The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"I think I can give it a try." Leo looked at Nelson and asked, "Doctor, how about you?"

"I'm fine." Nelson nodded.

So under the gaze of everyone, Nelson put his hand on the stone platform.

"It seems that something has pricked my finger." Nelson who had just put his hand on it immediately let out an exclamation, raised his hand and looked at the painful part of the fingertip, but he couldn't find any wound on the finger, and felt Can't help but have some doubts.

Sean said with some disdain: "Cousin Nelson, you are making such a fuss..."

Leo interrupted Sean's taunt, pointed at Nelson's face, and said, "Doctor, why did your face become so pale!"

At this moment, everyone realized that Nelson's face was still rosy just before, but now his face was as pale as that of an albino patient, and before everyone understood what was going on, Nelson suddenly fell to the ground and passed out. .

Catherine on the side hurried forward to check, and soon got the result, suspiciously said: "He lost too much blood and fell into a coma."

"Excessive blood loss? What's going on?" Everyone was at a loss, completely at a loss.

Only Leo stared at the changing stone platform in front of him, and said, "The doctor's blood is all inside the stone platform."

Everyone heard the words and looked towards the stone platform, only to see that the stone platform, which was still plain just now, is now as dark as obsidian, and traces of blood emitting red light are gradually spreading from the top like the blood vessels of the stone platform. Going down, covering the entire surface of the stone platform, and continuing to extend to the ground.

"Damn it." Seeing that the blood was about to spread to his feet, Sean hurriedly took a few steps back, and habitually looked for an escape exit, but what he saw made him feel extremely panicked, and he shouted loudly Said: "Exit! The exit is gone!"

As Sean's terrified shouts reached everyone's ears, they couldn't help but look at the passage they had come from, and the scene that caught their eyes was just as Sean said, the passage they had just entered disappeared. , turned into a stone wall that blends with the surrounding stones.

Not only the passage entrance on this side, but also the bronze door on the other side quickly disappeared under everyone's gaze, and it also turned into a stone wall, so that the cave became a dead place with no exit.

"How could this happen?" When everyone felt a little panic about what happened before them, they all looked at Leo, who was the backbone.

However, unlike the worry and fear on the faces of everyone around him, Leo's expression was very calm.

For Leo, the passage entrance and the bronze gate turned into stone walls are not a problem, because those two stone walls are just illusions, and his mental network can still clearly perceive the location of the two passages.

What really made him feel extremely threatened was the stone platform in front of him where the high-energy force field was undergoing changes.

From the moment when a quarter of Nelson's blood was instantly drawn away by the stone platform, Leo's main attention has been on the stone platform, collecting a large number of spiritual energy changes inside the stone platform through the spiritual network.

He found that Nelson's blood seemed to be some kind of catalyst, making the originally inactive psionic energy in the stone platform tumbling like boiling water, and continuously sending out waves of psionic energy.

Although these psionic energy waves are not comparable to the previous psionic energy waves of the high priest of Deni in terms of lethality alone, but this kind of psionic energy waves can penetrate into the spirits of the surrounding living creatures and affect the emotions of anyone around. , For example, everyone will become so panicked and difficult to calm down now, it is because of the influence of this psionic energy wave.

Judging by Leo's rationality, he should immediately use the weapon in his hand to destroy the stone platform decisively at this moment, so as to prevent the stone platform from completing its final transformation and trigger the real power of spiritual equipment in the stone platform. But his curiosity is restraining his rational behavior, because he really wants to see what will happen to Shitai after the final transformation is completed.

And just when the two emotions were anxious, the blood streaks spreading from the stone platform finally covered the entire cave, including the stone wall on the top of the cave, which was also covered with blood vessel-like lines.

At this time, all the blood streaks erupted with intense light at the same time, and the high-energy force field contained in the light forced Leo's mental network back into his brain, and at the same time made his spirit go blank for a moment. It directly makes the eyesight of the eyes seem to be blind and unable to see anything.

When Leo's spirit returned to normal and his eyesight also recovered, he was a little surprised by the sight in front of him.

I saw that he was no longer in the underground cave, but standing on the stands of an ancient arena.

Right now, this ancient arena is shrouded in endless black mist. These black mist give him the feeling that he has returned to the different space that his spirit inadvertently broke into when he activated his psychic power that day.

Perhaps because of disrepair for a long time, or because of other reasons, the facilities in the arena are very old and dilapidated everywhere. The decorative carvings on the stone surface are all weathered and uneven. You can feel the grandeur of the time through the overall appearance of the arena building.

For unknown reasons, the surrounding stands and the wall at the top of the stand are all covered with cracks of different sizes, and some places simply collapsed. A large amount of black mist surged through these cracks and damages, squeezing inward, as if to Intruded into the arena from these damaged places, swallowing the entire arena.

Although the entire arena gave off the feeling that it would collapse at any time, the battle field of the arena remained relatively intact.

In addition to the two 20-meter-high stone pillars with a diameter of about two meters erected in the center of the battle field, and the two huge metal balls with patterns printed on the top of the stone pillars, they are particularly eye-catching.

In addition, the red sand covering the entire arena is also very special, because judging from the thick bloody smell here, the red color of the sand is not dye, but real blood.

While calmly observing the surrounding situation, Leo was also looking for the whereabouts of other people, but what made people feel strange was that except for the High Priest of Deni who was standing on the edge of the stand not far away, no one else could be seen.

"Because of psychic power?" Seeing this situation, Leo quickly thought that both he and High Priest Deni had psychic powers, which might be related to the fact that only the two of them would appear in this arena.

Leo felt that the high priest of Deni might know the specific situation here, so he walked towards him, and at the same time he quickly checked his status, and found that there was nothing abnormal, and the psionic skills could also be used freely .

The only problem is that when looking at the data records of the secondary brain system, the process of his coming here is blank, as if his secondary brain stopped working at that moment, which has never happened in the past.

"High Priest Deni, do you know what this place is?" Leo asked directly when he walked to the side of High Priest Deni.

The high priest of Deni, who was always wearing a hood, was silent for a while, and said: "This is probably what the Nilgardians call Gulabata, translated in the current language is an arena to please the gods."

"To please the gods? In other words, there are gods watching us now!" Leo said with a relaxed smile.

The reason why he was acting relaxed now was because he didn't feel any nervous sight from the black fog that surrounded the arena, just like the kind of sight he felt outside the Black Forest.

The high priest of Deni pointed to the two metal balls on the high platform of the arena, which were almost as tall as a person, and said, "I don't know if there are gods around us watching us, but I know they should be watching us now."

Leo asked, "What are they?"

"The guardian of the altar of the gods I mentioned before." The high priest of Deni narrated: "According to the ancient records we have translated, before the Nilgardians want to meet their patron saint, they need to pass through the guardian deity first. Only the truly powerful are qualified to meet the gods."

"It turns out that they are the guards of the altar of the gods." Leo suddenly realized, and at the same time probed the two metal balls with his spiritual net. Unfortunately, the high-energy force field attached to the metal ball blocked his spiritual net. Outside.

For the temptation of these two metal balls, Leo just stopped at one touch without forcing, and then he asked the high priest of Deni, "Why are we the only two here? Where are the others?"

The high priest of Deni responded: "It is not necessary for everyone to come here, just pick the two strongest people from among us, so they should still be in that cave."

"So, if we want to leave here and continue to go behind the bronze door, we need to kill these two metal balls, right?"

"According to the records in the ancient books, this is the case." High Priest Deni nodded and said.

"In this case, let's start!" Leo was very excited at the moment, and the look in his eyes was full of fighting spirit, and said, "You come first, or should I come first?"

The high priest of Deni took a step back and said, "You should go first! I still need a little time to accumulate strength."

"Okay, let me do it first!" Leo didn't pay attention to these two so-called guards of the gods at all, and acted very relaxed. On the sandy soil, he walked to the stone pillar in the center of the arena, looked up at the unresponsive metal ball on the top of the stone pillar, and couldn't help asking the High Priest of Deni loudly: "How do I wake this guy up?"

"Smear your blood on one of the stone pillars," said the high priest of Deni loudly.

Hearing this, Leo took off the battle ax from his waist, cut his palm directly, picked up a stone pillar, smeared the blood on it, and then backed away for a distance.

I saw that the stone pillar absorbed Leo's blood into the pillar like a sponge, followed by the blood streaks similar to the blood on the stone platform before, emerging on the stone pillar, spreading upwards, and pouring into the metal ball.

"Click!" With several sounds like the release of the mechanism's snap mechanism, a metal ball vibrated and rolled down from the stone pillar. When it was about to hit the ground, it spread out in all directions. It became a wolf-headed monster whose lower body consisted of four crab claws, and whose upper body was a human body holding a sword.

After the monster landed on the ground, the wolf head with a strange symbol on its forehead turned to Leo, and roared loudly at Leo, constantly exerting its violent energy on the enemies not far away, trying to fight before the official battle. Break Leo's defenses, just like he did in every gladiatorial fight in the past.

However, this psychic construct obviously believed too much in its past experience, and it had never encountered a person who was completely born for war like Leo.

While the metal monster was still roaring at him, Leo had already removed the fully-loaded flintlock gun from his back, and shot the monster's head without hesitation.

The distance between the two was not very far. When the huge gunshots reached the ears of the high priest Deni at the side of the field, the steel ball bullet had already hit the wolf head of the psionic construct who did not understand what was going on. Its metal wolf head was dented, and its whole body was beaten back.

Afterwards, with four shots in a row, Leo aimed at the head of the psychic construct without any hesitation. In the end, it took less than five seconds to shatter the entire head of the construct. .

A psionic construct that lost its head is like a robot that has lost its control center. Even though its body still has the psionic energy that can drive it to fight, it is completely paralyzed, lying on the ground and convulsing like an epileptic patient.

"What a stupid design!" Leo took out the flintlock ammunition from his belt and reloaded it, while looking at the psionic construct with great disdain.

Although he doesn't know whether the person who designed and manufactured this psionic construct is a god, but he can be sure that the maker is definitely an idiot.

Because even the most ordinary robot enthusiasts in the Earth Federation would not put the robot control center they designed in such a conspicuous position, and even left a striking logo on it for fear that others would not know it.

When the psychic construct released the force field protection just now, Leo's mental net had already captured the psychic fluctuations in the head of the construct, and instantly analyzed that the psychic fluctuations were control signals, thus making Leo aimed at this weakness and solved it very easily.

After reloading the ammunition, Leo hung the flintlock on his back, walked to the side of the twitching construct, grabbed the two long swords used by the construct, and forced the construct The body armor was split open to reveal a wizard-like psychic device inside.

Following him, he tugged at the device and found that it was inlaid very tightly, so he took the long sword in his hand and went down several times in a row, cutting off the entire device and a part of the metal around it, and then took it off, and at this moment The psionic construct completely lost power.

Just as Leo walked away with his spoils, the sandy soil under the construct swallowed it like quicksand, completely smoothing out the traces of the battle just now.