The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Everything around seems to be very peaceful, everything is so quiet, except for the snoring of people after falling into a deep sleep, there is no sound around.

It's just that even the guards who were watching the night fell into a deep sleep one by one, and there was obviously something wrong with this calmness.

Leo got off the cart and walked around the campsite. He walked slowly and checked all the tents. He not only relied on the spirit net to check, but also entered the tents to carefully check the sleeping conditions of these people. . He found that except for the two comatose young people during the day, everyone else had fallen into a deep sleep state, and if he observed with his spiritual vision, he could also see a ring-shaped mark on the foreheads of these people. imprint.

It's just strange that Leo didn't feel any power from this imprint, whether it was the spiritual network or supernatural perception. He found any clues from these people that caused them to fall asleep.

In addition, he also tried to use the eyeballs of the abyss serpent, but he still found nothing. There was no power of the abyss in the castle. Instead, there was a power of the abyss gathering in the forest outside the city. Through his spiritual vision, he could find that it was gathering The power of the abyss is because the escaped pythons are choosing a new king.

After eliminating the influence of the power of the abyss, Leo carefully checked the surrounding situation again, but the result was still nothing, and there was no abnormality at all.

Just when Leo was puzzled by the current situation, he suddenly felt some faint movement in the tattoo on his back. This tattoo came from the re-copied Book of Nightfall, which is also the source of the power of nightmares. .

Because there are too many imprints of the gods on his body, although Leo has restricted these imprints of the gods, these imprints of the gods will still produce some meaningless energy fluctuations, which makes Leo often subconsciously ignore these energy fluctuations.

However, the energy fluctuations emitted by the nightmare tattoo behind him are completely different from those meaningless and irregular random fluctuations. The fluctuations it emits are regular, just like some kind of signal waves.

After discovering this situation, Leo also had some guesses in his heart, and mobilized the power of nightmare to import it into the spirit vision.

With the injection of the power of nightmare, the scene Leo saw immediately changed unknown. The sky was no longer dark, but turned silver blue, and the surroundings were no longer ancient ruins covered with vines. It is not a castle, but a complete castle, and at this moment, in the meeting hall on the top of the upper castle that should have been destroyed by Zadi, bursts of gray-blue light shone, and pipe-like pipes extended from the light. tentacle.

These tentacles fell from the air, penetrated all obstacles, and landed on everyone's foreheads, and the front end of the tentacles was something like a suction cup, which was tightly attached to the forehead. The origin of the ring imprint that arrived.

In the entire camp, only the two people who were unconscious before had no tentacles on their foreheads, because there was still a trace of abyssal power left on their bodies, and this trace of abyssal power prevented the tentacles from approaching.

This doesn't mean how powerful the power of the abyss is, it's just that the power represented by the tentacles is extremely disgusted with the power of the abyss, just like normal people are not interested in a pile of shit on the ground, or even reach out to touch it.

After discovering the situation, Leo quickly had a solution in his mind to rescue the people in the caravan. It was actually very simple, just to imitate those two young people and imbue each of them with a little power of the abyss, which should make those tentacles move spontaneously. Get out.

However, Leo didn't do this. He didn't know if the current situation would change after these tentacles were detached. Compared with the people who rescued the caravan, he was more interested in the situation in the upper castle meeting hall. Be interested.

So, Leo came to the upper castle along the stone steps and walked towards the meeting hall.

Leo remembered that he also checked this chamber during the day, when he found an abyss mark here, because he had already found the abyss mark in other rooms, so he didn't pay attention to this abyss mark.

Thinking about it now, he felt that this abyssal imprint was different from other abyssal imprints. Other abyssal imprints were damaged, but most of the damage was caused by the wear and tear of the years and the growth of vines, and the damage was not very serious. Seriously, only the mark of the abyss in the meeting hall is the most severely damaged.

The abyss imprint of the meeting hall is the kind of fragmentation caused by external impact. A large number of cracks spread all over the imprint, completely destroying the imprint. If Leo was not very familiar with this abyss imprint, I am afraid it would be difficult to find it from a fragmented pattern. A mark of the abyss.

Obviously, this abyss mark once clashed with a certain force, which eventually caused the destruction of the abyss mark, and this force is likely to be the force that caused the abnormal fluctuation of the power of nightmare in the meeting hall.

Soon, Leo came to the door of the meeting hall. During the day, the meeting hall was completely dilapidated, the roof had fallen off, and the gate had long since disappeared, only a broken arched door frame stood there.

But now the meeting hall in front of Leo's eyes is intact, just like the newly built one. The gate is made of solid wood, with a layer of golden bronze skin inlaid on the outside, and some legendary heroes' stories are engraved on the surface.

Leo stayed at the door for a while, checked the equipment on his body, then stepped forward, and pushed back to open the door.

At the same time as the door was pushed open, a burst of noise came from inside. Some of the ancient music of the Maris Kingdom was mixed in the noise, and the smell of wine and barbecue was also used. A grand banquet that was being held Appeared in Leo's eyes.

I saw that all the people attending the banquet were wearing ancient Maris armor, including ordinary warriors in simple leather armor, and noble knights in gorgeous suits. At this moment, they all put their identities aside, happily During the banquet, when the meat on the table is finished, a servant will bring a new basin, and when the wine in the cup is finished, a servant will refill it for them. They are completely immersed in the joyful banquet, Even an outsider like Leo didn't know about it.

After Leo saw everything in front of him, he was slightly stunned, because in his eyes and in his mental network, everything in front of him was real, everyone was alive, and the food and drinks on the table were also real. Yes, and he also found that there was an invisible force around him affecting his mind, making him agree in his heart that everything in front of him was true.

However, fortunately, the nightmare power on his body is extremely resistant to the influence of this invisible force, allowing him to remain awake all the time.

Leo's gaze scanned the chamber and landed on the armored knight sitting in the chief seat of the chamber.

The armor on this knight is the most gorgeous in the entire meeting hall. The armor is made of composite armor pieces. Each piece of armor can move freely without any change in movement. The armor piece The surface is also engraved with exquisite patterns, and the matching lion helmet makes this armor look more like a fine art than a defensive weapon.

Leo will pay attention to this knight for the first time because he has seen this set of armor in a book called World Famous Armor. This set of armor is called Lion Scale Armor. Sometimes it needs to be repeatedly extracted with the essential oil extracted from an adult scaled lion. It is said that every piece of armor will have the defense of an adult scaled lion.

The problem is, this set of lion-scale armor is now being collected in the Maris Kingdom Military Museum, and it is impossible for the outside world to have a second set of this armor.

What's more interesting is that the last owner of this set of armor was Frans Jie Kun, the last member of the Jie Kun family, and this Frans Jie Kun was also the highest general of the castle who died in the sneak attack. When he came here to take office, he did not wear the family armor, so when he died, the armor was confiscated by his creditors, until it fell into the hands of the Maris Kingdom government and became the Kingdom Museum collections.

Now this set of armor appeared here, and it was worn by a knight, which made Leo instantly guess that the identity of this person was probably Frans Jie Kun.

In addition to the armor, another reason why Leo noticed this knight was the power of nightmares on his body. He found that a power that induced the power of nightmares in the conference hall was on the knight, and this force Power should be the source of all the scenes in front of me and the tentacles outside the house.

After discovering the source, Leo didn't stop, walked directly towards the knight, and then stood in front of the man.

The other party seemed to be a dead person who didn't respond to the one standing in front of him, but Leo's eyes moved away from the knight at this moment, and landed on a book placed on the knight's lap.

Originally, Leo thought that the source of power was from the knight, but now it seems to come from this book. Although this book is blurred in his eyes, he can feel that this book has the same power as the night book back then. Book similar energy fluctuations.

"Is this another derivative book of Night God's Sigh, or the remaining pages of Night God's Sigh?" Leo immediately had some thoughts in his mind after seeing this book, and then he reached out and prepared to pick up the book.

However, his hand passed through the book that felt real to him, and landed on the knight, and the knight's body was completely shattered under his touch, as if it was made of dust. It scattered and disappeared, and the book that could not be picked up fell to the ground. .

At this moment, all the voices in the entire chamber stopped, and the chamber became completely silent.

Leo turned around and looked around, and saw that everyone was standing motionless at the moment, some were still holding wine glasses and food in their hands, and some of the jugglers even jumped in the air, and their bodies They are also set in the air.

And when Leo's eyes fell on these people, their heads turned around suddenly, some people even turned their backs to him, and their heads turned 180 degrees directly, and the eyes on these people's heads It was all as black as ink, as empty as the deep universe, but he could feel the vision projected on him from these empty eyes.

"What is this? Is it hostility?" Ordinary people would only feel fear when faced with this situation, but Leo felt a little bored and ridiculous.

At this moment, all the people collapsed on the ground like melted candles, and then quickly gathered in the middle of the hall like ooze, and soon gathered into a big group.

But Leo didn't just stand there stupidly, he quickly activated his spiritual energy, used the thunder gun skill, and quickly condensed a throwing spear composed of thunder in his right hand, and the power contained in the throwing spear was still following the spiritual energy. The operation is continuously strengthened.

At this time, the large mass of ooze has condensed into a huge monster covered with countless tentacles, but his body has not been completely condensed, and most parts still appear like ooze.

At this time, Leo did not continue to strengthen the thunder gun in his hand, and directly threw the thunder gun in his hand towards the monster.

The speed of the thunder gun was extremely fast, and it almost pierced into the monster like a flash. The huge thunderstorm spread out in an instant, engulfing the monster, separating and destroying it, leaving only a pile of ashes and a strong burnt smell odor.

Although the monster disappeared, the lightning and thunder produced by the thunderstorm did not end. Instead, it spread rapidly in all directions as if along some invisible wire, and soon covered the entire meeting hall, and all the scenes in the meeting hall It burned up like a ignited curtain and turned into ashes, and the original real and dilapidated meeting hall also emerged.

At this time, the last thunderbolt landed on the book in front of Leo. Leo seemed to hear a very shrill scream, and then the whole book collapsed, leaving only three pages falling on the ground. on the ground.

Although everything has been restored to its original state, Leo did not rush to pick up the pages on the ground. He carefully checked the situation of the three pages with various methods. He reached out to pick up the pages after he didn't feel any danger. When picking up the pages of the book, he placed the power of nightmare on the palm of his hand to prevent any accidents.

However, the moment his hand touched the page, the page instantly turned to ashes, as if the power of the thunder gun had completely destroyed the page.

But Leo knew that wasn't the case, because at the same time the pages were destroyed, he felt some itching on his back.

Afterwards, he took off his clothes and used his psionic energy to create a mirror behind him. He saw the tattoo behind him, and found that the tattoo behind him was slowly changing into nine intertwined rings. Among them, the shape of only one ring looks more solid, and the other rings all appear very empty, as if they will dissipate at any time.