The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

However, Leo is also very grateful that he was able to discover his own flaws from Regil's blood power, and there is still enough time to remedy it. If his psychic power breaks through to a seventh-level psychic, then his body may be damaged. He will no longer be able to bear the strength of his psychic energy, and eventually his body will disappear completely. If he is lucky, he will become a special psychic life form, and if he is unlucky, he will disappear directly from this world.

What Leo needs to do now is to suppress the growth of psychic energy and fully stimulate the potential of his body by using various methods, so that he can more safely withstand the next qualitative change of psychic energy.

Just like a child getting a new toy, Leo couldn't wait to test the power of this power after he obtained the method of using blood power from Regil and improved it, so he hoped that Bu Earl Rita did some irrational things so that he could justifiably shoot.

It's a pity that Earl Britta didn't give Leo this chance. After a long silence, he nodded and said, "Yes, I can agree to your conditions, but I also have a request."

Leo was a little disappointed by the other party's reaction, but Geralt was very happy with the other party's decision now, so he asked, "What request?"

Earl Britta said in a deep voice: "Only after my plantation is traded, I will pay your conditions, and you, especially you demon hunter and the knight of light, must cooperate with me to do things, such as It is claimed that the monsters in the plantation have been wiped out, and those who disappeared all died at the hands of monsters."

"My lord, do you think we will agree to such a ridiculous request?" Leo said in a deep voice before Geralt could speak.

"I think you will agree," Count Britta said. "Although I really want to sell the plantation, it doesn't mean I have to sell the plantation. Your threats have no effect on me."

Although Earl Britta is very calm now, and he doesn't care about whether he can sell the plantation, that kind of confident performance makes anyone who sees it feel that his words are true.

But under the perception of Leo's mental network, Earl Britta's self-confident disguise is useless. The blood on his body, the speed of his heartbeat and other subtle physical reactions that he cannot control, all show that he is guilty at the moment. Great, no confidence at all.

"Since this is the case, we have nothing to talk about. Geralt, let's go!" Leo turned his head and gave Geralt a wink, then turned and walked outside, and although Geralt was captured by Britta The Earl was confused, but his intuition told him that there was a problem, so when Leo turned to leave, he also followed.

"Wait." When Count Britta saw Leo walking to the door, he could no longer bear the panic in his patience, and stopped the two of them, saying, "I can agree to your conditions, but you must guarantee that I will sell them to you." Before the plantation, there must be no adverse news from the outside world, in order to ensure that your guarantee is valid, I will only pay half of the conditions first, and the remaining half will be handed over to you on the day the transaction is completed."

Geralt glanced at Leo, as if asking for Leo's opinion, and Leo gestured to Geralt, signaling Geralt to make his own decision.

After thinking about it, Geralt nodded, and said: "I can only guarantee that we people will not leak anything we know to the outside world. As for whether there will be any adverse news from the outside world, we cannot guarantee that your enemy is so Many, they casually spread some unfavorable news about you, should it also be counted on us?"

Count Britta was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, as long as you can guarantee not to talk nonsense, I will agree to your conditions."

Seeing that Count Britta had already agreed to the conditions, Geralt and Leo did not push further, and reached an agreement with Count Britta.

After that, Earl Britta hurriedly led the people away from the manor, unwilling to stay here for another second.

Watching Count Britta leave, Geralt suddenly asked Leo: "Your Excellency Leo, do you think he will abide by the agreement and pay the other half of the terms after the transaction is completed?"

"No." Leo gave the answer directly, and said.

"Why?" Geralt asked.

Leo replied simply: "He actually believed our verbal guarantee, and didn't go further to ask for a written agreement to restrict the verbal guarantee. His promise to us was also just a verbal promise. Obviously, he has already prepared to go back on his word. Prepare."

Geralt nodded approvingly, and said, "However, we are not considered a failure. At least half of the conditions can be fulfilled. The money is enough for the family to move to another place and live a stable life."

Leo nodded slightly, did not continue talking with Geralt, turned around and left the reception room, and returned to his room.

In the next few days, the temperature in Toussaint began to drop rapidly, from hot summer to cold autumn and winter, and hoarfrost even condensed on the branches in the morning.

Some people have never seen such extremely cold weather in Toussaint in their life. Some refugees who entered Toussaint from the outside to avoid the snowstorm even described the cold snowstorm as a natural disaster. Many people remembered the Islinni prophecy, which was almost forgotten and even became a joke, the prophecy about Hoarfrost.

All of a sudden, the whole of Toussaint became panicked, and many people even regained the faith of the Prophet Lebioda, trying to alleviate the panic in their hearts through religion.

Also because of the sudden climate change, the originally grand knights' meeting came to a hasty end. Duchess Anna Henrietta is obviously a more pragmatic person. Under the current circumstances, compared with the more formal knights' meeting, , she paid more attention to the impact of the disaster on Toussaint.

Also because of this climate change, the wine conference also ended hastily, and the wines participating in the conference this time were also more or less affected by the surrounding climate, resulting in a decline in overall quality.

This is a good thing for Earl Britt, because in this way, there will be an explainable reason for the poor quality wine in the winery. I don't know if it is because of a good mood, or maybe it has been found After finding a suitable buyer, he was worried that Geralt and the others would come out to make trouble. On the third day of reaching an agreement with Geralt and the others, he paid half of the agreed conditions.

Because of the sudden change in climate, the monsters living in Toussaint were also affected and became extremely active, and the number of attacks on people also increased rapidly. It felt like these monsters were preparing food for the winter.

For this reason, the demon hunter, Sylvia, and Leo also often go out to take on the task of eliminating monsters, while Regil and others stay in the manor to protect the family, lest Earl Britt regret halfway That family is at a disadvantage.

When going out to eliminate monsters, Sylvia did not act together with Leo, because every time he encountered monsters, Leo had already dealt with them before Sylvia took action, although he finally got the Knight of Light and got Most of the glory and praise, but Sylvia didn't like it, which made her feel like a thief, so she acted alone after receiving two missions to eliminate monsters with Leo.

Leo has no objection to this either. He is not interested in killing monsters, gaining praise, glory, and money from the public. He is more concerned with developing his body's potential, and those monsters are his best experiments.

However, the monsters around Beran Manor have been surrounded by Geralt and Sylvia, so Leo can only go to more remote places these two days.

For this reason, he put all the armor and the big sword in the manor, and rode lightly, and the two horses took turns to ride.

When riding a horse, the two war horses under his crotch are also his experimental products. The power in the blood of the horses is stimulated by the power in their own blood. Although it cannot improve the life form of the war horses, it can make ordinary war horses become He has become an excellent war horse, and his speed, endurance, etc. have more than doubled.

The journey that originally took a day to complete, Leo only needed two or three hours to complete the journey.

Every time he arrives at a village, Leo finds the bulletin board, sees the quest posted on it, and doesn't contact the person who posted the quest, as long as there is a quest where a monster hurts someone, he goes directly to the place where the incident happened, finds the monster, and solves it directly Lose.

When dealing with these monsters, Leo did not use any supernatural powers such as psionic energy and divine power. All of them were physical powers stimulated by Qi and blood. In this state, his supernatural perception became more sensitive and even surpassed him. The previously unimaginable limit has entered a microscopic realm.

It's just that Leo is not satisfied with his current state. Although he has become more and more proficient in using his body's power, he has not produced extraordinary power from his blood.

For example, Regil's ability to generate mist comes from his blood, and when he attacks, Leo can also feel the power generated by some blood entwined on his sharp claws, just like psionic power, etc. Same as supernatural power.

What is the use of this kind of blood power, Leo is not very clear, but he knows that this is not just as simple as increasing Regil's strength and speed, but also involves a higher level of life force form.

"We need to find a monster that is strong enough!" This was the main thing Leo had been thinking about during this time.

It's a pity that the monsters he encountered were either giant centipedes or those bugs, and the slightly threatening ones were soul monsters called Day Demon Spirits.

After helping a village solve a group of bugs that crawled out of their lairs due to the climate, Leo returned to Beran Manor. He decided to change the direction of his actions. Tomorrow, he would no longer target the monsters that threatened the village. It is to carefully investigate the remains of some elven kingdoms. He believed that there must be some extremely powerful monsters in those ruins, just like the stone colossus named Golem that he and Sylvia had encountered before.

However, after returning to Beran Manor, he found that he did not need to do the search for the remains of the Elven Kingdom. Naturally, someone came to his door, and this person was also the target person Leo and Sylvia wanted to meet, Flynn. Gila Vigo.

It's a coincidence, but it's not entirely a coincidence. Dandelion sneaked off to Bauclair to date his duchess, and there are people who hate this in Toussaint. These people will do something to Dandelion. What, it is conceivable, so while hunting monsters, Geralt had to act as a protector, protecting Dandelion to the secret meeting place of Bauclair.

In fact, Geralt did not go to Bauclair for Dandelion. He also wanted to buy some snowmobile equipment in Bauclair, and he wanted to find a guide who was familiar with the area around Toussaint. He didn't plan to stay in Toussaint for a whole winter, and set off after the snow melted. It seemed that he was going to go through the mountains of Toussaint in this blizzard to continue his search for a girl.

However, he soon discovered that things were much worse than he expected. Although there are many travelers in Toussaint who are familiar with the surrounding mountains, most of them are familiar with the terrain with normal weather. Now this snowstorm covers The terrain is completely different from the terrain they recognize. In this case, they can't find the right way at all, and they will only be trapped in the snow-capped mountains.

Geralt was not discouraged, he decided to find a route through the mountains by himself, and the most detailed and rigorous maps of the surrounding mountains are stored in the palace library, and the person in charge of the palace library is the Duke's advisor Fringilla · Wei Song.

Through the duchess, Geralt also met Fringilla Vigo.

This is not the first time that the two have met. Geralt and his lover Yennefer had also met Fringilla Vigo when they attended the witch gathering, and the relationship between the two was not very good. Because Fringilla Vigo stabbed Yennefer with magic, although Yennefer later forgave Fringilla Vigo and became friends with her, Geralt faced this matter in his heart Always care a little bit.

It was precisely because of this small knot in the heart that when the two wanted to meet, the atmosphere was not very good.

However, Fringilla Vigo seems to be trying to please Geralt, and expressed her willingness to help Geralt find the mountain map, but she also reminded Geralt very seriously that this snowstorm is not just a natural phenomenon, It seems that there is also supernatural power that she is not clear about. This kind of power is very dangerous. Even she dare not go through the blizzard during this time. Another point is more important. Under the circumstances, all of them are invalid, and if they are forced to open, there will inevitably be unpredictable consequences.

After listening to Fringilla Vigo's description of the blizzard outside, Geralt also began to consider whether he should venture through the mountains. If Geralt were alone, he would not have considered so much at all, but now He was accompanied by Regil, Cassirer, Milva, Angulan and others. If any accident happened to these people because he forcibly crossed the mountains surrounded by snowstorms, this was something he absolutely did not want to see Things, so the idea of ​​leaving Toussaint in his heart has also faded a lot.