"What is this?" Leo looked at the thing in his hand, frowned, and said to himself.

After returning to the hotel room from the museum, Leo freshened up a little before opening the box that Dawson Quavain gave him.

However, what was inside the box puzzled him, because it contained just a very ordinary-looking stone carving. Judging from the style of the stone carving, the animal face, plant patterns, fire and rain symbols and other features all showed that it came from

A tribe in the wilderness.

Leo remembered that the shamanism in the Moissan continent was a belief in natural gods. There were as many gods as there were species in nature.

Among the tribes in the wilderness of Moissan continent, the most worshipful ones are plant gods and animal gods. All children born will regard a plant or animal as a protective god and serve them for life, so they usually regard their protective gods as

Carve it into a statue or carry it with you as an accessory.

This is not a very big stone sculpture at the moment. It looks like a statue of some kind of tribal protector. But if you take a closer look, you can find something wrong, because there are no shamanic spiritual runes on this statue.

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Although not every tribe’s protective god statue needs the spiritual runes of the shaman, the stone carving of a god statue worn like this must have spiritual runes.

Because according to the traditional thinking of the tribes in the Moissan continent, nature is not only filled with nature protectors, but also with various evil spirits. If the statue of the god you wear does not have spiritual runes, the evil spirits may occupy the statue, and then

It causes harm to the owner of the idol, so spiritual runes are not only used to attract natural gods, but are also used to defend against evil spirits.

And another thing that puzzled Leo was the animal face of this protective stone sculpture. He had never seen it before, and there was no corresponding animal.

Scholars from the Kingdom of England are very obsessed with the primitive civilization of the Mosang continent. Many of them even advocate shamanism and conduct systematic research on shamanism. Among them, they also have a deep understanding of things such as tribal nature protectors, which are closely related to shamanism.

Research has resulted in the publication of more than 30 books, and the pictures and texts of the nature protector statues, animal faces, plant patterns, etc. are all recorded in detail.

Among them, there are the most records of animal mask patterns on statues, reaching more than 3,900 kinds, covering almost all wilderness tribes that have been discovered.

However, among those records of animal mask patterns, there is no animal mask pattern on this stone sculpture, and the carving technique of the animal mask pattern on this stone sculpture is different from the traditional carving technique of animal mask patterns.

The traditional animal mask pattern is to use a special flat knife to carve the animal's face through the chisel marks of the flat knife. The number of knives used for each animal mask is different. The simplest one is the one-knife pattern, which represents a kind of fish in the wilderness.

category, and the most complex one is the thirty-seven knife pattern, which represents a very ferocious beast in the wilderness.

But on the statue that Leo saw now, sixty-nine swords were used to carve the beast's face, and the various features on this beast's face were also different from other animal face patterns, and seemed to be a brand new one.

Animal facial pattern system.

However, when Dawson Kuifan handed the thing to Leo, he told Leo that it could come in handy when he went to the wasteland, which made Leo feel a little puzzled.

It would be fine if Dawson Kuifan knew nothing about Leo. After all, the wilderness of Moissan Continent is definitely a dangerous area recognized by the world, and it is no worse than the Black Forest.

But the problem is that Dawson knows very well who Leo is, and even thinks that Leo is a tower wizard. But even so, he still thinks that Leo will be in danger when he goes to the wasteland, and he leaves it to Leo, a man without any mysterious power.

It is like a portable stone sculpture as a token, which means that in Dawson's heart, this stone sculpture is really useful to him.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Just when Leo was wondering what the purpose of this statue was, someone knocked on the hotel door. Leo sensed the outside through the spiritual network. After knowing who was coming,

With a slight smile on his face, he walked over, opened the door, and said to the people outside the house: "You arrived earlier than I expected."

"I came by airship." After seeing Leo, Sylvia also showed a smile on her face, and stepped forward to hug Leo, appearing very intimate, and then walked into Lei's room casually.

In Ou's room, he put his clothes on the chair beside him, picked up the cup and wine from the wine cabinet and poured himself a glass, as if he were at home.

Leo didn't resent Sylvia's approach to intimacy. He walked up to Sylvia, took the wine glass that was handed to him, and asked, "Have airships become practical now?"

"Of course not, this airship is the one you took when you came here, but now I have bought it." Sylvia shrugged and said: "Although it took some effort, it went smoothly.

Before leaving, the airship will be temporarily used by me. After leaving, it will be handed over to the Church of the King of the Hill."

Leo didn't ask how Sylvia bought the airship. He thought that some means must have been used, and it seemed that the Church of the King of the Hill was also involved.

However, it is not difficult to imagine that airships represent tools that are comparable to, or even far beyond, steam trains. Whoever masters airships will master the next era.

Leo drank the wine in his glass and said, "The world is changing."

"I know." Sylvia was silent for a moment, nodded, and said: "A lot of things have happened recently. Many of the monitored family members suddenly lost control. I and other witches can also feel the rapid growth and change of power.

If I didn't have to clean up the out-of-control Familiar clan and get familiar with the current power, I might be able to come here faster. That guy Selan was ready to come with me, but that guy couldn't control the flames in his body at all and kept burning...

"

"You don't know, the world is changing, and the changes you see are just small changes," Leo shook his head, interrupted Sylvia, and said, "And the changes I'm talking about are huge changes.

, For example, the gods are returning, and it won’t be long before the church regains the rights they have lost over the years. Another example is that there are other things coming to the world with the gods, and these things may completely change the price of civilization in this world.”

"Other things?" Sylvia frowned and asked, "Are you talking about the evil god?"

"No, or it's not just." Leo was silent for a moment and said, "Maybe it's something more unimaginable. Those things may come from the abyss, or they may come from other places."

The look on Sylvia's face also became a little serious. Although the abyss is the origin of witches, they have an instinctive aversion to the abyss.

Although Leo's words sounded alarmist and seemed to be groundless, Sylvia chose to believe Leo's words and did not ask how Leo came to this conclusion, because at least among the changes Leo mentioned

, the return of the gods has already occurred.

"The civil war in Maris will be over soon." Sylvia suddenly said an incomprehensible sentence, and then got to the point and said: "This is the decision of the King of the Hill.

Before I came here, the King of the Hill issued an extremely clear oracle to the Pope of the Church to stop the civil war in Maris and rebuild the Knights of the Helm."

The news revealed by Sylvia also surprised Leo. He was not surprised that the church intervened in the civil war in the Kingdom of Maris, but he was a little surprised that the King of the Hill issued an oracle to rebuild the Knights of the Helm.

In the past, because the church interfered with secular affairs, it created armed forces within the church to deal with various duties and functions. Among them were ordinary Christian warrior groups and more sophisticated knights. However, in the church there were only

A knighthood will be named after the Holy Knight, and that is a knighthood dominated by Paladins.

The Hill King's Knights of the Helm are definitely one of the best among the paladin orders in various churches in the world of Velen, and unlike the paladin orders of other churches, the Knights of the Helm are not a standing order.

In normal times, the Knights of the Helm will be disbanded, and all paladins will hold different positions in other church armed forces. Only when major events occur in the Church of the King of the Hill will the Knights of the Helm be formed.

In the history of the Church of the Hill King, the Knights of the Helm have only been reorganized eleven times, and each time was a life-and-death event for the Church of the Hill King. Now that the Church of the Hill King has reorganized the Knights of the Helm, then this

This means that big things are going to happen in the Maris Kingdom or the entire Minsk continent in the near future.

"Where is your witch group?" Leo couldn't help but ask: "What do your witch group plan to do?"

"The one from the north has already sent out an invitation, hoping that the witch group can go to Daliat," Sylvia curled her lips and said, "However, Saran is still considering it."

"Because of the grudge with the guy in the north?" Leo asked.

"No." Sylvia shook her head, rolled her eyes at Leo, and said: "She is the one who chooses the king, and she is not that small-minded. The main reason she considers is the Asheli Forest. If there is no way to control the Asheli Forest,

If the entrance is moved to the north, then she must stay here, which is the duty of the gatekeeper."

"Given her relationship with the Church of the Hill King, there shouldn't be any problems." Leo added.

"That's not necessarily true." Sylvia denied Leo's painting again and said: "The person who received the oracle is Archbishop Sith of the Iron Thorn. He is the leader of the original doctrine sect in the King of the Hill sect, and Saran's

The relationship is not good at all, that is, because he is currently in charge of the Church of the Hill King, and he is also the most likely person to become the next pope, so the Witches are considering moving north." As she spoke, she seemed to

Not wanting to mention this matter more, he changed the subject and said, "You said before that you encountered some interesting things on the road. Could it be that it was from those interesting things that you discovered how the world has changed?"

"Yes." Leo nodded. He did not ask about the internal affairs of the witch group. Instead, he followed Sylvia's words and briefly told what happened on his way to Moonlight City.

Although Sylvia also guessed that Leo must have encountered a lot of things, she was still a little surprised after listening to Leo's narration.

Because whether it is the promotion ceremony of the demigods on the top of the snow mountain or the action of the Lord of the Creation and Destruction of All Things, every event is enough to cause a sensation in the entire dark world, and the discovery of the Eye of True Artificial Familia in Kusteel City is even more possible

It involves a big conspiracy being carried out by certain schools of thought in the medical school, which makes Sylvia feel a little numb.

"Damn, damn!" Sylvia suddenly thought of something, cursed repeatedly, walked back and forth in the room, and said angrily: "I knew it, I knew that guy Lawrence was not well-intentioned, damn, he must be with

There is collusion between that school of life." As she said this, she suddenly stopped and said with a worried look on her face: "If this is true, then Misha Town will be over."

"Misha Town?" Leo suddenly heard an unfamiliar name, thought for a moment, and said, "Is it Misha Town in the southern corner of Bowang?"

"Yes." Sylvia gradually calmed down and told Leo about Misa Town without waiting for Leo to ask.

Misa Town is actually just a small town on the edge of a small promontory at the southern end of Velen Continent. This town is famous in France for catching a delicious silver fish. In addition, its scenery of the sea and the moon is also very famous.

However, under the influence of a strange disease that swept through the entire town, the town was completely isolated from the rest of the world. Even though the strange disease had passed, the people in the town had physical deformities due to the illness, which increasingly made outsiders afraid to

It is getting closer, and the number of people in the town is getting smaller and smaller. According to the latest statistics, there are only less than 20 households.

However, before Sylvia came to the mainland of Minsk, the town was reactivated because a large number of Miliya refugees poured into the United Kingdom of France, and many of these refugees were sick and could not

To determine whether it was a plague, in order to resettle these refugees, the blood wizard Lawrence proposed to resettle all these people in Misha Town, and invited the life school of the medical school to assist him in treating these people.

When Sylvia left, there were already about 5,000 sick Miliya refugees settled in Misha Town, and the people in charge of treatment were the Life School of the Medical School.

Compared to Leo, Sylvia definitely had more information channels. After Leo mentioned the incident in Kuangang City, she knew that a medical school was behind the trouble, and she could easily find the source.

Moreover, she also thought of some of the past actions of the blood wizard Lawrence, and she had already made a judgment on the current situation in Mixa Town without much thought.

As for Leo, after listening to Sylvia's narration, he couldn't help but recall the blood wizard Lawrence he met in the ruined city of Miria after returning to the world of Velen.
Chapter completed!