Struggle in the Steam Age

As the monster approached step by step, Lawrence nervously stared at the monster that was getting bigger and closer to the bay through the connection with Nora's soul. Finally, the monster climbed up to the shallows at the entrance of the bay, and then exposed its entire body to the air.

"It's now." Lawrence saw that the monster was about to climb up the shoal at the entrance, and when he saw the next step, he brought the torch in his hand closer to the fuse of the explosive. In an instant, the flame on the torch ignited the explosives, and then a little bit of flame quickly spread along the fuse with the sound of squeaks, and smoothly entered the explosive caves dug in advance.

And at the entrance of the bay outside, the giant monster covered in tentacles had just crawled to the shoal area at the entrance of the bay. At this moment, probably because of the warning issued by the divinity in the body, the monster suddenly stopped its forward pace, and then tried to retreat.

"Boom—boom—" Although the monster had foreseen that the situation was not good in advance, it was still a step slower in its actions. Just when it realized the problem and hadn't had time to make any moves, several continuous explosions came from the side of the monster, and then large groups of flames burst out from the gap on one side of the cliff.

"Ow——" After realizing that the situation was wrong, the monster immediately roared, and then retracted the tentacles that were waving around to its side in an attempt to protect its main body.

But when these tentacles had just shrunk to half, there was a rumbling sound from inside the mountain, and then a large number of stones fell from the sky.

Because the rock mass of the cliff where Lawrence installed the explosives before was relatively loose, the original loose structure of the entire mountain was completely destroyed after the explosives and mortar shells were detonated in sequence according to the original plan. Under the chain reaction, the entire cliff on one side of the bay entrance collapsed.

Tens of thousands of tons of stones and soil just fell on the huge monster below, although some small stones, trees and other debris monsters could wave their tentacles and pull them away. But as the scope of the chain reaction continued to expand, the volume of the various things that fell from the sky became larger and larger, and those tens or even hundreds of tons of stones easily smashed all obstacles and hit the monster's main body.

Obviously, the kinetic energy of these boulders obviously exceeded the monster's defense ability. Therefore, those tentacles blocking the top were smashed to pieces in an instant.

Although after those huge stones penetrated the monster's layers of tentacles, the monster popped out a thin red film of light at the last moment to block the blow. But as the raindrops of the stones fell down repeatedly, the light screen of magic defense could not last for too long.

After only seven or eight seconds, the barrier flickered like a broken light bulb, and then scattered into pieces like smashed glass and disappeared into the air. And then those stones, trees and all the other things hit the monster like this.

Obviously, these attacks caused massive damage to the monster. Most of its tentacles fell off from the main body under the impact of various objects because it tried to resist, or was beaten into a meat paste. And the core made of flesh and blood was smashed away by the stones, exposing the humanoid flesh and flesh inside.

"The core—let me see where the core is." Nora took this opportunity to chatter while avoiding the stones falling from the sky and the remaining tentacles of the monster, and got closer to the monster. , and then flew around the monster at his fastest speed, exuding his spiritual power while flying to perceive the monster's situation.

"I found it, it's really cunning." After flying around the monster seven or eight times, Nora rang in Lawrence's mind with surprise. "That guy actually didn't hide his core in the center of his body, but hid it in some other inconspicuous place."

Lawrence was standing on the edge of the cliff at this time observing the situation on the battlefield. Because of the large-scale landslide caused by the previous explosion, the cave he just mentioned was no longer safe. So he used the arbitrary door magic he had mastered to teleport himself to a safer place, and then turned his attention to the battlefield.

He saw Nora rushing towards one of the five or six giant tentacles at the core of the monster as if turning into a green meteor at this time, and then waving his fingers to manipulate the tentacles made of light. The thin line was cut fiercely.

"Ding—" Unexpectedly, the moment the thin thread was about to touch the giant tentacles. A circle of palm-sized blood-red runes formed a halo and bounced out of the monster's tentacles to block the blow.

At the same time, a voice that was not loud but went straight to the soul spread around the contact point, even if Lawrence stood tens of meters away, he could hear it clearly.

But after this attack was hindered, Nora was not surprised but pleased. Because when she was attacking other tentacles just now, she never had a magic barrier of this strength pop up for protection.

In other words, the place she is attacking now is very likely to be the core of the monster that I have been searching for for a long time but have not found any traces.

"Drink!" Nora drank in a low voice, and at the same time raised her right hand and pointed to the huge blue tentacle in front of her. In an instant, countless ripples swayed in the air around her, and then hundreds of silver-green threads appeared from around her out of thin air and pierced towards the tentacle in front of her like offline arrows.

At this time, the monster also beat the little puppet with its remaining tentacles like crazy at this time, and at the same time squeezed out the last ray of magic power in its body to condense a large piece of blood-red runes, trying to stop the top-level magic that the little puppet summoned. Weapon-like sharp and tough green silk threads.

However, because the monster's method of using power is too rough, and Nora also let the processed power of faith attach to those silk threads at this time. So this time, those runes were only blocked by those silk threads for less than a second, and then all the silk threads plunged into the tentacles and began to be cut crazily.

In an instant, large pieces of decayed flesh, blue blood, and blackened bones were all picked up by the little doll's up and down silk threads and scattered into the sea. And as the tentacles were weakened a little bit, Nora could feel an extremely obvious energy source hidden in the tentacles.

It seems that the blood, flesh, bone and the energy flowing in the tentacle formed a barrier before, and the isolation ability of this barrier successfully blocked the leakage of internal energy. So even though Nora flew around the monster so many times just now, she couldn't find the core of the monster hidden inside.

After the core strength was exposed, the monster directed all its active tentacles to hit the little puppet like crazy. But because there were still stones falling from above, only a small part of those tentacles reached Nora's side, and then they were twisted into pieces by the silk thread beside her.

As those silk threads flew up and down, the thick tentacle of the monster finally couldn't withstand such an attack and was cut off in the middle, and then a bright golden light emerged from the cut, making the cut look like a giant searchlight.

The moment she saw the golden light, a lot of crazy thoughts suddenly popped up in Nora's mind. Well, her body is just a puppet, and her soul is not full of distracting thoughts like human beings. So at this time, he just had his head covered for a while and then he returned to normal.

"I saw it." Nora shouted excitedly, because in her sight, a large book that seemed to be carved out of amber was inlaid on the fracture of the tentacles.