The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Maybe it was driven by Leo's magic power, or maybe it was because Aisha wanted to talk to someone deep in her heart to relieve the pressure for so long. Aisha did not hide anything about her experiences over the years. Once again, and by the time she finished speaking, two hours had passed, and there were four or five more mead wine bottles on the table.

Although, she drank a lot of wine, but Aisha did not get drunk at all, but became more and more energetic. This is also one of the characteristics of her body. According to her, drinking can not only make her sober, but also increase her strength. , Even after drinking that kind of pure alcohol, she was able to gain some supernatural strength in a short period of time, and it was because of this ability that she was able to survive countless pursuits without injury.

"I've already said my things, now it's your turn." Aisha put down the wine glass in her hand, stared at Leo expressionlessly, her faintly tense muscles showed her thoughts, if Leo couldn't say something to satisfy her She will make Leo suffer a lot, after all, after drinking a lot of high-altitude mead, she also has enough confidence.

Leo didn't care about Aisha's attitude, thought for a while, and then asked: "Do you know the family?"

"Family? I really wonder where I saw this word before." Aisha was taken aback, with a thoughtful expression on her face, and asked, "How do you pronounce this word in Maris?"

Leo said it again in Maris, and repeated it in the ancient Maris pronunciation he learned from the dream world.

Aisha suddenly said: "Ah! I remembered, there is this word in the ancient parchment scroll of that temple. This is the ancient Maris language. This word has one more consonant than the modern Maris language. and two endings." As she spoke, she asked suspiciously: "What is this family? After I found the parchment, I was attacked. Although the parchment was preserved, it was taken by the academy. I have always been curious about the content on it. Is this family related to me?"

Leo explained: "Family is actually a general term for a race. People who are infected by any kind of mysterious power and eventually cause their blood to mutate can be called family."

Aisha froze for a moment, and said, "You mean that I am a family member, and my body is also infected by some mysterious power."

Leo nodded and continued: "However, in the dark world, there are many categories of family members. According to my understanding, apart from the classification of ethnic groups, they can be roughly divided into three categories. The first category is to passively accept the mystery. The infection of power can't control the mutation of the blood, the body also has abnormal changes, the appearance is like a monster, this category accounts for the vast majority of the family members, and the name of the family members in the dark world generally refers to these family members."

"Monsters? You mean those monsters in fairy tales?" Aisha was completely attracted by Leo's words.

"Some are, some are not." Leo answered briefly, and then continued: "There is another type that has formed a stable bloodline mutation and can control the alienation of the body. It has been divided into a new group that is different from humans, such as vampires and werewolves."

"Vampires, werewolves?" Aisha was completely stunned. These two monsters were definitely her childhood fairy tale nightmare. Almost all the fairy tales and fairy tales in the Kingdom of Maris contained these two monsters more or less. The legends about these two monsters all come from Asha County in the Kingdom of Marris.

Leo continued: "In addition to the previous two types, there is another type called the god family, the divine family, or the divine power family. As the name suggests, these family members are all bloodline mutations affected by the power of the gods. Some of them are Passive influence, some are the result of active request."

Aisha took a deep breath, calmed down the fluctuation in her heart, and confirmed to Leo: "What you said is not a joke, is it?"

Leo said calmly: "I don't think I'm a person who likes to joke with strangers."

Aisha didn't speak, she was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "Am I a family member of the gods?"

"Why do you think so?" Leo didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

Aisha said in a deep voice: "Because in some of the ancient books I saw, it was described that the king of the hill had a temple guard called the son of the rock. Their situation is very similar to mine."

"Yes, you are indeed the son of the rock." Leo nodded, and said: "The son of the rock is the darling of the hill king. They were transformed by the hill king himself with divine power, and eventually became the strongest church fighters of the hill king. Their power Similar to the paladins and adjudicators of the Orthodox Church, almost all the religious wars launched by the Church of the Ancient Hill Kings can see these sons of the rock. Although you are not a son of the rock, your ancestors must have been a son of the rock , and his status is very high, so the divine power he received is also the purest, and the bloodline mutation is also the most complete, otherwise, it would be impossible to completely mutate your bloodline after so many generations."

"No, if I am the son of the rock, then I should have a high status in the church of the hill king, why am I wanted and arrested?" Aisha asked full of doubts:

Leo explained: "This involves some secrets about the Church of the Hill King. I don't know exactly what happened. I just mentioned it from some related documents. For unknown reasons, all the children of the Rock betrayed the Hill King. , was besieged and suppressed by the Church of the Hill King, so in the current Church of the Hill King, there is no such establishment as Son of Rock, and even the name has become a taboo, and it is difficult for you to find relevant content."

"How? How could this be?" Aisha didn't know how to face her situation for a while. Although she still had doubts about Leo's words, she actually agreed with this statement in her heart, but still There were still a few questions that bothered her, so she had to ask, "Mr. Dodd, you also said just now that the blood of the god family needs the power of the gods to mutate. Why do I..."

"You already have the answer, but you just didn't pay attention," Leo reminded, "Don't forget to sacrifice the pot."

"Sacrifice pot?" Aisha was still a little puzzled.

Leo continued to explain: "Although the blood of the Son of the Rock needs the influence of the mountain king's divine power to be awakened and mutated, there is another method that can also do it, and that is the sacrificial pot. Your luck is very good , there was a massacre around the temple at that time, and you happened to enter the temple, and there was a usable sacrificial pot in the temple just now, and finally all the conditions were fulfilled. The souls of the victims of the massacre were sacrificed The sacrificial pot absorbs it and becomes an external force that stimulates your bloodline, and your bloodline is so pure, it is finally perfectly stimulated to become a new son of rock."

Hearing that the power to mutate her blood came from the soul of her colleagues, Aisha's face became extremely ugly. She quickly stood up, walked to the wine cabinet, took another bottle of wine, poured a glass, and swallowed down.

After taking a long breath, Aisha couldn't help asking again: "Is there a way to get me back to my original state?"

"As far as I know, bloodline mutation is irreversible." Leo replied truthfully: "However, you can try to control the power in the bloodline, so that this power is blocked when not in use. In this case, your The body should be able to remain the same as ordinary people in normal times."

"Is there another method?" Aisha's eyes lit up when she heard the words, she looked at Leo expectantly, and asked, "Do you know this method of controlling the power of the blood?"

"I don't know." Leo shook his head and said, "Because I'm not a family member, I don't know much about how the family members control blood."

Aisha couldn't help showing disappointment on her face, but soon she suddenly thought of something and said, "According to what you mean, as long as you are a family member, you may know how to control the bloodline power, right?"

Leo nodded and said: "I know a blood race. She is no different from ordinary people in normal times, but she doesn't like to bask in the sun, but when she exerts her strength, she can become a blood race and fight."

Aisha is obviously also a very adventurous person. When she heard about vampires, she didn't show fear or disgust. Instead, she was full of curiosity, and her curiosity was involuntarily transferred to Leo, and she couldn't help asking : "Aren't you a family member?"

"Of course not, as I said at the beginning, I'm different from you." Leo said without hiding his identity, "I should be considered a wizard."

"Wizard?" Aisha looked at Leo curiously, and asked, "The kind of wizard who uses a crucible to refine medicine and lives in the forest to control animals with witchcraft?"

Leo smiled and said: "I can refine medicine, but I don't use a crucible. After all, test tubes and pharmaceutical equipment used in medical experiments are much easier to use than crucibles. As for controlling animals, I am not good at controlling people. .”

Aisha was slightly taken aback, as if thinking of something, looked at Leo with scrutiny, and said, "I was controlled by you just now?"

"No." Leo shook his head, and without waiting for the other party to relax, he added: "However, I did use witchcraft to influence your spirit, so that you can say more things."

After knowing that she was affected by witchcraft just now, the worry that Aisha had just disappeared, and now she is more curious, and recalling the situation after meeting Leo carefully, she did not feel any abnormality at all. It also made her more curious about witchcraft.

"Can you tell me about the dark world?" After seeing the magical witches, Aisha became more curious about this new world like a newborn baby, and she gradually became sure that Leo didn't care about her. Malicious, so just keep asking about other things about the mysterious world.

Leo didn't hesitate to answer, just like Aisha told all her experiences just now, he also talked about the dark world in detail, including family members, gods, churches and wizards Waiting for all the mysterious things, hearing Aisha exclaiming again and again, she couldn't help standing up from the sofa many times, and walked around the room excitedly.

It’s no wonder that Aisha has such a reaction. She herself is a person who likes to explore the mysteries of the world. Otherwise, she would not spend money to hire an archaeological team just because of a little clue, and go to the wilderness to dig. It takes half a year to dig. time.

Now, she knows that a mysterious world is hidden beside her, and that mysterious world contains countless things only seen in myths and fairy tales, and that mysterious world also hides the real world history. This made her completely forget what happened to her and the possible dangers, and she completely focused on exploring a new world, just like the navigating adventurers who discovered the Mosang continent back then.

After Leo stopped introducing the dark world, Aisha immediately stood up, saluted Leo very solemnly, and said sincerely: "Thank you very much, if it wasn't for you, I might not know that there are still people around me." There is such a wonderful world."

"You don't have to thank me," Leo said, shaking his hand, "Even without me, you should be able to get in touch with the dark world in a short time."

"Why do you say that?" Aisha asked puzzled.

Leo reminded: "Have you forgotten how you came to Venaya Port?"

"You mean..." Aisha realized immediately.

Leo replied in the affirmative: "If my expectations are correct, the person who saved you and suggested you come to Venaya Port was a family member, but I don't know what kind of family member he is."

Aisha wondered: "But the problem is that I have been here for almost a year, but I have never encountered any people or things in the dark world, and no one has come to me."

"Although no one came to you, maybe they are watching you secretly." Leo explained: "You have to know that there are enemies in the family, the night watchmen I mentioned before, the adjudicators of the Orthodox Church, and even Some wizards are the enemies of the family, and in ancient times they hunted and killed the family like hunting prey, just like what you encountered in the Kingdom of Marris." He said, seeing the panic on Aisha's face, and comforted her Said: "Compared with ancient times, the situation of the family members is relatively better now. As long as they don't cause trouble, even the family members will not be hunted down for no reason. Even the mortal enemies of the family members such as the night watchmen have begun to accept the family members, so you don't have to worry about it." Someone will pop up out of nowhere and come after you."

"Why did that person want me to come to Venaya Port? Does this place have any special significance for the family?" Aisha calmed down her nervous emotions a little bit, and then asked doubtfully.

"That's what I want to know." Leo frowned, and said, "Vinaya Port is very strange, it seems to be a sanctuary for the family members, and I saw many young family members belonging to different ethnic groups in small groups Walking on the street, you can't see it in other places, and I think that's why that person asked you to come to Venaya Port."

Hearing this, Aisha wanted to say something, but Leo raised his hand to stop her from making a sound, then stood up, turned to the balcony outside the window, and said, "Your Excellency has been listening outside for so long, don't you?" Are you ready to come in and chat?"