Struggle in the Steam Age

"Because the astral plane has obvious power restrictions, it is naturally impossible for us to send referees to the astral space in advance to judge your behavior like the usual competitions. So we will ask a few mages to cast magic on you mark, to record your performance in the New Territories space."

After the voice of the Supreme Consul of the New Hansa Republic fell, some of the contestants showed a look of sudden realization on their faces. But the confusion on the faces of most of the contestants became more intense.

For example, Lawrence is one of the group of contestants who are stunned. After all, he has only been a superhuman for a few months now, and he has never experienced any systematic superhuman education. All the knowledge he has now All by self-study. In this case, he is naturally not very clear about some things in the extraordinary world.

Even after experiencing the blessing of the God of Knowledge last time, his accumulation of extraordinary knowledge is already deeper than most spellcasters of the same level. But this part of knowledge is not very comprehensive after all, and it is normal for him to be unclear about some routine operations in the extraordinary world like this kind of magic mark record.

Naturally, Mr. Supreme Consul also discovered this. He explained with a smile: "Before everyone enters the astral plane, a few mages will use the power of the magic tower located in the capital of the republic to imprint a mark on your forearm. Kill extraordinary monsters, kill possible chaos Ogres who enter this plane will get a high score. And winning after competing with other contestants will also get a part of the score."

"But—" Speaking of which, the Supreme Consul made an extremely serious expression. "Please remember, this is just a competition, a competition to unite the young generation of the extraordinary world of the New World. So intentional killing of other contestants is absolutely prohibited. Once found, that person will be regarded as a murderer .At the same time, it will also be added to the New World reward list as a red wanted criminal."

"What a severe punishment." Lawrence's eyes widened suddenly, because only extremely evil guys would be listed on the New World's reward list if they were found to have completely betrayed the civilized world. And all countries in the New World and non-evil forces will treat these guys as enemies and hunt them down.

At the same time, the content of this list will be delivered to the whole world. Any force has the right to hunt down and kill the evil people on the list and come to the New World to fulfill the reward.

The red wanted criminal on the list means that the amount of bounty on this guy is ranked second on the list, and there are basically no masters who participate in the black iron level competition. This also means that all contestants who violate this taboo will face endless pursuit, basically there is no possibility of escape.

Therefore, all the contestants present were shocked by this severe punishment, but at the same time secretly heaved a sigh of relief. This shows that the organizer of the competition does not want everyone to kill each other, so everyone will naturally be much safer.

"Okay, I've said what I have to say. Now we will distribute the list with specific questions to you. If you have any questions, you can ask the staff you know well. The game will officially start in 40 minutes."

Soon, the platform floating in the air split into many pocket platforms and landed on the top of the mountain where Lawrence and the others were. Then the staff who came down from the pocket platform went to the contestants and began to distribute various detailed receipts about the activities and began to explain.

It was a priest of the Church of Knowledge who distributed the vouchers to Lawrence and his team. After receiving the vouchers, Lawrence realized that it was no wonder so many people were so eager for this competition, because the rewards were so generous.

For example, the team that won the first place in the competition can get an extremely precious strengthening opportunity. This kind of strengthening opportunity is not a simple comprehensive strengthening, but a strengthening of the human body's potential. After experiencing this kind of strengthening, the transcendent can go further and further on the path of transcendence.

In addition to this most precious prize, members of this team can also get 360 copies of magic food for a whole year, the bronze stage has priority to use the meditation rooms of various churches, and each person has a professional-level magic item. 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, if the winner is from the White Eagle Federation, then they can get a black iron-level borrowing card from the White Eagle Federation Library, and they can also get the honor of carving a bust relief on the outer wall of the Federation Memorial Hall.

"Zhi, it looks really great." Ratman Miss Raka widened her eyes. "The rewards are simply too generous. With these rewards, I can definitely become a hero or even a legendary rogue."

"Yes, the prizes are indeed very rich." Lawrence remained calm as he looked at the contestants who were discussing more and more heatedly around him. "It also means that the competition will be very fierce, and each of us may need to give our all to win."

"It's actually not a great chance for us to win the championship." At this time, Paladin John opened his mouth and said, as a paladin who can be raised as a superman since he was a child, his information channels are naturally better than Lawrence's. There are a lot more of these half-baked ones. Naturally know more about this game.

"At a lower level, especially at the black iron level. Those non-human intelligent creatures are naturally much stronger than me by virtue of their talents. Historically, their number did not exceed 1/3 of the overall population at most. But more than half the number of championships."

Speaking of this, John found that everyone seemed a little lost, so he hurriedly cheered everyone up. "But it's necessary to go all out for the competition. You know, the higher the ranking, the more prizes. I don't think we have any problem getting a good ranking, and those prizes are also very good—"

"My brother, shut up!" Warrior Lei Suo directly interrupted John. "It's better for you to keep quiet."

"Okay, I'll shut up now." After hearing what Lei Suo said, Paladin John immediately shut up. Lawrence and the others covered their mouths and laughed.

John is a true paladin, impeccable in morals and conduct. But for some unknown reason, he will habitually pour cold water on others or lift which pot is not open when he is talking, and he has a tendency to crow his mouth. So his best friend Resor is often responsible for stopping him from talking before it gets any worse.

After the excitement of the prizes passed, Lawrence and the others began to carefully check the information on the materials. According to the regulations of the competition, the astral space selected for the competition is different every year, but this time the astral space called "Sea and Flame" is a circular space with a diameter of about 70 kilometers.

In this space, a volcanic island with a diameter of more than 40 kilometers floats on the blue sea, surrounded by many small islands and reefs. And Lawrence's task will be to stay inside for a week.

In addition to a map full of freehand style attached to the information, it is only vaguely mentioned that the closer to the volcano monsters on these islands, the stronger they will be. And near the largest crater in the center of the map, there are about 2,000 dragon kobolds, divided into several tribes, blocking the way to a mine on the volcano.

Although the investigators who entered this space did not enter the mine in order to avoid disturbing the group of dragon vein kobolds. But just the breath emanating from the entrance of the cave has already convinced several investigators that there is definitely something good inside.

In addition to the kobold tribe, there are all kinds of monsters in the woods on the island. Among the most powerful monsters are a professional-grade thorny porcupine and a professional-grade water turtle. Other than that, there are some official-level monsters.

It's just that these official-level monsters are often the leaders of a group of monsters, so it's no easier to deal with them than the previous two monsters. And in this case, Lawrence and the others couldn't slaughter a certain kind of monster on a large scale, otherwise it would be easy to attract these powerful monster leaders.