The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The Belmont family?" After listening to Pipero's narration, the people in the living room all showed surprise expressions, and even Leo had the same unexpected expression on his face. No matter how they thought about it, they never expected to forgive him To Sylvia.

However, in addition to being surprised, the surprised look on Sylvia's face also quickly disappeared, and then fell into deep thought.

And Leo also recalled things about the Belmont family at this time.

For the vast majority of French people, the Belmont family refers to the Sylvia family that lives in Belmont Manor, but in fact, just like the noble families with a long history in the French Empire, the Belmont family It is also a big family with many branches and intertwined internal roots like a big tree.

So far, the Belmont family has three branches other than Sylvia, and these three branches are also named after Belmont, so when Count Pipero said that he sold him the Ability God Cell When it was the Belmont family, the names of the three families immediately appeared in Sylvia's mind.

"Tirifax, Jerio, or Claire?" Sylvia asked after naming the three families.

Unlike Sylvia, the other three branch families did not rebel against the Faran Empire. Although they were more or less influenced by Sylvia and were inspected by the empire, they did not find any defection. There is no sign of them contacting Sylvia, so I let them go.

"Neither, it's your Belmont family." Earl Pipero shook his head, and then said in an affirmative tone.

Sylvia's face darkened immediately, and then she suddenly thought of something, and asked in a deep voice, "When did you buy this Ability God cell?"

"Two months ago." Count Pipero said a time, and then felt that it was not accurate enough, and said: "Two months ago, the third day after the Golden Sunflower Festival."

After hearing this sentence, Sylvia's face became gloomy again, and she also showed obvious anger. She should have guessed who the person who wanted Count Pipero to sell the Ability God Cell was.

Sylvia didn't just ask for confirmation, but continued to ask: "Does that person have a strong nasal voice when he speaks, and does he have a strong smell of tobacco?"

Count Pipero nodded, and said, "It does have a strong tobacco smell, and it's still very high-quality tobacco from the Isle of Bran."

"Damn it, it's really him." Sylvia no longer had any doubts, and she had already confirmed in her heart who Count Pipero was talking about.

"Do you know who that person is?" Leo asked.

Sylvia nodded and said, "He should be my uncle, Lord Lord."

Afterwards, Sylvia told Leo carefully about Baron Lord.

It turned out that Sylvia's mother came from a down-and-out aristocratic family, and there were only her mother and uncle in the whole family. So after marrying into Belmont Manor, her uncle has been living in Belmont Manor and growing up. After that, he worked in a factory under the name of the Belmont family.

Although the two are blood relatives, the relationship between Sylvia and Baron Lord is not very close. Joined the United Kingdom of France, so at that time it was only intended to give Baron Lord a sum of money, or to divide a part of the property that had not been sold.

But what surprised her was that when the rest of the family was still hesitating, Baron Lord stood up and expressed his willingness to join her in the United Kingdom of France. Some connections led to the acquisition of several precious blueprints of imperial weapons. It was precisely for this reason that he was quickly reused in the United Kingdom and held important positions, mainly in charge of a very important kingdom arsenal.

"How could he have Ability God cells in his hands?" Tessa Mocha couldn't help but wonder at this time.

"I want to know too." Although Sylvia already had several answers in her heart, she couldn't be sure, and this incident also gave her a new understanding of this uncle she had never paid attention to.

In Sylvia's memory, this uncle is just a person who is good at making money. He can always seize the opportunity and get the benefits he wants. It is also true that he can get along so well in the government of the United Kingdom of France. Because of his ability to have both sides.

However, now Sylvia needs to re-acquaint herself with her blood relatives, to be able to get the alien cells as a trade item, to be able to sneak into Earl Pipero's house silently, and to have a close relationship with Pipero, who is closely monitored by the empire. The earl's ability to conduct transactions is obviously not something that can be achieved by a person who relies on showing off and gaining benefits.

"What am I going to do with you now?" Sylvia looked at Count Pipero and said in a deep voice.

"I should be of some use to you." Count Pipero didn't seem too flustered, and said: "I know some secrets of the royal family of France, these secrets..."

Sylvia couldn't help smiling, interrupted the other party, and said, "How can you, a puppet under house arrest, know any royal secrets?"

Earl Pipero said calmly: "The Pipero family is called the nobles of glory, and they have been nobles of France since the first dynasty. When the King of Knights signed the contract with the Black Forest, my ancestors were also there. , do you know why Louis X wanted to control the Pipero family at all costs?"

When Earl Pipero was speaking, Leo felt the imprint of the white deer on his body suddenly produce a wave of energy.

"Promise him, but he will tell the secrets of the French royal family now." Leo suddenly said to Sylvia.

Sylvia was stunned for a moment, didn't think too much, and didn't ask Leo why. Instead, she said to Count Pipero, "I can send you safely to the United Kingdom. As for the conditions, you have heard it."

At this time, Count Pipero looked at Leo in surprise. Although he could feel that the relationship between the two was unusual through the conversation between Leo and Sylvia just now, it seems that the relationship between the two is beyond the limit. He expected that Sylvia would accept Leo's proposal without hesitation after hearing what Leo said, which all showed Sylvia's absolute trust in Leo, which made him feel incredible .

You know, back then in the French Empire, Sylvia was said by the then Emperor of France to be a wild horse that no man could tame. There were many people who pursued her back then, and all of them ended up with bruised noses and swollen faces. He ran away, but now Sylvia had obviously found his other half, which made him curious about Leo's identity, what kind of man could tame this wild horse.

"Can you tell me who he is?" Earl Pipero couldn't help but ask Sylvia out of curiosity.

"Leo Dodd." Leo didn't ask Sylvia to answer, but took the initiative to say.

"Dodd? An Englishman?" Count Pipero quickly judged Leo's origin from the surname, but he was still puzzled by Leo's identity, because the surname Dodd was obviously not a noble surname. .

Sylvia said impatiently: "Why are you asking so many questions? If you don't want to, just pretend that we haven't said it. After tonight, we will send you to the place where you were found. Death or live, depends on your own luck."

Count Pipero said quickly: "Don't worry, I'm just a little worried that after I tell those secrets, are you willing to keep your promise?"

Leo said flatly: "You have no other choice now, but choose to believe that we will keep our promise."

Count Pipero was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "I see, I choose to believe you. After all, Sylvia has various reputations outside, but at least she hasn't broken her promise." , he looked at Tessa Mocha and said, "Are we talking here? Don't change places."

"No need, let's talk about it here!" Leo said in a deep voice, "A secret known by more than two people is no longer a secret."

Seeing that the matter has come to this point, Count Pipero stopped hiding. After drinking a saliva, he changed into a comfortable sitting position, and then said with a serious face: "The royal family of France has claimed to have the blood of the gods since a long time ago. ..."

Sylvia interjected: "Not only the royal family of France, but also the royal family of England and the royal family of Sigmar have spread similar rumors."

Count Pipero didn't care about Sylvia's interruption, and he continued: "It's true, the blood of the gods mentioned by the royal families of those countries is indeed an unconfirmed rumor, but I can tell you with certainty that the royal family of France The bloodline of the gods is not a rumor, it is true, the royal family of Farland does have the bloodline of the gods."

After saying these words, he deliberately paused, waiting for some shocking reaction from Sylvia and the others, but what disappointed him was that the three people in the living room seemed very calm, as if they didn't care the secret.

The expressions of several people misunderstood Count Pipero, and he quickly explained: "Do you think I am making up a story? What I said is true. In the notes left by the ancestors of the Pipero family, it was written When the King of Knights signed a contract with the Black Forest, he got a drop of blood from the Lord of the Black Forest and became the descendant of the Lord of the Black Forest."

However, he found that his explanation was useless at all, because Leo and the others still looked indifferent.

It’s no wonder that this is the case. For ordinary people, the blood of the gods is indeed amazing enough, but for Leo and Sylvia, it is obviously not a matter of concern, because Leo’s own situation does not say Now, the blood and power of Sylvia and Tessa Mocha are not much worse than the gods in the world of Velen, so naturally they will not be concerned about such things as the blood of the gods.

"Speaking of the blood of the gods, isn't the alien god cell on your body also a kind of blood of the gods?" Sylvia pointed to Count Pipero himself, and said, "It's just that your blood is uncontrollable!"

"No, no! It's not the same, it's different." Count Pipero shook his head quickly, and said, "The blood of the gods I'm talking about is not the blood of the gods, but the real blood of the gods."

Although Count Pipero tried his best to explain, but the vocabulary he explained was very scarce, so that even if Leo and the others could hear that the blood of the gods that Count Pipero said was different from the blood of the gods they understood, they didn't know what the difference was. .

Count Pipero also realized that there was something wrong with the way he spoke, so he listened, thought about his words, and then continued: "The King of Knights did something very important to the Lord of the Black Forest back then. , so he obtained the favor of the Lord of the Black Forest, and promised the King of Knights a position of god, so that he can directly become a god from a mortal."

"Impossible!" Sylvia interrupted without thinking, "No one can directly become a god from a mortal, even the favored ones."

What Sylvia said was not casual nonsense. There are a lot of things about the gods in the orthodox court records, and among these gods, there are many gods who are revered as the sons of gods. The person has all the powers bestowed by the gods, just like the gods walk on the ground.

However, even those favored by the gods did not have an example of being able to directly obtain the gift of the gods and become a new god. Therefore, among all the true god churches certified by the Orthodox Church, it has almost become a consensus that mortals should not be gods.

And also in the theological circles, it is also an iron law-like consensus that the gods cannot grant gifts.

There are similar sayings in the philosophical circles, just as one cannot make others become oneself, gods cannot make others become gods.

Therefore, when Count Pipero told the story of the Knight King, Sylvia immediately denied this statement.

However, compared to Sylvia's denial, Leo agrees with Earl Pipero's statement, saying: "It's not impossible, the real gods may not be obtained through gifts, but the gods who are close to the gods are possible obtained by certain means."

Leo also made this judgment based on what he knew. Some Omega-level advanced life forms with extremely powerful control in the universe can forcibly raise the life level of creatures to the ninth-level spirit through some energy transmission methods. The level of the capable, but in this way, the life level of this creature can only stay at this level forever, without any possibility of evolution.

"A god who is close to a god?" Sylvia and Tessa Moka looked at him puzzled when they heard Leo's confusing words.

"Just like the white deer." Leo made an explanation. He knew very well that the white deer is definitely not an Omega-level advanced life form, but in the theology of the world of Velen, the white deer in the Black Forest is no different from a god.

After hearing Leo's words, Sylvia and Tessa Moka understood a little bit, but they were still a little confused.

So Leo gave another example and said, "It's like the Snow Queen now."

After giving this example, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha fully understood what Leo said.