Chapter 71 Ideas

Australian iron ore contains more than 60% iron, which is almost a lump of iron - rust only contains 70% iron.

Is this kind of iron ore considered stone? Can it be turned into mud?

Or, taking a step back, if turning fossils into mud doesn't work on metals, can we use fossils into mud to turn the stone impurities in the ore into mud, leaving the ore? "Try turning fossils into mud again."

This time, Zeus didn't watch from a distance. He and Ash came to a stone together.

This stone should be basalt, which has dense and tiny holes on it, which is very common near volcanoes.

Ash put his hand on it, and the solid rock seemed to melt, gradually turning into a flowable viscous liquid, and really turned into "mud".

Hughes found a wooden stick and tried to pick up some of the mud. Some of it was picked off and felt similar to dough, with quite some resistance.

As Ash finished casting the spell, after a while, the "mud" slowly solidified into stone.

"That is to say, it didn't really turn into 'mud' permanently."

"Yes, I just need to interrupt the flow of mana, and it will gradually turn back into stone."

"Back to stone?"

Xius smiled and handed the stick to Ash: "Take a closer look."

Ash picked up the stick and looked closely at the stone that had solidified on it, then looked back at the original stone.

Her eyes slowly opened wide.

"The hole on top disappeared?"

Basalt is often porous, meaning it contains small bubbles, or vesicles, that were trapped during the solidification of the lava. These vesicles can give the basalt its porous appearance and affect its physical properties.

The basalt that Ash had released into mud and then solidified again did not have these holes.

Hughes stroked the surface of the stone.

"I suspect that these holes almost all come from bubbles."

"Turning stones into mud doesn't really turn stones into mud. Stones are still stones. It's just a spell."

"Lowers its melting point."

"Melting point?"

"Well, actually this statement is very imprecise. The stone in our hands is not made of a single substance, and it has not turned into liquid. It should not be described by the word melting point, but I can't find a better counterpart. Perhaps you can understand it as turning into magma at room temperature."

Ash took a deep breath.

She looked at the black stone in disbelief, then looked at her hands.

Is this the true principle of my magic? "It is worth mentioning that the temperature of magma is not as high as that of molten iron. Magma is generally around 1,000 degrees Celsius, while steel can reach over 1,500 degrees Celsius."

Hughes looked up at Ash, "You said before that you can increase the power of magic through a lot of practice, right?"

Ash's eyes lit up, "Of course, sir. Nini is the best at casting spells among us. All her spells are more powerful. I'll let her try!"

Nini was called over soon. After hearing Xius' explanation, she widened her beautiful eyes: "This is the principle of turning fossils into mud?!"

"This is just a guess, so I asked you to come and test it."

"Okay! I'll try it now!!"

She excitedly picked up the iron plate on the ground.

"Wait!" Hughes stopped her, "Don't try here, go somewhere farther away, at least ten kilometers away from Castel - I remember there are many uninhabited islands in the east, right?"

"Are you worried that this will cause cognitive interference?"

"Yes, fossils turning into mud is just our guess after all. We haven't figured out the specific causes of cognitive interference yet, so we should be cautious."

"I'll go right away!"

Nini held the iron plate, and her snake tail bent like a spring, then suddenly straightened out - she drew an arc in the air and jumped into the sea below the cave.

".Why is she so anxious?"

"Nini is always like this when she encounters something related to magic." Ash also sighed.

"Find a few more people to follow her. Regardless of whether they succeed or not, come back after a day. This is the outbreak period of the last cognitive interference. Then you come with me to the grotto."

Ash nodded, connected the mind link, and opened the work group.

Not long after, in the cave on the east side of Castel.

"Ash, I know you're not afraid of pollution right now, but you still need to activate your flesh and blood magic."

Ash nodded, his mind moved, and then looked at Zeus: "It's already turned on."

Zeus looked at the pit not far away. All the physical pollution caused by the previous cognitive interference was drawn here and piled up here.

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These pollutants are like living things and have weak activity, but only a little bit.

In other words, they’re kind of silly.

It didn't take much effort for the Banshees to attract these physical pollutions and let them gather in this big hole in the ground.

Unfortunately, the cave walls here are not so smooth, and the pollution will try to move out after entering.

It was Monica who came up with an idea. The banshees did not let her participate in the night operation, but instead gave her the job of guarding against pollution, which had little risk.

".So this idea was yours?"

Hughes's eyes twitched as he looked at the wolf tied up above the pollution.

Monica nodded and said, "These entity pollutants will subconsciously chase living things. I asked Sister Ash to catch a wolf and then tie it up with a rope and hang it in the air. This way, the pollutants will try their best to reach the wolf."

"But they can't reach it, so they just stay here."

Monica shrugged.

The wolf in the air stood still, with only emptiness and numbness in its eyes.

"The wolf was very frightened at first and kept howling, but it calmed down after a day and is now very well behaved and not moving around at all."

Monica gave the wolf an encouraging look, but the wolf didn't react at all.

"I just don't know why it doesn't want to eat. Even if I put it in its mouth, it will spit it out. I succeeded only after I changed the direction."

"Alright, alright, don't worry about that poor wolf anymore. Ash, maintain your flesh and blood magic and try to catch some pollution. Be careful!"

Ash nodded, wrapped his snake tail around the protrusion on the stone wall, hung upside down in the air, and carefully reached out to grab the physical pollution in the cave.

The number of these pollutants has not increased or decreased, and is the same as when they were put in yesterday. Now they are wriggling slowly like worms, which looks very disgusting.

Ash took a deep breath, reached out and quickly scooped up a handful, then used his tail to pull her up easily.

"My Lord."

Xius looked at the pollution that kept squirming in her hand, and suppressed his strange feeling as he walked forward to observe.

(End of this chapter)