The dinner did not last too long. Almost everyone talked with Leah Winenstein for a while. Everyone left with a satisfied and happy look on their face, even if Leah Winenstein was not chatting with them.
They talked to each other and agreed to any conditions.
Leo, who was always observing quietly, could clearly feel that when Leah Venestan was talking to other people, her advanced life form energy was radiating out and silently affecting the people he was talking to.
This impact is irreversible and unstoppable.
Among the people attending the banquet, many people had more or less amulets and other strange objects on their bodies, but these things were of no use at all under the influence of higher life forms.
In the universe, it is common for people who have been with higher life forms for a long time to gradually be assimilated by them in terms of thoughts, consciousness and physiological characteristics. People like Leah Venestan actively influence through the levels of life forms.
The practices of lower-level life forms are not common in the universe, because those high-level psychics in the universe do not need the worship of believers, and there is no need to do such useless things.
There is no doubt that these people who are the most outstanding in their respective fields will have a good impression of her after attending the banquet, no matter what attitude they have towards Leah Winenstein, and they will become more fond of her as they attend the banquet.
As the number of visits increases, this goodwill will turn into reverence, eventually strengthening her dominance over all walks of life in Dalyat.
After the dinner, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha were left behind, while Leo left alone and returned to the Ice and Snow Temple.
Leo is not worried about what will happen to Sylvia. Although the influence of Leah Venestan's advanced life form is powerful, it is only for ordinary people, like Sylvia and Tessa Mocha.
Even if people are affected, the impact will not be great, not to mention that the Abyss Demonic Dragon bloodline in Sylvia itself is known for its domineering and frenzied nature. If Leah Winenstein's oppression is too strong, it may be able to make Xi
It is not certain that Sylvia's bloodline will awaken some power.
So after the banquet, when Leah Winenstein asked the two witches to stay, Sylvia did not object. On the contrary, Tessa Moka didn't really want to spend too much time with the Snow Queen, but because of Sylvia
Because of Via, he also stayed.
When I was in the palace, I couldn't help my curiosity and explored the palace built in the mountain through the spiritual network, because after many times of continuous renovation, the palace no longer had the cold feeling of a cave.
, there are braziers everywhere, making the palace very bright, and the hot air in the braziers also passes through special heat channels, which exhausts the thick smoke to the outside and also transports the heat to all parts of the palace.
What's interesting is that unlike important facilities in other places, there are more or less jammers placed in those facilities to prevent others from using witchcraft and other powers in these facilities, but there are none here. Maybe this is
Because the owner here thinks that she is a witch with powerful power.
However, this was very convenient for Leo. His mental network was almost unaffected and he could clearly see all the passages and rooms inside the palace.
Although there are other witches, wizards and families sitting in the palace, they are obviously unable to perceive the existence of special spiritual energy such as the spiritual network. Only with Leah Venistan can Leo converge the spiritual network.
, because advanced life forms that have begun to enter the demigod level, even if the original power is not the cosmic force of spiritual energy, they are more or less able to sense spiritual energy. This is true in some inherently powerful universes in the universe.
This is most obviously reflected in living organisms.
During the day, while Leo used his mental net to scan those special runes, he also inspected the Ice and Snow Temple. Just like he inspected the palace, he also found some things that should have been sealed for a long time and should have been sealed by someone.
The forgotten secret rooms stored some things in those secret rooms, including books and some rare objects, so he planned to take advantage of tonight to visit these places.
After returning to the room previously arranged for them, Leo told his attendants not to disturb him, and locked the door from the inside. After returning to the room, he took off his armor and put on simple clothes.
In fact, Leo was able to slightly control the aura of sin in his body when the airship arrived in Koor. Now, although he cannot completely eliminate the aura of sin, he can lock the aura of sin in his body.
Sylvia didn't know about this, not because Leo didn't want to tell Sylvia and deliberately concealed it, but because he felt that he hadn't completely controlled the aura of sin, so there was no need to say this.
However, now this has become his best disguise, because Leah Venestan knows what will happen after she takes off her armor, and in the empty environment of the Ice Temple and the Daliat Palace
, the noise caused by the full-body armor is enough to disturb anyone, so even if he makes some noise while exploring the secret places in the Ice and Snow Temple and the palace, and attracts the attention of the palace and temple guards, no one will suspect him.
After changing his clothes, Leo directly opened the window on the side of the room facing Delisa City. Before the wind and snow outside entered the house, he got out and landed on the narrow eaves close to the wall.
After closing the window, he quickly climbed downstairs according to the route and foothold he had explored with his sight.
When he climbed to the middle of the church, he moved to a relief stone slab on the right side of the center.
The events recorded on this relief stone tablet clearly showed that Dalyat was expelled from the southern kingdom and entered the northern ice field. Leo found the middle-aged nobleman who was the leader of this relief.
This middle-aged nobleman was the leader of the ancestors at that time. He was once a big nobleman in the Kingdom of Maris. He failed in the political struggle and was framed as treason by his political opponents. In the end, his territory was confiscated and his family was expelled.
However, this middle-aged nobleman did not recover from this. Instead, he led his family and other expelled people to establish the first settlement of the Dalyat ancestors in the northern ice field.
However, the irony is that after the settlement was built, those same exiles betrayed the middle-aged nobleman and killed him along with his family. Not even this person's family identity information was left behind.
The Kingdom of Maris has already cleared the information of this noble family, so that when recording this incident, the noble family is always called after him.
There is an additional protruding torch sculpture on the relief of this nobleman. This was originally used to symbolize the first settlement of the Dialiat ancestors and a beacon of guidance, but now it has been made into a
organ.
Leo pulled the torch a little harder, and the embossed wall shook slightly. Then the embossed panel under the torch moved outward a little, and Leo pulled it out, and the entire embossed panel was pulled out.
A small passage at the back was exposed.
This small passage should be a convenient passage specially designed when it was originally built, so that when the relief board is damaged, you can directly reach the relief board from this passage and replace it.
After Leo climbed into the passage, he closed the relief panel again, then continued to crawl forward for a certain distance and then turned around a pipe with an escalator going down, and arrived at a large secret room below.
This secret room was located right next to the prayer hall of the church. After Leo came to the secret room, he could still hear the sound of the priests of the Ice and Snow Goddess Church performing evening prayers coming from the other side of the wall.
This secret room was originally supposed to be a warehouse, used to store some building materials that might be used to repair some damage to the building.
It's just that the secret room was designed so cleverly, using a mechanism to hide the entrance and exit in the prayer hall, and it was also connected to other secret room warehouses that were used to repair the outer walls. People who later learned about this secret room used it.
In other places, such as collecting some secret and taboo things.
However, the person who used this secret room as a collection room obviously never came back after storing things here. Because this place is not completely sealed, there are some vents connected to it, so the items here are not on the ground.
It was covered with a thick layer of dust. According to Leo's estimation, no one had been here for at least five years.
"Is it him?" Leo thought carefully about the people who had free access to the Ice Temple and the Palace five years ago, and a name immediately came to mind, Modiadi, the one who was executed by Leah Venestan.
Second lover, former palace minister.
He remembered that one of the reasons why Modiadi was executed was the two crimes of greed and bribery. It is said that during the period when he was the palace minister, with the Queen's prestige, he extorted money from big nobles and big businessmen everywhere, and also accepted money from
Some nobles, businessmen and even bribes from foreign powers, etc. All in all, he should have accumulated a large amount of wealth on his hands.
When he was deposed and imprisoned, the Queen specially sent people to search Modiadi's residence and secret residence. In the end, they found a huge amount of wealth equivalent to the total tax revenue of Dialiat for a year, and various valuable items.
There are countless jewelry and works of art.
However, even so, some people still believe that Modiadi's wealth has not been completely discovered. Modiadi should have other secret places, because some items did not appear in the bribery lists provided by some businessmen and nobles.
among the treasures that were searched.
However, this speculation has never been confirmed. The current palace minister Kerry Fao gave up the search after having people carefully search both sides and still could not find Modiadi's other secret residence.
It's over.
Now it seems that Kerry Fao may have made the mistake of hiding under the light. He just asked people to search for Modiadi's secret residence outside, but he didn't know that the place where the other valuables were hidden was right under his nose.
You must know that every day, as long as there is no special reason, Kerry Fao must come to the prayer hall for daily prayers, and this room where various precious items are stored is right next to the prayer hall, which is quite ironic.
Leo didn't think too much. He came to the middle of the room, used his spiritual power to sweep all the dust aside, and then carefully checked the items stored in the room.
Although Modiadi is seen as a sycophant to the outside world, he still regards himself as a scholar and artist, so he has a great interest in collecting all kinds of orphan books and works of art, and those who pay bribes
Nobles, merchants, and foreign powers also followed suit.
Among the belongings found in Modiadi's residences and secret residences, these works of art, books and mysterious objects were missing. Later, some people thought that perhaps Modiadi was disguising himself as an artist and scholar. In fact, he
He only loves money, so he had already turned around and sold those works of art and books for money, otherwise his private property would not have accumulated to such a huge amount as Dialiat's annual tax.
Obviously, judging from what Leo has discovered now, the person who made that judgment should have underestimated Modiadi's persistence in his identity as a scholar and artist, and also underestimated Modiadi's ability to make money.
Leo himself had no interest in those works of art, but he was somewhat curious about the strange objects hidden in the works of art.
He walked to a stack of neatly arranged picture frames, pulled out a one-meter-high picture frame, untied the soft cloth used to block dust, and revealed the picture inside.
This portrait depicts a beautiful and dignified lady. She is wearing the clothes of a lady from the knight period of the Kingdom of Maris. It is simple but still exquisite. Behind the lady, the artist used a special technique to draw a figure hiding in the shadows.
knight in.
After seeing this painting, Leo quickly recognized this painting as one of the most famous paintings in the world of Velen. The name of this painting is Lady Anna and Her Knights.
The theme comes from a folk story, which tells the story of a countess named Anna who had a relationship with the knight in the castle while the count was away at war, and then did some tragic things to maintain the relationship. Knowing that the count
When he came back, he found that everyone in the castle was dead, including the children that Lady Anna gave him, while Lady Anna and the knight were nowhere to be found.
The painting itself is not an outstanding work of art. Choosing some folk themes as the theme of painting is something that various painters often do. It is not a rare thing. What really makes this painting famous in the vinylon world is
The successive owners of this painting all ended in tragedy, and Modiadi was the last owner of this painting, and his fate is well known to everyone.
In the past, people have been trying to find the secret of bad luck in the painting, but they have found nothing. Now, when Leo saw the painting at the first sight, he had already determined the reason why the painting would cause the death of its owner.
Chapter completed!