When he discovered the unique psychic reaction of that family, Leo couldn't help but wonder if this family might be the reason why these dependents were spying on the fleeing team. So just now when he was strengthening the witchcraft on this family,

He also paid special attention to the reaction of the web spinner.

Although the web spinner was still dissatisfied with Leo's casting of spells on these refugees as yesterday, he had no other abnormal reactions and seemed to have acquiesced in Leo's inappropriate behavior.

Leo, who couldn't find anything unusual, couldn't help but ask the web weavers: "What's special about these people? Why are they being targeted by the Familia? Why are you web weavers so nervous about these people, and you don't hesitate to come down and follow them all the way?"

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Although Leo asked these questions to the web weaver, he did not expect to get answers from the web weaver at all. He was more asking himself.

However, what was surprising was that the eldest web weaver said: "Contract...contract..."

"Contract?" Leo couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this word, because the word was not in French, but in Gugamore.

In French and other languages ​​around the world today, the word "contract" mostly refers to business agreements made between humans. However, in the ancient Gamore language, contract has only one meaning, which is the agreement between humans and gods.

An agreement, and this agreement usually refers to a sacrifice agreement.

When Rembrandt first taught Leogamore, he devoted more than an hour to explaining the word contract, and the content of the explanation was enough to make up an interpretation book.

In the age of gods, sacrifice is a very serious matter. Belief in a certain god does not mean that you can directly make sacrifices to this god. Before making sacrifices, humans must first make a contract with the gods or their dependents, so that the gods will

Accept the sacrificial offerings, otherwise, even if the most devout believer makes such a non-contractual sacrifice, it is just a blasphemous act.

However, with the end of the age of gods, there have been fewer and fewer appearances of gods, and formal sacrificial rituals have gradually been lost. With the continuous improvement of religious rules, codes, and church structures, bloody sacrifices have been abolished as cult rituals.

Normal sacrifice is more of a formal ritual, which ultimately makes the sacrifice contract completely disappear from religion.

Now among the various religions in the Orthodox Church, whether it is the Church of the Lord of the Sky, the Church of the King of the Hill, which can still get responses from the gods, or the small churches that can no longer get any response from the gods, they no longer need to make a sacrifice contract.

Any believer or non-believer can perform a sacrificial ceremony recognized by the Orthodox Church without the presence of any church member.

Now that the Web Weaver has re-mentioned this ancient ritual that has been forgotten by the world of Velen, Leo doesn't think it is just a casual comment. It may represent some kind of sign, such as the return of the age of gods, because the sacrifice contract can be said to be the age of gods.

One of the most striking signs.

Thinking of the questions he asked, Leo couldn't help but connect the sacrifice contract with these things in his mind, and thought to himself: "Could it be that these people were used as sacrifices?"

But after making a guess, he shook his head slightly and said to himself: "No, it shouldn't be like this. It's not as simple as a sacrifice."

In the age of mythology, just as humans and gods must sign strict contracts before they can make sacrifices, there are also very strict regulations on the sacrifices. You can't just find something and put it on the altar and sacrifice it.

For example, the current escape team of more than a thousand people did not meet the standards of sacrifices in the mythical era, so Leo felt that they might not be sacrifices, or not part of the sacrifices.

Compared to the valley with a wide view, the forest shaded by dense giant sequoias gets dark faster. The refugees have just set up camp and heated up some food. The hunters have not yet had time to set out to clean up the dangerous beasts around the camp.

The surroundings were completely plunged into darkness, with only the sky above our heads still glowing slightly.

Seeing this situation, the hunters who originally knew that the hunting operations of surrounding beasts had also been cancelled, because they knew very well how dangerous the forest would be after dark. However, they did not do nothing. Under the command of these experienced hunters,

Next, people in the entire camp became active, strengthening the fence defenses around the camp, and also lit a lot of bonfires to drive away wild beasts. They also arranged some less deadly but loud enough noise in many places.

trap.

At the same time, Leo did not sit still and think about the true meaning of the contract mentioned by the web weaver. Although he also tried to ask the web weaver for a more specific answer, the web weaver did not say another word. Obviously, the contract was

The words already contained everything they could answer.

After asking to no avail, Leo turned to preparations for possible battles in the future, such as making some alchemical potions.

In the Dibia Mountains, there are many plants that can be used as medicinal materials. Leo collected a lot along the way, enough to make more than a dozen bottles of alchemical potions with different functions.

Among the potions made by Leo, in addition to the most familiar healing potions, the two most refined ones are the two demon hunter potions that require the assistance of nightmare power to be successfully refined. One potion is called Patri's elixir, and the other is

A potion called Cat.

The effect of the cat potion is very similar to a potion called dark vision in the wizard potion of Velen World. After drinking it, you can gain night vision.

Although Leo can ignore the darkness by using his spiritual vision and spiritual net, once there is a fierce battle, every ounce of his spiritual energy is very precious and may even determine life or death, so he can reduce unnecessary spiritual energy.

Consumption is very important.

However, I don’t know if it’s because of the extra effects of the power of nightmare, or if it’s because of the medicinal effects of local herbs. In short, after the demon hunter’s cat potion was refined in the Velen world, it produced some unexpected effects.

Mutations.

The cat potion that originally only brought night vision ability, in addition to the fixed effect of night vision, also had an effect similar to heat-sensing vision, but this heat-sensing vision did not target body temperature, but blood.

After Leo refined a bottle of cat potion and tried the effect after taking it, he found that not only could his eyes clearly see anything in the dark, but even those in the dark were completely within his sight.

Among them, these people all appear in the form of reticular blood vessels.

Through the extraordinary vision given by the cat potion, Leo can clearly see every detail of the blood vessels on any living creature, the speed and direction of blood flow in the blood vessels, and can even judge the psychological activities of others at the moment through the contraction of blood vessels.

In addition, when trying the effects of the cat potion, he also had some unexpected gains, such as seeing some lurking monsters in the forest that even the spiritual network had not discovered before, and the number of them surprised him.

When the escape team started to camp on this small hill, Leo had already used his mental net to scan the surroundings, discovered some hidden Familia, and frightened them away. Originally, he thought that the area around the camp should be safe.

Unexpectedly, after looking through it with the special vision given by the cat potion, he discovered that there were more than fifty monsters of different shapes hiding in the surrounding forest, one of which was less than three meters away from the camp.

, there were several people walking past it just now.

Judging from the shape of the blood vessel network, these monsters are all beast-like, but what is different from different beasts is that they have some more organs than normal beasts, such as an extra pair of lower limbs, an extra head, or

Eyeballs, etc.

But in addition to these beast-like monsters, there are also some monsters that have no normal shape at all. For example, the monster closest to the camp is like some kind of flat plant covering the ground. When it is a few centimeters away from the ground

It is suspended in the air, and a large number of root-like tentacles grow below, which can help this weird shape move quickly and smoothly on the ground.

This monster seemed to be particularly sensitive to sight. When Leo's sight fell on it, it immediately noticed it and moved its body close to the ground quickly towards the depths of the forest. When it moved, Leo noticed it.

Another physical characteristic of it is division and recombination.

If it encounters an obstacle like a tree in front of the movement, it will not go around to the side. Instead, at the moment it is about to touch the trunk, its body will naturally split apart, pass by both sides of the trunk, and then move on the other side.

One side regroups completely ignoring obstacles.

If Leo hadn't been able to clearly see the distribution of blood vessels on the monster's body, he might have mistaken it for a symbiote composed of countless tiny individuals.

In addition to seeing some monsters that he had never seen before or seen in books, Leo also recognized a familiar figure from the obvious blood vessel distribution characteristics of these monsters, and the appearance of this figure also

This gave Leo different associations and guesses about the meaning of the contract mentioned by the web spinner.

The body of a black panther, the limbs made of chicken feet, and the head of a parrot. Such obvious physical features are difficult for Leo to forget, not to mention this is the first time Leo has seen it since he came to this world.

It is a living mythical monster, and of course it has a profound impression on it.

Mogandi is the name of this monster. It likes to eat the hearts of prey and is good at invisibility. The more important point is that this monster has disappeared from the outside world and only partially survives in the black forest.

But now, this kind of monster that only exists in the Black Forest has appeared in places outside the Black Forest, and there are not just one or two, but more than a dozen, and every one of them is female.

In the books that Leo had seen introducing these mythical monsters, some of Mogandi's living habits were recorded. It was highlighted that this kind of monster is a matriarchal beast race, usually with one female and multiple males. The female goes out to hunt, and the male

They take care of the cubs in the den, so the appearance of this group of Morgandi means that there is a Morgandi orc tribe with a number of nearly a hundred.

If there were such a large group of ferocious Mogandi living in the Dibia Mountains, especially in the mountains that are only two days away from the nearest village, then the surrounding hunter villages would have been killed by these monsters.

There are no more left, and the legend about the heart-eating monster has probably spread throughout the Dibia Mountains.

But among all the rumors about the monsters inhabiting the Dibia Mountains, none of them involve Mogandi. This shows that these Mogandi did not exist in the Dibia Mountains before.

At this time, Leo also thought of the scene when he encountered Mogandi, and also thought of the Black Forest Wonderland, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "Could it be that the subspace of the Black Forest Wonderland has spread to the Dibia Mountains?"

Almost as soon as this conjecture emerged in his mind, Leo shook his head and denied the conjecture, because if the place they were in was really shrouded in a subspace like the Black Forest Wonderland, there would definitely be abnormal psychic energy fluctuations around them.

With Leo's current psychic level, it's impossible not to feel it.

After ruling out the possibility of the Black Forest Wonderland expanding to the Dibia Mountains, the only answer Leo could think of was that the mythical monsters living in the Black Forest had expanded their hunting range to the Dibia Mountains.

The reason why Leo only guessed that the hunting range of these monsters expanded to the Dibia Mountains, rather than that these monsters migrated to the Dibia Mountains, was mainly because these monsters were all psychic creatures.

Based on Leo's understanding of psychic creatures, the survival of any psychic creature cannot be separated from a psychic environment. In places like the Dibia Mountains, no matter how much food there is, for these psychic creatures

They are all like a desert. If these psychic creatures leave the psychic environment where they have lived for a long time and hunt in such a psychic desert for a few days, it may not have any adverse effects on their bodies. However, if they stay in such an environment for a long time,

I'm afraid it will cause irreversible damage and mutations to their bodies.

Leo, who made this guess, also thought of the Sons of the Swamp and other Familia he had seen before. In his opinion, those Familia probably ran out of the Black Forest Wonderland together with these monsters.

"Why?" Leo vaguely captured some clues that could solve the mystery, but these clues were vague, so he used questions and answers in his mind to clarify the clues, and said: "Why hasn't this phenomenon happened before?

?If the monsters in the Black Forest can freely leave the Black Forest to hunt, why were the people who lived around the Black Forest not attacked by these monsters? Why did the web spinner use Guga when asked about things related to these monsters and the Familia?

A contract in Morey language to answer me? What does this have to do with the sacrificial contract between humans and gods..."

As questions were asked in his mind, the ideas in Leo's mind became clearer and clearer. Finally, he found the core key, with a solemn look on his face, and said secretly: "Louis X? Imperial Army"
Chapter completed!