The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When the colonies of the Mosang Continent began to become independent and formed countries, other countries in the Vinylon World began to lose interest in the Mosang Continent and focused on managing their own one-acre three-point land. The Kingdom of England still maintained its enthusiasm for exploring the Mosang Continent, not only There is a dedicated Mozambique civilization research institution in the Royal Academy, and expeditions are sent every year to go deep into the Mozambique wilderness.

Shamanism in the Mozambique continent is also the research focus of the Kingdom of England. There are more than a dozen research institutions related to shamanism in the Royal Academy, most of which are shamanism studies in the Mozambique continent, and a few are from other continents in the world of Velen. Shamanism.

In fact, there used to be shamanism in both the continent of Velen and the continent of Minsk, but it only appeared in the Church of the Gods, and when large-scale countries began to be established, shamanism began to decline day by day. What disappeared in the desert of Minsk mainland many years ago, also disappeared with the last desert tribe with ancient inheritance.

The Kingdom of England was first interested in shamanism not because of the ancient culture contained in shamanism, but because of the mysterious power of shamanism.

During a siege against a tribe in Mozambique, the shaman of that tribe controlled the beasts and bugs in the jungle to attack the soldiers of the Kingdom of England. More than 5,000 soldiers died in the jungle. This incident shocked the Kingdom of England. It was so great that the Kingdom of England also began to attach importance to the research and use of superhuman powers, and shamanism was the focus of research.

It is precisely because the Kingdom of England has a strong shamanism research atmosphere that the domestic people have begun to regard the study of shamanism as a fashionable thing, especially those idle and powerful young people who are very obsessed with this mysterious and weird religious culture .

Take Dorset Port as an example, there are more than 30 shamanism research clubs recorded in the book, and the number of unrecorded ones is far more than this number, and the people who create and join these clubs are almost all the children of the city's dignitaries. Even some young officials and businessmen secretly join these clubs in order to build contacts and relationships.

Leo has just started to understand the situation in Port of Dorset. Most of the things about Port of Dorset were told to him by Jason and Nelson these days. As for the shamanism, he also learned about it from a related report in the newspaper. It's just that he never imagined that Shamanism would be so prosperous in the Kingdom of England, and no one even stopped this primitive sacrifice ceremony in such a public place.

Although Leo did not study the sacrificial rituals of shamanism, the early primitive church of gods was similar to shamanism, except that one sacrificed to specific gods, and the other sacrificed to the spirits of all things in the world, so from weaving webs The knowledge he obtained from the author was enough for him to analyze what the ongoing sacrificial ceremony was offering to.

"I don't know how to live or die!" After analyzing the general situation, Leo looked indifferently at the men and women who had fallen into a state of frenzy in the jungle, and said with disdain.

This sacrificial ceremony is not a sacrifice to the spirits of all things, but a sacrifice completely aimed at ghosts. The person presiding over the sacrifice feeds the ghosts summoned by him by offering sacrifices. While feeding the ghosts, Then you can get some rewards from the ghosts. These rewards may be some unknown hidden things, or some kind of mysterious knowledge.

This kind of sacrificial ceremony is not only a sacrificial ceremony of shamanism, but also exists in some churches of primitive natural gods. They usually offer sacrifices to their deceased relatives while offering sacrifices to the gods. Soul resonance obtains the inspiration of the gods.

But now these people don't offer sacrifices to the ghosts of their relatives at all, but look for ghosts to offer sacrifices at random. It is precisely because of this that they choose the garden cemetery, the place where ghosts are most likely to exist, to perform this sacrifice ceremony.

It's just that such random sacrifices don't necessarily attract ghosts in the end, they will definitely attract other things, maybe even some evil things, and contact with these things, not to mention ordinary people, even night watchmen. The strong with extraordinary power may also have to be careful.

Thinking of this, Leo had already foreseen the final result of these people, and also lost interest in paying attention to these men and women, turned around and prepared to leave.

However, a little abnormality sensed by the spiritual network made him stop involuntarily, and turned his head to look at the crazy men and women around the campfire again, and this time he no longer observed with the naked eye, but activated his spiritual vision.

In his spiritual vision, a huge black shadow shrouded the bonfire, and the pieces of meat thrown into the bonfire transformed into a bloody smell in some strange way and was greedily sucked by that black shadow.

"Supplier spirit?" Leo said in surprise after seeing the black shadow.

Seeing the Turing Radical Array arranged by a regular wizard in the black market, and now seeing the offering spirit recorded in the wizard's notes, Leo couldn't help feeling that there seemed to be a lot of wizarding forces in the Kingdom of England.

Supporting spirits are a kind of spiritual assistant made by wizards. This kind of spiritual assistant is mainly to help wizards collect some special materials that cannot be collected normally, a material that only spiritual bodies can collect.

In the research of wizards, it is believed that there is a soul world in this world, and the dead souls will stay in the soul world before they perish, and there are some strange materials that cannot be found in the real world in the soul world, so it is necessary to make offering spirits, Collect the materials of the soul world by offering spirits.

The method of making an offering spirit is very simple. It is to find a person who has just died. This person will undergo extremely cruel torture before death, and let him die in extreme pain. The spirit body full of hatred and resentment will not die when people die. Immediately after entering the soul world, he will linger in the real world for a period of time, and this time is just right for the wizard to catch him. As long as the support spirit is captured, the support spirit can be fixed between the real world and the soul world through the method of blood sacrifice, giving the wizard an extra free and useful labor.

However, the fact that a wizard can control the spirit of support does not mean that ordinary people can control the spirit of support. The process of making the spirit of support is very evil, so the spirit of support itself is also evil. Even wizards will use various methods to imprison and suppress the spirit of support , to avoid backlash.

But now, these men and women who performed the sacrificial ceremony obviously did not control the offering spirit, and they didn't even know what they were offering sacrifices to.

It just made Leo feel a little strange that this support spirit was obviously not under control, but he was still able to control his greed for flesh and blood, and his hatred for living beings. He only absorbed the sacrificed flesh and blood, and did not take the initiative to attack those men and women. , This situation is not recorded in the wizard's notes, and it is also the main reason that attracted Leo's attention.

Under Leo's attention, the sacrificial ceremony gradually came to an end. The person who presided over the sacrifice threw the last piece of flesh into the bonfire, came to a sentence of bones, and then took out a book and a rock. Then I saw him put the stone at the throat of the skeleton, tie it up with the wire he had prepared, and then open the book, chanting some mantras loudly by the light of the bonfire.

When the mantra was recited, the black image covering the sacrificial ceremony seemed to be under some kind of control. It shrunk rapidly and merged into the beast's skeleton, and the color of the beast's skeleton gradually turned black.

The men and women who saw this scene couldn't help exclaiming, and looked at the changes in the animal bones with excitement, just like looking at some kind of shocking artwork, while looking at the gaze of the priest Also full of worship.

In the sight of this kind of worship, the voice of the priest chanting the mantra also became louder, and the people around him made strange screams as if they were controlled by the surroundings, stood up from the ground, and surrounded the campfire They danced like crazy, and some people even released their most primitive desires on the spot and did some secret things.

These incantations, which sound full of magical power to the ears of ordinary people and cause them to behave insanely, sound like meaningless nonsense to Leo. They don't have any power at all, let alone control people. I'm afraid that even the binding force that drives the offering spirit to attach to the skeleton does not come from those spells, but the stone tied at the throat of the skeleton by that person. That stone should be the legendary rune stone.

The reason why it is said to be the legendary rune stone is because the method of making this kind of rune stone has long since disappeared. All the rune stones that can be found in the world were made more than a thousand years ago.

The rune stone is the name given to it by the wizard. Its real name is the god stone. As the name suggests, it is a god created by the gods. At least the church of the gods thinks so. In the early days of the church of the gods, the miracles were performed with the help of rune stones. It is not the use of magic and divine power bestowed by the gods.

However, more than a thousand years ago, almost all the churches of gods who could make rune stones announced that the method of making rune stones was lost, and rune stones could no longer be made.

At the beginning, people just thought that the church wanted to sell it for a price, because before the advent of the medical school in the Vinylon world, the medical treatment in all countries was underdeveloped, and the number of people who died of diseases far exceeded the sum of other causes of death, and a large part of the rune stones were It is used to remove diseases, so nobles in many countries hope that they can have a medical rune stone so that they can get timely and effective treatment when they are sick.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that nobles from all over the world have hinted at their domestic churches from time to time about their willingness to purchase rune stones, and even adopted some extreme methods later on.

So when the churches of the gods said that the method of making rune stones was lost, no one believed that it was really lost. They thought that these churches of the gods were either trying to sell them for a price, or they wanted to cut off the power of those powerful people. buy ideas.

However, the development of things after that was beyond many people's expectations. All the rune stones were taken back by the church, and the almost miraculous powers that the church displayed during its missions were no longer created using rune stones, but relying on their own origin from the gods magic to attract ordinary believers.

According to the notes of the wasteland wizard, the wizard has also studied the rune stones for a period of time, and fiddled with the rune stones made in the Gamore language, but the effect of these rune stones is very weak, far from being comparable to those made by the Church of Gods. So this thing is no longer valued by wizards.

However, the rune stone that Leo sees now is obviously different from the rune stone he knew from the notes, because the ancient Gamore language on this rune stone indicates that this rune stone was made by a wizard, and now this one The rune stone made by the wizard can actually allow ordinary people who have no power to control the support spirit. The effect of this artifact is obviously different from the rune stone recorded in the notes.

Leo is not very interested in the manufacturing method of the rune stone itself. The magic circle and other methods he has mastered now are better than this rune stone in terms of effect and production difficulty. What he is interested in is making The man with the rune stone, this person was able to further develop the rune stone that had been abandoned by the wizards of the tower, and make it into a finished product. Obviously, this wizard has an extraordinary understanding of various mysterious knowledge, and this knowledge is very formal wizard knowledge.

For a long time, Leo has mastered all kinds of wizard knowledge and power little by little through his own learning, analysis and experimentation. Even if he comes into contact with wizards, they are all informal wizards like blood wizards, but now in The Kingdom of England may even be in the port of Sete, and there is still a regular wizard who may have a tower wizard hidden here, which makes Leo also interested, hoping to meet this wizard, see Is it possible to exchange the inheritance knowledge of an official wizard from the other party?

Even if you can't exchange the inherited knowledge, you can still exchange the witchcraft mastered by each other with the other party, and learn more about the wizards of the tower.

Thinking of this, Leo walked towards the clearing in the forest where the sacrificial ceremony was held.

At this time, the person who presided over the sacrifice had already started the final step. He wanted to get the reward from the offering spirit. He put his head in front of the skull of the animal bone, said something in a low voice, and then put his head on the On the bloody animal bone, it seems that it is ready to receive the information transmission of the spirit in the animal bone directly through this method.

However, the presiding sacrificer did not realize that the moment he leaned his forehead on the animal bone, the support spirit in the animal bone became extremely furious, and instantly broke free from the control of the rune stone, and the controller animal bone offered to the presiding The head of the sacrificer bit it, and instantly bit off the head of the person presiding over the sacrifice.

The men and women around were still in a state of madness. They were not only affected by the religious ceremony just now, but were also affected by some special drugs. They completely lost consciousness to the outside world and did not notice that their leader had changed. It became a headless corpse that slid to the ground, and did not find that the animal bone on the cross broke free and fell to the ground, watching them with empty eyes like a real beast.