Struggle in the Steam Age

The bonfire party of the contestants lasted for a whole night. Many people took this opportunity to meet new friends and reached a lot of agreements in private. Just as the sky was getting dark, Lawrence began to feel a sense of rejection from his surroundings.

"Are you going to leave?" Lawrence thought, at this moment, some people had already been enveloped by a mass of red and blue light, and then the light disappeared, and the people inside also disappeared. .

"It's time to go now." Lawrence also felt the increasing pressure on himself. Sure enough, when the pressure reached a peak, the same red and blue light appeared on him, and then enveloped him. the whole body.

Swish...Lawrence once again felt the sense of oppression and suffocation when entering this space, followed by a feeling of weightlessness. Fortunately, this time the landing point no longer appeared at a height of tens of meters from the sea surface. In just a split second, his feet landed on the solid ground.

In less than a second, the space completely changed. The fire and woods in front of me just now disappeared, and the platform and the space door when entering here appeared in front of me again.

Surrounded by contestants huddled together, it just looked a lot more chaotic than before entering. And on the periphery of this platform is a group of staff from the event organizer.

The morning sun shone on this platform, turning the milky white mist generated by the collision of magma and flames below the platform into gold, making the whole platform as beautiful as a divine kingdom of a certain god.

Of course, the contrast between light and dark, and the sudden change between different spaces made many contestants not very comfortable with it. Many people even felt as if they were in a different world, especially the novice like Lawrence, who participated in the astral world travel for the first time, obviously showed a slight discomfort with this time-space transformation.

The organizers of the game also knew about this situation, so they also waited there for a few minutes. It wasn't until everyone recovered that the highest consul of the New Hansa Republic, who was the host before, stood on the suspended platform again and started talking.

"First of all, on behalf of all the organizers of this competition, I would like to congratulate you contestants on their successful return." The Supreme Consul made his voice spread throughout the platform through the magic brooch on his body.

Wow... Everyone on the platform, whether it's the contestants or the staff, applauded together. All of a sudden, the embarrassing silence just now was broken. At the same time, the loud applause brought the contestants back to the main world.

After three minutes of applause, the Grand Consul began to announce the results of the competition. Just as Lawrence thought before, his team won the championship with a super high score of 3514, pulling away the second place by more than 2000 points, creating the largest gap between the first place and the second place in this competition in the past century. poor score.

Everyone's cheers were wave after wave like ocean waves, extremely enthusiastic, and even temporarily overwhelmed the loud noise made when the magma below the platform collided with sea water. This is because Lawrence has saved the lives of most of the contestants before, and his first place can be said to be expected.

"Now, I announce that Lawrence August's team from the White Eagle Federation has won the Black Iron Trial." The Supreme Consul continued when everyone had vented their enthusiasm.

"They will receive a medicated bath prepared by the organizing committee for them to optimize their bodies. 360 servings of magic food for a whole year, priority access to the meditation rooms of various churches at the bronze stage, one professional-level magic item for each person, and Choose one of the major professional associations in the New World for professional skills training up to the peak of the bronze level."

"In addition to these, the White Commonwealth will also send them a black iron level of the White Eagle Federal Library... Wait, the reward has increased, it is a bronze level borrowing card, and each person specially allocated from the income of this plane 1,500 white eagle annual bonuses per year. At the same time, a bust of each of them will be carved on the outer wall of the Federal Memorial Hall.”

"It's really rich." "It's really enviable-but I think they deserve it." "That's right, if they can't get these rewards, all of us here People don't have the face to take their own prizes."

Hearing the Grand Consul recall the prizes that Lawrence and the others were about to receive, the atmosphere on the platform immediately became heated, and the prizes of other teams that were read later successfully pushed the atmosphere on the platform to a new climax.

"Okay, although I still have a lot to say to you. But I think you should miss those modern civilized lifestyles after a whole week of living in the wild. Now we have prepared bathrooms and a big meal. The meal awaits you, where the carriages were parked when you came before."

After speaking, the Grand Consul pointed to the direction of the island on the other side of the peninsula, and then the staff stepped forward and began to guide everyone to leave the platform along the path on the peninsula.

During this process, every contestant seemed a little eager to try. After all, when entering the competition space before, everyone tried to use the space in the space bag to store some useful things in the competition. Naturally, there would not be many Space is reserved for those non-essential daily necessities.

So everyone is looking forward to taking a good bath and having a big meal now. Under the guidance of the staff, the noisy crowd came directly to the previous parking lot.

Now the parking lot is no longer a bare stone field, and three huge tents have been erected on the open space. I only heard the staff shout, "The blue tent on the left is the men's bathroom, and the pink tent on the right is the women's bathroom. The temporary space bags you carry are now given to you, and dirty clothes can be put in directly. Come out after taking a shower There are lockers, everyone's lockers have your names and photos on them, and there is a full set of clothing for you in the lockers, and these are also given to you by the organizing committee."

"It's very thoughtful." As the crowd walked into the bathroom, Lawrence thought that the temporary space bag still had three days' lifespan, just enough for everyone to bring their trophies home.

Men generally bathe a little faster than women, regardless of whether they are superhumans or not. After taking a 15-minute shower, Lawrence found his outfit in the locker room.

"This is really too exaggerated." Looking at the whole suit from the top silk hat to the exquisite handmade leather shoes in front of him, Lawrence was quite uneasy, because he bought this suit in the tailor shop on Linden Street. I have seen similar ones, and the whole set is about 160 yuan.

But if you think about it, what you are hosting now is the future elites from the entire New World. For the organizers, this kind of luxury is no different from consumables in their eyes.

Half an hour later, contestants like Laka, who are born to take a bath much slower than humans with only hair on their heads, also finished their baths and sat in their seats, and the banquet began.

Several large long tables were placed in the middle of the tent that was used as a banquet hall, and densely packed food was piled up on the tables, steaming hot and full of meaty aroma. Considering that supernatural beings naturally eat more than ordinary people, so the selection of dishes for this banquet all choose food with large portions.

"Okay, let's not say anything anymore. Let's start eating." The Grand Consul sitting on the small table at the top of the long table didn't have much nonsense, he directly announced the start of the banquet, and immediately everyone started eating . While eating, everyone chatted about the content of the game and various gossips.

Different from the quiet and elegant banquets held by nobles, the banquets held by extraordinary people are often very lively. Lawrence found that many superhumans can quickly eat a large amount of food with an elegant posture, and at the same time have a proper conversation with the friends next to them.

Just as the banquet was about to end, a staff member suddenly walked over to Lawrence and said that the competition organizing committee had something to look for him. After hearing the words, Lawrence immediately talked to a few friends next to him, and then heard the staff member leave the banquet hall.