Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 125: Fight and harvest

   In the next few days, Lawrence and his team headed towards the volcano while hunting those extraordinary monsters. It's just that their luck was so average that they didn't see any other supernatural creatures at the chief level except for a blazing sand praying mantis.

   Burning Sand Mantis is the complete opposite of the crocodile monsters that besieged the New Continent Republic squad. The overall defense is not even as good as the apprentice-level monsters, but they have super fast speed and powerful magic attack capabilities.

Encountering the Burning Sand Mantis was the fourth day after entering this space. Lawrence and his team were walking across a basalt ground formed by cooling magma. This kind of black stone ground is very common on this volcanic island. . Maybe because they were walking on a flat ground with no obstacles, everyone seemed a little relaxed.

As a result, at this moment, a giant praying mantis the size of a wolfdog broke through a slab of black hard stone a dozen meters away from their team and jumped out, and then attacked directly with a mixture of flames and high-speed flying gravel. They caught Lawrence by surprise.

   Its speed is so fast that even if Lawrence and the others can follow the blazing red movement trajectory, their attacks cannot keep up with the movement of this praying mantis. As it approached quickly, the clay-like ocher cockroach waved its two lava-like knife-like forelimbs and hit Lawrence and the others with small flying blades made of incandescent sand.

Fortunately, John and Reso reacted in time. The moment they saw the floor cracking, they raised their shields and smoothly blocked those attacks. At the same time, Lawrence quickly turned to face the mantis and used a hand gun to release a [Spider Web Technique] .

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

   Because everyone is very close, Raqqa did not dare to release the poison. However, the anesthetic she released just happened to limit the most powerful speed of this praying mantis.

   The Burning Sand Mantis that lost its speed immediately became everyone's target of fire, and the body that gave up defense for speed made this big praying mantis extremely vulnerable when facing an attack. Especially after taking Lawrence's [Scourge Spell], its slow time was greatly extended.

   Fortunately, not all boss-level monsters have a large number of subordinates. For example, this Burning Sand Praying 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, Lawrence and the others also received 50 points. But when Raqqa stepped forward to collect the spoils, John showed a worried look.

   "John, why do you look a little worried?" Lawrence immediately stepped forward and asked after discovering this. It is obviously not a good choice to bury everything in my heart when we need to work together.

   "This is the Blazing Sand Mantis, and in some cases it will appear near places contaminated by the lower planes." John said, as a paladin, he has learned this knowledge related to the lower planes very well.

   "The books I read only said that such supernatural creatures would appear in places full of fire and earth elements." Lawrence recalled the information he had read before. "It is not written on the information related to the lower planes."

"Because this thing is really not a demonized creature." John said, "The information I see is a set of rules summarized by the churches that often deal with the lower planes. Because it has not been confirmed to be universal, it is only passed on internally. "

   Lawrence nodded to express his understanding. Each church has its own secrets, and it is normal not to share them with others. In particular, this ambiguous secret is likely to cause more harm than good, so it is better to hide it.

   Of course, at this time, he also knew why John's face suddenly deteriorated. After all, he had discovered the broken breastplate that theoretically shouldn't be here, and now he has discovered this extraordinary monster that may be affected by the lower planes. The connection of these two things will always give people some bad feelings.

"We just need to be more vigilant." Lawrence stepped forward and patted John on the shoulder and said, "After all, the limits outside a star realm are all limited. 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, we should have no problem running away."

   "You're right, I'm just a little sensitive in this regard." John nodded slightly. "Maybe these two things are just a coincidence. If you take a step back, even if there are any secrets in this astral plane, it is likely to be hidden on that volcano. If you want to understand this, you have to go. Only in the past."

   Along the way, Lawrence and the others never encountered such a boss-level monster. However, various mobs have encountered a lot, especially some ordinary creatures that mutate after being stimulated by the special magic environment of this astral plane.

This type of creature is not even a trainee level. Only a few creatures in a race as the leader of the race can perform one or two attacks equivalent to zero-level spell power. Killing them is nothing except some low-value materials. Things can be harvested, so generally Lawrence will 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 extraordinary animals that have been affected by the environment, then they don't mind to clean it up. Instead of dragging his tired body to find another place to set up the camp.

   It was in this process that Lawrence's white map was opened. Two supernatural creatures appeared on his Baize map now. One of them is the fire bee, and the other is the soil ant.

   These names were casually named by Lawrence~lightnovelpub.net~ After all, they are just ordinary animals that undergo extraordinary mutations after being affected by the surrounding magical environment, so there is no standard name at all.

   For example, the fire venomous bee is a wasp that changes after being infiltrated by the surrounding flame elements. Compared with the ordinary hornet, its flight speed is 1/3 faster. At the same time, the poisonous needle at the tail will cause a little ignition poison when it stings. Of course, this ignition poison damage is extremely weak. According to Lawrence's estimation, even if you want to kill a mouse, you have to output the maximum power five or six times.

   The soil ants are also very similar. After being affected by the earth elements in the earth, the volume becomes 50 times the original size, and the overall defense and power are strengthened as the multiples of the volume. But apart from this, there is nothing special about this kind of ant except that it makes holes in the ground faster.

   The analysis of this kind of small insects is much simpler than those of extraordinarily complex creatures, not to mention that they are just a little extraordinary. The litters of bugs that had been cleaned up earlier also gave Lawrence hundreds of samples in his hands, which was convenient for him to thoroughly understand these two creatures.

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

   After the team left the camp in the early morning of the sixth day, Lawrence began to try to summon the two supernatural creatures that had been recorded in the phantom of "White Zeitu", but he found that the situation was mixed.

   "The power of these two insects can be awakened 100%." ​​After perceiving the two phantom insects like holographic projections in his palm, Lawrence's face showed a hint of helplessness. "But only one of each creature on the Baize map can be summoned. It seems that organizing an army of bugs is completely useless."