Struggle in the Steam Age

After determining the location of the treasure marked on the treasure map, Lawrence did not immediately set out to find it. Instead, he calmed down and began to learn the three zero-levels previously bought from the Church of Knowledge, and a total of four for each level. magic.

In the next week, Lawrence, besides completing the entrusted tasks assigned by the guests on Wednesday, went out to help a banker retrieve his lost gem-encrusted fountain pen and knocked out seven people. Except for his gang of thieves, all his energy was devoted to magic learning.

Through continuous learning, Lawrence discovered that he could not only learn more magic, but also because of the special reason of his own warlock blood. Part of the magic he learned can actually be like the magic transmitted in the blood. A magic pattern formed around him. After that, it can be used very flexibly like other magic.

　　Of course, but also because Lawrence's bloodline power comes from the white beast. Therefore, part of the magic that is not compatible with Bai Ze's attributes is not only difficult to learn, but also spells in release, and the posture and casting materials are indispensable. It's like the zero-level necromantic magic [Fatigue Touch].

Fortunately, the other three magics were successfully accepted by Bai Ze’s bloodline, so the rune beside Bai Ze in Lawrence’s mind had two more zero-level spells [copying] [acid splash] and a first-level spell [feather] Falling technique].

　　 After finishing his magic learning, Lawrence started his own treasure hunt after dinner on Saturday night. Originally, he wanted to call Syfiel and the others, but today happened to be an important holiday for the Rat people. The letter Lawrence took out from the mailbox a week ago was a letter from Fatina's grandfather who invited her home for the holidays. And Safir had promised to accompany his new friends to this party a long time ago.

　　Considering that his adventure was not very dangerous, Lawrence did not tell the two ladies to worry about it. When the two ladies left the office, Lawrence immediately packed up his things and rushed to the destination in full gear.

　　Because it is night, it looks unusually deserted except that the gas street lamp on the street provides some dim lights, but the rental horse station illuminated by the gas lamp still has single carriages for rent.

At this time, the coachmen were playing some board games or chatting together by the gas light. When they heard the footsteps and raised their heads, they were all startled by Lawrence with a pistol in his waist and a rifle on his back. . Fortunately, Lawrence took out his own documents and finally prevented the coachmen who were planning to run around.

　　 But when he said where he was going, the coachmen shook their heads and declined when he heard that he needed to go to the suburbs. Fortunately, under the reward, there must be a brave man. After raising the fare to three times the amount of the car during the day and agreeing to park and wait at an intersection several hundred meters away from the coal mine, he finally found this time and was willing to send it. A coachman in his own suburbs.

　　 "Why don't everyone want to go when I talk about the Rand Mine?" Lawrence asked the coachman what he had just wondered when the carriage was galloping on the street. "I used to ride a carriage to some places in the outskirts at night, but everyone didn't have the kind of refusal just now."

　　 "Ah, sir." The coachman is a very talkative person, so Lawrence opened up the conversation after asking. "This is mainly because of some serious security issues."

　　 Speaking of this, the coachman gently lifted the bottom of his clothes with his left hand and motioned Lawrence to look. Lawrence clearly saw an old-fashioned single-shot front flash hat pistol pinned to his belt.

"Sir, in fact, people like us who dare to take on this kind of task and get out of the car at night have some self-defense weapons. We are not afraid of three or four ordinary robbers." The coachman put down his clothes and said, "But the place you mentioned. But it's a haunted mine in the legend! It's impossible for us to fight those monsters. I wouldn't dare go there if you weren't for an extraordinary person."

　　 "Monster?" Lawrence was suddenly interested, and now the chance of a treasure of the wizard in that place has greatly increased. After all, "Appraisal" can only identify the information contained in the item itself.

For example, in the past, magic can know that the treasure map is written with the words accumulated by a mage's life knowledge without opening the treasure map, but whether the string of text is true, and if it is true, is the mage's note still there? A series of questions such as the location marked on the map cannot be answered.

　　 So when the coachman said that there were monsters in the coal mine, Lawrence instantly became excited, because he felt that the probability of the mage's notes hidden here greatly increased.

On the first day he became a spellcaster, the staff of the Church of Knowledge seriously warned him to release the magic for a long time in places where there is no magic protection as much as possible if it is not necessary, otherwise the magic power that overflows after casting is easy. Cause the surrounding environment to mutate.

The fact that the coal mine is haunted is likely to be caused by the mage in the treasure map who has been doing experiments for a long time. As for the fact that it is still haunted to this day, it means that the place may not have been there since the mage left. Others have been there, and the treasure is probably still there.

"——Actually, the haunted legends existed when coal was digging. Everyone who works there is easy to get tired and get sick, and even some accidents and deaths occurred in the coal mine." The coachman still chattered as Lawrence thought. Speaking of, just like the taxi drivers he had seen in his previous life, the grooms here are also a group of well-informed and talkative people. "But until the small mine closed, I didn't invite a priest or a demon hunter from the city to see it."

"Is the closure of the coal mine related to haunting?" Lawrence asked when he waited for the coachman's dry mouth to raise the kettle to drink water. He was a little worried that if too many people died there, he would definitely encounter a big deal today. The trouble~www.ltnovel.com~ No, of course not. If that's the case, I would definitely not dare to pull you over at this time. "The coachman put down the kettle and smiled, "It's just that after the repair of the canal that connects the Golden River and the Carlos River, a large amount of high-quality anthracite near the Great Lakes in the North can be easily transported. Then the bituminous coal with high sulfur content produced by this small coal mine could not be sold at once, so it was naturally closed by the boss. "

"The same was true when mining back then, because the coal here is not good, so naturally the price cannot be sold. So the boss is naturally unwilling to spend a sum of money to ask people to deal with these problems. As for the dead, mining, how can there be undead? ?"

　　 Lawrence didn't ask any questions along the way, but just listened quietly to the coachman telling stories there, until the carriage stopped at a dark crossroad half an hour later.

"That's it, sir." The coachman mentioned the lantern beside him and illuminated the surrounding situation. With the light from the lantern, Lawrence saw a tattered road sign on the edge of the crossroads indicating the order. Go straight to the east of the crossroad to the Rand Mine.

　　 "I will wait for you in the forest hut in front." The coachman pointed to a little light in the distance and said to Lawrence that this place is quiet and there are no villages. Lawrence knew that the nearest settlement was a woodland hut six to seven hundred meters away. "According to the agreement between the two of us, if you don't rush to find me there at six tomorrow morning, I will go to the St. Gutenberg Cathedral in the city to report to you."

　　 "Thank you, then." Lawrence said as he jumped out of the car to adjust his gear, and then walked to the distant hills that were as dark as a group of monsters lying prone there.