Struggle in the Steam Age

When Lawrence and the others approached the fortress with their spoils, they found that the fortress was quiet, except for the crackling fire and the occasional sound of a building crashing down when it was burnt down. The entire fortress was as silent as a tomb.

　　 "Be careful, everyone." Lawrence, standing in the middle of the line, called. As a spellcaster, you will naturally be surrounded by melee professionals when fighting in a team. Crossing the gate of the fortress that had been burned into a pile of coke, Lawrence immediately found that the surroundings were not right. Because under normal circumstances, there will always be people left behind after such a place is cleared.

　　 The corpses of kobolds are lying on the wreckage of the building and on the ground everywhere. Judging from the way they fell and the traces on their bodies, the main force of the Transcendents before seemed to be very smooth in the attack. Most of the kobolds were killed by a single blow, and basically did not make any effective resistance.

"The contestants who came here before should fight very smoothly here. At the same time, when they left here, they left in an organized manner. They didn't leave hurriedly after being attacked." The woman of Yingzhou descent who was next to Zhu Yan Samurai Okita Sakura walked to the corpses of several kobolds and observed after a while.

　　 "Look, all the valuable things on these kobolds are gone, only those kobold weapons and their armors that are meaningless to humans."

　　 After listening to Okita Sakura's words, others also paid attention to this aspect. Sure enough, the jewels on the kobolds shown in the investigation report were gone. On the corpses of several kobolds, Lawrence and others found the marks left by the rings on their paws.

　　 "Who?" At this moment a soldier suddenly heard movement in the ruins, so he held the short spear in his hand and raised his buckler and asked.

　　 "Don't do it, it's your own person." Seven or eight contestants came out of a hidden bunker.

　　 "What exactly happened here? Why are you hiding here?" Lawrence looked at them curiously.

　　 "We were sent to guard here before." said a contestant who was nominated. According to his narrative, everyone's offense was very smooth before, and other enemies except the kobold shaman were also easy to deal with. After the battle was over, a few of them were left behind. And the big troops went directly to the mine cave on the mountain.

"But just ten minutes after the army went up, a blood-red light was shot out from the mine. We looked at it with binoculars and found that everyone had disappeared, and the people who were supposed to be watching at the entrance of the mine were also gone. Trace. We felt very scared, so we hid it and prepared to send it out when the time came."

　　 After listening to these people, everyone seemed to hesitate, but after a few brief discussions, they decided to go up and take a look. Everyone thinks that such a powerful enemy just now has been defeated, and it is really inappropriate to run like this now. If you really want to run away, it's never too late to run until you discover that there is a real problem.

　　 They tried to invite these people who stayed behind, but these people politely declined Lawrence’s invitation. In desperation, everyone could only bid farewell to those who stayed behind under the command of Lawrence, and then walked towards the mine hole on the mountainside behind the fort in a search formation.

　　 This section of the road is not very easy, because the higher the temperature, the higher the temperature, and the volcanic mountains are full of loose rocks and dust. Walking up is as laborious as walking on the thick snow ground.

　　 Fortunately, the road from the mine to the fortress is also a place where kobolds often need to walk, so they laid some tree trunks and rocks on the loose ground as a foothold. Although the distance between these footholds and footholds is arranged according to the size of the steps of the kobolds, it is not very friendly to humans. But it is more comfortable than walking directly on loose ground.

　　 Along the way, Lawrence found a lot of kobold corpses on both sides of the road and some traces of knife and shooting. But most of the kobolds threw their faces toward the mine, the wounds were concentrated on the back. This also shows that the kobolds had completely collapsed when the players attacked.

　　 "It seems that everyone's offensive went well, so why did everyone disappear?" Lawrence thought and walked up, but everything was normal along the way. Until he approached the entrance of the mine, the ghost of Bai Ze in his mind suddenly alerted him.

　　 "Stop moving forward." Lawrence raised his hand and shouted, everyone immediately stopped, and then looked at him with a puzzled look, hoping that he could give an explanation.

"The previous situation is wrong, it is too quiet." Lawrence pointed to the footprints on the ground and said, "Furthermore, even if there is no need to keep people in the fortress underneath, there are always a few people left at the entrance of the cave. But why are the previous ones? All a hundred people entered the cave, leaving no one to watch outside."

　　 After hearing what Lawrence said, everyone felt something was wrong. After a brief discussion, Lawrence, John and two other contestants who thought they were more experienced formed a team and walked into the cave.

　　 As soon as he entered the cave, a hot breath rushed out of the cave. Lawrence knew that this was caused by a part of the bones of the undead red dragon. Because of this bone, a natural furnace that uses the heat of magma was automatically formed in the cave. The tools and weapons of the kobold come from here. This hot air also comes from the operation of the furnace.

"Look, everyone is here." John suddenly shouted after turning a corner. Lawrence followed the direction of his fingers and found a large number of people in the cave hall in front of them lying awkwardly there, like the dozens of people lying there. The kobolds are tangled together.

　　 "Isn't the magic circle in the cave activated?" Lawrence thought. "But theoretically only the kobold leader and the remnant dragon soul can activate this magic circle."

　　 From the memory he had just acquired, Lawrence learned that the last step of the final sacrifice of the Kobold leader under the deceit of the dragon's remnant soul was in this mine. Because the dragon's remnant soul is now too weak, the magic to transfer the soul must be performed successfully with the help of his own corpse.

"They just passed out." John and the two fighters rushed up to check the condition of the fallen contestant. Fortunately, after inspection, everyone was simply unconscious ~www.ltnovel.com~ That is to say, even if the magic arranged here is activated, it is only activated part? "Lawrence walked forward while thinking, and then moved a slab of stone in accordance with the instructions of a certain picture in his memory and the shadow of Bai Ze in his mind.

　　 Under the stone slab is a simple basement. In theory, no one knows this place except the leader of the kobold and the remnant soul of the dragon. But now, there are also several people lying down in this basement.

　　 "It turned out to be them." John, who came over by Lawrence's actions, lowered his head and glanced, and then he recognized the identities of the group of people underneath.

"Do you remember?" Seeing Lawrence a little confused, John quickly explained, "Before we entered this space, we saw a group of contestants from the Algarve Empire on the southern continent, and the following group of guys was the group of contestants. A small team among the people."

　　 "Oh, it turned out to be them." When John said that Lawrence also remembered, at the time Resso also commented that this group likes to do things by unscrupulous means, and now it seems that these things are probably all they did.

　　 After confirming that there was no other danger, Lawrence called most of the people outside and started to wake up the contestants. Soon, everyone was awakened from the coma.

　　 The group of Algarve Empire contestants picked out from the basement quickly aroused everyone's suspicion, especially their previous credit history was very poor. After going through a series of humane and less humane tortures, everyone finally knows what happened just now.