The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Land!" After three days of drifting at sea, Leo's tense spirit gradually relaxed, and he quickly rowed the lifeboat, moving towards the land.

Because there is sufficient food supply, and the spiritual perception of the spirit net allows him to always avoid the storm group in advance, Leo has not encountered any difficulties in survival during the three days of drifting.

However, what really made Leo feel nervous was that after he escaped from the ship, he always felt that he was being watched by something, but no matter what method he used to investigate, he could not find such useful clues. What is remarkable is that this concern originates from the depths of the ocean.

It is precisely because of this weird feeling that Leo has to wake up all the time, so that he is always in a state of vigilance, and if this state of vigilance lasts for a long time, even if Leo's body can hold it, his spirit will be weak. It will be a bit overwhelming.

For him, the land that suddenly appeared under the perception of the spirit network is no different from a safe haven for him to rest temporarily. As for whether there is danger on the land, he is not in his consideration for the time being.

As the lifeboat got closer to the land, the whole picture of the land was gradually included in Leo's spiritual net.

This piece of land is an island formed by a volcano. The area is about the same as that of Venaya Port. The island is covered with plants. It seems that the volcano has not erupted for a long time. However, Leo's mental network can feel that there is a stream of hot energy constantly gathering in the crater. It seems that the volcano is still active, and it may erupt again at any time.

However, what attracted Leo's attention was not the active volcano, but the wreckage of the ships on the shore of the island.

If there were only one or two wrecks of these ships, he would not have paid too much attention to them, but the problem is that there are hundreds of wrecks around the beach just exposed on the sea surface, which is not considered sunk on the bottom of the sea, only a little The number of shipwrecks with sponges exposed on their masts may be more than three or four hundred if the shipwrecks are included.

Leo didn't know much about ships, but he was able to tell from the imprints on the ships with obvious characteristics of the times that these ships were not from the same era.

Among these ships from different eras, Leo saw quite a few duck-body ships known as nautical enlighteners. This kind of ship appeared in the early days of the Great Navigation Age four hundred years ago, and it was the standard equipment for navigators at that time. Ships, but these were soon replaced by larger and faster dhows, which existed for less than fifty years.

In addition, among these ships, there is the most famous invincible ship of the Kingdom of Sigmar, which was the largest ship in the world at that time, and even now, it is definitely among the top five in terms of size alone.

At that time, the Kingdom of Sigmar relied on this super ship to cross the sea and became the world's first maritime overlord, transporting all kinds of wealth and slaves on the Mozambique continent to all parts of the world.

However, the Kingdom of Sigmar was too obsessed with this kind of giant ship, and their dominance at sea for hundreds of years made them have no idea of ​​improving this kind of ship. In the end, the Kingdom of England found a loophole and created a faster, more powerful ship. The three-masted flying shuttle that was easier to steer finally sent this giant ship that had dominated the sea for a hundred years out of the stage of history.

As the flying shuttle sailing ship that defeated the invincible ship, it naturally appeared among the remains on the beach, and there were a lot of them. After a rough calculation, there were at least forty different improved flying shuttle sailing ships, and Leo was even more surprised. It was he who saw the flag of the pirate Earl Drake on the flagpole of one of the three-masted shuttle sailing ships, and this flag was not an ordinary fleet flag, but a flag that belonged only to the flagship, that is to say, the stranded ship The wreck of a ship that was once the flagship of the pirate Earl Drake.

"Jackdaw!" After discovering this, Leo concentrated his mind and checked the details of the wreckage of the ship. Soon he judged from the special figurehead with psionic power on the head of the ship that the ship should be It was Drake's first ship, the Jackdaw.

As the most famous legendary figure in the world, there are countless legends and books about the pirate Earl Drake, and new books and dramas continue to appear so far. Among all the legends, the story about the Jackdaw is the most , Many people think that the Jackdaw made Earl Drake, and the Jackdaw was also a gift from the Sea God to Earl Drake.

According to those stories, the Jackdaw is a ship with magical power. Not only does it have a speed comparable to sea wind, but it can also easily travel through storms without any danger of capsizing. The most important point is that the Jackdaw Possessing almost god-like power, it can create huge waves that overturn invincible ships, can send out ice spikes like battering rams, and can even freeze sea water, crushing all ships with ice cubes.

All in all, the Jackdaw is a truly invincible ship at sea, and its highest record is to sink a Sigma raiding fleet consisting of five invincible ships and fifteen battle galleons by itself.

It is precisely because the Jackdaw is so famous that all kinds of research on the Jackdaw are extremely detailed, from the material of the ship, to the fabric of the sail, to the source of the magical power of the Jackdaw, etc. It has been thoroughly researched by various fans of the Jackdaw over the years, and some people even published a special analysis booklet for it, so Leo was able to identify the ship's identity from the figurehead of this dilapidated ship so quickly. origin.

The final ownership of the Jackdaw has always been a matter of heated discussion among Jackdaw fans, because no one knows the final whereabouts of the Jackdaw except Drake himself.

The last time the Jackdaw appeared was in a naval battle between the Kingdom of Engel and the Kingdom of Sigmar, with as many as a hundred ships involved, and then disappeared when returning to the port controlled by the Kingdom of Engel. One month later, Captain Drake was at sea After being rescued, the Jackdaw and other crew members on board disappeared without a trace, and Captain Drake did not mention anything related to the Jackdaw, as if the Jackdaw never existed.

At that time and even now, some people suspect that Captain Drake encountered the legendary Poseidon in the month of disappearance, and was trapped in the Poseidon Palace, and Captain Drake returned the Jackdaw that he got from Poseidon. After defeating the sea god and sacrificing all the crew members, he got the chance to return to the mortal world.

"Didn't expect the Jackdaw to be here?" After confirming that the ship was the Jackdaw, Leo showed a strange expression on his face, and said with a smile to himself: "Could it be that this is the so-called Sea God's Palace?" ?”

After finishing speaking, Leo also felt that his guess was a little out of place. He smiled, put this thought behind him, rowed the boat vigorously, and sailed towards the beach where the Jackdaw was.

Soon Leo's lifeboat came to the sea area near which beach. The water in this sea area was full of various shipwrecks. The clear sea water made it easy for people to see the situation in the sea.

However, at this moment, Leo suddenly stopped rowing, and stuck his head out of the lifeboat, activated his spiritual vision skill, and looked down at the bottom of the sea.

The reason why Leo made these actions suddenly was because just now he discovered that there seemed to be an abnormal movement on the bottom of the sea with his mental net that had been opened all the time. Created water lines, but his spiritual network couldn't sense any living things swimming in the water, so he directly used the spiritual vision skill to bless his eyes and see with his eyes.

When he looked at the bottom of the sea, the scene projected in his eyes made him feel suspicious. He saw that there were a few more sea fish emitting spiritual energy fluctuations in the originally empty sea world. Each of these sea fish was transparent. and blends with sea water.

Leo's spiritual vision can clearly see that the sea water directly penetrates and passes through the body of the fish, and these fish are like sea water changes, without any rejection, and because of this, Leo's spiritual network can He couldn't find the existence of these psychic fish, because under his mental net scanning, these fish were no different from the surrounding sea water, so they were naturally ignored.

The fluctuations produced by the lifeboat passing across the water naturally alarmed these strange spiritual creatures in the water. They were originally quiet and peaceful, and they instantly turned into violent beasts, rushing towards the lifeboat where Leo was, and The fish's mouth was wide open like a snake's mouth, revealing a circle of sharp teeth inside, revealing their fierce original appearance.

Facing the attacks of these spiritual creatures, Leo did not show panic, but directly placed the hand that made the sign gesture in the water, cast an Alder sign, formed a shock wave, and spread in the water.

Although these strange fish are all psychic creatures, they still can't get rid of some of the fish's weaknesses. When the impact occurred, the fish that were still vicious just now all twisted their bodies indiscriminately as if they were drunk, and then followed Stomachs floated up to the sky.

Leo originally wanted to salvage a floating monster to see what its body structure was like, but the shock wave released by the Alder seal did not weaken and disappear as he wished, but instead expanded uncontrollably in the sea.

Under the crushing of the shock wave, the surrounding ships that were already completely decayed were instantly shattered like paper, and the force of the shock wave hitting the bottom of the sea also formed a small tsunami, setting off a tsunami more than ten meters high. The huge waves directly shot Leo's lifeboat in the direction of the beach.

Although the accident happened suddenly, Leo did not show panic. When the lifeboat was about to fall on the beach, he kicked hard and jumped out of the lifeboat. , he has landed firmly on the soft sand without any harm.

Leo, who stabilized his figure, continued to maintain his spirit net and spirit vision skills, carefully scanning everything on the island.

Since some psionic creatures appeared in the offshore waters, it means that this island should be suitable for the survival of psionic creatures, which means that there must be other psionic creatures on this island that may have become extinct in the outside world, just like the Black Forest Same.

It was different from the rough scan with the mental net before, now he searched more carefully, and soon he found some useful things.

There are indeed many spiritual creatures in the primeval forest on the island, and these spiritual creatures are very special, because every kind of spiritual creature seems to have the same mimicry ability that can deceive the spirit net like those strange fish. Without carefully comparing the surrounding environment, I am afraid that Leo would not be able to find out these mimicked psionic creatures.

Although these psychic creatures on the island were very peaceful and did not see any aggressive behavior, but thinking of the sudden transformation of the strange fish just now, he felt that it would be best to be indecent before understanding these psychic creatures. provoke them.

In addition to the spiritual creatures, Leo also discovered an interesting thing, that is, there are traces of human habitation on this island, and five or six of these traces seem to be left in the recent period, rather than ancient times. Some survivors left behind.

Leo didn't know whether the human beings who left those shabby houses still lived on this island, but he was very sure of one thing, that is, those human beings should have been attacked by spiritual creatures on the island, because those rudimentary houses Traces of destruction can be seen everywhere in the HOS house.

Before knowing the specific situation on the island, Leo felt that it was not a good decision to rashly enter the forest on the island. Stay here for one night, and explore the island again at dawn tomorrow.

Leo chose the Jackdaw as his temporary residence, not only because he was interested in the figurehead of the Jackdaw when he was on the sea, but also because the wreckage of the Jackdaw was still intact , and some secrets related to Earl Drake may be found inside the ship.

Stepping up to the Jackdaw, although Leo already knew the size of the Jackdaw when he checked it with the spirit net at sea, but standing in front of the Jackdaw, he felt that the ship was really big. Big, at least in the world of Velen at the time.

The deck of this ship is about 20 meters high, and the hull is more than 200 meters long, so the whole ship looks a bit slender from a distance, but such a body shape is very suitable for shuttling on the water. Back then, the Jackdaw could be called the most The fast sailing boat may also have something to do with his shape.

Leo didn't pay too much attention to the shape of the ship. What he paid attention to was the jackdaw's bow, the statue of the jackdaw master holding a bottle.

The Lord of the Jackdaws is a traditional belief in the northern kingdom of Daliat on the mainland of Minsk. Jackdaws are also a unique species there. Before winter comes, a large number of jackdaws will appear in the city, making strange quacking calls. Tell everyone that winter is coming, so the jackdaw also has another name for the messenger of winter.

A long time ago, the Lord of the Jackdaws was the main belief of the Northern Kingdom, but with the disappearance of this unique bird, the belief of the Lord of the Jackdaws gradually declined. There are not many people of the Lord, and most of these people are some religious scholars and folklorists.