The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo, who had recovered from deep sleep, immediately checked the various traps that had been placed in the house.

Although judging from various circumstances, here, as long as there are already inhabited rooms, there is an invisible force protecting them, but Leo thinks that it is better to control it by himself than to hand over his life to an unknown force that he has not yet figured out the origin of. own life.

Therefore, even though he returned to the hut and felt extremely tired, he still pulled himself together and carefully placed some mechanical traps that did not require psionic energy in every place in the house that might become a loophole.

Just when he was in Miria City and on the ship, a large number of mechanical traps he made out of boredom were placed in the storage space, and now they are all in use.

After a careful inspection, all the traps remained intact, and some of the riot rune magic circles arranged were not touched, and the power inside the magic circles was also intact.

After checking, Leo looked at these rune circles thoughtfully.

When he set up the trap, he accidentally discovered that the riot rune circle could be used in the field where the psionic suppressor was effective. s method.

Not only the rune magic circle of riots, Leo also found that as long as it is the rune magic circle learned from the dream world, and does not use psionic stimulation, but uses other powers, such as the power of gluttony, the power of nightmares, blood The power of the power and the power of the blood derived from the power of the shadow can make the rune circle work normally.

It's just that, it's the same magic circle, and the magic circle composed of Gamori words can't work. In other words, none of the methods commonly used by wizards in this world can work here.

When he discovered this situation, he felt very puzzling. He always felt that there were some important things hidden in it, but he was too tired at the time, and the nightmare power on his body was seriously consumed, so he couldn't think normally at all. Set it aside.

Now after checking the traps, he immediately remembered about the rune circle, so he tried again the various Turing roots he had mastered and the rune circle in the dream world. In addition, he also tried Take a look at some public psychic skills of the Earth Federation.

After trial and error, he quickly discovered that as long as he didn't use psionic powers, all the witchcraft and rune circles learned in the nightmare world could be used normally, and the witcher's seal could also be used, but the power was weakened.

But none of the supernatural powers such as witchcraft learned in Velen World can be used, even if he transformed the power driving witchcraft into powers such as the power of nightmares and the power of gluttony.

As for the spell-like spells produced by the various spiritual powers in his body, he can also use them, such as shadow witchcraft, gluttony of the power of gluttony, and so on.

If it is only a restriction on psionic energy, it is not a puzzling thing. After all, the function of a psionic suppressor is to suppress psionic energy. As long as it is not an Omega-level advanced creature, it will be affected by the suppressor.

But the problem is that not all psychic powers are almost absolutely restricted by the witchcraft in the Velen world. Although the public psychic tricks of the Earth Federation, such as spiritual vision, spiritual net, etc., are also greatly restricted , but if it is barely used, it can still be used, but the power will be greatly reduced, almost degraded to the level of two or three levels of psykers, or even lower.

Psionic skills can still be used even if their power is weakened, but the witchcraft in Velen World cannot be used at all.

Taking the same ability as an example, the psychic impact from the Earth Federation can be used, but the power is very small, let alone breaking through a wall, and even the table next to him cannot be smashed away, so it can only be smashed. Just hit the chair.

But compared to the spiritual impact that can still be effective, the air hammer, which is mixed with the magic of the world of Velen, has no effect at all. It will be immediately dispersed by the surrounding invisible forces as soon as it is cast. It is not difficult to see that the invisible force covering this place is not only the restraining force produced by the psionic suppressor, but also a force that completely targets Velen's witchcraft.

From Leo's point of view, this is interesting, because if one kind of artificially generated power is completely aimed at another kind of artificially generated power, it means that the source of the two powers must be hostile. The wizards of the world have come here, and have had extremely fierce conflicts with the powerful existence here, which has resulted in such a force that completely rejects the witchcraft of the Velen world.

After speculating on the phenomenon of extreme rejection of witchcraft in the Velen world, Leo went to the bedside and sat down, carefully recalling all the books related to wizards he had read to see if there were some records in those books. There are clues related to this island.

In this way, about an hour passed, and Leo sorted out all the books and materials related to wizards, even some folklore, and in the end he did get some clues, but these clues did not come from The books and notes of wizards, but the basic folklore stories, what is more interesting is that these folktales are not only in Velen and the lake town in the dream world, even the folktales of the Earth Federation also have some that can be set in this elegant place. on the island of Mu.

The folktales of the world of Velen and the folktales of Lake Town in the dream world discovered by Leo are actually the same story. They both have the same wizard and giant names. They are very straightforward, but the content is slightly different.

In this story, a wizard was sent to a small island in the sea by witchcraft in a reckless experiment. On that small island, there was a kingdom ruled by giants, and the giants were divided into two classes, one was the ancient giants, they They live in Castle Black on the mountain, and the other is a degenerate giant who lives in Castle White below the mountain.

After the wizard arrived in the kingdom of giants, he found that the kingdom of giants had a magical treasure, so he became greedy and wanted to get the treasure of the kingdom of giants, so he started all kinds of interesting fights with the giants.

Until this point in the story, the folk tales of the dreamworld and Velenworld are more or less the same, but then the characters start to diverge.

In the folk stories in the dream world, the wizard is very wise and kind, and the giant is extremely cunning and cruel. The wizard solves the problems created by the giants through wisdom one by one, and does not kill any giants. Finally, through kindness and Wisdom conquered the giant, and the giant gave the treasure to the wizard himself.

But in the world of Velen, the same folktale is completely different. The giant is honest and loyal, and the wizard is cunning and fierce. He used tricks to disrupt the kingdom of giants, killed a large number of giants, and finally robbed the giants of their treasures.

For these two very different stories, Leo is more willing to believe the version of Velen World, because Lake Town is ruled by the Wizarding Association after all, how can the books there speak ill of wizards.

However, Leo didn't completely believe in the story of Vinylon World. After all, Vinylon World had a very negative impression of wizards for a long time because of the propaganda from the Orthodox Church and high-level officials from various countries.

Leo felt that combining the two stories together should be the true face of this story, and the kingdom of giants mentioned in the story is probably the giant city he is in now.

What's interesting is that both stories ended after the wizard got the treasure, and it didn't mention whether the wizard left the island where the kingdom of giants was located.

As for the folklore of the Earth Federation, it can only be said to be a windfall. The authors of these folklore stories are, without exception, psykers who often go in and out of subspace with warships.

After these psykers entered the subspace, they all fell into a trance state, and visions appeared in front of them, and they thought these visions were very interesting, so they wrote down the visions, edited them, and turned them into some folktale novels set.

In these vision stories, they all mentioned a giant black and white city built on a volcano, but there was a difference that in some people's visions, the giant city was empty, leaving only huge empty houses, while others Humans saw a large number of weird creatures living in the giant city, and several of the biological clocks specifically expressed included the psionic creatures that Leo had seen on the other half of the island earlier.

After recalling the collection of stories that had already been sealed up in the useless database by the sub-brain system, Leo immediately thought of the subspace wormholes found on the top of the giant tower. Although it was just a guess, he felt that the psykers who wrote these stories , I am afraid that they all entered here in the form of pure psionic spirit bodies, and judging from their ability to swim in this huge city and the ability of those psionic creatures to live in the city, there is no psionic suppressor installed here.

But this is also what puzzled Leo, because the time when those psykers wrote these storybooks was only a few decades ago, and he previously deduced the time when the Via people landed here and the time when the psychic suppressor was installed , and there is a huge gap, as if the timeline here is completely messed up.

"The timeline is completely messed up!" Leo thought of this, and couldn't help muttering a result of speculation in his heart.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly stood up, tidied his clothes, and walked out of the small building, avoiding the traps on the ground.

It is daytime now, and although there is still a trace of incense in the surrounding air, it is not very strong. Those ordinary people who were hiding in the huts and dare not come out also took advantage of this time to come out, and with others Talking enthusiastically, this is completely different from the indifferent attitude at night.

When Leo came out of the hut, everyone present was stunned, and their eyes fell on Leo in unison.

"You, why are you still alive?" After a while of silence, a mustache closest to Leo couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, pointed at Leo very rudely, and blurted out.

"Why can't I live?" Leo asked coldly.

The little beard took a few steps back a little timidly, and retreated into the crowd. Feeling confident, he said: "You, you have been in the house for more than ten days, and even the adults think you are dead. gone."

"More than ten days?" Leo frowned. He didn't expect that he would rest for such a long time, but he was a little puzzled, because if he really rested for such a long time, then he should feel hungry. Yes, but now he doesn't feel hungry at all.

After doubts arose, Leo ignored the whispers and concerned eyes of the people around him, turned his head to look at the small apartment building he came out of, then walked back into the small building, waited for a few minutes, and went out again , asked the mustache who was still curious about him, "How long have I been in the apartment just now?"

Mustache didn't understand what Leo was doing at all, but maybe it was because the burly Leo was so oppressive that he answered a time number truthfully without thinking much about it.

After hearing what Mustache said, Leo frowned slightly. He just thought that there might be a power that could distort time in the small apartment building he was staying in, so after more than ten days outside, he only stayed in the small building for a short time.

However, Mustache's answer made him realize that he was thinking too much. How could the power of distorting time appear around him silently? The guess may be that after he visualized the stone throne, his blood was strongly stimulated, which in turn stimulated some unusual physical strength.

For example, the consumption ratio index of various energy in the body continued to decline when he entered a state of deep rest, allowing him to rely on a small amount of food to support him for a very long time, just like now.

This guess is the most suitable answer that Leo can think of to explain the current situation, but I don’t know why he believes in distorting time, an answer that will be absurd to anyone who hears it, because only this can explain what he said about this place before. The timeline is wild speculation.

Leo pondered for a while, ignored Mustache's enthusiastic friendship, and walked directly towards the outside of the stone house.

At this time, the mustache behind him wanted to stop him, but in the end he didn't speak. Instead, he watched him walk out as if watching a good show.

When Leo walked to the door of the stone house and was about to step out, a viscous invisible force suddenly appeared in the air in front of him, making him seem to be trapped in a pool of maltose, his body was so sticky that he couldn't even take a step. very difficult.

Encountering this invisible resistance, Leo did not push forward, but controlled his body to take a few steps back until he could not feel this force at all, then stopped his steps, stared at the invisible force in front of him, and frowned slightly. I frowned.

And the people around him who were going to watch the show were all stunned, because they all thought that Leo would be thrown away by the invisible wall at the door like other ignorant people, but they didn't expect such a result .

Seeing this situation, most of the people were only a little curious about Leo, and only a few people showed thoughtful expressions, and the eyes they looked at Leo became a little strange, including the mustache.