The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Did you just block our escape route so impatiently?" Leo couldn't help laughing when he saw that the tree wall was blocked behind him through his spiritual vision ability.

Sylvia on the side was stunned when she heard it, and looked at Leo puzzled, because in her eyes, there was still a road leading to the outside world behind her.

However, she soon realized what Leo meant, picked up a piece of dirt from the ground, and threw it towards the exit at the back. The dirt flew a certain distance in the air, and when it was about to fly out of the black forest, it suddenly disappeared. Immediately afterwards, the sound of something hitting a tree came from the woods not far away.

"Didn't you negotiate with the White Deer?" Sylvia looked at Leo with some doubts, then pointed to the foreign adventurers who had disappeared at the corner of the road ahead, and said, "Why do I feel that we Is it any different from those guys?"

Leo didn't answer, he just raised his hand and showed the contract ring on his finger to Sylvia, only to see that the ordinary ring was shining with a faint turquoise light at this moment, it felt like It seems to be echoing with some kind of force.

"Since there is already a sense, but it doesn't appear, could something be wrong?" Sylvia guessed again.

Leo was silent for a while, and made a decision: "Let's find a place to wait for a while. It would be best if the white deer comes out. If it doesn't come out, we will go to him according to the instructions of this ring."

Sylvia nodded upon hearing this and agreed to Leo's proposal.

The two then walked deeper into the black forest, but Leo did not use his spiritual vision ability at this time, and looked around.

Because there are too many secrets and ancient existences in the Black Forest, far surpassing the Aishali Forest that Leo has seen before, if you use your spiritual vision to look around, you may see something you shouldn't see In the end, it is himself who suffers.

The two continued to walk along the road to see if they could keep up with the person in front, but what was strange was that after they turned a corner, the simple road leading straight to the depths of the Black Forest looked less than anyone.

Leo and Silvia glanced at each other without saying anything, and continued to walk forward. As they went deeper, the branches and leaves at the top of the forest became more and more dense, blocking more and more light. After a while, they It was pitch black ahead.

For ordinary people, this kind of pitch-dark environment can't reach their fingers. Naturally, lighting is indispensable, but lighting the lights in the black forest will undoubtedly be very eye-catching, as if telling all the carnivorous creatures in the black forest that it's time to eat.

Originally, neither Leo nor Sylvia needed to turn on the lights. With their eyesight, even in such a dark environment, they could still see everything around them clearly, but they didn't do that. He also lit the small lantern hanging on his waist, making his figure stand out in an environment like the Black Forest.

After lighting up the lamp, the two continued to walk forward. After walking for about an hour or so, the artificially opened road seemed to have come to an end. A huge tree appeared in front of it. It was almost the same as a five-story building, and the road just passed through the bottom of the tree roots, and at the end was a small arched door.

Both Leo and Sylvia stopped in front of the huge tree root, looked at each other, walked in without saying anything, and quickly passed the tree root and the small arch at the end, and came to an open space .

This open space is very flat, as if it has been crushed by something. There is a layer of very soft velvet grass growing on the ground, and there is a feeling of no force when stepping on it.

The surrounding trees still grow very tall, but the branches and leaves on the top of the trees grow very strangely, because the branches and leaves on the top of all the trees will not grow in this open space, which also makes this open space look up, and you can see the sky .

However, what was very strange was that the sky Leo and Silvia saw was night, and even stars could be seen in the sky.

Although, the two of them hadn't seriously calculated how long they had walked in the forest before, but it would definitely not exceed two hours. According to normal time, the outside world is probably still in the morning, and it will definitely not be the late night that they see now.

"Are we entering the real Black Forest?" Sylvia looked up at the stardust in the sky and said in a deep voice.

"It should be." Leo responded, and then turned his head to look at the huge tree root when they came in, and that tree root has disappeared now.

Before walking from the arch under the tree root to this open space just now, both Leo and Sylvia felt the unusualness of this huge tree root. This unusualness did not come from the shape of the huge tree root itself, but It came from another feeling, just like the feeling they had when they entered the Aishali Forest.

After seeing the night sky, both of them were sure that they were probably in a space similar to Aishali Forest, which was the real Black Forest.

Compared to Sylvia, Leo wasn't too surprised by what happened now, because this wasn't the first time he had entered the real Black Forest world.

When he entered the Black Forest for the first time, he inadvertently broke into the real Black Forest world, and met the lord of the Black Forest, the golden giant deer, so everything now only deepened his memory.

"Did you feel it?" Sylvia walked a few steps in this clearing, then closed her eyes to feel it, and said, "It seems that there is a power left in this clearing, a very powerful power, could it be Is there anything under this clearing?"

"There shouldn't be anything special. The power you feel comes from the open space itself." Compared with Sylvia, Leo is more sensitive to the changes of various abnormal energies in the outside world. When he felt it, he had already noticed the abnormality of this open space, and he also found the reason, I saw him pointing around the edge of this open space and said: "Don't you think the shape of this open space is very strange?" ?"

"Appearance?" Sylvia looked around, and quickly formed a view of an open space in her mind, and then said in surprise, "Is this a footprint? A deer footprint."

Leo nodded and said, "If I guess correctly, this should be the footprint left by the golden giant deer, the master of the Black Forest."

"Golden giant deer?" Sylvia showed a shocked expression when she heard the words, and looked around for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Although there are very few folk legends about the golden giant deer, the lord of the Black Forest, and most of the legends are purely fabricated, so the reputation of the Black Forest White Deer among the people, the reputation of the golden giant deer can be said to be negligible, almost not a special one. Those who study the folk history of the Black Forest do not know the name of the golden giant deer at all.

However, in the various classics of the Orthodox Church, there are many records of the golden giant deer, and even set up a special data room for the golden giant deer, almost all the materials related to the golden giant deer, from novels to legends, are included Arrived in this data room.

Sylvia is very interested in the mysterious Black Forest. Naturally, she has also read these materials and has a better understanding of the situation in the Black Forest. Moreover, she is more aware of how ancient the golden giant deer is. She also wants to She wanted to take a look at the oldest existence, so when Leo mentioned that she had seen the golden giant deer, she was full of envy and jealousy.

Now, although the one in front of her is not a golden giant deer, she is still very happy to be able to stand in the footprints left by the golden giant deer and feel the power of the golden giant deer.

"It may not be a coincidence that we came here." Leo said suddenly.

Sylvia froze for a moment, then said, "You mean the white deer is guiding you here."

"Maybe!" Leo didn't say anything dead, he looked around and said: "There is still the power of the golden giant deer here, the mysterious existence of the Black Forest will not come near here, let's stay here today ! See if the white deer will show up?"

Naturally, Sylvia would not object. She and Leo quickly found a suitable place, built a simple camping tent, packed up their things, found some dead branches, and lit a bonfire.

The two sat beside the bonfire, and they didn't stay idle. They each took out various items harvested from the royal treasury of France and carefully identified their value.

Among these items, only a few items belong to the items with historical value, and most of the other items are all kinds of strange things. Although it is not yet known what kind of power these strange things contain, but from Judging from the energy fluctuations emitted by these strange things, their power should be unusual.

"This one emits the strongest energy." Leo quickly picked out a very simple box from the pile of strange things, looked at it in front of his eyes, and said, "Judging from the patterns and styles on the box, It should be a box from the early period of the First Dynasty. The pattern on it is actually a Black Forest tribe’s script called Tinunu, and there are very few Black Forest tribes that use this kind of script. The most famous tribe...” Speaking of this, He hesitated for a moment, then continued: "The most famous tribe is called Batis. It is not only the first tribe to settle and unify the northern swamps of the Black Forest, but also..."

"It's also a tribe that believes in the Mother of Nests." Sylvia took Leo's words and said.

Unlike Sylvia, Leo's information about the Batis tribe focuses more on its role in the First Dynasty, and other aspects are secondary.

At the beginning of the establishment of the First Dynasty of Faran, although they claimed to be the masters of the Velen Continent, in fact, the territories controlled by the First Dynasty were not many. Among the various tribes in the Black Forest, there were many tribes of different sizes There are many large tribes that will be much smaller than the First Dynasty, and even surpass the First Dynasty, and Batis is one of them.

In the early documents handed down from the first dynasty, it was mentioned more than once that the Batis tribe was the biggest obstacle to the empire. Obviously, the Batis tribe was the biggest stumbling block to the unification of the Velen continent in the first dynasty.

In the end, there is no record of what happened to the Batis tribe. It is only known that the First Dynasty finally completed the unification of the Velen Continent, and all the Black Forest tribes became aristocratic families of the First Dynasty.

But aside from these official historical materials, the Batis tribe was mentioned once in the early books of the wizard of the tower, but there is no specific time, and the Batis tribe at that time has all perished, leaving only a large number of remains. And there are a large number of statues of the mother of the hives in those ruins, from which it can be judged that the Batis tribe was a Black Forest tribe that mainly believed in the mother of the hives at that time.

Compared with the information that Leo knew, Sylvia had more information about the Batis tribe, and all of these materials came from the Orthodox Church, and the information related to the Batis tribe was often Accompanied by the Mother of the Nests, the No. 1 evil god who had been wanted by the Orthodox Church for a long time.

In those materials, I didn't write too much about the specific content of the Batis tribe. I just know that because of the belief in the mother of the hives, the leader of this tribe is always a woman, and women's status in the tribe is also very important. Gao, belonging to that extreme matriarchal clan.

Because of the relationship with the mother of the hives, the Orthodox Church conducted a very detailed study on the Batis tribe, and got a very likely speculation that the demise of the Batis tribe was not due to the war with the First Dynasty , but because of the sacrifices, because of the large number of sacrifices, and finally even sacrificed himself crazily.

The Orthodox Church sent investigators to the Black Forest Swamp to investigate things about the Batis tribe, and now that the swamp gods have been absorbed into the Orthodox Church, more information about the various tribes in the swamp has become available.

In these survey materials, it was mentioned that there were large-scale extinctions of the tribes in the Black Forest swamp area, and there were similar materials in the research scholars of Faran, but scholars and priests did not understand the causes of these extinctions. different.

Scholars believe that this was related to the territorial expansion of the first dynasty of the French Empire at that time, and all those tribes died in the hands of the first dynasty, but the priests of the Orthodox Church believed that the demise of these tribes was all because the Batis tribe wanted to hold It was related to an unprecedented huge sacrifice. All these tribes around the swamp were captured by the Batis tribe as sacrifices.

Afterwards, a Batis tribe altar that had been sunk in the swamp and had not been completely destroyed by the Hanosian Alliance also proved the priest's guess, because there were a large number of human bones inside and outside the altar, and these bones were extremely large. Most of them died the same way, by crushing the head with a blunt instrument.

But judging from some special characteristics of these human bones, these human sacrifices came from different tribes, and many of them were from the Batis tribe.

Also because of the extremely brutal method of human sacrifice of the Batis tribe, any supernatural items related to the Batis tribe are very dangerous.