The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"We're here!" After walking about a dozen meters in this endless corridor, the crow suddenly called out to Leo, then turned his head to the seemingly empty wall next to him, and said, "Press your hands In that blank space."

If it is an ordinary person, they will definitely not understand where the blank space mentioned by the crow is, and they will just click on the wall casually, but Leo's spiritual vision can easily see the Turing magic circle hidden in the surrounding walls. , Naturally, he would not mistake such an eye-catching blank on the wall.

The cautious Leo hesitated for a moment, and finally followed the crow's request, reaching out and pressing on the blank wall deliberately vacated by Turing's magic circle.

"Use any kind of witchcraft at will," the crow said again.

Leo heard that, without using other powers, he simply used psionic energy to cast the simplest mage's hand.

At the moment when the witchcraft mana of the mage's hand was condensed in the hand, the Turing magic array around the palm was like a lighted lamp, shining bursts of faint white light, gradually spreading, forming the shape of an arch , and then the walls inside the arch began to blur and gradually disappeared, leaving only an entrance that radiated light outward.

"As expected, you were able to open an entrance." Seeing the entrance appear, the crow flapped its wings excitedly, and couldn't help but said.

At first Leo's attention was attracted by the changes on the wall, but then he quickly realized another meaning of the crow's words, turned his head, looked at it thoughtfully, and said in a deep voice: "Don't you see that I can open this entrance?"

"Of course I know." The crow turned his head to the other side in embarrassment, not daring to look at Leo, and said sophistry: "But only 60% sure, and even if you fail, it's nothing, it won't cause you any harm."

Leo said slightly displeased: "I hope that things about my blood will not disappoint me, otherwise..."

"Don't worry, you will never be disappointed." The crow responded with great confidence.

Then, under the urging of the crow, Leo stepped into the light door.

There was hardly any abnormal feeling, just like the entrance and exit of ordinary gates. The moment Leo buried himself in the light gate, the light flickered in front of him, and then he came to a place completely different from the Venaya underground city. .

When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, Leo immediately prepared to hold his breath, cast the Kunen Seal to protect his body, and at the same time retreat back. The reason why he had such a reaction was because he found himself in the void of the universe. On a meteorite.

That's right, the world that the light of light leads to is a meteorite floating in the universe, the surroundings are pitch black, and only a little bit of starlight flickers uncertainly.

However, Leo quickly recovered from his instinctive response, because he found that he did not have the feeling of being in the void of the universe, and his body was not frozen by the cold of the void, blood vessels, skin and other organs There is also no expansion and cracking due to the vacuum environment, and the surrounding environment is more like an ordinary environment without any change.

"Is this a hallucination?" Leo asked.

"Of course not. This is a demiplane created by the tower wizard. Can't you see the magic circles that block the void?" The crow yelled and pointed to the top of his head.

Leo also raised his head when he heard the words, and saw that the Turing magic circle above his head seemed to be attached to an oval transparent eggshell, covering the current land under his feet. At the same time, Leo, who calmed down, also found that there are many dead things on this land. It can be seen that this place used to be a garden full of plants, and there is a path at the foot, and the end of the path looks like a pool. There are some stone tables around, and all kinds of items are placed on them.

Seeing all this, Leo quickly understood what it was here, and what the artificial demiplane the crow was talking about was.

This artificial demiplane is not a man-made subspace as Leo thought, nor is it a fragment of subspace. In fact, it has nothing to do with subspace.

Just like the judgment he made when he first saw this place, this place is a meteorite. The tower wizard captured a meteorite suspended in the universe with an unknown and powerful method, and then transformed the meteorite into a void garden through witchcraft. Then use the principle similar to the space door to create a passage leading to this empty garden.

This kind of technology made Leo think of the Psychic Academy of the Earth Federation. Although he had never been to the Psychic Academy, he knew from some rumors that the Psychic Academy seemed to be built on the meteorite in the void of the universe. The abandoned high tower void garden is almost the same.

"How many similar demiplanes are there in that passage?" Leo asked the crow.

"I don't know." The crow shook his head and said, "I remember that some little ghosts who were studying in the tower wanted to find out how many demiplanes there were, and finally found more than 3,000 doors. A different demiplane."

"Who created this?" Leo couldn't help asking.

"Planeswalker." The crow said an unfamiliar word.

Leo asked a little puzzled: "Planeswalker? Is it a certain type of wizard?"

"A planeswalker is a planeswalker, not some kind of wizard." The crow shook his head and re-explained, but the result after the explanation was still very confusing.

Leo could only think that the planeswalker might be a certain wizard profession, just like the difference between a battle wizard and an ordinary wizard, so he didn't dwell on this question anymore, and asked instead: "Why did we come here? The difference between here and me Is it related to blood?"

"This is the garden of elements built by the planeswalker. Although it has withered, there are still some things that can be used, especially for you." The crow flapped its wings and flew from Leo's shoulder as he spoke. Get up, fly towards the pool ahead, and shout to Leo: "Follow me, follow me."

Hearing this, Leo immediately followed up, and looked around and at the starry sky outside the protective cover of the sky magic circle from time to time, quickly recorded the positions of those twinkling stars, and prepared to see if he could pass the comparison when he had time in the future. Use these star maps to find out the star field you are in now.

Soon Leo came to the pool, and the crow landed on a stone pillar next to the pool first. After seeing Leo coming here, he pointed to the pool with his wings and motioned Leo to look over.

The moment Leo's eyes fell into the pool, his whole attention was immediately attracted by the situation inside the pool.

I saw that the pool was full of gravel. Judging from the overall shape of the gravel, it should be the fragments of a certain stone pillar. Leo's attention was attracted by the gravel because the gravel The patterns on the surface, he knows these patterns, these patterns are the patterns on the stone throne, the distorted patterns on the huge stone throne that he saw when he entered the unknown subspace with his spirit for the first time.

This kind of distorted pattern is very strange. In the past, he concentrated on recalling the shape of these patterns but always had only a vague impression. Now, after seeing the patterns on these gravels, he immediately remembered the twisted patterns, and even the entire stone. The shape of the throne.

Perhaps because all his attention was on those distorted patterns, Leo didn't notice at all that when he awakened all the memories of the stone throne and subspace in his soul, a phantom of a stone throne appeared above his head out of thin air. .

This phantom is extremely real, not only every texture on the stone is clearly displayed, but even the distorted patterns on it are completely displayed. The moment the crow saw it for the first time, it immediately turned its head away. Dare to look again, the crow's eyes also revealed a look of fear and shock.

This situation did not last for too long. Leo soon discovered that the distorted patterns on the fragments of the stone pillars in the pool were rapidly becoming shallower and then disappeared, and the stone throne above his head also disappeared at the same time. The content of this distorted pattern did not become blurred like before, but was as clear as before, so clear that he could draw it casually.

"Maybe I can draw it to deepen my memory, so as not to forget it later." Leo suddenly had a thought in his heart, and according to this thought, he squatted down, ready to distort the memory Draw the pattern on the ground to deepen the memory.

Seeing Leo's movement, the crow immediately showed panic, and quickly flew to Leo's face, pecked hard on Leo's hand, and the sharp beak easily landed on the back of Leo's defenseless hand. A hole was drilled, and blood flowed from the wound.

The severe pain in his hand woke up Leo from the memory of the distorted pattern. When he saw the wound on his hand, he showed an angry expression, and shouted at the crow: "Damn, are you crazy? Why are you attacking me?"

"If I don't stop you, I'm really crazy. Do you know what you were going to do just now?" Crow called to Leo without showing any weakness: "You idiot just planned to summon the Outer God and take us together with this half The plane is pulled into the Twisting Nether."

"What?" Leo was stunned, and immediately recalled his actions just now. Although he felt that the way he was preparing to consolidate his memory just now was reasonable and there was nothing unusual, but after thinking about it carefully, he could feel his actions It seemed a little out of control at that moment.

"I was controlled just now?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

The crow didn't answer Leo's question, but instead showed a look of self-blame, and said, "I didn't expect who your blood came from. If I had known it earlier, I wouldn't have brought you here."

"Didn't you know the source of my blood in advance?" Leo frowned and asked in a deep voice.

"Of course I don't know." Crow shouted: "Didn't I tell you! If I knew, I wouldn't have brought you here."

Leo vaguely heard the meaning of the crow's words, and said: "You mean that you only knew that there was an unknown blood in my body beforehand, but you didn't know the origin of this blood, and this place..." As he spoke, he turned He looked at the fragments of the stone pillars in the pool that had no distorted patterns, and said, "Or those fragments of stone pillars can tell me the origin of my blood, right?"

"That's what I mean." The crow looked at Leo with disgust, and said, "Didn't I say it correctly before?"

"What are those stone pillar fragments?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

The crow replied: "You probably haven't heard of this thing, this is the pillar of knowledge of the God who knows the truth."

"God of omniscient truth? How could such a god exist?" Leo was stunned. He had never heard of the name of this god, but now he felt a little absurd after hearing it, because if he really followed the name of this god If we define the divinity of this god, then this god cannot exist at all.

The crow also nodded in agreement, and explained: "Because it doesn't exist, there was an extremely arrogant lunatic who thought he could become such an impossible god, and finally became a sacrifice for this pillar of knowledge."

"What is the function of this pillar of knowledge?" Leo looked at the fragments of the stone pillar in the pool and asked, "Can you just tell me what my blood is?"

The crow shook his head and said: "No, it can only tell you the question you want to know the most, and you only have one chance. If what you wanted to know the most just now wasn't something related to your blood, then you can't do it again. Get any answers from here."

Leo frowned: "But I still don't know what my blood is?"

"No, you already know." The crow said with certainty.

Leo thought for a while and said, "You mean those patterns?"

"I don't know what exactly you saw, but I can be sure that you already know the origin of your blood." The crow showed a look of lingering fear in his eyes, and said, "And you just tried to write down the name of the source of your blood, if If it wasn't for me to stop you, I'm afraid we all... Anyway, you should be grateful to me now, because I saved our lives."

"You seem to be very clear about the source of my blood." Leo looked at the crow thoughtfully, and said, "I hope you can tell me as much as possible about the source of my blood, so that I can be prepared , lest I accidentally do something wrong like I did just now."

The crow hesitated for a moment, seemed to be persuaded by Leo, changed his previous relaxed tone, and said with some seriousness: "You should know the Outer God, right?"

Leo nodded and replied: "I know some, they are foreign gods that are different from the local gods."

"This explanation is correct, but it is too simple." The crow nodded first, then shook his head, and said: "The origin of the Outer Gods is very mysterious, even the tower wizards don't know what they are. What is certain is that the outer gods are very powerful, they are so powerful that even the weakest existence among them is stronger than the most powerful ancient god."

When Leo heard this, he immediately questioned: "How is this possible? If the Outer Gods are so powerful, how can the gods like the Lord of the Sky still exist?"

The crow explained: "It's very simple, because the Outer God has never directly entered our world, and what entered this world is just a clone made by the Outer God."