The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Carloberta Forest is located in the south of Bauclan. It is the largest forest around Bauclan. It is also a hunting ground for the nobles of Bauclan. Therefore, many hunter cabins have been built here, and there is also a small village specially for hunting here. Nobles provide services.

However, those merchants and servants who specialize in serving the nobles will only come to the small village during the hunting season in the forest. Most of the people who usually live here are loggers, beekeepers and other people who rely on the forest to live. There are not many of them. And they have been doing things in the forest for a long time, so the village here is usually very quiet, giving people the feeling of a dead village.

The environment of the Carloberta Forest is not suitable for growing grapes, so there are very few vineyards here, all of which are on the edge of the forest, and most of the estates used by the nobles for vacation are built here.

However, there is an exception to everything. The manor that Leo is going to is built in the depths of the forest, and there is only one path leading to the manor, which seems a bit secluded.

Leo obtained some information about the manor from Fringilla, and together with some information he inquired about in nearby villages, he basically already knew the manor very well.

Just like many aristocratic manors in Toussaint, this Josh manor was also built on the ruins of elves, and retained a large number of relic buildings of elves, and even built gardens according to these relic buildings.

I have to say that this is really ironic. The people of Taussaint have a very contemptuous attitude towards the elves, calling them low-level pointed ears. Precious relics fight.

The records of the original builder of Josh Manor are no longer available. It is said that the time dates back to the beginning of the establishment of the Duchy of Toussaint. When Earl Josh took over the manor, the manor had already experienced many years.

Before Baron Josh took over the manor, the manor had been abandoned for many years. Many buildings had collapsed due to disrepair. He took over the manor at a very low price, and most of his expenses were spent on the renovation of the manor.

What makes people feel strange is that he did not find special craftsmen and architects to design the manor, but he did not know where to find a copy of the architectural drawings of the elf kingdom, slightly modified the style of the main building, and then followed the elves Kingdom architectural drawings to build this manor.

After Leo knew this, he wanted to look at the architectural drawing, but he couldn't find it anymore. His intuition told him that there might be something wrong with the architectural drawing.

Fringila also said that she also had doubts about this blueprint during her previous investigation, because almost all items related to the elf kingdom in Toussaint have more or less value, and the better preserved the items The greater the value, the carved building materials like the elven ruins that can be seen everywhere are naturally the lowest value, but like a complete architectural blueprint of the elven kingdom, the value of such items is absolutely amazing, even a duchess will be interested in it, basically no may circulate in the market.

Therefore, when Baron Josh said that he had a complete blueprint of the manor building in the Elven Kingdom, almost everyone who heard the news thought it was impossible, thinking that Baron Josh must have been deceived, and in Baron Josh After the manor started construction, they all waited to see Baron Josh's jokes.

However, after Baron Josh built the manor, everyone realized that Baron Josh was not lying, because except for the main building with a human style, the overall style of his manor was exactly the same as that of the elf kingdom.

This also made many people start thinking about the architectural blueprint in the hands of Baron Josh, but Baron Josh said that the original architectural blueprint has been lost, and there are only scattered architectural materials left by some craftsmen on hand.

At that time, everyone thought that Baron Josh was just making excuses, and he didn't want to sell the blueprint at all. But in fact, after the accident in Josh's manor, Bauclair learned from the craftsman who built the manor for Baron Josh during the investigation. Well, the blueprint was indeed lost after the manor was built. Baron Josh was furious because of this, and almost executed several craftsmen as thieves.

After learning about the situation, Leo could almost conclude that there was something wrong with the blueprint. If it wasn't a coincidence, someone might have done it on purpose. Even Baron Josh, who had a normal relationship with Fringilla, came to ask the sorceress to borrow the elf. Items from the Kingdom period may also have been inspired by someone.

While thinking about it, Leo drove his horse to the outside of Josh Manor. Although it had been abandoned for a while, the materials used to build the manor were all high-quality materials. Coupled with the adverse effects of what happened here, As a result, no one came here to steal things, so both the manor wall and the gate were basically well preserved.

Leo parked the horse in the manor, and the spirit net spread out to check the surrounding situation. He didn't feel any energy fluctuations in the manor, but he also didn't sense any animals inside or outside the manor. And insects, it is obvious that there is an energy fluctuation in this manor that cannot be detected by the spirit net, and it is precisely because of the influence of this energy fluctuation that all living creatures that can escape inside and outside the manor escape far away.

Leo tied the horse to a small tree next to him, then jumped over the gate and jumped into the manor.

Because the manor is built according to the elf style, there are a lot of plants planted here. These plants can make the whole manor very beautiful if someone takes care of it, but if no one takes care of it, these plants will grow randomly, making the original manor beautiful. The very gloomy manor became even more eerie.

Leo looked down at the stone slab under his feet, and saw that the slate was covered with exquisite patterns, so that people who had just entered the manor could instantly feel the magnificence of the manor.

If he had never entered the underground ruins, Leo might just regard the patterns on the floor as ordinary decorative patterns, but after learning the ancient elven script from Aisris, he knew that these patterns were also part of the ancient elven script.

Most of the elves now don't know the ancient Elven script, but their inheritance still retains the use method of the ancient Elven script. Knowing how to use it can produce what effect, so swordsmen don't need to master how to forge long swords, Can also use the long sword.

Now the patterns on the floor of this manor are part of the ancient elven script, and it is also part of a huge elven magic circle. Leo saw the triple meanings of "imprisonment", "attraction" and "circulation" from these ancient elven scripts under his feet. These three meanings represent The elf magic circle in this manor is attracting the surrounding free energy, and imprisoning it here, forming a cycle, which is a very well-regulated arrangement plan of the elf magic circle.

Continue to walk deep into the manor, and soon he came to the first fountain square. According to the drawings, Leo knew in advance that the manor had a total of sixteen fountain squares. After arriving at this fountain square, the shape of the square He couldn't help but have the illusion of returning to the underground elf ruins, because this square is very similar to the elf garden he saw in the underground ruins.

Although the shape of the garden here is very similar to that of the underground elf ruins, the patterns on the floor are different. The meaning of the ancient elf text composed of the patterns on the floor here is to accumulate and sacrifice.

After seeing these ancient elven texts, Leo can almost understand what the elven magic circle in this manor is used for, sacrificing living people, cultivating evil spirits, and then the imprisoning power outside not only imprisoned the absorbed The free energy also imprisoned the evil spirits that were bred.

At this moment, a cold air suddenly appeared in the surrounding area, and the water vapor exhaled by Leo also instantly turned into water mist in the air. energy fluctuations.

"Did it appear like this?" Leo spoke, arousing his spiritual vision ability, and the scene in his eyes changed instantly.

The originally empty manor was overcrowded at the moment, and the surrounding trees that had not been rested were also neatly rested. The nobles in all kinds of gorgeous costumes were gathered together to talk about something, and the uniformly dressed servants shuttled among the crowd with food. Standing and serving the guests here, it looks like a grand reception is going on here.

"Ghost!" After seeing this scene, the expression on Leo's face was very calm, as if this was a normal situation.

At this time, a maid was about to walk past Leo with a plate of food, Leo immediately reached out to stop him, and gathered a lot of spiritual energy in his hands.

The maid who turned a blind eye to Leo stopped instantly when her body was about to touch Leo's arm. The transition from moving to still was so sudden and perfect that even the clothes on her body didn't move forward with inertia. sign.

Following the maid, she turned her head to look at Leo. At the same time, all the servants and nobles around her stopped what they were doing, and all turned their heads to look at Leo. Their normal eyes instantly turned pitch black. A ball, like a ball of ink embedded in the eye.

If ordinary people saw this scene, they must have been scared to death, but Leo looked very excited and curious, and directly reached out and grabbed the maid. He really wanted to study what the ghost was all about, but unfortunately he couldn't find it. The objects that can be studied are all ghosts here. To him, this is simply a breeding ground for experimental products.

Faced with Leo's grabbing action, the maid couldn't dodge at all, and was instantly grabbed by Leo's hand that condensed spiritual energy. The power of spiritual energy seemed to be able to cause damage to this kind of ghost, and a burst of black smoke flowed from the contact. The place popped up, the maid ghost also let out a piercing scream, and the surrounding ghosts also made similar piercing sounds.

Although Leo controlled his ears and sealed the earholes in time, trying to isolate the sound, this sound did not seem to be transmitted through the air, but some invisible force that could directly act on the spirit, consciousness and even the soul, making Lei Ou Ou's defensive measures lost their effect.

Hearing this ear-piercing sound for the first time also made Leo feel a sense of discomfort and dizziness. The spiritual energy in his hand was a little scattered, and the strength of the grasp was also loose. The ghost of the maid took advantage of this opportunity in an instant. Escaping from Leo's capture, he disappeared from Leo's eyes, and the other ghosts also disappeared together, and the surrounding scene instantly returned to its original state.

When all the ghosts disappeared, Leo also recovered from the short-term dizziness, but there was no annoyance on his face at the moment that the prey had escaped, but a trace of doubt.

Although the spiritual network is not omnipotent in detecting abnormal energy, there are many supernormal energies in the universe that cannot be detected by the spiritual network, but the scene just now happened around, and he came into contact with the ghost at zero distance, feeling When it comes to the ghost's resistance, it is reasonable to say that even a low-level mental network should be able to perceive a little abnormal energy, but the result of the feedback from the spiritual network is that the surrounding environment is normal, and there was no abnormal energy fluctuation just now.

"Is it just an illusion?" Leo quickly made a guess, and also found evidence that it was an illusion, and this evidence was the psychic power in his hand.

After his head caught the ghost just now, the psionic energy restrained the ghost and was destroying the ghost. It stands to reason that part of the psionic energy in his hand should have been used at this time, but the actual situation now is that his psionic energy There was no sign of using it, which means that what he saw just now was just an illusion, and it was an illusion that could be said to be aimed at spiritual vision. The illusion appeared at the moment the spiritual vision was used, and it was silent affected him.

Although he didn't suffer any harm, he was unknowingly affected by the hallucination, which surprised Leo because he had never encountered such a thing.

However, this didn't make Leo feel any worries, on the contrary, it made him feel a little novel. Originally, he just planned to check some situations, and just take the pillar away, but the current situation made him interested in on this manor.

He continued to walk towards the depths of the manor, passed several fountain squares, and saw a similar elf magic circle, but the force that caused him to fall into the hallucination did not appear again, as if Leo's behavior just now was also right. The force seemed to have an effect.

Soon he came to the main building of the manor, and saw another large Qianping Square in front of the main building, which was convenient for guests to park their carriages. Around the Qianping Square stood eighteen stone pillars, each of which had an elf statue on top of it. Sculpture, there is a small pool in the center of the square, and the stone pillar engraved with monster relief that Leo is looking for is in the pool.

However, Leo's eyes were not on the stone pillar at the moment, but on the main building of the manor, which was incompatible with the surrounding buildings.