After the World Tree mark was formed, Leo also tried to become familiar with the World Tree mark just like he was familiar with other mark powers in his family.
At the very beginning, after trying various methods, he found that the mark of the World Tree had no other effect except that it had a strong restraint effect on the power of nightmares. It could not provide him with anything like the crystallized serpent.
This special power cannot provide him with a large amount of knowledge like the Mark of the Webweaver.
Leo doesn't feel any regrets about this. Although this World Tree mark cannot bring him too much power, it can effectively restrain the power of nightmares and help him control this commonly used power more easily.
of.
But during the subsequent journey, he gradually discovered that the World Tree mark seemed to have undergone some changes. The original effect of restraining the power of nightmares still existed, and at the same time, another auxiliary effect was gradually produced, which was to enhance the Eye of Truth.
The effect of imprinting.
Through the improvement of the World Tree's mark, when Leo turned on his spiritual vision and activated the mark of the Eye of Truth, he was able to see the details of the operation of the world's energy and the composition of matter. Although the things he saw were still a bit blurry,
But there are already some clues.
It is precisely because of this that Leo tried to help Tessa Moka improve the World Tree seeds in his body, because he could clearly feel that as the World Tree seeds improved, the various auxiliary abilities he obtained from the mark were getting better and better.
The stronger.
After confirming from Tessa Moka that there was no need to hunt the Guta Beast, Leo followed Sylvia's suggestion and headed to the ruins of the White Deer Tribe.
However, Leo's sled can only seat two people. For this reason, Tessa Moka used her ability to prompt some vine seeds to grow rapidly, and in the process of growing, she adapted the shape to look like a sled.
In the process of making the sled, Tessa Moka did not bypass Mister and Randall, but these two hidden mutants who thought they were well-informed were completely shocked by this scene and couldn't bear it.
He kept calling miracles.
After the sled was compiled, Leo dragged it behind and let Mist and Randall lie in it. Then he spread his psychic wings and took advantage of the strong wind from the north to quickly slide over the snow and move towards the Venoway Mountains.
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Although they had seen the sled move quickly without any power, Mister and Randall still found it extremely incredible to experience such extremely fast movement in person.
The speed of the sled was very fast. It took only one meal to arrive at a high mountain outside the Venoway Mountains. This high mountain seemed to be a landmark. Randall, who specialized in geography, quickly identified this high mountain.
He was recognized and his current location was also clear.
Afterwards, Randall pointed out the location of the site with the White Deer Tribe ruins, and the group continued on the road, and soon they arrived in front of the hill.
It is not entirely correct to say that it is a hill, because from the overall shape, this so-called hill is actually more like the ground arched after a huge object hits the ground. The entire shape is encircling, which just blocks the strong wind blowing from the north.
It also makes this a perfect haven.
In addition, at the impact site, the ground sank, forming a huge lake. The surface of the lake was frozen, but there was still water under the ice. And for unknown reasons, the vegetation here seemed to grow very well, surrounding the hills.
and lakes, and a large forest grew out of it.
Because of the obstruction of the forest, the wind speed has become much smaller, and the vegetation here is also very dense, which is not suitable for sleds to slide quickly. Therefore, after the group came to the outer edge of the forest to the south of the hill, they no longer used sleds and instead pedaled on sleds.
Walking on soft snow.
While walking through the forest, everyone clearly felt that the cold wind had become very light, and the temperature naturally increased a lot.
Tessa Mocha felt that there was a strong vitality here that was not found in other places in the North. Looking at the thriving Northland pine trees around her, she couldn't help but wonder: "The environment here is so good, why doesn't anyone come here to settle? Just because it's here.
It was once the settlement of the White Deer Tribe. Are you going to give up such a good location just to respect the White Deer Tribe?"
"It shouldn't be because this is the settlement of the White Deer Tribe," Mister, who has specialized in studying tribes in the North, immediately answered: "In the North, there are many tribal settlements left by the White Deer Tribe. Now
The Northern Tribes are still living there, so they probably won’t give up here because of the White Deer Tribe.”
"Perhaps it has something to do with the location of this settlement." Randall speculated: "This place is located in the west of the Northland. There are very few forests around it. In the past, it was a black forest swamp. There are very few places suitable for the settlement of the Northland tribes. Counting the most
There are no more than five. If a tribe settles here, it is equivalent to cutting off contact with other northern tribes. Northern tribes all live in groups. A single tribe can never survive in such a cruel environment in the north.
Go down, that’s why no tribe chooses this place as a settlement.”
"Maybe!" Tessa Mocha felt that what Randall said was reasonable, but she always felt that something was wrong. However, she had no intention of getting too interested in this matter, so she did not continue to ask.
The group of people quickly passed through the forest. Although there were a lot of northern creatures in the forest that were hiding from the wind and snow, and there were many ferocious beasts among these creatures, after entering the forest, Tessa Mocha's body radiated something vaguely.
It emits an invisible force that is peaceful and stable, and is transmitted to every tree in the forest through the connections between the trees, soothing the restless creatures in the forest so that these creatures do not regard them as prey.
After passing through the forest, everyone saw a huge lake surrounded by forests. The surface of the lake had formed a thick layer of ice, just like a mirror. You can imagine that if the weather is fine, the surface of the lake will be so smooth.
It can definitely reflect dazzling light, and the ruins of the Bailu tribe are located by the lake, with the hillside behind it.
When they first heard about the ruins of the White Deer Tribe, the scene that came to everyone's mind, including Leo, was probably some simple mud houses, with only tent houses on the ground, some low stone walls, etc.
Wait, anyway, the scenes in my mind are primitive and backward.
However, the Bailu Tribe ruins they saw now surprised Leo and the others, because the ruins looked very much like the buildings of some kind of civilization. The stone houses built against the mountains were uniform, as if they were carved out, with one floor.
The layers are piled up to the mountainside. The solemn temple is located on the top of all the buildings. They are all made of large stones. There is a square in front of the temple. There are some stone pillars erected around the square, but those stone pillars have now collapsed.
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From every aspect, the ruins in front of us look like buildings left over from a high-level civilization, which is completely inconsistent with people's impressions of northern tribes in the past.
"Is this built by the White Deer Tribe?" Tessa Moore had always believed that the Northern Tribe was the same as the uncivilized primitive tribes deep in the wilderness, but now that she saw the scene in front of her, it really subverted her past views.
"It should be." The person who answered Tessa Mocha was not Mist and Randall, but Sylvia. She looked at the ruins in front of her and said: "The White Deer Tribe had a long time ago.
It has unified all the tribes in the North. You must know that the people in the Black Forest in the South were still tribes at that time and did not build a country. If the White Deer Tribe can unify the tribes in the North, it will definitely be able to advance the development of civilization to a high position.
, it is not difficult to build such a building.”
"What happened to the White Deer Tribe?" Leo, who had been silent until now, suddenly asked.
Sylvia didn't think much and answered casually: "The White Deer Tribe was later broken up into various tribes in the North."
"Don't you think it's strange?" Leo frowned and said: "A White Deer tribe that unified the entire Northland should be very powerful, and until now, all the tribes in the Northland regard themselves as White Deer."
The descendants of the Deer Tribe are proud, so the White Deer Tribe should also be very popular among the people. Judging from the buildings here, the civilization of the White Deer Tribe at that time also developed to a very high level, not only surpassing the southern part of Velen Continent, but even other continents.
There are only a handful of ancient civilizations that can compete with it. Such a civilization that is extremely powerful and has no internal disputes should logically establish a country. How could it be redispersed into small tribes? What must have happened in the middle? "
Everyone was stunned when they heard Leo's words, because they had never thought about how the White Deer Tribe was disbanded. They only knew from the documents left behind that there was originally a White Deer in the North that unified the entire North.
tribe, this tribe is the source of the entire northern tribe, and other information. As for the doubts mentioned by Leo, they didn't think much about it at all.
However, now after Leo's questioning, they all felt that something was wrong, because the doubts Leo mentioned were too obvious and too important. Anyone who is engaged in the study of northern tribes should see the relevant
It is only right to have such questions when collecting information, but they completely ignored this matter. It is really suspicious. It seems that there is some kind of power in this world that affects their thinking and makes them actively ignore the issues related to the White Deer Tribe.
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When everyone was stunned, Leo did not continue to ask, but turned to look at the lake next to him. His sight seemed to penetrate the ice on the lake surface and see the scene at the bottom of the lake.
Sylvia noticed Leo's behavior and couldn't help asking: "Did you find anything?"
"There should have been something at the bottom of the lake, but it was salvaged and only some fragments were left." Leo told what he saw, then looked at the temple on the hillside and said, "That temple
I'm afraid it was built for the things at the bottom of the lake, let's go over and take a look."
After saying that, he walked towards the temple on the hillside. As for the other houses around him, he had no interest in exploring them.
Seeing this, others followed, still thinking about the problem just now.
The group of people soon arrived in front of the temple on the hillside. Although the temple had been built for many years, due to the special environment in the North and its location, the temple was generally well preserved. Only the stone pillars on the front terrace were
It collapsed due to strong winds and other reasons.
However, the patterns on the surface of these stone pillars are still well preserved, and you can clearly identify what is engraved on them. For Mister and Randall, two people who are engaged in the study of the White Deer Tribe, these stone pillars are definitely the best tools for studying the White Deer Tribe.
The best information, if it were normal times, they would have been eager to get it together and carefully record every identifiable pattern on it with their portable notebooks.
However, now they are more interested in the things at the bottom of the lake that Leo said, because in their opinion, even people like Leo and Sylvia would be so interested in things in the lake, so the things at the bottom of the lake must be
Very important.
However, things were destined to disappoint Mister and Randall. When they entered the mystery, there was nothing noteworthy. The only thing that could attract the attention of the entrants was a strange-shaped pedestal in the middle of the temple.
If we look at it from the perspective of an altar, this irregular-shaped pedestal obviously does not conform to anyone's aesthetics. If someone made an altar like this, the maker would definitely be arrested and sacrificed alive.
But now that such an irregular-shaped altar is majestically placed in the center of the temple, this altar obviously conforms to the wishes of the people here at that time, which makes Mister and Randall wonder what the function of this altar is.
However, they didn't need to wonder for too long. Sylvia soon gave the answer and said: "Is the thing salvaged from the lake placed on top?"
"It should be." Leo walked around the altar, reached out and wiped some parts of the altar, and said, "When the White Deer Tribe abandoned this place, the things should have been moved away.
Now the thing may be in the Royal Academy of the French Empire, or it may be stored in the royal secret treasury."
"Do you know what that is?" Sylvia asked.
Sylvia's question made others feel a little baffled, because even if Leo knew that there was something at the bottom of the lake, and it was fished out and enshrined as an object to the gods, these things had happened many years ago.
Not to mention Leo, even those who specialize in the study of the White Deer Tribe cannot possibly know it. Only the royal family of the French Empire, which has an extremely close relationship with the White Deer Tribe, may know what it is.
However, what shocked them all was that after hearing Sylvia's question, Leo nodded and said: "I know what it is, but that thing should be of little use to a primitive tribe.
unless……"
Chapter completed!