Wizard: Surviving in the Steam Age with Points for Demon Hunter

Chapter 107: Chaos, new partner
In a dilapidated house in Idrisu neighborhood.

Different from the neat three-story steeple buildings around, this dilapidated house not only has only two floors, but is also separated from other buildings by one kilometer.

inside the house.

Squeak.

A black lantern protruded from an open door on the ground and rose gradually.

Lacey glanced around before saying in a low voice, "No one, come out."

With that said, she and Carly crawled out of the basement and looked around by the light of the lantern.

Messy and dilapidated wooden furniture, layers of yellow cobwebs illuminated by lanterns, and dissatisfied mice with open eyes hiding in the corners.

"Where is this?" Carly asked a little ashamed.

"I don't know, but according to the direction, this should be somewhere in Idrisu Street, or..."

Lacey brandished a two-handed ax and shattered the nailed wooden window in the room, "Well, have you reached the northern guard tower yet?"

A blush shone in, making the whole room a little brighter.

squeak...

A few mice that just woke up from a deep sleep were illuminated by the light of the red moon.

Almost instantly, the mouse's gray eyes were covered with a layer of red light, its body began to shake violently, and one after another, tiny tentacles emerged from its body.

"Roar--"

"Ashiriel!"

Lacey got a little impatient with their noise, swung the two-handed axe, and the cyan light blade slashed across, causing these newly deformed mice to die miserably.

Carly covered her mouth and looked at the deformed rats that had been divided into two. The tentacles wriggled and struggled, and the red and green slime stained the wooden floor...

"Northern sentry tower, is that far away?"

"Well, go out and have a look."

Lacey walked ahead with a lantern, walked up and down the house, returned to the first floor and frowned, "I didn't find..."

Carly bit her lip and said, "They, disappeared?"

"It should have left through that underground passage in a way we don't know."

"What now?"

Snapped.

Lacey put the lantern in his hand on the table, put away the two-handed axe, and sat casually on a chair that was still in good condition, "Wait, wait until dawn."

Carly looked at the messy scene around her, hesitated for a moment, took out a towel to clean out a clean chair, and sat down.

"Sister Lacey, who do you think they are? They don't look like they are polluted..."

"Who knows?"

Lacey closed her eyes and meditated, "In the city-state, not only mutants kill people, those heretics you Liming talk about, and... um,"

"People who are oppressed to the point of collapse by despair, bewitched, or parasitized and manipulated are all possible."

Carly was stunned for a moment, except for the heretics, the others were not within the teachings of the teachers. It turned out that she had to face not only the heretics...

"Then, why did they..."

"You don't think this world is what you saw before, do you?"

Lacey opened her eyes and looked at her, with the corners of her mouth upturned, "Seeing you now reminds me of Wayne's first mission."

"Wayne?" Carly reacted, "Is he the same as me?"

"They're all just as innocent, haha."

"Yes, is it?"

"Actually, I quite like taking you new investigators on missions." Lacey smiled. "That will make me feel less bad when handling these cases."

Carly lowered her head slightly in embarrassment, "Sorry, I, I will try my best."

"I trust you on this point, just like that kid Wayne has become more reliable now. But..."

"But what?"

"But work is work, don't be affected by the various cases you have read and heard... Remember that you are not anyone else, you are just yourself!"

Lacey's serious look was reflected in Carly's golden eyes, a trace of confusion flashed across her face, is she herself?

After a while, she nodded and said, "I see, Miss Lacey."

"Well, let's rest and ask the Ministry for support after dawn. If Tina is here, those guys will definitely not be allowed to escape tonight."

"Ah, sorry."

"It's not your problem..."

When the room was quiet, Carly curled up on the chair with her hands on her knees, the words just echoed in her mind, be yourself, be yourself, do...

What they didn't know was that, on the roof of a small three-story building a few kilometers away, Melbell stood under the red moon, with a faint silver-white light floating on her body, quietly looking at the dilapidated house.

Under the mysterious pattern mask, there was a strange flash in his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Punish the heresy, let's grow up as soon as possible..."

On the other side of the dilapidated house, it is also the northernmost sentry tower of the Custer city-state, standing on a 30-meter-high city wall made of huge stones.

At this time, dozens of city guards wearing thick armor in the sentry tower were divided into two teams, one team faced outwards, and the other team faced inwards to guard the surrounding safety.

And there are as many as twelve wall lamps hanging on the wall outside the sentry tower, shrouded in the light of dawn, so that they don't have to worry about being polluted by the red moon.

"Captain, it's quite peaceful tonight, why don't you take a rest first?"

"Yes, Captain, you have to prepare a birthday present for little Sally tomorrow morning. We'll see that there will be no problem with you here."

The tall guard captain of the city guard looked at the clock, shook his head and said, "It will be dawn in two hours, forget it, it's the same if I rest after I'm on duty."

The vice-captain laughed and said, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, little Sally has been envious of that doll for a long time."

"What do you say...huh?"

The captain of the guard stared at the black figure in the sentry tower, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, "Be alert!!"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, then took two steps back at the same time and looked around vigilantly, back to back, until then they realized that there was an extra person in the corner.

Hei Ying raised a finger to his mouth, "Shh, your voice is too loud, it's disturbing my little baby."

"Damn it, Roan!" The captain didn't dare to relax in the slightest, and pulled out his sword after shouting, "No matter who you are, if you dare to break into the sentry tower, die!"

As he spoke, he rushed towards the shadow first, followed by the city guards behind him.

And the deputy captain named Luo An ran to the siren by the wall. As long as you press the alarm here, it will be transmitted to the city guard headquarters in the center of the city-state. As long as...

Tear!

The black shadow passed through the crowd, passed the deputy captain in an instant, and stood in front of him.

"what?!"

"That's not acceptable. If I ask you to warn those noble gentlemen, my mission will fail."

Hei Ying held a simple and simple rapier, drew a sword flower, and said with a light smile, "Little babes, they are yours now."

Countless gray worms the size of silkworm chrysalis gushed out from under him and rushed towards the city guards.

When the captain saw these little bugs, his eyes were about to burst, "Be careful!!"

"what--"

After a while, everything calmed down, and the city guards were still on duty diligently, but their eyes had a layer of bloodshot eyes...

……

……

When, when...

The bell of the Crimson Cathedral rang, and Wayne put down the quill, looked at the completed design drawings on the parchment, and smiled.

Since the power of the standard musket of the secret department is too small, let's make two more powerful guns.

With the experience of making mechanical puppets last night, coupled with the knowledge of guns acquired through gun skills, he is very confident in creating a gun that far exceeds the current power.

And these two blueprints are a sniper rifle and a revolver for long-range sniper killing.

Revolvers are much more powerful and effective range than standard muskets.

In order to facilitate loading, Wayne specially designed the revolver to be a few sizes larger, with fifteen rounds of bullets per circle.

According to the trigger value of the death characteristic, one round of shooting is enough for an ordinary captain to trigger the instant death characteristic.

The sniper rifle, like the revolver, also has a few more magazines.

Wei En is not stupid enough to install a scope. With a perception range of nearly two kilometers and strong physical fitness, the effect of seeing distant targets is no less than that of a scope.

Therefore, he put more energy on the design of the rune circle.

That's right,

Wei En got the inspiration from the mechanical puppet, he wanted to add a rune circle to the sniper rifle to increase the performance of the sniper rifle.

At the same time, using the rune circle as the core can also provide more powerful kinetic energy for the sniper rifle.

Of course, he didn't choose a rune like a strong heart. He deliberately found two runes from Jerry's handbook.

One is a haste rune that increases the speed of the bullet, and the other rune mainly increases the power of the bullet - the burst rune.

According to Wei En's vision, as long as he borrows the great power of the sniper rifle to cause damage to the enemy, he can use it to trigger the death feature of other firearms.

Especially monsters like the deep vicious dog.

If it wasn't for the call of the Undead Claw last night that frightened the dark dog, with the extremely long lead time of that spell, it's really hard to say whether it can hit.

But with the sniper rifle, he wouldn't have to worry about it so much.

In addition, due to the size of the revolver, Wei En did not choose to engrave the rune circle on it.

It is only going to modify the standard musket of the Secret Tune Division, and try to keep its ability to use potions as much as possible.

After the completion of these two firearms, he also plans to make another machine gun similar to Gatling to give full play to the characteristics of triggering the death characteristic.

Well, the picture is a bit abrupt...he is a wizard.

If you really want to make a Gatling, you can use it for Type Zero. I believe that it can control that style with its size.

However, this is not without problems. The biggest problem is the ammunition...the round bullets issued by the Secret Adjustment Department are obviously not suitable for new firearms.

Therefore, Wei En specially designed the bullet.

At the same time, in order to avoid trouble, he decided to use the same caliber of bullets for both new guns, and he only needs to take a certain amount of time to replenish the consumption of ammunition in the future.

"Tsk, I hope Type Zero can grow faster, and I can hand over all such work to it in the future."

Really, he belongs to the black-hearted master...

[You have successfully drawn the haste rune.Special reward: survival point +3, spirit level +1. 】

[You successfully drew the burst rune...]

【…】

[Congratulations on obtaining a full-level rune knowledge, your progress in rune proficiency: 12/100.Special reward: Spirit level +1. 】

After spending 20 survival points to increase both runes to full level, he combined the cornerstone (reaper) rune and the spiritual transformation rune to form a rune array suitable for a sniper rifle.

Looking at the blueprint of the newly designed sniper rifle, Wei En nodded in satisfaction.

The length of the gun is 1.5 meters, the barrel is 50 centimeters, and the length of the gun body is nearly 80 centimeters without the handle.

And in order not to attract attention, Wei En deliberately designed the shape of the sniper rifle not so delicate, but more in line with the style of this world.

The body of the gun is covered with gears, pipes, and decorative rivets, giving the gun a much more rugged appearance.

And at the position of the gun body close to the trigger, at the core of the rune circle, he also reserved a node for transmitting the source.

In this way, in subsequent battles, he can use the rune power through the driver, which is also an attempt to add weapons to the Zero in advance.

If this method is feasible, then the external weapons of the mechanical puppet can be integrated into the whole, and it will be more convenient for the driver to operate it.

After finishing these, Wei En checked the remaining materials for making the mechanical puppet.

"Well, the materials are a bit poor."

Especially the Thrall metal used to engrave the rune magic circle, he needs to re-purchase supplements.

"Counting the 10 gold pounds that Claire traded, there are 14 gold pounds and 5 shillings left."

A pound of sal metal costs 18 shillings, and it is expected to consume about 5 pounds, plus other metals and some auxiliary materials...

The cost of making this sniper rifle is 15 gold pounds, which is equivalent to a quarter of the price of a mechanical puppet.

Thinking of this, Wei En took out the blue and white box, and directly exchanged all the gold pounds for the materials for making enlightenment potions.

Although only eighteen potions of enlightenment can be made, if they are all made into perfect potions, they can get nearly 60 gold pounds, which is enough to last for a while.

"Make money and make money!"

Wei En didn't stop for a moment, and started to brew the enlightenment potion, all for the new sniper rifle.

"Oh, you're so hardworking early in the morning, you're really boring~"

The sudden sound made Wayne's hands tremble, and he looked at the slightly deviated characteristic fusion in the crucible, "Ms. Claire, please don't show up suddenly while I'm working."

"Sorry sorry,"

Claire crossed her legs, and sat on the work table watching his movements with interest, "I have to say, you look very charming when you make potions~"

"In your own words..."

Wei En curled his lips, secretly feeling sorry for the loss of two gold pounds. The quality of this bottle of medicine can only reach the excellent level at best.

"You seem to be in a much better mood?"

Claire's smile faltered, obviously thinking about the injury last night, and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "You are really not cute at all."

"It seems that you still remember the injury last night."

"Of course, that nasty old guy, I have to let him know the consequences of provoking me. I've already..."

In the middle of speaking indignantly, Claire stopped abruptly, staring at him with bright eyes, and asked charmingly, "Are you caring about me?"

"..." Wei En looked at her helplessly, "Just pretend I didn't say anything."

Is this concern?I'm just worried.

I was worried that after she died suddenly, no one would be willing to pay 5 gold for a case file.

Yes, it is like that.

"I'm sure, you're not cute at all." Claire snorted, "Have you read that relic?"

"Look..."

Wei En remembered what happened last night, and said angrily: "Where did you get that relic? There are not many Gonzalez languages ​​I know on it."

Not only could the proficient Gonzalez language not be translated, but the contents even attracted the attention of the devil clown.

Not only did he waste his survival points, but he also had to worry about the sudden visit of the devil clown... no, it was a sudden attack.

"Can you understand something?"

"It can only be seen that it is a period of history in the early third era. It was a huge empire called the Turing Empire." "The Turing Empire..."

When Claire heard the name, she murmured to herself and her eyes became brighter, "I knew this relic was not simple!"

"You know this empire?"

"do not know."

Wayne: "..."

Damn, you didn't know and still said so firmly?

"I only know that the relics related to the early third era will not be simple things. There must be a huge treasure hidden on them."

"Treasure?"

"Well, some knowledge that has been lost, or a few pieces of equipment that only exist in legends, etc."

Wayne was somewhat interested in this, but not that interested.No matter how much knowledge there is, is it as comprehensive as the inherited knowledge gained after upgrading Runes and Potions?
As for equipment... Well, it should not compare to those taboo items with unpredictable power.

"You haven't told me where you got this relic from?"

Claire froze for a moment, she didn't expect Wei En's reaction to be so flat.

"Don't worry about it. In short, I guarantee that after you finish the translation, you will gain far more than you imagined, not even much less than me."

"Many extraordinary people in the current era have grown up through this. You don't think that other people can improve their strength through learning like wizards?"

The words sounded familiar.

Oh, I remembered, Marco said something similar before.

Wei En asked suspiciously: "You also need to eat some flesh and blood food with special pollution properties?"

He also thought that the Eternal Life Church would be similar to the Dawn Church, which followed a supernatural system of belief.

"...Don't mention that." A look of disgust flashed across Claire's face, "Those inheritors of extraordinary bloodlines are really disgusting in order to improve their strength."

"Oh, it seems that you have seen it."

"Many in the Eternal Life Society are outstanding figures from various extraordinary families. They are all... hmm? Are you trying to get information from me?"

"Talking but not talking." Wei En kept moving his hands, and poured this bottle of excellent enlightenment potion into the glass bottle.

Seeing his indifferent attitude, Claire licked her lips and said, "Anyway, you will know sooner or later, so let me tell you some common sense in advance. Do you know how the extraordinary bloodline came about?"

how come?

This Wei En really knows that there are many records about the family in the memory of his predecessor.

According to the above, the extraordinary blood of the Loft family was obtained by its founder through a strange ritual circle after he strayed into a ruin.

"Sacrifice ceremony?"

"That's just the process of obtaining extraordinary blood, not the source of power. The real situation is that they all obtained extraordinary blood by fusing flesh and blood with pollution characteristics."

Wei En's eyes flickered, "It's really..."

He had made such speculations before.

The more obvious one is Captain Arianna of the investigation part , whose appearance when using superhuman abilities is totally aberrant.

Well, the transformation effect of Marko's blood of chaos is the same.

"However, most of the extraordinary bloodlines are obtained in the old calendar now. At that time, many people obtained the bloodline abilities inherited from the previous era."

"Old calendar? Last era?"

Claire rarely showed a serious expression on her face, "After the beginning of the old era, there was a period of chaos and disorder before the beginning of the new era, and the last era was also the fourth era."

"In fact, the duration of the Old Calendar is not short, it lasted nearly 1000 years..."

Wei En's eyes narrowed slightly, "1000 years?"

Remember what the clown said last night, 3383 years have passed since the beginning of this era, right?

A simple calculation shows that the duration of the old calendar is even longer than that of the new calendar. The exact number is 1805...

But according to Claire, there are only 1000 years, so what about the remaining 800 years?
"Then how did the new calendar start?"

"New Calendar..."

Claire's eyes flickered, and she changed the topic: "It's a bit far-fetched. In short, the Chaofan family is not as glamorous as they show, but it's just a helpless move for survival."

"..."

Again, the speech is only half spoken.

It's the same thing about the Holy Family of Kali last time.

Wei En slandered endlessly, "Looking at it this way, they are really pitiful."

"Poor? Is that what you think?"

"Ok?"

"Including our Eternal Life Society, there are differences in strength, but they are all just means for survival and inheritance."

"You're right." Wei En didn't want to entangle her with this issue.

Claire gave him a deep look, "I am looking forward to the day you join the Eternal Life Society! Don't eat tonight, I will bring you something to eat."

After speaking, she jumped into the shadows and disappeared.

"Join the Eternal Life Society..."

Forget it, it doesn't sound like a good choice.

Wei En shrugged his shoulders, put the question behind him, and continued to work on making enlightenment potions.

As for what Claire said about bringing food back... just listen, didn't she just dove last night?

Wei En didn't finish making the potion until after nine o'clock. Looking at the perfect enlightenment potion shining on the table, "It seems that the time in the morning is not enough to make a sniper rifle..."

With that said, he put all the potions into the space ring, packed up the workbench, and left the studio.

Wayne still remembered Franta's invitation last time, and he had to attend the small party in Nightmare World at night, and it would not be too late to sell potions by then.

The transformation of the sniper rifle and the revolver will be done after the party comes back.

Not long after, he made some breakfast and went to the attic to wake up Tina who was still sleeping soundly.

"Tina, get up."

The white-haired girl didn't seem to notice that she had changed rooms. After getting up, she honestly washed up, and then quietly ate breakfast with the clown doll.

Wei En also called Miss Zombie who had been hiding in the bedroom and sat at the dining table.

According to his thinking, since living under one roof, it must be tidy.

Looking at the people sitting around the dining table, Wei En laughed at himself thinking about this strange configuration while eating snow mushrooms stewed in butter.

A cute but solitary terrifying calamity species, a demon clown doll that looks harmless but is a terrifying taboo.

And him, the ghost wizard with four original daughters.

Relatively speaking, among the few people here, Miss Zombie, who is an undead creature, looks the most normal...

If you count Claire, who is elusive and elusive, this residence will probably make most people fear.

"Let's go, Sharapova."

Miss Zombie withdrew her eyes from the white-haired girl and bowed slightly: "Goodbye."

So he likes that...

Wei En took Tina out, and just as he locked the door of the residence, he heard an anxious voice behind him.

"Wayne!"

"Uncle Youan, are you back?"

The person who stopped him was Dr. Euan, who had been away for two days. At this time, he asked anxiously: "Don't talk about this yet, let me ask you, where is Carly?"

Since returning to the clinic in the morning, he found that Carly hadn't returned all night, and even the bed was cold.

Wei En thought of noticing that Carly hadn't come back before nightfall last night, so he casually comforted: "Yesterday she went on a mission with Captain Lacey, and maybe she didn't come back in time."

"A mission?"

Youan calmed down a little, and then said dissatisfiedly: "She's just a child, how can she live outside, I'll talk to Yegor later."

"Don't worry, Captain Lacey is very strong and everything will be fine."

What's more, the guardian knight followed her all the time. Sister Carly was really going to be in danger. With Melbell's temperament, there might have been a lot of commotion last night.

"That's not okay, just in case my Carly...not in case."

Youan snorted, and then noticed Tina who was following Wei En, with a slight smile on her face: "Meet you again, is your name Tina?"

"She's a little shy."

Seeing that Tina didn't speak, Wei En explained on her behalf, "I'll see if Sister Carly is here when I get to the Secret Research Department."

"Then please."

"Well, it's almost time. I should go to the Secret Mixing Department."

"Goodbye."

Seeing Wei En and Tina walking away, thinking about the next thing, You An sighed.

I just hope that Carly can stay safe in the secret department...

……

……

"Morning, brother Marco."

Wei En took Tina into the office, and saw Marco with his legs crossed on the desk and looking at the newspaper in his hand.

"morning."

"Aren't Lacey and Carly here yet?"

"We should have to wait," Marco revealed half of his face from under the newspaper and said resentfully: "Wayne, you really shouldn't have abandoned me yesterday..."

puff.

Seeing his bruised face and swollen eyes, Wei En couldn't help laughing.

"Still laughing..."

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't expect Lacey to arrive so soon, let alone you would be there at that time."

Marco put down the newspaper depressedly, looked at Tina who was following Wayne, and said: "If I had known, I would have been nicer to Tina. With the contract, I don't have to go out with this face."

"Huh? How about now..."

"No, no,"

Marco quickly interrupted: "I'm just talking. Although I have a strong recovery ability, I don't need the extraordinary blood, which makes me worry all day long."

Wei En was a little disappointed, thinking he could use this to get rid of the devil clown...

Squeak.

At this time, the door of the office was pushed open.

Wayne and Marco looked at the person coming, saluted and said, "Minister Yegor."

"Did Lacey not come back? It seems that the situation over there is really not optimistic." Yegor glanced around with a cigar in his mouth, and his eyes stopped on Wei En, "Way En."

"Minister, do we need to do anything?" Wei En asked with a change of expression.

"Take Tina to support Lacey and the others. The location is in the northern part of the Idrisu block. They should still be there."

"Ok."

"Also Marco..."

"Ok?"

"Your new partner is here, you have to cooperate with her well." Yegor showed a smile that everyone understood at Marko, and moved away to reveal the person behind him.

Marko saw who was coming, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "... Lydia, are you really here?"

"You said that I would come to the Secret Research Department, and of course I will abide by the agreement."

Lydia stuck out her tongue mischievously, then looked at Wayne and Tina, bowed slightly and gave an elegant greeting to the nobles, "Nice to meet you, I'm Lydia Ernst."

"Wayne, Wayne Loft, her name is Tina."

After Wei En introduced her to the two, he smelled a familiar scent of perfume on her body, and couldn't help but looked at Marco behind him and smiled narrowly.

It turned out to be the lady in the council hall... an acquaintance.

"Okay, that's it for now. We'll talk about other arrangements when Lacey comes back."

After speaking, Yegor left the office lazily.

That's great, a newcomer has arrived in the logistics department, and his strength has grown a lot... Well, it shouldn't be necessary to change people for a long time.

"Marco, why were you beaten like this?"

Lydia put the things on the spot next to Marco and couldn't help laughing at his face.

"that……"

"Have you provoked another lady and been beaten up by their suitors?"

"Of course not," Marco looked at Wayne begging for help, brother.

"Ok?"

Seeing his appearance, Wayne had no choice but to interject, "Marco made a little mistake yesterday, and that's why he wrestled with Captain Lacey."

He didn't mention the city that never sleeps, nor did he make up a random case.

If you really say that, the secret will be exposed when Lacey comes back.

And it is better to attribute the injury to the gladiatorial fight than to say that Lacey used violence to beat Marco...

"Sister Lacey? That's why it happened." Lydia rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "Marco, take me to Natoli Street at noon?"

"Huh? I look like this?"

"Hey, take it as welcome to me to the secret investigation department?"

"do not want!"

"Then I'll tell my brother, you..."

Not to mention the quarrel between the two, Wei En packed his things and took Tina out of the office.

I don't know what kind of trouble Lacey and the others encountered, but they didn't come back after a night...

PS: 800 years is just a beautiful misunderstanding, it doesn't mean anything else, don't think about it...

　Well, I will continue to write in the evening, and I may not be able to publish it, depending on the word count, please don't wait.

　　However, it is certain that the three chapters that are owed will be completed this week.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)