceptionally clean, as if someone has cleaned it every day.

It is not difficult to see from the granite floor on the ground that the former building on this open space should be an office building. Although granite is not a suitable rune carrier, which will cause unnecessary consumption of rune effects, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the magic circle, but now it is very appropriate to use this situation to test some rune magic circles.

Leo quickly took out some alchemy utensils from his storage space. These utensils were all experimental utensils found in the villas of some members of the medical school. Although they were not professional alchemy utensils, they were barely usable.

After that, Leo carefully ground some herbs picked along the way, squeezed out the juice, mixed them together according to different proportions, filtered them repeatedly to remove impurities, then poured them into a beaker, lit the alcohol lamp, and refined them.

As for whether it is possible to extract the magic pattern potion needed to describe the rune magic circle, Leo is not very clear, because all the magic pattern potions are made of herbs from the dream world, and the herbs he chose were compared. Vinylon World Herbs that I think can be used as substitutes. Although the two herbs are the same in terms of medicinal properties, it is still unknown whether they can be substituted in the end. For this reason, Leo has prepared more than a dozen sets of substituted formulas, which can be replaced at any time.

Soon after the temperature of the medicinal juice in the flask reached a certain level, the medicinal juice began to heat up, emitting water vapor, and the air began to be filled with a unique smell of herbs.

Leo estimated the time and began to inject spiritual energy into the concoction. With the injection of spiritual energy, the color of the concoction also began to change, from that grass green to dark green, and the pungent part of the smell It also begins to weaken and eventually disappears completely.

When Leo saw that the color change of the herbal medicine had ended, he immediately stopped injecting spiritual energy, extinguished the alcohol lamp, and waited for the medicine to cool down naturally.

The subsequent changes in the concoction brought a smile to Leo's face, because he found that the steaming concoction cooled down quickly after the alcohol lamp was turned off. Judging from this situation, the concoction should be It already contains some mysterious power.

Leo took down the completely cooled concoction flask and sniffed the smell inside. Before, he could smell a faint fragrance of herbs, but now he couldn't smell anything. Instead, another cold breath came from the bottle. The mouth of the bottle gushed out, making Leo's nose a little uncomfortable.

"Failed! But it succeeded!" Leo made a judgment almost without trying, but this judgment was somewhat contradictory.

The reason why Leo said it failed was because this bottle of potion was not the magic pattern potion he wanted, and the subsequent success was because the potion in the flask was a new spiritual potion that Leo had never seen before. And the effect of this psychic potion is extraordinary.

You must know that Leo's body has stepped into a higher level at this moment, and can be regarded as an extraordinary creature. With the improvement of physical fitness, the resistance to abnormal damage will naturally increase. But just now, he just sniffed the smell of the concoction coming out of the flask, and his nose felt a little uncomfortable. If it was an ordinary person, he might have been frostbitten by that cold breath.

After confirming that this bottle of potion was a psychic potion, Leo began to test and analyze the function and efficacy of this bottle of potion, and it took almost no time and effort to figure out the effect of this potion.

This potion is temporarily named Frost Potion by Leo. Its main function is to enchant weapons. You only need to pour the potion on any iron weapon, and before the effect of the potion disappears, the weapon will have a magical effect similar to that of the frozen spirit. The effect of energy bullets, while stabbing the enemy, it also gives the enemy additional freezing damage.

Although the effect of this enchanting potion is very good, it is a bit useless to Leo. After all, if he is against the enemy, he has a lot of powerful witchcraft that can be used, and even if the freezing effect is needed, the king's Freezing bullets are enough, not to mention that he also knows witchcraft like freezing.

It's just that this kind of enchanting psychic potion can't be said to be useless, it can be a good dark world commodity, at least for those night watchmen, family members and others who rely on cold weapons to fight, it can give their weapons The potion that is enchanted when it comes, can definitely become the key to the outcome of a battle, and its value will not be much worse than a bottle of healing potion.

What's more, the herbal medicine needed to refine this medicine is one of the most common herbal medicines in the Vinylon world. The cost is almost negligible, but the net profit it brings is huge. The only trouble is that you need to refine it yourself.

Although he failed to successfully obtain the magic pattern potion he needed, he accidentally obtained another enchanting spiritual power potion, which was a good start for Leo.

Perhaps it was because the frost potion he got by accident used up all the good luck in him, and the potions he extracted from more than a dozen formulas were all waste potions, of course, one or two of them could be used as medicines. As poison or anesthetic, it is only the difficulty of the refining process and the value of the consumed medicinal materials, and there is a huge gap between the value of the final medicine, so Leo regards it as a failed formula.

Now Leo still has two formulas that he has not tried. Once these two formulas fail, it means that the magic pattern potion cannot be refined in the world of Velen through conventional means, and can only be produced through the power of nightmare. In this way, The value of the rune magic circle knowledge he learned in the dream world will be discounted.

Because of a dozen failures, Leo was a little anxious, so he didn't immediately continue to try the next recipe, but stopped, sat quietly for a while, and calmed down his fluctuating mood.

At this time, among the outside watchers, the two from the Night Watch organization had already left, and among the remaining cultists, members of the Snake Mother Church also left, leaving only three members of the Church of the True Eye , and the believer who began to transform into a family member was among them.

After Leo felt his emotions calm down, he started the next round of formula refining, and soon a bottle of medicine refined according to the new formula was held in Leo's hands. Although no tests have been conducted yet, Lei Ou A slight smile appeared on Ou's face. Because the psychic fluctuations emanating from the bottle of potion in his hand are almost the same as the magic pattern potion, but the color of this potion is jet black, and the smell does not have the faint fragrance of the magic pattern potion, but has a burning smell. Smelly.

"Should it be successful?" Leo was not sure whether the potion in his hand was the magic pattern potion.

Afterwards, he poured the potion in his hand on the rune of the Abandoned Capital King City on the ground when he was testing the potion before, and then injected spiritual energy into the rune according to the method written in the information.

At the moment when the psychic energy was injected, the runes on the ground immediately took effect, exuding a flame-like light. This effect was never seen in the potions tried before.

The light became more and more powerful, gradually changing from a blurry mass of red light to a bonfire that looked the same as it really was, and inside the bonfire was a spiral sword engraved with mysterious characters.

At the moment when the bonfire appeared, all the places where the light of the bonfire shone on the road produced a warm feeling out of thin air. This warm feeling was not only felt by the body, but also felt by the soul.

"Huh!" Leo, who was closest to the bonfire, had not had time to carefully study what the bonfire transformed from the rune was, when he suddenly found some white shadows around him.

Leo immediately invoked his psychic power, turned on his spirit vision, and looked at those white shadows, and saw that those white shadows were clearly the souls of the dead buried under the ruins of the bow area, and the appearance of these souls was exactly the same as when they died , the injuries on the corpses are also reflected on the souls, which also makes these souls look very terrifying.

However, the appearance of these souls did not intend to attack Leo, but was attracted by the bonfire. They approached one after another, rushing into the bonfire like moths to the flame, and then fell into the flames. Turned into ashes, and before they disappeared completely, they all had happy smiles on their faces, as if what they were facing was not the end of eternity, but a kind of relief, a relief from pain.

"Is this the effect of the rune of the royal city? Burning the soul, liberating the soul?" Leo couldn't help but feel puzzled after seeing the effect of the rune of the abandoned capital.

In the information he obtained, there are more than a dozen different runes from various areas of the abandoned capital, and there are only five runes in the royal city. The rune used by Leo now is one of them, and there is a line of notes at the back, This is also not available in other runes.

In the note, it is mentioned that this rune is not unique to the royal city. In fact, there are similar runes in other urban areas of the abandoned capital, and these places have a common feature, that is, there are no such runes around. An ember monster that loses its mind and attacks anything living in a frenzy.

Therefore, the explorers of the abandoned city who collected this rune believed that this rune had the function of dispelling the ash monster, and made this rune into something similar to an amulet, so that everyone who entered the abandoned city could wear it on their bodies.

Leo had obtained such an amulet from the expeditioner before entering the abandoned city. It's just that he didn't feel any power from the amulet. Now it seems that it is not that the amulet has no power, but that the dream world cannot stimulate the power of the runes on the amulet, and cannot form this kind of soul bonfire.

The amount of a bottle of magic pattern potion can't last for too long, and soon the effect of the soul bonfire rune will be weakened with the consumption of potion, and it will disappear quickly. , broke into small pieces.

At the moment when the bonfire disappeared, Leo saw the souls around him wailing in unison. This wailing sound was not transmitted through sound waves, but directly acted on the human soul.

Leo could feel that this mournful cry contained a kind of magical power. If his sub-brain was still there and his will had not mutated, he would definitely be able to see the will-declining warning issued by the sub-brain system now.

Because of the strong will of being close to the Omega-level advanced creatures, even if Leo was in the center of this mourning of the soul, he did not suffer any harm. On the contrary, those monitors on the edge were affected by this mourning When they arrived, they all fell to the ground one by one, unconscious.

This soul mourning did not last for too long before it ended, but after the end, the sequelae caused by the soul bonfire rune did not end. Leo could feel that the surrounding spiritual magnetic field became more disordered and chaotic. Those who want to use the psionic magnetic field to do something will undoubtedly cause more trouble, and even some of the previous preparations will be in vain.

Leo doesn't care about the impact on other people. He is now concentrating on recording the process of the mourning of the soul and the frequency of the spiritual energy fluctuations. He feels that if he can reproduce the effect of the mourning of the soul through the power of nightmare, maybe he can Turn it into your own exclusive witchcraft, and it may be able to produce extraordinary effects when facing the enemy.

After remembering the process of the mourning of the soul and the fluctuation of spiritual energy, Leo stood up and prepared to leave. Because of the change of the surrounding spiritual energy magnetic field, those people in the dark world who were in the bow area at this time must investigate the reason. Continuing to stay here will cause some unnecessary troubles.

"Hey! There's something." Just as Leo was about to leave and took away the family member of the Church of the True Eye, he stopped and looked at the gravel pit where the rune was. A little surprised look was revealed.