The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"I didn't expect you to come so early. I should have gone to greet you, but I need to stay at the castle to preside over the ceremony, so Miranda will be sent to meet you." When the group came to the second village, The Duke of Belmont was already waiting there. After seeing Leo and Sylvia, he immediately stepped forward to say hello and explained.

"It doesn't matter, our trip was very interesting." Sylvia smiled and replied.

"I heard about Redstone Town, thank you for solving a big problem for us." Duke Belmont opened the carriage door in person, and after the two went up, he took his son to do it together While knocking on the door to signal the driver to drive, he sincerely thanked Leo and Sylvia.

Sylvia said indifferently: "We also accidentally ran to Lübeck Town and had to do it."

The Duke of Belmont shook his head and said, "I only look at the results, not the process. No matter what the reason is, it is an indisputable fact that the two have solved the troubles that have plagued the family for many years."

Leo asked with a little doubt at this time: "Although the thing in Lübeck Town is very special, with the strength of your Belmont family, you should have the means to deal with it. Why let that thing be imprisoned there?"

"Indeed, the family does have a way to completely destroy that thing, but the price to pay is too great, far beyond the limit we can bear, so keeping it there is the best solution we can think of. "The Duke of Belmont sighed, explained it, looked at Leo thoughtfully, and said, "Actually, according to normal circumstances, there should be a wizard to help us solve this matter, but unfortunately the wizard eventually It did not appear, but Mr. Leo, your wizard, appeared, although the person was wrong, but the result did not change."

"Is it the wizard who made this thing?" Leo asked, taking out the stone ball he got from Redstone Town.

The moment he saw the stone ball, Duke Belmonte's breathing became a lot faster, and then as if trying to control his emotions, he turned his head to the other side and said, "Yes, it is the manufacture of this thing. By."

"Can you tell me about the wizard? By the way, what exactly is this thing?" Leo could see that Duke Belmont's reaction was a little unusual when he saw the descendants of the stone ball, so he followed the trend.

The Duke of Belmont was silent for a moment.

"If it's inconvenient, don't say it." Leo added.

The Duke of Belmont shook his head and said, "It's not an inconvenient matter. If you want to investigate, the study in the castle has kept a lot of materials related to that year. I'm telling you now that it's just a little bit earlier."

After explaining the situation, Duke Belmont also began to tell Leo and Sylvia what he knew about wizards and stone balls. Although Earl Belmont was the heir of the family, he didn't seem to know This kind of thing, so listen very carefully.

In fact, the Duke of Belmont doesn't know much about himself. Although there are a lot of relevant materials in the study room of the family castle, he has never read them. In fact, most of the books and materials are placed in the study room. Ashes, few people will read it. In the eyes of Belmont family members, including the Duke of Belmont, they all believe that the improvement of bloodline is the foundation of their own, so instead of reading in the study room, there is no use for bloodline improvement. It is better to find something to do that can improve the power of blood.

As such, all things about wizards and wizarding creations are what the Duke of Belmont heard from his father as a child.

In fact, the things related to wizards and stone **** have been removed from the minor parts. The core content is very simple. The Belmont family has cooperated with wizards for a period of time. The cooperation project is to help the Belmont family improve the purity of blood. .

During the research and development process of this cooperative project, the wizard created a lot of methods to improve bloodline, and the effect is also very good. It is still used by the Belmont family. For example, the ancient ritual that the Duke of Belmont is preparing now is The sorcerer modified the ancient ritual of raising the blood of the Belmont family.

It's just that although there are many ways to improve the bloodline, it has never been able to make the bloodline of the Belmont family evolve to a higher bloodline level, so the wizard and the Belmont family took the risk and used a certain method that has been regarded as a taboo by the Belmont family to this day. method, trying to forcibly push a member of the Belmont family with a very serious atavism and an extremely mellow bloodline to the level of a demigod.

The result, of course, ended in failure. In the end, the family member turned into a monster and destroyed a small town, and the wizard had to use some of his own forbidden power to seal the monster in the town and the blood core of the monster. In this small stone ball, it was placed in Redstone Town, and the wizard said when he left that he would come back after finding a safe solution to the monster.

Only a few people in the entire Belmont family know about the wizard and the small stone ball. Because the wizard who promised to come back did not appear, and there was no accident in Lubel Town, these things became the bed between the heirs of the Belmont family. Head story.

The reason why Duke Belmonte had such an obvious abnormal reaction when he saw Leo took out the stone ball was because he had been in close contact with the stone ball for a period of time before.

Because the bloodline core of the abscess flesh is blocked in the stone ball, and the power of the bloodline core will be emitted from time to time, this power will stimulate and enhance the bloodline of the Belmont family to a certain extent. The Duke of Belmont once I have tried this method to boost my bloodline.

Although the effect is very good, it also has great side effects. For example, the spirit and blood vessels are infected by the flesh and blood of abscesses. Once infected, the condition of the entire body will decline rapidly, and even non-benign mutations will occur.

The Duke of Belmont discovered it in time. Before the body was subjected to an irreversible image, he sent it back to Redstone Town for a new storage. After that, he never thought of using it to improve his bloodline power, even if he saw this one now. When the stone ball appeared, he still felt a little lingering fear.

However, it is also difficult for him to suppress a trace of greed in his heart, because as a person who has used stone **** before, he is very aware of how helpful this thing is to the refining of his own blood. If there are no side effects, he feels that he can definitely Use this thing to elevate your bloodline to a higher level.

After hearing his father's narration, Count Belmont was also curious about the stone ball in Leo's hand, and because he had not personally experienced the pollution of the stone ball's power, he didn't understand what his father was worried about, so he was curious. Driven by , he couldn't help but reach out and take a look at the stone ball in his hand.

The Duke of Belmont only frowned when he saw this, but did not stop him. He seemed to want to follow this stone ball to teach his troubled son a lesson.

At first, Count Belmont didn't feel anything unusual, until he felt the stone ball in his hand became as hot as coal, and the scene in front of him suddenly softened and turned into darkness, and in the darkness there was a spot of light that quickly Approaching, and magnifying, when he came to him, the light spot had magnified hundreds of times, and turned into a fleshy lump covered with abscesses. Although this fleshy lump had no eyes, he could feel the fleshy lump. Looking at herself, she suddenly felt that the blood in her body was as hot and rolling as the lava poured into the castle.

Just when Count Belmont felt that he might be burned to death by the hot blood like lava, the stone ball in his hand was suddenly taken away, and the scene around him disappeared instantly, recovering from the abnormal state.

However, even if he got out of the abnormal state and the scene in front of him returned to the carriage, he could still clearly feel the pain of burning blood.

"What happened just now?" Earl Belmont looked at the stone ball that was taken back by Leo with a lingering fear, and wiped the sweat on his forehead.

Leo obviously didn't intend to explain it seriously, he casually said, "It's nothing, it's just that your body doesn't adapt to it for a while."

"Idiot, how many times have I said before, don't mess with things you don't understand, sooner or later you will suffer a lot because of your habit!" Duke Belmont also taught his son in a timely manner.

Hearing his father's scolding, even though Earl Belmont looked older, he could only lower his head and listen silently.

"How are things going with that kid?" Duke Belmont suddenly asked in a deep voice.

Earl Belmont's face was a little ugly, and he hesitated a little and said: "When I was dealing with this matter, I happened to meet Mr. Leo and Ms. Sylvia. I think it is more important to receive them, so I temporarily put them away. The mother and son are imprisoned in the dungeon and will be dealt with after the sacrifice."

Hearing his son's remarks, Duke Belmonte did not show any abnormal emotions, just stared at the other party, and after a while, he said: "The atavistic mutation in Anzarod has completely become a recessive state, This shows that he has complete control over his bloodline, and it won't take long for his bloodline purity to surpass yours. Although you are my son, family heir, and an earl, all this has not been completely mastered by you. Others There is still a chance, and I hope you will remember that, my son."

Earl Belmont looked a little ugly and said in a low voice, "Then what do you want me to do? I am your son, but he is also my son, and he is the only heir."

Facing the question from Earl Belmont, the old duke said nothing, and the inside of the carriage became much quieter.

Leo and Sylvia, who were also sitting in the carriage, did not feel embarrassed or uncomfortable because they were involved in the dispute over the heirs of the Belmont family. Instead, they looked at the father and son in front of them with interest.

Although the old duke's performance was not obvious, he could also see that he was very dissatisfied with his son, and the dissatisfaction was not in blood and other aspects, but in the way of doing things and mentality of his son.

On the surface, Earl Belmont doesn't seem to care whether he can become the next family patriarch and duke, and he doesn't think he has done anything wrong with his son, but the careful Leo and Sylvia can find that when the old duke mentions When he reached the clan named Anzarod, Earl Belmont couldn't help clenching his hand, and his breathing became a little heavier. Obviously, his heart was not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

Perhaps it was because the old duke was a little embarrassed by arguing with his son in front of the two guests, Leo and Sylvia. After that, the old duke did not speak again, and the Earl of Belmont was also silent, Leo and Xi. Sylvia naturally focused her attention outside the carriage.

After the carriage drove through a few virgin forests, it drilled directly along the road into a cave dug on the front of the mountain wall, followed by running along the cave tunnel for about five or six minutes, and then drilled out and also passed through the mountain. The mountain where the wall is located.

On the other side of the mountain, the scene is completely different from the previous valley scene. The valley here is replaced by lava rivers. There are a large number of small islands formed by solidified lava in the lava river, and those small islands are covered with some crystalline trees. , a large amount of heat was pumped up from the root of the crystalline tree, conducted along the transparent trunk to the crystals that looked like flowers at the top of the tree, and then erupted, turning into flames, just like the breath of a fire dragon.

Although the surroundings are surrounded by lava gushing out from active volcanoes, the temperature here is not hot, but extremely cold, and the accumulated ice and snow can even be seen on the banks of the lava river. People have a feeling of climate chaos and temperature contradictions.

Just when Leo and Sylvia wondered about the cause of the scene in front of them, the carriage followed the road dug out of the mountain wall, turned a few bends along the trend of the mountain, and came to a lava lake, or an active crater. on the edge.

I saw that in this active crater, lava continuously emerged from the ground, forming a lava lake, and near the vent where the lava emerged, an ancient castle with a style very similar to the castle of the French Empire stood on the lake. , it's incredible to those who see it for the first time.

But what really stands out in the lava lake is not the ancient castle on the lake, but the skeleton of an abyss dragon facing the spout on the edge of the castle.

The overall size of this skeleton is similar to that of the castle, and the skeleton is well preserved, and even the skin of some parts is still there, but the flesh and blood have disappeared, giving people a very ferocious feeling.

And this skeleton is not just a look of goodbye, it has a very powerful and magical ability, and this ability is the main reason why the heat of the entire lava lake and lava river disappears immediately after it escapes, because all these heat are absorbed by the skeleton.