Struggle in the Steam Age

After making up his mind, Lawrence immediately started preparations. Of course, this does not mean that he just walked down the hillside and rushed into the pyramid, because during the investigation just now, he discovered that there was a five or six-meter-high city wall surrounding the pyramid, enclosing the entire pyramid in the center. , and a series of buildings that look like temples are also enclosed in the city wall.

Although the jackal guards patrolling the city wall and the jackal clergy who were active in the buildings that seemed to be temples within the city wall were just ordinary people, considering that there were at least 1,000 jackals here, Lawrence I decided to collect some information outside and enter this pyramid after making full preparations.

Through observation a few hours before dark, especially the approaching reconnaissance of those phantom bugs. Lawrence did discover a lot of interesting things from here. For example, on the surface of the pyramid facing the main entrance of the city wall, there is a place covered by a linen tent with various patterns painted on it. Six senior warriors wearing painted leather armor are stationed at the entrance of the tent.

The reason why they were identified as high-level warriors was because Lawrence had never seen a jackal wearing clothes on the upper body other than these people along the way. Six hundred meters away, I felt that those people were extraordinary.

Because Lawrence has never seen anything related to the extraordinary during this journey, even if these so-called extraordinary people are not even considered as trainees, that is, they are stronger than ordinary people, they will probably only use a little brute force warrior. But in such an environment, they can also be called the people who stand at the top of the power in this plane.

There is no doubt that the place where these people can be stationed in this plane must be an extremely important place. So Lawrence found a bushy place to hide himself, and then started to focus on the observation with the telescope.

During the observation, he found that the complex of buildings under the pyramid can be regarded as heavily guarded. On the walls of the city and on the road leading to the city, the strong warriors with linen loincloths around their waists and turbans on their shoulders carried quiver cross-body, holding a triangular bow in one hand, or a large cowhide shield in one hand. Patrol in small groups with spears tipped with golden metal.

These jackal warriors patrolled very regularly, so Lawrence saw the warriors stationed at the door of the linen tent next to the pyramid switch defenses. And during the time when these warriors were changing defenses, Lawrence saw everything in the tent through the opened tent door.

The tent had walls on only three sides, and the side next to the pyramid was empty. And there is a door on the wall of the pyramid shrouded in the tent. This door was built of pure red stones, and the patterns on it were some weird skulls and monsters, which didn't look like the original structure of the pyramid.

And just outside this gate are two Transcendents who also have not reached the level of trainees guarding here, but the copper armor with golden metal scales on their bodies and the crescent ax made of the same metal in their hands indicate that Their identities should be more honorable and their fighting power should be stronger.

But these were not what Lawrence paid attention to. The moment the curtain blocking the door was lifted, he saw the six-armed snake relief carved on the stone door representing the blood-colored sky. This also shows that The people who made the Scarlet Sky come here.

After confirming this, he began to suspect that the weird runes and the blood-red tower top on the pyramid were not painted on the tower from the beginning of construction, but were painted on by the bloody sky to achieve some purpose.

This guess is very reasonable, because the earliest harpy god was the river god and the god of fertility of the Nile. So theoretically speaking, there would be no such runes related to death and blood in the astral plane controlled by his church. And it has been confirmed that the power held by another force that controls here, Scarlet Sky, happens to be related to blood and death.

Eight hours later, the sky began to darken. And Lawrence, who has mastered the changing rules of the guards in this place, easily released [Camouflage] to blend into the background color, although there are some torches and braziers on the city wall. But the light of these braziers or torches that used animal fat or linseed oil as fuel was very dim, so that the guards who were just ordinary people didn't even notice Lawrence who used metal hooks and ropes to climb over the wall.

After entering the area enclosed by the wall, Lawrence saw something that he hadn't seen before because the wall blocked his view. For example, in front of the temple in front of the linen tent, there is an extremely flat square covered with pale yellow polished square stone slabs.

In the middle of the square, there is a road paved with golden sand that connects the temple and the gate on the city wall. On both sides of this path, there are small obelisks with a height of five or six meters that do not match the surrounding environment at all. monument.

According to the customs of the ancient Nile civilization, it is very common to erect obelisks in front of various important temples or other buildings, and they will record various information related to the temples on the obelisks.

Normally, however, such obelisks are carved in gray, black or khaki stone. Obelisks carved in gold or crystal in certain special and otherworldly areas. In short, on the whole, the obelisks of the ancient Nile civilization paid great attention to achieving a harmony with the surrounding environment when they were constructed.

And now the obelisks standing on both sides of this sacred road leading to the temple are all carved from a kind of blood-red stone, and they are not traditional hieroglyphs, runes, or the plane of the ancient Nero gods. Sculpture. Rather, it is some vivid carvings that appeared in the Age of Enlightenment after the end of the Dark Ages.

These carvings were all monsters with very twisted bodies, some of which Lawrence had seen in the books of the Church of Knowledge, but most of them he had never seen before. The only thing that can be confirmed is that these monsters are all extremely evil and chaotic monsters.

When Lawrence was close to those obelisks, he could feel the magic power emanating from these stone tablets, but he could also feel that the magic power on these stone tablets was extremely weak. Even the magic on some steles has disappeared. This means that even though these rooms were used for some purpose before, they are now just decorations.

Following the shadows in those rooms, Lawrence quickly lurked to the place closest to the tent. With the help of dark vision, those patrols and clergy who could only move around with the help of dim torches nearby couldn't find Lawrence who was hiding his figure by magic.

However, the last seven or eight meters journey became the most troublesome part of this adventure, because there was a ring of torches around the open space in front of the tent to illuminate it clearly, and Lawrence didn't think that his simple [Camouflage Technique] could get out of this area. Places get away with it.

But this is not without a solution. Lawrence quickly touched the unguarded side of the tent according to the terrain he had just observed and the habits of these people. Afterwards, two bottles of stun potion were thrown from the side to the center of the group of guards at the door and inside the door almost at the same time.

In an instant, two clusters of gray smoke instantly enveloped the surrounding space. The two warriors in the tent and the six warriors guarding the tent door fell to the ground at the same time. I have to say that the potions prepared by Fatina and the Ratmen are indeed very powerful, especially in the face of these ordinary people who are just getting a glimpse of the door. For the jackal.

After the potion took effect, Lawrence took advantage of the fact that all the guards were unconscious, opened the curtain and broke into the tent, and then quickly rushed into the tent when the guards and clergymen on the periphery couldn't react. In the stone gate on the pyramid.