The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The prayer house in front of me is completely different from the architectural form of those religious places in the Vinylon world. Its shape is somewhat similar to those of the church buildings in the old earth era of the Earth Federation. The pointed arches are surrounded by various reliefs, including sculptures of gods and gods. The sculptures of heroes can be seen from this religious building. This royal city where the gods live worships heroes extremely, and even juxtaposes heroes and gods together.

After leading Leo and Theredor to the door of this prayer house, the old man with the lantern stopped, then turned around and saluted the two, his body gradually disappeared as the flame in the lantern in his hand went out, and finally completely disappeared. Disappeared in front of the two.

Leo and Theredore looked at each other, and then walked towards the prayer hall respectively.

"Hey! There's a newcomer again." Just as the two were about to enter the prayer hall, there were a few sneaky laughter from the prayer hall, and then they saw a man sitting under a stone pillar not far ahead. A man in a strange costume.

I saw that this person was wearing a metal helmet decorated with long horns, covering his head tightly. The eyes are a kind of adjustable telescopic glasses, and there is a small opening in the mouth, which seems to be for talking and breathing.

In addition, this person is wearing a set of exquisite leather armor, and some tools that look like repairs are hung on the leather armor, and this person has no hands, or a pair of normal hands. I saw that his hands were a pair of exquisite mechanical arms, with a large number of gears all over the surface of the arms, covered with a layer of transparent glue. The most peculiar thing was that the power used by his arms turned out to be soul crystals.

A special device is set on the back of the mechanical arm, which is mechanically connected to the main body of the arm that has no lines, and there are a large number of Turing-like patterns on the device. Two fingernail-sized soul crystals were respectively stuck on the special device. The patterns around the device all emitted a faint light at the moment, and penetrated deep into the arm.

In addition to the eye-catching clothes and arms of this man, the two weapons placed beside him are also very conspicuous. They are a pair of handguns that look like small cannon barrels, and are equipped with two blades at both ends of the handguns. , which can be used as a melee weapon when necessary. Although this pair of weapons looks very powerful, it may require great strength and endurance to use this pair of weapons.

It's just that Leo is interested in knowing the origin of this pair of weapons, because he has seen the shape of this pair of guns before, and Jean Valjean's hand cannon It is very similar to this pair of guns, the only difference is that the tail of the hand gun lacks decorations such as ammunition loaders and a pair of blades for melee combat.

Although this strange person first opened his mouth to attract the attention of Leo and the others, Leo and the others did not pay attention to this person for too long, because there are other people in this prayer hall that deserve the attention of Leo and the others. Object.

I saw that the interior of the prayer hall looked like an amphitheater, and a circle of stone stands was arranged around the altar. These stands are all damaged now. It seems that the damage caused by the force that caused the hole in the roof of the prayer hall , a large amount of ashes fell from the hole, and accumulated on the ground into a thick layer of dust, covering the original appearance of the stands.

In the stands, there are seven people sitting or standing in a patchwork pattern. These seven people should be three groups of people. Among them, a woman who looks like a nun and two knights should be a group of people. The other three warriors in strange armor are A group of people, and an old man sitting alone by the campfire reading a book should be a group. Counting the weirdo and Leo who just spoke, there are five different forces in this small prayer hall.

In addition to these people in the prayer room, there is another thing that is also attracting attention. This thing is located in the center of the prayer room, a pile of bonfires in the deep pit that was originally an altar. This campfire burns a pile of bones of unknown creatures. The flame is not strong, but it gives people a warm feeling. This warm feeling comes from the warmth of the soul, just like Leo created through the soul campfire rune. Like the fire that came out.

Although the people in the prayer hall seem to be sitting in very random positions, it is not difficult to find that their positions also represent their status in this prayer hall, or their strength.

The old man reading a book closest to the bonfire should be the strongest among these people, followed by the nun and the two knights, while the other three warriors are slightly weaker, and the weakest should be leaning against the door. Standing next to the pillar, the strange man who was only swept by the afterglow of the bonfire should be the weakest one.

"Hey, you have to be careful! The seats here are not just for you to sit in." Just as Leo and Theredore were about to walk into the prayer hall and passed by the strange man, the strange man suddenly reminded road.

"You're injured, and it's very serious." Leo stopped, squatted down, looked at the strange man, pointed to the waist covered by the strange man, and said.

"Hehe! Thank you for your reminder. Without your reminder, I wouldn't know I was injured!" The weirdo smiled mockingly and said angrily.

Leo didn't care about the other party's cynicism, and said calmly: "You seem to have misunderstood me. What I mean is that you are injured, and I can heal you."

The weird man stopped breathing after hearing Leo's words. He was obviously shocked by Leo's words, and the other people in the prayer hall heard Leo's words, and they all looked at Leo in unison, instantly making Leo a prayer The focal point of the institute.

However, after recovering from the shock, the weirdo immediately shook his head in disbelief, and said, "How is this possible? Before you even saw what my injury looks like, you arrogantly said that it can heal my injury." Hurt, let me tell you, I..."

When the weirdo was about to say something, he stopped suddenly, and his body trembled violently, as if something was trying to struggle out of the wound covered by his hand.

"Catch him." Leo ordered to Seredore, then squatted down, and quickly untied the leather armor around the monster's waist.

Seledor didn't know what Leo was going to do, but he trusted Leo very much, and he squatted down and held the strange man's body without hesitation.

Seeing the actions of Leo and Theredore, the nun's expression changed slightly, and she was about to say something, but the knight next to her stopped her and motioned him not to speak, while the other three warriors looked He looked at the three of Leo with a sneer, and stretched out his hands to the weapons at his waist. It seemed that they were preparing for battle. The only one who is indifferent to this situation is the old man. His attention seems to be all on the book in his hand, and all his senses of the outside world have disappeared. No matter how big the movement is, don't let his eyes move away from the book .

At this time, Leo had already untied the strange man's leather armor, exposing the strange man's stomach, and the hand that the strange man pressed hard on the wound seemed to be unable to continue to exert force because of Seledor, which made his arm unavoidable. It loosened a bit, that is, this moment of relaxation caused the thing covering his wound to break away from his restraint, drilled out from the gap in the leather armor, and rushed towards Leo who was about to check the wound.

It's just that Leo seemed to have anticipated this situation long ago, so when this thing rushed over, he had already blocked his hand in front and grabbed it.

"Don't, don't touch that!" Just as he grabbed the thing, Seledor seemed to think of something and hurriedly shouted.

However, it was too late for him to yell, Leo had already firmly grasped the thing in his hand, and at this time the other people in the prayer hall knew something, some showed pity to Leo, some On the other hand, there is a feeling of disgust, and there are expressions of naked or hostile and gloating.

Leo opened his hand and looked at the thing he grabbed, and saw that the thing was like a sticky black oil, extremely soft, and the surface was very sticky, just touched it, touched it The part it reached was tightly stuck, and Leo could clearly feel that this mass was penetrating into his palm at an extremely fast speed.

"Cut off your hands quickly, or it will be too late." Seeing Leo standing there in a daze, Seredor thought that Leo was controlled by some kind of power he thought, so he quickly raised the big sword in his hand and pointed at Lei Ou chopped off the hand that grabbed the ball.

"I'm fine, don't be nervous." Although Seredore drew the sword quickly and decisively, but Leo's movements were faster, and he dodged aside when Seredor raised the sword, and missed the swing of the sword. Seredor, who was about to make the second sword, said.

"Are you okay?" Hearing Leo's words, Seledore was surprised, and even more surprised than him was everyone in the prayer hall, including the strange man next to him, even the old man who was always looking down. Attracted by these words, he raised his head and looked at Leo, waiting for Leo's response.

"I'm really fine. When this thing meets me, it's like meeting a natural enemy." Leo smiled very easily, and then raised the hand that was holding the ball of things in front of Seredore.

Celedor saw the mass of things trembling violently suddenly, as if the intelligent creature had encountered something extremely terrifying, and moved quickly with the mass of things, feeling as if it wanted to get out of Leo's palm.

However, the palm of Leo's palm seems to have sucked the ball of black oil, making it impossible for the ball to leave his palm, and the ball seems to be rapidly reduced and weakened by some force, and finally completely disappeared in Leo's palm.

"This is? What's going on here? Where's the human pus?" Seledor exclaimed.

At the same time, other people in the prayer hall also exclaimed, and their eyes towards Leo also became a little strange, with both expectations and doubts.

"This thing is not bad!" Leo smiled slightly, but did not answer Seredore's words directly.

Leo didn't know what the human pus in Seledor's mouth was, but he knew very well that when he passed by the weirdo just now, his chaotic stomach sac had a strong hunger for the lump at the weirdo's wound. This kind of hunger is like a person who has been hungry for more than ten days and saw a table of peerless delicacies. Fortunately, Leo's willpower is the strongest, otherwise, he might directly rush to the wound of that strange person and kill him. Group things to eat.

So when he grabbed the lump and tried to penetrate into his body, Leo didn't stop it at all. Instead, he controlled the body's instinctive resistance mechanism and let the thing penetrate into the body until it penetrated deep enough. When it was possible to escape easily, he channeled the gluttonous power of the chaotic stomach to encircle the mass, and finally swallowed the mass without any effort, and the chaotic stomach also had such a rare sense of fullness .

In addition to making the chaotic stomach pouch feel full, Leo also felt that after the chaotic stomach pouch digested this mass, it brought many benefits to his body, and the biggest benefit was that it made him have some resistance to the surrounding environment. sex.

After entering the royal city, Leo felt that the surrounding environment exerted a suppressive force on his body and strength. Although this suppressive force was not strong, it could continue to affect him, and even as he approached the center of the city, This pressure is getting stronger and stronger.

According to Leo's estimate, when he reaches the most central city of the gods, this suppressive force will become unprecedentedly strong, and eventually his power will be truly and completely suppressed.

But now that this group of human pus has been digested through the power of gluttony, he immediately felt that the surrounding oppressive force has weakened a lot. Although the oppressive force still cannot be eradicated, it is indeed a good start, so he also Curious about the origin of human pus.

"Do you know what's going on with this human pus?" Out of curiosity, Leo asked Seledor.

Before Celedore could speak, the strange man lying on the side took the initiative to say: "This is the product of the abyss and sinners. People who are injured by the power of the abyss will be infected with the filth of the abyss. Only by coming to the bonfire in time and passing the bonfire , to be able to clean up the filth, but for people like me who can’t reach the bonfire in time, the filth of the abyss will merge with the sins on my body, and finally produce something like human pus.” As he spoke, he couldn’t help but Looking at Leo curiously, he asked, "How could you be fine? People who are possessed by human pus will become monsters of the abyss, but you are fine, how did you do it?"

The question asked by the strange man is also the question that other people in the prayer hall want to know the most. Everyone can't help but prick up their ears, intending to listen carefully to Leo's answer.

However, Leo didn't even have the idea of ​​explaining, and asked the weird man directly: "I said just now that I can cure you, you don't know me that's why you have that attitude, now you should already know my ability, do you want to be cured?"

"I want to, of course I want to!" Although he didn't get the answer he wanted to know, the weirdo said hastily.

Leo then asked again: "Since you want to be cured, tell me, what is on your body that is worth enough for me to treat you?"