"Impossible." Ji Harin shook his head firmly and said, "The ore vein sealing technique is mainly for the ore veins, it just makes the state of things constant, not that time really stands still, those creatures sealed in it, in the continuation of the seal, will be constant, but when the seal is lifted, time will find them in an instant."

The moment the seal was lifted, it was also the moment they died.

During the seal, they were all still, not even conscious, and there was no point in doing so.

Whether it is the past or the future, time is the most difficult to cross.

Not the craziest people would not dare to make such an attempt lightly. ”

Gavin involuntarily nodded his head again and again, he knew this very well, because he was the madman who tried to travel through time, even with the protection of Suren's tears, the Starry Sky Gate was still full of twists and turns, and he almost failed.

"It's useless to guess, just go and take a look, maybe it's the automatic mining equipment made by the dwarves here, and when the seal here is lifted, it automatically enters the state of operation." The Grey Dwarf Patriarch Juliu is a doer, and he takes the lead in the depths of the passage.

"It's not impossible." Everyone nodded involuntarily, if it was purely mechanical equipment, it would be reasonable.

If there is no corrosion, oxidation and the like, even if time comes to the door, materials such as steel will not be affected in any way, only those flesh and blood, which cannot withstand the pure blow of time.

"Stone thorns? So many stone thorns! ”

"Can a stone thorn grow this big?"

"Ordinary stone thorns definitely can't grow so big, but don't forget what kind of place this is, the law of gigantic transformation on the Giant Plain can also be shrouded here, if it is huge, isn't it super large!"

"The reason why the passage here is so huge is not just for the giants, but because they left it over from the process of mining it."

"That's not right, the stone thorns belong to elemental creatures, not bloodline creatures, and gigantic can also take effect on them?"

"This is from the level of the law, and it is not bloodline, so it is naturally not surprising that it can take effect on elemental creatures."

"I didn't expect that the use of stone thorns in our dwarven mining could be pushed back to the period of the Supreme Shanata."

"It's not for nothing that the Supreme Shanata is known as the most glorious era of the Northland dwarves."

"Congratulations, my lord, this is the first treasure you have unearthed in the kingdom of High Thanata, you have a group of the best ore diggers, they can mine for you without sleep, and all you need to pay is the residue of the smelting process and the air mixed with metal dust, which is their favorite food, but you need a group of dwarves to help manage them."

"Is it okay for gray dwarves?"

"You'll need to ask Patriarch Yuriu about this."

"I don't know about this matter, because our clan has never used stone thorns, wait a minute, I can try it."

The crowd didn't go far before they found the maker of the sound.

It's a very unique creature.

Its main body resembles a rough black stone pillar covered with blunt thorns, with a varying number of hammer-like tentacle arms, the least of which is four, and the most of which is even seven or eight, depending on their size.

These hammer-like tentacle arms are both their arms and their feet, dragged forward by them.

They had only one organ, shaped like a large, hollow mouth, that occupied the entire front, and when it actually turned around, it was not a mouth at all, but an incomparably deep eye, with an earthy yellow glow in the depths, and even small blunt spines like eyelashes around the perimeter.

When it stares at you stunned, not only will it not feel cruel, but it will have a silly feeling.

Gavin: The sound they had heard earlier was not the roar of the creatures called the Stone Thorns, but the sound of their hammer-like tentacle arms smashing against walls or ore.

It's not an egg hitting a stone.

It's the iron ore that's flying around, not the hammer-like tentacle arms.

Because their owners were not flesh and blood, at least on the outside, they were all hard rock, especially the hammer heads of their hammer-like tentacle arms, which were even harder, shimmering blue-gray of steel.

The stone spikes also vary in size, ranging from the columnar body crouching there, about the height of a dwarf, to the average size of an adult with four hammer-like tentacle arms extended.

It is also as tall as a goblin, with a hammer-like tentacle arm spread out, but it is more than four meters long.

There are also behemoths as tall as goblin giants, with an arm span of more than seven meters.

They are very slow, even those with as many as eight hammer-like tentacle arms, and rarely hit iron ore with two at the same time, but their strength is quite amazing, even those relatively inconspicuous medium size, can easily smash a small piece of iron ore, not to mention those large and oversized sizes, each time in pieces of iron ore.

As if they didn't know they were tired, they slowly but surely swung their hammer-like tentacle arms, hammering at the surrounding iron ore rock formations.

This is an elemental creature called Stone Thorn, their nature is very similar to that of the earth element, born from the earth elemental plane, with immortal life, naturally not affected by the vein sealing technique.

Often summoned by dwarven spellcasters, they are bound to the physical plane as their own guards or miners, and they are also very similar to dwarves, hardworking, outspoken, and indomitable, and they are usually very willing to serve the dwarves.

This is simply a biological version of the breaker, and it is a perfect match for the kobold's flutter bomb blasting to open mines.

The deep burial blasting of kobold tremor bombs can split large sections of iron ore directly from the rock mass, but due to the difficulty of crushing and loading and transportation, many times they have to sacrifice the number of blasts at one time, and instead use more blasting energy to crush the iron ore.

With this group of stone thorns of different types, there are no such concerns.

It is completely possible to give full play to the blasting power of the flutter bomb, and the large pieces of iron ore are handed over to the large model of stone thorns, and the small pieces are handed over to the small model, and they can be broken to a satisfactory level soon.

Compared to smashing iron ore directly from the iron ore wall, the shape of the stone thorns is better at crushing the ore that has already been mined.

Combined with a multi-car rail car and a large forklift, a modern underground iron ore mine is complete.

At that time, it will not be a million tons per year, but a million tons per month.

Gavin couldn't help but cast a dragon glance at the oversized stone spike closest to him.

Life dice: 160 (12D8+108)

Body type: Extra-large

Movement speed: 4 km/h (12 km/h for running, 20 km/h for top speed)

Attributes: Strength 28, Agility 6, Constitution 28, Intelligence 6, Perception 13, Charisma 13

Elemental Creature Trait (Anomalous Ability) - Stone Thorn is immune to toxins, sleep, paralysis, and shock, it cannot be thumped or flanked, it can neither be revived nor revived, and it has dark vision of eighteen meters.

Incongruity (Anomalous Ability) - The Stone Spike's poor body coordination and uneven distribution of tentacle arms make it unable to attack simultaneously with more than 50% of its body's arms, but it can attack in multiple directions without moving.

Shock Shatter (Special Ability) - Extraordinary strength bonus, the hammer hit of the stone thorn, with a strange tremor, can shatter and disintegrate the target from the inside, if it hits a creature, it is easy to cause internal injuries such as broken bones and broken internal organs, hit items, especially stone objects, they will be more likely to shatter and disintegrate from the inside, and all damage is taken to the maximum.

Stone Body (Special Ability) - Extraordinary Physique Reward, Stone Thorn Nature is connected to the earth, when placed on the earth, it will have five points of regeneration ability, rock collapse will not be able to cause fatal injuries to them, Stone Thorn will only be buried, not dead.

The ability of Longvision glasses is not static, but rises with the user's intellectual will.

When glancing at each other, the two sides will engage in a clash of wills.

If the enemy has the crushing power, like Gavin did when he tried to peek at the six-armed snake demon, he will be directly blocked.

If it's evenly matched, or slightly inferior, you'll only get superficial data, which is mostly the case.

If you have a crushing advantage over the enemy, you can get detailed data on it, as is the case with Gavin now against these stone spikes.

The oversized stone spike has eight hammer-like arms and has a life dice between 11-15.

Large stone spikes have six, with life dice between 5-10.

Medium Stone Spikes have four and life dice are less than five.

Their ability is simply born to break stones and mines, especially those large and super-large, all of them have extraordinary strength and physique, and all of them are vibration and shattered and stony bodies, which makes them not afraid of the collapse of the mine at all, as long as there is a little gap, they can rely on their own ability, little by little.

Given their earth-elemental creatures, it's not uncommon to have such abilities.

Because the earth elemental plane is an endless earth and stone world, there is also no distinction between up and down, and there is no ground pressure, all states are constant, and the creatures that live there either have the ability to dig stones, or they live in various caves.

Stone spines clearly belong to cave creatures.

The inability to resurrect and be unable to be resurrected described by the Elemental Creature Specialization does not mean that once the stone spikes are killed, they will die completely, and their soul consciousness will simply be taken by their original plane (i.e., the place of birth) and resurrected there.

On the material plane, there is no way to resurrect or resurrect (after all, a creature cannot be resurrected twice), but you can summon or teleport them from the earth plane again through summoning spells, extradimensional teleportation, etc.

This characteristic is not unique to elemental creatures, all otherworldly creatures, whether they are upper, lower, or elemental plane creatures, have this characteristic, and if they want to completely destroy them, they must kill demons in their original plane, such as in the bottomless abyss, kill demons in hell, and their life essence will be reabsorbed by the plane, and they will truly die.

But if someone pulls them with magic or magic, they can still be resurrected again, unless they are prevented by special methods, die of natural old age, or they themselves do not want to be resurrected.

The speed disadvantage and incoordination of stone spikes doomed them to be far more useful in the mine than on the battlefield.

Gavin's behavior of peeping with dragon vision glasses was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and all the stone thorns stopped mining, and they all turned around, looking at Gavin's group of uninvited people with their own huge, but a little cute.

In their gaze, Gavin felt neither hostility nor any element of welcome, more indifference.

This is normal, feelings are not simply intellectual acts, but also inseparable from the body.

Many times, all kinds of emotions in the brain are generated by physical stimulation, such as the fury caused by pain, the excitement produced by the large secretion of adrenal glands, and the estrus produced by the secretion of male hormones.

Those undead whose bodies are transformed by negative energy, even if they have their own wisdom, do not have any feelings, which is especially obvious in people like Esteller and Daphany who have the ability to transform their souls and bodies.

Even if the undead have emotions, they are negative emotions that are dominated and amplified by negative energy.

Most of the elemental creatures are made up of various elements, and their emotions are naturally indifferent.

It wasn't until all the stone spikes turned their eyes on Giharin and the Heart of Regeneration in his hand that the earthy yellow gaze involuntarily softened a lot, and he turned around and continued to smash the mine, ignoring Gavin and his party.

It is clear that Giharim's dwarven status and the holding of the Heart of Regeneration have been recognized by them, and they see them as the new masters of this vein.

Gavin and the others are not ready to officially take over the entire vein, and since these stone spikes have no intention of attacking them, they will naturally not pay attention to them anymore and let them mine here on their own.

As for whether their bombardment will cause problems such as landslides, even Gavin, a layman, has no worries.

Not to mention the original owner of this vein, how perverted the Supreme Shanata dwarves have strengthened this place - many places are made of stainless steel as load-bearing columns, not to mention Gavin's dumbfounded, even the fellow dwarves Giharin and the gray dwarf Yuriu are dumbfounded.

It is understandable that the cage shafts and high-pressure steam pipes, including those steel gates, were cast in stainless steel.

Especially for tank cage shafts and high-pressure steam pipelines, it involves safety issues, and it is impossible to be too careful and cautious.

However, as a steel structure for load-bearing columns in the mining area, it is a bit too extravagant.

There was only one situation, and that was the dwarven mine, which had a serious surplus of production, and those dwarves would rather use the surplus steel as a security expense for the pit than sell it cheaply in large quantities.

"it...... Multi-track minecarts! ”

Turning a passage, Gavin couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

Because the scene in front of us is no longer modern, but super modern.

The passage is a pure transport passage, paved with huge railroad tracks, and with huge wagons full of steampunk style, there is no end in sight.

These iron ore carriages are obviously not for dwarves or humans, they are tall and scary, and next to the carriages, there is a tool such as a super-large fine steel shovel and a fine steel pickaxe, which at a glance knows that it is for those giants who are seven or eight meters tall.

Just by seeing the scene in front of them, everyone has already imagined the operation of this iron mine at its peak.

The stone spines in those caves are responsible for the mining and crushing.

Those giant slaves are then responsible for loading the ore onto a steam multi-section rail minecart.

These steam multi-section rail carts transport them to the feed port above the Colossus.

The Colossus Dungeon uses the heat energy of hot dry rock to smelt and forge it, and the high-pressure steam generated in the process is fed into the cavern to aid in production - the multi-kby rail minecart is obviously powered by high-pressure steam, and the stone spikes seem to like to feed on the output there.

Theoretically, elemental beings do not need food, and they can draw energy directly from the earth elemental plane to support their own consumption.

However, most elemental creatures have their own food habits, and each creature is different, ranging from rocks to ores or gems, such as the Thor Stone.

All in all, this is a modern mining area integrating mining, smelting, and forging, and at its peak, the output is so high that it is estimated to rank in the top ten even if it is not NO.1 in Faerun.

It is not difficult to understand that those dwarves used stainless steel as load-bearing columns.

They can make a lot of money just by selling those mass-forged armor equipment, how can they sell steel?

This kind of steel production is seriously disconnected and unequal to the rest of the world's output, and even if they want to sell it, other forces have no ability to digest it.

"How do these steam multi-knot rail minecarts use steam, and you can't drag the pipes directly from these steam pipes, right? Or did the dwarves of Supreme Shanata forge oversized high-pressure steam tanks? Gavin ran towards the front of the minecart hidden in the darkness.

This is what interests him the most.

If it were only the former, its effect would be limited to the mining of Colossus City for a short time.

If the latter is the case, then the use will be exhausted, it will become an effective power source, pushing many things to the modernization process, such as steam trucks, such as steam boosters, etc., even if they are limited by high-pressure steam generation, can only be used for short distances, this kind of cross-era thing, will also quickly promote the development of a place.

No one could answer Gavin, for this kind of thing was also new to them, including the gray dwarf patriarch Yuriu.

When they took over the Colossus Dungeon, it had been dormant for hundreds of years, and many things had been destroyed, and they hadn't seen any of these minecarts.

In the past thousand years, although the dungeon of the Colossus has produced a lot of money, most of the benefits have been taken away by the Council of Chiefs of Death, and the dungeon side has been barely maintained, and there has not been much development and change.

The Grey Dwarfs as slaves also lacked the passion to create innovation, and the millennium continued to sustain itself.

Everyone couldn't help but follow Gavin's footsteps, wanting to see the true face of this behemoth.

(End of chapter)