Struggle in the Steam Age

Let's rewind the clock 20 minutes or so to a time when the murlocs in the harbor are speeding through the resort and setting fire to try to cause chaos. And Lawrence commanded his troops on the cliff at the entrance of the harbor to stop the murloc commandos who were madly trying to climb the mountain wall.

Because of the terrain, Lawrence and the others could easily block the murlocs who wanted to climb up. But it's hard to wipe out the murloc groups at the entrance. Just when the situation between the two sides was at a stalemate, an accident happened suddenly.

The sentinel who was looking towards the sea suddenly saw dense fish heads suddenly appeared on the sea with only waves, and these fish heads were rushing towards the bay along the wind and waves.

"Enemy attack, murlocs are approaching us from the open sea." The sentinel yelled loudly while vigorously shaking the alarm at hand. After hearing the siren, Lawrence and Nora, who were still observing the murlocs below, immediately ran to the edge of the cliff, and watched the sahuagin rushing towards them at high speed.

Yes, the attackers here are not a mix. It is an elite team composed of pure sahuagin. Considering that this time is the battle where the enemy reveals his hole cards. So Lawrence can basically be sure that this elite team should be real.

And the scrolls and props related to phantom magic purchased by the other party are not only for some sahuagins to disguise as locathons, but also part of them should be for the frontal battlefield to make locathians disguise as sahuagins.

"This group of sahuagin are crazy." Nora exclaimed after seeing the situation below, "I have arranged a lot of magic defense systems around, theoretically speaking, it is impossible for the other party to attack without me noticing. Running to a place so close to the coastline, and the current situation can only show one thing, that is, the other party has launched a war magic through a large sacrifice."

"Great sacrifice? It seems that this group of murlocs are indeed completely crazy." Hearing what the little doll said, Lawrence also reacted. As a person who grew up in the church, Lawrence was very concerned about those things related to god The knowledge is still quite good. Among them is one of the core ceremonies of each church: the great sacrifice.

The so-called great sacrifice literally means a sacrifice that is more important than ordinary sacrifices, and the actual situation is the same. This kind of large-scale sacrificial ceremony can often gain the attention of the gods and bestow a series of benefits, similar to someone's extraordinary level improvement or some powerful magical props. But correspondingly, this kind of ceremony requires a large number of sacrifices.

Of course, the sacrifices required by different gods are also different. For example, the gods of those civilized races often only ask for some items that condense the labor or wisdom of intelligent creatures. For example, spices, precious metals, various exquisite handicrafts or magic props. Of course, good food and wine are also essential.

But the great sacrifices of the evil gods enshrined by those wilderness races are much more complicated than this. In addition to the above wealth, they also need to kill a large number of lives to please the gods.

Considering that the group of sahuagin in front of them launched an attack on the road very suddenly this time, they simply didn't have time to hunt enough sacrifices. So this time they are likely to use the group of loca murlocs who are unwilling to cooperate in their sacrificial ceremony.

For example, for the gods enshrined by the sahuayu people, offering sacrifices to the hungry and crazy shark god Sekera not only obtains some magical protection, but also his prudent gaze. If the next actions of the sahuagin are not satisfactory to him, he will definitely send down divine punishment to punish these sahuagin.

In other words, once a great sacrifice is made to the gods, the sahuayu people will have no retreat in the next attack. If they could not satisfy the bloodthirsty desire of their gods, then even if the prince won the first place among the three teams this time, he would not be able to win the throne, and would be executed for blasphemy.

Theoretically, a sahuagin prince wouldn't be able to do things as badly as he is doing now. For these noble sahuagin, they just need to keep the strength in their hands. Even the person who is afraid of failing to become king this time can't kill them. He can spend his life as a powerful nobleman.

Therefore, Lawrence couldn't help but suspect that the opponent's current approach, which seemed to be breaking the boat, made Lawrence feel that this group of enemies might have some power to directly change the situation of the battle. But no matter what he thought, as the group of sahuagin below approached along the waves. The only tactic he can choose now is to deal with it randomly.

As the sahuagin from the open sea approached quickly, the soldiers who had previously hidden on the mountain immediately started shooting. Although the distance between these sahuagins is very dense and they are out of the water, everyone's hit rate is very high.

However, the sahuayu who flocked to the coastline quickly rushed to the entrance of the bay with only a small number of casualties due to their large number and high speed of action.

However, as the first batch of sahuagin rushed to the entrance of the bay, their casualty rate rose sharply. Because at this time, the more than 30 mortars placed on the cliffs on both sides all fired at this shallow sea area with a water depth of more than one meter, and built a death line with red-hot metal fragments flying around.

The first batch of sahuagins who rushed over fell under the artillery fire, and the second batch of sahuagins holding various shields and even possessing magic on their bodies were able to rush through the line of fire. After seeing this situation, the commanders of the group of sahuagin immediately got together and prepared to adjust their attack methods.

"We can't rush like this anymore." A sahuagin noble officer said, "All we brought this time are core forces. If the loss is too large, there will inevitably be a serious shortage of manpower in the next plan. In this way, I am worried about the mission of His Royal Highness—"

"I heard that there seems to be a little problem with the mission now." Just as the officer was talking nervously, he suddenly found that the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Then a sahuagin wearing an ornate gold crown in the style of a human swims by. "Since the fighters can't complete the task, let those priests think of a way. They brag about how powerful their magic is all day long. Now it's time for them to act."

Soon, some priests who had been hiding behind the sahuayu crowd rushed out. Because the sahuagin believe that divine spells are real spells and hate and fear arcane magic, there are no arcane spellcasters in their society. The sahuagin priest is naturally the only spellcaster among them.

But the problem is that divine spells lack direct attack spells compared to arcane spells, let alone those that can attack from a distance. Therefore, these priests can be said to be helpless when facing the artillery positions on the cliffs. As far as they are concerned, unless they are willing to risk their lives to climb the cliff, they will not be able to reach the human army on the mountain.

But it is obviously impossible for the current prince to accept this answer, and because of the large sacrifice held before, this war has directly escalated from the original battle for the throne of the sahuagin king to a holy war.

Under such circumstances, the prince also naturally obtained some command powers that he had never had before, such as being able to execute all those who were considered to be unsteady, even the clergy with high status.

Therefore, those sahuagin priests who are good at seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages quickly thought of a method that would neither be considered weak-willed nor put themselves in danger: they chose to stay far away. The casting of the summoning magic summoned a large group of flying evil creatures and flew towards Lawrence and the others.