Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 540: Artificial "Mediterranean Sea"

More than ten people rode their Motocycles and rushed out of the valley without looking back, and only stopped after passing the high slope at the valley entrance.

Dave stood on tiptoe on the mod car and looked out. He found that the ground on the riverbank below where they had just stopped had quietly cracked into a deep fissure as the ground shook more and more violently. The flat grass slopes of the entire valley below were a chaotic scene of cracked earth and fallen trees.

"That's not some fucking flash flood!" Dave cursed, grinning. "That's an earthquake! Do you understand earthquakes?"

The soldier patted his chest with lingering fear and muttered, "What a huge scene! This is much more terrifying than the giant worms turning over underground. I almost couldn't stand up just now."

The continuous tremors seemed to be confined only to the interior of the valley. The river with abundant water also boiled because of this natural disaster. The river water overflowed the bank and flowed freely. The whole valley was filled with water vapor and fog as if it had just rained heavily.

There was a sudden, unpleasant smell in the air.

Dave sniffed and said flatly, "Why does it smell like rust?"

Logically, shouldn't the earth's stirring after an earthquake smell like mud? Dave really disliked this strange smell; it was a bit murky and pungent to an orc with a keen sense of smell.

Before he could come to his senses, a more violent earthquake occurred again. The previously cracked cracks in the valley became wider and wider. One of the bottomless cracks even extended straight to the entrance of the valley, less than a hundred meters away from the high slope where they stopped to observe.

"Boss, something's wrong! Should we retreat first? Commander Wayne must have noticed something's going on."

There was no reason for Duff to be so stubborn in the face of a natural disaster, so he nodded and was about to ask everyone to go back.

A sudden chill came from his back, making him feel that all the hairs on his body stood up and his heart was beating uncontrollably - the blood warrior's innate ability was involuntarily stimulated, and with his nerves highly tense, his body instantly entered a combat state.

The high-level bloodline warrior's ability to attach has the same malicious perception effect as the caster's monitoring spell!

The soldiers behind him also received feedback at the same time. They took out their magic guns from behind and loaded them. They gathered in a circle and stared at the direction of the valley below.

In a huge crack in the ground a hundred meters away, two hideous monsters were climbing out from the depths with nimble hands and feet.

A seamless black skin, twisted and swollen limb joints, and a deep red crystal visor embedded in the head...

It's the Demon Lizard Man!

……

As soon as the two lizardmen carrying black water cans climbed onto the ground, Daf opened fire without hesitation.

The inscriptions on the surface of the new magic gun suddenly lit up, and a specially made dragon flame magic bullet flew out from the muzzle like lightning, shooting straight towards the visor of one of the demon lizardmen.

For a sharpshooter like Duff, a distance of 100 meters is almost the same as shooting someone in the face.

The bullet hit the crystal visor accurately, and the lizard man's head was like being hit by an invisible hammer. His entire neck bent backwards, and the crystal visor shattered and exploded. He didn't have time to react and fell to the ground dead.

The remaining enemy was shot repeatedly in the chest by the rest of the soldiers, his armor pierced like a sieve, and he collapsed to the ground in an instant. "Damn it! Aren't these creatures active near the Ice Sea? How did they get to the foot of the Divine Ridge Mountain so quickly?" Dave didn't put away his gun, but continued to patrol the area near the huge rift. "Your Majesty, could it be that you have a divine eye and knew these monsters would invade from near the Great Rift?"

The engineer trembled as he pulled out a communicator from his backpack and shouted, "Sir, report to Battalion Commander Wayne immediately!"

Duff nodded, thought for a moment, and added, "Just report the situation. No need to request reinforcements. Just say we'll return immediately."

A soldier on guard suddenly shouted, "There are more enemies! They are crawling up from underground... Oh my God! There are so many of them!"

"Free fire, kill them if they show their heads, keep the vehicles activated... We are ready to evacuate at any time!" Daf shot a lizard man who had just crawled out in the head and said gritting his teeth.

At this moment, he really hated himself for not bringing some portable artillery in advance. Even if there was only one cannon, it would be enough to blow up the rift in front of him and bury all the alien monsters that were pouring out like reptiles.

The following lizardmen seemed to realize that they were under attack, and quickly locked onto the sentinel squad shooting at them on the high slope. They began to draw black liquid from the black water tanks behind them, condensing it into crystal spears in their hands and throwing them at them.

Fortunately, Duff and others knew that the maximum shooting range of the spear was less than 100 meters. Otherwise, if dozens of fierce spears were concentrated on the uncovered high slope, even if they could rely on the metal body of the magic car to block them, casualties would be inevitable.

Seeing this, he no longer intended to tangle with them. He jumped on his vehicle and waved his hand, ordering, "Let's retreat! First, we'll go into the desert and circle around, shake off the pursuers, and then return to the main camp."

The soldiers responded in unison and mounted their chariots.

They had not driven far when they heard another more violent tremor in the valley behind them - this time it was as terrifying as a landslide. A soldier who was about to speed up suddenly had his car tilted and was thrown out with his car.

Duff pushed off the ground with his feet and used the power of his own blood to forcibly stop the vehicle that had just accelerated. He reached out and picked up the soldier who had fallen dizzy, then picked up the car and drove towards the vast desert.

Before driving down the hill, he couldn't help but turn his head to look towards the valley, but he was so frightened that he almost fell off the car...

The emerald green valley, which looked like a flat basin not long ago, sank into a huge deep pit in the earthquake that lasted for several minutes. The turbulent water spread out from the bottom of the pit, swallowing up the land and countless vegetation.

In the murky, dark water, it seemed as if an immensely large creature was slowly rising...

Although the specific appearance of that thing could not be seen clearly, it was not difficult to guess from the shadow outline at the bottom of the water that it was a living creature that was larger than one could imagine, enough to make anyone standing in front of it look extremely small.

As it slowly rose from the ground, it continued to expand the huge pit in the center of the valley, until the entire valley bottom was arched into a huge artificial "Mediterranean Sea".

The engineer sat behind the soldier driving the magic vehicle, holding the alchemical communicator and frantically "dialing", but was unable to establish contact with the base camp.

Seeing this, Dave roared, "Use code communication! This giant thing must be disrupting the magic network connection. We can't communicate with it this close, and it's easy for the enemy to locate us."

"Boss, what communication code should I send?"

"Enemy attack... retreat... hide, Wayne will understand what I mean."

(End of this chapter)