Struggle in the Steam Age

Just when Lawrence raised his pistol and shot an exorcism bullet into his head along the eye socket, completely killing a kobold zombie that rushed in, a huge change took place on the battlefield of the siege of the big spider.

"Squeak—" After hearing the scream, Lawrence turned his head to look at another battlefield across the pool. As a result, he clearly saw a crown of holy light full of holy energy appearing on the head of Paladin John, and the front 1/3 of his sword had pierced into the middle of the spider's body.

"[Crown of Smiting], it seems that John has seized this opportunity well." Lawrence recognized the move used by the paladin. This kind of holy light move is naturally powerful against the spider, which looks like an undead creature at first glance. force.

The same is true. With the drawing of the blade, a large puff of black blood gushed out like a fountain, and the filthy blood gushing out seemed to have the power of a spider, and the spider's movements suddenly became sluggish.

"Keep attacking, don't stop." Warrior Lei Suo shouted loudly, at the same time he swung the ax in his hand vigorously and slashed at the other front leg of the spider. Because the spider was suddenly injured and his movements became sluggish, his next few axes successfully hit the same place and successfully removed the spider's right front leg.

During this process, the spiders surrounded in the center have been trying to break out. But every time it intends to rush out of the battle circle, it will be blocked back by the mana robot John and Kogg holding the shield exuding holy light.

At this time, Cog had already got into his mana robot. As the battle became more and more intense, especially after the wave of soul shock just now, he gave up manipulating the mana robot outside, but directly got into the robot, using the robot to Runes, enchantments and metals protect his fragile body.

One of the robot's hands turned into a fast-rotating chainsaw and was struggling to cut every part of the spider it could touch, while the other hand revealed a single-shot enchanted howitzer that fired from time to time.

After several failed impacts, the spider stopped waving its claws and stood there, then raised its upper body and quickly danced its big pincers, making a clicking sound at the same time.

"Boom..." An invisible shock wave suddenly erupted from the spider's head, and the surrounding dust was immediately stirred up, and all the nearby plants also fell down around the spider.

"Soul shock——" John shouted, but the soul shock released by the desperate spider at this time was far more than the one just now, only John and Kog hiding in the mana robot completely avoided the impact of this move .

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the spider immediately rushed towards the other side of the forest, and Lei Suo and Laka, who were originally blocking that side, were dizzy because of the spider's soul impact just now, and there was no way to stop them now. Spider trying to escape.

Bang, bang, bang... Seeing this scene, Lawrence immediately changed his attack target, pouring the remaining three bullets in the pistol and a prepared magic missile all on the spider's head. They all hit the target successfully, and the eyes on the spider's face exploded into black bloody flowers one after another.

In the battle just now, John also pierced Le Spider's eye with his own sword. So now all that's left of the spider is a yellow eye covered in filthy blood, almost completely blind.

Severe pain and sudden blindness deprived the spider of its last chance to escape, and it began waving its claws wildly around in an attempt to keep the attackers away from it.

"Hold it now, you guys, pay attention to keep a distance from it." Paladin John shouted, as the person in the team who had the most experience in facing this kind of monster before, he immediately called out to Cog, who wanted to step forward to take advantage of it. . Because he knew that the counterattack of this kind of beast when facing death was the most terrifying. "I'm going to help Lawrence now."

Lawrence is facing a crisis now, because he gave the zombies a chance to get close to him after concentrating his firepower on the spider. So much so that now he can only dodge in embarrassment, and occasionally use magic to attack the zombies who are too close to him.

"Next time, I must learn a skill related to hand-to-hand combat, especially the use of some kind of cold weapon." Lawrence thought while dodging the poisonous claws of the zombies. He had indeed learned some hand-to-hand combat skills before, but the current problem The reason is that those skills in hand-to-hand combat are really not suitable for fighting these rough-skinned, powerful, and poisonous guys.

"Hold on, Lawrence." At this embarrassing moment, John's voice quickly approached, and then a flash of holy light directly cut off the neck of a zombie closest to Lawrence.

"Nice job." Lawrence said, and at the same time, he took advantage of the hole in the encirclement and used a [Magic Missile] with almost zero range to directly knock out half of the skull of an apprentice-level zombie.

Soon, John raised his shield and knight's sword and began to stand in front of him to attract attention, while Lawrence shot magic at the zombies a few meters away from behind him, eliminating them one by one.

These zombies who lost their command and only relied on instinct didn't have much room to struggle when facing the combination of Lawrence and John who restrained them. Soon Lawrence and the others successfully killed the remaining 14 or 15 zombies.

At this time, the battle at the other end of the pool was coming to an end. Under the repeated and nimble blows from the periphery of the other three team members, the heavy damage the spider suffered just now finally made it unable to sustain itself. At the same time, because of the irreversible damage caused by the holy light attached to John's sword just now, it can no longer suppress the toxin that Laka put into its wound just now.

Under the double blow of the toxin and the wound, the spider's movements became more and more sluggish. Especially after trying to play dead several times and trying to lure everyone to attack, but no one took the bait, it consumed too much power. So by the time Lawrence and John arrived on the battlefield, the spider was already having a hard time moving.

[Magic Missile], Lawrence released his magic after getting close to the spider, and John cut off the spider's claws that had become weak due to the decline of magic power.

At the same time, after Lawrence and the others returned, the others also changed the tactics they had just used to surround the spider and unleash their attacks with all their strength, allowing their attacks to hit the spider's body like raindrops.

These attacks left large and small wounds on the spider's body, and even caused the entire spider to spray black dirty blood around like a shower.

Looking at the spider who fell down and struggled to stand up in a pool of black blood, Lawrence knew that he would win this time. Even if the other party is an official-level extraordinary monster, it is powerless to recover from such a serious injury and all the puppet zombies that can be used have been cleaned up.

Less than half a minute after everyone shot with all their strength, the spider uttered a scream accompanied by an extremely weak mental shock, then fell to the ground with its paws limp, and then failed to get up again.

Lawrence felt that the phantom of Bai Ze in his mind absorbed an eight-legged black soul from the spider, and after a few breaths, a much smaller white soul flew out of the phantom of Bai Ze, and then surrounded After turning around with Lawrence, he disappeared into the air.

"Are you—purification?" Others didn't seem to have seen what he was doing, but John, who was standing next to Lawrence, noticed this scene. "Do you warlocks still have this ability?"

"I don't know, and I haven't seen other warlocks do this trick. But I know that I have automatically mastered this ability after becoming a warlock. By the way, what did you call my ability-purification ?” Lawrence said slowly, he had been a little worried about what would happen if his method of extracting the monster’s soul was discovered by others, but now it seems that the paladin, who is the embodiment of justice, does not seem to object to his method. .

"Of course, what you do is to purify evil spirits, which is a very sacred thing." Arthur looked at Lawrence's blank face and explained to him.