When Lawrence and the others finished resting and approached the fortress with their trophies, they found that the fortress was quiet. Except for the crackling fire and the occasional sound of a building falling down when it was burned down. The whole fortress was as silent as a tomb.
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"Everyone, be careful." Lawrence shouted, standing in the middle of the team. As a spellcaster, he would naturally be surrounded by melee professionals during team battles. He stepped across the fortress that had been burned to a pile of coke.
At the gate, Lawrence immediately realized that something was wrong with the surrounding situation. Because under normal circumstances, there would always be someone left behind after such a place was cleared.
Kobold corpses were lying everywhere on the wreckage of the building and on the ground. Judging from the way they fell and the marks on their bodies, the previous main force of the Extraordinary seemed to have gone very smoothly in the attack. Most of the kobolds were killed.
A fatal blow, with basically no effective resistance.
"The contestants who came here before should have fought very smoothly here. At the same time, they left in an organized manner when they left here. They did not leave in a hurry after being attacked." The Yingzhou-born woman who was following Zhu Yan
Samurai Okita Sakura walked to several kobold corpses and observed them before saying.
"You see, all the valuable things on these kobolds are gone, leaving only the kobold-specific weapons and their armor that are meaningless to humans."
After listening to Okita Sakura's words, others also focused on this aspect. Sure enough, the jewelry on the kobolds shown in the investigation report was missing. On the bodies of several kobolds, Lawrence
They also found traces of rings on their paws.
"Who is it?" At this moment, a soldier suddenly heard something moving in the ruins, so he held the short spear in his hand and raised his round shield and shouted at it.
"Don't do it, we're on our own." With that, seven or eight contestants emerged from a hidden bunker.
"What exactly happened here? Why are you hiding here?" Lawrence asked curiously as he looked at them.
"We were sent here to watch before." One of the selected contestants said. According to his account, everyone's previous attack went very smoothly, and other enemies except the kobold shaman were also easy to deal with.
After the battle, a few of them were left behind, while the large force went directly to the mines on the mountain.
"But just ten minutes after the large troops went up, a blood-red light shot out of the mine. We looked here with a telescope and found that everyone had disappeared, and the people who were supposed to be on guard at the entrance of the mine were also missing.
We felt very scared, so we hid and prepared to teleport out when the time came."
After listening to what this group of people said, everyone seemed a little hesitant, but after a brief discussion, they decided to go up and have a look. Everyone felt that such a powerful enemy had been defeated just now, and it was really inappropriate to run like this now. They really wanted to run away.
If you find out there is something wrong, it's not too late to run away.
Before setting off, they tried to invite the people who stayed behind, but these people declined the invitation from Lawrence and the others. In desperation, everyone could only bid farewell to those who stayed behind under the command of Lawrence, and then moved towards the mountainside behind the fortress in a search formation.
Walk in the direction of the mine.
This section of the road is not easy, because the temperature gets higher as you go up, and the volcanic mountains are covered with loose stones and dust. Walking up there is as strenuous as walking on thick snow.
Fortunately, the road from the mine to the fortress is also a place that kobolds often need to walk, so they laid some tree trunks and stones on the loose ground as footholds. Although the distance between these footholds is according to
The steps of the kobolds are arranged in a large and small way, which is not very friendly to humans. But it is still more comfortable than walking directly on loose ground.
Along the way, Lawrence discovered that there were many kobold corpses on both sides of the road as well as some marks of slashing and shooting. However, most of the kobolds fell facing the mine, and the wounds were concentrated on the back. This also shows that at that time, the competition
When the attackers attacked, the kobolds had been completely routed.
"It seems that everyone's attack went smoothly, so why did everyone disappear?" Lawrence thought as he walked up, but everything was normal along the way. Until he reached the entrance of the mine, white thoughts came to his mind.
Ze's shadow suddenly alerted him.
"Stop." Lawrence raised his hand and shouted. Everyone immediately stopped and looked at him with puzzled eyes, hoping that he could give an explanation.
"The situation up front is not right, it's too quiet." Lawrence pointed to the footprints on the ground and said, "Besides, even if there is no need to keep people in the fortress below, there should always be a few people at the entrance of the cave. But why were there so many people there before?
Hundreds of people all entered the cave, and no one was left standing guard outside."
After hearing what Lawrence said, everyone felt that something was wrong. After a brief discussion, Lawrence, John and two other contestants who thought they were more experienced formed a team and walked into the cave.
As soon as he entered the cave, a hot breath rushed out from the cave. Lawrence knew that this was caused by part of the skeleton of the undead red dragon. Because of this skeleton, a place was automatically formed in the cave that used the heat energy of the magma to operate.
The natural furnace. The tools and weapons of the kobolds come from here. This hot wind also comes from the operation of the furnace.
"Look, everyone is here." John suddenly shouted after turning a corner. Lawrence followed the direction of his finger and found a lot of people lying in the cave hall in front of him, including more than a dozen people lying there.
The kobolds are entangled together.
"Isn't it the magic circle in the cave that has been activated?" Lawrence thought. "But theoretically, only the kobold leader and the dragon's remnant soul can activate this magic circle."
From the memory just obtained, Lawrence learned that under the deception of the dragon's remnant soul, the kobold leader took the final step of the sacrifice in this mine. Because the dragon's remnant soul was now too weak, it was transferred
The magic of the soul must be casted successfully with the help of one's own corpse.
"They just passed out." John and the two soldiers had already rushed up to check on the fallen contestants. Fortunately, after inspection, everyone was simply unconscious.
"Does this mean that even if the magic arranged here is activated, it is only partially activated?" Lawrence thought as he walked forward, and then moved a piece according to the instructions of a certain scene in his memory and the shadow of Bai Ze in his mind.
slate.
Under the stone slab is a simple basement. Theoretically, no one knows about this place except the kobold leader and the dragon's remnant soul. But now, there are several people lying down in this basement.
"It turns out it's them." John, who came over after being alerted by Lawrence's movements, lowered his head and took a look, and then he recognized the identities of the group of people below.
"Do you remember?" Seeing Lawrence a little confused, John quickly explained, "Before we entered this space, we saw a group of contestants from the Algarve Empire in the southern continent, and the following group of guys are the same group of contestants.
A small team among them.”
"Oh, it turns out it's them." John said that Lawrence also remembered it. At that time, Leisuo also commented that this group of people liked to use unscrupulous means to do things. Now it seems that these things are probably caused by them.
After confirming that there was no other danger, Lawrence called most of the people outside and began to wake up the contestants. Soon, everyone was awakened from their coma.
The group of Algarve Empire contestants who were pulled out of the basement quickly aroused everyone's suspicion, especially because their previous credit records were very poor. After a series of humane and not-so-humane torture, everyone finally knew