Struggle in the Steam Age

On the morning of the game, Lawrence and his team took a carriage from St. Sklodowska Cathedral to the game location early in the morning. After becoming the captain of the team before, Lawrence lived in the dormitory of the church with the team members these days.

After 20 minutes, the carriage stopped, and then the driver driving in front knocked on the carriage and said: "Everyone, the competition location has arrived, I can only take you here, and the rest of the road requires you to walk along the road. .”

After hearing these words, Lawrence and the others immediately got out of the carriage. Only at this time did they find themselves in an open space surrounded by hills, with some carriages neatly parked around them.

These carriages belonged to the contestants, and the contestants walked either alone or in small groups along a small path beside the open space like a wooden red arrow pointing to.

"Okay, let's go now." After everyone got out of the carriage, Lawrence waved his hand and walked along the path with the crowd.

The trail is a bit rough, but generally flat. On both sides of the road are hills with tropical rainforest. From time to time, there is a gust of wind blowing in the distance, making the forest rustle.

Except for the sound of shaking branches and leaves in the forest and the occasional cry of some kind of animal, the whole road was very quiet. All the contestants walked forward without saying a word. In this case, even Kog, who had talked all the way in the carriage before, kept quiet, and could only hear the mana steam robot he was carrying. The clang of big feet on the ground.

"Oh—!" Just as Lawrence and the others advanced to a turning point, there was a suppressed exclamation from the front, so they also quickened their pace curiously. When they rounded the hill, the scene in front of them also made them exclaim.

At the end of the path is a black sandy beach. A peninsula made of white rocks stretches out into the sea like a giant python. At the top of the peninsula there is a tall white hill. The venue for today's game is just above that hill. It is a very flat open space, as if someone directly leveled the top of the hill.

To everyone's amazement, there are more than a dozen large and small stone animal heads under the platform on the top of the hill. And the mouths of these animal heads are spewing out a large amount of lava.

After the hot lava fell into the seawater, it stirred up large groups of white mist, and even completely covered the bottom of the hill and the peninsula from time to time, making the platform on the top of the hill seem to be floating in the clouds. And this kind of spectacle composed of manpower and nature makes everyone who sees the scenery here for the first time can't help but make a sound of surprise.

After walking along the narrow road on the peninsula to the platform, everyone looked around curiously. It's a pity that Lawrence didn't notice anything except that the ground in this place was really flat, and that it was a whole piece of stone that didn't seem like ordinary people could build it.

There were many and mixed people on the platform, and Lawrence found that at least 1/5 of them were extraordinary creatures that looked completely different from humans. For example, the one with wings on the back, the one with horns on the head, or even some kind of animal standing upright by a person wearing clothes.

Of course, the number of non-human intelligent creatures in this competition definitely exceeds this ratio. For example, short creatures like Cog or elves that look like humans on the whole, such as Lawrence, must not be counted as non-human creatures at a glance.

At this time, Lawrence realized that he was indeed in a world full of magic, not another earth in the era of the first industrial revolution.

After a while, more and more people came to this platform along the peninsula. In the end, there were nearly a thousand people crowded on this platform. Naturally, the platform became a lot more noisy in this way.

When...when...when..., when all the contestants arrived, a bell rang from a distance. After hearing this voice, the contestants on the platform immediately lowered their voices, and then raised their heads to look in the direction where the bell rang.

In everyone's sight, a platform the size of a basketball court flew over from a distance. After the platform quickly approached, Lawrence and the others discovered that standing on the platform were some officials in uniforms and representatives of extraordinary organizations in their professional attire.

A middle-aged man with sharp eyes and thick brown hair, who looked like a lion, walked to the front from the flying platform, then took out a brooch inlaid with sapphires, hung it on his chest, and coughed lightly.

In an instant, everyone on the entire platform heard his voice. As a result, the whispering voices on the platform also disappeared, leaving only the voice of the middle-aged man.

According to his self-introduction, this middle-aged man is the supreme consul of the New Hansa Republic. He, the landlord, is in charge of hosting the black iron level competition of the New World Nations Competition this time.

"The black iron level competition of the New World Nations Competition will officially start today. I will give a brief introduction and specific content, and the organizing committee will send those materials to you later."

"The astral plane to which the Black Iron level competition will go is named "Sea and Flame". It originally belonged to an ogre tribe in a new continent, and was acquired by us during the war and transformed into a competition venue."

"However, this does not mean that the entire astral plane is under our control. As far as I know, when the ogre tribe was defeated and fled, Xing also took part of the keys of this astral plane. And We've encountered ogres that have infiltrated this astral plane in previous matches."

The atmosphere at the scene was suddenly tense, because everyone knew that compared with intelligent evil creatures, monsters without brains were definitely much less difficult to fight. The contestants standing here hadn't heard of this matter before, and at the same time, everyone was a low-level transcendent, so they seemed a little nervous when faced with unexpected problems.

"There is no need for everyone to be too nervous." Looking at the changes in the atmosphere on the platform, the Supreme Consul said, "Although they will infiltrate that space, that space has the same restrictions on entrants. That is to say, even if these cannibals The demons entered this plane this time like the previous few times, and the monsters you encounter will not be stronger than you."

As soon as this sentence was said, the atmosphere on the platform immediately eased down. The people who can stand here are excellent in both ability and will. The nervousness just now was purely because I was worried that the group of ogres who were the original owners could somehow bypass the restrictions and stuff some powerful guys into this planet. interface plane.

Now that they knew the general situation of the opponent, these elite contestants naturally became less nervous. After watching everyone turn their attention back to themselves, the Supreme Consul began to announce to everyone the content related to this competition.

"The New World Contest is an occasion for young people from the extraordinary world of the New World countries to learn from each other and communicate with each other. Let everyone promote each other and improve together through this means. Of course, according to the performance of the contestants, we will also Give different rewards."