The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Did he not agree?" After learning about the Lord of the Black Forest's promise to the King of Knights, Tessa Moka couldn't help being curious, and asked Count Pipero, but after asking, she felt that she had asked another question. Stupid question, because if the King of Knights promised the Lord of the Black Forest, then there would be no French Empire.

Although Count Pipero also felt that there was no need to answer this question, he still responded due to the current situation: "He did not agree to become a god, because after becoming the god of the Black Forest, he can no longer leave the Black Forest. He chose another One way, he decided to sign a contract with the Black Forest, a contract that would allow the French royal family to stand forever in the Velen Continent."

Sylvia asked: "The content of this contract is that the royal family can use the power of the Black Forest in times of crisis?"

Count Pipero replied truthfully: "There should be this article. I don't know the specific content. I just know that the contract between the royal family and the Black Forest involves two things. One is the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, and the other is the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest. Contract ring."

"Since it is related to blood, then the royal family should all have the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest?" Sylvia asked again. She actually asked this question to the current king of the United Kingdom of France.

"It's not like that. Only the Emperor of France has the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, and the other royal families just have the opportunity to obtain blood." Count Pipero explained, and seeing how many people could understand his explanation, he continued: " I don't know much about the contract, but I know what Louis X is doing now."

As soon as Earl Pipero's voice fell, Leo immediately concluded his words, saying: "Does he want to use the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest in his body to regain the position of god that the Knight King gave up back then?"

Count Pipero was stunned, and looked at Leo in a daze. He never thought that the royal secret that he thought was very valuable would be revealed by Leo.

After a while, he recovered from his senses and asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

"It's very simple. It can be deduced from some things that the French Empire is doing now." Leo responded calmly, and then showed a pensive look.

Looking at it now, what the French Emperor Louis X did did not get the permission of the Black Forest, and may even deviate from the oath made by the King of Knights and the Black Forest, so the Black Forest wants to withdraw the token of the oath.

This also made Leo realize that the contract ring is definitely not as simple as he thought before, and there must be some secrets in it that he doesn't know, because Bailu would ask an outsider like him to retrieve the ring, and recover the black The blood of the Lord of the Forest means that this ring is more important than the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, which made him wonder what kind of contract the King of Knights signed with the Lord of the Black Forest.

Sylvia frowned, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Is it just this so-called royal secret?"

"Of course not, the real secret lies in the ritual of his becoming a god." Count Pipero quickly added: "I don't know how Louis X will become a god, but I do know that there is a step that must be completed, that is, The scene where the King of Knights and the Lord of the Black Forest signed the contract must be reproduced, that is, both parties who signed the contract, the tokens of the contract and the witnesses must be present." He pointed to himself and said, "I am the witness As a descendant of man, I am also the key to Louis X becoming a god."

After saying these words, Count Pipero believed that an important bargaining chip was already in his hands, because if Sylvia or the United Kingdom wanted to destroy Louis X's plan, they had to send him away and protect him. Well, although he will lose a little freedom, he doesn't have to worry about the danger of his life in a short period of time, and he is also confident that as long as he is given enough time, he can master the power given by the alien god cells in his body, so that he can return to a normal state. The appearance of the person, when the time comes, I will find a way to escape.

"No! You are not the key, the key is the blood descendants of the glorious nobles." However, Leo soon broke Count Pipero's fantasy and said: "Although you are the heir of the glorious nobles, his blood descendants are not You are not the only one, and your body has been integrated with the Ability God cells of the Eye of Reality. The bloodline has long been impure. At that time, the French officials only need to claim that you are dead, and choose another bloodline from the Pipero family It is enough for a purer clan to inherit your title."

Hearing Leo's narration, Count Pipero was stunned for a while, not knowing what to say. Obviously, the mutation of his body also affected his intelligence. Otherwise, he couldn't have missed such an obvious loophole. This also made him understand why the secret department of the Faran Empire spared no effort to hunt him down, not to capture him alive, because in Louis X's view, there was no need for him to be captured alive.

Although he already knew in his heart that he was not the only witness candidate as Leo said, but he couldn't admit it, because this recognition would reduce his bargaining chip to protect himself, and he didn't know that Sylvia and the others would Won't help yourself escape the empire.

Just when Count Pipero was thinking of retorting, Sylvia said: "You don't have to worry about leaving the empire. Since I promised, I will definitely abide by it. But the so-called hidden values ​​you mentioned are far from It's far from what I paid, so you have to pay some extra."

Count Pipero hesitated for a moment and asked, "What price?"

"I know that although your Pipero family has territories in other places, they stay in the towns of the royal family such as Winterring City all the year round," Sylvia said straight to the point: "After so many years of management, your Pipero family The family should have established a lot of hidden forces in the royal territory, and you should have been helped by these forces when you escaped this time, so I need you to hand over these forces to me."

"No!" Earl Pipero didn't even think about it, so he refused: "These forces have been built up by the Pipero family little by little over the years, and they are the foundation for the permanent existence of the Pipero family. I will never Give it to someone else."

"Don't worry, just listen to me." Sylvia said calmly, "You are about to leave the empire. Once you leave, those forces will also be out of your control. The kingdom controls the forces here, and with the new Earl Pipero succeeding, do you think you can continue to control these forces?"

Count Pipero fell silent. As Sylvia said, these forces belonging to the Pipero family will inevitably belong to the new Count Pipero in the near future. As for the length of time, it is up to Frank When will the empire announce the new Count Pipero, and the new Count Pipero will find relevant information about those forces without the guidance of the previous Count Pipero.

"I can give you the list of those who have not been discovered by the empire, but I can't guarantee that each of them is extremely loyal, and they are all loyal to Count Pipero. Once the French Empire announces the new Piper Earl Luo, then you will probably be betrayed by them if you contact them."

Sylvia said calmly: "You don't have to worry about this, you just need to give me the list. As for how to deal with them and how to make them obedient, it is our own business."

Seeing that Sylvia was so determined, Count Pipero said no more, and then reported more than a dozen names. The people represented by these names involved all walks of life in the French royal territory. There is no shortage of royal merchants who specialize in providing supplies for the royal family, and there are also some craftsmen at the bottom of society.

After recording these lists, Sylvia wanted Count Pipero to ask some questions related to the lists of these characters. She wanted to know as much about these people as possible, so that she could control them after sneaking into the French royal family's territory in the near future. Help yourself to act.

During this period of time, Leo did not stay in the villa anymore, but left the villa and rushed towards Lutham City on the south side of Cambay Town. According to the news from Mourning, the entire Sardinian County Outside of Ding City, only Lutem City has a black market.

Because no one else could slow down his speed, Leo was able to drive at full speed. After leaving the villa, he arrived in Lutem City in less than twenty minutes.

Just like most other cities in the Faran Empire, the center of Lutem City is still a huge knight fortress. All the roads in the blocks are built around the knight fortress. The shape of the entire city is like a Irregular concentric circles.

There is no city wall built around the city, which makes it impossible for outsiders to enter the city even at night, but I don't know if it is because of this system itself, or because of the frequent appearance of mutants. There are a lot of city police and police patrolling back and forth on the Internet. They don't check the identity documents of those who come and go. The only targets they pay attention to are those who cover up with clothes.

Before Leo entered the city, through the control of body muscles and the use of the power of the Faceless Man, he became shorter and his face became a square face, and his body was strong, deliberately Wear the weapon on your body and expose it, looking like a bounty hunter.

In the Farland Empire, although the main force to deal with those out-of-control mutants is the secret department of the Farland Empire, there are also some bounty hunters who came for the bounty, and Lutem, the second largest city in Sardinia, The city has also become a gathering place for bounty hunters from various surrounding villages and towns. It is not uncommon to see people dressed like him in Lutem City, and the gendarmes and police also know their identities. Will not trouble them.

With the changed appearance and shape, Leo easily entered Lutem City, and according to Mourning's narration, he found the entrance to the black market.

In fact, Leo was able to find the black market without Mourning's narration at all, because after he entered the city, he saw no less than two batches of bounty hunters, and several of them exuded obvious energy Fluctuation should be a transcendent.

The place they went to was the same as Leo, the black market of Lutem City, and the place where this black market was located was very special, it was in the largest underground arena in Lutem City.

The place where Lutem City was originally located was a primeval forest, and it was one of the coldest places south of the Vinovich Mountains every winter.

What the prisoners exiled here have to do is to cut wood, and these things can only be done in summer and autumn, because in winter and spring, the trunks will be as hard as stones due to the climate, and it is difficult to cut, so winter and spring Even the prisoners have nothing to do, they can only stay in the prison camp and wait for the next summer.

In order to allow these prisoners to have something to do during the long winter and spring, to vent their excess experience, and to avoid causing trouble to the garrison, the warden of the prisoner camp at that time built a small arena at his own expense, and then took out some Money and supplies were rewarded to the last Inquisitor among the prisoners who participated in the competition.

Although this arena was the whim of the warden at the time, and even the warden was impeached by the empire's councilors because of this incident, the arena was completely preserved, and with the development of Lutem City, It developed and continued to be remodeled, and eventually became one of the most distinctive entertainment activities in Lutem City. Although it is not nationally famous, anyone who travels here will know something about the arena more or less.

This evening, the arena is holding two competitive events. These two competitive events are not the kind of bloody competitions with swords and swords, but two ball games that have been very popular in the French Empire in recent years. .

The black market that Leo is going to is in the underground venue below the arena. This place was originally the rest room for the performers, because in the early years some competitions were bloody competitions where hundreds of people fought, and the arena needed a place for the competitors waiting to enter the arena to rest Therefore, someone proposed to hollow out the underground of the arena and transform it into such a lounge.

Because the people who participated in the massacre of hundreds of people in the early days were all prisoners, this lounge was also built like a prison. Even though it has been reformed by the black market now, it still has the shadow of a prison.

Leo entered the black market without undergoing any tests. Judging from the bounty hunters who entered it first, even ordinary people can come in here, so in this black market, he saw something different from other black markets. That is, the number of ordinary people in this black market far exceeds that of extraordinary people.

And because of the large number of ordinary people, this black market is more like an ordinary trading market. Various hawkers put the things they want to sell on the ground, not waiting for discerning people to find them, but shouting loudly. , to attract the attention of bounty hunters, and the items they put on the ground are all ordinary weapons without exception, let alone wizards and wonders, even some items that have nothing to do with occultism.