Hearing Bai Lu's rhetorical question, Leo couldn't help but be stunned, with a thoughtful look on his face, as if he was analyzing the connotation of Bai Lu's words.

After learning that Louis X signed a sacrifice contract with the Black Forest to sacrifice seven mountains to the Black Forest as a hunting ground, Leo directly concluded that Louis

expand to other places.

But now from Bai Lu, Leo heard another version. Everything was requested by Louis X, so the signing of the sacrifice contract was worthy of scrutiny.

Why did Louis X take the initiative to sacrifice seven mountains to the Black Forest? What are the benefits of doing so? Two questions came to Leo's mind at this moment.

Allowing the army to pass through the Black Forest smoothly to achieve the purpose of surprise attack on Miria City, destroying the United Kingdom, and reunifying the French Empire. This benefit seems to be in line with the exchange conditions of the contract, but if you think about it carefully, you can feel this

There is a problem inside.

Because from the various actions of the French Empire after it entered the continent of Western France, we can feel that the purpose of the French Empire's invasion of Western France was not to destroy the United Kingdom at all. Otherwise, the French Empire would have used various methods to continuously attack

The defense line of the Dibia Mountains even considered gathering a fleet at the Port of Leon to bypass the Dibia Mountains from the sea.

But it has been almost half a year since the French Empire's army entered Miria City. What they did more was to clear out the United Kingdom's forces in Miria City and block the United Kingdom's army to the south of the Dibia Mountains.

On the other hand, there was no move at all to increase troops and go south. It can be seen that this surprise attack by the French Empire was not directed at the United Kingdom at all.

Since there is no intention to destroy the United Kingdom and unify the original territory of the French Empire, the benefits obtained by Louis X in exchange for the seven mountains as a condition of the sacrifice contract will definitely not allow the army to pass through the Black Forest smoothly. This benefit is only incidental.

That's all, there should be other benefits that would make Louis X more excited.

At this time, Leo carefully recalled all his experiences after returning to Velen. The white deer on the side saw Leo thinking about something and did not disturb him. Instead, he turned his attention to the movements above the refugee camp.

Although he showed confidence in front of Leo just now, he was actually a little uneasy in his heart. After all, the God of Darkness was so powerful in the past, and even the golden giant deer did not have enough ability to suppress the other party. Such a powerful existence could not help him.

He has no idea whether the backhand of the resurrection arrangement will be destroyed by him. So at this moment, he is already prepared. If something goes wrong over there, he will risk using some power that should not be used to completely solve the darkness.

god.

A burst of invisible spiritual energy fluctuations, like a painful roar emitted by spiritual energy, came out from the black shadow. A smile appeared on Bailu's face, and Leo was also moved by this spiritual roar that ordinary people could not hear.

I woke up from deep thought.

At the same time, some of the Black Forest Familia and monsters controlled by the Divine Familia on the periphery seemed to have received a charge order, ignoring the traps set by Leo, and rushed towards the camp like crazy.

It's a pity that Leo's trap circle has become more perfect after being repaired. If he tentatively infiltrated from one direction step by step, he might still have a chance to break through the trap circle, but now he is irrationally infiltrating from all directions of the trap circle.

They attacked at the same time, leaving only corpses on the ground and a large number of crazy monsters controlled by riot runes.

When half of Leo's attention was still focused on the problem in his mind, and the other half of his attention fell on the dead monsters at the bottom of the black forest, he seemed to have been inspired by something, and an idea immediately appeared in his mind.

I made a guess that the real benefit of Louis X's signing of the contract was actually the seven mountains.

Although judging from the sacrificial contract, Louis X seems to have sold the seven mountains and ceded them to the Black Forest, in fact the control of these mountains is still in the hands of Louis X. These mountains are both the Black Forest clan and the Black Forest.

A hunting ground for monsters, but if you look at it from another perspective, it might as well be a hunting ground for Louis X.

Most of the French Empire's industries were located in the West Francia region centered on Ceylon, which was the area controlled by the United Kingdom. When Philip declared the independence of the United Kingdom, the industry of the French Empire could be said to have completely collapsed.

Without industrial support, no machinery can operate. Not to mention Louis

difficulty.

Although the previous inventory can still support the French Empire for a period of time, this period of time is definitely not long. It has almost reached its limit in five or six years. This may be why after the United Kingdom declared independence, there was only one relationship between the United Kingdom and the French Empire.

There were some local skirmishes, but there was never a large-scale legion war.

Obviously, the collapsed industrial base of the French Empire is no longer able to support a large-scale war. The United Kingdom has seen this and is probably preparing to wait until the French Empire reaches its lowest point before taking action to completely eliminate it.

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The leaders of both sides have obviously seen this, but one with strong capital chooses to wait, while the other who has been forced to a dead end chooses to change. In this way, the French Empire will study artificial dependents and work closely with some dark world forces.

It makes sense to cooperate in the research of various extraordinary powers, and to study forbidden medical techniques with some crazy doctors from the medical school, because these methods can undoubtedly increase the strength of the French Empire several times, or even dozens of times, in a short period of time.

However, perfecting and implementing these methods involving supernatural powers requires a lot of experiments, which corresponds to a massive amount of experimental materials. In addition, creating artificial Familia also requires the organs and high-energy substances of some real Familia and even mythical creatures. In this way, Louis

The contract signed between the Tenth Life and the Black Forest is extremely crucial.

Now that the seven mountain ranges have become hunting grounds, the monsters and families of the Black Forest can naturally enter these mountains to hunt prey, and these hunters will also be treated as prey, and their valuable parts will be harvested, just like Lei

Just like what Ou did before.

As a result, the benefits that the Western Continent, which only has the Dibia Mountains as a hunting ground, can gain from it, are certainly far from being comparable to those of the French Empire in the Eastern Continent. With the support of a steady stream of experimental materials, it will soon be possible to

The Lan Empire was able to establish a clan army composed entirely of supernatural forces.

Such a clan force with various psychic talents may not necessarily be able to defeat ordinary armies with a large number of firearms and weapons on a frontal battlefield, but if such a force abandons all bottom lines, sneaks into the rear, and engages in assassination, sabotage, etc.

, then it can definitely cause devastating damage to the United Kingdom.

One takes the industrial route to strengthen the people and the army, and the other takes the mysterious route to strengthen the people. Leo is not sure which of the two will eventually become the founder of the New France Empire.

However, after understanding the reason why the French Empire signed the contract, Leo couldn't help but wonder what benefits the Black Forest would gain from it. Is it just to allow the families and monsters of the Black Forest to enter the seven mountains? Leo didn't think so.

The Black Forest will take a fancy to these, and the Black Forest must have other purposes.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but turn his head and look at Bai Lu beside him. It was obvious that Bai Lu, who controlled all the contracts in the Black Forest, must know the purpose of signing this contract in the Black Forest, but he didn't want to ask because he felt

Knowing too much, being too clear may not be a good thing.

"Mortal, have you figured out the questions in your mind?" Bailu felt Leo's gaze, turned to look at Leo, and said.

"I really want to understand a lot of things." Leo nodded, but then said: "But the more things I want to understand, the more questions I have in my heart."

Bai Lu lowered his head and came to Leo and said, "Do you need me to answer it for you?"

Leo shook his head and truthfully stated what he was thinking, "No need, I don't want to know too clearly. Knowing too much about some things is not necessarily a good thing."

Leo's words surprised Bai Lu, and he looked at Leo with admiration and said: "There are fewer and fewer people who can see yourself and the situation clearly like you. Although it is a bit boring,

But you can also live longer.”

At this time, another desperate psychic roar came from the black shadow, and then a cyan fluorescent light was seen coming out of the black shadow, completely tearing the black shadow apart and falling into the refugee camp.

At the same time, the star shadows outside the black shadow instantly wrapped the black shadow, getting in through the irreparable cracks and quickly infiltrating.

The desperate psychic back-up sounds continued to come out, and became weaker and weaker. The surrounding Black Forest Familia and monsters who were still attacking the trap defense circle all stopped their crazy actions, and then fled to Dibi in unison.

In the sub-fairyland, he no longer paid attention to the black shadow's psychic cries for help.

As the last extremely weak roar came out, the pure black shadow was completely replaced by the shadow of stars. However, when the last trace of black shadow disappeared, a small psychic storm formed there, and created

A small black hole emerged, creating a gap in the shadows of stars surrounding it, and a black shadow emerged from the gap and flew rapidly into the distance.

However, the white deer that had been prepared for a long time raised its head, and the antlers on its head instantly burst out with a bright light, and was about to shine towards the black shadow fleeing into the distance, but an unexpected sight made him stop casting the spell he had prepared.

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As if attracted by some invisible force, the black shadow that was escaping far away turned around in the air and flew towards Leo and the others quickly, like a moth flying into the flames.

But when he was about to hit the white deer, he circled in the air and directly hit Leo, who was blocked by the huge body of the white deer.

Leo, who had no time to defend himself, could only watch the black shadow penetrate into his body, and then he felt a powerful will trying to impact his will. However, this will that was already extremely powerful for ordinary people faced Lei

The will of the European ninth-level psyker was like stabbing a huge city wall hundreds of meters high and dozens of meters thick with a spear, without any impact at all.

Then, Leo's gluttony power appeared automatically and swept through his body. An unprecedented feeling of fullness came from the chaotic stomach, and various powers in his body also increased at this time, but the spiritual

Ability, gluttony power and nightmare power only increased a small part, but the shadow power increased more than ten times a few days after its creation, instantly reaching the bottom equivalent to the fourth-level psychic power, and Leo felt the shadow

There seems to be an extra power core in the power, just like the energy source on the mecha.

Leo's attention was all focused on the changes in his body at the moment. He did not notice that when the power in his body changed, some abnormal scenes also appeared in his whole body. For example, a black shadow completely wrapped his body, making him and his surroundings

The darkness blends into one, and anyone who sees him will unconsciously ignore it.

"Mortal, are you also a divine dependent of the God of Darkness?" This abnormal sight also fell into Bai Lu's eyes. Seeing this scene, Bai Lu's eyes revealed a strong murderous intention without concealment, but this murderous intention was very strong.

He quickly retreated, replaced by a look of confusion, and said to himself: "No, he is not that guy's divine family, but why did the final divine consciousness choose him? Where is the power of shadow in him?

Is he here? Does he have any other secrets that I haven’t discovered yet?”

The strong curiosity made Bai Lu couldn't help but want to use some drastic methods to find the secrets inside Leo's body, but at this time, he suddenly seemed to hear something, and a pair of deer ears that had always been drooping stood up.

, and turned his head to look in the direction of the black forest.

Then, he lowered his head reluctantly, then glanced at Leo with great regret, then walked elegantly towards the direction of the black forest, his body gradually disappearing and disappearing.

At this time, Leo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The twins in his hands changed from the sacrificial knife mode back to the glove mode, and several witchcraft formed by invoking the power of nightmare were also released again.

In fact, while Bai Lu was talking to himself, Leo's attention had already shifted from the changes inside his body to the outside, and he immediately felt Bai Lu's curious and obviously malicious eyes.

The moment he felt that Bai Lu had ill intentions towards him, Leo made a move to prepare for a counterattack. If Bai Lu didn't retreat in the end, he would use all his strength and means to immobilize Bai Lu's body.

Then within a second or two, he would use the sacrificial knife to sacrifice the white deer to the Lord of Turbidity and Ethereality, even if what he did would offend the one in the Black Forest.

Leo was also a little surprised by Bai Lu's sudden departure. Although Leo did not open his eyes, he was still able to detect Bai Lu's movements through his five extraordinary senses. Now analysis seems that Bai Lu was summoned back, and he could summon
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