The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The latest website: "Can you know its exact location?" Sylvia walked to the edge of the platform and looked at the lava below. Although the lava below continued to churn, emitting a dazzling bright red, standing on the platform could not feel it. To the point where the scorching heat gushing out of the lava was so cool that it felt like being on a normal lake.

"The location cannot be determined." Leo has used the spiritual net to check the lava lake, and the results obtained are not ideal. The lava lake contains a lot of chaotic and complex power, and the penetration of the spiritual net is only used to probe down. It was blocked a few meters deep, and what blocked his spiritual net was not the geothermal energy of the lava itself, but a certain array arrangement used by the castle to suppress and channel the geothermal energy.

Although Leo increased the input of psychic energy, forcibly broke through the blocks of various forces in the lava, and it was not impossible for the spiritual net to penetrate, but this will inevitably cause a very large impact, and may even damage the castle itself. If the defense arrangement is destroyed, I am afraid that the castle and the villages and towns around the lava lake will suffer.

After Leo briefly explained the situation, he also stood on the edge of the platform and looked down, and then suggested: "Why don't we just jump down! The lava lake is not very big, and it won't take much time to search."

Sylvia thought about it for a while, and nodded, thinking it was feasible, so the two of them prepared to jump directly into the lava lake, drill into the lava, and look for the abyss superior parasitic in the abyss demon dragon cub.

However, just as they were about to jump off the lava lake, the old duke appeared behind the two of them. He did not come from outside the platform, but appeared directly in Leo and Hill as if he had opened up a space rift. behind Via.

The old duke seemed to know exactly what the two of them were going to jump into the lava lake for, so he said in the most direct and simple way, "You two, please don't disturb it, the Belmont family will use it for a long time. ."

Leo and Sylvia both stopped, then turned to look at the old duke.

The moment the old duke appeared behind him, both Leo and Sylvia sensed it for the first time, but neither of them knew how the old duke appeared. Not to mention Sylvia, Leo could at least be sure that the old duke appeared. The appearance of the Duke's near-space movement has absolutely nothing to do with space power, because he did not feel any remaining traces of space power around the old Duke.

Leo didn't think too much about the method of the old duke's appearance, but thought about what it was that the old duke mentioned, so he asked back: "Lord Duke, do you know what we are looking for?"

"Other abyss superiors." The old duke answered directly, and before Leo continued to ask, he said, "This is not the place to talk, let's go to my study."

After speaking, without waiting for Leo and Sylvia to respond, he turned and walked off the platform, walking towards the apartment where he lived.

Seeing this, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other without talking nonsense, and walked off the platform directly behind the old duke.

Soon a group of three people came to the old duke's official residence in the castle. This official residence has no special features. It is a very ordinary castle official residence. It is the main living area, including more than a dozen rooms of different sizes including living room, bedroom and study.

The old duke led Leo and Sylvia directly into a small reception room next to the reception hall, and then instructed the servants who were waiting at the door to wait at the front door of the reception room, instead of staying at the door.

"I know that the two of you must have a lot of doubts in their hearts," the old duke looked at Leo and Sylvia very sincerely, then took three tomes from the bookshelf next to them and put them in front of the two of them, saying: "These three books are family chronicles compiled based on the logs recorded by predecessors. Most of the questions in your heart can be answered here."

"What about those who can't find the answer?" Sylvia flipped the top half at random, then closed it, and asked, "For example, the thing parasitizing the abyss dragon cub?"

The old duke was silent for a while and said, "Although it was not recorded in the book, I do know what happened. If you two don't dislike my nonsense, you can listen to it here."

After speaking, he motioned the two to sit down, and then thought about the words a little, sorted out what can be said and what can't be said, and this is the thing about the abyss demon dragon cub.

Leo and Sylvia both listened carefully to the past described by the old duke. Although their faces always had a calm look, they were surprised in their hearts. They did not expect that the abyss dragon cub was more than they expected. complex.

Back then, the first place where the ancestors of the Belmont family came here from the world of Velen was in the active crater, and there was not only one person at that time, but a dozen people.

The space rift appeared directly in the center of the lava lake, which is where the Belmont family castle is now, so the moment they entered this world, the Belmont family ancestors faced an unavoidable life-and-death crisis.

A dozen people fell directly into the scalding lava lake, only one person fell into the lava lake, the blood of the abyss dragon was stimulated, and then the body turned into a dragon, resisting the burning of the lava, from The lava lake escaped, and the others were all engulfed by the lava lake.

The one who escaped became the ancestor of the Belmont family in this world, and he did not forget that more than a dozen family members were engulfed by lava until he died, so he made a family oath, waiting for the family to have enough ability. At that time, he came to the crater and fished out the bodies of the dozen or so clansmen. He believed that with the power of the family's blood, even if they were completely engulfed by lava, they would still be able to preserve the bones and not be completely burned.

Later, the Belmont family multiplied and established themselves in this world, and completely established a foothold in the Teresa Mountains. They branched out and established the Kingdom of Teresa. The Belmont Patriarch at that time thought it was time to complete the family oath, and he followed that Ancestral records found this active volcano and began to excavate the remains of their ancestors from the lava.

At the beginning, there was nothing unusual about the clansmen in charge of the excavation, but after half a month, all the clansmen who participated in the excavation found that their bloodline power had increased significantly to varying degrees. The lava environment is very suitable for the blood of the abyss dragon, but when the corpse of the first ancestor was dug up, they discovered the reason why the power of their blood would increase.

Because the corpse of the ancestors they excavated was not a human corpse, but the corpse of an abyss dragon, and this corpse is still placed at the main entrance of the castle.

The corpse was intact when it was first excavated, but after it was completely excavated, some of the bones quickly decayed and shattered, turning into dust.

Later, several similar skeletons were excavated. The conditions were the same as the first one. They were all intact when they were just excavated. After a while, some skeletons rotted and destroyed to varying degrees until a complete corpse with a belt bone was excavated. When they came out, the participants at the time felt something was wrong, because they found that the corpse of the abyss dragon was not dead or alive, and at the moment when the abyss dragon was still excavated, it infected the participating Bell at a very fast speed. The members of the Monte family quickly mutated into monsters, and some even lost their minds and became completely beasts.

Because of this incident, the excavation naturally stopped, and the Belmont family at the time had to ask someone to investigate the matter, and the people they hired quickly investigated the situation.

Under the lava, there is not only one corpse of the abyss dragon that looks dead but is actually alive, but there are many, and these half-dead abyss dragons are all those Belmonte who were engulfed by lava before. The ancestors of the family were transformed, and the reason for this is related to their own blood and some kind of curse.

According to the investigator's estimate, the Belmont ancestors who were engulfed by the lava did not actually die. They were inspired by the same bloodline as that ancestor, and they mutated rapidly, allowing them to resist the burning of the lava, but their bloodline was stimulated. The time was much later, their mutation was not only bloodline mutation, but more of an atavistic mutation, that is, dragon transformation, which directly caused them to lose control of their bodies, so that they could no longer escape from the bottom of the lava lake, In the end, all were trapped at the bottom of the lake, burning day after day by the surrounding lava.

The vast majority of them exhausted their bloodline power little by little in this day-to-day burning, and were eventually burned to death at the bottom of the lava lake. The process of this death is very long, it may be several Months, maybe years, and the pain level is definitely more than any kind of torture in this world, so when they died, they were also full of resentment and curses. In the end, these resentments and curses did not disappear, but summoned an unknown from the abyss. the superior.

This abyss superior is also very unlucky. The moment he was summoned to this world, he was also bound by the curse and resentment of all Belmont ancestors who had alienated into abyss dragons. The abyss dragon body, which was consumed by the pain and only had resentment, continued to suffer at the bottom of the lake, and finally the abyss superior also merged with these pains, curses, resentment and the body of the abyss dragon.

The moment the body of the first abyss dragon was excavated, the curse attached to it immediately affected the Belmont family members with the deepest blood connection, causing them to mutate rapidly, and the spiritual power formed by extreme resentment and pain. It also completely crushed its consciousness, leaving only the animal instinct in the blood.

Although the excavation can be suspended to avoid the expansion of this cursed power, because an abyss dragon body has been excavated, it represents a perfect ban consisting of the lava lake, the abyss dragon body, and the spiritual power formed by extreme pain and resentment. The power formed a rift, and the summoned abyss superiors also had the opportunity to break free.

Although the Belmont family has no sympathy for the world, they do not want to see the monsters created by their family escape and cause harm to the world. After all, an abyss superior who has been tortured to the point of madness is definitely far more dangerous. More than any evil **** who claims to destroy the world.

Therefore, the friend of Patriarch Belmont gave a method at that time, that is to use the power of the Belmont family to divert the various chaotic forces contained in the bodies of the alienated abyss dragons, and also keep the ban in the lava lake intact. , which led to the Belmont family castle now built in a lava lake.

At the same time, in order to avoid some unnecessary mistakes, the person who presided over the incident also concealed it, and then made up a legendary story of Belmont ancestors and their partners slaughtering the abyss dragon, which is now The story of the frescoes that can be seen on the domes of the various halls of the castle.

As for the real situation, only the Belmont patriarch can know. As for other people, no matter how high their status is, such as the king of the Royal Teresa family, or the next patriarch appointed by the Belmont family, they cannot know. The day before leaving office, word of mouth passed this matter to the next patriarch. If the patriarch had an accident and did not have time to teach the relevant things, there would also be records in the inheritance box that only the patriarch could open, as long as you read these documents , to understand the situation.

"Why? Why are you telling us about this now?" Sylvia asked with great puzzlement after hearing this.

The old duke pretended to smile mysteriously and said, "It's very simple, this is the arrangement of the ancestors."

Sylvia frowned, obviously dissatisfied with the old duke's answer.

The old duke also noticed Sylvia's emotions, so he restrained his smile and said very seriously: "Actually, your appearance was foreseen hundreds of years ago, and I just acted according to the will left by my ancestors. "

"Foreseeing it hundreds of years ago?" Sylvia was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but smile: "Lord Duke, if you don't want to say it, you don't have to say it, there's absolutely no need to say something like this Is it a lie that can be easily debunked? Hundreds of years ago, if I remember correctly, this castle should have been built after the founding of the Kingdom of Teresa. The castle itself is only more than two hundred years old at best. How did you get here?"

The old duke was not annoyed by Sylvia's words, but still said formally: "I'm not lying, because the appearance of the two was indeed foreseen hundreds of years ago, and the person who foresaw it was ours. The ancestors of the one lineage, that is, the ancestor of the family who escaped bad luck."

After he finished speaking, he saw him motioning for the two of them to wait in the room, and then he walked out of the room and quickly went upstairs, looking like he was going upstairs to find something.

"What do you think?" Sylvia turned her head to Leo with a little doubt, and asked, "Is what he said just now true, that someone from hundreds of years ago really foresaw our arrival?"

"I don't know this, it's hard for someone to explain things like time and prophecy," Leo also shook his head dazedly, and continued: "Compared to that prediction a few hundred years ago, I'm more concerned about it. Who was the one who was brought in to solve this problem and help the Belmont family build this castle?"