Chapter 195 Snow Monster City
"While things haven't completely fermented yet, I can try going to some larger gathering places of snow monsters..." A thought became extremely clear in his mind.
The reason why he came here this time was to verify his guess about the Red Dust Qi, although the previous small camp had been basically confirmed.
Moreover, he himself felt that even if he moved to a larger gathering place, he would most likely not be able to collect the mortal energy.
But for the sake of rigor, Jermyn still hopes to conduct more experiments.
After all, as a researcher, if he doesn't verify it a few more times, he will always feel uncomfortable and his thoughts will not be clear.
And now is the best opportunity to experiment!
Those larger snow monster "cities" with poor defenses are the best places for him to conduct this experiment!
More importantly, in addition to experiments, he can now search large cities that he once dared not approach.
If you're lucky, you might be able to get loot that you couldn't get before.
Having made up his mind, he immediately made his intention known to Edgar.
"Sir Edgar, I'd like to continue investigating several larger Yeti gathering areas." Benjamin offered a plausible excuse. "Since the high-level forces have already evacuated, the risk of conducting further investigation is minimal, and we might be able to obtain more valuable intelligence."
Edgar was not surprised by this, and even appreciated it a little.
In his opinion, Benjamin is a younger generation with strong initiative and a spirit of exploration.
"That's a good idea, but be careful," Edgar warned. "I have intelligence on several large Yeti 'cities' that have been discovered within our outpost's area of responsibility. You can refer to them."
He transmitted a three-dimensional map marked with several red dots to Jemin.
It details the coordinates, approximate size, and some previously discovered defensive deployments of several large yeti settlements.
Benjamin paid the corresponding military merit and stored this precious map in his magic network terminal.
He did not stay any longer. After saying goodbye to Edgar briefly, he pushed open the heavy metal door of the outpost again.
"Thank you. Now, I'm off."
The icy cold wind enveloped his body again, and the "body-building method" started to work on its own, bringing a trace of warmth.
He glanced at the nearest red light spot marked on the map in his hand, and after figuring out the direction, he flashed away and left the outpost again, disappearing in the vast wind and snow.
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Relying on the detailed intelligence purchased from the wizard at the outpost and the accurate three-dimensional map in the magic network terminal, Benjamin traveled through the vast snow and wind for several days.
Finally, an abyss covered with ice and snow slowly appeared before his eyes.
This is the first exploration target of the city known as "Snow Monster City No. 4".
However, the location of this "city" is somewhat different from what Jemin originally envisioned.
It is not built on the top of a towering iceberg, nor is it a nest hidden inside a glacier, but inside an amazing and very deep circular pit!
The entire city's outline seems to be built according to the edge of this huge crater.
Jieming carefully examined the information he had purchased and couldn't help but sigh, "Judging from its smooth interior and the remaining traces, this giant pit was actually built by directly draining out a large glacial lake?!"
According to the information obtained by Jemin from the intelligence station, normal yeti settlements are usually caves dug on the cliffs of glaciers, or igloos built on flat ice fields.
Unexpectedly, settlements that reach the level of a "city" would choose to be built on similar lake bottoms or basins!
"This kind of site selection... If ordinary creatures dare to do this, after a snowstorm, the entire city will basically be completely buried alive by the thick snow!" Benjamin sighed in his heart.
If any normal creature, any tribe or town, chose such a low-lying area as its base in such an extreme environment, it would undoubtedly be seeking death.
However, for a strange elemental creature like the Yeti, this location seems reasonable and even has some cultural significance.
It seems that in the culture of the Yeti, being buried in the snow is a very sacred thing. They regard it as returning to the embrace of nature, and even being frozen deep in the ice is a kind of "sleep" for spiritual practice.
In addition, as elemental creatures, they do not need to breathe oxygen, so there is almost no difference between them being under thick snow and deep in the ice and being on the open ice field.
On the contrary, it is like a fish in water, able to better absorb the cold energy in the earth veins.
Hence the unique city location.
"But since we're in a pit, it'll be easier to sneak in." Benjamin couldn't help but laugh.
He restrained all the energy fluctuations in his body and carefully cast several camouflage spells on himself that could block infrared reconnaissance, life detection, and temperature fluctuations.
Then, he skillfully used his alchemy to dig a hole on the spot and carefully sneaked into the city.
With his skilled technique, the passage slanted downwards, quickly avoiding the sparse patrols outside the Yeti city and leading directly to the underground level of the city.
After sneaking into the city, the first thing Benjamin did was to carry out his most critical "verification".
He shuttled through the icy passage like a ghost and came to the edge of the city's core area.
Quietly hidden in the shadow of a giant ice sculpture, Jemin calmly felt the complex energy fluctuations that permeated the city, generated by the life activities of countless snow monsters.
Throughout the entire day, Jemin was engaged in this complex perception and confirmation.
He traveled through various areas of the city, from ordinary snow monster residential areas to the simple "meeting hall", from their "breeding areas" to their "training grounds".
However, unfortunately!
The final result left him with a hint of disappointment as expected.
Even in such a large snow monster city, the energy of the mortal world cannot be born!
"Sure enough, there is something wrong with this world." Benjamin sighed helplessly in his heart.
Just as he had considered before, since it has been confirmed that these elemental creatures cannot produce mortal energy, the simple lack of mortal energy will no longer be a problem for him.
Although this result is somewhat disappointing, it is accompanied by another piece of good news!
Through this day's reconnaissance, Benjamin also completely confirmed his other assumption - there are indeed a large number of first-level snow monsters in this city, and their number is huge, beyond imagination.
But there are almost no level 2 and higher snow monsters!
He only sensed a very small number of snow monsters that had just been promoted from level one to level two and whose auras were still unstable.
They had obviously only recently broken through, and there were not many of them.
Since the most important "Red Dust Qi" is no longer available, then the next step is to carry out the second main purpose of his journey to Frost Darkness - to look for any rare resources!
After all, a gathering place of snow monsters of this size usually stores a large amount of rare resources.
Including high-level ice-attribute materials and even some strange minerals born in the depths of the Frost Dark Realm.
With Jieming's previous strength, he would never dare to rashly approach a gathering point of this level without a clear mission!
But now, with those high-level snow monsters disappearing one after another, the resources here are undoubtedly an open treasure trove!
However, this also needs to take into account the city's defensive capabilities.
Although there was no threat from high-level snow monsters, the number was still extremely exaggerated. There were no less than 100,000 snow monsters that Benjamin could sense!
"One hundred thousand..." Benjamin calculated silently in his mind.
Enemies of this magnitude, even if they are all first-level creatures of the same level, if they are alarmed at once, the human wave tactics will be extremely terrifying.
Even for him, it would be quite difficult to quickly take over the entire city without suffering any substantial losses under such numerical advantage and in such an icy and snowy environment!
This requires an efficient and large-scale clearing method.
Jemin stood in the underground area in the center of the city, closed his eyes, and pondered for a few seconds.
Countless plans quickly popped up in his mind, and finally, a simple and straightforward plan gradually took shape.
He immediately made up his mind, turned his wrist, and took out the "Level 6 Small Element Pool" that he had bought from Mentor Clark at a high price directly from his internal space.
To be honest, Benjamin originally intended to use this thing as a "backup power supply" for his own purgatory sulfur plane.
However, the infrastructure of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has not been completed yet, so it is still on my body for the time being.
This elemental pool is a mysterious blue-black color throughout, and contains powerful and stable energy.
This thing is normally used to provide continuous elemental energy, but he used it completely differently this time.
Using this small elemental pool as the core, Benjamin quickly constructed a simple and efficient rune array on the ice beneath his feet.
The runes of the magic circle flickered with a red light, forming a sharp contrast with the chill emanating from the elemental pool.
The effect of this magic circle is very simple, which is to forcibly convert the huge energy stored in the element pool into heat energy, and then release it all at once!
Simple and crude, but extremely efficient!
He had done quite a lot of research on snow monsters before.
Similar to the lava giant's fearlessness of the cold, as an elemental creature, the yeti itself is actually not afraid of a small amount of fire attacks.
When studying its physiological structure in the laboratory, Jemin discovered that the white hair on the snow monster's surface was essentially energy crystals filled with ice elements.
As long as the power of the fire attack does not exceed a certain limit, this layer of hair can act like a "reactive armor" to resist external damage.
But on the other hand, just like the lava giant, if it is subjected to a large amount of rapidly cooling low-temperature attacks in a short period of time, its body surface structure will change, causing it to move slowly, the snow monster also has its own weaknesses.
If they are exposed to sufficiently high temperatures for a short period of time, their cores will become overactivated, making it impossible for them to maintain a stable physical form for a short period of time.
Simply put – it melts!
This melting is not fatal. Just like the lava giant, once the temperature dissipates, the core activity of the snow monsters will return to normal.
They can then quickly solidify into shape again based on the core.
But during this period of "melting", their bodies will become extremely fragile, unable to move or attack, and will be at the mercy of others!
This is the "clearing" plan designed by Jieming.
"start up!"
As Benjamin issued the new order, the runes of the magic circle under his feet suddenly lit up with a dazzling red light, producing a violent energy resonance with the sixth-level element pool at the core.
In an instant, huge energy waves swept in all directions!
Boom!
Throughout the ice city, the air expanded almost explosively in an instant!
The air waves visible to the naked eye spread outward at a high speed with Jemin as the center!
All the energy stored in the sixth-level element pool was released at once by the magic circle. The huge heat was like a nuclear explosion, instantly evaporating the air inside the entire city!
In the core area where the magic circle was activated, there was even a real explosion due to the drastic temperature difference.
In a short period of time, the temperature inside the entire city soared from an extremely cold level of nearly -200 degrees Celsius to a terrifying level of over 100 degrees Celsius!
At a glance, there were rising steam everywhere, the originally solidified ice and snow buildings began to make a "squeaking" sound of melting, and even water began to gather on the surface!
"Squeak! Squeak!"
Countless snow monsters roared in pain and confusion.
Their huge bodies were instantly wrapped in scorching steam and heat waves, the ice crystal hair on their surface evaporated instantly, and their hard bodies became soft under the high temperature, like heated plastic.
The cores of some snow monsters began to flicker, and then their bodies quickly collapsed like melting ice cream.
It turned into shapeless puddles of ice mud, temporarily lost all ability to move, and could only twist helplessly on the ground.
At this level of temperature, a level 2 Yeti could definitely withstand it with its stronger core activity and physical advantages, but it would also come at a considerable price!
But for most level one snow monsters, it is enough to completely deprive them of the ability to move and resist!
Benjamin was not affected at all.
After relying on protective magic to withstand the initial air shock wave, the "body-building method" on his body surface started to work automatically, resisting the impact of this drastic temperature difference.
He glanced around sharply, and casually activated the talisman magic weapon to eliminate the few second-level snow monsters that were still roaring in pain and trying to resist.
Although they could resist, they were also slowed down by the heat and could hardly avoid Jemin's deadly witchcraft.
The entire city was completely cleared!
He paid no attention to the first-level snow monsters that were lying limp on the ground, waiting for the temperature to dissipate and then solidify again.
They are now just piles of living "stuff" and pose no threat.
Benjamin knew he didn't have much time.
He flashed and quickly searched the city.
His goal is the treasure trove of resources that may be hidden in the Yeti City, as well as any high-value items that may exist!
(End of this chapter)
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