Struggle in the Steam Age

Finally, this big evil guy has been killed. After everyone chopped off the ogre's head, the priest of the Agricultural Church swept his gaze over everyone's faces. Let's clean this up next.

Afterwards, the priest and the warrior stayed at the ogre's body outside the tribe to check, while Lawrence walked towards the center of the tribe with the other two, and on the way, he picked up the ogre body that he had dropped to release the magic. water pipes.

After seeing the ogre killed by the outsiders, the remaining goblins were so frightened that they lost their minds. They all tried to leave this hell-like place in their eyes. It's a pity that when Lawrence and the others entered the tribe just now, all the active goblins resisted bravely and were killed by them. And the rest of these guys couldn't even stand up, they could only watch as Lawrence and his group easily waved their weapons and killed them one by one.

After cleaning up all the surviving goblins in the tribe, Lawrence and the others began to inspect the entire tribe and try to collect loot.

But as judged by the priest of the Agricultural Church who led the team, these goblins are just a bunch of rabble. Except for the weapons and equipment on his body that can't even be sold for scrap iron, he has almost nothing. After searching for a long time, they found dozens of silver and copper coins that the goblins carried as decorations, totaling 7 yuan and 12 3/4 cents.

It feels like a big loss. The magic gunman muttered in a low voice. Of course, Lawrence could understand why he said that. If he only got this little gain, he wouldn't even be able to get back the money for the few enchanted bullets he fired.

Don't be discouraged, let me look for it again. Lawrence said and cast [Detect Magic], and soon they discovered that there was a magical aura in the ruins of the house that the ogre rushed out of just now.

There—— Lawrence and the others came to the location where the magical aura emanated from the ruins. After digging out some broken stones and wood, a goblin corpse that changed from three-dimensional to two-dimensional appeared in front of them.

This is an old goblin that looks as crumpled as a dehydrated apple. You must know that there are no old goblins in a normal goblin tribe. They will expel or even kill all old goblins.

And there is only one kind of old goblin who can appear in the center of this kind of tribe, and that is the goblin shaman. It's just that the goblin shaman in front of him is not a normal goblin shaman: it has obviously been attacked by some kind of curse magic, so that the whole body exudes a rotten breath, and at the same time shrinks to only ordinary Half the size of a goblin.

Before we came, this shaman should have been lying here unable to move, maybe he didn't even have consciousness. After briefly inspecting the corpse that was basically photographed by the wreckage of the house, Lawrence made a decision. A simple inference. Because of the curse, the goblin shaman, who was inherently more fragile than ordinary goblins, was so fragile that he died directly after eating wild boar mixed with anesthetics, and was then crushed by the collapsed house.

We're lucky, said the ranger, shrugging. If the big guy had added a shaman just now, we would never have ended the battle as safely as we did just now. A fully armed ogre and an ogre supported by shaman spells confronted each other. Difficulty is definitely not a level.

Look at this. Lawrence took a silver flower brooch inlaid with amethyst from the body of the goblin shaman. It's a magic item, and I swear it's 100 percent not made by goblins.

You're right, it's obvious that this treasure has the style of the dark elves in the Underdark region. The magic gunner who was a soldier said, The army I served in the past was in the Great Mountains area to the west, and sometimes There are some dark elves running out of the mountains, and I've seen a lot of things like this from them.

And this thing is quite valuable. Lawrence smiled and said to the two people after releasing a [Identification Spell] on this brooch, This brooch can release poison detection three times a day, and it can also release A detoxification.

It's very suitable for those black skins. The ranger shrugged, I heard that the dark elves underground are in constant struggle. For them, this kind of props that can detect and detoxify poisons should be Very practical.

After re-examining the remains of the large room, the ranger recovered from under a tree stump that might have served as a stool in the room a wooden box bound with iron sheets, which contained various metal objects, old and new. Currencies of different styles and some jewelry still stained with dark red blood.

At this time, Lawrence checked the soul power absorbed by Bai Ze Xuying in his mind. Since this kind of absorption is limited in scope and time, many souls were not absorbed, such as the soul of the shaman. Fortunately, he successfully harvested the souls of that ogre and more than 20 goblins.

After packing up the loot, Lawrence and the others returned to the outskirts of the tribe. At this time, the priest and the soldier cleaned up the fleeing goblins and studied the ogre's body.

This is a senior ogre warrior from the central mountain range. When Lawrence and the others walked over, he heard the warrior pointing to the ogre's head that had just been pulled out from the helmet and said, Look at its two cheeks. This brand of sword and skull, this is the top warrior of the blood knife department that has been attacking the settlements around us.

Yes, you are right. The priest looked at the two brands and nodded. However, if I remember correctly, two months ago when they left the mountains to plunder, they were detected by airships in advance, and they were ambushed by the military on the road. The main force of the entire tribe was completely dispersed, even as the chief of the tribe. The dragon vein kobolds were shot dead.

But the military failed to completely wipe out these evil guys. The tribe we see now should be part of the group that was dispersed at that time. Lawrence stepped forward and said, Obviously there are leaders of shamans and high-ranking warriors. Afterwards, they successfully organized themselves, found an entrance to the underground world and escaped the military's pursuit, and then found a nearby exit and crawled out.

After speaking, he signaled the ranger to open the box containing the jewelry. We searched for these jewelry in the tribe. After checking, I found that the stamps on these jewelry showed that most of them came from silversmiths and jewelers in the blue mountain state to the west, and the central mountain range is in the blue mountain state.

In other words, it is very likely that there is an underground route that can extend from the central mountains of the Blue Mountain State hundreds of kilometers away to here. The priest of the Agricultural Church pursed his lips hard. But we still need enough evidence to prove all this.

The next step is to search around with this tribe as the center. Fortunately, there are no dangerous creatures around because of the existence of the goblin tribe, and those guys just came here and did not cover their whereabouts. So only ten minutes later, the ranger found a huge cave covered by vines on a hill less than 1,000 meters away from the tribe following the traces left by the tribe.

After kneeling and praying with folded hands in front of the cave entrance, the leading priest of the Agricultural Church confirmed that this was indeed the entrance to the Underdark Region. Taking out the map and marking the location of the cave, Lawrence and the others returned to where the tribe was and used the dried vines and wood on the shack as fuel to burn the corpses of the monsters in this open space.

As a result, they kept busy until the sun went down, and the five of them, Lawrence, made a final check to make sure that there was no fire left, and then left the forest.

When they returned to the road on which they started, some local plantation owners and workers with guns were there to greet them, and under their feet were the bodies of the two goblin patrols that ran away from the periphery just now.

We have cleared out the goblin tribe hiding in this forest. The priest of the Agricultural Church said as he raised the ogre's head. Soon the calm of the past will be restored here.