The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Mr. Leo, what have you done? Those who believe in primitivism will treat you with such respect, and even give you the heart of nature as a gift. You must know that even the Xuecheng took a long time and paid for it. An astonishing price was exchanged for a heart of nature for the academy to study." Delkan stood on the carriage and looked at the crowd of Shaman Academy who still hadn't dispersed in the distance. Leo, who had the heart of nature in his hand, asked.

"It's just a small favor." Leo put the heart of nature into the box and put it aside. Although the heart of nature seemed very precious in Delkan's eyes, compared to Leo yesterday from the Shaman Academy's treasure trove Among the various strange things found in the search, the heart of nature can only be ranked outside the top three.

Two days ago, Leo and Sylvia's transformation of the Shaman Academy's tree city went very smoothly. Whether it was the transformation of the spirit-absorbing vine, or the spiritual stimulation of the tree heart and subsequent transformation, they did not encounter any difficulties. Doubt if the retrofit program really works.

However, in the subsequent test, Sylvia used the abyss secret technique to stimulate the characteristics of the spirit-absorbing vine to generate a large amount of abyss in a short period of time, imitating some unexpected situations. Before it spilled out, it was introduced into the blood fruit along the trunk and branches, and the internal environment of the tree city did not reveal a hint of abyss.

And the tree heart also activated the purification ability when the abyss breath absorbed by the blood fruit reached the critical point set by Leo, and greatly neutralized and purified the abyss breath, so that the abyss breath in the blood fruit was always kept within a controllable range. Inside, the whole process does not require any human control, just like a well-established program.

The only drawback is that the purification of the abyss requires the use of the power of nature condensed from the heart of the tree. Once the consumption of the natural power of the heart of the tree exceeds the replenishment, the hidden danger of the abyss will reappear.

In this regard, Leo did not hide this defect, but told the shaman teachers when he left, and the shaman teachers did not care too much after listening to it. In their opinion, the hidden danger has been truly eliminated, and the effect It's better than they expected, and as for the flaws, just be careful and you'll be fine.

Although Leo and Sylvia had already taken the reward for helping them solve hidden dangers from the treasury of the Shaman Academy, those shaman tutors seemed to feel that it was not enough, so when the exchange team of the Academy returned to the road, they gathered together A heart of nature was given to Leo and Sylvia to express their gratitude and respect.

In shamanism, there are many kinds of hearts of nature. The highest grade is undoubtedly the heart of nature, which is naturally generated by heaven and earth. It is said that it contains the mysteries of heaven and earth, and the great shaman who masters the secrets can also break through the limit of shamanic power. Become an incarnation of nature, like a god.

Among the great shamans in the past, there were many geniuses with extraordinary wisdom. According to the formation process of the natural heart, they artificially created various artificial natural hearts. Although each natural heart has its strengths and weaknesses points, but they can be regarded as top-notch wonders when taken out alone, and more importantly, these hearts of nature can be used by anyone, even heretics and cultists can use the hearts of nature, and even directly transform into evil spirits Sacred or Artifact.

The heart of nature given to Leo by the instructors of the Shaman Academy is not the best kind of heart of nature. This kind of nature heart is formed after the shaman instructors separated a part of their spirituality and merged them. It contains some of their shamanic power.

Although this part of the shamanic power is unlikely to produce any powerful abilities, it can bring some convenience to those who hold this heart of nature, especially those travelers, such as when travelers are camping in the forest, they do not need to Worry about mosquito bites, no need to worry about beasts attacking at night, and won't get lost in the forest, etc.

More importantly, the heart of nature also represents a status symbol, not only the natural shaman will pay respect to the owner of the heart of nature, even the shamans of other factions will give different degrees of kindness.

For others, the heart of nature is like a priceless treasure. It can be seen from Delkan's shocked and envious expressions when he sees those nature shamans giving Leo a heart of nature, even if Delkan contempt He calls those natural shamans primitive believers, but also knows the precious value of the heart of nature.

But for Leo and Sylvia, the heart of nature is very tasteless, regardless of its actual value in daily use or its potential identity value. Leo, who can perfectly disguise as a natural shaman, even without this natural The heart can also have the same effect, or even better, this natural heart can only be regarded as a souvenir in their eyes.

In the eyes of both of them, the things of real value were the books they had read in the Shaman Academy and the few treasures they had taken from the treasury.

When they entered the treasury to select the treasures, they were not polite at all, and directly picked out the most precious treasures in the treasury, among which was the shaman holy artifact made from the skull of the founder of the academy.

Although these treasures are extremely precious and are of extraordinary significance to the Shaman Academy, in the eyes of those shaman teachers, these treasures that they regarded as sacred in the past are compared to the hidden dangers that Leo and Sylvia helped them clear. Come, it is not worth mentioning, not to mention that under the bewitchment of Sylvia, they have established the Academy Management Committee, obviously they have planned to reform the Academy, and no longer let the Great Shaman dominate.

It's just that neither Leo, who is a bystander, nor Sylvia, who is an agitator, are not optimistic about the academy's management committee. They believe that failure is the final result. After all, the world values ​​strength and is respected as The people of the Great Shaman not only have knowledge, but also have powerful power, not to mention that there are too many hidden secrets in the Shaman Academy, how can the forces involved in all parties allow so many people to discover these secrets .

Therefore, it is conceivable that in the end, if these natural shamans inspired by Sylvia are lucky, they will only be asked to disband the management committee. If they are unlucky, they may face expulsion and exile. The situation may be sent to the branch in the deep green forest for life imprisonment, or sent to the hidden experimental city to be made into a shamanic wonder.

As for Sylvia, who is leading all of this, it is not because of some bad taste that she instigated those natural shamans to incarnate into college reformers. She just used these natural shamans to test the reactions of all parties and collect them. Some intelligence data that may be useful in the future.

In addition, in the Shaman Academy, in addition to being regarded by her as a management committee that asks the way stones and attracts the attention of all parties, she has also developed many apprentices who have the potential to become shaman teachers in the past few days to become its surveillance shamans. With the eyes and eyes of the full college, even if the management committee is disbanded, she can still collect all kinds of inside information about the shaman college.

Gu </span> She did this not because she had any hostility to the Shaman Academy, but because of her many years of spy career, she had integrated intelligence collection and other behaviors into her life. Every time she came to a strange place, she would Instinctively do some things that are conducive to intelligence gathering, otherwise, she will feel extremely uneasy, just like in the current academy exchange team, more than one scholar has secretly expressed allegiance to Sylvia, and these The scholar also did not know that there were other people in the team who also pledged allegiance to Sylvia.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the road to the academic city is long enough and the time spent on the journey is long enough, with Sylvia developing the ability of the spy to go offline, the entire exchange team of the academy may be developed by her into her own spy.

The next journey of the exchange team in the academy has become much easier, because the Kingdom of Teresa does not have a large number of territorial nobles like other kingdoms. It is very difficult to build a kingdom road in their territory. In the Kingdom of Teresa Most of the land belonged to the royal family, so at the beginning of the founding of the Kingdom of Teresa, the Kingdom Avenue was built between the mountains and mountains. Now the Kingdom Avenue has connected cities and towns like a dense spider web. Coming together, it has greatly facilitated travelers and caravans who traveled from place to place.

However, some roads have become difficult to walk due to disrepair for a long time, such as the road close to the border, and the road from the emerald city to the academic city is a new road, and the two cities have a lot of His wealth was able to allocate a part of the funds to maintain the road every year, so the road was repaired repeatedly to make it wide and stable, even if there were seven or eight carriages running in parallel, it would not be a problem.

The speed of the exchange team was also much faster because of the road. In just three days, they arrived at the book town at the foot of the Academic City.

The Academic City is built in the mountains. In order to keep the study of students and the research of scholars from being disturbed by external factors, unless it is a few festivals, it generally does not accept foreign visitors. All those who visit the Academic City They will all be arranged to live in several towns outside the Academic City, and then enter the Academic City after the Open Day. Book Town is one of the towns specially used to receive new students.

Although the book town is called a small town, in fact it is more like a city. There are no shortage of facilities and departments such as city walls, the army and the city government. The function of the book town is very simple. A place to experience life in an academic city ahead of time.

In the past, it often happened that new students were completely unable to adapt to the boring and monotonous life in the academic city, and then dropped out and left. There were even some who were unable or dared not to drop out due to other external factors, and finally because of various psychological reasons. As for suicide, all academic cities have built a book town on the periphery to allow new students and scholars to advance their life in the academic city to see if they can adapt to this life, and then decide whether to join the academic city or not. .

In Book Town, except for the city government, which is used to maintain the operation of the city, and the military and other departments, other urban departments are basically copied from the academic city.

New students who come to the Academic City have to live in the Academic City for half a year before they can officially join the Academic City.

In addition, the new students are not just studying here, they also have to work in the printing workshop of Book Town for half of their daily time, and the salary after work is their daily expenses.

This is not only to change the past living habits of new students, but more importantly, to allow new students to get access to books from different countries in the world through the opportunity of working in the printing workshop, to broaden their horizons, and even to deliberately allow They come into contact with some banned books, test the bottom line of their beliefs, in order to facilitate the academic city to arrange the study direction of new students, and so on.

The daily maintenance funds of the book town came from the appropriation of the academic city in the early stage of construction, but now the book town not only does not need the appropriation of the academic city, but has become one of the funding sources of the academic city, because the book town is an old city. The mainland is the largest concentration of printing workshops in the world. There are more than 2,000 large and small printing workshops in the whole city. Nearly half of the books in the world are printed and produced here and then shipped to other places.

The reason for the formation of such a large scale is that, in addition to some external factors in politics and belief, the more important thing is that printing books here can be said to be without taboos, even those banned books on the list of the True God Church, or some kind of full of evil gods. The heretical canon of thought can be printed and published here.

So, don't be surprised to see a person dressed as an obvious cultist driving down the street in a vehicle full of various evil scriptures, because such people and things happen all the time, and the local people It's no surprise.

It is precisely because they know the importance of book towns that the cults and heretics who act without taboos in other places have become honest here, even more honest than ordinary people, and those who cannot suppress the desire to destroy do not need to wait. When the army in the city notices something abnormal, other cultists will take the initiative to erase these hidden dangers that they cannot control themselves.

It is for this reason that even though Shuzhen hides all kinds of cults and heresies, there has never been a single evil sacrifice here, and there are not even gangsters and other forces in the city. The level of security is almost comparable to that of the Holy City of some True God Churches, which makes those insiders feel rather ironic.

Although foreign scholars such as Leo and Sylvia who visit the academic city do not need to stay for half a year like students, they still need to spend some time to go through the identity procedures. A test of academic knowledge is required.

However, because both Leo and Sylvia have been jointly recommended by more than 20 scholars and tutors in the academic city, those tests do not need to be carried out. They only need to wait for a few days for the academic city to handle it. Once they have cleared their identity procedures, they can go directly to the Academic City without even having to wait for the Open Day.

It's just that for Leo and Sylvia, they don't mind staying in this book town for a long time. After all, the books and materials here are so rich, even Leo's scanning recording method is not enough. It would take more than ten days to record the first editions of the books in the town library, not including the banned books that were not publicly stored.

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