The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The transfiguration that Leo is currently using comes from the wizard notes provided by the expedition. It is mentioned in the notes that the transfiguration originally originated from an incomplete ancient witchcraft, and was later repaired by the chief wizard of the tower. A kind of dream spirit called amoeba in the world was used as a reference prototype to create this transformation technique.

However, the Wizards Association soon discovered that there were many flaws in this transformation technique. First of all, the transformation technique could only change some details of the caster's facial features, but not the entire body. It was impossible to transform into other objects like amoebas. The second is that Transfiguration is very simple to perform, even the most common wizard apprentice can perform it, but to maintain the transformed state, it needs to invest a lot of psionic energy or magic power, and the input and output are seriously out of balance, so the gain outweighs the gain.

Although this kind of transfiguration is much worse than expected, after all, it has been repaired by several generations of chief wizards, so the Wizards Association did not abandon it, but included it in the list of compulsory witchcraft projects. Almost every wizard Members of the Society know this witchcraft.

Leo didn't take this witchcraft seriously at first. When he saw Sir Darwin leaving the tent just now, when he planned to sneak into the tent, he was just planning to use this transfiguration to change his irrelevance, disguised as an officer, and mixed into the tent.

However, when performing the transformation technique, he suddenly had a whim to see if he could use the power of nightmare to imitate the transformation process of the amoeba recorded in the notes while performing the transformation technique.

And the final result of this sudden whim was somewhat beyond his expectations. Not only his facial features were completely changed, but his body was also completely changed according to his idea. Through perfect control of his skills, he easily figured out the condition of his body, and found that the overall shrinkage of his body was not the kind of musculoskeletal compression that he expected, but a completely different body. , even the blood is different, only the psionic energy or the soul has not changed.

After the power of nightmare completed the transformation process of the amoeba, Leo could only rely on spiritual energy to maintain the transformed form, and the spiritual energy consumed in it was far more than that of casting transformation alone. It was completely beyond Leo's expectations. When he was inspected outside the tent, he almost failed to successfully perform the hinting technique.

In the process of using this metamorphosis with psionic energy combined with the power of nightmares, Leo also discovered the development potential of this metamorphosis, such as becoming some kind of higher creature. According to Leo's vision, the final form of this metamorphosis should be able to transform into some kind of high-level sacred object, and at the same time possess the innate ability of that high-level creature, just like the extraordinary transformation in the ancient druid way that Velen has disappeared same body.

According to the legends recorded in some books, the extraordinary transformation in the way of the ancient druid is said to be able to transform into a natural god through the medium given by some natural gods, and possess the divine power of the natural gods, but in Leo's view , the final form of my current transformation technique should be similar to the extraordinary transformation, and may even be more advanced.

It's just that these are just Leo's ideas. If you want to further improve the transfiguration, you first need to obtain a complete ancient transfiguration. In addition, you need live amoeba as the research object, and you need the medium of those high-level holy objects. No matter which of these conditions it is very difficult for the current Leo to obtain.

Therefore, the idea of ​​improving Transfiguration only flashed in Leo's mind, and then he temporarily put it aside.

Leo found a slightly suitable place on the tree to sit down, hung a backpack with a lot of notes and books on a branch in front of him, then took out a research note from it, and looked through it carefully.

Leo's reading speed was very fast, and Sir Darwin himself was very careful, and he didn't record too many core contents in his notes. Most of them were experimental data written in cipher symbols, and the rest were some A sudden idea.

Although there are not many things that Leo can understand, through the parts that he can understand, coupled with the conversations he overheard before, he has already had a certain understanding of the research projects that Sir Darwin has been engaged in in the Institute of the French Empire over the years. learn.

It was a little different from Leo's guess when he first saw the family members appearing in the French Imperial Army. In fact, the French Empire was not absorbed into its various departments by the Empire after Louis X became king. As early as the previous two generations of emperors were in power, the empire began to secretly recruit those family members who were hunted down by the night watchman organization and the Orthodox Church.

However, because of the family's suspicion of human beings and the influence of the source of chaos in the family, there are not many family members who really take refuge in the Faran Empire, are willing to accept the constraints of the imperial laws, and become spies of the empire.

After decades of development, there are now more than 300 family members in the imperial army, and of these 300 people, only less than 50 people can perfectly hide the family-like mutant organs on their bodies, and the remaining 200 people They are all like monsters, and they have to hide their faces when they go out, even in the military camp here.

When Louis X was still the Duke of Devin, he followed the advice of Rupert Fitz, who had not yet betrayed at the time, and tried his best to win over those family spies who were generally discriminated against by the imperial dignitaries, and made some promises to these people. Afterwards, a series of events happened in the imperial capital, which proved that the matter of attracting the family members was very correct, and at the same time, it also made Louis X truly see how powerful the core members of the family members are, so he thought of man-made family members. And Sir Darwin is the best person to take charge of this project.

Sir Darwin has not given up his taboo research over the years. Although in the research institute, he cannot obtain a large amount of research materials and funding as in the past, the continuous research and experiments have kept his research projects from going backwards.

Therefore, when Sir Darwin took over the project and received the promise of Louis X, he also released some of his own research results without hesitation, and integrated the artificial family project into his research on human evolution.

According to Sir Darwin's notes, the artificial family is simply to extract the original cells from the blood of the family by making alien cells, and then implant them into a suitable human body to complete cell fusion and transformation. married family.

Because there have been similar experiments before, it is not very difficult for Sir Darwin to repeat the operation now. In just one year, he completed the preliminary experiment of the artificial family and produced several successful experimental products.

Afterwards, with the support of the empire, he made every effort to cultivate the artificial family members, which doubled the number of artificial family members in the French Empire. In a notebook, he recorded a statistic at the end of last year. The number of them has more than 700 people, which is more than twice that of the natural family members.

These artificial family members performed exceptionally well in this military operation of the French Empire. With their powerful strength, extraordinary ability and almost cold state of mind, in Leo's view, they were simply a group of transformed human soldiers of the Earth Federation.

However, this kind of artificial family also has a lot of flaws. For example, once the strength of the artificial family is fixed, it is impossible to grow any more, and the life span is much shorter than that of ordinary people. Even if there is no disease or disaster, it is difficult to live Forty years old.

The most important point is that these artificial family members cannot achieve the mass production required by Louis X, because the cultivation tank medicinal liquid required to cultivate these artificial family members is very rare, and it can only be produced in the dangerous primeval forests of the Mozambique continent. There is output.

However, it is clear that Sir Darwin has no intention of continuing to study the artificial family. He is just planning to use the core technology of the artificial family as a bargaining chip in exchange for the research projects and funding he wants from Louis X, such as the medical school's god-making project.

What is the complete god-making plan of the medical school? Leo is still unclear for the time being. The information he saw on the workbench of the tent just now when the medical school was evacuated only mentioned part of the content of human body transformation, and from these Judging from the content of the information, it is more like a manual left deliberately, in order to attract the interest and attention of people like Sir Darwin.

In those materials, the School of Medicine mentions that a relatively mature transformation plan has been separated from the god-making project. By implanting heterogeneous organs with different powers into the human body, the human body can obtain the power contained in the organ itself.

This method made Leo think of the transformed people of the Earth Federation. Both of them were implanted with heterogeneous organs, and they both obtained powerful power from the organs. However, in the Earth Federation, human transformation is already a fairly mature technology, but even so, the success rate of transformation is not very high, only 30% of the success rate, and there will be rejection reactions without exception. In the age of the steam industry like Vinylon World, even if there are powers such as witchcraft to escort the transformation, the success rate may not be very high.

This also made Leo think of the mysterious wizard who helped Rembrandt make life-support machines and configure medicinal liquids. From his method of combining human bodies and steam machines, he should be very suitable for this method of human body transformation. Participated in the God-making project of the medical school.

However, what makes Leo feel regretful is that the ring of plague is not mentioned in these remaining materials, but in some incomplete meeting minutes, it is mentioned that the medical school is going to implement a The plan did not specify what the plan was, but only marked a danger level and an evacuation plan.

According to Leo's understanding of the classification standard of the medical school's danger level, this danger level represents the dangerous things that include the great plague, but this does not mean that the medical school holds the ring of plague and is planning to arrange a big plague in Miria City. Substantial evidence of plague.

Just as Leo was looking through these notes, a burst of sirens suddenly sounded in the camp not far away, followed by a large number of soldiers who began to defend tightly inside and outside the camp, and even sent teams of patrols to deal with it. The surrounding woods were searched meticulously.

There was almost no need to guess too much, just judging from the big tent with three layers of tight protection inside and outside, Leo already knew very well that what he did might be discovered, and this was exactly the result he wanted.

Leo ignored the patrolling soldiers who searched the surrounding woods. Under the ingenious camouflage combining witchcraft and tactical concealment, even if the searcher looked up under the tree, he might not be able to see Leo sitting on the tree.

Sure enough, a group of patrolling soldiers passed under the tree where Leo was, and the soldiers who passed by repeatedly looked up several times to confirm, but they couldn't see Leo sitting on the tree.

At this moment, several teams of soldiers drove out from the barracks not far away and directly entered the mine camp to support the defensive personnel in the camp.

As the saying goes, the mine camp became fully manned after the support soldiers joined, but the military camp on the other side had to send heavy troops to guard the train station and the railway along the way, so the supplementary defense in the military camp seemed to be stretched. There are some loopholes in the outer defensive circle, and even the patrol route inside the barracks has some problems.

However, Leo did not leave immediately to go to the military camp not far away, but continued to wait for a while.

Things really went as he expected. He saw another group of soldiers sent out from the barracks. This group of soldiers did not join the defense work of the mine barracks, but went directly to the entrance of the mine tunnel and set up a small outpost at the entrance of the mine tunnel. This reduces the possibility of others sneaking in.

The deployment of manpower again made the defense loopholes on the barracks even more. For ordinary people, that kind of defense still has a little deterrent effect, but for Leo, this kind of defense is almost nothing.

After all, he has memorized all the above content, and the book itself has lost its effect, so when Leo left, he didn't take the backpack that stored those notes, and he didn't fall under the tree. Jumping up and down, like a dexterous black panther, it moved silently outside the barracks.

Compared to the tents in the mine camp, which were all made of materials that interfere with psionic energy, the military camp was obviously not as good. All the tents were made of the most common and cheap canvas. The real elites in the barracks have been sent to the train station and mine barracks not far away in batches, and the rest are all inexperienced recruits.

Leo didn't even perform witchcraft at all, he sneaked into the warehouse of the military camp, changed into an officer's uniform of the Faran Empire, and then walked directly to the commander's tent of the military camp.

Although, the various clues and intelligence collected from now indicate that the French Empire officer who had colluded with the medical school to traffic people before was the logistics officer of this military camp, and the commander of the military camp did not understand these things.

But in Leo's view, this statement is completely untenable. Although he can't be sure how deep the commander's involvement in the medical school's plan is, he can be sure that the commander should know some useful information.

Leo came to the training ground not far from the main camp tent, pretending to be watching the recruit training in the training ground, and at the same time checking the situation in the tent with the spirit net, and the information fed back by the spirit net surprised him a bit. Because he saw someone who shouldn't be here.