The dinner didn't last long, and almost everyone talked to Leah Venistan for a while, and everyone left with a look of satisfaction and joy on their faces, even if Leah Vinistein didn't say yes to any of their terms.

Leo, who had been quietly observing from the sidelines, clearly felt that when Leah Venistan was talking to others, her higher life body energy was taking on an emanating state, silently affecting the people he was talking to, and this influence was irreversible and unstoppable.

Among the people attending the banquet, many people had some strange things such as amulets on their bodies to a greater or lesser extent, but these things were useless at all under the influence of the higher life forms.

In the universe, it is not uncommon for people who have been with higher life forms for a long time to be gradually assimilated by them in terms of thoughts, consciousness and physiological characteristics, and it is not common for people like Leah Winistan to actively influence lower life forms through the level of life forms in the universe, because those high psionics in the universe do not need the worship of believers, and there is no need to do such useless things.

There is no doubt that the most outstanding men in their respective fields will have a good impression of Leah Vinistan before they come to the banquet, and this will in turn turn into reverence as she attends the banquet, and eventually strengthen her rule over all walks of life in the Dyad.

After the dinner, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha were left behind, while Leo left alone and returned to the Ice Sanctuary.

Leo is not worried about what will happen to Sylvia, although Leah Vinistan's influence on the higher life forms is strong, but it is only for ordinary people, even if people like Sylvia and Tessa Mocha are affected, the impact will not be great, not to mention that the abyss demon dragon bloodline on Sylvia's body is known for its domineering madness, if Leah Vinistan's oppression is too strong, maybe it can make Sylvia's bloodline awaken some power.

So after the banquet, when Leah Venistan asked the two witches to stay, Sylvia did not object, but Tessa Mocha didn't want to spend too much time with the Ice Queen, but because of Sylvia, she also stayed.

When I was in the palace, I couldn't help my curiosity to explore the palace built in the mountain through the spiritual network, because after many times of continuous renovation and transformation, there was no cold feeling in the cave in the palace, and there were braziers everywhere, which made the palace very bright, and the heat in the brazier also passed through a special heat channel, exhausting the smoke to the outside at the same time, it also conveyed the heat to all parts of the palace.

Interestingly, unlike other important facilities, there are more or less jammers placed in those buildings to prevent others from using witchcraft or the like in these facilities, but not here, perhaps because the owner of this place thinks that she is a witch with great power.

However, this is convenient for Leo, his spiritual network is almost unaffected, and all the passages and rooms in the entire palace are clearly felt.

Although there are other witches, wizards and clans sitting in the palace, they obviously can't perceive the existence of the special spiritual energy of the spiritual network, only with Leah Venistan, Leo will converge the spiritual network, because it has begun to enter the higher life forms of the demigod level, even if the origin power is not the cosmic force of psionic energy, but it can more or less sense the spiritual energy, which is most obvious in some inherently powerful cosmic lifeforms in the universe.

During the day, while Leo was scanning those special runes with the spirit net, he also searched the Ice and Snow Sanctuary, just like he explored the palace, he also found some secret rooms that should have been sealed for a long time and should have been forgotten, and stored some things in those secret rooms, these things are both books and some strange things, so he plans to take advantage of tonight to visit these places.

After returning to the room they had arranged for them, Leo instructed his attendants not to disturb him, locked the door from the inside, and then returned to the room, took off his armor and changed into a simple set of clothes.

In fact, Leo was already able to control the sin karma in his body a little when the airship arrived in Kehu, and now although he can't completely eliminate the sin karma, he can lock the sin karma in his body.

Sylvia didn't know about this either, not because Leo didn't want to tell Sylvia and deliberately concealed it, but because he felt that he hadn't completely controlled the aura of sinful karma, so there was no need to say this.

However, this was his best disguise now, because Leah Venistan knew what would happen when he took off his armor, and in the empty environment of the Ice Sanctuary and the Dalyat Palace, the sound of his armor was enough to disturb anyone, so even if he made any disturbances while exploring the secret places in the Ice Sanctuary and the royal palace that caught the attention of the palace and templar guards, no one would suspect him.

After changing his clothes, Leo opened the window of the room facing the side of Dai Lisa's city, and before the snow outside hung into the house, he got out and landed on the narrow eaves that were close to the wall, and after closing the window again, he quickly climbed down the floor according to the route and foothold he had explored.

As he climbed to the middle of the sanctuary, he moved to a stone relief slab on the right side of the center.

When Daliat was driven from the Southern Kingdom and entered the northern ice fields, Leo found the middle-aged nobleman who was the leader in this relief.

This middle-aged nobleman was the leader of the ancestors at that time, and was once a great nobleman of the Mares Kingdom, but he lost the political struggle, was framed as treason by his political enemies, and finally his territory was confiscated and his family was expelled.

The middle-aged nobleman did not collapse because of this, but led his family and other people who were driven away to establish the first settlement of the ancestors of the Dalyat in the northern ice field.

It's just that the irony is that after the settlement was built, those who were also exiled betrayed this middle-aged nobleman, and then killed him along with his family, and even the family identity of this person was not left, and the Maris Kingdom had already cleared the information of this noble family, so that when recording this incident, they all called this nobleman by him.

On top of this aristocratic relief is a sculpture of a torch protruding outward, which was originally used to symbolize the first settlement of the ancestors of the Dairiats, a lighthouse for guidance, but now it has been made into a mechanism.

Leo pulled the torch a little harder, and the wall of the relief shook slightly, and then the relief plate under the torch moved outward a little, and then Leo pulled outward, and the whole relief plate was pulled out to reveal a small passage behind.

This small passage was supposed to be a convenient passage specially designed when it was built, so that when the relief panels were damaged, they could be directly reached from this passage to the vicinity of the relief panels and replaced.

Leo climbed into the passage and closed the relief plate again, then continued to crawl forward for a distance before turning a pipe with an escalator down to a large chamber below.

The location of this chamber was right next to the Templar's prayer hall, and when Leo arrived at the chamber, he could hear the sound of the priests of the Church of the Goddess of Ice praying in the evening on the other side of the wall.

The chamber was supposed to be a storehouse for building materials that might be used to repair some of the building's damage.

It's just that because the secret room is so cleverly designed, the entrance and exit are hidden in the prayer hall by using mechanisms, and it is also connected to some other secret room warehouses that are used to facilitate the repair of the exterior walls, so that those who later know about this secret room will use it for other places, such as storing some secret and forbidden things.

However, the people who used this chamber as a storage room apparently haven't been here since they stored their belongings, because it's not completely sealed and there are some vents connected to it, so the items and the floor are covered in a thick layer of dust, and according to Leo's estimates, no one has been here for at least five years.

"Is that him?" Leo thought about the person who had been able to freely enter and leave the Ice Sanctuary and the Royal Palace five years ago, and a name immediately came to mind, Modiadi, the second mistress and former palace minister who was executed by Leah Venistan.

He remembered that one of the reasons for Modiadi's execution was greed and bribery, and it is said that during the period when he was the palace minister, the queen's prestige was extorted from the big nobles, big businessmen, and some nobles, businessmen, and even foreign powers, etc., in short, he should have accumulated a large amount of wealth on his hands.

When he was deposed and imprisoned, the queen sent people to search Modiadi's residence and secret residence, and finally found a huge wealth equivalent to the total tax revenue of Daliad in a year, all kinds of valuable jewelry, and countless works of art.

However, even so, there are still those who believe that Modiadi's wealth has not been fully recovered, and that Modiadi should have other secret places, because some of the items in the bribery lists provided by certain merchants and nobles do not appear in the treasures that have been found.

However, this speculation has not been confirmed, and the current palace minister, Kerry Fao, after having people carefully search both sides, still did not find Modiadi's other secret residences, so he also gave up continuing the search, and the matter passed.

Now it seems that Kerry Fao may have made the mistake of going dark under the lights, he just asked people to look outside for Modiadi's secret residence, but he didn't know that the place where the other valuables were hidden was actually under his nose.

It is ironic to know that every day for no special reason, Kerry Fao has to come to the prayer hall for his daily prayers, and this room with all kinds of precious objects is located next to the prayer hall, which is quite ironic.

Leo didn't think much of it, went to the middle of the room, used his psionic energy to sweep all the dust aside, and then carefully examined the contents of the room.

Although Modiadi may seem like a slanderer to the outside world, he still sees himself as a scholar and an artist, so he has a great interest in collecting all kinds of solitary books and works of art, and the aristocracy, businessmen and foreign powers who pay bribes also fall in love with him.

Among the belongings found in Modiadi's residences and secret residences, these works of art, books and mysterious objects were missing, and some people later thought that perhaps Modiadi was using his identity as an artist and scholar to disguise himself, he actually only loved money, and those works of art and books had long been sold by him for money, otherwise his private property would not have accumulated such a huge amount of tax revenue in a year.

Obviously, judging from what Leo has now discovered, the person who made that judgment should have underestimated Modiadi's dedication to being a scholar and artist, as well as Modiadi's ability to amass wealth.

Leo himself has little interest in the artworks, but he is curious about the curiosities hidden in the artworks.

I saw him walk to a neatly arranged stack of picture frames, take a picture frame that was more than a meter high, and untie the soft cloth used to block the dust on it, revealing the portrait inside.

The portrait depicts a glamorous, dignified noblewoman dressed in the garb of a knight of the Kingdom of Mares, simple but still exquisite, and behind the noblewoman, the artist uses a special technique to depict a knight hiding in the shadows.

Upon seeing the painting, Leo quickly recognized it as one of the most famous paintings in the world of Veron, and the name of the painting was Lady Anna and her knights.

The theme comes from a folk tale, about a countess named Anna, when the count was out on a war, he had a relationship with the knight in the castle, and then did some terrible things in order to maintain this relationship, knowing that when the count returned, he found that all the people in the castle were dead, including the children born to him by Lady Anna, and Lady Anna and the knight did not know what happened.

The painting itself is not an outstanding work of art, and the choice of some folk themes as the subject of the painting is also something that various painters often do, which is not an uncommon thing, and what really makes this painting famous in the world of Veron is that the successive owners of this painting have ended in tragedy, and Modiadi is the last owner of this painting, and its fate is also well known.

In the past, attempts had been made to find the secret of the doom of the painting, but to no avail, and now Leo had already determined the cause of the painting's death for its owner at the first glance.

"The power of sinful karma is actually the power of sinful karma. Leo was a little surprised after feeling the faint power coming from the painting.