Struggle in the Steam Age

After the human legion poured out several rounds of firepower to slightly repel the goblin army in front of them, the officers immediately directed everyone to retreat along the traffic trench behind the trench.

At the same time, the crew on the gunboats on the river also fired a batch of shells at the fastest speed to temporarily delay the enemy's advance.

Naturally, Lawrence was the last one to walk with Safir and the others. As a pioneering nobleman of the Holy Visby Empire, standing at the forefront when charging on the battlefield, and walking at the rear when retreating was a kind of nobleman's obligation. Especially when this extraordinary person can play a decisive role now.

Therefore, with Lawrence's two-pronged tactics of using soul interference and summoning monster phantoms, this retreat in front of the enemy, which could theoretically cause a large number of casualties, achieved zero casualties.

When the goblins cleared out the suddenly maddened members of their pack and eliminated the hobgoblin phantoms blocking their way, they found the first trench empty.

"Continue to attack and drive them all into the river. We are running out of time now." A goblin chief who followed the forward force said after looking at the situation on the scene.

At this time, two steam moorings dragged a long line of flat-bottomed barges down the river according to Lawrence's order, and this gave the goblin an obvious misdirection.

In their view, it is obvious that humans are shrinking their defenses now because their own side has exerted a lot of pressure on humans on the battlefield. And those ships traveling downstream hope to go to the human settlements in the lower reaches of the river to mobilize reinforcements to continue the war.

Considering that the goblin side has lost more than 20,000 people, the goblins feel that they can only carry the war to the end at this time.

Because they have been isolated from the world outside the island for a long time, these goblins have no idea that the whole world outside the island has undergone tremendous changes.

At least compared to when their ancestors fought with humans, the firepower that humans now have is more than ten times stronger than before, so that their current losses far exceed the previous plan.

But at this time, the goblins couldn't retreat at all, because unless they were willing to give up the territory they now occupied, otherwise they could only fight to the end.

More importantly, they paid a huge price in this battle and created massive sunk costs. If you don't continue, then even if you leave now, there is only a dead end.

But the distance of more than 20 meters from the first trench to the second chimera is like a natural moat, because as the frontal length of the position that humans need to guard narrows, the firepower naturally becomes denser.

As a result, the goblins who climbed out of the first trench were all hit and fell to the ground by all kinds of fire as they tried to rush across the surface covered with explosives, directional mines, traps, and snake wire.

The goblins who tried to attack through the traffic trench retreated faster, because they passed through the narrow and curved traffic trench before discovering that a machine gun position was set up at the exit of the traffic trench. But in these narrow underground passages, they have no way to avoid the flying bullets.

"Okay, now, let's do it!" After Lawrence found that almost all the main force of the goblins had left their original positions and attacked their positions, Lawrence immediately contacted the caster who had been keeping an eye on the group of goblins. Nora also gave the order for a general attack.

"Understood." Nora's brisk voice sounded in Lawrence's mind. At the same time, she swooped down at a very high speed directly in the direction of the largest altar,

At the same time, magic circles filled with mysterious runes appeared one after another, and then countless silver-green silk threads protruded from them, occupying the entire surrounding space, forming a light scissors. .

A group of priests of the goblin god were singing and dancing around the altar, and around them, some elite-looking hobgoblins and goblin bears were patrolling the surrounding forest with weapons. Even some goblin warriors with blow arrows are hidden on the surrounding treetops.

In front of the altar, the corpses of nearly a hundred beasts were piled up there. Each of them had a fatal wound on its body. And the blood in their bodies slowly flowed out from the wounds like that, and then defied gravity and climbed up to the altar little by little, filling all the lines on the altar.

When the blood pooled on the platform at the top of the altar, it was directly poured into a groove at the top of the altar, and above that groove, a mass of black flames burned blazingly, following the rhythm of the priests chanting below. jump. At the same time, waves of power emanated from the altar and poured into the goblins on the battlefield.

Obviously, this altar can communicate with the gods through the blood of burning sacrifices and souls and cast all the magic of war that covers the entire battlefield. It can be said that this time the goblins feel that they can win the biggest hole card. Therefore, there are a large number of goblin defenses around the altar.

However, like other creatures in this era, the defense of goblins still ignores the problem of air defense. After all, those transcendents who can fly freely are all high-level transcendents, and it is often unnecessary to use that kind of sneak attack. However, the aircraft currently used by humans are slow and bulky, and it is easy to make early warnings.

As a result, only a few goblins who had squatted on the top of the tree spotted the fleeting figure until the little puppet swooped down to the height of the treetop, but before they had time to issue a warning, they saw the figure go straight It hit the biggest altar, and then the light cluster around the figure exploded all of a sudden.

The threads of countless rays of light swept across almost all the surrounding space, and then cut all the goblins around the altar into pieces.

Although one or more auras of defensive magic erupted from several of the priests, this only made them die less than a second later than the others.

"Heh—a group of chickens." Looking at the goblin core command layer cut into piles of flesh and blood by the light that she manipulated for a moment, Nora was suspended above the altar and looked into the distance. The bear goblins and hobgoblins rushing over whispered.

After all, the highest extraordinary level among these goblins is only a professional-level priest, so naturally they cannot resist the assault of a high-level extraordinary person like Nora. And after the caster was wiped out in the first place, those so-called elite goblins couldn't resist the crazy killing of the little puppets.

After killing all the goblins around, Nora looked at the altar that was still running and thought for a few seconds, and then released a light shield composed of silver and green light to cover the altar. In an instant, the connection between the altar and a powerful being in the void disappeared.

At the beginning, Nora was worried that the goblin god could sense the changes in the altar and react accordingly. But after waiting for a few seconds, she realized that her worry was unnecessary.

After all, there are a large number of goblins in this world, and the goblins on this island only account for a very small part of the entire group, so it is normal for the goblin god not to pay attention here.

So Nora directly summoned a lot of processed power of faith to cut off the operation of the altar, and then directly stuffed the entire altar into the astral plane. After dealing with the entire scene, she immediately put away the outer barrier and notified Lawrence of the incident.

"Nice job." Lawrence replied immediately after receiving Nora's notification. "Also, you don't need to come out to join us now, you just need to stay in the woods and be ready to hunt down the defeated army. And we will be enough to leave everything on the frontal battlefield to us."

After finishing speaking, Lawrence stood up and said to the surrounding officers: "Our people have dispelled the magical spells on the goblin, let's fight with all our strength!"