Struggle in the Steam Age

Just when the war between the contestants and the kobolds in the astral plane was about to break out, in a luxuriously decorated room next to the platform in the main world where the space gate to the astral plane was placed, several event organizers The people in charge of Fang all sat there nervously staring at a very elderly looking old woman in a rough white cloth robe.

Although her clothes are not conspicuous, the holy emblem on her chest that releases the power of holy light at all times proves that she is a senior clergyman of the Church of God of Suffering at the bishop level of the region.

"—Is this news true, Sister Carissa?" The priest of the sea god wearing a blue priest robe showed disbelief in his eyes. "Is it true that all the memories of the scouts we sent to investigate the Black Iron arena have been modified?"

"To be precise, not all of them, but the final result was not much better. Because the investigators who were captured by the natives and modified their memories were the scouts who went to investigate the volcano at the core of that space." said the high-ranking priest of the Church of God of Suffering. "Now that group of kobolds already know our identities, what we are going to do and at the same time use magic to hide a fatal message. That is, the kobolds in that space are already a unified force and have their own beliefs."

"Own belief?" One-third of the people present here are from various churches, and of course they know what the kobolds' so-called own belief represents. "Is that His Majesty the Kobold God?"

Although the gods that everyone believes in are hostile to each other, there is still the most basic respect for the gods anyway. Because the aborigines of that astral plane were kobolds, everyone else at the scene thought that those kobolds should believe in their own race gods. But Sister Carissa shook her head.

"No, not that His Majesty." Carissa's face suddenly became ugly. "Although I tried my best just now, I still can't restore all the memories of those people. What I can confirm now is that the power of the unknown thing worshiped by this group of kobolds is related to fire and death."

"Damn it! So what should we do next?" Unknown beliefs often represent danger, because beliefs in this world are not only related to gods, but also demons, false gods and even some indescribable things.

So after hearing the news, the official representative of the White Eagle Federation stood up and asked everyone on the field. "Should we just sit here and wait for the final result?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, it's the truth." The priest of the Church of Knowledge said helplessly, "The rules of this astral space named Sea and Flame are that only people at the Black Iron level and below are allowed to enter, and there are also ways to escape. There is only one that is ejected by the space itself seven days after entering. We are not incapable of doing something about this low-level plane, but the time to do something now is too short, and it is too late.”

"Well, now we can only pray that our young elites can solve all the problems." The soldier shook his head helplessly and smiled wryly. "I can't think of anything else I can do but pray."

Lawrence and the organizers outside didn't know the nervousness and worry at all. Of course, even if they knew about these issues at this time, they didn't have time to pay attention to them, because the kobolds had already rushed forward.

The woods gave the kobolds enough cover, but it also made it difficult for their long-range weapons to play their full role. In order to exert the power of the weapons in their hands, they can only leave the woods and walk into the open space.

There are not many kobolds with bows and arrows, that is, eleven or twelve. These archers seem to be very confident in the poisoned arrows in their hands, so they even lined up slowly after they walked out of the woods.

Naturally, Lawrence and the others would not let go of this good opportunity. In Lawrence's field of vision, the group of kobold archers were easily used by their team members with the guns they carried one by one before they had time to draw the single-piece bows in their hands. He hit and fell on the clearing in the forest.

After discovering that the long-range attack plan had failed, another drum sound came from the jungle ahead. In an instant, a large group of kobolds appeared from the surrounding bushes and rushed out.

Kobolds are not powerful monsters. To be precise, the kobolds in the mountains and hills, the goblins in the plains, and the murlocs by the water can be regarded as the most common supernatural creatures that ordinary people often destroy the lives of ordinary people. Most normal people have had dealings with these nasty guys.

For example, the contestants here have basically dealt with one or even all of these guys. Naturally, they also know that these creatures have always won by numbers, and their individual combat effectiveness is very average, and can even be described as weak. Often they can't beat an ordinary person in a one-on-one duel.

But no matter how weak they are, the scene when more than 200 kobolds charge with spears is still very shocking. They rushed out from behind the tree they had been hiding in before, and then rushed to where Lawrence and the others were, holding spears and howling.

The moment the kobolds rushed out, behind the parapet, Lawrence's gunshots rang together: almost every superhuman here carried a firearm, and many of them carried more than one.

The distance from the edge of the forest to the fortifications set up by Lawrence and the others is about 30 meters, and the kobolds are too densely arranged due to terrain constraints. So much so that when Lawrence's bullets penetrated a kobold, it could still hurt the one behind it.

In addition to the bullets that were as dense as a rainstorm, the traps and obstacles dug before constituted a natural moat that the kobolds could not break through. The fallen corpses and the wounded who hugged their feet and wailed blocked the middle of the road, forcing the speed of the uninjured to charge down. This is also more convenient for Lawrence and the others to use guns to name the kobolds one by one.

"Something's wrong." Lawrence suddenly felt that something was wrong when everyone was slaughtering after the fortification. After all, the morale of the kobolds was not much higher than that of the goblins. A charge like this one after another is not like what the kobolds do at all. Under normal circumstances, 1/5 of the kobolds who fell down should have collapsed long ago.

While thinking like this, Lawrence subconsciously began to observe the surrounding situation. At this moment, he unexpectedly discovered that there was a row of bubbles spreading towards his side in the wetland on his right.

"There is something in the wetland on the right, throwing explosives." Lawrence shouted decisively, and Zhu Yan and several superhumans carrying explosives simultaneously removed the obstacles to be hooked and threw them into the nearby in wetlands.

"Boom—crash." With a dull explosion, seven or eight two-story-high white water columns rushed out of the wetland water surface, and then fell down and slapped the water surface under the action of gravity, splashing a large amount of water.

Not long after, some monitor lizards the size of a pony and kobolds who seemed to have awakened blood floated to the surface from the water. Most of them had turned into corpses, and the few struggling ones were easily lifted by Lawrence and the others. kill.

Among them was a kobold wearing a metal-inlaid leather armor, who looked stronger than the others, and tried to fight back with a bronze axe, but soon, Zhu Yan easily killed him with a magic-enhanced bullet. Blood and pieces of viscera, obviously a trainee warrior who was severely injured.

Obviously, when the group of infantry charged from the front just now, they attracted Lawrence's attention. A dozen or so kobold cavalry here attempted to use the variegated abilities of the variegated to pass through the swamp impassable to normal humans, before attacking Lawrence from their vulnerable flanks.

However, after Lawrence discovered that something was wrong, he decisively used a large amount of explosives to make them explode underwater, and the powerful shock wave generated after that caused serious damage to the fragile internal organs of these attackers.

A transcendent is indeed very powerful, but the internal organs of the middle and low-level transcendent have not reached the level of transcendence. So after the bomb exploded underwater, they were hit hard immediately.

"Cut off its head and show it to those guys in front." Lawrence commanded, Okita Sakura immediately rushed forward and chopped off the head of the cavalry captain, and then waved it with the knife according to Lawrence's command.

The kobolds who were still fighting to the death just now let out a miserable howl when they saw the head of the provoked monitor lizard cavalry captain, and then retreated directly. Their first round of attack ended like this.