The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After walking for a further distance, the artificial stone road on the ground became more and more complete, and there were more building wreckage and relics on both sides of the road.

From the few fragments of these ruins that can still preserve their characteristics, it is not difficult for Leo to see that this civilization has reached a very high level of sculpture art, and the artistic style is also biased towards a religious atmosphere.

He has seen some reliefs about gods in the fragments more than once, but it seems to be done on purpose. All the reliefs of gods can't see the head, some are broken at the waist, and some have directly broken their heads. The only thing that can be confirmed That is, these gods are all human gods.

In addition to the statues of the gods, there are also some reliefs about the life scenes of this civilization, but most of the reliefs are broken, and it is barely possible to recognize that the race of this civilization is also a humanoid creature.

As the surrounding jungle composed of human-face trees gradually became sparser, Leo encountered fewer attacks. After walking on a well-preserved stone road, when the road became spacious, Leo His field of vision also expanded as the fog dissipated.

After turning around a piece of ruins, the foggy jungle was finally left behind, and Leo also stopped because there was no way ahead.

I saw that not far in front of Leo, the road disappeared, and the whole land seemed to be cut, forming a line of cliffs that could not be seen. When he walked to the edge of the cliff, he grasped down, and all he saw were layers upon layers. With the sea of ​​clouds stacked, it is impossible to see what is under the cliff.

However, these are not the places that Leo is most concerned about. After scanning the surrounding situation, Leo landed on the eye-catching city in the distance. Majestic, even the Black City may not be comparable, but the foundation supporting this huge city is a very thin stone pillar, and this stone pillar extends downward until it plunges into the sea of ​​clouds.

"How to get there?" Leo felt that he had to go to that city if he wanted to leave here, but he couldn't find a way to go there unless he could fly.

Thinking of flying Leo gives me some headaches. In the Earth Federation, flying psionic skills are actually a very common psionic skill. As long as you reach level 4, you can learn to use flying skills. Level 5 psionic skills Or they can even fly long distances within 5,000 meters in the inner space.

However, even though Leo is now a fifth-level psychic, and has almost reached the peak of the fifth-level psychic, he still doesn't know how to fly, and he is even more confused about how to use psionic flight. No flying witchcraft.

"Hehe! My friend, are you trapped here too?" Just as Leo was thinking about how to get to the city in the sea of ​​clouds in the distance, a burst of hearty laughter suddenly came from not far away. and said a word in a language that Leo couldn't understand, but it was strange that Leo could understand the meaning of the words.

However, what surprised Leo even more was that the other party's sense of presence was so low, and he was so close to him, and he had looked around with his eyes just now, but he didn't find such a person beside him from beginning to end.

If this person is thin and hides deliberately, when Leo's attention is attracted by the scene in front of him, as long as this person does not give Leo the first place, he may not notice the existence of this person.

But the problem is that this person is very tall, not much shorter than Leo, and the armor on his body is extremely eye-catching. The shape from the helmet to the body armor, to the arm dummy, and the leg armor are all round and round, which looks like a layer upon layer. big onion.

In addition, beside such a man with strange armor, there is also a large sword much longer than the body and a small buckler with a small knife that can only protect the wrist. The contrast is so great that it is hard to believe that this is a set of matching equipment.

Such an image that is so eye-catching that it will become the focus of attention wherever it stands, Leo found that he had ignored it just now. If it is not for external reasons and his own reasons, then it is very likely that this strangely dressed knight has his own personality that makes people unconsciously ignore other things. ability to exist.

"Hello." Without feeling hostility from the other party, Leo had no intention of doing anything, but simply greeted him.

"Hello, Seredore of Catalina." The knight-like man seemed to be very enthusiastic and introduced himself familiarly.

"Catalina?" Leo froze when he heard this name for the first time.

The knight said with the rhythm of reciting poems: "That is a beautiful country, and there are heroes and heroes everywhere. I am Theredor of the Bador family. Land, find a flame that can light up the world, and end the eternal pain of embers!"

"Do you know much about the place where everything ends?" Leo asked with some doubts.

"Don't you know what's going on here?" Theredor moved his clumsy helmet, looked at Leo, and said in surprise, "Sorry, I thought you were an ember, but I didn't expect you to be able to See the living where all ends."

"What are embers?" Leo asked suspiciously.

Seredore seems to be very talkative. Even if he just met Leo, he treated him as a friend for many years, and talked without any scruples: "You must know that every world is coming to an end, like a bonfire that is gradually going out. Eventually the bonfire goes out, the world ends, and the people of that world are the dying embers."

As he was speaking, he saw Theledor take off his helmet, revealing a mummified head, which made Leo couldn't help shaking the long cross sword in his hand.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous." Theredor put the helmet back on and said, "I'm not those living dead who have lost their minds. I'm just an ember, and my flame hasn't been extinguished yet."

"Sorry, because I received too many attacks just now, so...sorry." Leo apologized to Seredore and then asked: "Mr. The flame that brightens the world, which flame is what?"

"That's the fire of the world." Seredor's tone became a lot more serious, and said: "After the destruction of the last world, the flame gradually went out, leaving only a little residual fire covered by endless ashes, as long as you find it These world fires can re-ignite the whole world and bring the world back to order, there will no longer be embers like me, and there will be no monsters like the undead."

When Seredor explained, Leo couldn't help but think of the soul-warming flame created by the soul bonfire rune trap, although it sounds that the fire of the world that Seredor said is more powerful than this The flame that would be extinguished without the existence of the soul spar was much stronger, but he felt that the essence of the two might be the same.

Just when Leo was deep in thought, Seledor suddenly asked: "Since you didn't go for the flames, can I know what you plan to do in the royal city?"

"Royal City?" Leo looked at Seledor in confusion, then pointed to the city in the sea of ​​clouds in the distance, and said, "Is that the Royal City over there?"

Seledor nodded and said, "Yes, it is the royal city where the gods once lived, but was eventually abandoned by the gods."

Leo was stunned when he heard the words. Although he knew that the builder of this city must be extraordinary from the perspective of the grandeur of the distant city, he didn't think that this city was related to gods.

"I want to find a way to leave here and go back to where I came from." Leo was surprised, but he did not forget to answer Seledor.

"Go back to your hometown?" Seredore seemed to be touched.

Although Leo knew that the other party guessed wrong, he didn't intend to explain it, but neither admitted nor denied it.

Seredore thought for a while and said, "I can help you, and I can help myself. After all, this kind of thing cannot be done by one person." As he spoke, he stood up from the ground and walked to Leo , Said: "If you want to go to the royal city from here, besides waiting for the crystal bridge leading to the completion, there is another way to go there, but that method needs to use a prop, and that prop needs to go to the ancient arena only The guy guarding the ancient arena is a servant of a dead god. Although he has lost the protection of the gods, the guy's strength is much smaller, but he still has great power. I can barely deal with it with my own strength. He, it's just that he will constantly summon some monsters to help. I can't deal with him and deal with the siege of monsters at the same time. Although I don't know how strong you are, judging from your ability to walk out of the gray fog forest, your strength must be Very powerful, qualified enough to assist me and help me clean up those summoned monsters."

"Yes, I can cooperate with you." Leo thought for a while, nodded and agreed.

"Haha! Come with me." After receiving Leo's promise, Serendor didn't talk nonsense, and directly carried a big sword and a small shield, and rushed into the gray fog forest along an inconspicuous path .

Leo didn't think too much, and quickly followed.

It seems that Seredor is not very familiar with the gray mist forest. After entering the forest, he can only walk along the road on the ground. When encountering several fork roads, he will stop and distinguish carefully for a while before choosing a road to go forward. It is not long In no time, he led Leo to the ruins at the edge of the foggy forest.

"Be careful, that guy still has some subordinates entrenched here." After arriving at the ruins, Seledor stopped, and then carefully led Leo into the ruins against the walls and shadows.

Leo, who was following behind, looked at Theledor in heavy armor, moving forward silently like a cat, and couldn't help but reconsider this seemingly unreliable foreign knight. assessment of strength.

Soon the two came to the ruins of a huge building, and Seredor hid in a dilapidated house, then pointed to a place outside the house, and signaled Leo who was following behind to look over there.

Almost without looking, Leo could easily recognize that in the shadow of a building in the distance, there was a creeping monster that looked like a man and a beast hiding in it. After searching again, he found that there was more than one monster hiding in the shadows, and the number was as many as thirty.

Thredor lowered his voice and said: "These monsters are all the servants of that guy, and they are very dangerous. They will hide in the dark and observe every move of their prey. Once the prey has a flaw, they will attack in groups, making the prey even defensive. There is no chance." He paused, and continued: "I will go out later to attract those monsters, you have to hurry..."

"Don't be so troublesome!" Leo shook his head, signaling to Seredor not to worry, then put his hand in the shadow of a corner connected to the next house, invoked the power of psionic energy and shadow, and cast a shadow witchcraft .

Afterwards, several spiral spiritual energy cones burst out from the shadows next to the monsters' bodies, pierced directly from the monster's jaw into the skull, and then drilled out from the other side, taking away the lives of these monsters.

Obviously, these monsters didn't realize that there was a fatal attack under them, and they couldn't even escape. They were drilled out one by one, and they all died on the spot without even screaming.

Leo picked up his hand from the shadows, checked the surrounding situation on the mental network, and then said to Seledor: "Those monsters have been solved, what's our next step?"

Celedore obviously didn't expect the monsters that gave him a headache to be surprised by Leo in this way for a long time. When Leo asked the second time, he came back to his senses and said, "You How did you do it? Are you a magician or a conjurer," he said, paused, and then asked, "A dark magician?"

"What is a dark magician?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

"Dark magicians are people who can use the power of the abyss. Before they became dark magicians, some were magicians, some were magicians, and more were priests of the gods. When they fell, they would gain the power of the abyss." Blood, through the blood of the abyss, the ability to use the power of the abyss can be acquired." He hesitated a little, and said: "Shadow is also a compulsory ability for dark magicians."

Leo saw the repulsion of the shadow from the eyes of Theredor, so he explained: "I am not a dark magician, nor a priest, I am a wizard, a wizard who mainly analyzes the mysteries of the world."

As he said that, he saw him displaying all the abilities including psionic power, all kinds of energies gathered in the palm of Leo's palm, Seledor couldn't help but be terrified, this was the first time he saw some It was incredible for him to know the power of so many gods personally.

Because even in a knightly country like Catalina, it is impossible for one person to believe in several gods at the same time. This is simply the greatest blasphemy against the gods.

But now Leo is able to exert the power of several gods at the same time, which is equivalent to believing in several gods. Seledor has never heard of such an incredible thing happening.

Although he felt that it was rude to ask such a question, he still couldn't help asking, "How did you do it? You can believe in so many gods?"