Struggle in the Steam Age

In the jungle not far from Pine Valley, a group of dark elves were quickly withdrawing towards the place they had just arrived.

On the other side of the road tens of meters away from them, some gray dwarves also quickly retreated towards another entrance and exit of the tunnel.

"Retreat, withdraw quickly!" The commander of the dark elves, who is also a priest of the spider goddess Rose, looked at the group of panting priests and shouted loudly.

It's just that the priests under her seemed so weak that they needed the support of male dark elves to barely move on the path in the forest.

Under normal circumstances, although the spellcasters of elves are much weaker than those purely hand-to-hand fighters, but because of their racial advantages, as long as they are not too old or physically disabled, their overall quality is no better than that of ordinary fighters. how much difference.

Not to mention that these dark elf spellcasters are all female priests, and they usually use a lot of supernatural medicines to strengthen their bodies, and they can easily run 5km or something even after they enter old age.

As for why they are being led away like dead dogs now, the reason is also very simple. That's because after the failed sneak attack by the wilderness race's elite troops, the dark elves, who realized that the attack on Pine Tree Valley was doomed to fail, ordered to use a mobile altar they had prepared before to cast blood burning and berserk spells on other wilderness races.

Then they took advantage of the wilderness race's crazy attack on the Pine Tree Valley position to quickly escape from the front line, and then fled desperately towards the entrance of the tunnel.

Their approach can also be regarded as the traditional art of the dark elves. For this group of evil black skins, once they lose the battle, it is an inevitable thing to weaken the former comrades in arms as much as possible.

Only in this way can they ensure that they can maintain their absolute advantage over the surrounding wilderness races after they become weak due to defeat.

As for the gray dwarves, they did not conspire with the dark elves to do this, but because of their super magic resistance, this kind of large-scale magic is naturally ineffective against the gray dwarves.

And after discovering what their old opponents did, the experience of fighting each other for a long time let the gray dwarves know what these dark elves wanted to do, and then quickly formed a defensive formation to maintain the defense against the dark elves. Vigilant, and then withdrew from the battle line as quickly as possible.

"Forget about those gray dwarves." The leading dark elf priest said loudly as he watched the dark elf warriors running with the female priests on their backs and staring vigilantly in the direction of the gray dwarves.

Because she found that the vigilance of the group of dark elf warriors under her had seriously affected the speed of running.

The reason why she was so impatient was because she knew that those guys whose brains were completely crazy under the influence of magic could not cause much damage to the well-defended Pine Valley, and they couldn't even delay for too long.

In this case, they had to enter the tunnel as soon as possible to escape from the pursuit of the pine valley defenders.

After hearing the direct order following the order of the leading dark elf priest, the dark elf warriors simply set up the priests around them. Then he followed his leader and withdrew towards the scheduled evacuation location as quickly as possible.

But when they were running desperately in the jungle, the dark elf priest who was leading the front suddenly found that the surrounding jungle suddenly became quiet.

"Warning—" After realizing that the surrounding situation was wrong, the pastor immediately raised a hand to signal everyone to stop.

After receiving the order, the group of dark elves who were running desperately stopped immediately. Then the dark elf warriors pulled out their weapons and surrounded the priest who was almost exhausted.

"What happened?" After the dark elves formed a defensive formation, a dark elf priest asked.

"Shouldn't we hurry into the tunnel now? Why did we stop at this time? What if the bugs on the ground catch up?"

"Shut up—" the leading dark elf priest whispered, and at the same time vigilantly raised the wand in his hand and looked around carefully.

"Just now we have been able to hear the footsteps of the group of gray dwarves that can wake up the sleeping dragon, but now listen to your surroundings."

After she said this, the dark elves who became quiet also realized that something was wrong. With their long ears, their hearing is much stronger than that of humans, but now they find that not only the clinking of the original armor of the gray dwarves, but also the thumping sound of their heavy combat boots on the ground have disappeared. Gone, and even the sounds of certain animal movements that should have been around were gone.

"Maybe—maybe the war scared the animals away," said a dark elf priest, but the tremor in her voice suggested that she wasn't as calm as she appeared.

The other people present did not answer her, because this place was separated from the battlefield by several hills, and the shouts of killing on the battlefield had become very weak. So theoretically it is impossible to scare away all the animals in this place.

Not to mention that they heard a lot of squeaks made by the flame-burned vampire bats flying over the treetops on the road before, but now, all such sounds have disappeared. The only sound left was the rustling of trunks and leaves as the wind blew through the trees.

"Let's keep going, don't scare yourself..." After a pause of more than ten seconds, a dark elf priest who didn't notice anything said.

"If we waste too much time here, I think the guards in the valley should be able to spare some elite men to hunt us down."

The dark elves are not a noble race who like to sacrifice themselves for others, especially for these priests of Rose. For example, there were more than 170 dark elves when they came here, but now there are less than 40 here.

The reason for this is that they left the dark elves who were not the core family of the dungeon in place before fleeing, pretending to be the headquarters of the wild races, so as to attract the attention of the defenders of Pinedale.

Therefore, this group of dark elves who ran away after finding out that the situation was not good on the front line were naturally focused on escaping back to the tunnel, so they immediately asked to continue the escape plan when they didn't find any obvious enemies around them.

Soon, the thirty or so dark elves lifted their alert and continued running towards the entrance of the tunnel.

It may be because no enemies were found along the way, so the group of dark elves moved a lot more briskly. But when they came to a place only separated by a grove from the entrance and exit, a stench directly penetrated their nostrils.

Feeling that something was wrong, the dark elves immediately switched to another entrance and exit of the tunnel. There was no special smell here, but when they walked in, they unexpectedly found that the previous tunnel that could pass through the dragon cannon had collapsed.

"Get out of here." After glancing at the fresh, smooth cut marks left on the gravel at the entrance of the cave, the dark elf priest who led the team hurriedly backed away with his subordinates.

Because they can be sure that the place was fine half an hour ago, and being able to cut off all the stones at the entrance of the cave to block the entrance in such a short period of time is definitely not something that exhausted dark elves like them can resist .

But at this time, they were already a beat slow, just when the dark elves realized that something was wrong and were about to withdraw to the outer periphery. While in the forest, a green figure suddenly descended from the sky. Then many people's eyes went dark, and they didn't know anything.