The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The next day, Leo and Sylvia took the transfer order and went directly to the convening address written above, which was the Ronald Camp in the Knights District.

The entire urban area of ​​Winterrin City is divided into seven parts, the largest part of which is the college district, but the area of ​​the college district itself is not the largest, mainly because of the expansion of the college district later, and a part is drawn from the other six districts as the college branch. , and the area marked out by the Knights District is the largest, and almost half of it has been drawn out, making this once largest urban area now the smallest urban area.

The Knights District used to be the most prosperous and lively urban area in the entire Winterrin City. A total of 31 knight camps were built here to train knights. It is an honor to graduate from the Knights Battalion.

In the minds of the knights in the world of Velen, the greatest glory is not the victory on the battlefield, but the challenge of the 31st ring of the Knight Battalion of Winterring City.

The knights participating in the challenge must challenge the chief knights of the 31 knight battalions. Every time they defeat a person, they need to buckle a very heavy gold ring on their hands. Until the last chief knight is challenged, the weight of the gold ring on his body will change. It was very scary, and it was very difficult to walk normally, let alone fight.

And as long as he defeated the chief knight of the thirty-one knight battalion, that knight would be honored as a champion knight, and the country where he was located would directly award him the title of baron.

Since the establishment of the entire Thirty-one Knights Battalion, only seven people have become champion knights, four of them are church knights, two of the other three are Francois, and one is Marisian. Details about these seven knights The information is recorded on the base of the statues of the seven of them in the Plaza of the Knights.

However, with the advent of steam technology, various steam weapons gradually became the mainstream, especially after the appearance of the steam crossbow with strong lethality and high rate of fire, the era of knights and cavalry as the main force on the battlefield has come to an end. Although many knights can still be seen on large and small battlefields, their role on the battlefield has changed from a frontal charge and destruction of the enemy formation to a side support, assaulting and disturbing the enemy.

Also because of the decline of cavalry and knights, coupled with the growth of the academy, the city of winter cold, the city of knights, was inevitably affected. The biggest impact was that thirty-one knight battalions were closed and transformed into The racecourse, arena, and fitness camp for entertainment were abandoned, leaving only the Ronald Camp, which once trained two champion knights, still continuing to operate, training for the empire, or more correctly, training for the royal family Royal guard knight.

Now all the countries in the world still retain the pure knight formation of knights, only the Royal Guard of France. In other so-called knights, only a small number of people are actually knights, and the others are either ordinary cavalry or knight servants.

Although the French Royal Guard is often used as a guard of honor, if you underestimate the combat effectiveness of this knight order, you will definitely suffer a big loss, which is obviously painful for the United Kingdom.

In a war not long ago, the Royal Guards of France suddenly appeared on the front-line battlefield, flanked and raided the army formation of the United Kingdom, directly penetrated the army formation, killed the general in the center of the army formation, and caused the entire front to collapse.

If it weren't for other well-trained troops to fill the vacancy, I am afraid that the battle of the United Kingdom of France would end in a major defeat, and the most important Bodo region of the United Kingdom might be lost.

As a knight battalion that produced two champion knights, not only did the area of ​​this knight battalion not decrease, but it was also divided from the training grounds of the 30 knight battalions when the other 30 knight battalions were closed, which eventually expanded its area. more than double that.

One side of the fence of the knight camp is connected to the knight guard station in the Royal Garden, and can enter the interior of the palace through the Royal Garden at any time, which is part of the defense system of the palace.

Now there are nearly 400 knights in the knight camp receiving knight training. These people can be regarded as quasi knights. Together with the hundreds of knights of the royal guard, it is enough to protect the safety of the palace in case of any trouble.

When the two arrived at the training camp, there were already a lot of people gathered here. A rough count was as many as a hundred people. They wore all kinds of clothes. People dressed up like gangsters, all in all, it looked like people from all walks of life in Winterfell City gathered here.

However, if you use the spirit net to carefully check the physical conditions of these people, you will find that without exception, these people are all very strong and proficient in fighting, with many hidden weapons on their bodies, and some of them even have some slight symptoms. Variation traces.

Undoubtedly, like Leo, these people are elites dispatched from various departments of Winter City, and they should all go to the Seventh Research Institute.

Although they may be colleagues in the future, because they come from different departments, and some departments are still hostile, everyone who comes here has a little bit of vigilance, and has no intention of talking to each other, and each finds a corner to stay.

When Leo and Sylvia arrived, the eyes of these people swept over them inadvertently, and many of them revealed a hint of contempt, obviously because of the academy students on both of them.

Only a few people who knew that the two of them were from the Special Operations Department showed a look of vigilance.

Although the Special Operations Department has great power in the Faran Empire, the various government departments within the Faran, especially the military department, are not very clear about the actual situation of this department. The agents are all aimed at those mutants, and rarely cooperate with other departments to handle cases. More importantly, the Special Operations Department claims to be the staff of the Royal Secret Service, the General Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Department of Judicial Investigation, etc., unless there are special cases. Otherwise, it is rare for outsiders to reveal their identity as the Special Operations Department. Therefore, for most government departments of the French Empire, the Special Operations Department is more like an urban legend, and it is still unknown whether it really exists.

Leo and Sylvia didn't do anything out of the ordinary. Like other people who came here, they randomly found a corner of the barracks and stood against the wall, waiting for the subsequent development of the matter.

After that, more than a hundred people came to the small square of the training camp one after another, and the number increased to more than five hundred. Everyone did not talk but stood quietly everywhere, and there was a very strange scene around them. atmosphere of silence.

When it was almost noon, a middle-aged man in a special military uniform came here, then took out a list, recited the names one by one, and finally said to everyone: "Whoever reads the name follows me."

After speaking, without any explanation, he turned around and walked back the same way.

And those who read their names immediately stepped out of the crowd and quickly followed.

The others didn't show any abnormality to the appearance of the middle-aged man, but Leo frowned slightly when he saw the middle-aged man. The change in his expression was not because of the middle-aged man himself, but The clothing worn by the middle-aged man is obviously the work clothes style of the Rockloth star. The only difference is that the clothing lacks some technological elements and is just cut and woven from pure cloth.

The Rocklosians are a rare humanoid alien race. Their appearance is very similar to that of humans, but they are taller than humans, and they have four arms and different numbers of horns on their heads. Their status will be It depends on the number and size of horns on the head. The bigger and more horns, the higher the status.

The relationship between this race and humans is very general, even hostile in the early days, because their image is somewhat similar to the demons mentioned in the religions of the old earth era. There are still many people who believe in various religions, and there are also many people who believe in the existence of demon angels, but they think that the so-called demon angels in religious legends are actually psykers or Omega-level advanced life forms.

When encountering the Lolos aliens, the commander of the human fleet at that time attacked the Lolos aliens first because of a misunderstanding. As a result, the opponent suffered huge losses, and the two interstellar civilizations fell into a war that lasted for hundreds of years. In the end, the war subsided, and the two sides reached the establishment of diplomatic relations, but the hostile atmosphere between the two peoples is still very strong.

Leo didn't know much about the Rocklosians, but he was very clear about their costumes, because the biochemical man's daily combat uniforms were improved from those of the Rocklosians, which was very similar to the costumes worn by the middle-aged man just now. Similarly, at first glance, he almost thought that middle-aged man was a biochemical warrior from the Earth Federation.

The appearance of this middle-aged man also made Leo suspect that the French Empire should have obtained a technological item from a Rockloth star. It may be the wreckage of a battleship, or it may be something else, but there is at least one complete corpse of a Rockloth star inside. , otherwise, it would be impossible to restore their costumes so well.

Afterwards, people wearing the same clothes came here one after another, and then announced their names and took them away without stopping for a moment or giving any explanation.

After about six or seven batches of more than two hundred people left, the names of Leo and Sylvia were reported by a young woman, and there were more than a dozen others whose names were called out like them. A mutant with signs of mutation on his body.

Like the previous people, Leo and the others did not speak, but followed behind the young woman.

The group soon came to a row of carriages. The young woman signaled Leo and the others to get on the carriages whose doors and windows were all covered. Without hesitation, everyone got into a carriage. After closing the doors, the young women opened the doors again. Locked up outside.

With the shaking of the body, the carriage moved forward slowly, because the interior of the carriage is completely enclosed, and all the gaps that can be seen outside are covered by layers of black gauze, so normal people cannot determine their position where.

However, this is obviously of no use to Leo. His mental net can easily penetrate the cover of the car and perceive the outside situation.

The carriage did not go to the royal garden where Leo thought the Seventh Research Institute was located, but drove out of the knight area, passed the administrative area, passed through the golden garden, and drove out of Winterrin City from the northwest gate of Winterrin City.

Discovering this, Leo couldn't help but frowned. He couldn't help but wonder if the Seventh Research Institute wasn't in Winterfell City? If that's the case, his plan will change somewhat, because the fundamental purpose of his coming here may not be to investigate the secrets of the Faran Empire, but to take the contract ring from the treasure house. is secondary.

However, Leo's guess did not come true. After a round trip in the suburbs, the convoy entered Winterrin City through another city gate, and then walked around the city for half a day before returning to the actual training camp. The path between the knight training camp and the station of the royal guard enters the royal garden.

However, the carriage didn't stay in the royal garden for too long, and passed through the edge of the garden to the Feast Palace.

After discovering this, Leo couldn't help being stunned, he couldn't help feeling that this carriage would take him directly to his destination.

However, because of the proximity to the palace, the powerful force protecting the palace reappeared, making Leo no choice but to stop using the extremely convenient spiritual net and use his own supernatural perception instead. Waiting for clues, analyzing and inferring his current location and surrounding environment.

Afterwards, about half an hour later, the carriage stopped, but the door was not opened, and then a mechanical roar was heard, and the carriage trembled slightly. The others did not know what was going on, but However, Leo knew that they were now on a huge lifting platform, and the lifting platform took them down to the ground.

After about a few minutes, the carriage vibrated again, and the mechanical sound stopped. The carriage started again and walked forward for about ten minutes, before stopping again. It didn't take long before I heard the sound of unlocking the lock from outside. The car door opened immediately, and the dazzling light came in from the outside.

Leo didn't care about the changes in the light. He stepped out of the carriage, looked around, and looked around. There are a lot of cosmic civilization technology with obvious Rockloth people. This also proves that Leo saw the clothes of the Rockloth stars According to speculation at the time, the Faran Empire obtained the wreckage of a spaceship of the Rocklosians.

Judging from the surrounding signs, such as the characters of the Lolos stars who have not disappeared, this should be the living quarters of a warship. The interior is very large enough to accommodate a small urban area. This material can make the metal emit a soft light that is not dazzling outside for a long time, illuminating the interior space of the living cabin, which is also one of the important technologies of the Rocklosians.