Chapter 196 Great Harvest
Under the devastating heat wave from the sixth-level elemental pool, the entire Abyss Snow City turned into a huge sauna.
Steam filled the air, ice and snow melted, and all 100,000 snow monsters turned into limp ice mud, temporarily losing all threat.
Like the most efficient harvesting machine, Benjamin's figure turned into a series of afterimages in the city. Wherever he passed, a large amount of rare materials were unceremoniously rolled into his space expansion bag.
High-energy ice crystal ore, the permafrost used by the snow monsters to build their cities, and the flesh and blood of certain polar creatures they "raised"...
He didn't even bother to accurately separate one cold snow monster core after another from the melted bodies. After all, these were hard currencies that could be exchanged for a large amount of military merit.
His movements were astonishingly fast. In just over half an hour, he had filled the several large-capacity space expansion bags he brought with him to the brim, leaving them with almost no room for anything else.
However, after Benjamin's ecstatic search, a trace of regret also followed.
He searched almost the entire core area of the city, but unfortunately, he did not see any strategic-level buildings like the lava giant's "hatching pool" in the city.
Moreover, judging from the materials looted, most of the truly rare, top-level materials that reached level three or even level four seemed to have been taken away by the evacuating high-level snow monsters long ago.
Most of the materials left in the city's treasury are just relatively common, low-grade materials.
"It seems that although they evacuated in a hurry, they still took away important things." Benjamin understood and was not too disappointed.
After all, such an achievement has far exceeded expectations.
Just as he was about to end the looting and carry out a final "clean-up" of the entire city.
On one side of the city, in a magnificent area that looked like a lord's mansion, Jemin found a real surprise.
It was the corpse of a fourth-level lava giant, quietly sealed in a giant ice crystal!
This lava giant had obviously been dead for a long time, but its body was preserved in an unusually good condition.
It maintained a posture of struggling, its dark red rock body covered with cracks eroded by the power of frost, and its eyes that once burned with flames were now completely dim.
But even though he had been dead for so long, a faint pressure from a level 4 creature could still be clearly felt even through the thick ice crystals.
"Specimen... or, trophy?" Benjamin instantly understood the purpose of the corpse.
It can be seen that this corpse has been specially treated. It should have been used by the previous Yeti Lord as something like a "specimen" or "trophy" to show off his glorious achievements.
When those high-level snow monsters left in a hurry, they obviously did not take away this "decoration" which was useless to them.
After all, for the snow monsters, the material of their mortal enemy, the lava giant, contains the power of the fire element, which is completely contrary to their properties and has almost no use value.
"The corpse of a fourth-level creature..." Benjamin couldn't help licking his lips.
This is trash to the yeti, but to him, or any low-level wizard, it is an excellent treasure!
Its body, core remains, and even every piece of solidified rock shell are all top-level alchemical materials!
He unceremoniously threw out some of the low-level materials that overflowed from the space expansion bag until there was enough space to accommodate the entire huge "specimen".
After stuffing the entire ice crystal into the space expansion bag, Benjamin felt full of satisfaction.
Just then, he felt that the air temperature around him had begun to slowly cool down.
The chill coming from deep underground in the city and from the sky is rapidly neutralizing the heat generated by the previous explosion of the elemental pool.
The bodies of the snow monsters that collapsed on the ground began to solidify again, and some of those with strong vitality could even begin to wriggle slightly.
"It seems we have to get rid of these guys first." Benjamin's eyes turned cold.
He thought about it and decided to go all out.
After all, for wizards, destroying the enemy itself can also earn them a lot of military merit.
The snow monsters in this entire city are generally not of high level, but their numbers are there.
In Benjamin's eyes, these snow monsters that were about to regain their mobility were no longer a threat, but a pile of living, walking military merits!
"Then... let's clean it up together!"
He soared into the sky and hovered above the city.
As his mind moved, the "Great Light" unfolded again!
Thousands of talismanic magical weapons were like unfolding metal halos, flashing cold light under the dim sky, aimed at the slowly recovering city below!
Boom!!!!
The next moment, the light of extreme destruction fell.
Dense energy bombs carried out indiscriminate carpet bombing, plowing the entire city!
Thousands of energy bombs converged into a torrent of destruction, falling from the sky and instantly engulfing everything on the surface of the city!
The explosions were continuous, the melted ice water was instantly vaporized, and the fragile ice and snow buildings were reduced to powder under the energy impact.
Those snow monsters that had just begun to recondense their bodies were completely wiped out before they could even let out a complete wail!
Relying on the extreme output ability of "Great Light Phase", Benjamin finally killed all the snow monsters before they recovered their mobility!
However, because of this exaggerated bombing, the entire hollowed-out city at the bottom of the lake was completely destroyed.
The ground was bumpy, with deep pits and charred marks left by the explosion everywhere, and the original city outline had long disappeared.
It would be a bit difficult to continue searching for possible missed resources in this ruin.
Benjamin slowly put away the "Big Light Image" and landed on the ground. Looking at the scene where almost the entire ground was blown away, he couldn't help but sigh at his foresight - fortunately, he searched first and then took action.
Just as he was contentedly preparing to leave this land of destruction that he had created with his own hands, a strange feeling suddenly came from the soles of his feet.
Benjamin stopped and couldn't help but frown and look down at his feet.
It was an extremely faint, yet extremely cold breath.
It is neither vision nor hearing, but a keen intuition of energy fluctuations that comes from the depths of the soul.
He felt that the land beneath his feet seemed different in some way from what he had felt before.
"Um?"
He felt it carefully and sank his mental power into the ground, but did not find anything abnormal.
Benjamin blinked, but the strange feeling in his heart became clearer and clearer.
Suddenly he thought of something, and no longer relied on the wizard's perception, but mobilized the true energy in his body to his eyes!
With the infusion of true energy, his vision changed instantly.
The originally chaotic ruins were stripped away, and the flow of the world's original energy began to appear in his eyes.
It was at this moment that he saw clearly the real situation under his feet!
He saw that under his feet, beneath the tens of meters thick permafrost layer that had been uncovered, wisps of extremely subtle evil energy were continuously emerging!
These evil spirits appear a light gray-black color, almost blending in with the surrounding environment.
If he hadn't used his True Essence Vision, he wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.
They were like rootless will-o'-the-wisp fires, seeping out from deep underground and quickly dissipating in the cold air.
"Evil energy?" Jieming recognized the type of evil energy and couldn't help but frowned.
Logically speaking, since 100,000 lives had just died here, it was completely understandable that a large amount of ordinary evil energy was generated.
But the evil energy is a very special kind of evil energy.
The biggest feature of this thing is that it is not produced in real time.
The so-called evil spirit is not simply composed of the resentment generated at the moment of death, but requires a large number of corpses to gather in the same place. After an extremely long period of fermentation, decay, and sedimentation, a related "concept" can be born in a specific environment!
In other words, beneath this snow monster city, there might be another, even larger and older... corpse pit buried!
Moreover, judging from the quality of the evil aura that seeped out, although it was extremely weak, its essence was extremely pure, with a chill that seemed to be able to freeze the soul.
This shows that both the number of corpses underground and the burial time are definitely not low!
At this moment, Benjamin's breathing became rapid, and his eyes burst into an unprecedented fiery light!
In terms of its lethality to the souls of high-level creatures, the power of high-quality Yin Sha Qi is no less than that of the red dust Qi of the same quality.
Moreover, its properties are more sinister and the damage it causes is greater!
The energy of worldly affairs tends to pollute the mind and shake the heart of Tao, while the energy of evil is the purest form of erosion and destruction directed at the soul itself.
As a supplement and reinforcement to his "Xuan Gang Hong Chen Zhan", this thing is perfect!
Once it is refined and absorbed, his protective aura will have both the characteristics of "confusing the mind" and "destroying the soul", and its power will be doubled!
This is a bigger surprise than the corpse of the level 4 lava giant!
Judging from the current situation, the evil energy underground should have been suppressed by the thick permafrost and ice layer, as well as the ice element energy field of the Yeti city itself, and hidden deep underground.
It was just that the reckless carpet bombing he had just carried out had blown away the upper layer of land and ice, so only a few traces were revealed.
This gave the evil energy that had been sealed for who knows how many years a chance to dissipate.
"It should be an ancient battlefield..." Benjamin thought.
After all, according to the results of geological surveys, it can be said that the entire Flame Frost Plane has been used as a battlefield, so it is not impossible that there is an ancient battlefield under such a city.
"In that case..." A glint of light flashed in Jieming's eyes, "Then let's just dig this place up completely!"
(End of this chapter)
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