The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hearing Bai Lu's rhetorical question, Leo couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face, as if he was analyzing the connotation of Bai Lu's words.

After knowing that Louis X signed a sacrifice contract with the Black Forest to sacrifice seven mountains to the Black Forest as a hunting ground, Leo directly believed that Louis X was forced to do it, and that the Black Forest wanted to use his influence expand to other places.

But now from Bailu's mouth, Leo heard another version, everything was requested by Louis X, so the signing of the sacrificial contract is worth deliberating.

Why did Louis X take the initiative to sacrifice seven mountains to the Black Forest? What are the benefits of doing this? At this moment, two questions appeared in Leo's mind.

Allowing the army to pass through the Black Forest smoothly, so as to achieve the purpose of raiding Miria City, destroying the United Kingdom, and reunifying the Faran Empire. This benefit seems to be in line with the exchange conditions of the contract, but when you think about it carefully, you can feel this. There is something wrong in it.

Because from the various actions of the French Empire after it entered the West of France, it can be felt that the purpose of the French Empire's march into West France was not to destroy the United Kingdom at all. Otherwise, the French Empire should use various methods to continuously attack The defense line of the Dibia Mountains even considered convening a fleet in Leon Port to bypass the Dibia Mountains from the sea.

It has been almost half a year since the army of the Falan Empire entered the city of Miria. What they did was more to wipe out the forces of the United Kingdom in the city of Miria, and to block the troops of the United Kingdom from the south of the Dibia Mountains. On the side, there is no move to increase troops to the south at all. It can be seen from this that the surprise attack of the French Empire was not aimed at the United Kingdom at all.

Since he did not intend to destroy the United Kingdom and unify the original territory of the French Empire, then Louis X used the seven mountain ranges as a condition of the sacrificial contract, and the benefit in exchange would definitely not be allowing the army to pass through the Black Forest. That's all, there should be other benefits that make Louis X more excited.

At this time, Leo carefully recalled all his experiences after returning to Velen. The white deer at the side saw that Leo was thinking about something, but he didn't bother him. Instead, he turned to pay attention to the movement above the refugee camp.

Although he showed full confidence in front of Leo just now, in fact he was also a little uneasy. After all, the God of Darkness was so powerful in the past that even the golden giant deer didn't have enough ability to suppress him. Whether such a powerful existence arranged for his own resurrection will be destroyed by him, he has no idea. So at this moment, he is ready. In case something goes wrong there, he will take the risk of using some power that should not be used to completely solve the God of Darkness.

A wave of invisible psychic energy came out from the black shadow like a howling of pain with psychic energy. A smile appeared on the face of the white deer, and Leo was also shaken by this psychic roar that ordinary people could not hear. Woke up in contemplation.

At the same time, some Black Forest family members and monsters controlled by the divine family members in the periphery seemed to have received the command to charge, and rushed towards the camp like crazy, regardless of the traps set by Leo.

It's a pity that Leo's trap circle has been trimmed and has become more perfect. If he tentatively infiltrates from one direction step by step, he may still have a chance to break through the trap circle, but now he is irrationally attacking from all directions of the trap circle. Simultaneous impact, leaving only a place of corpses and a large number of crazy monsters controlled by the riot rune.

When half of Leo's attention was still on the problem in his heart, and the other half of his attention fell on the dead monsters at the bottom of the black forest, he seemed to be inspired by some kind of inspiration, and immediately appeared in his mind. I made a guess that the real benefit of Louis X signing the contract is actually the seven mountains.

Although judging from the sacrificial contract, Louis X seems to have sold the seven mountains and ceded them to the Black Forest, but in fact the control of these mountains is still in the hands of Louis X. The hunting ground of monsters, but looking at it from another perspective, it might not be the hunting ground of Louis X.

Most of the industries of the French Empire are located in West France, which is centered on Ceylon, that is, the area controlled by the United Kingdom. When Philip declared the independence of the United Kingdom, the industry of the French Empire can be said to have completely collapsed.

Without industrial support, no machinery can operate, let alone Louis X’s airship with the ultimate steam mechanical technology, even ordinary steam crossbows, or even ordinary cold weapons, it is very difficult to manufacture them in large quantities. difficulty.

Although the previous inventory can still support the French Empire for a period of time, this period of time is definitely not long, and it has almost reached its limit in five or six years. This may be why after the United Kingdom declared its independence, there were only some small regional conflicts with the French Empire, and there was never a large-scale legion battle.

Obviously, the collapsed industrial foundation of the French Empire is no longer able to support a large-scale war, and the United Kingdom has seen this, and it should be preparing to completely wipe out the French Empire when it falls to the bottom. .

The leaders of both parties have clearly seen this, but one with strong capital chooses to wait, while the other has been driven to a dead end and chooses to change. In this way, it makes sense that the French Empire will study artificial family members, will work closely with some dark world forces to study various supernatural powers, and will study taboo medical skills with some doctors from the mad school of the medical school, because these methods can undoubtedly be used in the world. In a short period of time, the strength of the French Empire has been increased several times, or even dozens of times.

However, to perfect and implement these methods involving supernatural power requires a lot of experiments, which correspond to a large amount of experimental materials. In addition, the manufacture of artificial family members also requires some organs and high-energy substances of real family members and even mythical creatures. In this way, Louis The contract signed between the Tenth Emperor and the Black Forest is extremely critical.

Now that the seven mountains have become hunting grounds, the monsters and family members of the Black Forest can naturally enter these mountains to hunt prey, and these hunters will also be treated as prey, and their valuable parts will be harvested, just like Thunder As Ou did before.

In this way, the benefits that only the Dibia Mountains, a hunting ground, in the Western Continent can gain from it are definitely far from comparable to that of the Faran Empire in the Eastern Continent. With the support of a steady stream of experimental materials, France will soon The Lan Empire was able to establish a family army composed entirely of supernatural forces.

Such a family unit with various psychic talents may not necessarily be able to defeat ordinary troops with a large number of guns and weapons on the frontal battlefield, but if such a unit abandons all bottom lines, sneaks into the rear, and engages in assassinations, sabotage, etc. , then it can definitely cause damage to the United Kingdom.

One takes the industrial route to strengthen the people and the army, and the other takes the mysterious route to strengthen the people and the strong. Leo is not quite sure which of the two will eventually become the founder of the New French Empire.

However, after trying to understand the reason why the French Empire signed the contract, Leo couldn't help but wonder what benefits the Black Forest gained from it. Is it just to allow the families and monsters of the Black Forest to enter the seven mountains? Leo didn't think that the Black Forest would take a fancy to these, and the Black Forest must have other purposes.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help turning his head to look at the white deer beside him. It was obvious that the white deer who had mastered all the contracts in the Black Forest must know the purpose of signing this contract in the Black Forest, but he didn't want to ask because he felt It may not be a good thing to know too much and be too clear.

"Mortal, have you figured out the question in your heart?" Sensing Leo's gaze, Bai Lu turned to look at Leo and said.

"I really want to understand a lot of things." Leo nodded, but said: "But the more things I want to understand, the more questions I have in my heart."

Bailu bowed his head and approached Leo, and said, "Do you need me to answer it for you?"

Leo shook his head, said what he was thinking truthfully, and said, "No need, I don't want to know too clearly. Knowing too much about some things is not necessarily a good thing."

Bai Lu was a little surprised by Leo's words, and looked at Leo with a little appreciation, and said: "There are fewer and fewer people like you who can see themselves and the situation clearly. Although it is a bit boring, But it can also live longer."

At this time, another desperate cry of psionic energy came out from the black shadow, and then a cyan fluorescent light emerged from the black shadow, tearing the black shadow completely apart, and falling into the refugee camp.

At the same time, the shadows of the stars outside the black shadows also instantly wrapped the black shadows, and penetrated through the irreparable cracks, quickly penetrating.

A sound of desperate psychic energy came out continuously, and it became weaker and weaker, and the surrounding Black Forest family members and monsters who were still attacking the trap defense circle all stopped their crazy actions, and then fled to Dibi by coincidence. In the Sub-Fairyland, the black shadow's psychic cries for help were ignored.

Following the last extremely weak roar, the pure black shadow was completely replaced by the star shadow. It's just that when the last black shadow disappeared, a small spiritual energy storm formed there, and created a small black hole, hitting a gap in the surrounding star shadow, and drilled a hole from the gap. The black shadow flew out rapidly towards the distance.

However, the white deer, which had been prepared long ago, raised its head, and the antlers on its head erupted with a strong light in an instant, and was about to shine towards the black shadow fleeing in the distance, but an unexpected scene made it stop casting the spell it had prepared .

I saw that the black shadow that was fleeing away seemed to be attracted by some invisible force, turned a corner in the air, and flew towards Leo and the others, like a moth to a flame, But when he was about to hit the white deer, he circled in the air and directly hit Leo who was blocked by the huge body of the white deer.

Leo, who didn't have time to defend, could only watch the black shadow penetrate into his body, and then he only felt a strong will trying to impact his will. However, facing the will of Leo's ninth-level psyker, this will, which is already extremely powerful for ordinary people, has no effect at all, just like stabbing a huge city wall with a height of 100 meters and a thickness of tens of meters with a spear.

Afterwards, Leo's gluttony power appeared automatically, swept through his body, and a feeling of fullness that he had never experienced before came from the chaotic stomach, and all kinds of power in his body also increased at this time, but the spirit Energy, the power of gluttony and the power of nightmares only increased by a small part, but the power of shadow increased by more than ten times within a few days of creation, and instantly reached the bottom comparable to the fourth-level psionic power, and Leo felt the shadow There seems to be an extra power core in the power, just like the energy source on the mech.

At this moment, Leo's attention was all on the changes in his body. He didn't notice that when the power in his body changed, some abnormal phenomena appeared in his whole body, such as black shadows completely enveloping his body, making him and his surroundings The darkness blends into one, and anyone who sees him will unconsciously ignore him.

"Mortal, are you also a divine family member of the God of Darkness?" This abnormal scene also fell into Bai Lu's eyes. Seeing this scene, Bai Lu's eyes showed a strong killing intent undisguised, but this killing intent was very strong. Go back quickly, replaced by a look of doubt, and said to himself: "No, it's not that guy's divine family, but why did the last divine consciousness choose him? Where is the power of shadow on him? Here? What secrets does he have that I haven't discovered?"

The strong curiosity made the white deer couldn't help but want to use some drastic methods to find the secrets inside Leo's body, but at this moment, he suddenly seemed to hear something, and a pair of deer ears that had always been drooping perked up , and turned his head to look in the direction of the Black Forest.

Afterwards, he lowered his head reluctantly, and looked at Leo with great regret, then walked gracefully towards the direction of the Black Forest, his body gradually disappeared.

At this time, Leo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the Gemini in his hand changed from the sacrificial knife mode to the glove mode, and the witchcraft formed by using the power of nightmare was also released again.

In fact, when Bailu was talking to himself, Leo's attention had shifted from the changes in his body to the outside, and he immediately felt Bailu's eyes full of curiosity and obvious malice.

The moment he sensed Bailu's ill intentions towards him, Leo made a move to prepare for a counterattack. If Bailu didn't back away in the end, he would use all the strength and means in his body to hold Bailu's body in place. Then, for a second or two, he used the sacrificial knife to sacrifice the white deer to the lord of turbidity and lightness, even if his actions would offend the one in the black forest.

The sudden departure of the white deer surprised Leo. Although Leo did not open his eyes, he was still able to perceive the movements of the white deer through his supernormal five senses. Now the analysis seems that the white deer was summoned back, and he was able to summon There is probably only one White Deer in the entire Black Forest.