Struggle in the Steam Age

Under everyone's punching and kicking, this group of Algarve Empire contestants directly confessed what they had done before. As Lawrence guessed before, the matter was mainly caused by this team of participants from the Algarve Empire. They sneaked into this cave while the main force of the contestants was fighting with the kobolds in the fortress at the foot of the mountain.

Since most of the kobolds in the cave have been added to the fortress, there are very few kobolds left. This also gave this group of contestants from the Algarve Empire the opportunity to infiltrate the cave.

Because the kobold leader didn't meet any intelligent spellcasters other than kobolds in this world before, it didn't take any magic hiding methods to the basement at all. This led to the Algarve Empire contestant team easily finding the basement.

It's just that after seeing the skeleton of the undead red dragon in the basement, a team member accidentally stepped into the range of the magic circle in shock, which caused the magic circle to activate unexpectedly. The spiritual temptation attached to the magic circle and the subsequent stun effect immediately trapped all the contestants who just rushed to the entrance of the cave.

Fortunately, it was at that time that Lawrence defeated the kobold leader and used Bai Ze phantom to suppress the dragon's remnant soul, so that the magic circle was completely scrapped because it lost its owner. Also because of this, the contestants were lucky not to suffer further injuries.

"This is simply too lucky." Lawrence thought, naturally, the members of the blocking team who followed Lawrence also thought of this thing. Word soon spread of Lawrence's heroism among the contestants.

"Thank you, thank you so much." "You saved my life." "I will remember your kindness." After learning that Lawrence was related to his escape, everyone in the cave turned to Lawrence squeezed in his direction and tried to shake his hand.

"Okay, okay." Faced with everyone's enthusiasm, Lawrence waved his hands repeatedly to signal to everyone, "Everyone, don't surround me, we don't have much time now, and it is estimated that we will leave this position in about ten hours. So everyone should hurry up and take advantage of this last chance to earn more points and find something useful to you, it would be better."

After hearing Lawrence's shout, everyone dispersed slowly. Some people stayed in the cave looking around for something that might be useful, while others left the cave to try their luck outside.

Lawrence went down to the basement with a few teammates. Unfortunately, the moment the kobold leader died, the magic circle was completely destroyed due to the backlash of magic power. At the same time, the parasitic corpse of the dragon remnant soul was also destroyed. .

So after entering the basement, Lawrence and the others only found some supernatural items like crushed gems and burnt magic magic circle materials that could not be recycled at all. The most important dragon corpse is now also turned into a simple fossil, completely losing its magic power.

"Where are we going next?" Lawrence asked his team members after coming out of the basement empty-handed. "There are only ten hours left, so if there is any place to go, it is better to find a safer place. After all, we have already reached the first place in the game, and it is a bit uneconomical if something happens at this critical moment." .”

As a result, after a brief discussion, everyone finally decided to look for any fish that slipped through the net near the volcano. As a result, it may be because the others cleaned up the battlefield too cleanly, and Lawrence and the others were so busy until dinner that they found and killed the two kobolds who might have escaped from the fortress.

When the sky just started to darken, Lawrence took his team back to the previous station. At this time, most of the contestants also returned, and at the same time lit a bonfire in the center of the camp.

Obviously, everyone is not planning to go to bed tonight, but intends to have a good gathering in the last night in this space, and at the same time build a relationship with each other.

"Ah, it looks like the competition is coming to an end soon. But I will miss these days." Zhu Yan said holding a cup of tea. At this time, everyone sat around a blazing fire, and used wooden sticks to wear all the things that could be roasted and put them on the edge of the fire.

"That's right, I even fell in love with it a little bit." Lawrence sighed looking at the blazing bonfire and the dark sky in front of him. "If there are no monsters, this is a treasure land!"

What he said was not pure bragging. Think about it, this astral plane is a tropical island, but it does not have a series of natural disasters such as hurricanes, heavy rains, and sea beasts that often occur on tropical islands. It can earn a lot of money every year just by reclaiming it as a tropical plantation. Not to mention the fertile land created by the volcano and the large number of spice trees that grow here.

"The monsters are just some minor problems, and it's not that complicated to clean them up." Zhu Yan shook his head. "The core is that I don't know if those people can accurately locate the position of this plane in the astral plane and fix the space gate of this astral plane. If they can be fixed, it doesn't matter if there are three or five times more monsters."

Now this astral plane called the sea and flames is just a wild outside that extraordinary people usually call, that is to say, people can only roughly determine its location and seize a certain opportunity to enter, and at the same time stay in it for a certain amount of time. Time will be repelled by outside forces.

However, with the further positioning and the establishment of the space anchor space door, this space can be entered through a fixed place, and at the same time, it will no longer be squeezed out by the outside repulsion. Many countries, organizations, and some powerful transcendents have their own astral planes.

"I've heard that the astral plane we use in this competition is brand new, and it will be used as a prize for the winner's country or organization after the competition." John squeezed over and said to Lawrence at this time, "This year Luckily, the organization behind our team can be regarded as a quasi-ally, so we will definitely be able to jointly develop this plane, and we can also benefit from it."

"In the past, there was a conflict between the organizations behind a certain team, and the result was that they had to sell the plane. Although it seemed that the contestants could get a lot of income at one time, everyone knew that in the long run A golden chicken is definitely not worth as much as a chicken that lays golden eggs."

"By the way, I want to ask everyone to do me a favor." After chatting for a while, Zhu Yan looked very embarrassed and said. "Of course, I mean, help if you think you can."

"What's the matter?" Lawrence asked directly. "If we can help, we will."

"The situation is like this," Zhu Yan smiled a little embarrassedly. "My family is an ancient family that has been engaged in the arms industry since the invention of gunpowder, but we have not been able to find the patriarch who took the family to the New World until today."

"But it's not easy to find." John showed a perplexed look, "Now all the new continents developed by intelligent creatures add up to less than 1/5 of the New World. Where can we find such a large piece of land?" People from hundreds of years ago."

"That's why I said you just need to help me pay attention." Zhu Yan shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. "Anyway, our family has been looking for that ancestor for at least two hundred years. All we descendants can do is send a missing person notice to every extraordinary person."

"Because we know too little information, except that the ancestor never came back after being invited by a certain friend, and we don't even know who the friend who invited the ancestor was. "

"Sounds terrible." Lawrence shrugged and accepted the information Zhu Yan handed over. "We promise to keep this in mind for you."