Struggle in the Steam Age

Just when Lawrence, who entered the island, successfully found the target and started the battle, the Enterprise, which was working hard outside to fight against the huge suction force from the island, felt that the situation had changed. And this change is much greater than the vibration in the island and the drop in the swamp water level that Lawrence felt.

"Our ship is moving." The lookout who had been staring nervously at the sea level to observe the situation shouted. "The attraction from the island is lower than before, and according to my judgment, it is continuing to decrease. I can see that our ship is now accelerating."

"It seems that your lord has succeeded." The first officer standing on the deck threw a wooden board painted with orange paint into the sea and shouted after careful observation for a few seconds, and then quickly rushed into the captain's cabin to communicate. The brass shouted to the powerhouse. "Strong ventilation, use the maximum horsepower to rush outward."

"But in that case, our steam engine probably won't last long." Soon, the communication pipe echoed the shouts of the operator of the steam engine in the power room mixed with the sharp whistle and the sound of machinery running. "Let's not mention that the machine itself has some problems after it has been running at full capacity for more than half an hour. Even a sound steam engine may explode or be damaged due to excessive pressure when it is under strong ventilation."

"But if we don't go all out now, we are likely to die, and it doesn't matter whether the steam engine is good or bad for the dead." The captain standing on the side with a nervous face suddenly turned his head and grabbed the communication tube and shouted . "So now is not the time to take care of your precious steam engine. I order you to increase the horsepower of the steam engine on board now."

"Understood." The captain has the highest, unchallenged right on board. So a few seconds after he gave the order, the whole boat shook violently like a wild horse that had been stabbed in the butt, and then moved away from the island bit by bit.

As the ship's horsepower increased and the island's attraction diminished, the Enterprise became faster and faster. Ten minutes later, there was a continuous and obvious vibration. The boat finally got rid of the huge attraction on the island just now and successfully came to a safe sea area.

"I hope your lord is going well." Just after getting out of danger, the Enterprise finally managed to reduce the pressure of the steam engine that had been working at super high pressure to a safe range. He turned his head and looked at the chimney that was emitting black smoke from Mars just now. White smoke began to rise, and the captain pinched the brim of his hat and prayed inwardly.

And now Lawrence, who was secretly blessed by all the crew members on the Enterprise, is now facing the most intense moment of the battle, because he lent his core strength to Nora just now, so now he can also feel the rush into that battle. Everything that Nola in the sphere can perceive every moment.

Yes, now Nora has rushed into that sphere. After successfully cutting off a few waves of tentacles emerging from the sphere just now, the sphere gave up attacking and shrank. At the same time, the small spheres that cling to the sphere like night pearls began to melt a little bit, trying to The surface of this large ball is covered with a strong protective layer.

After noticing the tendency of the big ball to defend and try to delay time, Nora immediately acted. Although she didn't know why the monster wanted to delay time, she knew that in battle, whatever the enemy wanted to do must be stopped. Absolutely must not let their conspiracy succeed.

So, taking advantage of that layer of protection has not yet been established, Nora condensed the power of the gods on her hands, formed two thin sword blades and rushed directly to the side of the ball, and then waved her hands on the ball. He cut a large hole through which he could pass and rushed in.

The big hole looked like another space from inside, emitting a faint blue light constantly. But after Nora rushed in, the wound on the huge sphere on the top of the cave healed quickly. Fortunately, the connection between the souls of Lawrence and Nora allowed him to fully perceive everything the little puppet is facing now.

The sphere is filled with a viscous fluorescent blue liquid that feels like swimming in a blob of glue. In addition, the first time Nora came into contact with these liquids, Nora felt endless phantoms appearing around her, making her even lost herself in an instant.

If it had been anyone else, they would have been lost, corrupted and swallowed by the giant sphere. Fortunately, because of the existence of Lawrence, the puppet successfully used Lawrence, who was not disturbed outside, as an anchor point, recovered easily in a very short time and found itself, and then began to look around.

The inside of the sphere looks much larger than the outside, just like the inside of a huge church. There are various things floating in the liquid filled in it, which should be the various relics left by the victims who were inadvertently sucked into it before.

For example, Nora saw beside her a gold ruby-inlaid wall of fire bracelet in the style of Britton more than two hundred years ago. Unfortunately, after getting closer, she found that all the extraordinary power on the bracelet had disappeared, only The main body of the bracelet composed of precious metals and precious stones still exists.

In fact, this mass of liquid swallows and corrupts the unearthly power of all items that enter it, like some kind of digestive juice. If it wasn't for Nora spreading the power of the gods all over her body, she might have completely lost her ability to move shortly after entering this mucus-filled space.

Although these liquids can't cause any harm to Nora for the time being, they have seriously interfered with her actions: because of the existence of these liquids, Nora can't detect the abnormal points of magic power in this space through the power of magic, nor can she detect them. The method further determines where the core of this thing is by statistically summarizing the distribution of magic power in the entire space.

Fortunately, the power of Bai Ze that she just borrowed allowed her to add an attribute of destroying evil to her own power, and incidentally gave him some kind of prophetic ability that belonged to Bai Ze, so she simply calmed down. After meditating for a few seconds, she chose a direction and swam over.

Before Lawrence and Nora had always thought that this sphere might be some kind of fungal microbial aggregate like the surrounding creatures, but after Nora broke through the protective layer and rushed in, she discovered that the inside of this thing was actually like an ooze monster or a slime. Same pile of slime.

Worse, the thing does have a core, but the core is also slime. And it can freely walk around in the mucus in the entire space. For foreign invaders, this more than doubled the difficulty for them to grasp the core.

Fortunately, Bai Ze's prophetic ability can find her target in an extremely unreasonable way, so Nora only walked a short distance in the mucus with a strong corruption effect, and found that the front seemed to be different from other people. A blob of slime in exactly the same place gave him a different feeling.

But just when she was about to reach out her hand, the calm liquid around her suddenly became irritable. A large amount of violent and chaotic magic power was mixed in a corrosive undercurrent and hit her from all directions. She had to consume a lot of power of faith to support a barrier.

But this also told Nora from another aspect that her previous perception was correct. The mass of slime in front of him, which looks not much different from the surrounding slimes, is the core of this big ball and even the entire island. Otherwise, this thing that hadn't shown any self-existence before could not react as suddenly as it does now.

"Ha, I found you." After receiving the next round of attacks, before the next round of attacks came, Nora released a large number of silk threads to wrap around the core.