The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"How did you know that it was the sacrificial pot used by the ancient priests of the King of the Hill?" The moment Leo opened the door, the woman standing at the door asked impatiently.

Leo didn't answer immediately, but looked up and down the woman in front of him, and the first impression this woman gave him was that a strong, rock-like man is usually used to describe a man, but now it's on the woman in front of him. It is also very suitable.

With a tall figure not much worse than Leo's, the exposed body surface with blue veins, and muscles that don't seem to be more than hard, this woman with a barely feminine appearance looks extremely sturdy, even at this moment. Wearing a pair of special mechanical eyes can't make her more scholarly.

"Who are you?" Although Leo had guessed the woman's identity, he still asked knowingly.

Just like the other person's appearance, the woman raised her hand very bluntly, and introduced herself: "Aisha Tasia Jinna, Duchess of the Kingdom of Maris, professor of Bavolski School of History."

"Leo Dodd, traveler." Leo said, shaking each other's hand.

The female scholar said bluntly: "You don't seem like a traveler."

"You don't look like a history professor." Leo also replied.

As a woman, Aisha seems to have long been used to other people's strange gazes, and she didn't show any displeasure at Leo's words. Instead, she looked at Leo with appreciation. Because she could feel that there was no annoying malice in Leo's words, it was just a matter of fact, this was the first time she encountered such a situation.

After looking around, Aisha took out a cash check from the General Chamber of Commerce Bank from her pocket and handed it to Leo, and then asked very formally: "The problems you answered just now were raised by me. I came to you not only because I want to In addition to handing over the reward to you, I also want to ask why you judge which pot is the sacrificial pot of the ancient priest of the hill king?"

Leo took the check, put it in his pocket without looking at the number on it, and asked, "I'd also like to know why you think it's a sacrificial jug?"

"How do you know?" Elsa couldn't hide her surprise on her face.

Leo explained: "It's very simple. The question you asked reveals a lot. If you don't know anything about that thing, you won't ask who is using it, but what era it was in. , What is the use of it, etc., since you are asking who is using it, obviously you already have an answer in your heart, but you are not sure."

"Are you a detective? You know so many things with just one sentence?" Aisha said in amazement.

Because Aisha's voice was so loud that people passing by in the corridor couldn't help but look over. Those people didn't recognize Aisha as a woman at first, but soon they became aware of it, and their eyes on Aisha also changed. It's a little weird.

Leo frowned, opened the door completely, stepped aside, and said, "This is not a place to talk, let's come in and talk!"

"That's good." Although Aisha has long been used to the abnormal sights of other people, it is also a good thing to be able to avoid these sights. After all, not everyone likes this kind of high-profile situation.

After entering the room, Leo closed the door, asked Aisha to sit down in the living room, asked what he wanted to drink, and poured a glass of mead for himself and Aisha respectively.

After Leo handed the honey wine in his hand to Aisha, he sat on the sofa opposite Aisha, took a sip of the wine, and said: "Although the sacrificial jug in your hand is ordinary in shape, it is actually made very close. Manufactured according to the conditions required for the ancient sacrificial ceremony, in addition to the clay required to make the sacrificial jug, there is also bone meal ground from the priest's rib."

"How do you know that the ingredients are mixed with bone meal?" Aisha put the mead on the table and asked again.

"I have some special abilities." Leo replied vaguely, and then said meaningfully: "Just like your body."

The expression on Aisha's face instantly became serious, and she involuntarily put her hands on her waist, trying to grab something, but it was in vain. Obviously she forgot that she was here to discuss knowledge, not to fight.

"Don't be nervous, I have no malice." Leo said, spreading his hands.

Aisha was silent for a while, and asked tentatively: "Are you here to catch me?"

"No." Renault said truthfully, "Before you knocked on the door, I didn't even meet you."

Aisha asked puzzledly: "Then how do you know..."

Before Aisha finished asking, Leo raised his hand, and a ball of light floated from his palm and hung in the air, adding a layer of light to the somewhat dim room.

"Are you that kind of person too?" Aisha looked at the light on Leo's hand with a shocked expression.

Leo dissipated the light ball created by the spiritual energy in his hand, and did not answer Aisha's inquiry, but gave Aisha a hint.

When he saw Aisha's body that was different from ordinary people just now, Leo felt something strange in his heart, but this feeling was not so strong, until he let Aisha into the room and the two passed by, he felt something strange. It is certain that the Maris Kingdom lady in front of her should be a family member, and it is likely to be the divine family member of the hill king.

So Leo tried to test it just now, and the result was as he expected, the other party obviously knew about his abnormality, but the other party obviously didn't know about the dark world such as family members and wizards, and seemed to have a lot of knowledge about the things in the dark world Big disgust.

So, Leo also tentatively retorted: "Aren't you also this kind of person?"

"No, I'm not." Aisha denied without hesitation, but knowing that her words were not convincing, she fell silent immediately.

Leo felt that the other party seemed to be struggling, so he didn't say anything to disturb him, but just sat quietly on the sofa, waiting for the other party to speak again.

After a while, Aisha raised her head, drank the mead on the table, then looked at Leo with complicated eyes, and said, "Can you tell me, what are you guys?"

"Don't you know the dark world?" Leo asked back.

"The dark world? I don't know what the dark world is." Aisha seemed to hear this name for the first time, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Does the dark world refer to people like you?"

Leo thought for a while and asked, "What's the matter with your body? If I'm right, your body shouldn't be like this before, right?" After the words fell, he saw Aisha's face showing With a look of embarrassment, he added: "If you don't want to say it, forget it."

While speaking, his hand was pinched into the Axii Sign without showing any trace, and at the same time, he secretly exerted the power of the Demon Hunter's Sign.

For Leo, although he has been completely immersed in learning various languages ​​and sorting out knowledge in the past two days, he is also suffering from the strong curiosity in his heart. The curiosity aroused by the incident did not weaken because of the past, but became more and more intense in the past two days, giving him the urge to go out and explore all the time.

Leo knew very well that apart from the problem in his mind, the current abnormal situation may be related to the memory he lost, or it may be related to his willpower far surpassing the evolution of his body and spiritual power. Can't figure out any way to fix this.

However, the appearance of Aisha now and bringing her secrets can be said to be at the right time. Although this cannot completely solve his current psychological weirdness, it can at least help him vent part of his curiosity.

Aisha, who didn't know that she had become the object of Leo's curiosity, was silent for a while. Although she was a little reluctant in her heart, she felt that Leo was a trustworthy person for some reason. In the end, she narrated her experience and said: : "This starts with an archaeological investigation of the remains of the First Dynasty five years ago..."

It turned out that Aisha's body was no different from that of ordinary people at first, and she was just an ordinary history professor. But speaking of her professorship, there is some water, because her aristocratic status has gained a lot of points in the discussion of the promotion of the professorship within the college, because the people who competed for the professorship with her are all of civilian origin. It has become the biggest disadvantage in the eyes of the academy council members who are all aristocrats.

Unlike the Vinylon Continent, the three major kingdoms of the Minsk Continent still maintain a feudal system close to that of the ancient kingdoms. The nobles are the main body of the kingdom, the king is the largest nobleman, the clergy are the spiritual pillars of the kingdom, the common people are the lambs, and the slaves are the social bottom layer.

When the countries on the other two continents began to break away from religious control and moved towards the two paths of centralization and democracy and freedom, the Minsk continent still maintained a state of independence. For example, in the Kingdom of Marris, the Church of the Hill King is the true controller of the kingdom's power. Although the king has rights, they are bestowed by the Church of the Hill King, because the successive kings of the Kingdom of Maris are all priests of the Hill King.

After Aisha became a professor of history, a lot of rumors spread in the School of History that Aisha became a professor relying on her aristocratic status, which also caused dissatisfaction among the students and teachers of civilian background in the college, and these dissatisfaction dared not target the college council. I can only go for Aisha, so the pressure on Aisha is doubled, and she has to look for opportunities to prove herself.

In an auction, Aisha accidentally bought an ancient book left by the first dynasty, and deduced from the ancient book the location of the famous spiritual temple of the hill king during the first dynasty.

Aisha felt that this was an opportunity to prove her knowledge and ability, so she secretly organized people to dig at the site of the temple ruins.

Things went smoothly at first. They easily dug up a large number of religious relics in the location deduced by Aisha, and then went further to find the main hall of the temple.

Only later, the archaeological team excavated a storage room on the side of the temple, and found a large amount of treasure there that had not been transferred in time. Bandit's attention.

The bandits rushed to the excavation site overnight and raided the archaeological team. Because Aisha was studying the ancient religious buildings of the First Dynasty overnight, she did not return to the barracks where the archaeological team was located, escaped the fatal attack, and before the bandits arrived, A tunnel leading to the interior of the temple was dug during the day, and hid in the temple that was not buried by dust.

Because of fear, fatigue during the day, and the lack of air circulation caused by the closed environment, Aisha quickly fell into a coma. Before she felt the danger, she passed out.

It's just that when Aisha woke up the next day, she was already outside the temple. Those bandits had already robbed everything, killed all members of the archaeological team, and left the archaeological site. The well-preserved temple at night has completely collapsed at this moment, and the weirder thing is that there is an extra pottery bottle in her arms that she didn't have before.

After experiencing a series of follow-up events, Aisha returned to the academy, gained the respect of the academy with her experiences and discoveries, and it can be said that she achieved her original purpose. However, she was not happy, because she found that after experiencing the coma of losing the memory of the night in the temple, some changes had taken place in her body.

At first, the food intake increased, then the strength increased, and then the body became stronger. After a few months, she found that her height, weight, and muscles were gradually increasing and became more and more obvious.

She thought it was a disease, so she went to many doctors, but found that it was useless, and the place that should be changed would still change. In just one year, she changed from a petite pure woman to a tall and strong woman. , A woman with swollen muscles.

While looking for her colleagues to solve her physical problems, Aisha was also looking for the cause of her physical changes. After repeated searches, she found that the problem was probably related to the pottery pot she was holding when she left the temple.

Because she discovered from an ancient religious book of the First Dynasty that the religion of the hill king at that time had a temple guard called the Son of the Rock, and those descriptions about the Son of the Rock were very similar to her physical changes, and at the same time in the article It was also mentioned that the sacrificial pot was needed to create the son of rock, so she quickly thought that the pottery pot she carried out of the temple was the sacrificial pot.

However, just when Aisha was about to further study the changes in her body and find a solution to her physical problems, she was inexplicably chased and killed, and became a wanted criminal of the Maris Kingdom. With the revoked title, even the Church of the Hill King sent people to arrest her.

If it wasn't for her amazing strength, and her body is hard enough to withstand bullets, crossbows and cold weapons, she might have died on the way to hunt.

What's even more inexplicable is that during a chase, she was almost caught by someone, but suddenly a giant bear that was as big as a carriage appeared, took her down, and said inexplicably Some words about what race, what blood, etc., and finally told her that the best way to avoid being hunted down was to come to Venaya Port.

Because she couldn't think of any other good way, she finally chose to obey the simplicity and came to Venaya Port. Fortunately, as the man said, she was not hunted down again, and fortunately she was able to entrust Venaya's General Chamber of Commerce Bank Unfreeze part of her property that was frozen in the bank in Maris, and transfer it to the bank of the General Chamber of Commerce to provide her living needs in Venaya Port.