Struggle in the Steam Age

In the next few days, Lawrence and his team hunted those extraordinary monsters while heading towards the volcano. It's just that their luck was so-so, except for a blazing sand mantis, they didn't see any other leader-level extraordinary creatures.

The Blazing Sand Mantis is exactly the opposite of the group of crocodile-shaped monsters that besieged the New Island Republic team before. The overall defense is not even as good as the apprentice-level monsters, but it has super fast speed and powerful magic attack ability.

The encounter with the Blazing Sand Mantis was on the fourth day after entering this space. At that time, Lawrence and his team were walking through a basalt ground formed by the cooling of magma. This kind of black stone ground is very common on this volcanic island. . Perhaps because they were walking on a flat ground with no obstacles, everyone seemed a little more relaxed.

As a result, at this moment, a giant praying mantis the size of a wolf dog broke through a hard black stone slab more than ten meters away from their team, and then used a mixture of flames and high-speed flying gravel to attack directly. They caught Lawrence off guard.

Its speed was so fast that even though Lawrence and the others could keep up with the blazing red trajectory with their eyes, their attacks couldn't keep up with the trajectory of the praying mantis at all. While approaching quickly, the khaki-yellow cockroach that looked like clay sculpture swung its two lava-like knife-like forelimbs and shot out small flying blades made of incandescent sand grains at Lawrence and the others.

Fortunately, John and Leto reacted in time. The moment they saw the floor crack, they raised their shields and successfully blocked those attacks. At the same time, Lawrence quickly turned to face the mantis and released a [Spider Web Art] with his hand instead of a gun. .

This spider web technique just blocked the way forward of the mantis, forcing the mantis to slow down and change its flight route. As a result, it was just shrouded in a thick yellow-green smoke released by Raqqa.

Because everyone was very close, Laka did not dare to release the poison. However, the anesthetic she released just right on the wrong side restricted the most powerful speed of this praying mantis.

The blazing sand mantis that lost its speed immediately became the target of everyone's fire, and the body that gave up its defense for the sake of speed made this big mantis extremely vulnerable when facing attacks. Especially after eating Lawrence's [Catastrophe], its slow time was greatly extended.

Thankfully, not all boss-level monsters have a bunch of minions. For example, this blazing sand mantis belongs to the kind that fights alone. Naturally, this also made Lawrence and the others less difficult to fight.

Five minutes later, the praying mantis was completely killed, and Lawrence and the others also received 50 points. But when Laka stepped forward to collect the loot, John showed a worried look.

"John, why do you seem a little worried?" Lawrence stepped forward and asked immediately after discovering this. At this time when everyone needs to help each other, it is obviously not a good choice to bury everything in your heart.

"This is the Blazing Sand Mantis. In some cases, it will appear near places polluted by the lower plane." John said. As a paladin, he has a solid knowledge of this kind of knowledge related to the lower plane.

"The books I read only say that this extraordinary creature will appear in a place full of fire and earth elements." Lawrence recalled the information he had read before. "It's not written in the information that it's related to the lower plane."

"Because this thing is indeed not a demonized creature." John said, "The information I read is a set of laws summed up by our churches that often deal with the lower planes. Because it has not been confirmed to be universal, it is only circulated internally. "

Lawrence nodded to express his understanding. Every church has its own secrets, and it is normal not to share them with others. Especially if this kind of ambiguous secret is known to everyone, it is likely to do more harm than good, so it is better to hide it.

Of course, at this time, he also knew why John's complexion turned sour all of a sudden. After all, he discovered the broken breastplate that should not appear here in theory, and now he discovered this extraordinary monster that may be affected by the lower planes. There will always be some bad premonitions when these two things are connected.

"We just need to be more vigilant." Lawrence stepped forward and patted John on the shoulder and said, "After all, the limits outside an astral world are limited, and the most powerful enemy that may appear on this plane is the profession. Level. Let's be careful, although we may not be able to fight, but it should be no problem to escape."

"You're right, I'm just a little sensitive in this regard." John nodded slightly. "Maybe it's just a coincidence that these two things came together. Taking a step back, even if there is really any secret in this astral plane, it is likely to be hidden on that volcano. If you want to find out about it, at least you have to go Just go in the past."

Along the way, Lawrence and the others never encountered such a leader-level monster again. However, I encountered a lot of various mobs, especially some ordinary creatures that mutated after being stimulated by the special magical environment of this astral plane.

This type of creature is not even considered an apprentice level. In a group, only a few creatures who are the leaders of the group can perform one or two attacks equivalent to zero-level spell power. Killing them is nothing but some worthless materials. Things can be harvested, so generally Lawrence and the others would not attack these guys.

It's just that sometimes Lawrence and the others have to do some thankless things. For example, when they decide to camp at night, they find that this place is occupied by some animals that have become extraordinary due to the influence of the environment, so they don't mind cleaning it up. Instead of dragging your tired body to find another place to set up a camp.

That is to say, during this process, Lawrence's Bai Zetu can be regarded as opened. Now two extraordinary creatures appeared on his Bai Ze map. One of these is the fire poison bee, while the other is the soil ant.

These names were randomly picked up by Lawrence. After all, they are just ordinary animals that have undergone extraordinary mutations under the influence of the surrounding magical environment, so there is no standard naming at all.

For example, the fire poisonous bee is a wasp that has mutated after being impregnated with the surrounding flame elements. Compared with ordinary wasps, its flying speed is 1/3 faster. Of course, the fire poison damage is extremely weak. According to Lawrence's estimation, even if he wanted to kill a mouse, he would need to output the maximum power five or six times.

The soil ants are also very similar. After being affected by the earth element in the earth, their volume becomes 50 times their original size, and their overall defense and strength are also strengthened by the same multiple as their volume. But other than that, there is nothing special about this ant except that it can burrow faster in the ground.

This kind of small insect is much simpler to analyze than those extraordinary creatures with complex structures, not to mention that they only have a little bit of extraordinary edge. The nests of bugs that were cleared up before also gave Lawrence hundreds of samples, which made it easier for him to thoroughly understand these two creatures.

Therefore, during this period of time, Lawrence successfully mastered the knowledge of two kinds of extraordinary insects, and now he can summon the phantoms of these two kinds of insects.

After the team left the camp in the early morning of the sixth day, Lawrence began to try to summon these two extraordinary creatures that had been recorded in the "Bai Ze Tu" phantom, and he found that the situation was good and bad.

"It can awaken the power of these two kinds of insects 100%." ​​After sensing the phantom shadows of two small insects that looked like holographic projections in his palm, Lawrence showed a trace of helplessness on his face. "But only one of each creature on the Bai Ze map can be summoned. It seems that it is completely hopeless to organize an army of bugs."