Struggle in the Steam Age

Although the superhumans who participated in this competition were all young, as the elite of the elite, they were not reckless, let alone idiots. Therefore, after discovering that the current situation is not good, most people choose to retreat to a safe place around them to find a solution to the problem instead of a head-on head-on fortification with complete defenses and neat personnel.

Soon, Lawrence and the others followed the traces left by some people on the trees and found a contestant campsite in a river valley more than 500 meters away from the kobold fortress in a straight line.

In this valley, a large number of tents and shacks are lined up row upon row on the hillsides on both sides of the valley. There are many traces of personnel activities in the open space under the jaw. At the entrance of the valley, the contestants used the nearby stones, soil and wood to build a simple fortification, guarding the entrance of the valley like a checkpoint.

"Hi, Lawrence, is that you?" When they appeared in front of the checkpoint, a patrolling person on the checkpoint waved to Lawrence. "You guys are here today too!"

"Nice to meet you, Zhu Yan." Squinting his eyes for a while, Lawrence immediately recognized that the man standing on the wall and greeting him was Zhu Yan, the magic musketeer from the New Island Republic that he met a few days ago. After confirming each other's identities, a woven rattan ladder hung from the barrier for Lawrence and the others to climb up.

"What's going on in this camp?" Lawrence asked curiously after seeing Zhu Yan hand over the task to an orc shaman who had just climbed up the fortification to change shifts. "Wouldn't it be possible for you to set up a camp in this place without being discovered?"

"Don't get excited, let me answer these questions for you bit by bit." Zhu Yan smiled and motioned Lawrence and the others to follow him to the middle of the camp, explaining as he walked. "This camp was set up three days ago, and the people here all want to go to the cave on the volcano to have a look."

Having said that, he glanced around to make sure that no one else came over and said. "The investigators we sent before found that the group of kobolds had a lot of jewelry made of precious metals and gems, so everyone hopes to kill the group of kobolds to gain wealth."

For extraordinary people, precious metals and gems are not just symbols of wealth. These things are indispensable raw materials in the production of many extraordinary-related items, and can also assist the cultivation of extraordinary people. So they are considered part of the supernatural resource. For the extraordinary, the more extraordinary resources used in practice are always the better.

The Transcendents who appear here are the top part of young people, but they either belong to their own hard work and luck to get to where they are today, or they belong to the best new generation of an elite group. These two kinds of people have a common feature, that is, the resources at hand are not enough.

Because if they are struggling on their own, it will inevitably consume a lot of resources to get to where they are today. It is difficult for them to accumulate enough resources while doing this at their age. However, the resources allocated to each person in each large organization are limited, and every point must be carefully calculated to ensure the maximum effect. It is basically impossible to have the opportunity to save resources.

Therefore, for the vast majority of people in this camp who lack resources, this opportunity to obtain a large amount of resources at one time is really rare, and basically no one is willing to let go of this opportunity. It's just that facing a military fortress, it is basically impossible for these contestants to take advantage of it alone, so that everyone can only gather here to find a way.

Of course, not everyone here lacks resources. However, no matter how many resources there are, if there is an opportunity to obtain more resources and points, not many people will refuse.

"As for the group of kobolds, of course they know we are here." What Zhu Yan said did not exceed Lawrence's expectations. As kobolds who are good at activities in the forest, if they don't know the camp of a large group of humans five or six hundred meters away That's weird.

It's just that according to what Zhu Yan said, the group of kobolds just scouted and returned to their simple fortress. Didn't try to attack here.

"It seems that this group of kobolds are more cunning than we imagined." John said next to him, "They didn't attack all the enemies in their territory like wild beasts, but they knew how to think and know how to fight against those themselves The invincible enemy is head-on, and such a monster is even more difficult to deal with."

"You're right." Zhu Yan gave John a thumbs up after hearing John's words, "The leader of this camp now thinks the same way, those superhumans who have served in the army. Think that group of kobolds can't see them simply as monsters, but as an army of savage creatures."

While talking, everyone came to the center of the valley. In the middle of the valley is an open space the size of four basketball courts. Now two people are competing in this open space, and a bunch of people are cheering loudly around this open space.

On the slope behind this open space, a platform the size of half a basketball court was also cleared, and a large tent stood on the platform.

"This is the competition platform. All participants in this camp can choose this place to practice with other people. This kind of battle can be a team battle, or one member can be selected to represent the whole team."

"And the big tent above is the meeting room of the campsite. Everyone is discussing how to attack the kobold fortress there. You came in time. If the team comes after lunch today, it will be almost impossible due to time. It is impossible to participate in decision-making, and you can only choose to participate or not to participate in the next action."

"That's reasonable." Lawrence nodded. He saw nearly 300 people in this camp. It is not an easy task to integrate this group of guys who are good at fighting alone to attack a completely militarized kobold tribe. For things, it is necessary to take half a day to do a basic integration.

If someone comes too late, even if the proposed plan is better, everyone will not be able to adjust it. Because at that time, rather than making a so-called perfect plan that everyone could not execute smoothly, it would be better to choose those plans that were slightly flawed but everyone was prepared to execute.

Not everyone in Lawrence's team can enter that conference room. After negotiating with several people at the gate of the tent, Lawrence and John were allowed to enter the tent, while the other three were led by a guard to set up camp in an open space.

This is a common practice among Transcendents: if a group of Transcendents who are not familiar with each other are about to do something collectively, then the commander of this operation will be from spellcasters, paladins and those who have been in the past. Selected from the Transcendents who served as military officers.

Of course, spellcasters such as warlocks or druids often only barely replace when no one else is qualified to command. The reason why Lawrence was allowed to enter this tent was because he was the captain, and the reason why his strength was one of the best among the more than 300 extraordinary people after becoming an official warlock.

Walking into the tent, Lawrence found that the furnishings in the tent were very simple. It's just that there is a map with nearby terrain and monster information hanging on the front of the tent. The people in the tent were all standing there, and there were no tables and chairs for resting. A superman of the Republic of New Zealand wearing an unmarked blue-gray military uniform was standing beside the map with a pole, pointing and talking.

"—In short, this is the approximate layout of the six kobold camps around the volcano. Although some information is different from the data, it does not affect our next move very much." When Lawrence entered, The member of the New Island Republic delegation seemed to be about to finish his report work, he said quickly in Frans. "If anyone finds anything different, please speak up as soon as possible."