Chapter 206: Artificial Lake
After walking out of the dense fog that shrouded the village, Leo felt that an invisible pressure in his heart was rapidly subsiding, and at this time, he could clearly feel how chaotic the spiritual energy fluctuations in the dense fog were, and even these chaotic spiritual energy also affected the shape of the dense fog, causing the dense fog to constantly emerge with screaming and painful human faces, as if countless souls were trapped in the dense fog.
If Leo had seen the change of the fog before, it would have affected the daily value of the will, and it may have been necessary to activate the mechanical will to eliminate the effect. But now, although he was still shocked by the chaos of this spiritual power, his spiritual will was not affected, as if he was watching a wonderful stage performance.
Leo was sure that the idols worshiped by the villagers must have hidden a lot of secrets, and maybe even involved the mystery of the gods' departure, and his strong curiosity was also very interested in these world secrets, but as his willpower was strong enough to approach the omega-level higher creatures, his self-control ability also increased, and he was able to control the strong curiosity that he could not suppress before, and did not return to the dense fog because of curiosity, but left the village without looking back.
However, after Leo left the village, he did not travel in the direction of Miria City, but set his sights on the place where the True Eye was banned.
The appearance of the Child of Nature, the return of the belief in the Mother of Many, and so on, all made Leo think of the reappearance of the gods, and compared to the disappeared gods that were hard to find, there was a real god on the outskirts of Miria City. Even if the god is a bit unworthy of his name, and his soul has been sacrificed by Leo, leaving only a forbidden shell god body, he has been one of the worshiped gods in the past, and his faith still exists in the dream world.
If something like the return of the gods really happens, then there will definitely be some unusual reactions from the True Eye, and maybe Leo will be able to get some clues from the changes there.
Although the location is also the hunting ground on the outskirts of Miria City, Leo's current location is close to the southeast region, not very far from the Black Forest, and the location of the True Eye ban is located in the southwest region, even if Leo was in full speed to go, it took a night until dawn to come to the hunting ground where the True Eye was banned.
"How so?" Standing on the top of a hill, Leo looked out at the place where the True Eye had been banned, only to be amazed by what he saw.
I saw that there should have been a woodland and lawn there, but at this moment it has become a lake, and some excavation traces can be clearly seen in many places on the shore of the lake, and at this moment, a large number of troops of the French Empire are stationed in various locations of the lake, and some scholar-like staff are mixed in the army, and these staff have not used some diving tools to dive into the bottom of the lake and salvage some fragments of items from the bottom of the lake.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Leo immediately thought that the stone ball containing the three-dimensional root that had sealed the True Eye had been dug up, and the hole left by the excavation had not been filled, and had been filled with abundant rain and groundwater, turning into a lake. And judging from the current situation, the people who poached the True Eye are not from the Fran Empire, and now these people from the Fran Empire probably want to see if there is still something valuable that has not been poached.
As the idea came to Leo's mind, several people or organizations that might be diggers appeared in Leo's mind, such as the Persona Society, the Wizards' Guild, the Black Market, the Night's Watch, the Clan, and even the Tower that didn't know if it still existed.
However, after a sober analysis, Leo removed several unlikely speculations and added a new one, leaving only the Persona Society, the Orthodox Church, and the mysterious Tower.
If you want to dig out the stone ball that sealed the Eye of Truth from the bottom, any organization in the dark world can do it, but if you want to dig it out and move it away silently, it is not something that every organization in the dark world can do. Dark world organizations like the Black Market, the Clans, and the Wizards' Guild are unlikely to be able to dig up with great fanfare, and the Night's Watch is a little less organized, although it can stand on the bright side.
As for the other capable Dark World organizations, the existence of the Tower was first eliminated from the list by Leo, and the Orthodox Church was also eliminated by him after careful consideration, because with the religious atmosphere of the Vilen Continent, neither the French Empire nor the current French United Kingdom would allow any religious organization to organize people on their own land to excavate ancient ruins on a large scale.
So in the end, Leo thinks that the people who dig up the truth are probably from the powerful Persona Society.
Although Leo had heard a lot about the Persona Society from Rembrandt, he still found the Persona Society mysterious and unfathomable. Because even Old Man Rembrandt, who is a top existence in terms of fame, wealth, and power in the entire Velen world, is only a member of the Persona Society, then the background of other Persona Society members may not be weaker than that of Old Man Rembrandt.
According to the Persona Society's strong curiosity and research interest in the knowledge of the ancient gods, how could they bear the search for mysterious knowledge in their hearts after they knew that there was a real ancient god body buried somewhere, and this ancient god body was not in danger.
After guessing the cause of the vision, Leo did not make up his mind, but decided to infiltrate the camp of the French Empire to see if he could find any useful clues.
It's just that it's daytime, and it's not suitable for sneaking in, so he found a relatively suitable place to rest on the hill, drew a few simple dream world wizard runes on the surrounding ground, and then injected spiritual energy to stimulate it, creating a temporary magic area that can drive away reptiles and beasts, and randomly found a place to sleep, waiting for the night to come.
Time passed quickly, and in Leo's sleep, night crept in, and the temporary magic area he had created had dissipated before dark, but the remaining psionic fluctuations were still able to cause some effects and keep the beasts from approaching.
Leo woke up under the control of his self-regulating biological clock, and after a day's rest, he was well relaxed, both physically and mentally.
Since entering the dream world, Leo has not had a good rest, he is either busy collecting a lot of information and knowledge every day, or learning all kinds of occults in the dream world, until today he has rested wholeheartedly. Although this kind of rest will not improve his overall state significantly, it will help his mental state a lot, at least he feels much more awake and relaxed than before the break.
Leo picked one of the camps around the lake with the most researchers and the most guarded, and after identifying the direction, he burrowed into the woods and quickly approached the camp.
The army of the Frank Empire guarded the camp selected by Leo very closely, not only erecting a temporary fence around the camp, but also cutting down all the trees around the twenty meters for the safety of the camp, and erecting a brazier at intervals to make it easier for the guards on the fence to observe the surrounding movements and prevent anyone from sneaking in.
If it had been before, no matter how good Leo was at infiltrating tactics, he would not have been able to directly penetrate this defensive area, because the people who set up the camp obviously knew those infiltrators very well, and they were on guard everywhere, and any infiltrators would have been exposed by the surrounding fires before they could get close to the wall.
However, Leo has now mastered a lot of sorcery, and although it is a bit troublesome to cast, it works well.
He came to the outermost woods in the camp's security area, looked through the dense bushes, and scanned the fence to find a few loopholes. Then, he was seen holding a small bird he had just caught on the road in his hand, placing his forehead on the bird, chanting a spell in Gamorei, and invoking the power of nightmares to imitate the process of witchcraft.
Soon Leo emitted a burst of black light, followed by the whole person quickly blurred, and attached to the feathers of the bird in his hand together with the black light, and when Leo disappeared, the little bird immediately flapped its wings and flew up, passing through the tight guard area of the camp from the hole in the air, and easily entered the camp.
This kind of wizard performed by Leo is called Soul Possession, which is a high-level sorcery that can cause the body to enter a state similar to a subspace virtual particle, possess the body hair of any living being, and control the movements and behavior of the creature through the mind.
This kind of high-level witchcraft that has already involved subspace is not something that a fourth-level psionic like Leo can cast, but Leo's nightmare power can imitate the process of this witchcraft, and it can naturally imitate the final effect of this witchcraft, the only flaw is that the nightmare power consumed is too much.
After flying through the cordoned off and entering the camp, the soldiers' vigilance was also reduced a lot, and it seemed that the researchers in charge of the camp did not like to work under the supervision of the soldiers, so that the barracks where various research items were stored were not guarded by soldiers.
Leo controlled the bird and soon came to the outside of the largest barracks, and stood on a small window in the canvas to watch the situation inside the barracks.
Seeing that the barracks covering the largest area seemed to be a sorting place, all the items salvaged from the bottom of the lake during the day would be transported here, and many scholars who studied ancient knowledge would sort out these fragments and put them into different boxes according to their value, and then their students would send the boxes to different barracks and hand them over to specialized scholars for further research.
The knowledge of these scholars is only for ancient artifacts, and they judge which era and which category the fragments in their hands belong to according to the patterns with the characteristics of the era on the fragments of the salvaged objects, but they do not know about witchcraft and other occults, and many of the fragments they sorted out should be classified into the same category.
Leo couldn't help but feel that he had made a mistake before seeing these fragments of items with star psionic fluctuations.
On that day, his spiritual network only detected the stone ball containing the three-dimensional word root, and was shocked by the mysterious power contained in it, and then diverted his attention because of the appearance of the soul incarnation of the True Eye, and did not further explore the surrounding area of the forbidden True Eye Stone Ball.
Now seeing these fragments of items with psionic fluctuations, Leo thought that the wizard or other powerful beings who banned the True Eye back then should not just bury a stone ball underneath, there must be other items or buildings around the stone ball.
Judging from the leftovers that were salvaged from the lake by the scholars of the current French Empire and left by others, the mystery and wealth contained in those items around the stone ball are incalculable. It is no wonder that the Franco-Empire sent heavy troops and a large number of scholars to this place that could be regarded as a front line to dig up the ruins at the bottom of the lake without the war subsided.
"This thing is misplaced, this is a relic of the Second Dynasty, and the text on it is a prophecy dedicated to the priests of the ancient gods, which is very different from the ordinary Gamorei language. At this time, the thin old man walked to the front of one of the sorting boxes, rummaged through the boxes, picked out a dozen pieces of metal with spiritual energy fluctuations, and then pointed to the words on the shards, and said to one of the scholars.
Leo also noticed the old man for the first time, and his eyes stayed on the fragments in the old man's hand for a moment, and then watched the old man pick out some fragments containing spiritual energy fluctuations from other boxes, and finally flew into the air and followed when the old man left with a few boxes.
Leo was interested in the old man because the metal shards he jumped out of contained some Gamoret roots he didn't recognize, and he found them to be similar to the ones he had seen on the skull of the Swamp Sons.
In addition, the old man's words mentioned that the roots on the metal fragments were the words of the priests of the old gods, which was somewhat related to the identity of the Sons of the Swamp Divine Servant group, which made him wonder if the roots on the skulls of the children of the swamp could be the words of the old gods.
At Rembrandt's side, Leo had also read books on ancient religions, in which it was mentioned that the priests of the ancient religions of the time had a special language for communicating with the gods.
However, because this language was exclusively for the priests, with the disappearance of the gods, the priestly language also lost its role and became a ritual thing, and with the later Reformation, the establishment of the Orthodox Church, this priestly language dedicated to the ancient gods was also abolished in the reform, and gradually disappeared with the passage of time, just like other ancient languages.
This language, which was used exclusively for religious ceremonies, was less known than Gamorey, and so did the old man Rembrandt, who now knew this scarce language, which reminded Leo of the man mentioned by the old man Rembrandt.