Lava Kobold World.
Outside the Black Flame Kobold tribe, tensions were running high.
"Get that Magma Worm ammunition up here faster... drive those stinking lizards back..."
Chief Black Flame stood on a boulder, wearing Slag Armor and holding a Steam-Powered Shotgun as he directed the battle.
Up ahead, over a hundred ordinary Kobolds and seven or eight bronze-tier Kobolds were surrounding and attacking eight or nine enormous Lava Lizards.
Although each attack inflicted some damage on the Lava Lizards, it amounted to little more than superficial wounds.
These Lava Lizards had incredibly tough defenses.
The Kobolds could only rely on their numbers and constant movement to hold them off.
Even the bronze-tier Kobolds kept moving, looking for opportunities to attack from the perimeter.
Each of these Lava Lizards was twenty to thirty meters long, and their constantly lashing tails shattered every rock they struck.
From time to time, they also spat jets of flame from their mouths.
Their devastating attacks kept the Lava Kobolds from daring to approach.
Fortunately, after the prolonged battle, the Lava Lizards were all covered in wounds as well.
Three lizard corpses already lay on the black soil in the distance.
Of course, twenty or thirty Kobold corpses lay there too.
Watching the deadlocked battle, Black Flame glared at the Lava Lizards with eyes that all but spat fire.
"Does the Lizard Nest want a war? Sending this many Lava Lizards to attack us!"
But he knew perfectly well that these Lava Lizards had been attracted by the lava ore in the mine behind him.
Without the mine shielding it, the energy fluctuations from all that piled-up lava ore are far too attractive to the Lava Lizards.
*But this ore is what my lord needs. Unless we have absolutely no choice, we can't let these brutes