Struggle in the Steam Age

This just-appeared gate is a gorgeous marble gate about six meters high and five meters wide, with many reliefs related to the sea and volcanoes carved on the door frame. Inside the gate is a piece of red and blue light like glass, and everyone who approaches the gate can feel the power contained in this light.

"Okay, everyone line up in front of the portal, a total of three lines. Please stand together and make sure to stand in the same line for each team." Props yelled. "Please check the props on you one last time to ensure that there is nothing beyond the limit. Otherwise, it may cause serious damage to your life safety."

"Now, there are three staff members standing at the teleportation gate. They all hold special magic props in their hands. After you walk over, just show your wrists and stretch them over. They will mark you with magic marks. Now everyone starts Make the final preparations, if you have any questions, you can ask the staff around you. If not, now line up the teams according to the initials of the last names of the captains of each team."

"White Eagle Federation, Team August, Captain Lawrence August." Because the languages ​​of the countries in the New World are obviously different, the organizers of the tournament chose Radnim, the former common language of the Old World, as the standard. The letter of Lawrence's surname is the first in the Radnim alphabet, so after waiting for two or three minutes, there was a shout from the staff in front.

"Now, let's go!" Lawrence waved his hand firmly. The remaining four followed him to the staff in front of the portal.

After stretching out his left wrist and handing it upwards, the staff took out something like a sword hilt and pressed it. After a beep, a simple number two appeared on his wrist. In addition to this, there is a circular border surrounding the figure.

"The action looks like taking a temperature." Lawrence raised his wrist to look at the number and shook his head helplessly. "But why does this symbol look so much like an inspection and quarantine stamp?"

After everyone had to stamp the magic seal, Lawrence and the others stood in front of the door according to the staff's instructions. Then stand in a row holding hands shoulder to shoulder.

"I swear, I've never been so close to other people in my adult life, especially men—" Cogg, the dwarf mechanic standing on Lawrence's right, complained, considering his size, he was surrounded by Lawrence and himself The mana steam robot with two big men squeezed in the middle is really not such a wonderful feeling.

"It's started." But before Cog could finish his sentence, he heard Lawrence yell something and then pulled him into the space door in front of him, which also made his subsequent complaints directly blocked back into his throat .

The first time Lawrence entered the portal, his eyes went dark, and then he felt an inexplicable squeeze and suffocation, just like being in the deep sea.

However, this feeling came and went quickly, and soon the blackness faded from his eyes, and a piece of blue occupied his entire field of vision. At the same time, Lawrence also felt the sense of weightlessness sweeping his whole body.

"Mmp." Lawrence cursed directly, because he found that their team was falling down from a height of more than 30 meters above the sea. Although at this height, it is basically impossible for extraordinary people to fall directly into the water, but injuries are inevitable, and there is a high probability that they will be directly disabled.

[Feather Fall], Lawrence immediately released a spell. At this time, he was very grateful that this spell was recorded in his spell list, and the other people in the team also showed their magical powers. For example, Miss Ratman and the warrior both obviously have magic items with similar effects. The robot next to Cog directly stretched out a pair of dragonfly-like wings and pulled the dwarf mechanic directly into the air.

And Paladin John is the most skillful: he condensed palm-sized pieces of holy light under his feet, and then stepped on these holy lights to descend to the sea step by step.

Thankfully, this sea area is not very far from the real island. So after relying on a sea wind blowing towards the island, Lawrence and the others successfully landed on a beach covered with black gravel.

Immediately after falling, Lawrence and the others dispersed according to the previously agreed battle formation, and then quickly approached the forest behind the beach while searching.

This is one of the plans they had arranged before. No matter what the situation, staying on the bare beach is too conspicuous and too dangerous, especially in the information obtained before, the most powerful person in this small plane The Archer Turtle hides right in the ocean and, being a superb turtle, naturally crawls onto the beach.

Fortunately, everything was quiet until they nervously entered the woods, and nothing happened: neither the imaginary giant tortoise came ashore, nor did any monsters hide in the woods to ambush them.

"Okay, let's check the surroundings to make sure it's safe." After entering the forest for more than 20 meters, Lawrence and the others stopped under the cover of a large pumice stone full of holes, and then they began to observe the surrounding area.

They are now standing in a flat woodland, probably because it is too close to the sea and the seawater seeps in, the land looks a bit barren. However, on the sand mixed with small stones, there are still some forearm-length grasses crawling on the ground, bringing some green to the earthy yellow ground.

In addition, there are sparsely grown trees with a height of seven or eight meters, dense crowns, brown bark and dark green oval leaves, and some brown fruits the size of figs are hung on the branches of the trees.

A gust of wind blew over from the sea, the leaves and green grass rustled and fluttered, and at the same time a sweet smell permeated the forest. After inhaling a few mouthfuls of the sweet scent, Lawrence felt himself calm down a lot.

This was a good thing, but now each of them became vigilant. Started poking around to find out what exactly caused this situation.

"Wait...these trees look familiar." After looking around, the Ratman Laka finally found out what was affecting everyone's emotions. "This seems to be a nutmeg tree. If I remember correctly, I have seen this kind of tree being introduced and planted in the plantations of some islands in the Sea of ​​Stars in the past few years."

After hearing these words, Lawrence and the others were still in a daze. Fortunately, Miss Laka discovered this and briefly explained it to them.

It turns out that the nutmeg in this world comes from an astral plane called the Spice Paradise, and the entrance to that astral plane is fixed, located in the islands of the overseas province of Sinian in the east of the old continent and south of Sinian .

Therefore, these spices that can treat gastrointestinal diseases and help extraordinary people meditate cross the sea full of various dangerous sea beasts and natural conditions by boat. Downright luxury. It's very normal for Lawrence and his team's extraordinary people from ordinary families not to have heard of this kind of thing. Ratman Laka was also able to recognize this kind of thing because of his recent activities in the Sea of ​​Stars.

"It's a pity that we came at the wrong time, and the fruits on the trees are not yet ripe." After taking a last look at these precious spice trees, Miss Laka said helplessly. "Otherwise, the spices in this forest alone will give us a lot of money."

Although the spices that you can’t get in front of your eyes are indeed a bit depressing, but from another perspective, finding some spice trees in a place that is not suitable for the growth of spice crops as soon as you enter this place is a good example of this. The space is rich.

And from a certain point of view, this is a very good sign. Lawrence's morale was also boosted a lot.