The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

So far, Leo is not very clear about the conditions for replenishing the power of nightmare, and it can only be converted through psionic energy. A little power of nightmare needs two points of spiritual energy. Even if Leo's current spiritual energy is fully converted, it can only replenish less than 200 points of nightmare power.

Just now, when Leo made the Swallow Potion, he only consumed two points of Nightmare Power, and a Spirit Net psionic skill consumed fifty-six points of Nightmare Power, that is, more than one hundred points of Psionic Energy Points. In terms of cost performance, there is a kind of loss outweighing the gain.

But then this kind of uneconomical idea was erased from Leo's mind, because in the ten seconds when the spirit net was cast just now, the sub-brain system collected a large amount of information fed back by the spirit net, and this information When the materials were compiled and displayed in front of him, he immediately felt that the consumption of the fifty-six points of nightmare power was not a loss at all.

The quality and quantity of information collected by the mental network, which lasted only ten seconds, far exceeded his expectations. This information not only involved the Fujiman platform that formed the foundation under his feet, but also covered the surrounding pitch-black lake water. Even some unknown dream spirits hidden in the lake water were infiltrated by the ten-second mental net, and the mysteries hidden in it were detected, and these mysteries could not be understood by his own spiritual net skills.

Even some secrets hidden in Jivie Aier sitting opposite her and her body were discovered by the ten-second mental net.

Because the amount of information fed back is too much, even the sub-brain system has not sorted out even 1% of the information, so Leo can only learn about the general situation from some of the archived materials.

However, at this moment, Leo's mind is not on these precious materials at all. What he thinks in his mind is why there is such a big gap after using the same spirit net skill. Is it really because of the transformation of the power of nightmare? Effect?

However, Leo soon found the answer. When he re-checked the manual of the spiritual network that he had selected from the database, he found that this manual was actually the first edition of the general manual of the spiritual network published by the Earth Federation. .

In the early days, when the Earth Federation came into contact with psychic energy, it had only a vague concept of psychic energy. There was no detailed division of psychic energy levels, and most of the knowledge of psychic energy was classified according to different types. Some psychic skill manuals prepared by psykers contain a large number of psychic skills that only high-level psykers can perform.

The Spirit Net skill manual selected by Leo is such an unconventional manual. The content recorded in this edition of the manual was directly traded from a psyker of an alien race through spies.

At that time, the Earth Federation was in a war against an alien race for the exploitation rights of a resource star. The fleet of that alien race had several high-level psykers who mastered the power of the spiritual network. The important role caused the Earth Federation's fleet to suffer heavy losses.

So when the Earth Federation obtained the psychic skill manual of the cosmic-level high-level spiritual network, it simply compiled it, and then sent it directly to the psykers of the frontline fleet, hoping that it would come in handy.

It's just that the Earth Federation didn't expect that the high-level spiritual network skills recorded in this manual are psychic skills that can only be used by psykers of level eight or above, so when low-level psykers forcibly cast them, psychic backlashes occurred one after another, and lost fighting power.

Without the assistance of psykers, the fleet of the Earth Federation could not compete with the alien fleet at all, and had to withdraw from the star field where the resource star was located.

It is precisely because of this incident that the Earth Federation began to pay attention to the classification of psykers and psychic skills. Afterwards, a lot of information related to psychics was also standardized. It is clear which information is suitable for what level of psykers marked, there is no possibility of error.

The reason why Leo's sub-brain system finds out this high-level spirit net skill manual that is not suitable for Leo's display is because this version of the data is the first version of the data, and no skill level is added to the data. and it was mixed with other low-level psychic materials, and his instructions to the sub-brain system were somewhat vague, which made the sub-brain system use this psionic skill that only high-level psykers could display The manual was picked out.

However, this wrong choice gave Leo a big surprise. Through the high-level spirit net skill that can only be used by level 8 psykers, Leo discovered the power of nightmare.

As long as he has enough nightmare power, the few high-level psionic skills recorded in his database can now be used, and he also has a few more cards that can make him come back after falling into crisis. Like the existence of the lady in the lake, he also has the power to escape.

Just when Leo and Javier were lost in thought because of their own strength, the piercing bells from outside woke them up from their thoughts.

When they heard the bell, the two frowned at the same time. They didn't show such expressions because their thoughts were interrupted, but because the bell sounded so unpleasant, but they couldn't tell the truth Where is it ugly? If you insist on describing it, the scream of a banshee is the most appropriate way to describe this kind of bell.

Feeling a little uncomfortable, Ji Wei Ai'er couldn't help the disgust in her heart, and said directly what was in her heart, "This bell sounds really bad!"

Leo showed a little pensive look on his face, and explained: "Of course it's hard to hear. This is the death knell. It should be that someone in the Alcott family has passed away."

He knew from the books he had collected that if someone from the ruling family of the lake town of Alcott died, a special death knell made by a wizard would ring in the lake town where the deceased lived to inform the residents of the whole town. Although the sound of the death knell was not mentioned in that book, after hearing the current bell, he felt that it should be the death knell of the Alcott family.

Javier quickly recalled the information she had heard from Leo before, and asked, "The Alcott family? Is that the family of the rulers of Lake Town you mentioned just now?"

"Yes, it's this family." Leo responded casually, walked to the window, opened the window, and looked in the direction of the noble district. I saw a brazier with a silver-blue flame ignited at intervals on the wall separating the aristocratic area and the civilian area, which made it possible for anyone in Lake Town to see the light of this special flame. , and this special flame, like the death knell, is a must-do announcement ceremony when a member of the Alcott family dies.

"Leo, I..." Jivie El also came to Leo's side at this time, and was about to say something.

"Wait, don't talk!" Leo raised his hand rudely to gesture to Jivie El, and then looked in the direction of the noble district with a serious expression.

Javier could tell from Leo's expression and demeanor that he must have something important to do now, so he didn't continue to ask about his own affairs, but followed Leo's request and stayed quietly aside.

At this moment, Leo had already activated the sub-brain system to activate the spirit vision skill, and looked intently towards the direction of the noble area.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, there are not many abnormalities in the noble area except for some braziers on the wall, but in Leo's spiritual vision observation, he found a mixed force gushing out from the noble area.

The image of this power displayed in the spiritual vision is a colorful light. It did not condense in the sky above the noble district, but radiated upwards for a certain distance, then spread out in all directions and merged into different objects , most of which are integrated into the lake and vines.

Moreover, the careful Leo found that the frequency of the light spreading was somewhat regular with the time of the death knell, as if the sound of the death knell was controlling the final belonging of the light.

At this moment, a mist rose from the surface of the lake, covering all the water on the surface of the lake.

"Huh!" Seeing the scene on the lake, Leo immediately thought of the monster collector in the lake that he encountered when he first arrived in Hushang Town.

At this moment, Leo clearly observed a huge shadow on the lake near the noble area through his spiritual vision. This shadow was exactly the same as the tentacled shadow in the lake he had seen before, except that it was bigger. many times.

"Activate the mechanical will." When seeing the monster in the lake, the sub-brain system immediately reminded Leo that his daily value of will was decreasing rapidly, obviously affected by the shadow in the lake, so he immediately activated the mechanical will,

With the activation of the mechanical will, the reminder of the decrease of the will immediately disappeared, and Leo's mentality became no different from that of a robot, calmly watching every move of the shadow in the lake.

However, at this moment, Jivie Elle, who was on the side, suddenly moved quickly and hid by the window, her body was pressed against the wall, completely hiding her body in the corner of the shadow, with a terrified expression on her face, as if she was caught by something Things are generally frightening.

Leo ignored Javier's actions, and his attention was completely on the shadow in the lake.

Prior to this, he had guessed that the monster in the lake was a god of this world called the Corpse Collector, and now it seems that his conjecture was confirmed. The Corpse Collector who appeared now was probably aimed at Orr who had just died. Members of the Kurt family came.

It's just that this corpse collector seems to have encountered something confusing. He wandered around in the lake in the noble district, and tried several times to get the tentacles deep into the water, but once those shadow tentacles left the lake, they would be immediately captured by the people on the lake. The mist engulfed it.

The futile actions made the corpse collector more and more irritable, and even Leo, who was a few cities away, could feel that strong anger. However, no matter how angry the corpse collector was, he couldn't leave the lake. In the end, he could only let out a roar that only psykers could hear and dissipated from the lake.

Seeing that the corpse collector had left, Leo turned off the mechanical will skill, and also stopped the spiritual vision skill to restore himself to a normal state.

"Have you already left?" At this moment, Jivie Elle asked Leo abruptly, and turned her body slightly so that her eyes could follow the edge of the window and see a little bit of the situation on the lake.

"It's already gone." Leo responded, and then asked Ji Weier, who was slightly relieved: "Can you see that monster too?"

"See what? Something in the lake?" Ji Weier was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook her head and said, "I can't see the monster you mentioned, but I can feel it in the lake over there just now." Something very scary has appeared."

As she spoke, she pointed to the lake area where the body collector had appeared before.

Leo was a little surprised by Javier's keen sense, but soon he returned to normal, and explained to Javier: "The one who just appeared here is a god named Corpse Collector."

"God? Was that a god just now?" Ji Weier had an unbelievable expression on her face.

It's no wonder that Jivie Elle has such an expression, because Leo mentioned that there are some terrifying monsters in the lake before, so when she felt a terrifying aura appearing in the lake area, she subconsciously thought that it was Leo. Ou mentioned the monster in the lake.

But she never thought that this monster, which scared her into hiding just because of its aura when it appeared, turned out to be a god, which made her not know what to say for a while.

"Leo, don't you think it's wrong? Is that really a god?" Ji Wei Ai'er couldn't help being puzzled, and asked immediately.

Leo immediately explained: "Of course it is a god. There are people in Hushang Town who created a sect specifically for him, and there are special sacrifices in this sect."

After being extremely shocked by this unexpected answer, Jivie Aier felt a little bit regretful about her avoidance just now, for not being able to see the real god with her own eyes.

However, before she calmed down, she heard Leo say again: "However, it is not wrong for you to say that he is a monster, because he is indeed not qualified to be called a god."

Leo's words suddenly stopped here, and did not continue. Ji Weier also felt that Leo's words were not finished, and wanted to ask, but finally suppressed the curiosity in her heart.

The reason why Leo said this was entirely because he felt that although the corpse collector was powerful, he was not an Omega-level advanced creature like the lady in the lake he met earlier. It only has a spiritual level of about eight, which is completely incomparable to the golden giant deer he saw in the Black Forest back then.

It's just that, compared with the lady in the lake, the body collector has more life breath similar to Omega-level advanced creatures, which makes Leo's daily value of will be affected when he observes him through spiritual vision. From this aspect In other words, He is more similar to the Eye of Reality in Velen's world.

Afterwards, Leo didn't talk to Javier about the gods of the dream world anymore, but returned to what was interrupted just now, and continued to learn Jervier's alchemy of the witcher and the seal of the witcher.

Although Jivie Elle is very curious about these gods, the terrifying aura left her a deep impression on her, and she forcibly dispelled her curiosity until she knew all about the witcher's alchemy and sigils. After all the knowledge was taught to Leo, he never asked a word about the gods.