The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Teresa Belmonte is the granddaughter of Rione Belmonte. According to the bloodline of the family, her great-grandfather used to be Carlo Belmonte, the son of the previous two generations of patriarchs. In terms of bloodline purity, Her bloodline is not high among the side branches of the villages in the castle territory. If there is no accident, her descendants will definitely be moved out of the Belmont Castle territory and become members of the family's distant branch. At that time, she wants to return to Belmonte. Castle territory is almost impossible.

In several villages and towns in Belmont Castle Territory, there are many people like Tereza Belmont. Normally, Tereza does not receive much attention, but today is different, Tereza Belmont Together with the other two clansmen, they became the object of envy and jealousy of all the Pangzhi clans in the Belmont Castle territory, because they were chosen by the most fortunate three days ago to participate in the bloodline ritual ceremony that will be held in the castle today.

For those members of the Belmont family who are not living in the castle, every blood ritual ceremony is an opportunity for them to ascend to the sky. Nominally, the ritual ceremony is only for the direct family, but before each ceremony, the patriarch will ask the collateral from the relatives. A few people are selected to participate in the sacrificial ceremony. The number of people is not uniform. When there are many people, there can be a dozen people, and when there are few people, there are none. Lottery decision by luck.

It is precisely because the qualification to participate in the ceremony is entirely due to luck, so when the selected Trisha Belmonte learned that she had obtained this qualification, the surprise in her heart was completely indescribable, and the excitement caused her to feel this way. I was in a state of extreme excitement for a few days, and today I had to take medicine to relieve this excited spirit.

"...Your position will not be taken before the test. According to the previous rules, you should be standing next to Tyrell's house. Then you only need to stand there, don't talk, you can do what others do... ..." The old man who had participated in the ritual ceremony at home stood by, watching Tereza's sister help her organize her clothes and check if there were any omissions, while teaching her the rules and practices of participating in the ceremony very seriously.

This is not the first time Tereza has heard these experiences. Ever since she obtained the qualification, the old family member will recount it every day. She also feels that she is reciting these experiences, but she is still serious now. listening, and repeating the narration in his mind.

It's no wonder that she takes this matter so seriously, because the sacrificial ceremony is the top priority of the family. Once she does something wrong in the sacrificial ceremony, what awaits her will not be just ordinary punishment, or expulsion from the family. In severe cases, direct execution is a precedent.

"...If you are lucky, your bloodline will be greatly improved when the ceremony is held. No matter how painful it is, you have to endure it and don't make any rude actions," the old man continued, and then walked away from the side. The clansmen took a box and handed it to Tereza, saying: "If you can't stand it anymore, just take the medicine in the box. This medicine can inhibit the improvement of bloodline and greatly relieve the blood pressure caused by the improvement of bloodline. It is painful, but you must remember that once you take the medicine, then this ritual is equivalent to the end for you, because the blood will not be improved any more, so don't take this medicine unless it is a last resort. medicine."

When Tereza heard the old man's words, she hurriedly took the box and kept it close to her body. Although she took the box, she didn't take it seriously in her heart. She believed in her endurance and thought it was impossible for her to use this medicine.

After completing the final inspection, Teresa, escorted by her family, boarded the carriage prepared by the castle and drove towards the family castle on the lava lake. On the way, there were many clansmen from territorial villages and towns rushing towards the castle. In the past, these people were not able to enter the castle to participate in the ceremony, but they would choose to stay on the edge of the lava lake, close to the castle.

Although it is claimed that only those who participate in the ritual ceremony in the castle can benefit from it, the effect of the ritual is not limited to the castle, and there will still be some ritual power that will spread out of the castle and spread to the surrounding areas, while the body People in this area can more or less get some bloodline benefits.

The carriage soon drove to the lava lake and stepped on the bridge leading to the castle. At this time, Tereza lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked outside, and saw that the lava lake was already full of family members from the side branch.

When the members of the side branch saw the carriage she was riding, all of them had a very obvious look of envy and jealousy on their faces, and some of them were big people in the side branch that she could only look up to in the past. The feeling of envy made Tereza extremely satisfied, and she even had the idea that the trip was worthwhile, but she soon dispelled this idea, and sweared in her heart that she would make her bloodline elevated during the ceremony , let yourself become a direct clan member, and let the state of being noticed just now stay on your body forever.

After the carriage entered the castle, it stopped in a small square. After Tereza got off the car, before she could take a closer look at the buildings and scenery in the castle, she was led by the servants of the castle and rushed in the direction of the sacrificial platform. .

Although the person in charge of leading the way was a servant, Tereza did not dare to underestimate the other party. This was not because the other party was often able to get in touch with the people in the castle, but because the other party was one of the direct lineages, so the purity of blood It is much higher than her in terms of being a servant. Being a servant is just one of his experiences. Once the experience is completed, he will be dispatched to other places to become a big man with a much higher status than her, so she dare not have the following. Any rude move.

I don't know if her performance was very satisfactory to the other party, or if the other party was just doing a routine job, on the way to lead the way to the sacrificial platform, the servant tribe casually told Tereza some rules for participating in the ceremony, Most of these contents were similar to what Tereza had heard from the elders of the family before, with only one or two details that were slightly different.

Soon the two of them came to the ceremony platform. At this time, most of the members of the direct line in the castle had already stood at their fixed positions and waited for the ceremony to start. Tereza was led by the servants to a place in the back. , on both sides of her were the other lucky people who took the lead. They did not talk, but nodded to each other, which was considered a greeting.

Tereza glanced at the surrounding situation, and her eyes quickly fell on the abyss dragon outside the platform.

Although this abyss demon dragon can be seen on the edge of the lava lake, standing in this position, seeing this abyss demon dragon so close, the strange feeling is completely different, even she can feel the body The bloodline was being subtly affected and was slowly improving. This was a feeling she had never experienced before, and she couldn't help but immerse herself in it.

At this time, the atmosphere on the platform was very serious. Everyone stood quietly and did not talk. As more and more people arrived on the platform, there were fewer and fewer vacant places on the platform, and eventually all of them were full.

Tereza also recovered from the dazed state of perceiving the changes in her body, and glanced at the surrounding situation again. This time, her eyes did not stay on the abyss dragon, but looked at the special abyss on the platform. The two spectator seats set up, the reason why she pays so much attention to these two seats is because these two seats are the only seats on the entire sacrificial platform, which means that when the sacrificial ceremony is waiting for a while, everyone must stand. Only these two special spectators were allowed to sit.

The discussion about the identities of the two spectators had been transferred from inside the castle to the outside of the castle several days ago, and Tereza also heard some about the identities of the two spectators when she was chatting with her family members.

The male spectator is said to be a professor in the City of Academics, possessing high wisdom and the name of an incarnation of the Spirit of Knowledge, which sounds amazing.

But the conversation about the man was nothing more than that. The real object of attention from the family's side branch was actually another female spectator.

Teresa knew that the female spectator was a very old family member, with a very similar appearance to Queen Teresa, and had a very high bloodline purity. It was said that even the bloodline of the old patriarch was far from pure. In contrast, there are other unreliable rumors that the female spectator has possessed near-divine powers and that the female spectator is from other worlds and so on.

After Tereza learned about the female attendee, she envied, admired, and of course also had some jealousy for the female attendee. In her opinion, she was a sidekick, and she was also a woman, able to achieve the same goal in the family. The status and height of the female spectator is already very great, and the current family status of the female spectator is also her future goal.

As the bell rang, the old duke, the Earl of Belmont and the two spectators walked out of the lounge not far away one after another and came to the sacrificial platform.

After the two spectators got to the platform, they sat directly on the prepared chairs without any hesitation, nor were they affected by the gazes of others on the platform. Attentive Tereza could find that the two sitting down had both hands at the same time. While playing with two hollow metal spheres, the metal spheres would emit a faint glow from time to time as they turned in their hands.

The old duke, who had already changed into a priest's costume, came to the altar facing the abyss demon dragon cub. Count Belmont stood by as a sacrificial assistant. After standing, the old duke took it from Count Belmont. A metal basin inlaid with gems, and then took the blood bag prepared in advance, and introduced the blood of the family lineage stored and collected into the basin, followed by a small hanging incense burner, and hung the incense burner in the sacrificial ceremony. On the blood basin, make it rotate at a constant speed, and at the same time, sing the sacrificial prayer aloud when it rotates.

After the old duke sang the first time, other people on the platform joined in at the right time, and began to sing the second and third part under the leadership of the old duke, and soon everyone on the platform entered the process of singing. A state of spiritual resonance, and at the same time, this spiritual resonance also prompted their blood vessels to begin to connect with each other, forming a short-lived symbiotic state.

At the same time, the blood of those Belmont descendants in the blood basin under the incense burner also boiled like boiled water, and turned into wisps of red mist, which merged with the smoke of the incense burner, gathering but not dispersing. , like a tentacle extending toward the abyss dragon cub ahead.

Soon the blood mist came into contact with the skin scales of the abyss demon dragon cub, and penetrated into it without any hindrance. In a temporary symbiont state.

At the moment when the abyss dragon cubs were integrated into the symbiotic state, all Belmont family members on the ritual platform fell into a wonderful mental hallucination, in their respective mental hallucinations, they became head-to-head. The blood of the different abyss demon dragon cubs began to increase at a very reasonable speed under the stimulation of this mental hallucination.

At the same time, the fused blood and spirit also turned into a special blood force field, and it spread around, and soon spread out of the castle, covering the edge of the lava lake. Bell in this area Although the people from the side branches of the Monte family were unable to integrate into the temporary symbiosis of the sacrificial platform~www.readwn.com~, they still felt that their bloodlines began to change significantly under the influence of the force field, and some people could not even control the bloodlines. Change, the body began to appear in the dragon-like mutation.

At the same time, the blood force field also spread into the lava lake below the castle, covering all the abyss dragons below. In the symbiotic state, golden rails full of runes appeared around these abyss dragons, and they quickly rotated according to their respective trajectories like some kind of celestial instrument, and soon formed a transparent seal. The world force field isolated several abyss demon dragons that had just tried to integrate into the temporary symbiosis of the sacrificial platform.

At the same time, the temporary symbiont state where the mind and body are connected at the same time did not disappear, but continued to operate normally in the sealed world, and also connected several abyss dragons into an independent temporary symbiote.

At this time, a beam of light shot from the tip of a tower-shaped object at the bottom of the castle and the top surface of the water drop spaceship at the bottom of the lava lake directly penetrated the outer wall of the seal and hit the abyss dragon in the middle. There was a light path running up and down the lava lake, and at the same time, a trace of blood mist oozes out from the surrounding abyss dragons. Under the action of the rune guides inside the seal, they began to enter the abyss dragon in the middle. penetrate in.