The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Karijie of Mushan, you are as domineering as ever!" After Oga left, Sylvia said to the old man as if seeing an old acquaintance.

"I am extremely honored to be praised by the Earl." The old man smiled, saluted Sylvia, then turned to look at Leo, and said, "Your Excellency is Mr. Leo Dodd, right? I've heard of your reputation a long time ago, and I've always wanted to meet you, but I didn't expect to wait so long to see you."

"Hello." Leo replied very concisely and plainly.

At this time, Sylvia took the initiative to introduce: "This is Mr. Kalijie, the chief steward of the Kuivan family."

"A human being becomes the big steward of the blood race?" Leo was stunned for a while, and couldn't help being curious, and asked.

Perhaps it was because many people had asked similar questions before, so the old man Kalijie quickly gave an answer, saying: "I grew up in Kui Fan's family when I was very young, and Kui Fan's family regards me as a My family, I gave up the chance to bear the surname Kui Fan when I grew up, and the Kui Fan family didn't want me to suffer in exile, so they arranged for me to be the housekeeper of the family, and I have been working until today."

Although the old man's tone is very flat, and the content of the narration is very simple, but Leo will not really treat the old man so simply. The old man can form an absolute suppression of that Oga Quinine, relying not only on him Identity, among other things, the energy fluctuations in the opponent's body that are very close to that of a fifth-level psyker are enough to show that the opponent's real strength is by no means as simple as it seems on the surface.

"Presumably the purpose of the old man's coming here should be clear to both of you!" Kalijie did not show a businesslike manner, but lowered his posture, and said to Leo and Sylvia: "I hope the two Someone who can truthfully tell me what happened there, without any additions or deletions."

Sylvia took the initiative to take over the negotiation with the other party, and said: "Of course I can tell you, but it would be too cheap for you to tell you like this. You must know that the secrets hidden in this matter are of great value!"

Kalijie smiled and said: "Of course, as long as the information is true, our Kui Fan family will definitely not be stingy in paying enough remuneration."

Sylvia emphasized again: "Can you make the decision? You must know that the reward we want is not money."

Kalijie responded with great affirmation: "This is not a problem. I can make decisions about most of the items in the Kui Fan family's treasury."

Seeing this situation, Sylvia didn't say anything more, and turned her head to Leo and nodded.

Although he did not specifically talk about what kind of remuneration would be given, Leo felt that the Kui Fan family should not be stingy with this remuneration, so he did not add anything, and carefully described what happened before, even He also told Yilan to leave.

During the narration, Butler Calij interrupted Leo's words from time to time, inserting some questions, such as the shape of the monster, the shape of the crack, the density of the dense fog, etc., trying to make everything detail.

Leo didn't show any impatient attitude either. He not only answered the other party's inquiry seriously, but also added some guesses of his own. Later, he even took out the energy block and handed it to Kalijie.

This move made Sylvia complain afterwards, because in her opinion, it is enough to tell Kalijie the truth about the incident and the secret hidden in the ruins, and there is no need to take out the energy block .

However, Leo didn't see it that way. He always felt that there was a problem with the energy block, but he didn't know where the problem was. Now handing it over to Kalijie can just get rid of this trouble.

Before Kalijie left, Sylvia and Leo were asked to stay in Moonlight City for two days in a pleading tone, and after he confirmed everything, he would give them the reward.

Regarding this, Leo and Sylvia did not express any objection. They also stayed in the hotel for the past two days and did not go out, trying to avoid causing trouble.

Although the market in Moonlight City appears to be very calm during the day, at night one can feel an undercurrent enveloping Moonlight City.

The never-before-seen curfew in Moonlight City is the harbinger of this undercurrent, and the successive house collapses in two days can be said to be the follow-up. As for the most eye-catching thing is Moonlight City, the only one in Yasha County. The Church of the Hill King is closed, which is definitely a big event for the poor areas of Moonlight City.

For ordinary people, these three things are just unconnected independent things, but for Leo and Silvia, these three things are actually one thing.

The curfew in Moonlight City is actually to make room for the battle at night. The collapse of the houses is a side effect of the battle between the cult leader and the hill king Saint Francis, and the cult leader disappeared. The Church of the Hill King was completely expelled from Moonlight City and Asha County as a result of this minor turmoil.

However, both Leo and Sylvia believed that the departure of the Church of the Hill King was not the end of this undercurrent of turmoil. They both felt that this should be just the beginning.

On the third day, Kalijie, the chief steward of the Kuivan family, came to the hotel with the reward and handed things over to Leo and Silvia.

Undoubtedly, Kalijie was careful about the remuneration. For example, the item he handed to Sylvia was a set of exquisite jewelry. A set of magical items specially created by wizards for witches. Her role is to assist witches in controlling the power in their bodies.

This set of jewelry is also very famous in the witch group. There are three similar sets of jewelry, all of which are in the hands of other witches. This set of witch jewelry may be the only set that is left outside.

After Sylvia got this set of jewelry, she couldn't wait to try the effect immediately, and the result was naturally extremely satisfactory. Her control over the power in her body became much stronger. After using the ability, the wasted power was also Much less, she could only use the same ability three times before, but now she can use it five times, the effect has improved significantly.

On the other hand, the reward that Kalijie prepared for Leo was not bad at all. What he gave was a wizard's notebook. This notebook was not written by a tower wizard, but a very special wizard. This wizard is called Barton, also known as a battle wizard.

In the wizard's tower in Death Valley, Leo saw a book recording the deeds of famous wizards, which mentioned the wizard Barton, because there were other more important books to read at that time, so Leo didn't pay attention to this book. After reading the book carefully, he just flipped through it casually, and he only remembers two things about Barton's wizard. One is that the wizard Barton is a wandering wizard, and the second is that the wizard Barton has very strong actual combat ability.

When Kalijie took out this note, Leo had already discovered that this note was not only a book recording Barton's witchcraft, but also a wizard's wonder, because it brought Leo the feeling and The crystal magic book in the storage space is somewhat similar, and the complicated Turing radicals on the cover of the note fully demonstrate its practicality.

It's a pity that this notebook is damaged, and there is a crack on the notebook, which goes directly through the notebook. Judging from the shape and size of the crack, it should be caused by a knight's sword of the church. Among them, there are some bloodstains that have dried up long ago. It seems that this wizard Barton should have been injured in the battle with the church. As for whether he died or not, it is unknown.

Although the notes are a little damaged, the pages inside are made of very special animal skin paper with great toughness. Even if it is pierced by a sword, it does not cause too much damage. If you piece together the parts pierced by the sword, the handwriting is still clearly visible .

The content recorded in this notebook does not involve any powerful witchcraft. There are only four complete witchcrafts recorded in it, and they are all the most basic witchcrafts. Even the wizards in the wizarding hall should have mastered them. These kinds of basic witchcraft.

The most content in this notebook is some skills of the wizard Barton using witchcraft. In Leo's view, these skills are somewhat similar to psionic skills, but some of them are also similar to Leo's own use of psionics or other witchcraft. The idea is the same, so this book is far more useful to him than a witchcraft book of a tower wizard.

Another point is more important, that is, this book is a wizard's wonder that he can decipher, and he can find out the mystery of making wizard's wonder from this book, so as to make a witchcraft book of his own.

"We are very satisfied with these two rewards." Sylvia said to Kalijie after seeing Leo nodding.

"I am very happy to satisfy the two of you." Kalijie responded with a smile, and then his expression became serious again, and said: "In addition, I hope that the two of you can leave Moonlight City immediately today. leave Asha County."

"Old Kalijie, are you giving me an order on behalf of the Kuivan family?" Sylvia said, staring at Kalijie coldly.

"No, it's not an order, it's just a kind reminder." Kalijie responded flatly, and before Sylvia could ask, he turned and left the room.

After Kalijie left, Sylvia turned to look at Leo and asked, "It seems that the Kuivan family is clearing the field."

Leo also nodded in agreement with Sylvia's inference, and asked suspiciously: "What exactly does the Kuivan family want to do? Is it just to prepare for the settlement of the internal struggle of the blood clan? In this case, why did they hold that auction again? , and took out so many precious things?"

"What if the auction is bait?" Sylvia asked a possibility.

"If it's bait, then who are you trying to lure?" Leo asked back.

Both of them fell into deep thought, because if calculated according to this guess, it seems that many people agree with this condition, including Leo himself.

"Don't think too much, we didn't intend to intervene in this matter, and now the Kui Fan family's actions just go along with our intentions, don't they?" Leo said calmly.

Sylvia curled her lips and said, "Although I said that, one is that we left by ourselves, and the other is that we were driven away. It always makes people feel a little unpleasant to think about it."

In fact, these two days, they have already made preparations to leave, and their bags are all ready. Even if Kalijie didn't say that at the end, they would leave after getting paid, just what Kalijie said That sentence, on the contrary, made the meaning of leaving different.

"Let's go!" Leo didn't worry about whether he was driven away or left by himself. He was more concerned about the next destination, the real tower located in the mountains at the junction of Deliyat and Maris. The Wizard Tower is located.

The two left the room with their bags, went down to the hotel, boarded the carriage arranged by the hotel, and headed to Hongye Manor on the outskirts of Moonlight City.

When they left, both Leo and Sylvia clearly felt that they were being watched. Apparently, the blood race was checking whether they had left. The feeling of monitoring disappeared until the carriage left the city of Moonlight City.

The Red Leaf Manor on the outskirts of Moonlight City was originally the property of the Blood Race, but after the Witch Squad rescued the Blood Race and made some agreements with the Blood Race, the Blood Race gave the manor to the Witch Squad.

After getting this manor, because it was too close to Moonlight City, the Witch Group did not intend to set up a residence here, but just remodeled the house and other things according to their wishes, and turned it into a summer resort shared by the Witch Group. , Every once in a while, a witch will come here for vacation.

Sylvia came here by airship, and she stored the airship in the Red Leaf Manor, not only because of the secluded environment here, but also because there are witches' own staff here.

In the past, the witch group fought alone, so when the church hunted witches, even if the witches of the witch group surpassed many of the church's hunters in strength, most of them died under the siege of the hunters.

The witch also thought about forming her own force, but at that time, most of the people who could be attracted by the witch were some shady family members, cultists, etc., which also made the witch's reputation even more notorious. Then recruit useful people.

It wasn't until the church became weak and the aristocratic kingdom became stronger that the witches began to make friends with the nobles and integrate into the nobles. This made the situation of the witches improve.

Although it is still difficult to directly recruit people, it is not a problem to train them by themselves, so each witch will cultivate loyal subordinates based on their own economic strength.

The people in the Red Leaf Manor were trained by the king Saran, and these people are already the third or fourth generation. Their parents and grandparents are all Saran's subordinates, and their loyalty is lower than that of the servant families of the great nobles. They are more reliable, and because Saran has spared no effort in cultivating them, these people are also very strong. Almost all of them are comparable to church knights, and some are even extraordinary.

In normal times, these people would be arranged by Saran to be on standby in the properties of several witch groups in the Kingdom of Marris, and they would be transferred to other places when something happened. Because Hongye Manor is in Yasha County, the church power is the weakest , plus the agreement with the blood clan, this place has become the first choice for Saran to place his subordinates. According to statistics, there are at least seventy people here who are carefully trained by Saran.