Chapter 359: The Power of the Alarm-o-Bot

Alarm-o-Bot? Is that some kind of monster?

Despite having been thoroughly shaken by the teleportation, Vanessa still managed to stand up, trembling. She drew her dagger, her eyes darting warily in all directions.

Duke gently patted Vanessa's head.

"An Alarm-o-Bot is harmless in itself. However... it can also become a super nuisance."

Vanessa's forehead was clearly marked with a multitude of question marks.

Even after experiencing more than one teleportation, Alleria was still unable to adapt to the sensation, as if all her internal organs were being shaken out, mixed up, and then stuffed back into her body.

It took them a while to take in the unfamiliar underground city.

Gnomeregan was built 172 years ago, this technological marvel located in Dun Morogh has always been the main city of the gnomes.

Two years ago, due to another temporal anomaly, corresponding to that incorrect 21%, an event that should have happened 20 years after the Dark Portal opened, occurred two years earlier: a group of evil Troggs, or cave dwellers, invaded several areas in Dun Morogh, including the gnome's main city.

In order to kill these Troggs, who were much larger and stronger than the gnomes, High Tinker Mekkatorque ordered the opening of the city's emergency radiation tanks for a desperate fight.

The gnomes were looking for ways to avoid radiation while waiting for the Troggs to die or flee. Unfortunately, although the Troggs were infected with toxicity after being exposed to radiation, their attacks did not stop, nor did they weaken in the slightest.

Those gnomes who were not killed by radiation were forced to flee, finding refuge in the nearby dwarven city of Ironforge. High Tinker Mekkatorque formed a think tank to discuss plans to retake their beloved city.

Of course, before the gnomes succeeded, this place was a typical lawless land.

In fact, before Duke crossed over, he remembered that the gnomes' operations were not successful. It can't be said that there was no progress, just that they only managed to retake the entrance...

What Duke and the others saw was a city with a strong steampunk style. Everywhere were huge metal constructs: long and heavy cantilevers, steam or unknown gases spewing out everywhere, revolving and shining lights...

Although Duke wanted to give the gnomes a high-tech title.

However, Duke, who came from a more modern and technological society, could not give a higher evaluation to the huge iron walls and those mechanical devices that could only be fixed with ugly rivets.

Of course, for the entire world of Azeroth, the things here are undoubtedly forbidden technology.

Hmm, in this world, excluding the real forbidden technology left by the Titans, the races with the highest technological elements are undoubtedly: the goblins, who have a spirit of doing big things and are super easy to explode; and the gnomes, who are crazy and easy to mess up.

Just like the earliest steam engines were probably not as powerful as a horse, the technology of the gnomes now has a bit of this flavor. Even if a creation is epoch-making, it is very likely to be defeated by a violent demolition...

Now the elf ranger Marshal who advocates nature is not happy, feeling that the current Alleria, seeing anything, wants to give it a [Steady Shot].

Duke rubbed his eyebrows, directly opened the Ice Barrier, and the fierce cold wind swirled around Duke and the two women in a clockwise tornado shape.

"This is..." Vanessa looked at the grand spectacle, a full twenty meters in diameter, the ice shield that moved forward with Duke's advance, and was so surprised that she couldn't speak.

She had always known that Duke was powerful, but she hadn't expected that Duke could use this shield to drive away the purple dust floating in the air.

Time was pressing, and Duke didn't explain much. He led the two women through twists and turns deep into Gnomeregan.

Alleria was surprised because it looked like no one had been here for a long time. Duke was obviously unusually familiar with this place.

"Have you been here before?"

"No, but I've read about it in detail in books."

Duke said something he himself didn't believe - he was clearly tired of running dungeons with his guildmates in the past.

There were Troggs wandering around, only half a person tall, or shorter leper gnomes with disgusting blisters all over their bodies. Duke easily dealt with them using the mage's [Ice Lance].

For these creatures that could only trouble an earth mage, Duke felt nothing.

One level, two levels, three levels, it was like a picnic. Duke led the two women through rooms and boxes, various high-altitude falls, and finally arrived at the fourth level of Gnomeregan.

It was a huge steel passage, the fourth level in reality, much larger than Duke had imagined. It was a full fifty meters wide and over thirty meters high.

The steel passage was lined with iron plate flooring and steel handrails.

Alleria and Vanessa's dynamic vision easily caught a strange object at the end of the passage glowing with red light. It was hard to describe what it was. It was about the size of a dwarf, with short limbs, a small chest, and a huge head.

Of course, that so-called head was a red light that repeatedly swept around.

Duke gave a thumbs up, pointing towards that thing in the distance.

"Mobile Alert System, commonly known as 'Alarm-o-Bot'. Of course, this thing is not a threat to us. But... Vanessa, you sneak over there, see if it can detect you." Duke turned to Alleria: "As for you, please set a few [Freezing Traps] in the direction that the 'Alarm-o-Bot' came from."

[Freezing Trap]: Can turn any monster that steps on the trap into a large block of ice. Unable to move for a short time.

This is a skill that almost all hunters and rangers will have.

Vanessa and Alleria nodded and did as they were told.

Thirty seconds later, Vanessa arrived in front of the so-called 'Alarm-o-Bot'.

[Stealth] is a rogue skill that transcends physical skills, allowing the rogue to use their unique [Focus Energy] to distort the light around their body, achieving an effect that is invisible to the naked eye.

Vanessa was very young, but no one could deny her exceptional rogue talent.

She was very confident, unless she walked very close to a hunter or ranger who specialized in detecting stealth, no one would be able to detect her.

She was wrong.

Just as she was about to walk past the Alarm-o-Bot while in [Stealth], the strange contraption suddenly emitted a sharp noise.

"Intruder detected! Intruder detected!"