Struggle in the Steam Age

"What the hell is this?" Looking at the disappearing spider remains, Nora had a look of disbelief on her face. Because the shape of the surrounding plants was very strange just now, Nora and Lawrence both maintained the highest vigilance to investigate the surroundings, but they didn't find these ambush spiders at all just now.

"It's still a force of nature." Lawrence said in disbelief after examining the spider's remains. "But I don't think they are natural products at all. I talked with the extraordinary people of the Agricultural Church before, and they told me that in the spiritual world, natural forces either attack randomly like wild animals, or Laziness never attacks. A seemingly organized attack like this is not something they can do."

"That is to say, there should be a power behind these spiders. A power we don't know." Speaking of this, Nora's small face suddenly wrinkled, "But we came here by chance today, how could someone Ambush us. Even if the gods of the general divine power level want to find our traces through prophecy, I will perceive it."

"What about the higher-level gods?" Lawrence asked. "For example, if a god with a powerful level of divine power wants to plot against us, we shouldn't be able to find out."

"Are you stupid?" Nora looked at Lawrence helplessly. "The only powerful divine powers are those few majesties. But no matter who they are, they have no hatred against us, and there is no need to come and attack us. More importantly, if these great beings want to kill us, there is no need to make such a big detour A circle, as long as you stretch out a finger gently, we can be completely crushed, and there is no need to be as troublesome as it is now."

"You're right." After speaking, Lawrence said, looking at some little puppets who were trying to make ends meet. "So, maybe it's not because someone is trying to sneak up on us, but because the place we're going to has some kind of defense. And these spiders are part of the defense system."

"It should be like this." Nora nodded and looked forward. The path under their feet that was full of grass and moss has now changed into a road made of golden stone slabs. And at the end of the road, a building covered with colorful patterns and decorated with a lot of gold and silver stood in a small valley.

Everything in that valley is golden, from the ground to the plants, from the plants to the stones, without exception. And all these golden things are so abnormal compared with the dark green or even black things around the valley. It was as if someone had uprooted a piece of the ground and replaced it with a completely different piece of ground.

When they came to the intersection of light and dark, Lawrence and Nora looked at each other, then took a deep breath and stepped forward. Just like what they perceived before, there is nothing dangerous in it, but it gives people a feeling like the sun shining on the body, which makes the whole body warm.

However, this did not make Lawrence and the others feel relaxed at all, and even raised their vigilance even more. For the light in the darkness of the spirit world may not be the real light, but some dangerous trap. It's like the light on the head of an anglerfish that attracts small fish to throw themselves into the trap.

But until they walked all the way to the front of the building, everything was normal, there were no traps, no enemies, not even the spiders that crawled out of nowhere that they saw at the beginning. Just like walking through the wilderness and entering a church of a righteous god under normal circumstances.

Yes, after approaching, Lawrence found that the building in front of him was a religious building full of elves. And completely different from the building in the real space outside, most of this building is complete. Although there is also no holy emblem of the gods, all kinds of carvings can be said to be ready.

Most importantly, if there is no problem with the knowledge of mysticism in Lawrence's mind. This building presents a standard church style unique to a forest. That is to say, it does not have brick or metal walls like the human church, but an open building. The sanctuary of the gods is only divided by various plants around.

"This carving—it's not right." After arriving outside the building, Lawrence and the others didn't rush in first, but looked at the carvings on the outer wall of the building in an attempt to obtain more information. But at the first sight of these wall reliefs, Lawrence and the others realized the weirdness of this church.

Normal elf religious occasions, whether churches, temples or altars. All kinds of patterns will be carved in all places. Just like what a traveler who once went to the elf forest said, those elves are not even willing to let go of any area larger than the palm of their hand, and let it just stay there naked and unadorned.

Under normal circumstances, the elves would carve something on the building about animals and plants in nature, or something related to their own production and life. But now the carvings on the outer wall of this building are obviously a bit off.

The relief paintings on the walls of this building are indeed about things related to nature and about the production and life of the elves themselves. However, the above style is obviously more bold and unrestrained than the normal elf style. It doesn't seem to be in line with the ascetic style of the elves at all, but it has the style of the exterior wall decoration of the Khajuraho Temple in India that Lawrence saw from the Internet in his previous life.

"It's not elf at all." The first time she saw something on the wall, Nora covered her eyes with her hands very ladylikely, then opened her emerald green eyes and looked at the wall through the gap between her fingertips. everything of. "At least it's not at all like the elves in my impression, but a bit, a bit dark elf style."

"To be precise, this is a style between the dark elves and the elves." Lawrence carefully inspected the not-so-large building with a scholar's eye and said, because the entire building area is also large. It is equivalent to the size of a basketball court, so it didn't take long to see all the sculptures on the exterior wall of the building.

"You mean, the middle period?" Nora turned around and said, "If that's the case, then we have indeed discovered something remarkable now."

According to the content of mystic knowledge, the dark elves, or drow elves, were just a branch of ordinary elves before, and they only had black skin. But as the patron saint Erosineros they believed in began to become evil, these elves also slowly degenerated, and were exiled to the Underdark by the main elf god.

But before the fall, these dark elves, like other elves, loved nature and life in the sun. It's a pity that the angry lord elves also destroyed most of their traces on the ground when they were exiled underground, and the other elves also obeyed the oracle for a long time, destroying their own black as much as possible. The traces left by the skin compatriots.

And those dark elves who went underground also destroyed everything that represented their past, to show a clean break with the past. The direct consequence of this is that there are basically no remnants of that era on the ground except for a few items that were kept as spoils of war in various elf temples.

Therefore, the current building is likely to be the trace left by the drow elves of that period, and it is an extremely precious treasure from any angle. And this also made Lawrence more interested in the things placed in this building.

After all, building such a building in the spirit world is definitely not like an ordinary temple for people to worship, because even dark elves, creatures that are inherently stronger than humans, cannot make everyone superhuman and able to enter the spirit world. boundary. Coupled with the results of the previous divination, Lawrence can deduce that this building actually exists to store certain things.