Struggle in the Steam Age

"I thought there would be a big movement." Entering the astral plane, Lawrence first made sure that he appeared in a safe grass, and then remembered that when he entered the astral plane, he saw nothing but a light. "But this is good, at least the probability of being discovered by others is much smaller."

In his impression, entering this kind of astral plane is often accompanied by great movements. These include but are not limited to: special sounds, lights, and magical waves are produced during this process.

And the space teleportation that Lawrence experienced only had extremely weak light and shadow effects and magical reactions, he had only read about it in some books. According to the records in the book, there are two possibilities for this phenomenon, or the destination is a very weak astral plane, and the energy required for the transmission itself is not much. Either the destination is very strong and the person who made the teleportation key is also very high-level, able to use magic efficiently, so that only a very small amount of magic power will be lost, causing some strange images with very little movement.

Obviously, the Nile River, the source of the ancient Nile civilization, and its church of the river god Hapi, who held the priesthood of abundance and wealth at the same time, belonged to the top church of the ancient Nile civilization at that time. And as the highest astral plane of the church, this plane named as the land flowing with milk and honey naturally cannot be a weak astral plane.

Not to mention that this plane seems to be similar to the main plane as a whole. According to the surrounding situation, it can be inferred that there is enough space inside to form an ecological cycle that can be used for farming, development, and population reproduction. It can be said that it is the top-level position. face space.

If Lawrence hadn't confirmed that all the news about this thing had been completely lost in the long river of history, no one would know about it in this era. The first time he got this, he would definitely choose to dump this thing on the church so as not to bring disaster on himself.

Such a high-level astral plane also made Lawrence, who had just arrived in the grass, very nervous. After adding a series of protective magics such as [protection from evil], [resistance to energy damage], and [mage armor], he First, he checked the gold plate that sent him in.

The energy in the gold plate has been exhausted, and the next teleportation must wait until seven days later. After confirming this, Lawrence put away the gold plate and began to investigate the surrounding environment bit by bit.

Through investigation, Lawrence found that he should be in a wetland. Through observation, he knew that what he was stepping on was some kind of humus-filled land that was very fertile and moist. And the green plants growing taller than the two of us should be the specialty of Yanzhou, and also the papyrus that is the symbol of the ancient Nile civilization.

The sky here is very similar to the astral plane he has been to before. There are no stars in the sky, but the changes in the brightness of the entire sky are used to imitate changes in the outside world. This also made it impossible for Lawrence, who was now in the tall grass and couldn't see anything, to find anything that could be used as a reference for positioning.

After all, this is a plane that has been discovered and built in history, so theoretically there will be some artificial buildings or creations. The purpose of Lawrence entering this space this time is to find those artificial buildings and collect more information in order to determine the next step.

"If this place once belonged to the God of the Nile River, then this space probably has a certain river as its core. And those important facilities should also be built on the edge of the river." Lawrence calmed down after finding that the conventional method could not be located. Start thinking about it. "So I just need to find the river here and search along the river."

Thinking of this, he closed his eyes to perceive it, and then walked towards the place where he felt the heaviest water vapor. The road was not very peaceful. When he pushed aside the tall papyrus, he would startle some wild ducks or wild geese living in the reeds from time to time.

Of course, these lively sights put Lawrence in a good mood along the way. Because for the astral plane, except for some special planes with some precious raw materials, the more suitable the plane for the growth of animals and plants, the higher the value. And the astral plane that can be circulated like the one he is currently in belongs to the highest level of the astral plane.

After trekking through the grass for more than half an hour, Lawrence heard the sound of gurgling water coming from ahead. After taking a few steps forward and pushing away the papyrus stalks in front of him, a clear dark blue river appeared in front of him.

The river is very wide, it looks like one or two hundred meters. However, the speed of the river is not fast, it can even be said to be very slow, and Lawrence can see many fat fish swimming in the water on the shore. After standing on the river bank and watching around, a spot of white on the distant river surface suddenly caught his attention.

"What's that?" Lawrence took out a telescope from his space bag and looked over, only to be surprised to see a small boat with sails floating on the river like that. A male jackal with a giant wolf standing upright but with some human limbs, wearing only a white loincloth, is using a net to catch fish from the river.

"How is it possible? There are pure jackals here." After putting down the binoculars, Lawrence murmured in shock. Because historically, the Nile region in the northeast of Yanzhou gradually declined, and finally even became the front line of the tug-of-war for civilization to resist barbaric invasions in the dark ages.

Although the ancient Nile civilization was dominated by humans, there were still some minor vassal races. It's a pity that the long tug-of-war caused great changes to the various races there. Today, many races in this civilization have mutated or disappeared. For example, the jackal with black hair all over The main world outside has long since disappeared.

It was indeed an accident that some remnants of a lost civilization could be found on this astral plane, but this did not affect Lawrence's plan for the time being. Even because he didn't know the thoughts of the pure descendants of the ancient Nile civilization in the local area, he had to find ways to avoid those aborigines in the next journey.

Fortunately, as an extraordinary person, it is not difficult to consciously avoid those ordinary jackals. What makes Lawrence feel abnormal is that the upper limit of the strength of outsiders that this space can theoretically accommodate is legendary level, but he passed several settlements along the way but did not find any extraordinary people.

"It's not normal, it's absolutely not normal." After cutting a cobra that was trying to attack sneakily in half with a machete, Lawrence hid in a bush and looked at the city surrounded by a mud-brick city wall in the distance. City murmured.

Because he used a variety of detection magic to detect and unexpectedly discovered that the entire city has no power related to the extraordinary, and he has not seen any creatures related to the extraordinary on the way, which shows that this space is very likely. There are some deeper secrets hidden.

But in this place, he also saw what he was looking for, which was a giant pyramid on the Gobi Desert behind the city. Visually, most of the pyramids with a height of more than 1,000 meters are made of a kind of light yellow stone, and the entire surface looks very smooth and regular.

The reason why it can be determined that this is the destination is because the gold plate in Lawrence's hand began to vibrate slightly when he approached the pyramid.

After getting closer, Lawrence found that the top 1/10 of the entire pyramid was covered with a blood-red metal, which looked like it was soaked in blood from a distance. At the same time, on the surface of the pyramids composed of yellow stones below, a large number of strange runes were painted with some bright red dyes like blood.

These runes are a variation of ancient Nile hieroglyphs. When Lawrence stood on a small hill and confirmed that there was no other place related to extraordinary power in the vicinity except the pyramid in front of him, he began to surround him from a distance. The pyramid turned in circles. At the same time, he took out a notepad from the space bag and copied these runes.

After spending more than an hour circling the pyramid, Lawrence successfully transcribed all the runes on the pyramid. After synthesizing Champollion's language talent and the part of the ancient Nile script and mystic knowledge instilled in a large amount of knowledge by the God of Knowledge, Lawrence quickly discerned the meaning of these runes.

"Collect, filter, gather—" When he deciphered the meaning of these runes one by one, his brows became more and more wrinkled. "If you look at these runes together, it means that this pyramid will absorb the death power of the entire astral plane and provide it to something in a certain pyramid. This really seems to be related to the bloody sky."

"But it's meaningless to think about it here." After discovering that this ruin was related to the Scarlet Sky, Lawrence sat down and began to think about what to do next. A few minutes later, he abruptly closed the notebook he was holding just now and stood up. "Just believe in Bai Ze's power once, and I want to see what this may be the last treasure in the Scarlet Sky."