The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

On the top of the room where wizard books are stored, in a specially opened secret room, Leo is using a special carving knife to carefully engrave on the surface of a special metal plate the words created in the sub-brain system. A magic map.

This magic circle diagram is very simple, with only three basic characters, meaning violently burning flames, still stagnant water, and swirling air currents.

Leo drew a large circle on the metal plate according to the method of the magic circle in the dream world, then drew a standard equilateral triangle inside, and drew an equal small circle on each inner corner of the triangle, and finally along the On the edge of the triangle, engrave the corresponding magic energy runes to connect the three circles together, and then engrave the three basic radicals in the small circles in order.

Leo, who has a base value of 11 points of strength, has very steady hands, and he can perfectly engrave the desired pattern on the metal plate almost without using the perfect control skill, and soon a very simple magic circle is presented in front of him.

After engraving the magic circle, Leo placed the metal plate on the ground, and then injected spiritual energy into it to activate it.

As a wave of light shone through the lines engraved on the magic circle, a weak whirlwind appeared out of thin air above the magic circle, and gradually strengthened, turning into a tornado more than one meter high.

The duration of the tornado is not long. When the injected spiritual energy is exhausted, the effect of the magic circle will begin to weaken and eventually disappear.

The first time the magic circle in the dream world was able to operate as expected, Leo also felt lucky, with a smile on his face.

But he was still a little dissatisfied with the power of this magic. According to his estimation, if the tornado formed after the magic circle was activated could not lift the roof, it could at least make a mess of the things in the room, but in the end, it couldn't even blow up a book next to it, and The estimated power is not a little bit worse.

For this reason, Leo carefully recalled the content he read from the book just now, and compared his own process of describing the magic circle and activating the magic circle one by one, and compared the two, so as to analyze the power of the magic circle compared to the expected one. The reason for the much weaker estimate was that two analysis results were quickly obtained.

The first result of the analysis is the material reason. The engraving knives and metal plates used to arrange the magic circle are all psionic items with high-energy substances added, and the quality of the psionic items used in the magic circle also determines the final power of the magic circle. strong and weak.

Leo can solve the problem of seal cutting knives. He can use the Gemini Sacrifice Knife as a seal cutting knife. I believe there should be no such seal cutting knives in this world that can match it. Moreover, those ordinary seal cutting knives can only be used for seal cutting of some small and medium magic circles. For large magic circles, other methods can only be used, and the sacrificial knife can be transformed into an equally sharp cross sword for large magic circles.

As for the metal plate, it involves the melting technology of integrating high-energy substances into ordinary substances. Leo's special bullets should also be manufactured using this technology, and this technology is very important even in the dream world. Confidential technology, so it is not recorded in the books that analyze the magic circle.

For this reason, Leo can only temporarily put the hope of unlocking this secret technology on the mechanical books in another room, and the substrate of the magic circle can only think of other ways. Energy substances are plentiful and should be able to find suitable substitutes.

Another reason that affects the power of the magic circle is the magic rune that can forcibly connect various basic radicals.

When Leo activated the magic circle, the sub-brain system was always collecting the energy change data after the magic circle was running, and from these data, it was not difficult for him to find that when the magic circle was running, it was sent by the magic rune. The energy generated by the three basic radicals allows them to fuse together to form a small tornado. But the problem is that more than two-thirds of the energy is lost during the transmission process, and in the end only one-third or less of the energy is used to produce the tornado effect of the magic circle.

It is conceivable that if the energy transmitted by the magic rune can be kept 100%, then the power of the same magic circle will be more than doubled.

In this regard, Leo has only two ways to solve this problem. The first way is to try to find higher-level magic runes.

From the fact that these mana runes are recorded in books that even nobles can get, and there are four thousand copies of this book, it can be seen that this mana rune must be the lowest level of mana. Runes, there must be more advanced magic runes in the Wizarding Association of Silvermoon City.

This is not a random guess by Leo. From the heat-absorbing magic circle in the mortuary cabinet and the unknown magic circle on the middle-aged man's wooden box, it can be seen that the magic energy runes on it are more powerful than the magic power he has now. Energy runes are much more complicated, and from the analysis of energy data, it can be seen that the transmission energy loss rate of those magic energy runes is much less.

Although Leo also wanted to use the analysis ability of the sub-brain system to find out the high-level magic runes from the two magic circles.

But the people who depicted the magic circle had obviously thought of this long ago, and added a large number of fake magic runes to the real high-level magic runes. The more clever point is that these fake magic runes can play some auxiliary role for the real high-level magic runes. Mana runes are almost impossible.

Therefore, if you want to obtain advanced magic runes, you can only start from the Wizards Association, and this kind of advanced magic runes should also be important knowledge of the Wizards Association, and you will never let outsiders know easily, unless he joins the Wizards Association and becomes a member of the Wizards Association. key people.

In addition to finding a ready-made high-level magic rune to directly learn this solution to the problem, there is another way to create your own magic rune that you can also try.

There are a total of 122 mana runes that Leo learned from those three books, all of which are the most basic mana runes and the foundation of the entire mana rune system.

Even if the high-level magic runes of the Wizarding Association are not all based on these one hundred and twenty-two basic magic runes, it is estimated that most of them should be related to this, and they all have some kind of connection with these basic magic runes. So since the sages of the Wizarding Association of the Dream World were able to create high-level magic runes, it makes no sense that the sub-brain system with powerful data analysis, sorting, and calculation capabilities cannot create high-level magic runes suitable for Leo.

"Ga, gah, gah!" When Leo thought about something clearly and was about to carve another magic circle to familiarize himself with this new knowledge, there was a sudden scratching sound outside the window.

Leo walked over to open the window and saw a black elf mouse squatting on the window sill, scratching the window frame with its thin claws.

After seeing Leo, the elf mouse instinctively hid on the window edge where Leo couldn't reach. Not long after, it stretched out its head again, looked at Leo, and after confirming Leo's identity and no malice, it came out, but it didn't get close to Leo, but moved towards Leo from a distance. Ou let out a squeak.

"Is there another message so soon?" Leo was stunned when he saw this situation. Although he couldn't understand the elf mouse's cry, he knew its meaning from the movement, so he made a gesture towards it and pointed to it. Go downstairs to the door, then close the window, put on your coat, put the backpack with important items on your back, and go downstairs quickly.

After opening the door and going out, the elf mouse was already waiting at the entrance of an alley not far away. When it saw Leo looking over, it barked twice, and then went into the alley.

Seeing this situation, Leo also followed closely, and soon caught up with the elf mouse, and walked through the labyrinth of alleys with it.

Soon the elf mouse brought Leo to an edge of District 23, but Leo didn't see the Duke of White Boots here, but saw a dozen guards and city guards in an open space on the edge of the platform confronted.

The oil lamps hung on the waists of these guards and city guards illuminated the place brightly, and also made the civilians living around notice the movement here, and they stretched out their heads from the windows or doorways to look here to find out the situation.

Marek, the chief of the 23rd District Security Bureau, is also here at the moment. He is negotiating with a two-meter-strong man with a pair of long horns on his head and glasses with snake eyes. Look, things don't look too good.

Leo, who came nearby, ignored the situation of Marek and the others. His eyes fell on a corpse lying in the crowd, and his brows were slightly frowned.

The corpse was still a female corpse, and the disembowelled appearance was similar to the corpse of the previous victim. Presumably, the four internal organs should have been emptied.

However, Leo's main concern was the clothing of the female corpse, and he saw that the clothing of the female corpse was completely different from the prostitutes in the 23rd District. Exclusive women's safari.

The Hanosian Union is located in the northwest of the Faran Empire. It was an uninhabited swamp in ancient times. It was used as a place of exile by the Faran Empire in the early days. A large number of people who were regarded as criminals were sent to this swamp to fend for themselves. Therefore, the folk customs here are also very tough, and they are extremely hostile to the Faran Empire.

When the Western French Empire was destroyed by slaves, the Hanosian Alliance also took advantage of this to get rid of the influence of the French Empire and began to form some independent small counties. The Sa League has no foreign enemies, and the internal counties began to fight each other.

It was not until more than two hundred years ago that the scattered Hanossa Union finally formed seven fixed duchies, and the dukes of the seven duchies jointly elected the descendants of the founder of the Hanossa Union, Vincent Farion, as the kings of the Union. , the seven dukes were the electors, and finally formed the Hanosian Union with a stable regime.

Because the Hanossa Union has a lot of primitive swamps and forests, and there are many animals and plants there, most of the people there are good hunters, and simple and light hunting clothes have become their daily clothing.

The hunting clothes of the Hanosan Alliance are very famous in the world of Velen, and the special one is the women's hunting clothes. This kind of hunting clothes is made of a special kind of swamp lizard skin. The color of this kind of swamp lizard skin will change with wearing The color changes according to the body temperature of the patient. The higher the body temperature, the redder the color, the lower the body temperature, the whiter the color, and there is a very special flame pattern on it, which is very unique.

Now Leo saw this lady's white hunting jacket with this kind of flame pattern on it, and this corpse also reminded him of those dark world people who were at No. 9 Golden Oak Street back then. So after recalling the relevant memory content, he quickly found a woman wearing a Hanossa hunting suit among those people.

After faintly feeling that this woman might be the woman at No. 9 Golden Oak Street that day, Leo ignored the two groups who were arguing over the ownership of this case, and walked directly to the corpse to have a look.

"It really is her!" After seeing the appearance of the corpse, Leo confirmed the guess in his heart, and also had doubts.

He remembered that this woman and others were lured away by the two people from the dark world who were suspected to be family members and night watchmen, and they entered the thick fog that surrounded No. 9 Golden Oak Street before them.

Previously, Leo had always believed that the people from the dark world who entered the dream world before them should be in other lake towns in Yinyue Lake, but now a female dark world person died here, and her internal organs were dug out. Sacrifice, which caused many doubts in his heart.

"Damn it! Who told you to approach?" Leo's actions were quickly seen by the city guard officer standing near the corpse. He threw aside Marek who was confronting him, rushed towards Leo, and stretched out his hand Wants to catch Leo.

"Stop!" Marek also noticed Leo's behavior of checking the corpse, thinking that Leo was concerned about the case itself, and when he saw someone attacking Leo, he immediately stopped him. Before people had time to take precautions, they tied up the city guard who attacked Leo and the city guard officer who confronted him.

Marek's move instantly detonated the already extremely tense atmosphere.

Seeing someone attacking, the other city guards had no worries and attacked the guards in front of them. The guards themselves were much weaker than the city guards, and the people who followed Marek were all ordinary guards, so Almost half of these guards were knocked down just now.

Fortunately, the city guards who made the move were also very measured, and the strength was not too great, it just made these guards fall to the ground temporarily and couldn't get up.

Just when the city guards were about to take advantage of the victory to pursue and deal with the other half of the guards, thin hairs but extremely tough whiskers surged from all directions, binding all of these people tightly , like a cocoon, there is no one who can resist.

At this time, the originally noisy city platform became quiet. Whether it was the guards who were knocked down to the ground, the standing guards, or the city guards who were tied up, they all stared dumbfounded at the bearded man. Marek, the director of the Source Security Bureau, didn't know what to say.