Chapter Ninety-Six: The Mysterious Wasteland

Leo did not leave after entering the woods, but quickly arranged some traces that looked like they had left, and then quickly moved from the shadows of the trees to the edge of the land.

When Leo stood on the edge and saw the land in front of him, he immediately felt extremely strange.

Anyone who looks at it would think that it was a barren meadow that had been abandoned for many years, but it looked extremely strange in this hunting forest, because there was not a single sapling growing on this land, and even the grass was only a few inches high, just enough to submerge the instep.

If you look down from above, you will see that this barren meadow is an unconventional circle, so regular that it seems to have been drawn with a compass, and the surrounding trees are also growing very strangely, not only the roots will not grow towards this place, but even the branches and leaves on the top will turn around before they are about to grow above this place, forming a flat wall of trees around the wasteland in a strange way.

Leo had seen this scene before, it was the trees on the edge of the Black Forest, but the tree wall composed of the Black Forest trees seemed to be isolating the invasion of the outside world and defending the Black Forest, while the tree wall in front of him was more like blocking the spread of the wasteland.

Sensing that something was wrong with the wasteland, Leo immediately used his spiritual net to probe the underground part of the wasteland, and soon he discovered something.

The land where the surrounding woods are located has to go down to at least nearly 100 meters to reach the rock layer, but Leo's spirit network feels that the wasteland in front of him is only less than ten meters of soil, and then down is a huge rock, the size of the rock is exactly the same as the wasteland, and the rock as a whole presents a perfect spherical shape, no matter how you look at it, you can deduce that this giant spherical rock with a diameter of more than two hundred meters is by no means naturally formed.

Leo tries to infiltrate the rock to see if he can find anything interesting, but as soon as the web touches the surface of the rock, it is immediately dispersed by a powerful wave of psionic energy that appears out of thin air.

"Damn!" the scattered spiritual network had a certain impact on Leo, making him feel like someone had stabbed his brain, but fortunately, this severe pain did not last long, and began to gradually weaken, and it would no longer have any impact on thinking, but the scattered spiritual network needed to be reconstructed and condensed, and there was no way to use it for the time being.

At this moment, Leo deeply felt that as he came into contact with more things in the dark world, the less effective the use of the skills of the spirit network would be, and it seemed that people in the dark world had some ways to prevent mysterious abilities similar to the spirit network.

Now for him, the spiritual network will become a double-edged sword in many cases, and if he is not careful, he may hurt himself, and the stronger the spiritual network, the stronger the damage.

Just like just now, if his spiritual network had been a little stronger, the damage caused to him by the spiritual energy wave on the rock would have been more lasting and intense, and he would not only feel a headache, but perhaps have an impact on his spiritual origin.

"It seems that you should be careful when using the spirit net in the future. Leo now also understands why there are a lot of words such as attention and taboo marked in the spiritual network skill materials of the Earth Federation, and it is obvious that the psykers of the Earth Federation have also encountered a similar situation.

After the headache had completely disappeared, Leo began to call up the data collected during the impact of the psionic wave from the auxiliary brain system, and when he saw that the index of the intensity of the psionic wave just now in the data was as high as more than 900, the whole person was stunned.

The psionic energy intensity index is calculated according to the standards of the Earth Federation, and the strength is directly linked to the spiritual base value of the psionic, and its calculation method is the strength after instantly releasing all of its psionic energy reserves. For example, Leo's current spiritual base value is twenty-seven points, so his spiritual energy reserve is two hundred and seventy points, and the corresponding spiritual energy strength index is two hundred and seventy points.

For example, the wave of psionic energy he encountered in Silvermoon Castle, its psionic strength was analyzed by the subbrain system and obtained a strength of four hundred and forty points, so the basic spiritual value of the person who released that psionic tide should be forty-four points, reaching the strength of a fourth-level psionic person.

If you want to calculate according to this method, then the creator of the psionic wave just now has more than ninety points of spiritual base value, which is enough to be compared with the ninth-level psionic of the Earth Federation, and then the interstellar psionic can also evolve into an omega-level high-level creature.

It's just that such an algorithm is not very accurate, for example, people with psionic devices and psionic weapons may greatly increase their psionic strength with the help of external forces, but no matter how much they improve, it is impossible to exceed double their own psionic strength, so the bottom line of the lowest spiritual base value of the psionic wave just now should be more than fifty points.

Even if it is halved, the fifth-level psionic with more than fifty points of psionic basic value is still the object that Leo needs to look up to, this is the psionic who really masters the spiritual release skill, not a pseudo-fifth-level psionic who creates a spiritual chain through tricks like Leo.

While looking at the data, Leo also re-displayed the image sorted out by the feedback data of the spirit network in his eyes, and after looking at the simulation image of the entire spirit network being washed away, he also realized that the source of the spiritual energy wave was not somewhere else, but this ball rock in the middle of the wasteland.

Because when Leo's spiritual net touched the rock surface, some patterns composed of spiritual energy suddenly appeared on the surface of the rock, and then the power contained in all the patterns instantly exploded to form a spiritual energy wave that dispersed the spiritual network.

Leo was vaguely able to identify from the small features of the pattern that it was part of the base Gamori root, but it was not part of the Gamori root or the Turing root.

"Gamoret three-dimensional roots!" At this time, Leo couldn't help but think of the three-dimensional roots mentioned by the old man Rembrandt that belonged to the realm of the gods, and it seemed that only this font was in line with the scene he saw now.

Last night, he had only mastered the basic roots of Gamorei, and today he had seen the more advanced Turing roots and three-dimensional roots of Gamorei, which made Leo feel that the luck he had gained from the Black Forest seemed to be recovering, otherwise how could things be so coincidental.

Thinking about what he had encountered, he wanted to check the situation of this land, and on the way he encountered someone who forced him to send something here, and he just saw the Turing root in the hut, and in the blink of an eye, he experienced the power of a three-dimensional root here, which can only be described as good luck, and this luck made him feel inexplicably unsteady, just like in the Black Forest.

"No matter! That's it! When the matter comes to an end, it's useless to think about it so much now. Leo shook his head vigorously, clearing his mind of distractions and refocusing on the wasteland.

Leo remembered that the old man Rembrandt said that the three-dimensional word root is the realm of gods, and it was obvious that the strength of the psionic energy just now was far from the power of the omega-level higher creatures, otherwise, it would not have been possible for Leo to get out so easily.

Based on some data, Leo guessed that the huge rock ball buried in the ground should actually be a wizard artifact made by an ancient wizard, and only an ancient wizard who has mastered the Gamore language can skillfully use the three-dimensional word root, and this ancient wizard is obviously not strong enough when he made this wizard artifact, so he only has more than 500 points of psionic strength.

While Leo was speculating about the origin of the rock sphere underground, the men had gathered in the middle of the wasteland, each took out the wood they had prepared long ago, and built a simple temporary altar, and then all the mountain people, men, women, and children, all of them kneeled around the altar except for the mountain people who were guarding the surrounding forest, as if performing some kind of prayer ceremony.

At this time, Leo heard a walking movement in the distance of the forest, and it seemed that the mountain people in charge of guarding it had patrolled here, so he jumped up with both feet, grabbed a branch above his head, and climbed to the big tree with both hands and feet, hiding in the dense branches and leaves, quietly waiting for the next big show.

It didn't take long for a group of ten mountaineers to pass through the dense forest at his feet, and the equipment on the mountaineers was not only ordinary swords and crossbows, but each of them had several sealed test tubes stuck in their waists, and the test tubes were filled with some purple gas, which should be some kind of stimulant like adrenaline.

Leo in the Invisible Tree wanted to know what the potion would do, but he felt that the time was not right, so he endured it and didn't do anything.

After waiting for a while, there was a slight commotion in the forest on the other side of the wasteland, as if a large group of men and horses were approaching, and then an old man dressed like an ordinary person was seen walking towards the wasteland, surrounded by many guards.

While the old man's feet were standing on the wasteland, he suddenly fell to his knees, kissed the ground with a very respectful look, took a little dirt from the ground, and threw it into the air, allowing it to fall on him.

The guards of more than twenty people around seemed to understand the old man's intentions in doing this, and they did not hide from the falling dirt from the sky, and were always on the lookout for all unusual movements around them.

While the guards were dressed in ordinary clothing, the weapons they wore were anything but ordinary.

Leo could see through his psionic vision that all of them were wearing knightly swords with a distinctly religious atmosphere, and that they were all carrying mechanical crossbows with repeating barrels on their backs, and that at least five of them were distinctly knightly when they walked and stood, and it was clear that all five of them were specially trained Church Knights.

The reason why Leo was able to identify the five Church Knights so easily from these people was because he had obtained memories and information from the Twins of the knight's life.

Although Leo's dual-wielding sword was only usable, in terms of the eyes of the various knights who could be called famous in ancient times, there were no more than ten people in the entire Velon. After all, the knight who used the twins was also one of the strongest knights in the world back then, and he was the strongest knight of the Orthodox Church at that time.

After recognizing that these five people were all qualified church knights, Leo was a little surprised by the background of the mysterious church in front of him, because he could know from the knight's memory how difficult it was for a church to train a qualified church knight.

Take the Church of Arknaya in Cage City, even though they have the wealth contained in the ruins of the Nirgardians to rely on, after so many years, they have not trained a single qualified church knight, and all of them are mutant priests made with alien cells.

In his memory, any qualified church knight had the power to block a hundred, and they all possessed a unique secret method that belonged to the church they belonged to, which increased their strength tenfold in a short period of time.

For example, the five church knights beside the old man now, as long as they cooperate properly, they can withstand thousands of well-trained armies in ancient times.

It's just that the current situation is different from ancient times, after all, in terms of the power of the bow and crossbow alone, the current mechanical bow and crossbow has far exceeded the ancient wooden bow and crossbow by more than ten times, and the steel used to make the sword is not comparable to ancient times, which also makes the strength gap between the church knights and ordinary people close a lot.

It is for this reason that many Orthodox churches will only recruit apologists and will not actively train church knights.

After all, he had worked hard for more than ten years, and before he could play a role, the newly talented church knight was killed by a group of ordinary people with a mechanical bow and crossbow, and no one would do such a loss-making business.

However, the mysterious church in front of him is obviously contrary to the mainstream idea, not only training church knights, but also training five at one time, and from the appearance of these five church knights, they are only in their early thirties at most.

At this time, Leo weighed each other's strength in his heart, and he found that if the strength of these five church knights could be comparable to that of the ancient church knights, there was absolutely no chance of winning a melee battle with them, so if he wanted to do something, he could only rely on the psionic bullets of the king and queen.

Just as Leo was considering the difference in strength between them, the people who had set up the altar here before had already greeted the old man, and the mysterious man in the cloak took off the hood from his head and handed the skin in his hand to the old man.

"Why is he?" Leo couldn't help but exclaim in his heart when he saw the mysterious man who had covered his face with a hood, because he found out that this mysterious person was actually the president of the Continental Congress, who was supposed to be dead and dismembered.

I saw that the speaker of the Continental Congress, who was jumping around at this moment, lowered his posture and behaved very respectfully in front of the old man, and when the old man walked towards the altar, he followed closely behind the old man, and his position was still above the church knights, and the rest of the people followed behind, obviously his status in this church was not low.

Leo didn't stay on the old man for long, because he had a feeling that if he focused too much on the old man, he might be noticed by the old man, just like his psychic sense.

At this time, Leo was considering whether he should take advantage of the fact that the other party was not prepared yet, or whether he should wait for these people to complete some religious ritual before doing it, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong around him.

Because according to his calculations, there should be a group of mountain guards patrolling from here by now, but the surroundings are so quiet that there is not even a sound of walking.