People from various countries in the New World have always been curious about the decisive battle of the religious war, especially the unknown force that caused so much destruction. However, all those who participated in the decisive battle died on the battlefield.

The church was also annexed by other churches after the war, and the materials in those churches were destroyed as heretical doctrines by people from other churches. Later, when the Ot Federation was established, it paid more attention to the reconstruction work and the relationship with neighboring countries, so there was no

Relevant documents have been effectively protected, so that even now there is no unified explanation of the churches that participated in the religious war.

The only place where clues related to the religious war can be found is the battlefield of the decisive battle. But the problem is that the battlefield was flooded, so what happened in the decisive battle has always been a mystery.

Because Lake Beiluk is very deep and there are a lot of deadly undercurrents at the bottom, almost everyone who dives into the water never returns, so there has been little progress in the exploration of Lake Bealuk.

It was not until a few decades ago that developments in diving equipment and the invention of bell-type submersibles and air pump devices enabled people to conduct some effective exploration of Lake Beiluk.

Because the area of ​​​​Beluk Lake is so large, the Ott Federation knows that it is difficult to effectively explore it by itself, and it also costs a lot of money, so they also have some plans to explore the area of ​​​​Beluk Lake.

conditions for opening up to the outside world.

According to records, the exploration of Lake Belluk was a trend at that time. Expedition teams from all over the world came to Lake Belluk to explore. Unfortunately, their final harvest was not ideal. They only found a large number of fish at the bottom of the lake.

Bones were collected, and the remaining clothing of the bones was analyzed to determine which church the bones belonged to, thus inferring which churches participated in the religious war that year.

As for the unknown force that appeared in Beiluk Lake during the decisive battle that everyone is concerned about, there is no clue, and it is not even clear whether there is an underground river at the bottom of the lake.

With the bankruptcy of several companies specializing in the exploration of Lake Baruk, the craze for exploring Lake Baruk has also weakened. A large number of items related to Lake Baruk have been auctioned. What is interesting is that all the items that were purchased at that time were

The people who recovered the remains of church members from the bottom of the lake were members of the Monte family.

In other words, the bones found in the Monte Manor were not made by the Monte family who killed the people at that time, but were the remains of the church's armed believers who died in the religious war hundreds of years ago.

It is precisely because of this that the excavation of a large number of remains from the Monte Manor did not arouse the anger of the entire society. Therefore, the Monte Manor can be preserved to this day. Otherwise, I am afraid that the Monte Manor would have been completely destroyed by the angry people.

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Leo guessed that the special energy contained in the Monte Manor was not only related to the special religious arrangement in the manor, but also to the remains of the time. The Monte family members should have discovered something from the remains, so they used this kind of energy.

Special methods were used to channel the power from the remains, and the final result was that everyone in Monte Manor disappeared.

Now, Leo doesn't know what this power is, where it comes from, and what it does. If those remains are still there, maybe he can find some clues from them, but now no matter how profound his knowledge and ability are,

, and it is impossible to solve this mystery out of thin air.

Although the mystery of the unknown power in the manor cannot be solved, this does not prevent him from using this power.

The moment he entered the manor, he had already planned to use the rune array to mobilize the mysterious power shrouded in the manor, create a barrier, isolate the energy exercises inside and outside the manor, and create a small world in the manor.

Let Sylvia complete her bloodline promotion, and also prevent the power of the Abyss Dragon from triggering a backlash in the world when her bloodline is promoted.

When he was in the world of Velen, Leo already had a draft in his mind. Although the world was different, the environment was different, and some places needed to be modified. Fortunately, there were not many modifications. It only took him two days to complete the rune spell.

The array is set up.

However, it is one thing to arrange it well, but it is another thing to make the rune array operate normally. Just like his witchcraft and psychic skills, after the power of the rune array is activated, it will move towards

It developed in a chaotic and disorderly direction, and even if Leo carefully controlled it, it would inevitably cause some minor disturbances.

During this time, the manor was busy with a banquet. Sylvia directed the hired housekeepers and servants to arrange the banquet venue. Except for the basement, there were people everywhere in the manor, so the small movements caused by the rune circle were natural.

were encountered by those who came in and out of the manor.

For example, someone hangs some paintings for decoration in a villa, and suddenly the people and objects in those paintings seem to come alive, saying hello to the people around them.

For another example, a thick fog suddenly appeared in the woods inside the manor. Anyone who entered the thick fog would be lost in the woods and would not come out until the thick fog dissipated.

After these abnormal things happened, there was a lot of commotion in the manor. Everyone thought that the previously missing Monte family had turned into ghosts and were entrenched in the manor. Now the manor has changed owners. As the former owner, the Monte family

He was unwilling to give up the manor, so he came out to cause trouble.

For a time, people in the manor became panicked. Many servants were afraid of continuing to stay in this haunted manor and chose to resign. It also became very difficult to recruit new people, because this incident happened in Beiruk City in just one day.

Word spread within the city that the former Monte Manor, now Belmont Manor, was haunted and had become the hottest topic in the city. People in the employment market were afraid of going to Belmont Manor.

For this reason, Sylvia increased the employment price four times, which made some people forget their timidity and accept the employment. The banquet arrangements were back on track, and those haunted things did not happen again.

This is not because Leo has solved the problem of using the rune magic circle, but Sylvia asked him to stop messing with the rune magic circle for the time being and wait until after the banquet.

Although the small commotion created by Leo caused some adverse reactions, it also had some unexpected effects, that is, he and Sylvia became famous in Beluk City, and also entered the upper class of Beluk City.

In the eyes of society, these dignitaries are also interested in the haunting of Belmont Manor. Some people even boldly guessed that the Leos were actually members of a branch of the Monte family from the name of Belmont Manor, which is somewhat similar to Monte Manor.

It's just a fake name.

This also caused these upper-class dignitaries to become interested in the banquet that would be held at the renovated Belmont Manor, so they contacted Sylvia through senior executives of the Commonwealth Bank, hoping to get an invitation to the banquet.

Originally, Sylvia held a banquet just to invite some neighbors to perform a routine etiquette, and the banquet preparation was just a small banquet. Now because of this accident, the banquet had to be expanded ten times, and the invitation letter also increased from a dozen to ten times.

The number of shares increased to hundreds, so she had to hire two more banquet companies to participate in the organization of the banquet.

According to Leo, what happened to the previous banquet should be done now. There is no need to expand it, and there is no need to pay attention to the powerful people in Beiluk City. Their main purpose here is to help Sylvia get promoted smoothly.

But Sylvia did not agree with Leo's idea, because since they came to this world, the tower wizard's book has become almost like an ordinary book. It is not clear whether the power in this book will be restored.

, it is also unclear whether the space rift opened after restoring strength leads to the world of Velen, so they cannot be sure how long they will stay in this world.

Since the time you will stay in this world is uncertain, you cannot just spend your time doing nothing. You must find something to do, such as exploring the secrets of this world, etc.

However, judging from the time since coming to this world, this world seems to have extremely strict controls and bans on all kinds of knowledge. It is impossible for ordinary people at the bottom and middle class to have access to this knowledge. The only people who have the opportunity to access this knowledge are

Those dignitaries of the upper class, so all the information collected by Leo and Sylvia during this period were information that did not involve the core secrets of the world.

Now that the upper-class dignitaries in Beluk City have taken the initiative to make friends, Sylvia thought that she could not miss this opportunity and used this banquet to penetrate into the upper-class society of this world and prepare for the future.

In this regard, although Leo still felt that it was not necessary, because in his opinion, if he wanted to, he could use other methods to obtain various secrets from the upper-class dignitaries, but he did not argue with Sylvia, but let Xi

Sylvia to do this.

Because the scale of the banquet has expanded, the previous layout also needs to be changed, so the banquet time has to be deduced later. While Leo is busy analyzing the secrets of power in this world, and Sylvia is busy decorating the banquet, the person responsible for

Detective Rand, a policewoman investigating the disappearance of the Monte family, came to the manor again.

"I hope your Excellency will allow me to dig into these places." After Solander was taken to Leo's study, he didn't waste any time. He took out a design drawing of the manor and pointed to several marks marked on the drawing.

The place said.

"Where did you get this drawing?" Leo picked up the design drawing and looked at it. He did not comment on Solander's request, but asked a little seriously.

Solander did not hide anything and said: "This drawing is stored in the archives of the Architects Union. I got it through some connections." After saying that, she paused and continued: "Mont Manor passed by.

After six transformations, this drawing is the last one, and the designer is Rudolf Hans."

Hearing Solander's words, Leo frowned and said, "Who is Rudolf Hans?"

"Don't you know him?" Solander couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then showed a look of surprise and said: "I forgot that you were a foreigner. Your accent was so confusing that I thought you were a local.

Rudolf Hans is known as the greatest architect in the New World. He designed landmark buildings in sixteen countries. He is also the architect of the Otter Federal Parliament Building, the Supreme Court, Liberty Square and other buildings and landmarks.

Designer, he also has a little-known name called Smiling Todd, you should be familiar with this name."

"Smiling Todd? Is it him?" Leo was slightly surprised, because he had seen the name Smiling Todd in some newspapers in the past, and after that, almost every year at the same time, most of the Otter Federation

Some newspapers, large and small, will mention this name, because this name represents terror in the Ott Federation.

Smiling Todd is a mask, one of the most common masks at carnivals in various countries in the New World. Its origin is a long-standing folk legend in the Old World. In that legend, Todd was a very great architect who built the

Some of the greatest buildings in the world have been admired by kings from all over the world and have gained great fame and wealth.

But Todd was not happy because he had a disease since he was a child that made his face as stiff as a stone. He had not smiled since the day he was born.

So he found the gods, hoping that the gods could help him and let him smile. As a result, the gods agreed to his request, but he needed to sacrifice his most precious things.

He thought that his most precious thing was his wealth, so he sacrificed his wealth, but the gods said that this was not the case, so he sacrificed his identity, but it was still not the case. He also sacrificed his wife and children, but still

no.

In the end, he dedicated all his knowledge and talents. This time the gods accepted his dedication and gave him a smile. From then on, Todd became an idiot who only knew how to smile.

However, the smiling Todd mentioned in the newspaper has always been wearing a Todd mask and has never revealed his true face. What he does seems to be affected by the story behind the mask, because he was in his teens when he was a teenager.

Within a year, a total of nearly two thousand people were killed, and all of them were put on smiling Taote masks, and all of their brains were poached.

This incident caused great panic in the Otter Federation society at the time. The Otter Federation Government also set up a special task force for this purpose and provided all resources to investigate the case.

In the end, the case was successfully solved. In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, the official name of the criminal was only the code name, which was Smiling Todd, and the trial and verdict followed special procedures, and no details were announced to the public.

This incident caused a lot of commotion at the time, and the people were extremely dissatisfied with it. Various demonstrations were also held in various parts of the Otter Federation, but in the end the matter was suppressed, because not only the Otter Federal Government, but also the Otter Federation

Both Parliament and the Supreme Court supported the decision not to reveal the smiling Todd's true identity.

Leo questioned: "How do you know he is Smiling Todd? This matter should still be an undisclosed secret, right?"

Solander gave an explanation, saying: "Because the victim of a case I handled before was the survivor of the Smiling Todd case. The reason why Smiling Todd was caught was entirely because of her.
Chapter completed!