Struggle in the Steam Age

This is a region of so high and steep mountains that all who approach it have to adapt to use an unbearable creeping speed on the steep mountain road.

In addition, this place is also off-limits to most flying creatures. The turbulent flow formed by the surrounding abrupt mountains combined with the unstable space conditions in the mountains is enough to pose a fatal threat to powerful creatures like giant dragons.

At the same time, because of the unstable space, some expensive and rare magic materials are produced in this area. Therefore, there are still some crude bridges and narrow passages dug on the stone walls at relatively low altitudes for people to walk on.

For Lawrence and Nora who came here after all kinds of information, the terrain in this area was already bad, but the surrounding plants made the situation even worse.

"Can we really not fly up, or use space teleportation or something—"

After using the disintegration technique to kill two dark treants who were completely insane and exuded the stench of the lower plane, Lawrence sat on a small platform and asked Nora.

"Sorry, it's really not good at this point." The little puppet shook his head helplessly and said. "The space in this region is just too unstable, and the farther you are from the ground, the more unstable it becomes."

"In this case, even for me, the only way to go up to a high place is to move forward with two feet instead of flying." Nora also shook her two feet in a very humane way.

This was one month after they decided to take the risk. After searching and summarizing various evidences within a radius of tens of thousands of square kilometers, they finally confirmed that the area that the elite team entered last year was this city. The surrounding creatures call it the Death Mountain area.

"I think it's a bit strange." Lawrence asked Nora while sitting on the small platform to rest. "You said that since the elite group of temples wanted to hide something, why did they leave so many traces along the way?"

This is a question that has always puzzled Lawrence, because they collected a lot of information from many places along the way, as if there was a hand in the dark that brought them to this place on their own initiative.

"I think it might be that the group of priests thought that their gods might return." Nora answered this question from the perspective of gods after thinking for a while.

"You know, there are many ways to revive gods, and the return of fallen old gods has exceeded double digits in history, which is not something worth mentioning at all."

"However, the main god of the ancient Nile pantheon should have completely fallen. Judging from the information obtained before, in that war, although he finally prevented the further spread of corruption in the lower plane, he also let himself been irreversibly polluted."

"So at the last moment, that venerable god and several other gods of the gods chose to sacrifice themselves, and eliminated the impact of that crisis as much as possible by completely burning themselves."

"This is why although the Nile River Basin is barren and full of dangers, it is still an important reason for the survival of intelligent creatures, because the sacrifices of those gods completely destroyed the vitality of the power of the lower planes and purified most of the land. .”

"This kind of self-destruction is irreversible, and it will never be revived." Speaking of this, Nora showed a look of admiration on her face.

"However, for loyal believers of the gods, it is also a very common phenomenon that they do not want to believe that their gods have fallen. So it is understandable that when the team fled back then, it left various information to guide the newcomers."

"And dear brother, those messages are actually very hidden, and they are not as easy to be discovered as we imagined." Speaking of which, Nora stared into Lawrence's eyes.

"As for the reason why we were able to discover the information so quickly, it was because with the fall of the gods and the disappearance of the church, some secret information belonging to the church was circulated outside and obtained by us."

"Even from another point of view, if we hadn't connected with this group of jackals who have completely disappeared in the eyes of the world, maybe it would be impossible to connect those clues together and realize this."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded in agreement.

In this world, even the gods cannot be omniscient and omnipotent. If their believers don't know something, then it is basically impossible for these gods to know.

Therefore, it can be said that thousands of years after the ancient Nile pantheon completely collapsed and most of history disappeared from the world. Lawrence and the others were the first to regain these materials.

After resting for a few minutes, the two put away the water bottle and dry food and continued walking up the mountain. Fortunately, as their altitude got higher and higher, the probability of encountering those pesky wilderness races became smaller and smaller.

Due to the special products of many magic materials in this area and the dangerous mountains, the surrounding wild tribes often come here to collect various items or perform rituals such as warrior trials.

Therefore, in those low-altitude areas, two people can often meet wilderness races who come to test.

Obviously, kobolds, like goblins, have strong xenophobia and non-communication issues, so along the way, Lawrence and Nora have to resort to some kind of violent means to kill all the way up.

Fortunately, as the altitude rises, the low temperature is obviously not friendly to reptiles like kobolds, and the second half of the journey naturally looks a lot cleaner.

As Lawrence and the others continued to climb upwards, the surrounding environment also changed. From the initial tropical rainforest to temperate broad-leaved forest, and then further into bushes, alpine meadows until a barren ice field.

But unlike ordinary ice fields, the ice here is all black, and the surrounding temperature is much lower than normal. Gives a very strong sense of depression.

"No wonder they call this place the Death Mountain." Lawrence whispered to Nora after feeling the power of death coming from the surrounding area. "It's clearly not a natural formation."

"This place has nothing to do with God, I can confirm that." After recalling some of the information she had collected before, Nora said firmly.

"However, there are too many phenomena related to the extraordinary in this world, and some of the forces that cause these phenomena are no less than the power of the gods. So I am not sure about the current situation."

"Then is this place dangerous?" Lawrence stopped and took a few breaths, then looked at the surrounding situation and asked curiously. "I felt like there was something staring at us around here."

"I don't know, but the energy flowing around makes people feel a little uneasy." Nora closed her eyes and said after feeling the surrounding situation.

"So it's more appropriate for us to prepare for battle. This kind of place is easy to hide danger."

The fact is just as the little puppet perceives, when the two people entered this area covered with ice, many elemental monsters composed of such black ice cubes rushed towards them frantically.

Fortunately, although those monsters have an absolute numerical advantage, they are obviously far behind Lawrence and the others in terms of extraordinary level. Therefore, Lawrence and Nora were naturally able to blaze a trail and move on.

Also in this place, the traces left by the members of the Amon-Ra Church have reached the point of being undisguised. At regular intervals, Lawrence could see fingertip-sized gold badges embedded in a block of ice.

These golden badges are so conspicuous in this place, anyone who can come to this place along the mountain road will not ignore their existence.

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