The crystal clear essence of life in the middle is undoubtedly the North Star that rises high in the sky! Once you've seen it, you'll never be able to erase its dazzling light from your field of vision!

This dodecahedron, which is as big as a goose egg, is the whole world in the future in Liu Ergou's eyes at this moment.

"Sylvie, is that emerald gem the essence of life? How can it be so big? To be on the safe side, Liu Ergou still confirmed with Sylvie.

In less than a second, Sylvi gave an affirmative answer, and Liu Ergou's heart hanging in his throat was smoothly put back into his stomach, and he let out a long breath.

And based on the results of the scan of the hall, the system quickly calculated and came to an amazing conclusion!

With the scale of the equipment here, this base, in its heyday, was capable of producing super-large life essences up to several meters in diameter and complex enough to be an icosahedron!

It's just that with Liu Ergou's authority, it is not enough to get this information at present.

However, even the essence of life in front of him was enough to make Liu Ergou's heart ripple.

"That's right! This special glow...... And this unique crystalline form...... This... This is the essence of life! Delise took out an alchemy prop like a monocle, looked at it for a while, and finally determined that this was the essence of life!

However, this essence of life is too big!

The essence stones sold on the black market are often only the size of a fingernail, and their form is often tetrahedral shape, and they are also priceless all year round.

And such an essence stone, through the hands of a master-level alchemist, can be made into at least a dozen life potions!

Each bottle of such a potion is enough to restore a lifespan of about three years, or to cure any damage that does not hurt the brain!

As for the larger hexahedron, it is no longer a divine object that her status can access.

Often, only in legendary-level weapons, or legion-level magic arrays, will there be such a piece of life essence as the core!

Therefore, looking at this goose egg-sized, twelve-sided essence core, Drissy stretched out her hand to it as if she had witnessed the kingdom of God in heaven descending on her.

"Miss!" Fortunately, Tufaun remained awake and dragged Drith back.

And under this tug, one of the corners of Drissy's clothes was raised, and it happened to rub against the inconspicuous shield compared to the essence of life.

"Huh..."

There was an undetectable sound, and the corner of the clothes instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke in front of the eyes of the three of them!

If it weren't for Tufaun's quick eyesight, the best result would have been the loss of an arm!

Under the double stimulation of joy and horror, Drith only felt as if the strength of her whole body was almost drained, and she collapsed on Tufarn, and it took a long time to recover.

And Liu Ergou and Tufaen were also shocked into a cold sweat in an instant!

This ruin has been abandoned for a long time, and along the way, you can see all kinds of equipment that has stopped due to lack of energy. The three of them had a preconceived idea in their hearts that as long as they broke through the puppet guards, there would be no danger in front of them.

But they ignore that since even the basic functions such as ventilation and cleaning are maintained by backup energy, how can the core essence of life be completely unprotected?

And in front of the three of them, this shield, which was so vicious just now that it was almost devoured by people, is now as if nothing had happened, quiet as a piece of tissue paper that is harmless to humans and animals.

It seems that in order to obtain this hidden treasure, the silent dragon must be defeated first.

......

It's very strange, after looking around the shield, Liu Ergou was stunned and didn't see where the energy source of this thing was.

Whether it was the facilities around the base or the strange instruments in this hall, it was not difficult for Liu Ergou to find a few pipelines of different sizes.

These pipelines lead into walls or somewhere underground, apparently connected to a network of energy transmission throughout the site.

As for the alchemy machines in the inner ring, they all have the function of drawing energy directly from the magic field scattered throughout the inner ring. At this moment, since the inner ring magic array was not activated, these alchemy machines were useless one by one.

However, in front of Liu Ergou's eyes, this small stone platform was as if it was created out of nothing, and a shield was born out of thin air to protect the stone platform and the essence of life!

What's even more amazing is that Liu Ergou suddenly found that this stone platform was actually suspended in the air!

And that shield actually formed a spherical shell, protecting the stone platform and the essence of life in all directions.

For a while, Liu Ergou couldn't think about it.

On the other hand, unlike Liu Ergou's idea of trying to crack the shield in principle, Drissy began to test the strength of the shield.

From the drawer of her desk, to the fork in the cafeteria, to the instruments in the hall, Drissy found a mess of things and tried to figure out how to get through the shield.

She even sent Tufarn to the square and pick up a few large rocks; If it weren't for the fact that there was a patrolling puppet guard in the square, Drith would even have the heart to test the wreckage.

Unfortunately, all materials, including stone, could not resist the erosion of the shield, and naturally could not bring out the essence of life inside.

And in the process of testing, the shield did not mean to weaken at all, and not even a spark was missing. So the garbage pile around Drise was rapidly decreasing, and on the other side of her, a smaller scrap pile was rapidly growing larger.

However, after experimenting with many materials, Drise made a discovery.

Dragging Liu Ergou, who was still meditating, to the scrap pile, Delisi picked up a melted alloy plate and handed it to Liu Ergou.

"Look at this place", Drissy pointed to one end of the alloy plate and said to Liu Ergou. "Did you notice that this alloy plate was not actually 'melted'?"

"Huh?" Liu Ergou scratched his head very incomprehensibly, and looked at the board in his hand over and over again.

In his opinion, whether it is the tear-like marks at one end of the board or the slag scattered everywhere, aren't they all proof of melting?

"No, you're looking closely." Seeing that Liu Ergou was puzzled, Delisi didn't say more, but just turned the alloy plate and stretched the intact side to the shield.

As on many occasions before it, the alloy plate lasted less than a second before it flowed down like a molten candle.

Delisi quickly took back the alloy plate that had been melted again, and threw it to Liu Ergou and said, "You take a closer look, especially the 'melted' piece." ”

Liu Ergou subconsciously caught the alloy plate thrown by Deliss, and then suddenly thought that this metal plate that had just melted should not be like a soldering iron!

threw the alloy plate out, Liu Ergou hurriedly rubbed his hands and scolded: "TM You want to burn me...... Well? ”

The imaginary pain did not appear, and his hands were intact.

Liu Ergou carefully picked up the board he threw out, but it was cold at the beginning!

Cool? What's going on?

Looking at Liu Ergou's stupid appearance, Delisi couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"If it's really hot, can I fiddle with it for a long time and then give it to you? Please, use your brain, okay? "This lord is sometimes smart and decisive, but sometimes he is really cute.

"Hey, you continue, you continue." Liu Ergou scratched his head and laughed dryly.

Pointing to the "melted" end of the metal plate, Drith continued: "Not only is there no temperature, but you can see that the seams of this 'melted' place and the normal place are not deformed at all. ”

"Could it be that this metal has special properties and will not deform at high temperatures?" Liu Ergou thought about it and asked Dries.

"It's not," Drisi immediately denied Liu Ergou's conjecture.

Turning her head, Dries instructed Tufaun, "You can pull me two more nail leaves, they should be bigger." ”

Tufaen immediately picked up his fighting spirit, and with a great effort, he unscrewed off two nail leaves from the collar of the close-fitting soft armor.

The leaves are forged from fine iron, and each piece is the size of half a hand.

Drissy dragged over a slightly larger metal plate next to her, and there was also a fire-attribute triangular circle engraved on the board, which was obviously made by Drissy just now.

Insert a crystal into the circle, and the circle will kick in, creating a levitating fireball above it.

Drith rummaged through the garbage heap again, found two forks, and stuck a nail leaf into the fireball.

The temperature of the magic flame was quite high, and it didn't take long for the leaves to turn red and the edges began to melt.

Seeing that the nail leaves began to melt, Drissy immediately turned off the magic array. A breeze blew to cool off this piece of nail leaf, and then picked up another nail leaf.

Without any accident, as soon as the Koba approached the shield, it immediately let out a "snort", and the part that touched the shield immediately turned into a puddle of molten iron.

Seeing this, Drissy immediately moved the nail leaf away from the shield, and the molten iron immediately condensed into tears on the surface of the nail leaf.

Handing the two nail leaves to Liu Ergou, Dries pointed to the melting place of the two nail leaves and motioned for him to take a closer look.

What is this for? Is this girl going to be a blacksmith instead?

Taking the letter suspiciously over the nail leaf, Liu Ergou looked at it and immediately saw the clue!

"You see, this piece burned with fire, not only the edges are melted, but the parts that are not melted are also obviously deformed."

Indeed, the nail leaf that had been burned by the fire had been significantly distorted under the action of high temperature, and the color was also noticeably blackened.

"Look at this piece again," Drith pointed to the blade that touched the shield, "There is no deformation at all in this blade except for the part that touches the shield!" ”

Not only was it not deformed, but it didn't even change color, as if the armor leaf hadn't touched the shield at all, but there was just some molten iron that came out of nowhere and just solidified on it!

Coupled with the abnormal temperature, Liu Ergou also figured out the joints here.

"This shield doesn't rely on high temperatures, but has another principle?"

"That's right." Drissy nodded, then picked up the half-destroyed armor leaf and placed it very close to the shield, only a few millimeters away!

And the nail leaf, which was about to collapse at the touch of a button just now, is now indifferent, and there is no change at all!

Seeing that Liu Ergou understood what he meant, Drith said again: "I took a closer look just now and found that these things were not destroyed by the high temperature ablation of the shield as we originally thought. ”

"On the contrary, this shield has no temperature at all!"

"Look at this again," said Driss, picking up a stone, the same one Tufaun had brought back from outside.

Putting the stone on the shield, there was another "snort", and the small half of the stone was immediately destroyed.

However, unlike the previous ones, after this contact, there were no marks on the remaining stones, and the sections were as neat as if they had been cut with a knife.

And on the floor, directly below the stone, a small pinch of dust appeared.

Liu Ergou stretched out his hand and twisted it a little, feeling like the ashes in the incense burner, very delicate.

Looking at Liu Ergou's thoughtful expression, Delisi slowly spoke: "This effect is very similar to a sixth-level magic: dissociation technique. It's just that dissociation isn't usually that powerful, I mean, the speed and range of dissociation is much slower. ”

"Tell me more about this dissociation." Liu Ergou vaguely had some thoughts.

"Dissociation, as the name suggests, is the dissociation of matter into its basic elements."

"Uh...... And then what? But he didn't think that Drissy only said one sentence and then disappeared, and Liu Ergou was stunned when he heard it.

"Gone?"

"Gone? That's it? ”

"And what else do you want to hear? Dissociation is the principle of using magic to activate the basic elements of the composition, and then decompose, and it's over, and it's not complicated. ”

Drissy spread her hands, not understanding Liu Ergou's question.

"Ah, this? I understand the dissociation of stones into the earth element, but why hasn't this nail leaf been dissociated into the gold element? Liu Ergou pointed to the two melted metal plates and asked puzzledly.

"Gold elemental? Where is the gold element? But as soon as he didn't think about his words, not only was Delisi puzzled, but even Tufaun on the side looked at Liu Ergou with idiotic eyes.

Seeing that Liu Ergou didn't seem to understand these common senses, Delisi was also patient and began to teach Liu Ergou a lesson.

"Earth, fire, water, wind, and light are the five basic elements that make up the main material world. Everything in the main material world is made up of these five basic elements

In other realms, such as the Shadow Realm where the Shadow Demon is located, it is said that there are no of these five elements, but only one 'dark' element.

However, mainstream scholars generally believe that the so-called 'dark' element is actually an extremely inert light element. It's just that no matter how inert the elements other than the light element, no matter how inert, there will be such an extreme reversal of 'light' and 'darkness', so this is just a guess.

Leaving aside this pair, the 'activation' and 'inertization' of an element, that is, the degree of activity of the element, is an important property of the element.

Depending on the degree of activation, the properties of the elements will also change, which in turn will affect the properties of the constituent substances.

For example, the element of water, when it is extremely inert, turns into ice. The so-called metal is actually a very inert earth element, and there is no gold element.

It's just that in most cases, the earth element is very inert, so most of the materials made of the earth element are heavy things like rock or metal.

Transforming magic into different elements will produce magic power with different attributes; Mixing the mana of different attributes will create new mana attributes.

For example, if you mix the mana of the fire attribute and the light attribute, the mana obtained is called thunder mana.

As for the magic array, it is just the process of reproducing the original magic power-element-attribute magic power in the form of a formation. ”

"Striking a tangible substance with magical power to activate the elements that make it compose, and then decompose into loose elements, is called dissociation."