The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although Vaschi disrupted their plan in order to prevent Leo from continuing to pursue, and seemed to tell Leo what they planned openly and honestly, and also told Leo the whereabouts of the plague ring, but Leo knew very well Vaschi's public plan to him may not be complete. For example, the follow-up methods of those old nobles of the empire, such as the follow-up arrangements of these calculated imperial soldiers, etc.

However, Leo didn't care. In his opinion, the success of the plan implemented by Vaschi and others has nothing to do with him. As long as he doesn't ask for trouble, he shouldn't be affected.

The only thing that worried him a little at the moment was another person, so he couldn't help but ask, "Where is Sylvia? Sylvia is in your plan..."

"It seems that you still don't know Sylvia Belmont," Vaschi responded quickly, and said with words: "She is not an ordinary person, even if the French Empire and the United Kingdom are destroyed, she Nothing will happen, the reason why she helped Philip is mainly because of the family oath, so you don't have to worry about her at all." Then, she looked at Leo thoughtfully, and said slightly puzzled: "I don't know Why do I feel that you have changed a lot?"

Of course Leo knew the changes in himself, but he wanted to hear about his own changes from other people. After all, some things could be seen more clearly by others, so he asked directly: "Have I changed anything?"

"I don't know how to say it?" Vaschi hesitated for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "It just feels...it feels like you are more like a human? Yes, you are more like a human."

Leo was a little puzzled and said, "What do you mean by that? Wasn't I a human before?"

"You really didn't look like a person before," Vaschi looked at Leo and said, "When I saw you for the first time, you gave me the feeling of a walking corpse."

"A corpse that is alive and walking?" Leo was stunned, and said, "Is it a ghoul?"

"No, it's not a disgusting thing like a ghoul, but a living corpse." Vaschi shook his head with a disgusted expression, and said carefully: "At that time, although you were no different from a human being, I couldn't feel it. You smell of anyone, and your heart is cold, no, this is not a correct description, it should be said that you have no heart."

Hearing this, Leo knew what Vaschi meant. Even though he became Leo Dodd at the beginning, he was still a biochemical person with only a number but no name, even if he used various means to disguise himself as a normal human being. Emotion, but internally is still the essence of a biochemical person. Ordinary people may not be able to see the abnormality from his disguise, but a powerful psyker like Vashj can faintly feel his inner essence.

Now his body, brain and soul have been altered to allow him to have normal human emotions. For example, seeing those suffering refugees, he is no longer as indifferent as before, and his heart is not disturbed. Instead, he will feel some inexplicable sympathy and sadness, even though this feeling will still be controlled by rational thinking, but this This kind of ordinary people's feelings were not felt before.

It's just that he doesn't know what consequences this change of his will bring to him.

"Is my change good or bad?" Leo, who was wondering in his heart, said as if he was talking to himself.

Vaschi, who was sitting opposite, felt that Leo's words were asking himself, so he expressed his feelings directly, saying: "I think it's not bad, I didn't like you in the past, especially the indifferent Rational trading. In the past, you would have negotiated with me the conditions for exchanging information and materials before telling what you experienced in that dream world. Now the way of doing things has changed a lot, at least it makes me feel Less annoying."

Although Leo knew that what Vaschi said was the truth, he didn't like it very much. As his mood changed, he counterattacked a little, saying: "You have changed a lot, if you didn't know it before Talk to me so much."

Vaschi smiled, didn't care about Leo's words, and didn't seem to want to say anything more on this topic, but instead asked, "What are you going to do next?"

"I'm going..." Leo was about to tell his plan when he suddenly felt a strong wave of spiritual energy coming from the direction of the old mine. Among them, he felt a sense of suffocation, and the situation of Vaschi sitting opposite him was the same, his whole person became extremely serious, and the scales on his forehead flashed bursts of dark blue light from time to time.

This explosive psychic energy fluctuation came and went quickly, and it subsided like a tide in less than three seconds. Except for psykers like Leo and Vashj, other ordinary people did not Affected in any way, the barracks outside the tent did not show any abnormalities.

Leo and Vaschi, who had recovered from the impact of the psychic fluctuation, looked at each other, stood up at the same time, walked outside the tent, and looked in the direction of the old mine.

At this moment, Vaschi was using her innate psychic power to perceive the situation over there, while Leo directly used the spiritual vision skill to convert those psychic powers that had not completely dissipated into images and see them in his eyes.

I saw that in the air above the old mine pit, streams of red and black spiritual energy shaped like hot air surged upwards. After reaching a certain height, they spread and opened in all directions as if blocked by some invisible force field. In Leo's eyes, it looked like a huge red and black mushroom.

"What the hell are they doing?" Although Vashki couldn't see every detail of the psychic energy dissipation as clearly as Leo's spiritual vision, her ability was enough for her to perceive clearly the strength and weakness of that psychic energy. The location and even the source, and this also caused a look of surprise on her face, and said: "Could it be that the rumor is true?"

"Do you know what's going on?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

Vaschi nodded slightly, and said, "I know a little bit, now is not the time to explain, let's talk as we walk."

After speaking, I saw her walking quickly towards the outside of the barracks, and Leo followed. Although the imperial soldiers in the barracks had never seen Leo, but because of Vaschi, the guards did not step forward to stop the inquiry, and soon the two walked out of the barracks and walked towards the old mine.

On the way, Vaschi opened his mouth and explained to Leo who followed him: "After you entered No. 9 Golden Oak Street, Rembrandt and I also went to the place where the Eye of Reality was sealed to check the situation..."

But before Vaschi finished speaking, Leo asked a very personal question abruptly, "What is the relationship between you and Rembrandt? I remember before that you were still master and servant?"

Vaschi was stunned, stopped, looked at Leo indifferently, and said angrily: "Can I just be a maid for a lifetime?"

"Sorry." Leo apologized.

"It's none of your business, I was just fired." Vaschi said something vaguely, then moved on, shifted the topic back very bluntly, and said: "At that time, Rembrandt did a lot of research on the truth. He found a rumor in the early days of the establishment of Miria City.”

Leo said: "This rumor should be related to the evil god Eye of Truth, right?"

"Not only the Eye of Truth, but also some other evil gods." Vaschi added, and continued: "In the past, most people thought that Miria City was built on a completely barren swamp, but in fact Miria City was built on a piece of ruins, but no one knew who built the ruins before. So later, there were rumors that a kingdom once ruled the Miria City swamp, Later, because of the discovery of some wizard's items, there were also rumors in the dark world that this place was once ruled by the wizards of the tower. However, the most absurd and unbelievable of all the rumors is the one found by Rembrandt, and Rembrandt thinks that rumor may be true, and the evidence is the banned True Eye."

"What's that rumor?" Leo asked curiously.

Vaschi said in a deep voice: "Prison of the gods, this was once a prison for imprisoning the gods."

This kind of statement sounds ridiculous at first glance. If people in the Orthodox Church hear it, they will definitely degrade the person who said this as a heretic and hunt him down to death. But after hearing this, Leo thinks the same as old Rembrandt. I think this rumor might be true.

Vaschi continued: "Based on this rumor, Rembrandt deduced that in addition to the banning of the Eye of Reality, at least three ancient gods were banned in the surrounding area of ​​Miria City. They are the corrupt Obato, the Swamp Son of the Basilisk and Tataya the Basilisk."

Hearing these three names, relevant information immediately appeared in Leo's mind, and he also thought of the son of the swamp who was killed by him in that mountain village.

Leo said: "When I just returned to Velen, I saw a village in the Dibia Mountains offering sacrifices to the Son of the Swamp."

Vaschi didn't show any surprise, instead, he seemed to be used to it, and said, "With the current situation in Melia City, it is inevitable for these things to appear."

"Isn't the son of the swamp a servant of the swamp gods?" Leo then asked, "Why did you become a god again?"

"That's indeed the information that has been released to the public," Vaschi quickly replied: "However, there are some unpublished information that record that there was a god called the Son of the Swamp at the beginning, but after he disappeared, the people who served him Believers received this name."

Leo couldn't help but wonder again: "How did Rembrandt determine that there were three other ancient gods imprisoned around the city of Miria? And which god did he find?"

"I also asked this question, but he didn't say anything." Vaschi also said quite dissatisfied.

The two had already emerged from the woods at this time. Leo looked at the wall of the old mine camp in front of him and asked, "Do you think the matter of the old mine is related to a certain ancient god who is imprisoned?"

"Yes." Vaschi nodded, and continued: "If I really guessed correctly, then the disturbed ancient god is probably the basilisk Tataya."

Hearing this, Leo's expression became serious, and he didn't continue to ask.

If you want to say which god has the most widespread reputation in the entire Velen world, most people will say it is the Lord of the Sky, and some believers from different sects will say the name of the god they believe in, but if you calculate it from a certain aspect Well, the name Basilisk is definitely the most mentioned god in the world of Velen, but when he is mentioned, he is not worshiped as a god, but as a villain monster, he has become the hero of the success of the warrior in some literary novels. Stepping stones, booty.

In almost every book that mentions warriors, the basilisk will become the hunting target of the warriors. In the book, his head has been cut off countless times, and made into decorations, weapons and equipment, or wizard potions. Or a handful of basilisks.

Only some scholars who are interested in ancient gods know how powerful the basilisk Tataya is. According to the information Leo saw, the basilisk Tataya is a remnant of an ancient dragon and has the blood of an ancient dragon on its body.

For a long time, whether it is the night watchman, the black market and other dark world organizations, or the Orthodox Church that is deeply involved with the gods, they have expressed doubts about whether the ancient dragon really existed, because even though some archaeologists have discovered some huge dragons in some ruins so far. scales, but no one has been able to prove that these scales belong to an ancient dragon, and no one has dug out a complete set of ancient dragon bones.

Among the ancient books handed down from various countries in the Vinylon world, there are very few books that mention ancient dragons, and most of them just regard ancient dragons as a kind of monster.

However, a group of ancient scrolls at least 5,000 years ago were unearthed in the underground palace under an abandoned altar of the mother of plants in the Mogaganu Kingdom on the Mozambique continent more than ten years ago.

By translating the ancient text above, archaeologists and religious scholars discovered that the content recorded on this scroll is actually a creation myth, and this creation myth is completely different from the creation myths circulating in the world. Because it is mentioned in this creation myth that the ruler of the world at the beginning was a powerful creature called an ancient dragon. It was not until the appearance of the gods that the ruling power of the world was taken away from the ancient dragon by the gods, and the ancient dragon was also involved in that war. was completely wiped out.

Because of this ancient scroll, the Velen archaeological community began to be interested in the legendary creature of the ancient dragon, and through various methods proved that the legendary basilisk Tataya is the remnant of the ancient dragon, and also found some ancient books and found that it possessed the ancient dragon. The basilisk Tataya of blood has devoured gods, and has swallowed more than one god. For a long time, he has the title of the world-destroying serpent.

If it is true what Vaschi said, the basilisk Tataya is banned under the mine, then this matter may be troublesome. And Leo also made up his mind at the same time, once it was confirmed that it was really related to the basilisk Tataya, he would leave immediately and would never get involved in this matter again. Because if the content about the basilisk Tataya recorded in the ancient books is true, then his degree of danger is definitely far more than that of the real eye, a false god with no reputation and no strength, because he is absolutely true. Omega-level advanced creatures, and they are combat-type.