Struggle in the Steam Age

"Okay, we need to perform our respective tasks separately for the time being." After quickly exchanging ideas with Nora, Lawrence began to assign tasks.

"Nara, you will find a way to sneak into that cave to kill the core sahuagin witch doctor just as you planned. And Safiel will wait here with me. As long as you succeed, the two of us will Just go directly to the guards at the entrance of the cave and try to hold it here, buying you enough time."

"Okay." "No problem." After listening to Lawrence's words, Nora and Safiel nodded at the same time, and then the little puppet released an invisibility on itself and left the depression along the water flow to the entrance of the cave. The direction drifted over, and Lawrence and Safir opened the astral plane to take out the underwater crossbow guns that had been captured before and wind them up.

This weapon is a unique high-tech long-range weapon that only some murlocs have. It is different from the freshwater murlocs that Lawrence and the others saw in Huguang City before, which can only throw stones and javelins. It is similar to sahuagin and Loka. More intelligent murlocs, such as murlocs, make more complex weapons.

For example, these underwater crossbow guns made of the tendons of sea beasts and some strong wood are like this. Relying on the strong elasticity of the tendons treated with some special herbs, these crossbow guns can easily shoot 6-12 shots underwater. meter distance. And if placed on the shore, their range will be 3-4 times the original.

The range difference of this kind of crossbow gun is not due to the manufacturing level, but is determined by the physiological structure of different murlocs. For example, the big sahuagin are also strong, so they can naturally use those larger, stronger and farther crossbow guns with ease. But the small Roka murlocs can only use some less powerful crossbow guns.

But in any case, these are some extremely deadly weapons. In the previous battle of the peninsula defense, several wounded on Lawrence's side were shot by this kind of crossbow.

Fortunately, because the murlocs lack metal, the arrows only have sharpened wood or sharpened stones, bones or shells, plus Lawrence equipped the soldiers with helmets and breastplates, so except for the two soldiers who were shot at the front door, they died on the spot The others were not seriously injured, and they should be able to return to the battlefield soon after treatment.

The crossbows that Lawrence and Safiel are preparing now are all high-quality products made by the sahuagin selected from the pile of seized trophies, and they should belong to the nobles of the sahuagin. In addition to the longer range of these things, the wooden structure of each crossbow gun is inlaid with patterns inlaid with pearl shells, which looks as exquisite as handicrafts.

It's a pity that these things are all prepared for aquatic organisms, and they can still be barely used after leaving the water for a short time. But if left out of water for a long time, it will quickly be destroyed by dehydration. Therefore, Lawrence simply used the waste and used these underwater crossbow guns in this operation.

After all, the long-range weapons of humans basically cannot be used underwater, and whether it is using magic or hand-to-hand combat, the murlocs will discover and prepare in advance. So at this time, these special underwater crossbow guns made by people can have some special effects.

Of course, Lawrence also made some temporary modifications to the crossbow gun at this time. For example, thick iron wire and thin iron plate are used to add a shoulder-able buttstock to the crossbow gun. Another example is to replace all the arrowheads used by each crossbow gun here from the messy metal in the past with the fine steel arrowheads that have been specially treated and enchanted by Nora.

After all the preparations were over, Lawrence and Safir arranged these crossbows neatly where they could easily grab them. Then one of them held a crossbow gun and used the stones on the edge of the depression as a cover to poke out half of his head to observe the surrounding situation, preparing to launch an attack immediately after hearing Nora's call.

At this time, Nana has cleverly used the chaotic currents caused by the nearby terrain to pass through the magic defense left by the sahuagin witch doctor in front of the cave entrance and a 12-man team at the cave entrance without disturbing anyone. The parapet and sentry sentry guarded by the team successfully blended into the cave.

The terrain inside the cave is not very flat, and there are large and small rocks everywhere. There are even some huge stone pillars standing straight in the middle of the cave, dividing the entire passage into two halves. If it is placed on land, it will definitely take a lot of time to pass through this cave.

However, because it is underwater, Nora can simply follow the current to bypass those obstacles and approach the large cave with fish eggs step by step.

It may be because the cave has only one entrance, so the sahuayu people did not arrange too many defenses in the cave. It wasn't until Nora touched the door of the huge cave that she encountered two patrols of six sahuagin each on the road.

"There are only 12 ordinary sahuagin defending on the road, and they are too lax about this place." After floating to the ceiling and entering the cave hall, Nora complained in her heart. But she could also understand why the group of sahuagin had only set up extremely weak defenses in this important place.

After all, this place is far away from the coastline and is located more than 300 meters underwater, and according to the experience of the sahuayu people, those land people do not have the ability to deploy large troops to this place. Not to mention that under such circumstances, the high-level supernatural beings who can reach here among the land people will only defend on land, instead of going deep into the depths of the ocean alone, running to a cave similar to this one far away from the land. Those barren places of the main force.

Not to mention that these sahuayu people have a kind of self-confidence, thinking that their place is basically impossible to be known by humans on land. Therefore, they only need to avoid being raided by the Loka murlocs. So naturally there is not much defense force in the whole cave, at least for Nora, she feels that the defense of this place can be said to be full of loopholes.

There are some unspoken rules popular among extraordinary people in this world. For example, considering the existence of gods, under normal circumstances, the task of a transcendent of the gold level and above who has mastered certain mass destruction capabilities in battle is to find an existence similar to himself to attack, and will not engage in that kind of attack. A mass killing of miscellaneous soldiers. Not to mention that in this type of war, they need to reserve enough energy to deal with the enemy's high-level transcendent.

More importantly, for those high-level transcendents, only fighting with transcendents of the same level or even higher can help them improve on the path of transcendence, and fighting with those weak for a long time will not only not get enough. experience. It will even hinder one's own improvement on the path of transcendence.

It's just that Nora is different from normal extraordinary people. Her three views are basically a copy of Lawrence's three views, and her foundation is different from all the extraordinary in this world, especially in terms of the path of extraordinary Even more so. So she naturally didn't mind sneaking up on some guys who were completely inferior to her from an extraordinary point of view.

So after following the ceiling on the top of the cave hall to the door of a small cave on the side of the cave hall, Nora immediately checked the surrounding situation and decisively prepared for the next move. Sensing the existence of some magic for reconnaissance around, the puppet simply adopted a less efficient but more secretive passive reconnaissance method.

Only a few seconds later, Nora found four extraordinary people gathered in this small cave. The sahuagin witch doctor who was the key figure was sitting there as if preparing some potion, while the other three sahuagin The murloc fighters were scattered in other parts of the cave, seemingly doing their own thing, but in fact they carefully arranged a tight line of defense in this space.