The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"When will we start catching the demons there?" Alto, who had recovered from his sleep for two days, immediately ran to the Knights of Light's residence, found Leo who had returned here, and asked road.

"Not in a hurry." Leo put down the blueprint of the magic circle he was researching, and said, "Even if you grab the demon out of that eyeball, there is no way you can imprison it, and it's useless. It's better to let it stay there." Let’s wait until we find a way to imprison him.”

Although Aalto was a little unwilling, he felt that Leo's decision was right. He was indeed not ready now, so he turned around and prepared to leave, and went back to Fringilla to find time to sort out all the things about imprisoning demons. knowledge to find the best solution.

But at the moment he turned around, he accidentally saw the map of the magic circle on Leo's table, and was immediately attracted by the map of the magic circle. It was the first time he saw that there was a magic circle that could The perfect fusion of the ancient elf language and the current warlock magic circle is definitely a breakthrough creation, enough to create a school of thought.

At this time, he thought of the perfect magic circle designed by Leo himself two days ago, and couldn't help but ask, "You designed this?"

"No." Leo shook his head, and then briefly talked about the Josh Manor.

Hearing Leo's words, Alto was stunned, because he didn't expect this matter to be related to Vigfortz.

For any mage and warlock on Thaned Island, Vigfortez is like an insurmountable mountain in front of them. No matter how they climb up, they can never see the top of the mountain.

Aalto has been staying in the library for a long time. Although he has never dealt with Vigfortz, he has also read some works written by Vigfortz. Judging from these works, Vigfortz is involved in The breadth of knowledge is definitely not inferior to him, and in the application of this knowledge, Wigfortz far surpasses him.

Although he admits in his heart that Wigfortz is much better than him, but deep in his heart, there is still an urge not to admit defeat, wanting to beat Wigfortz once on the level of pure knowledge.

It's a pity that on Snyder Island, the identities of him and Vigfortz are too far apart. It is impossible to contact Vigfortz directly, let alone challenge him openly, because those Vigfortz's identities Admirers would never allow a librarian like him to challenge their leader. Maybe he just publicly challenged Vigfortz and would die in an assassination the next moment.

Therefore, the idea of ​​competing with Wigfortz has always been hidden in his heart, and he has never mentioned it to anyone.

But now that he saw a blueprint of the magic circle designed by Vigfortz, the feeling of rivalry that he had almost forgotten resurfaced again.

"Let me see!" Aalto also ignored the current environment and Leo's attitude, walked directly to the table, transferred the blueprint to his side, and then took out a notebook that he carried with him and carefully recorded.

Aalto's sudden joining did not surprise Leo, and this was what he did on purpose.

When Alto taught Warlock-related knowledge before, Leo had already figured out the other party's personality and his interest in various supernatural things, so when he knew that Alto was coming, he deliberately sent him to the Warlock for two days. The drawing of the magic circle of Josh Manor drawn based on the brain data was spread out on the table, making a research appearance, just to attract Alto's attention, and actively joined in to help him analyze the basic composition of the magic circle.

Although Leo is confident that he can completely analyze the magic circle with his own ability, it will definitely take some time. Now that there is someone who can help him reduce the energy and time spent, he will naturally not let it go.

However, what puzzled him was Alto's positive attitude, which obviously didn't look like a curious person, but more like a fighter, as if he was competing with the entire magic circle.

Although, I don't understand why Aalto became so active, but Leo is happy to see the result, which is only good for him and not bad.

So, Leo and Alto carefully studied and analyzed the magic circle in the study.

During this process, Leo also learned a lot of analysis skills from Aalto, because Aalto would analyze the various magic circle blueprints collected in the library when he was idle in the library, although he was not familiar with the application He doesn't know anything at all, but he is definitely the number one in analyzing and deconstructing the blueprints of the magic circle.

However, Alto also has shortcomings, that is, his grasp of the ancient elf language is very shallow, and he is completely unable to disassemble the elf magic circle. He can only listen to Leo's explanation of the elf magic circle, and then tell Leo Roughly analyze the direction and method, so as to be able to play a supporting role.

And because of his age, Alto's thinking has become a lot slower, it is difficult to find the corresponding information after he has an idea, and Leo's database memory just makes up for this defect, as long as Alto mentions an idea, He was able to find several possible corresponding materials for Aalto to choose from.

In this way, the two cooperated with each other, and in less than half a day, the entire magic circle drawing was completely disassembled into separate magic circles by the two of them, and their connection methods and rules were also analyzed , the law of magic power operation and the effect of magic circle, etc.

However, after the analysis was completed, Leo fell into doubts.

Because according to their analysis, the function of the warlock magic circle in the center is just an amplifier that has been piled up to the limit, that is to say, its function is to maximize the effect of other magic circles, and it is impossible for that magic circle to produce Powers like hallucinations.

"Did you really see an illusion?" After hearing Leo's detailed description of what happened to him at the Josh Manor, Aalto couldn't help but frowned, and expressed doubts: "You should also know The effect of those magic circles is only to enhance the effect of other magic circles, even if there is any change, it is impossible to create the illusion you mentioned, at most it will only increase or weaken the effect of the surrounding magic circles."

"I know that too." Leo didn't refute Aalto's words. He closed his eyes and carefully recalled his experience in Josh Manor, and said with absolute certainty, "But it's true that I saw illusions."

"If this is the case, could it be because of other reasons?" Aalto said in a deep voice.

"Other reasons?" Leo looked at Aalto slightly puzzled.

Alto immediately explained: "What if the phantom you see has nothing to do with the magic circle itself, but is produced by other unknown reasons?"

"This..." Leo was stunned after hearing Alto's prompt, and then a thoughtful expression surfaced.

It took a while for Leo to recover from his contemplative state, and the look on his face also faded away from being confused. It was obvious that he had already figured out something.

"Did you think of anything?" Aalto also asked curiously.

"I thought of some clues, but I still need to verify it." After finishing speaking, Leo didn't talk to Aalto anymore. He directly left Aalto in the study, walked out of the room on his own, and jumped on the horse. , ran towards Bauclairn.

Leo's performance made Arto feel inexplicable. When he realized it, Leo had already rode out of the station and found himself left here. He suddenly had the urge to curse.

Leo didn't care about Alto's emotions at all. He only needed to verify one thing at the moment, and soon he came to Fringilla's manor. After asking the servants, he learned that Fringella was Attending a banquet with a certain nobleman and not coming back until evening.

Leo did not wait in Fringilla's manor, but under the guidance of the servant, he rushed towards the place where the nobleman held the banquet.

Soon he left the town of Beauclair and came to a manor on the edge of the Sansredo swamp.

He didn't enter the manor, but asked the servants outside the manor to go in and ask Fringji to come out.

Not long after the servant entered, Fringilla and Geralt, all dressed up, came out of the manor. Seeing Leo waiting outside, they couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with looking for me so urgently?" something?"

Leo didn't answer Fringela's question right away, but looked up and down at Geralt who was dressed like a brightly colored rooster, and couldn't help laughing: "You don't suit this kind of dress."

"I know." Geralt also showed some embarrassment, and smiled wryly.

"I think it's pretty good." Fringilla naturally wouldn't admit that the clothes she chose for Geralt were poor, even though she knew in her heart that she had picked the wrong clothes, she still said firmly.

Leo didn't get entangled in the question of clothing, but returned to the topic and said, "I have something to ask about the Josh Manor."

Fringilla frowned, as if she didn't want to have anything to do with Josh's car, but in the end she nodded and said, "Ask!"

Leo asked in a deep voice: "When you went to Josh Manor to investigate things, how many people went there?"

"Maybe seven or eight people!" Fringila said after thinking for a while.

"Did anyone else see the illusion besides you?" Leo then asked another question.

Fringila was a little taken aback, she didn't expect that Leo would have such a problem, and this problem is also very important to her, because this problem is also something that has troubled her for a long time.

Fringila shook her head and said, "No, no one else saw any phantoms except me." She then asked, "Do you know the reason for this?"

Leo did not answer, but continued to ask: "What did you see in the phantom?"

Fringira's face was a little ugly, and she immediately refused: "This matter is designed to my privacy, I can't answer."

In this regard, Leo did not continue to ask, because he had already got the answer he wanted, so he said: "Do you still remember the broken pages of the sigh of the night god I mentioned?"

Fringila was very smart, and immediately realized the message Leo wanted to express, and hurriedly asked, "Is that broken page in Josh's manor?"

"Very likely." Leo did not give a very definite answer, and then asked the two of them: "I'm going to Qiao's Manor now, are you going?"

"No." Without waiting for Geralt to answer, Fringilla took his arm, making the decision for him and herself.

Seeing this situation, Leo didn't force it, turned around, jumped on the horse and galloped along the path towards Josh Manor.

For Leo, since he already knew that there was a broken page of Night God's Sigh in Josh Manor, he would not be willing to wait any longer. The most important thing was to get the things as soon as possible.

Leo didn't go on land, but directly found a boat. The man and the horse went directly through the swamp lake area, came to the Carloberta forest, and then entered the forest. It took a short time to arrive at Josh Manor outside.

After Alto's reminder just now, Leo has realized that the phantom that appeared silently that day was not because of the magic circle here, but the sighing fragment of the night god in the magic circle.

After the amplification of the magic circle, the power of the remaining pages has been fully released. Leo's analysis of the confinement outside the magic circle in the ancient elf language is still somewhat wrong. It is not only imprisoning energy and soul, but also imprisoning Night God's sigh The illusion created by the remaining pages.

Leo and Fringilla both passively fell into the illusion the moment they entered the manor because of the power of Night God's Sighing Remnant Page, while the others were able to stay out of the illusion temporarily.

This does not mean that it is a bad thing for Leo and Fringilla to possess part of the power of Night God's Sigh and Remnant Pages, because although they will passively resonate with the power in the manor and enter the illusion, they want to get rid of the illusion and leave The manor is also a very simple matter.

But other ordinary people are different. If they fall into the illusion, it may be difficult to get out of the illusion, and they will eventually be driven crazy by all kinds of supernatural things in the illusion, just like Joe who died here. The Barons and the Vintners were the same.

This time, Leo didn't rush into the manor as recklessly as last time, but tried to stimulate the power of nightmare in his body to wrap around his body.

Although this is not the world of Velen, the power of nightmares can still play a role here. From this, it can be seen that the night god in the world of Velen is probably an outer god, not a local god like the gods of death Gain and Lord of the Sky.

After getting ready, Leo climbed over the wall again and entered the manor. This time he did not turn on his spiritual vision, but the moment he climbed over the wall, the scene inside the manor instantly turned into an illusion, which was undoubtedly produced by the power of nightmare The resonance directly pulled him into the phantom.

And after entering the illusion, Leo also instantly conjured up a set of gorgeous costumes with the power of nightmares, which was the one Geralt was wearing just now, playing the role of a guest attending the banquet.