The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo looked at the metal box over and over for a long time, as if it contained infinite mysteries. Just when Sylvia couldn't help but want to ask, Leo suddenly used a language similar to Gamorei. The language recited a spell of unknown meaning.

As Leo's voice fell, the metal box began to emerge with a circle of patterns stacked together, covering the entire surface of the box.

Sylvia recognized at a glance that this pattern was an extremely complex variant of Turing root. Leo once taught her this Turing root, and told her that this Turing root was an ancient high The special wizard rune of the tower wizard, only the tower wizard who really has the ancient inheritance can understand the use of this rune, just because this variant of the bell root is too complicated and cumbersome to use, and it is gradually simplified. It was replaced by other funny Turing roots. Few of the later tower wizards knew the combination of this Turing root.

Leo deduced some of the combination tricks of the Turing root exclusive to the tower wizards from the content recorded in various wizards' notes, but it still takes a long time to study the use of this Turing root. , may never even be able to study it, this is mainly because all the research materials related to this are from a few words and phrases in some notes, and the content is very small, not enough for him to be able to study a complete wizard rune system .

However, it seems that the shortcomings of his research materials have been completed. At present, this metal box is a magic item made entirely from the special wizard runes of the tower wizard, although he does not know what this thing is used for. Yes, but just those Turing root mutations on the surface of the box were already worthless to him.

Just now, he hadn't completely deciphered the meaning of the Turing root variants on the surface of this strange object, nor had he figured out how to use it. He just tentatively used a branch of Gamorei language used by ancient tower wizards. , Said an ancient prophecy of the tower wizard - the gods will die, and the truth will live in the world forever.

Because it was just a test, he didn't think about what effect it might have, but what he couldn't imagine was that after the prophecy was spoken, the metal box actually changed, like a smart combination module, constantly changing, moving, and changing quickly. The shape, and the interesting thing is that no matter how its shape changes, the wizard runes on his surface will also be reorganized into new runes, and all the reorganized runes are complete without any defects.

Because of the rapid scanning and recording of the reorganization of the various Turing root variants of the metal box, Leo did not care what shape the box eventually turned into, until he was sure that he had memorized all the wizard runes, and then started to focus on it. In this state, he regained his senses, looked around to understand the situation in the room, and then put his eyes on the metal box.

However, at this moment, it is a bit unreal to call it the name of the metal box, because at this moment, after more than a dozen changes in shape, the metal box has become a nearly perfect triangle.

"This is...?" After seeing this nearly perfect triangle, Sylvia seemed to feel a little familiar, and felt that she had seen it before. After thinking about it, she suddenly remembered and said anxiously: "This is Is it the tower key?"

"Yes, it is the key to the tower." Leo nodded affirmatively.

When he was in Velen, Leo studied the wizard towers for a period of time, especially the wizard towers of the ancient high tower wizards. For this reason, he collected a lot of relevant information, from wizard notes to folklore. He has studied and also studied some content.

For example, the Wizard Tower of the High Tower Wizard has undergone seven improvements in the construction method starting from the bottom foundation, and the fifth improvement method is the most mature and the longest in use. Long, because this method is the easiest to build. As long as you are a wizard and have some financial resources, you can build it. The material can be ordinary stone. After the construction is completed, you can carve some Turing roots on the surface.

But in fact, the wizard tower of the ancient tower wizard is not such a simple construction method. First, the ancient tower wizard needs to capture a stable warp half plane as the cornerstone for construction, and then build the wizard tower in the half plane, the wizard tower Every stone used must be a high-energy substance, and some powerful tower wizards can even create an artificial intelligence-like tower spirit to take care of and maintain the wizard tower.

If ordinary people or people with insufficient strength want to enter and exit such a real wizard tower, they need the owner of the wizard tower to help him tear open a space crack, and then lead him into the wizard tower, or directly use the tower wizard to create The key is to enter, and the people who hold this key are generally people close to the tower wizard, some are family members of the tower wizard, and some are students.

Sylvia was able to recognize at a glance that this triangle was the key to the wizard's tower, mainly because the keys made by almost all ancient tower wizards were the same triangle, because the triangle could provide stable energy, and When opening the space fissure, it can also eliminate the chaotic energy of the fissure, so in all the records of the ancient tower wizard and wizard tower, without exception, a triangle key is drawn.

"Can this key be used now?" Sylvia asked curiously.

"No." Leo shook his head with certainty and said, "If it can be used, then we should appear in the wizard tower of the High Tower Wizard by now." After speaking, he changed the subject again: "But , this key is not bad, just because of some unknown reasons, the coordinates of the warp half-plane where the wizard tower is located, cannot be located, and the space rift channel cannot be opened."

"Is it because the wizard tower is too far away in Velen World?" Sylvia asked again.

"It shouldn't be, the distance in the subspace cannot be analyzed according to normal thinking, because the subspace space and time are chaotic, the distance we think is unreachable, in the subspace, it may only take a step to reach it. ." Leo denied Sylvia's guess, and then thought about it again, and said: "It may be related to the divine legal net shrouded in the old continent, or the key may be incomplete, in short, it needs to be carefully studied to be sure. ." After speaking, he looked at Dean Thomas, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, and asked, "Dean Thomas, where did you get this thing?"

Dean Thomas could only barely understand the conversation between Leo and Sylvia. He knew that this box that he had kept for many years and had no idea what it was was actually a key, and the key could open the secret base of an underground organization called the Wizard. , it's just not available now for some reason.

So, after hearing Leo's question, Dean Thomas did not answer immediately, but asked tentatively: "If this key can open the entrance and go to that wizard tower, can I go together?"

Leo and Sylvia heard the words, looked at each other, and then Leo smiled: "Of course, this key is yours, of course you are qualified to go together."

Hearing Leo's acceptance, Dean Thomas breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, when he asked the question, he was still a little uneasy. After all, if Leo didn't agree, there was nothing he could do. After all, Leo and Sylvia He can no longer be regarded as an ordinary scholar of the academy. With the prestige of the two and their close relationship with the Royal Teresa family and the Belmont family, his status as the dean of the academy is not binding at all.

Now that he heard Leo's promise, Dean Thomas was relieved and answered truthfully: "This is the holy relic of the Tiran tribe. I once helped the Tiran tribe survive a disaster and helped them. I found a safe settlement. To thank me, their patriarch gave me the most precious thing in their clan. I didn’t intend to accept it, but I felt that this thing should be a relic of prehistoric civilization. Accept it. It's a pity that this thing has been studied for so many years and there is still no progress."

"Tiran?" Leo quickly found the information of this group in his mind, and after consulting the information, he gradually understood why the key to the wizard's tower was in the hands of the Tiran.

This Tilan is a very special one among the various races in the old continent. Except for the visible ethnic culture such as language, writing, and costumes, this race is completely different from other races in this world. More importantly, this race cannot be compared with other races outside the ethnic group. People intermarry, because after they marry people outside the ethnic group, they will not have any descendants. It is rumored that this is because their entire ethnic group is cursed by a true god.

In addition, in the ethnic legends of the Tiran people, they mentioned a promised land given to them by the gods. They first lived in the promised land and lived a life of abundant food and clothing. Later, because the ethnic group violated the rules set by the gods, they were punished by the gods. After being driven out of the Promised Land, they ended up in the outside world, and the greatest desire and goal of their tribe is to return to the Promised Land.

Regarding the Tiran people themselves, aside from their distinctive ethnic culture and legends, the so-called curse that this ethnic group cannot produce offspring with people outside the ethnic group made Leo think of reproductive isolation for the first time.

Although there is no difference in appearance between the humans in this world and the humans in the Velen world, after countless years of evolution, as well as the mutation and pollution after the intervention of the gods, the human beings in the two worlds have changed from cell to gene level. There has been differentiation, so it is correct to say that they should be regarded as two different races with the same appearance but different internals. In this case, reproductive isolation occurs naturally.

As for why there is no reproductive isolation between the Royal Teresa family and the Belmont family, they can still thrive with humans in this world. I am afraid it is more because of the blood of the abyss dragon in their bodies. You must know that the abyss dragon is one of all the abyss high-ranking species. It is the only race that does not have reproductive isolation, and they can produce offspring with almost any upper species, or even lower species, as long as they want.

Reproductive isolation, the ancient tower wizard's key to the wizard's tower, plus the promised land and the place of origin in the legend of the Tiran ethnic group, all kinds of clues have been combined, and an answer has been reached. The Tiran ethnic group is a certain The vassal races of the high tower wizards used to live in the warp half plane of the wizard tower.

"Where did you place the Tiran tribe?" Leo thought about it and asked Dean Thomas.

"In a small valley in the upper reaches of the Rapids River, the small valley used to have no name, but because the Tiran people settled there, the locals named it Tiran Valley, and its location should be able to be found on the map. While talking, Dean Thomas walked to the map of Teresa's Kingdom hanging on the wall, glanced at it, and then pointed to a location about four or five hundred kilometers away from the Academic City: "Here, here That's where the Tiran Valley is."

Leo looked at the location pointed out by Dean Thomas, wrote it down, and said, "Let it be with me for a while, I'll study it to see what's wrong with it, and see if I can fix it to the point where it can be repaired. the point of use.”

As for Leo's request, Dean Thomas would naturally not refuse. Then he got up and said that he would not disturb Leo's time. After asking if he needed anything, he left Leo and Sylvia's research institute.

After Dean Thomas left, Leo rang the bell and called Boll in, asking him to lead his scholars to sort out the information in the room and submit the completed research projects to the project committee for reporting. Then bring back some previously stalled or scrapped research projects.

"Do you have any news from Penny and Joan?" Sylvia asked Bol when sorting out the information.

"No news." Bohr shook his head and said, "However, the last time they appeared was in Ji'an Province, and they said they had already been in contact there. UU www.uukanshu.com"

Although Penny and Joan have amazing talents in their respective fields, in terms of learning knowledge, their talents are not comparable to children born in ordinary school towns. Leo arranged for them to go to school in the first school district, but there was no result. Exceptionally, they all regarded the teacher's speech as a lullaby and the classroom as a bedroom.

In this case, Leo felt that it was unnecessary to continue to force the two of them to stay in the academic city to study, so he sent the two out to find clues related to the Transcendence Organization.

Things didn't exceed their expectations later. The implant on Joan's body was obviously a special existence that was very important to the Transcendence Organization. Therefore, two days after Joan left the Academic City, someone from the Transcendence Organization started. In contact with it, and even encountered several attacks in the middle, and those attacks gave people the feeling that they were not to kill Joan, but wanted to injure or stun him, but it was conceivable that he accepted The strength of Joan trained by Leo is far from being comparable to that of ordinary paladins, not to mention that Penny assists in secret, so in the end every attack is a near miss.

Perhaps knowing that the frontal attack was ineffective, the detached organization seemed to change its strategy and began to contact it with a friendly attitude. It seemed that it planned to pull Joan into the organization and become one of the official members of the organization.