Chapter Twenty-Three: Deadly Fireworks

1,200 years ago, steam machinery technology was discovered by explorers from the ruins of ancient civilizations, and human civilization has since entered the age of steam machinery.

With the protection of the steel castle, mankind is no longer dominated by night and fear, and the population has entered the age of the Big Bang.

And since then, the human race has changed from a weak race on this misty continent to a powerful race at the top of the food chain.

The great scientist who built the first city of steam and steel was Dorena Sprrin, and he was the first emperor of the Omar Empire.

It was also from that time that the ancient slave kingdom was divided into two great empires, one is the "Sid Empire", which continues the ancient heritage, and the "Omar Empire", which takes the route of steam technology.

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"Steam technology" is the foundation of the Omar Empire.

And the steel monster that slowly emerged from the Storm Lake in front of him was the crystallization of science and technology that condensed the efforts of several generations of scientists of the "Omar Royal Academy of Sciences", and represented the mechanical city of the pinnacle of steam technology - [City of Destruction]!

This is the ultimate war fortress of the "Lord of Beamon", a pure weapon of war.

Because it does not have ordinary residential buildings, it is not as large as some lords' steel castles, but it has an overwhelming advantage in firepower and mobility in mechanical cities of the same rank.

All the designs on the entire mechanical city exist for the sake of war.

Huge and exaggerated composite tracks hold up this conch-shaped steel giant, as indestructible as a tin can.

What caught my eye was the defensive armor wall that was more than 200 meters high and as strong as a reservoir dam. And looking up, between the spiral floors, there are densely distributed super guns with terrifying calibers, aiming in all directions with 360° no dead angles...

State-of-the-art large steam boilers, steel-fired furnaces, city-breaking cutters, war armblades, destroyers, whaling forks...

It's a steel monster armed to the teeth.

The moment the water came out, the steam chamber that had accumulated a lot of pressure was suddenly relieved, and the white gas steamed, as if it had come out of hell as a giant beast, and the fierce flames were monstrous.

The three war elephant-level main mechanical cities of the "White Wolf Monster Thief Group" were only like hyenas at the feet of a lion in front of this [City of Destruction], trembling.

"This thing... That's an exaggeration! ”

From afar, Wren couldn't help but swallow as he looked at the mechanical city that suddenly emerged from the lake.

The steam machinery in front of him, which represented the world's pinnacle technology, made him feel a hundred times more shocked than seeing an aircraft carrier in his previous life. This tech tree is a little crooked, it's scary...

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This "Black Market Fair" gathered most of the strange bandits in the southern part of the Omar Empire.

The main mechanical city of more than a hundred monster thief groups, plus those miniature mechanical cities for supply and troop transportation, there are thousands of them...

In the blink of an eye, the first round of artillery robes of the [City of Destruction] had already been densely bombarded down.

Bang, bang, bang, bang...

The sound of dense artillery exploded in the sky and was deafening.

For a while, thousands of cannonballs rained down on the mechanical city of the strange thieves by the lake, exploding a large area of fire.

What made Wren's jaw drop the most was...

At this time, he saw with his own eyes that the mechanical monster that was slowly coming ashore actually "eaten" a small steel city like a whale swallowing!

Yes, just eat!

After the steel city came ashore, the exaggerated wall cracked a gap, like a giant beast opening its mouth, revealing the hot steelmaking cabin like a crater.

Then, dozens of whaling forks ejected out, easily piercing the small mechanical city closest to it. Like a bound prey, the mechanical city can't struggle even with full horsepower.

The winch was pulled back, and before the strange thieves in the steel city could escape, even the castle leaders were pulled into the furnace and turned into molten iron in an instant...

With an invincible attitude, it crushed into the battlefield strongly!

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"The steam boiler is running at full pressure, and the boilermaker adds coal... Add coal! ”

"Gunner, reload and counterattack..."

"Don't panic, everyone, it takes a long time to reload large artillery ... Hurry up and disperse and escape! ”

“...”

The monster thieves also reacted very quickly, and after being caught off guard by this round of artillery, the commanders of the team also reacted quickly.

One by one, the steam machinery city increased its full horsepower and scattered in all directions.

Although their artillery is not as powerful as the top-notch [City of Destruction], this distance is enough for them to fire intensively and destroy some of the castle's buildings...

After all, no matter how powerful the enemy is, there is only one mechanical city.

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The shores of Storm Lake suddenly became a mess.

At this moment, [White Wolf] Bazel finally understood where his bad premonition came from.

He stared viciously at the Omar and the others in front of him, and his tone was murderous: "Do you think that if you ambush such a Beamon Machinery City in advance, you can wipe out our hundreds of monster thieves?" ”

Although the "City of Destruction" is unmatched, it is simply wishful thinking to wipe out all these hundreds of strange thieves with this super mechanical city!

In his opinion, this encirclement and suppression will be like countless previous encirclement and suppression, and it will be fruitless.

After a pause, he said with an unkind face: "Although the [City of Destruction] is powerful... But before we can escape, we will have time to spare your lives! ”

"Oh? Then we'll see..."

The Omars stood as usual as if they didn't care about the threat.

"Humph!"

Bazel snorted, and the incarnated silver wolf also talked nonsense, his muscles were knotted and accumulated, and he was about to do it when he saw it.

"Brothers, whoever kills this Prince of Omar will have a bounty of 100 million!"

All around were outlaws licking blood from their blades, and when they heard the bounty, the thieves screamed excitedly. As soon as the leader made his move, he swarmed up and tore the Omar royal family to pieces.

But at this time, something strange happened.

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Suddenly, a cloud of blood-red paintballs exploded in the sky.

PIU~Bang!

PIU~Bang!

PIU~Bang!

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A series of fireworks burst into the sky, exploding in the sky in clouds of blood-red dust. In just a few breaths, a faint red mist filled the air along the shores of Storm Lake.

"What the hell are these guys doing again?"

Bazel's nose sniffed, and he smelled a faint scent of medicine, and instantly revealed a hint of suspicion.

What puzzled him was that these dusts were not poisons, and explosions could not hurt people, so what were they used for?

Faintly, he felt that something was wrong, and the wolf paw hesitated for a moment.

And at this moment, the black-robed staff member beside the eldest prince Quentin glanced at the strange thieves and spoke again: "The contemptible people have been planning for this day for three years... Don't you think I'll let you escape so easily, do you? ”

Three years of planning?

Bazel pondered in horror.

From the moment he was ambushed by someone's calculations, he was keenly aware that there was too much strangeness in this matter.

First of all, there is no trace of a large mechanical city near the shore of this storm lake, which means that the [City of Destruction] wanted to lurk in the lake at least a few months ago.

Secondly, the location of the "Black Market Fair" this time was also negotiated between him and the leaders of several big monster bandits, and now he has just fallen into the trap...

This also means that there are "internal ghosts" at the decision-making level of the major monster thief groups!

There are all kinds of indications that they fell into the calculation of people a long time ago.

Thinking of this, Bazel knew that things were dragging on, and I was afraid that something would change.

As soon as the order was given, he started directly.

"Kill the Grand Prince of Omar immediately!"

And at this time, several members of the Omar royal family were also prepared.

The heavily armored knight Rhine was full of fighting spirit, and he didn't hesitate to stop in front of a strange thief. As the first knight of the court, he has a super defense that can resist artillery!

And the magic spell of the archmage [Enma] Black Moth was also chanted, and the six-pointed star light flashed, summoning four "Hell Flame Demons" more than eight meters tall to protect the Great Prince Quentin in it...

For a time, the Hyacinth Tavern was caught in a fierce battle.

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And on the other hand,

Rennes, who had already run a few kilometers away, naturally found the "red fireworks" that exploded in the sky.

"This dust... It can't be a graphite bomb or something. In other words, the world's scientific and technological level is so high? ”

The idea had just come to him, but when the dust fell and spilled through the filter of his gas mask...

The smell was like a cat sucking mint, which made him excited.

"Huh... Wrong. This is a medicinal powder?! ”

Wren had been an apprentice potions master for a few days, and he was no stranger to the taste of medicinal herbs.

The red dust was inhaled into his respiratory tract, and suddenly it was like cold water dripping into a pan of oil, making his body's blood boil.

"No, there's something wrong with this powder!"

The abnormality of his body made Wren instantly shocked.

His instincts told him that disaster was coming!

At this moment, he suddenly felt a crispy and numb feeling on his skin, as if there were hairs blown by the wind and itchy.

When I raised my hand, I saw that on the bare skin, thin red lines grew like hair!

"What's going on?"

However, in a breath or two, red hair nearly an inch long grew from the pores of his body, and the whole person looked like a red-haired baboon.

The red hair grew longer and longer, accompanied by a feeling of intense dehydration and blood loss, and a strong feeling of dizziness rushed to Wren's heart.

Looking at the physical condition projected by the "Zhi Brain", he suddenly understood!

【Warning! The catalyst invades, the 'zombie potion' is activated, and the host is expected to die after 30 seconds...]

【Warning! A large number of unknown life forms have been discovered...]