Struggle in the Steam Age

Nora's discovery is extremely important news to Lawrence. After all, he knows that Nora's essence is a divinely constructed life form, and only powers of the same level can interfere with her abilities. can do. That is to say, what they are about to face is likely to be related to the gods.

"Could it be caused by the Holy Grail of the Suffering God?" Lawrence asked, remembering the purpose of John and the others coming here. "I think it's not just living things that can affect you, some artifacts with the power of gods should also be able to cause the same trouble to you."

"You're right, my lord." Nora nodded, and continued, "But when I'm standing here now, I can already feel this type of power, and the God of Suffering has a sacred and purifying aura. It’s different from my own power, but what lingers around me now is a power full of rot.”

After being told by Nora, Lawrence closed his eyes and began to perceive the surrounding environment. Sure enough, he felt a rotten power gushing out from the cave behind the stone platform. Although it is very weak, its personality is not low. If an ordinary person stood here, it might only take a few minutes to become weak due to this breath.

Fortunately, Lawrence's Bai Ze blood has the ability to purify filth, so he can easily resist this kind of breath that contains obvious corrupt power from penetrating into the body. After discovering this, he breathed a long sigh of relief. But just in case, Lawrence took the initiative to guide Bai Ze's power to form a protective film on the surface of his body.

After solving the trouble of this kind of breath, Lawrence and the others did not continue to walk in, but began to study the reliefs on the surrounding stone walls. He hopes to obtain some information about the previous builders here by studying the contents of these stone carvings, so that he can make targeted preparations.

After quickly checking the reliefs, Lawrence could confirm that the reliefs here were carved with some stories, and the protagonist of the stories was a large fish with arms and legs. For example, on the engraving on the left side of the cave entrance, there is such a pattern of a murloc killing a strange-looking big fish with a spear in his hand.

"In other words, we are likely to face a large group of aquatic creatures in a while." After quickly exchanging information through the soul link, Nora said a little nervously. "This is not good news. Compared to fighting on the ground or in the air, I am not good at fighting in water."

"Don't complain, at least compared to me, you are already good at fighting in water." Lawrence patted Nora's little head lightly, showing a troubled expression. The adaptability of the surrounding environment is much stronger than that of flesh and blood life.

It is definitely a challenge for Lawrence in the underwater combat team, because although he has a way to let himself breathe underwater, various movements will also be affected. Not to mention that as an important part of his combat effectiveness, the rifles and pistols on his body are useless underwater.

Fortunately, when they checked the murals and walked into the cave, Lawrence and the others found that although the road inside the cave was tortuous, it was an upward slope as a whole. Fight a school of fish in the water that appear to be intelligent creatures

As they continued to go deeper into the cave, more and more human traces appeared in front of them. For example, the stone walls around the cave seem to have been polished with something, and it looks much smoother than the previous cave. But the strange thing is that none of the reliefs that almost covered the entire entrance just now can be seen here.

"It's a little strange. Under normal circumstances, there will be no carvings at the door, but no carvings inside." Lawrence said to the little puppet floating beside him as he walked forward. "According to the archaeological data we have, this kind of situation has basically never been found on the ruins that have been built by this race."

"In other words, we may have discovered a brand new race." Nora raised her eyebrows and said, "Last time, the ruins didn't dare to make it public at all, because there were too many things involved in it. But I think this time Our discovery should be published, or at least part of it, which is indeed a nice windfall."

After walking forward for a while, Lawrence and the others came to a small cave. Then six forked roads appeared in front of him. After some observation, they found that compared with the main road, those side roads looked very consistent in width and overall condition, making it impossible to tell which one was the real road.

"It's actually a maze, no wonder there are no carvings around." Nora whispered after turning around, "What should we do next? Are you using your divination to find a way for us?"

"Divination probably won't work." Lawrence first took out the three coins, held them in his hand, closed his eyes to feel the surrounding situation, and then opened his eyes, "Because of the suppression of the rotten atmosphere that permeates the surroundings, now I can use divination." It needs to consume several times or even ten times the magic power of the past. And if we get closer to the source of this breath, the more magic power is needed to cast the spell. If this is really a maze, I suspect that I will probably be walking out I completely exhausted the magic power in my body before."

"But on the other hand, we also have to be grateful for the rotten aura with a little bit of divine power." Lawrence said after looking around the stone hall, "Because of the existence of this aura, the other party It is also impossible to arrange any spells related to space. In other words, the size of this maze is limited."

"That's right. This rotten breath has even touched the edge of the concept. Not many things can resist this erosive force." Watching Lawrence start to release paper figurines around to explore the way, Nora gave these The paper people put on a temporary protective layer made of the power of faith and said to Lawrence, if they don't do this, these paper people will lose their strength completely and become a piece of paper if they walk more than ten meters at most.

"However, this also means that the strength of the building materials that make up this space is far beyond our imagination." After putting a protective layer on the last paper figurine, Nora stood up and threw a silver and green intertwined silk thread on the ground. On the wall next to it, only a very shallow trace with silver-green light was left.

But just after the attack ended, the light on this trace was annihilated by some kind of disgusting yellow-brown liquid that appeared on the surrounding walls, and then the trace left by the attack healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. After more than ten seconds, the wall was not much different from before it was attacked.

"You have also seen that neither physical means nor occult means can mark it for a long time. Let alone destroy these walls." Nora touched the place where the mark was left on the wall with her hand and turned her head. Lawrence said. "If you don't have that special magic, this maze can really trap many people, especially when those who travel through the maze are in a hurry."

While not all of them have a ship out there in dire need of saving like Lawrence, the rotting power that surrounds them can be the deadliest limitation. If they don't use the power of pure faith or equivalent power to defend like Lawrence, ordinary people won't be able to hold on for too long.

Fortunately, the ability Lawrence mastered has a great advantage in the face of such a situation. In less than ten minutes, Lawrence found a way through the maze through the strengthened paper people, and then the two of them walked through the complicated maze along this way. Ten minutes later, their eyes suddenly opened up, and they came to a huge cave hall.