The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

As the time for the sacrificial ceremony is getting closer, more and more people are on the altar square. Not only those family members whose bodies have mutated, but even ordinary people are released by the castle guards and enter the castle. A feeling that the entire Lyon collar has come here.

However, one thing is very interesting, that is, no matter how crowded the people in the square are, there are always a few places in the square that will be vacated by people, only a few people stand there, and the stone platform where Leo and the others are standing It is also a place that has been vacated.

Originally, Leo and Sylvia didn't want to be noticed, so they chose a place near the edge to stay, but they didn't expect to be noticed now, which made them doubt the place they were in. It's not just special people who are here.

Before Leo and the others figured out what was going on, those who paid attention to them shifted their attention to other places, because more important people had already come to the square.

In the distance, a group of special-looking family members were slowly walking into the area of ​​the square deliberately vacated for them from outside the square. The headed family member was a huge figure with a whole body covered with a layer of armor. A giant, followed by a group of half-human monsters with scorpions on the lower body and knights on the upper body.

After this group of people entered the square, cheers immediately erupted in the square, and almost everyone was shouting slogans such as Lord Lord's Glory, Lord Lord's Victory.

Undoubtedly, this giant should be Prodi, the lord of Lyon. Judging from the bloodstains on the armor of him and his half-human knights, they should have just come down from the battlefield.

Compared with the people in the square who can only judge the strength of this group of troops from their hideous appearance, Leo can feel the inner strength of these mutant families more deeply. Almost equivalent to a second-level psyker, a few half-human knights have reached the level of a third-level psyker, and the lord Prodi is the most powerful, and the energy fluctuations equivalent to a fifth-level psyker indicate that he has evolved to another level. A level of life.

This point can easily judge Prodi's life form from the reactions of the surrounding family members within the range of Lord Prodi's energy radiation, because those family members instinctively lowered their heads because of the suppression of the life form. Many are priests.

"Armor!" At this time, Sylvia suddenly whispered to Leo.

Leo nodded and said, "Yes, it's armor!"

Although the other people standing beside Leo and the others heard their conversation, they didn't understand the meaning of their words at all. They all thought that the reason they mentioned the armor was because the set of armor covering the whole body of Lord Prodi was very special. Powerful, shocking.

But in fact, they didn't know that the reason why Leo and Sylvia had such a conversation was because they both saw that there was something wrong with Lord Prodi's armor, or more directly, Lord Prodi didn't Not the giant in the armor, but the armor itself on the outside.

Both Leo and Silvia have a lot of information about the abyss, and they also know about various magical species in the abyss, so when they saw the appearance of the lord Prodi, they all recognized that the suit of armor on Prodi was A very special parasitic race Brancuta in the abyss.

The parasitic race is a very special race in the abyss. Almost all parasitic races are very weak in their original state. Even an ordinary person can easily kill them, but when they combine with the host and then assimilate the host, Their strength will change with the strength of the host.

Brancuta is the best of this parasitic race, because after he parasitizes the host, he cannot become stronger by relying on conventional means. Only endless wars can make him stronger in a short period of time. Because they feed on the cruel, violent, bloodthirsty and other negative emotions exuded by creatures in war, most of the ethnic groups in the abyss are unwilling to call him Brancuta by his real name, but prefer to call him mad war devil.

Although Brancuta is so dangerous, many abyssal races are still willing to let Brancuta take the initiative to parasitize, because the process of Brancuta assimilating the host is relative, and the host also assimilates Brancuta at this time, the two sides compete What matters is the will, and whoever loses will be assimilated.

However, almost all the hosts were assimilated in the end, because parasitic races like Brancuta always have some racial abilities that can weaken the host's knowledge.

However, even if it is so dangerous, those weak races in the abyss will still use all means to improve their strength in order to survive in the harsh environment of the abyss, and the parasitic races that can increase their strength in a short period of time are obviously the best s Choice.

What's interesting is that among the many abyssal races that are willing to cooperate with parasitic races like Brancuta, those who have fallen into the abyss and destroyed the world have the largest number of survivors.

When Leo and Silvia recognized Lord Prodi's armor as Brancuta, they both agreed that Lord Prodi had been assimilated.

But when they saw that Lord Prodi sat down on the seat prepared for him, he lowered his posture and talked with the low-level priests around him, they all realized that they had made a mistake in their judgment. The situation referred to is already different, and it cannot be judged according to the experience of Abyss in their memory.

The reason why they think so is because of Brancuta's parasitic assimilation, whether it is active or passive, no matter who is assimilated in the end, the final beneficiary will suffer some adverse effects during the assimilation process, such as a A character called arrogance will be infinitely magnified.

This magnified arrogance makes the host not only disdain any communication with those who are weaker than him, but even if he encounters someone who is stronger than him, he will still use an extremely contemptuous attitude. Only life forms that are far beyond Only a strong existence can make him lower his arrogant head.

Therefore, when the lord Prodi lowered his posture and communicated with the low-level priests who were far weaker than him, it had already been proved that he had not assimilated Brancuta, or in other words, he had assimilated Brancuta, but the adverse effects It has been erased by a great being, and here, this great being is undoubtedly the mother of filth.

This also proves once again that the mother of filth has a strong restraint effect on the power of the abyss, even including the abyssal races, and Leo and Silvia also feel that it is not a good idea to use the power of the abyss to disguise themselves.

After thinking of this, Leo and Sylvia communicated in secret, and then unanimously removed their camouflage, hiding their abyssal power.

Because both of them were wearing burqas and hoods, covering their faces, and the eyes of the people around them all fell on Lord Prodi and the altar, so even if they restored their human appearance, they did not attract attention from the people around them. attention.

At this time, there was some commotion outside the square again, and then another group of people entered the square along the sacrificial avenue, and stood next to Lord Prodi's team, on the specially reserved open space.

There is nothing special about this group of people, it can even be said to be very ordinary, because this group of people are all ordinary people, and there does not seem to be any family-like variation on their bodies. The only thing worth noting is their clothes and the people around them. Their clothes are completely different, and they look more modern, and this kind of modernity does not mean the modernity of the Velen world, but the modernity of the cosmic civilization, because Leo can see the shadow of the Earth Federation clerk's uniform from the clothes of these people Obviously, the clothes on these people were modified from clerk uniforms.

Although this group of people are all ordinary people, the surrounding locals who worship the mutation of the family have behaved completely different from their mentality. Clergy and Lord Prodi.

"Lan Xi." Seeing this scene, Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and said a word in unison.

Seeing these Lanxi people, both of them also understood why the old hunter mistakenly regarded them as Lanxi people after seeing them, because the attire of the two people was very different from that of the local people, and they were There is no camouflage, it is completely normal human beings, it is difficult not to admit mistakes.

However, what puzzled Leo and Sylvia was why the local people respected Lanxi people so much, which was contrary to their value perception, and the mother of filth was the only possibility they thought of.

After the arrival of the Lanxi missionary group, all the main objects participating in the sacrificial ceremony had arrived, and the time was almost up. Then, from the doorway in the middle of the altar, four groups of family members with different degrees of body mutation came out of the doorway. On the four platforms on the middle floor, each stood in front of several huge horns on the platform and blew them vigorously.

A sound of horns resounded through the sky, and when the sound of the horns fell, everyone in the altar square stopped talking, and all stood respectfully in place, and the surroundings instantly became silent, even the sound of breathing very low.

Afterwards, a burst of prayers was heard coming from the entrance and exit at the bottom of the altar, and a team led by four maggot priests holding the sacred scepter of the mother of filth walked out of the altar.

Following behind the maggot priests were all the senior clergymen of Lyonland. While they recited the prayers of the Mother of Filth, they carried a huge statue of the Mother of Filth.

Behind them are the altar guards escorting the sacrifices, and those sacrifices all seemed to have their souls taken away, and they staggered forward one by one like walking corpses.

A group of people walked to the small square in front of the altar, and then the maggot-man priest inserted the holy emblem scepter in his hand into the four slots around the square, and a burst of light gushed out from the scepter, flowing along the scepter like flowing water The patterns on the ground of the square below spread towards the surroundings, and gradually spread until they reached the edge of the square, covering all the people in the square in light.

At this time, the statue of the mother of filth also seemed to resonate with the light, emitting a more dazzling light, rushing into the sky, forming a beam of light.

At the same time, the same thing was done on the altars in other territories of the Mother of Filth, and beams of light shot out from the ground, reflecting each other, and the dark sky also changed under the injection of beams of light. The statue of the filthy mother of nothing floated in the air for everyone in the domain to see.

When the statue of the Mother of Filth appeared in the sky, everyone in the altar square fell into a state of frenzy. Under the leadership of all the priests, they recited the prayers of the Mother of Filth aloud. When writing, the surrounding light also penetrated into their bodies little by little, stimulating some unknown power in their bodies, and guiding their bodies to slowly become family members.

At the same time, Leo and Sylvia also felt the power of the light penetrating into their bodies. Obviously, this light does not distinguish between believers and non-believers, and perhaps when the light works, non-believers also become believers.

However, facing the power of the light, the bodies of the two of them produced two completely different reactions.

Under the influence of the power of light, the power of the Faceless Man and the Abyss Demon Dragon in Sylvia's body joined hands to block the power of light from outside her body, and her body also produced an explosion under the influence of the two forces. Some abnormal reactions, such as her face becoming blurred and scales looming on her body.

Fortunately, because of the cover of the burqa and the fact that everyone around was immersed in the baptism of light, no one noticed the abnormality on her body.

Compared to Sylvia's repulsion, Leo's body's reaction was completely different. Just like the power of other gods in his body, the power of the mother of filth penetrated into his body without hindrance, and After turning around in his body, it poured into his arm, forming a holy emblem of the mother of filth next to the crystal serpent.

At the moment when the imprint was formed, Leo could clearly feel that the power of the abyss serpent contained in the crystal serpent had been weakened to varying degrees, as if he had encountered a nemesis.

At this time, the black oil pool in front of the altar began to boil and boil. Seeing this, the guards escorting the sacrifices brought the corpse-like sacrifices to the side of the black oil pool and pushed them into the pool.

Then I saw that the sacrifices that fell into the pool were twisted and deformed as if they had melted, and quickly disappeared into the pool, merging with the black oil.

At this time, there was a burst of singing in the sky, and then I saw golden rays of light projected from the statue of the mother of filth, falling into the black oil pool, and the black oil in the pool was gradually infected by the golden light , turned into golden holy oil.