Struggle in the Steam Age

Just when the person in charge in a black robe with gold trim began to mutter what he should do to prepare himself for facing that kind of giant extraordinary sea beast, suddenly a judge in pure black robe rushed at him with a telegram. He came in and said at the same time: "Urgent telegram, a team of the Ocean Church has discovered the group of marine life infested with undead power, and confirmed that the source of pollution comes from a semi-undead young island whale."

"What? An island whale in youth?" The person in charge suddenly opened his eyes wide, because the island whale is a natural golden supernatural creature, and at the same time possesses extremely strong defense power, sonic magic with soul attack properties, and a giant monster. The long lifespan of the dragon makes it a very difficult opponent. Not to mention that no one knew how many new and unknown abilities those powers from death and disease had brought to this creature after the semi-dead transformation.

"Yes, the people of the Church of the Sea are very sure of this." said the paper behind the magistrate holding the telegram. "And according to what they said, the undead natural disaster army composed of sea creatures ran over directly from the king capital of the Sahuagin Kingdom, the largest in Xinchenghai, and then a big battle broke out between the two sides."

"What's the result of the battle?" Silverside Magistrate asked, "It would be great if they can both lose. In this case, I think our sea area should be quiet for more than ten years. You know, whether it is this kind of half-dead monster Either the annoying murlocs will seriously harm the civilized world in this sea area."

"It should be said that both sides paid a painful price." The magistrate said. "According to the results of the investigation by the Ocean Church team, most of the sahuagin king's capital was destroyed, but the king of the sahuagin also used his own power to launch a certain artifact, which injured the island whale and forced it to change its direction. And let it slow down greatly, we can now track the opponent in real time."

"That's good, that's good." The person in charge of the referee said, and then he gave the order after turning around a few times. "Now, in the name of the Xingchenhai District Court, we will send a report to the surrounding area to summon the extraordinary to join us, and at the same time update our team and the specific location of the half-dead island whale in real time every 15 minutes."

After giving the order, the Supreme Magistrate of the Inquisition immediately began to gather manpower to prepare to kill the source of pollution that continuously released the power of death and disease together with the reinforcements from the surrounding area. At the same time, the large telegraph station of the Inquisition began to shoot Send a telegram to spread this information throughout the sea of ​​stars and the surrounding areas.

At the same time, Lawrence was supervising the establishment of the meter-gauge track and a series of corresponding fortifications on the peninsula in the port of New Sauer. Just when he was discussing a certain ammunition depot with the dwarf engineer Adolf When building the location, I suddenly felt that Nora, who was in the port area, reported to him through a soul connection that she had received an emergency telegram.

"The urgent telegram comes from the referee. They call on all the superhumans around to join them." Nora's voice rang in Lawrence's mind. "They have now determined that the maker of those undead sea creatures is a half-dead painted island whale. At the same time, they announced that they will send a wide-area telegram every 15 minutes to inform all volunteers of their location and the location of the large pollution source. exact location."

"It seems that our previous report has played a role." Lawrence thought for a while and replied to Nora, "We can go to the team organized by the referee to try our luck, because such a large pollution source comes from an extraordinary perspective. Saying it should be strong enough that we might gain something if we get involved in cleaning this thing up."

"You're right, we really shouldn't miss this opportunity." Nora agreed after hearing Lawrence's words, "At least the referee is fair enough in distributing the spoils, and can guarantee the safety of most participants. Like this Naturally, more activities are better for us.”

Now that he had made up his mind, Lawrence naturally began to make various preparations for action. But just as they were preparing, the telegraph office on the island received another emergency call for help, and this notice was also sent by the referee, but it was just forwarding a call for help from Vieques Island.

Because of the death of the previous sahuagin king, those powerful factions in the kingdom began to move around. However, because everyone's strength is too close, once a civil war breaks out, there may not be a final winner. Therefore, they simply decided to launch a looting war against the surrounding land forces and determine the ownership of the throne through this war.

Of course, it will take time for those murlocs to organize such a large-scale war, but because of the extremely militant and conceited character of the sahuagin and the fact that they regard all intelligent creatures in the sea as The practice of their own competitors, so not only do they have no allies, but they are enemies everywhere. Therefore, the only troops that came out to plunder were the sahuagin themselves.

In addition, the sahuagin are generally armed with a low level. With the exception of their priests and nobles, most sahuagin possess weapons made of some kind of hard wood, shell, or even stone. Defense is also limited to the skin and scales on the body. In the era of cold weapons, their strong physique can indeed have advantages in some aspects, but in this era, these advantages will basically be wiped out by industrialized armed forces.

This situation is purely because they usually make enemies everywhere. This kind of behavior makes the unproducible products that the sahuayu people need often only obtained by means of robbery, and occasionally through cooperation with smugglers or pirates. Outlaws obtain goods through trade.

However, because of their chaotic and bloodthirsty nature, they may turn from trade to robbery at any time in this kind of transaction. The direct consequence of doing so is that even if this kind of trade is lucrative, there are still very few people who are willing to engage in it, and it cannot become the main way for the sahuayu people to obtain materials at all.

The reason why human beings were able to get a warning so long in advance this time is also because the enemies of the sahuagin revealed to humans that some of the evil guys did this in the hope that human beings could fight the sahuagins and make room for them. out of living space. And kind-hearted marine intelligent creatures hope from the bottom of their hearts that no one will be harmed by evil creatures like the sahuagin.

As for the sahuayu who dare to make enemies everywhere, they also have their own capital. On the one hand, their race has a strict hierarchy and strict organization, and at the same time, their race's average extraordinary level is higher than that of humans. In this case, they often have certain advantages in various battles.

On the other hand, it is because it is not as difficult for them to appear as high-level transcendental beings like goblins, and the proportion of high-level transcendental beings is not particularly low. And as a religious race, it is also easy to obtain the favor and protection of their god Sekera, a god with a huge and crazy shark image.

So after Vieques Island sent a letter for help, Lawrence and the others got together again and started to decide which side to go to. After all, the large-scale attack of the sahuagin caused no less harm than the half-dead island whale that spread disease and death power around.

"Because of time and distance, we can only go to one of these two places." Lawrence set the tone at the beginning of the meeting, "And the division of arms is not within our consideration, because the forces we can send are limited, You can only use all your energy in the same direction, and if you disperse your energy, it is very likely that the gains will outweigh the losses.”