Chapter 347: Purple Gas
The site of the explosion was at the entrance of the banquet hall, only a dozen meters away from Lucca, the stone bricks on the ground were cracked one after another, and the walls were crumbling, but fortunately, from the window above, the outer metal cover was not affected by the explosion and was still intact.
"Will they use bombs?" Lukka asked. In the information just given by Mayor Finch, these robbers are all petty fights, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of such lethal weapons.
"Yes, why don't we make our metal defenses so strong?" Mayor Mare remained calm, "but don't worry, it's all gunpowder used in the mines, and it's not very powerful." Besides, even with weapons-grade explosives, our defenses won't go wrong. ”
Luca has to admit that his confidence is justified.
The metal cover outside the banquet hall didn't even show a crack or a little deformation in such a big explosion, and it still guarded the building shiningly.
"All of our buildings are impenetrable!
But the next moment, an ominous "snort" sound spread in Luka's ears, like the sound that Phil made in the laboratory, dissolving metal with acid.
As a pungent smell came, Lukka was even more sure of this assumption.
"What is this?" Mayor Finch didn't seem to have seen anything like this.
"They've found a way to break through your metal tortoise shells this time!" Lukka said, removing his cane from his waist and flicking it to dispel the camouflage effect, concentrating on preparing the bandits to attack.
The banquet hall was mostly underground, with the window at the top of the wall, and the view was limited, and Lukka could not fully see the outside, except for a few pairs of green pointed ears that shook twice outside the window.
"Gavin is right, there are humans here!" a shrill voice came from the window, with a strange accent, barely a lingua franca.
"Then what are we waiting for, get those things out quickly!" another voice urged, this one softer, a female voice.
Lukka immediately realized that the opponent did not intend to attack directly, and that bombs and acid might be their options. To deal with these things, many defensive magic circles can easily do it, but now there is no time for him to slowly set up the formation, he can only use the fastest speed to cast a group of diamond skins.
Everyone present, even Mayor Finch and his minions, had a layer of elite magical energy surging through them. At Luca's current level, this spell can not only resist bomb attacks, but also last at least thirty minutes even if it falls into a pool of acid.
But the green-skinned bandit outside the window didn't do what Lukka had predicted, and several glass bottles crackled and threw down from the window, but instead of acid, they contained a purple viscous liquid.
The bottle fell to the ground and shattered, and as soon as the purple liquid touched the air, bursts of gas of the same color came out, and the banquet hall was suddenly shrouded in purple.
Diamond skin can block solids and liquids, but it can't block air, otherwise, those who are protected by this spell will be suffocated to death first.
Luka's brain reacted quickly, this gas must not be inhaled! But his body was half a beat slower than his brain, and when he quickly held his breath, a little purple gas was already inhaled into his lungs.
He also wanted to cast a bubble spell to isolate the problematic gas, but as soon as the flow of magic on his fingers led to a beginning, he felt his movements become more and more stiff and laborious, and finally stopped completely, and the whole person fell to the ground with a "grunt".
The condition of the others was even worse than his, the gnomes were short, inhaled more of these heavier-than-air gases than humans, and were the first to fall to the ground.
The others struggled for a moment, and all of them collapsed helplessly, except for Daniel, who did not need to breathe, still able to move, and as soon as the bottle was thrown in, he turned himself into a ghost and floated above the hall. But looking at the purple gas that filled below, he didn't know how to deal with it.
Lukka lay on the ground, unable to move, but his vision and hearing were not affected in any way.
He watched as several green creatures crawled out of the window, about the size of a gnome, but with different proportions, limbs much longer than a gnome, and a head not as big as a gnome. Their ears were large and pointed, more exaggerated than Nora's, their skin was wrinkled, and each of them had a large hooked nose on their face.
Lukka, who couldn't move his hands or speak, recognized the creature at a glance that had been seen in most games. In some languages, this small, green creature is also called a goblin.
The goblins, regardless of what the people on the ground thought, carried all the incapacitated creatures to the edge of the hall, piled aside the tables and chairs in the hall, and left a large open space in the middle.
"Chief, there are nine gnomes, one elf, four humans, one of whom is a minor. A goblin counted the number of people on the ground and reported to the leader.
"Don't worry about the gnomes! Those things, when the garbage is thrown in the mine, no one will pick it up, and it is easy to get in the way!" Judging by the voice, the little leader was the one who was talking outside the window just now.
Mayor Finch was obviously angry at this slander, but he could only continue to curse these "little green bastards" with his eyes.
"What about the elves?" asked the other goblin.
"Elves are not a rare thing, let's talk about it later when we have a chance. The little leader said and glanced at Lukka, "Humans can't take them all, let's take two of them!"
"But, Captain Vig, we've been ordered to bring all the humans back!" This time it was the female goblin who spoke, her green hooked nose and thick lips covered with flame-like lipstick.
"I made a mistake in judgment this time, I thought that the human body should be about the same size as that master, but if you look at these few, except for the silver-haired one, which one of the others is not half taller than the master?" said the little leader Vig, pointing at Luca.
"Also, the vehicle is indeed too small, and the rest will have to be talked about later. The female goblin seemed very disappointed.
"Let's get started, Vice Captain Liz, let's summon the vehicle. ”
With the order of the little leader Vig, the female goblin took out an oblate device from her bag and placed it in the middle of the hall.