When it comes to outdoor living experience in the world of Velen, Sylvia, who was a well-known adventurer in her early years, obviously has much more experience than Leo. When Leo set up the rune magic circle next to the hut, Sylvia was already there.

A fire was lit in the fireplace, the resting space was cleared, and prey was even caught for dinner in the evening.

"This place is not far from the old part of the Panier Kingdom. Should we go and take a look tomorrow?" While handling the prey, Sylvia suddenly asked Leo.

Leo was startled for a moment and said: "I remember that you seemed to have written a book about the old capital of the Kingdom of Panier. Do you want to see if the things you didn't take away are still there?"

"I have this idea." Sylvia smiled and admitted.

The old capital of the Panier Kingdom was called Cancantotan, which was located deep in the Panier Mountains. It was a stone city built on the mountain. Everyone who saw this city thought it was an architectural miracle.

The reason why the Panier people chose to build a city in the mountains was mainly to defend themselves against colonists and adventurers from other continents. This decision, to a certain extent, made the Panier Kingdom still very powerful even in the war-torn times of the Mosang Continent.

It was so peaceful that even the old capital of Cancantotan became a refuge for various indigenous tribes.

However, as the situation stabilized, the Kingdom of Panier began to have frequent contact with the outside world, and exchanges such as trade and politics increased. However, because the old capital was deep in the mountains and difficult to access, it was not conducive to various exchanges. Therefore, Panier

The kingdom chose to move its capital to the edge of the mountains, closer to Karut in the north. As for the old capital, it was retained as a royal fiefdom.

However, because the geographical location of the old capital is too remote, the Panier people who have begun to enjoy the prosperity of the outside world are naturally unwilling to stay in the old capital, so the population of the old capital gradually decreases. First the young people leave, and then the middle-aged people,

Only some old people stayed here. In the end, all the old people died of old age, and the old capital became a deserted city. No one lived here anymore. A lot of vegetation covered it. When Sylvia went there, there were only

The altar transformed from a hill in the center of the old capital is still not covered by official duties.

It stands to reason that all the valuable things in Panier's old capital have been moved away long ago, and it has been abandoned for so many years. Some of the murals and reliefs mounted on the walls and other slightly valuable things have been dug up and taken away. It is no longer possible.

There is nothing valuable, but when Sylvia went to explore the old capital, she discovered that there was actually another palace hidden near the old capital, and she also found a hidden treasure house in the palace, but the door was blocked.

Protected by some unknown force, she could not open the treasure house door in a short period of time. In addition, she had other things to do at the time, so she did not stay there longer.

This matter was written into her book when she returned to the French Empire. However, she did not write down the method of entering the palace or the location of the treasure house, so most of them read it.

Everyone who has read this book thinks that the so-called palace is just a story she made up to make the expedition legendary.

But then news seemed to spread that an expedition team from the Kingdom of America specializing in ruin excavation seemed to have found the palace that Sylvia mentioned. As for whether they found the hidden treasure house, whether they opened the treasure house and took away the things inside.

It's unknown.

However, it is said that soon after the expedition team returned to the American capital from the old capital of Panier, they prepared a large number of tools for excavation and exploration, and recruited more than thirty veterans to go to the old capital of Panier again.

As a result, there was no news about that expedition team.

Although this incident did not cause much impact in the entire world of Velen at that time, it caused quite a stir in the Kingdom of America. Because several members of the expedition team were the heirs of powerful Americans, the Kingdom of America also sent

The search and rescue team went to the old capital to find the expedition team. In the end, not to mention the expedition team, even the hidden palace mentioned by the expedition team was not found.

For this matter, the Kingdom of America also sent diplomats to find Sylvia, wanting to ask Sylvia about the hidden palace in the old capital of the Kingdom of Panier, but Sylvia was busy with other things.

He ignored the diplomat from the Kingdom of America at all, and the diplomat thought that Sylvia was insulting him, so he left directly, and the matter was settled.

After that, the Kingdom of America also looked for the Kingdom of Panier. After all, it was the old capital of Panier. The Kingdom of Panier should know its former capital better than others. The disappointing result was about the old capital.

All the documents of the old capital were burned down by a fire shortly after the capital was moved. Now all records about the old capital are pieced together from records of shamanism and tribes in surrounding kingdoms. The level of detail is not even as detailed as what Sylvia wrote.

of that book.

After the search was fruitless, the Kingdom of America gave up the search. After the families of the powerful heirs elected new heirs, they did not care so much about the former heirs, and the matter eventually disappeared quickly.

disappear from people's memories.

Going to the old capital of Panier to open the treasure house was not Sylvia's sudden idea. In fact, after she moved to the Mosang continent and settled down, she had thought about going to the old capital of Panier to open the unopened treasure house several times.

She wanted to see what was in there, but there were always some things holding her back, preventing her from making the trip. Now that she was accompanied by Leo, and the location was so good near the old capital, she naturally thought of

about this.

Leo would naturally not object. For him, this trip to the sacred mountain of the tribe in the southern part of the wasteland was completely a trip, and the food issue was only secondary.

Time passed little by little, and the sky soon became dark. The entire forest was completely swallowed up by darkness. Only a little light of the bonfire swayed in the darkness, and this little light was like a magnet, attracting people hidden in the dark forest.

Those moths.

"Aren't you going to test it now?" Sylvia used a knife to cut off a small piece of meat from the prey that was being grilled, tasted it, signaled to Leo that he could eat it, and then looked at the ones that had been arranged not far away.

Rune Magic Array asked.

"It's not time yet," Leo used his spiritual vision to look at the rune magic array he had arranged, looked at the faint light emanating from the runes, and then looked at the eye-catching figures in the dark forest that were emitting energy.

The individual said: "For perfect operation, some sacrifices are needed."

"Sacrifice?" Sylvia was stunned, and then followed Leo's line of sight into the dark forest. Although she couldn't see the mutated monsters hidden in the forest as easily as Leo, she could still

Using other means to sense the location of those monsters, she inserted the knife in her hand into the prey on the grill, and then asked Leo: "Do you want to live or die?"

Seeing Sylvia's eagerness to try, Leo did not stop her and replied: "As long as their hearts are enough."

Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia didn't say anything, stepped into the darkness, and quickly disappeared into a forest.

Then I heard the screams of monsters dying from the woods. At the same time, the energy bodies in Leo's spiritual vision were also rapidly decreasing. Those monsters were powerful enough to cause heavy casualties to hundreds of soldiers.

In front of Sylvia, they were as fragile as some poultry waiting to be slaughtered and died without any resistance.

Ten minutes later, the last energy body in the spiritual vision also dimmed. Not long after, Sylvia was seen dragging more than a dozen blood vessels connected to the heart into the range of the fire. The blood from the monster's body was stuck to it.

It was on her clothes, making her look particularly scary.

Leo took the heart from Sylvia's hand, then used witchcraft to clean up the blood on Sylvia's body, and then placed the hearts into several runes in the magic circle.

At this time, the magic array seemed to be stimulated by the blood of the heart, emitting a blood-red light that could even be seen by the naked eye, and these lights formed a strip of light, linking the heart and the rune magic array together. Originally,

The full heart is also slowly declining.

Seeing this, Leo took out the monster's head that he had cut off before and placed it in the center of the rune magic circle. After placing it, all the surrounding light bands passing through the heart also extended towards the head.

It is injected into the brain in the skull and stimulates the network on the cerebral cortex.

At this moment, the mesh suddenly emitted waves of energy, spreading around like some kind of signal wave. Not long after, Leo saw through his spiritual vision that dozens of people appeared in the distance in unison.

A web-like energy wave.

After these energy waves appeared, they seemed to be transmitting some kind of information, constantly changing the wavelength of the energy waves. However, because the energy waves of the mesh forged by Leo had no way to change the wavelength of the energy waves, they could not give any response. Therefore,

These energy waves that appeared also quickly subsided.

Although the whole process was very short, it was enough for Leo to remember the approximate location where those energy waves appeared, and this situation also confirmed his previous guess that the mutant monster with a mesh could indeed pass through this

network to get in touch and communicate.

As the hearts in the rune magic array began to shrink and decay, the light bands began to dim, and the energy waves emitted by the brain located at the central rune also began to weaken, and no new energy waves appeared in the distance.

Just when Leo thought that the matter was over and was about to go to the nearest energy wave generation point to capture a new mutant monster with a mesh, an energy wave suddenly burst out in the distance to the southwest.

The single wavelength of the wave is similar to the previous energy wave, but there is a huge difference in intensity. This is equivalent to the difference between a small torch and a spotlight. Even because the intensity of the energy wave is too great, the energy wave interferes.

The friction between the energy particles in the normal world produces beams of light that look like lightning, which look very gorgeous when viewed from a distance.

"What is that?" Sylvia naturally saw such an obvious sight, so she asked doubtfully.

"That should be the source." Leo looked at the direction where the energy wave appeared with a solemn expression. Although it looked very close, it was actually separated by several mountains, and such a long distance could still make him

Feeling a powerful energy wave, it is obvious that the source of that energy wave is probably a very powerful existence.

"Did you guess it right? That means those mutated monsters are all puppets, and that is the source of the puppets?" Sylvia's originally relaxed expression became serious as she asked.

"Yeah! If there are no accidents, that should be the source." Leo answered affirmatively, then thought about it and added: "That source is very strong, maybe stronger than the Skeleton Butterfly."

There was a trace of worry in Sylvia's eyes. You must know that the Skeleton Butterfly is a disaster-level mutant monster. Every time it appears, it will bring a series of destruction. Now a monster even more powerful than the Skeleton Butterfly has appeared, and this

Monsters are still hiding in places so close to civilized society, and they are also intelligent and can create intelligent monsters and control intelligent monsters. How can this not make her worry?

"Don't worry so much," Leo seemed to see what Sylvia was thinking, and said with relief: "The reason why the Skeleton Butterfly causes huge disasters every time it appears and is difficult to eliminate is mainly because of its own

The ability makes it have strong survivability and destructive capabilities. In fact, its power is not particularly powerful. And the source of this puppet monster..." As he said, he looked at the dimming light beam in the distance and said: "Although the energy is

In terms of strength, it is much stronger than the Skeleton Butterfly, but it is not beyond the limit of what we can handle. It shouldn't be difficult to deal with him with our methods."

After listening to Leo's words, Sylvia's expression relaxed a little, and then as if she thought of something, she looked towards the distance where the beam of light had almost completely disappeared, frowned slightly, and said: "Then.

It seems to be where the old capital of Panier was."

When Leo heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Isn't this just right? It will save us a detour tomorrow."

As Leo's words fell, the rune magic circle not far away, as well as the heart and head inside, turned into ashes and scattered on the ground the moment the energy wave disappeared.

Leo and Sylvia didn't think about anything else. They returned to the campfire, ate the food being baked on it, then hugged each other, leaned against the fireplace, and fell asleep one after another.

Because Sylvia cleaned up the mutant monsters around them at night, they did not encounter any attacks that night. Until the next morning, a bold carnivore ran in and ate some of the babies born last night.

The barbecue woke the two of them up from their sleep.
Chapter completed!