Struggle in the Steam Age

After the monster died just now, Lawrence cleaned out a palm-sized golden disc when picking up the monster's body. If you guessed right, this disc is the shining golden thing in the monster's body just now. A circle of wondrous runes was engraved on the disc, while tiny gemstones filled the grooves.

In the very center of the disc, a gray crystal the size of a thumb was inlaid there. Lawrence stretched out his finger and gently touched the crystal by mistake. As a result, the crystal immediately turned into a pile of white powder and fell to the ground.

After cleaning up the surrounding area and finding nothing else, Lawrence released a [Identification Spell] on the golden disc out of safety considerations, and he couldn't help showing a look of surprise at the information he got.

[The control rune version of the blood puppet guard is used to control this kind of puppet made of blood. One of the top puppets unique to the Scarlet Sky organization, but now this rune version is just taken out from a destroyed puppet and repaired, its control ability over puppets is less than 1/10 of the genuine rune version. 】

"Why is it related to the Scarlet Sky again?" Lawrence felt a little strange, and he still had one on him. The key to a secret vault in the firmament. Originally, he thought that he would never encounter anything related to the Scarlet Sky until he went to the treasure location in the Great Lakes region in the northwest, but he didn't expect that fate was more wonderful than he imagined.

Of course this also explains why a theoretically top puppet is so poor at fighting. If you compare it to a car, it's pretty much someone who got a broken luxury car engine, barely fixed it, and then found some things to throw together If it is installed on a shelf, naturally it cannot be expected to have much effect under such circumstances.

After picking up all the guns and reloading the bullets, Lawrence walked into the building along the way he just came out, holding the pistol. Then he went all the way up the steps hewn there. After reaching the second floor, the first thing he saw was a scorched wall, which should have been caused by the firework he just had.

After a brief inspection, Lawrence found that the second floor looked like the living room of the owner of the place in the past, and there was nothing but some tattered daily necessities.

It's just that Lawrence found a skeleton in the corridor and in an open bedroom. Judging from the remaining things on their bodies and the appearance of the skeleton, these two people should not be superhuman warriors of the official level. It is a pity that the things they carried have been completely decayed in the passage of decades. Lawrence only found six one-dollar silver coins issued 70 years ago from their waists.

"Forget it, just stay here, there is no need to take this little money away." Lawrence thought for a while and threw these silver coins on the corpse. For him who has a lot of money in his hand, sometimes You can waste a little money for some obsessions in your heart. "

During further inspection, he also found the dens of the demonized Rats from a broken cabinet. After searching carefully, he found more than a dozen black translucent crystals of different sizes from the large pile of things used by the violent number to make nests.

"Magic coal essence? This is a good thing. After processing, it can be used to make a lot of medicines or magic items." While muttering in his mouth, Lawrence put these crystals into a lead box and stuffed them into the space bag. At the same time, the appearance of these crystals also explains why this place is haunted and why Rampage is demonized.

I think the coal mines in this place should contain this kind of magical coal essence, so when the workers are working here, they are easily affected by these things, leading to illness, inability to concentrate, and even some kind of auditory hallucinations or hallucinations. As a result, the probability of accidents is greatly increased.

Not to mention the lack of legal protection and inventions like the safelight a few decades ago. The combination of these circumstances naturally led to continuous accidents in the mine, which in turn led to haunted legends.

After checking this floor and finding nothing of value, Lawrence went straight upstairs. It was different from the estimate from the outside, because the person who dug the hole here at that time was too fashionable, so the internal space was far smaller than the normal level. At the same time, the ceilings between each floor and each floor are much thicker than imagined.

This also makes the building that looks like a five-story building have only three floors inside, and the third floor of this building looks much larger than the other two. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the third floor has no partition at all.

The entire third floor is a whole large space, and in the mid-air of the wall there is a circle of wooden plank-like things, and there is a wooden ladder to go up.

It's just that there are obvious signs of fighting here. More than half of the wooden plank road above has fallen off, and the wooden ladder has also collapsed directly. Some bones are scattered in various places on this floor. More importantly, this floor seemed to have been caught in a fire, and the entire space was covered with scorched black marks.

"Demon hunter, mage, it seems that the battle in this place was indeed very fierce." After carefully distinguishing the bones on the ground, Lawrence quickly recognized what was going on in this battlefield back then.

"It looks like this witcher is carrying five... Of course, it could be six fighters or gunmen." Because there was another fire after using some explosive or corrosive spells, Lawrence couldn't even make out what was scattered all over the place. How many people did those bones belong to? "Then they came to encircle the mage, and after a battle, both sides died together."

An altar stood in the center of the room, and the statue had been split into three parts and fell to the ground. Although the statue was rough and severely damaged, Lawrence still recognized that it was the statue of the six-armed snake enshrined in the bloody sky.

"It's this group of guys again. Could it be that the Eagle Fort attracts such a disgusting cult organization?" Lawrence muttered, but he knew that his guess was likely to be true.

After all, in that barbaric era, only a powerful city like Eagle Fort could gather enough manpower, and it was naturally convenient for those cultists to do some shady things in this place. If you go to the wild, let's not talk about safety issues, those goblins or kobolds will only put them in a pot to cook when they see all creatures other than them. With their low IQ, they can't be the target of preaching.

After confirming that there was no danger in the room, Lawrence checked everything in the room. Of course, the first thing he searched for was the mage's remains. To his surprise, there was a space bracelet on the right arm of the remains.

The space bracelet doesn't look delicate at all, it can even be said to be extremely crude. If he hadn't checked it, he would have thought it was just an ordinary gold bracelet inlaid with red sapphires.

Naturally, the same is true of the magic lock left on the bracelet. Not only is it simple, but the style is also a hundred years ago. So it took only ten minutes for Lawrence to unlock all the defenses on the bracelet.

After unlocking the defense, he immediately discovered the shortcomings of this bracelet: Although the space is five cubic meters, it is a long strip of space of one meter by one meter by five meters, and there are many problems in terms of space utilization. After briefly checking the things stored in this space, Lawrence took out a black notebook that seemed to be put into the bracelet last.

"Why do those villains always like to keep things like diaries and essays as evidence for themselves?" Lawrence muttered, flipping through the book in front of him after confirming safety, "It's because there is nothing to do if you do something bad. It’s time to publicize it, so I have to write it down and be happy?”

But after reading this book carefully, Lawrence finally understood what was going on here. If I didn't guess wrong, the mage's skeleton in red robes thrown down there should be the last remaining part of the scarlet sky organization.