The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"In this case, why didn't you stay in the Belmont family's migration place to digest your divinity, but came to this ghostly place to investigate the case? The divine aura on your body feels a little out of control, which is not a good sign." After listening to Sylvia's narration, Leo compared the physical condition of Sylvia he sensed at the moment, and found that the divinity escaping from Sylvia made her as eye-catching as a big light bulb , this is obviously because she has not digested her divinity and is still in the adaptation stage, so she shouldn't be walking around.

However, Sylvia shook her head when she heard the words, and said, "I know what's wrong with me, so I came here to solve the problem. After all, creatures from the abyss are not everywhere." She seemed to think of it What, smiled, and said: "Actually, I was thinking at first, if I don't find any abyssal creatures here, I will go to the New World. After all, there is an abyssal superior imprisoned there, which is very suitable to be the cornerstone of my abyssal bloodline." But now it seems that there is no need to go to the New World again, there are enough abyssal creatures in the polar mountains to use."

After hearing Sylvia's question, Leo was slightly stunned, and asked, "Do you want to develop your abyssal blood?"

Sylvia nodded.

"Why? Is the promotion direction we made before wrong? Or is there another reason?" Leo asked puzzled.

Before, Leo had discussed with Sylvia the direction of her internal strength improvement. At that time, both of them believed that the power of the abyss should be suppressed and Sylvia's own blood power should be enhanced, and they did the same afterwards, and the situation was similar to theirs. With the development as expected, at least from now on, Sylvia's strength improvement is very smooth, and the advancement to the advanced life form equivalent to the ninth-level psyker is just around the corner. As for whether she can finally cross that hurdle and complete the sublimation The transformation of life depends on luck.

However, now Sylvia wants to change this effective evolutionary method, and instead try to develop the abyssal power that needs to be suppressed. This makes Leo puzzled, and he can't help but doubt that Sylvia will not Maybe he was bewitched by the existence of the abyss. You must know that the abyss is the most professional when it comes to deceiving people.

"No, the method we formulated is not wrong, and I have not been bewitched," Sylvia explained, dispelling Leo's doubts, and said: "In fact, everything went smoothly, even smoother than we expected. Especially after I absorbed the two newly acquired divinities, I have already felt the mystery of the gods. The improvement of life is changing every day. Even if I do nothing, the life form is gradually changing and evolving. As long as I continue to improve If I go on, I believe that the divine fire can be ignited smoothly and become a god."

Leo questioned: "In this case, why do you..."

"But am I still me like that?" Sylvia suddenly raised a philosophical question.

After hearing this, Leo didn't know how to answer for a while, because his current way of thinking was focused on logical thinking, and this kind of philosophical thinking that sounded full of emotion was completely beyond his ability to answer.

However, Sylvia didn't seem to want Leo to answer this question. She asked and answered by herself: "Actually, after absorbing the divinity remaining in those two bones, my life form could have been in accordance with ours. As expected, I took a step forward and entered the life form of the ninth-level psyker you mentioned, but I didn't take that step. Instead, I suppressed my divinity and caused my life to increase, even at the expense of making my body redundant like now. Divinity dissipates." She paused for a moment and continued: "The reason why I did this is because if I enter that life form, I will definitely need to purify my life before I can continue to improve. And if I do this, the blood of the abyss in my body will inevitably be removed, and it is even possible that the blood of the power of the witch will also be removed, and what remains in the end is the power generated by divinity. me?"

Leo didn't answer, because he knew that his answer would definitely not satisfy Sylvia. In his opinion, as long as the source of thought is still his own, no matter how his power changes, or even his body turns back, he is still himself, just like His current core power has gradually changed from psionic power to the stone throne. In the future, as the stone throne continues to be repaired, other powers will definitely be absorbed or expelled by the stone throne. At that time, he does not think that he will no longer be himself No, because the origin of his thought has not changed.

Leo knew that perhaps his thinking was not correct, and it was more likely that he had been influenced by past experiences. After all, he still couldn't figure out whether he was a biochemical warrior of the Earth Federation in the past, or something else. After all, the current body belongs to him, or the previous Leo Dodd, so his thoughts and cognitions are too isolated and have no reference value at all, and naturally he can't give Sylvia any advice.

Since he couldn't give any useful advice, Leo could only use his own ability to help Sylvia complete her ideas, and help Sylvia solve some problems if necessary, so he asked directly: "What do you plan to do next?" How to do it?"

Sylvia didn't hide anything, and told her general thoughts, saying: "Find the creatures of the abyss, extract and absorb their abyss origin, let my power of the abyss increase, and when it is enough to balance the divine power, I will increase it again." The power of the witch, when the time comes, let the three forces maintain a balance, and at the same time use the three forces to promote the evolution of life, so that I should be able to preserve my complete state."

Leo thought about it seriously, and reminded: "This will be very difficult, especially the improvement of the power of the witch can only rely on yourself, there is no other tricky way, maybe you may be trapped in the current life form for the rest of your life. "

"I know." Sylvia simply responded.

"What do I need to do?" Now that Sylvia has other considerations, Leo can only put his next itinerary plan on hold. After Sylvia's problem is resolved, he will continue with the itinerary plan and go to the place that may exist. Other worlds of the Sea of ​​Trees in Stone Throne Fragments, or head to the Warp of the High Tower Wizarding Academy.

Sylvia thought about it seriously, and said: "You don't need to intervene in the matter here, I can solve it myself, but there may be something that you need to investigate."

Leo asked, "What's the matter?"

"Help me find an abyss superior species hidden in the polar mountains." Sylvia said solemnly: "When I was looking through the information just now, I found an existence that might be an abyss superior species. You know the Spirit of Knowledge Polostein, one of the Seven Sages of the Church?"

Leo froze for a moment, nodded, and said, "I know, and I also know that Polostan's reputation in the polar mountains is not very good. That's why you ordered those people to collect Polostan's information just now. He Is it the abyss upper species you mentioned?"

Sylvia shook her head and said, "No, Polostan is just a normal missionary of the church. The abyssal superior species I'm talking about may be Polostan's follower and lover, the firewalker Perunia."

When Sylvia mentioned the name, information about the firewalker Perunia also appeared in Leo's mind.

Compared with Polostan's notoriety, Firewalker Perunia's reputation in the polar mountains is much better. Even though Polostan's reputation has affected her reputation, her reputation has been stained, but on the whole Her reputation is still positive, and even in some cities there are fire-stepping festivals named after her famous city.

Perunia was born in an ordinary mountain tribe. In a war, her tribe was wiped out by other tribes, and she became a slave and was sold to a shaman family in a nearby city, and the shaman The reason why the aristocratic family bought Perunia was because they saw that Perunia was a natural sympathetic person who could become an excellent shaman with a little training.

Afterwards, Perunia successfully became a shaman, and got rid of her native place of slavery, and followed the most stringent shaman practice for ten years of barefoot asceticism, so she was respected by many people in the polar mountains.

The reason why she is called the fire walker is because she happened to encounter a large-scale volcanic eruption when she was doing asceticism, and this type of volcanic eruption has almost never occurred in the polar mountains, so the people nearby were completely beaten One was caught off guard, and most of the tribes who were very close to the volcano had no time to escape, and were submerged by the mudslides rolling down from the volcano, and the lava of the volcano was also driven by the mudslides to move quickly.

At that time, a small town far away from the volcano thought that it would not be affected, so the people in the small town did not flee until the volcanic lava flowed past, and they realized the seriousness of the matter, but at that time they wanted to leave, because Two lava flows happened to surround the town, and another stream of lava was slowly advancing, seemingly trying to completely engulf the town.

At that time, Perunia, who was practicing barefoot asceticism, jumped directly into the hot lava flow, stepped on the flaming lava with her bare feet, entered the town, and carried the people of the town through the lava flow one by one, Come to safety.

Although Perunia failed to save everyone in the end, and nearly half of the townspeople died in the lava, her behavior can already be said to be a feat, and the fact that she stepped on the lava flow barefoot without being injured is also regarded as Because it was a gift of nature, she also became famous after this incident, and after ten years of barefoot asceticism, she became a recognized great shaman at that time, and also won the title of fire walker.

When everyone thought that Perunia would establish her shaman family, she did something that shocked everyone. She became a follower of Bolostan, a missionary of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge. Travel with Polostan to the cities, towns, and tribes of the mountains to spread the faith of the Spirit of Knowledge.

Although many people thought Perunia was a traitor at the time, especially those shamans who advocated the power of nature clamored to deprive Perunia of the title of Great Shaman, but after a while they It was discovered that even though Perunia helped Polostein to spread the belief of the Spirit of Knowledge, the shaman power she possessed did not weaken, but became stronger. In several assassinations against Polostein, she relied on her own The power of the shaman turned the tide, and the power displayed was also considered to be the strongest among all shamans at that time. The reason for saying this was because two great shamans died directly in her hands. If it cannot be called the strongest, then it is not the strongest.

The Polar Mountains may be extremely resistant to the spread of the belief of the Church of God, but they also worship the strong. Even if a strong man like Perunia is not accepted by the people of the Polar Mountains, even if she assists Polostein in preaching, the Polar Mountains But people in the world also have great respect for this powerful shaman, which is the main reason why Borostan can travel unimpeded in various cities in the polar mountains.

Later, the matter of Polostan broke out, Perunia also left Polostan, and no one saw her again in the mountains, so Polostan was caught and sent to Movit Otherwise, with the protection of Perunia, it may be difficult for Polostein to be convicted, let alone executed in such a public way.

Most people at the time thought that Perunia didn't know what Polostan was doing and was deceived by Polostan, otherwise, Perunia would not have left Polostan after the incident was exposed, and completely The disappearance from people's sight is obviously an act of seclusion after feeling ashamed, so even if Perunia added a stain to her reputation in Polostan, the impact on her reputation was not very great , until now many people still think that Perunia is the most powerful shaman ever.

Compared with Polostan's data, there are more Perunia-related materials recorded in Leo's database. There are more than 50 biographies written for her by other people, of which more than 100 are generally knowledge books. It seems that the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge wants to use Perunia’s belief in the Spirit of Knowledge to continue preaching. Although the method is open to discussion, the effect is indeed good. At least in the current polar mountains, the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge is Spread the most stable belief of the Church of God.

However, among all the materials, the most are some folk tales written by various cities in the polar mountains. These stories are some of the things Perunia did during her ten years of barefoot asceticism, which have been transformed into legendary stories after artistic processing. It is these legendary folk tales that make Perunia's reputation enduring even after hundreds of years have passed.

"Why do you think she is an abyssal superior?" Leo did not see anything suspicious about Perunia from these materials, nor did he see any behavior patterns of abyssal creatures, so he couldn't help asking Sylvie Ya asked suspiciously.

"Tokatni." Sylvia didn't give any lengthy explanations, but just used her abyssal blood power to imitate the vocal structure of abyssal creatures, and said a name in abyssal language.

Leo, who has part of the memory of the abyssal serpent, can naturally understand this special language, and also understand what the name represents. After thinking about it seriously, a sudden look appeared on his face.