The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What's going on here?" Viscount Campbell, Minister of Defense of the Royal Palace of France, looked gloomyly at the half-empty display stand and the dead body of Earl Phelps on the ground, suppressing the anger in his heart , turned his head and asked the palace guards, imperial guards, and the general leading the royal guard who were silent behind him.

Several commanding generals looked at each other in blank dismay, none of them knew how to answer the question of the immediate superior, because they had just rushed over when they heard the siren, and they didn't know anything about what was happening now.

However, a great knight of the royal guard stood up to relieve his superior at this time, and explained the situation quickly and simply.

It turned out that not long after Earl Phelps led the people into the treasury, two more scholars and more than half of them left. After that, there was no movement in the treasury for a long time, and Earl Phelps did not come out either.

Due to some rules, the royal guards and imperial guards guarding outside the treasure house cannot enter the treasure house to check, so I thought of an emergency method, which is to directly find the grand knight, the captain of the imperial guards, and the guards who are located in the royal guard station. The captain, as well as the head servant of the Feast Palace, entered the treasury to check the situation, and saw what was happening right now.

Viscount Campbell listened to the truth about the great knight, looked at the robbed scholar on the ground and the open door opposite the treasure house, and said, "Did the thief come from the research institute?"

"It should be," a general quickly replied after understanding some of the situation: "They just passed the news that the silent knights and the royal guards over there are all dead."

Viscount Campbell frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Why don't you investigate..."

"No!" The general in charge of the Royal Guard quickly shook his head and explained, "The Seventh Research Institute is not in the same system as ours. We do not allow unauthorized access to the Seventh Research Institute."

Viscount Campbell glared at his subordinates angrily, and said angrily: "What are the rules at this time, if you don't find out the thief's whereabouts as soon as possible and retrieve the contents of the treasure house, you and I will be sent to Beibei by His Majesty." Lencante Prison."

Although Viscount Campbell said so, the generals in charge just nodded and said yes, no one went to the Seventh Research Institute to investigate the incident, because they knew very well that the Seventh Research Institute was absolutely taboo, and everyone took responsibility for the loss of the treasury , the most serious thing would be dismissal or transfer to the front line, but without permission to go to the seventh research institute, it would definitely be a dead end.

At this time, the person guarding the door of the treasure house stepped aside, and a middle-aged man wearing a scholar's attire walked in with a gloomy face.

When everyone saw this middle-aged man, they hurried forward to salute. It turned out that the man who came was named Ferlandi Mousse, who was an advisor to King Louis X. Although he did not hold any position or real power, he had an extraordinary Identity, which can affect the overall decision-making of the country, is one of the most trusted people of the Emperor of France, and he is also a student of Earl Phelps.

After he came in, his eyes fell on the body of Earl Phelps, without showing too much sadness, and then his eyes quickly scanned the treasure house, and fell on the statue from the stone throne in the treasure house Seeing that the statue was not lost, the originally tense face relaxed a little.

"It's right that you didn't go to the Seventh Research Institute to investigate," Ferrandi, who was relieved, turned his head and said to the generals, and then turned to the Minister of Defense, saying: "Your Majesty has sent a special I have gone to the Seventh Research Institute, and the results of the investigation will be reported directly to His Majesty. There is no need for you to search for thieves in the palace. The new type of airship that was being tested just now did not fly around the palace according to the scheduled route, but flew out of the imperial capital. It should have been hijacked by bandits. What you have to do now is to investigate the insiders immediately. Those two people were able to easily get from the treasure house without alarming any guards in the palace, and arrived at the airship testing point at the exact time. Obviously there were people in the palace. We are responding to them, so what you have to do now is to accept the investigation of the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Security Bureau, including you, Viscount Campbell."

Hearing Ferrandi's words, everyone's faces looked extremely ugly. Although they are now free from the danger of entering the prison, they must accept the investigation of the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Security Bureau. In their opinion, it is not as easy as going to prison .

Ferrandi ignored the expressions of the people around him. He gave orders to the few people he had brought, and then pointed to the stone sculpture of the stone throne. This thing was extremely important to Louis X, even surpassing the seventh research room. Now that the treasure house is no longer safe, naturally this thing cannot be kept here, and must be moved to other places.

After hearing Ferrandi's order, those people immediately walked to the stone sculpture of the stone throne, each took out a pair of gloves and put them on, and then chanted some mantras that had no meaning to others, and then The sound of them chanting mantras sounded in the treasure house, and their gloves also emitted bursts of light, and then they saw them stretching out their hands and grabbing at the stone sculpture. The stone carvings were carried away.

However, at the moment when their gloves touched the stone sculpture, an accident happened. The stone statue turned into quicksand and instantly shattered into gravel, scattered from the display stand, and fell to the ground.

The whole treasury fell silent in an instant, and everyone stared at what happened before them, and stood there blankly, unable to say anything.

At this moment, a miserable cry suddenly came from the palace on the ground, and then the ground began to tremble violently.

Ferrandi didn't say anything, and rushed outside in a panic. The others followed closely for no reason. When they arrived outside the palace, they were instantly stunned by everything in front of them.

All I saw was that there were streaks of colorful rays of light emerging from the sky, and these rays of light were intertwined to form a big net, and in the middle of the big net, a huge monster that could not be described in words was struggling violently, and every time he struggled, It will cause the entire palace, and even the entire Winter City to tremble violently.

After Ferrandi saw the situation outside, he immediately felt horrified, and his heart seemed to be invaded by some chaotic force. His whole soul seemed to be dragged into an unspeakable In the world of horror.

However, at this moment, the Turing circle on Ferrandi's clothes suddenly shone with light, which not only pulled his soul back from the edge of that terrifying world, but also cleared the root of the chaos in his heart , allowing him to return to a calm state.

"Oops, it's a revelation from the gods! Don't..." Ferrandi, who regained consciousness, immediately understood what was going on, and hurriedly issued a warning to the people who were following him, but when he saw those people, the warning The words stopped immediately because he knew it was too late.

I saw the Minister of Defense who followed Ferrandi, the generals of the various palace guard regiments, and some other knights, guards and guards all stood there expressionless, staring straight at the huge monster figure , what appeared in the eyes was a kind of frenzy, a kind of frenzy full of chaos.

Just when Ferrandi was about to do something, the huge colorful light net in the sky erupted with dazzling brilliance, bound the indescribable monster, shrank rapidly, and finally disappeared, at the moment when the monster disappeared , all the people who fell into the inexplicable frenzy also returned to normal, at least on the surface, it was normal.

However, Ferrandi, who understood what was going on, knew that the matter did not end so easily, and now it was just the beginning.

Although the airship that Leo and Sylvia were in had already flown far away when there was a big commotion in Winterring City, and Winterring City could hardly be seen, the scene of colorful light nets and huge indescribable monsters projected into the sky still It was still sensed and seen by Leo and Sylvia.

"What's going on?" Although it was already far away, Leo could still feel some strange emotions in his heart when he saw the monster who couldn't speak, and at the same time, he felt that kind of relationship with the body collector. , Eye of Reality and other gods have very similar energy fluctuations, which made him ask with some doubts.

"I didn't think the legend was true!" Leo didn't expect to get an answer, but at the moment his words fell, Sylvia responded thoughtfully.

"Do you know what's going on?" Leo asked again.

"There used to be a legend among the top nobles of the empire. In the legend, it was mentioned that Winterring City was not suitable for building a city. In order to be able to build a city here, the King of Knights personally went to the Black Forest to kill an evil god. Made it into the cornerstone of Winterrin City." Sylvia briefly explained, and added: "However, no one believes this legend at all, they just think it is the royal family of Farland to show off how noble their royal blood is. , a powerful and made-up story, but in hindsight, that may not be the story."

At this time, the colorful light net and the monster also disappeared, and the two returned to the bridge, controlling the direction of the airship.

Although it looked like something big had happened in Winterfell City, it didn't arouse the curiosity of the two of them too much. Now they were more focused on getting the airship to fly near the Black Forest as soon as possible.

When the airship flew over a small hill and could not see the city of Winterfell at all, Leo suddenly seemed to think of something, with a contemplative look on his face, and then said: "Do you think that monster will Is it the King of Knights?"

Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia was stunned for a moment, and wanted to refute Leo's guess, but when the rebuttal came to her lips, she shrank back, because although Leo's guess seemed very absurd, it was impossible to think about it carefully. Maybe not impossible.

Before, Leo guessed from some signs that the King of Knights might still be alive, but a mortal, even a mortal with supernatural power, can hardly live for hundreds of years no matter how long he is. People like the king of election, Saran, are definitely outliers , only becoming a god or demigod can have a long lifespan.

If the King of Knights is really still alive as Leo thinks, then there are two possibilities, one is that he has a complete hibernation cabin and freezes himself into hibernation, and the other is to become a god, even an evil god.

In the past, Leo preferred that the King of Knights use the dormant cabin to prolong his life, because from various situations, the King of Knights or the people around the King of Knights know how to use it, and are even proficient in those cosmic civilization technologies, otherwise it would be impossible to carry out those dormant cabins. Reasonable transformation, so that it has been used for hundreds of years without damage.

But just now, Leo felt that the guess he made earlier might be wrong. The Knight King didn't use the dormant cabin to prolong his life, but used other methods to become the evil god.

This is not only the influence of the evil god that appeared just now, but also because he can easily see from all the information he can find about the King of Knights that the King of Knights is a very proud person, and he disdains to learn from others. This is why the King of Knights would rather sign a contract with the Black Forest than become a Black Forest god like the White Deer.

How could such a proud person be willing to lie in the dormant cabin and sleep unconsciously for hundreds of years, prolonging this meaningless lifespan, according to his personality, he would definitely find another way to become an unrestrained god That's right.

Sylvia also thought of this, and felt that Leo's guess was not necessarily wrong.

Another point is that the various actions of Louis X and the former Emperor Philip III of France can also prove Leo's guess that the King of Knights will become an evil god from one side. They will never invest such a huge amount of money in it to establish such a large-scale laboratory and research institute.

And if they can make suspicious people like them really believe in the so-called method of becoming a god, then this method of becoming a god will definitely not come from various legends from the outside world, or those secret forces and churches. The king of knights who is revered by the royal family.

However, no matter whether this guess is correct, whether the royal family of Farland has really mastered a method of becoming a god, and whether the King of Knights has really become an evil god, these are all related to their current relationship in the eyes of Leo and Silvia It's not big, there's no need to pay too much attention to it, not to mention from all signs, the Farland Empire, or Winterrin City should be in trouble.

Inaudible, invisible, and unknowable are the iron laws that any mortal who tries to approach the gods must know. Mortals cannot bear the impact of looking directly at the gods, and the scene just now has undoubtedly been captured by everyone in Winterrin City I have seen it all, so in the near future, Winter City will definitely cause big troubles because of this incident, such as a wave of mutations and the like.