Struggle in the Steam Age

After discovering the location of the monster's core, Nora immediately tried to destroy the amber book that was the monster's core. But after repeated attempts, she found that the book was far stronger than she had imagined, and even her most powerful move had no effect.

After the bright silver-green light rushed out of the mouth of the earthen pot in Nora's hand, before it touched the body of the amber book, the light was blocked by a large pile of blood-colored and golden runes intertwined on the pages of the book. down. Then the runes quickly wore out the light.

At this time, Lawrence, who was standing on the mountain watching the battle, also discovered that those runes were not the same as the magic runes he was good at. A normal rune is just a special symbol, which contains various information or power. But these runes emanating from the monster were different, looking like something alive.

"No, this won't work." Nora said nervously. Because the number of stones falling from the cliff began to decrease at this time, the monsters down the mountain began to recover visibly with the naked eye. In other words, if Nora didn't solve this core problem quickly, everything just now would be for nothing.

"Then try to take this thing off." Lawrence quickly reminded, "Use your own strongest strength to wrap yourself, and then use something to reach out that book. I think this thing seems to be an object to all kinds of energies. Both have a strong decomposition effect, and only physical objects can touch it."

"You're right." After being reminded by Lawrence, Nora also realized it, and then the little puppet first took out two weapons from the astral plane, and then used its own power to build around itself and the weapons. A layer of defense protected and extended its weapon to the amber book.

As a result, when the tips of the two swords were close to about two fingers away from the book, those runes floated out from the surface of the book again. But because Nora covered herself with all the power this time, these powers were not consumed by the runes at once like last time, but formed a stalemate.

"What a powerful force." Feeling the rapid consumption of the power in her body after the two energies came into contact, Nora frowned. Fortunately, at this time, the double swords in her hands were protected by her own strength, pierced through the original part of the amber book and inserted into the flesh and blood on the side of the book, and then picked it up with both hands.

The strength of the puppet's hand is no weaker than some melee professions, so after doing so, the book was immediately pried out from the pile of flesh and blood full of death power. Then Nora let go of the sword with both hands and jumped up to grab the book that was half the size of her body flying in the sky.

And the moment after the book left the monster's body, the monster that was still aggressive at first melted, and in just a few seconds, it became a place of extremely smelly flesh and blood. Seeing this scene, Lawrence waved his clenched right hand excitedly.

But this excitement was completely broken within a few seconds, because Nora's panicked voice was transmitted into Lawrence's mind through the connection of the soul. "Damn, this thing seems to be on my hands, and it's sucking energy from my body."

"Go to the shore next to you quickly, I'll come over to see what happened now." Hearing what Nora said, Lawrence also became nervous, so he hurriedly ordered to the little puppet, and at the same time cast the random door to the fastest The speed rushed to the shoal just formed by the landslide just below the cliff and joined Nora.

"Stand there, stay away from me." Nora shouted nervously after seeing Lawrence emerging from the space door beside her. "This thing uses it as the center to absorb all life and power related to the extraordinary within 3 meters around it, so you'd better keep some distance from me. Otherwise, we will really die if you are sucked in."

"Oh, okay." Hearing what Nora said, Lawrence immediately stopped and asked. "Have you tried any other way to get this thing off, like getting your hands off your body?"

Although Nora usually behaves like a human being, she is not human after all. Therefore, it is different from human beings in many places. For example, she is completely immune to those poisons that target flesh and blood, and can also withstand many fatal injuries to flesh and blood creatures. Therefore, Lawrence directly suggested that Nora break her arm to survive.

"Ah, I almost forgot." Nora exclaimed softly. Ever since she was born, she discovered that as a puppet, if she wants to be strong, she must do one very important thing, that is, to imitate human beings as much as possible in every situation.

After all, the constructed life like a doll was first created to imitate human beings, so she can complete herself in the soul by doing so, and then achieve a breakthrough in the direction of the extraordinary.

However, this kind of imitation is not just a simple imitation of daily actions, but requires full dedication to acting. That's why Nora didn't think of this trick for a while. But after Lawrence reminded, the little puppet reacted immediately.

As for the reason for forgetting this matter before, it is also very simple, that is, for a constructing life body like Nora, the biggest danger of this kind of wholehearted imitation of human beings is to forget the essence of self, and then in the soul Under the leadership of extraordinary power, let your soul transform into another existence.

And the reason why Nora forgot just now is actually because she has been immersed too deeply in this aspect. Under normal circumstances, if the pretending living body forgets its self-essence at this stage, then not only will they not be able to make further progress in the extraordinary in the future, but even It may not even be possible to maintain the existing extraordinary level.

This is because construct creatures are different from humans anyway, so if their souls are really completely lost in the role-playing, it will cause obvious problems that the soul does not match the body. In turn, the impact has serious adverse effects on them as a whole.

Fortunately, there is a special soul connection between Nora and Lawrence, so the little puppet can rely on this connection as its last and most core anchor point to maintain the existence of the deepest self in its heart.

So even though Nora can be said to be brave and diligent in imitating human beings, she doesn't need to worry about being distorted like other pretending beings, which will cause a series of problems.

For example, after listening to Lawrence's opinion now, Nora's wrists immediately showed the original ball joints. Then the two hands were separated from the body at the joints. However, after throwing the book and her two hands out, Nora's complexion not only did not improve, but became even uglier.

"Brother, it doesn't seem to work." Nora turned her head and showed a slightly mournful face, "This connection seems to be based on the soul, even after this thing is thrown out, it is still absorbing the power in my body."

Lawrence saw that some silver light began to appear around Nora's body at this time, and then entered the big book after getting her breath around the little doll. Obviously, at this time, Nora began to use the pure power of faith to replace her own power into this book to buy time for herself.

"Let me think about it, let me think about it—" Seeing that the situation did not change even after the little doll threw out its hands, Lawrence also showed an anxious look on his face.

Although he had managed to notify the superhumans on the frontal battlefield at this time, those superhumans were inseparable from the sahuagin superhumans, and they couldn't leave the battlefield at all, let alone come to help. And Nora now looks like she shouldn't be able to last the battle over there.

"I have a solution." After scratching his head vigorously and thinking hard for a few minutes, Lawrence suddenly remembered something and said to the little doll. "How could I forget this?"