Chapter 1142: Hand to hand
Leo moved towards the place where the smelter had first exploded, under Sylvia's resentful gaze.
At first, some evacuated workers could be seen on the road, but as he approached the epicenter of the explosion, the people had completely disappeared, and only a few bodies of the victims were still on the ground that they had not had time to take away.
The surrounding air has been shrouded in black and red molten iron mist, and the temperature is so high that it is as high as in a smelting furnace, any ordinary person entering this area will be instantly burned to death by the surrounding molten iron mist, and a breath of gas here will be roasted.
Leo didn't care about this kind of environment that was fatal to others, and the psionic energy around his body easily dispelled the hot molten iron mist around his body, and filtered it into ordinary air.
Although with his current physical state, directly breathing and touching these molten iron aerosols will not cause any harm to himself, but the clothes on his body are just ordinary clothes, if he does that, these clothes will be directly carbonized and burned to ashes, he doesn't want to go back and deal with the matter here, and appear naked in front of Sylvia and her subordinates.
Soon Leo was at the center of the first explosion, next to the ruins of the smelting furnace of the sunken iron pool, and looked at the iron pool in front of him, which looked like a lava lake, constantly tumbling under the action of invisible forces, producing scorching heat and highly toxic gases.
The clergy of the Church of the King of the Hill extracts the heat from the lava through a special method, injects it into the molten iron pool embedded in the ground, smelts the ore, and then separates the impurities from it through a special separation technology and sends it into the lava, leaving only the purest molten iron for secondary smelting.
Undoubtedly, the implementation of this technology has allowed the Church of the Hill Kings to obtain a continuous supply of high-quality metal materials, and has also greatly reduced its dependence on high-burning trees.
Sylvia obtained the information of this technology through some means more than twenty years ago, but she found that the key points of this technology were in the heat conduction magic of the Church of the Hill King, and others could not imitate and copy it, so she didn't take this technology to heart anymore, and the materials were also included in the archives of Castle Black.
In his spare time while carrying out his various research projects, Leo would also look through some materials in Sylvia's archives for inspiration, and he came across this technical document on the smelting furnace of the sunken iron pool.
Naturally, he could also see that the core of this technology was the magic of the Church of the Hill King, and he couldn't do anything about it, but he was able to use some very ancient primitive smelting techniques of the Earth Federation combined with the extraordinary power of this world to make some modifications to this smelting furnace, so that this smelting furnace could still operate without relying on the heat of underground lava.
Of course, the improved smelting furnace in this way cannot be compared with the smelting furnace of the Hill King Church in terms of size and energy efficiency, and it still needs to provide all kinds of high-burning charcoal and other fuels, and it also requires people with extraordinary power to control the rune magic array on the smelting furnace.
At that time, Leo did not tell Sylvia about his idea, but planned to surprise her by showing it to her after the technology had been thoroughly perfected.
However, until he participated in the ceremony of the Poseidon Church, he only designed the main structure, construction plan and the lowest rune magic array of this smelting furnace, as for the control core rune circle and the secondary control structure, he did not show it to Sylvia, but put it in the archive room, together with the technical data of the smelting furnace of the original Hill King Church.
Now seeing this pool of iron that was exactly the same as his own idea, Leo knew that Sylvia should have found that information and had completed the missing parts of it in the past twenty years.
Leo scans the iron pool and the surrounding ruins through the spirit web, seeing every detail on the fragments, and reassembling the fragments into complete blast furnaces in his mind.
Although in his eyes, the part of completion was still a little different from the final technology he had in mind, and because there were too many supernatural powers mixed in his secondary control structure, such as shamans, wizards, abysses, and so on, it would make the heat supply of the smelting furnace extremely unstable.
If he hadn't seen the real cause of the smelter explosion through the Real Eye, perhaps after reconstructing the situation at the scene, he would have thought that the explosion was caused by the unstable design of the completion.
His attention didn't linger too long in the smelter that he had restored in his mind, he shifted back to the pool of iron, and at this moment he reopened his vision, activating the power of the True Eye.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the center of the molten iron pool is just a piece of boiling molten iron, but in Leo's eyes, in the tumbling molten iron, there is a giant standing with a burning light, the lower half of the giant's body is all in the molten iron, the upper body is hugging the molten iron pool, and half of his body is nearly ten meters high, making Leo standing by the pool seem a little small.
I saw that the giant kept waving his arm to stir the molten iron, causing a large amount of molten iron to turn into molten iron mist in the churning, and then spread out in all directions with a roar that did not make any sound, but was full of energy waves.
Leo could see that the giant was furious, and he seemed to want to pull his lower body out of the pool, but a stronger force dragged him back, leaving him stuck and unable to move, and this terrible state made him more agitated and angry.
Perhaps his anger focused all his attention on the pool of iron below him, or perhaps he was just an illusion of the formation of power, without any intelligence, and more likely to make Leo, who had gathered all the fluctuations of power, look like an inconspicuous bug, in short, Leo standing next to the pool did not attract the attention of the giant in the slightest.
Just as Leo was about to think about how to deal with this giant, his spiritual network suddenly felt that several people were approaching, and there was no Sylvia among those people, nor was it Sylvia's subordinate witches, and those people seemed to know what kind of environment they would face, and they were wearing a completely enclosed heat insulation suit, which made them not have any danger in a short period of time after entering this hot area.
Leo immediately had a guess in his mind when he noticed that they were coming prepared, so he moved a little and hid his figure in the ruins.
It didn't take long for those people to come to the side of the iron pool, only to see that the leader was dragging a slate-like thing in his hand, and when he approached the iron pool, the slate emitted bursts of purple light, and these purple lights swept over the pool like scanning light waves, and the giants that ordinary people could not see appeared in front of them in the form of purple giants as if dyed with a layer of color after the purple light swept over.
Upon seeing the giant appear, the men immediately became extremely excited and excited, and spoke quickly in a language that Leo had not heard, and then each of them took out some items that seemed to be performing some kind of shamanic ritual and placed them around the iron pool, and then began to chant some kind of prayer along with the leader of the leader.
Although Leo had not heard the language of these people, it was still clear from the details of their voices that they were from some tribe in the wasteland, and that the shamanic ritual they were currently performing was supposed to be a simplified version of a high-level shamanic ritual.
Leo could feel that each of these strange things was definitely a fine product, and if it was put outside, even if it was an old underground force, it might not be able to take out so many fine strange things at once.
At this time, the prayers and chanting of several people seemed to have entered a mysterious state, and their prayers began to produce special energy fluctuations, which did not spread to the surroundings but concentrated in the iron pool in front of them, generating bursts of resonant energy with the surrounding ritual and strange objects.
As if appeased, the giant wrapped in resonant energy in the iron pool gradually calmed down from his anger, and seemed to be able to hear the chanting, turning his head towards the people at the edge of the pool.
Seeing that the giant had reacted to their chanting, the men seemed to become extremely excited, and the speed of their chanting increased considerably.
However, they didn't expect that their every move would be completely watched by Leo not far away, and Leo, who had already understood the situation, felt that there was no need to watch it any longer.
So, I saw that he condensed into a thunder spear in his hand at an extremely fast speed, and just in case, he also injected a crystallized soul spear power into the thunder spear.
Although Leo used psionic energy to isolate most of the escaping energy, the power of the thunder spear was too strong for his isolation psionic energy to be completely sealed, so there was also a power of the thunder spear that escaped.
This power was not felt by the people next to the iron pool, but the giants in the iron pool found this power that could threaten him.
He was already calm, and he immediately became extremely angry, and with a quick wave of his hands, he rolled up the molten iron below and turned it into a huge molten iron fist and swung it towards Leo's location.
The sudden change was completely beyond the expectations of the men, and the power of the giant's attack brought a great shock to their minds and bodies, so that they involuntarily stopped chanting.
However, before they could recover from the shock of the giant's power, they saw a long thorn-shaped lightning bolt emerge from the place where the giant's molten iron fist was facing, collided with the molten iron fist, and easily tore apart the molten iron fist like tearing paper, and instantly hit the giant in the molten iron pool.
The attacked giant didn't even have a chance to let out a scream, it collapsed and disappeared directly in front of several people, and at the same time, the tumbling iron pool quickly calmed down and cooled and solidified at an extremely fast speed.
At the same time, the power that struck the giant did not completely disappear due to the collapse of the giant, but the remaining power spread out in all directions along the ongoing shamanic ritual.
Although it is only the remaining residual power, it is still not something that ordinary transcendents and strange things can resist, those valuable exquisite strange things burst open in an instant under the impact of the residual power, and at the same time, the few people who are connected by the exquisite strange things through the ritual are also knocked down without resistance under the impact of this force, two of them died directly, and the other few were unconscious, only the person who was the leader could barely maintain a little will and seemed to want to get up from the ground and escape from here.
He may still not understand what happened, but he knew very well that it was very dangerous for him to be here.
However, before he could recover from his paralyzed and mentally torn state, he saw a pair of ordinary travel boots appear in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw a man who looked very ordinary looking down on him.
He quickly realized that everything that had just happened was the work of the person in front of him, and the strong curiosity in his heart drove him to endure the discomfort on his body and ask, "Who are you?"
"Leo Dodd. Leo looked at the man in front of him who could withstand the remnants of the thunder spear without falling, and replied simply.
However, after hearing Leo's name, the man immediately thought of something, looked at Leo in surprise through the isolation mirror, and said, "Aren't you already dead?"
However, he didn't wait for Leo's answer to this question, only to see Leo lean down, reach out and press the other party's neck, directly knocking him unconscious, and then resisting these people out of this hot area and into a clearing on the periphery.
With the disappearance of the giant in the molten iron pool, the invisible force that caused the continuous accidents in the entire smelter area also quickly dissipated, and the boilers and equipment in other places did not explode or be damaged again, and the dust flying in the sky also slowly fell, and the entire smelter gradually appeared in front of everyone.
Although there was speculation that the smelter might be finished after the explosion, it was shocking to see that nearly two-thirds of the smelter area had been reduced to rubble, and both the workers inside the plant and the bystanders outside the plant were shocked and speechless.
At the same time, Leo also found Sylvia, who was in the ruins of the ruins, instructing his subordinates to work next, and told her that there was a discovery here.
After hearing the news from Leo, Sylvia immediately stopped what she was doing, and directly led several witch subordinates to rush towards Leo's place.
When she saw Leo standing in the open space from a distance and the few people in heat-insulated clothes lying at his feet, she immediately understood what was going on, and came to her without asking too much, but directly took off the hood of one of them, and saw the appearance of the person.
"Sure enough, it's them. ”