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Chapter 430

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Ang stretched out a finger and shot red light onto the surface of the iron ball.

"Damn it! Spot removal spell? Can spot removal spell be used like this? This is not the face of those customers in the City of Beauty!" Nai Ge Li Si thought Ang was going to take out some divine artifact, but didn't expect it to be a spot removal spell. Can spot removal spell be used like this?

"Wonderful." Du Luo Ken slapped his thigh and couldn't help but praise: "Are there impurities in the iron? Definitely. It just depends on how the lord defines it. If carbon is defined as an impurity, then what is obtained is pure iron. If iron is defined as an impurity..."

But no matter what is defined as an impurity, after being shone by the spot removal spell, it is impossible to remain intact. Only broken iron sand can be seen falling out.

Ang chose to shine from bottom to top. The broken iron sand flowed down under the action of gravity, and a small hole that was getting deeper and deeper appeared on the outer shell of the iron ball.

No need to take it all apart, just a small hole, and everyone's soul can probe in to check the internal structure.

Du Luo Ken is now very curious about the internal structure. For such a large iron ball, what is used as power? There is no mechanism on the outer shell. What force makes it roll?

Although the spot removal spell is easy to use, it takes two or three hours to pierce the entire iron ball. Ang spent more than two hours casting the spot removal spell before piercing through the outer shell, which was two and a half meters thick.

Du Luo Ken couldn't wait to probe his consciousness in.

The large iron ball with a diameter of six meters, excluding the two and a half meters thick outer shell, the internal space is only one meter left. In this one-meter diameter, the most conspicuous thing is a small delivery array, with a large number of magic crystals piled up inside.

These magic crystals are stuck together with a kind of sticky glue and stuck on the delivery array. In this way, even if the iron ball rolls, they won't be sifted around.

"Hiss—genius creativity. I said there was no feeding port, how was the energy delivered? I was still guessing if it was driven by soul energy. It turns out it wasn't. It was actually using a delivery array."

The delivery array only enters and does not exit, but it doesn't matter, and there is no need to take it out.

Besides the delivery array, there are some other arrays on the inner wall, and the position in the very center is a round iron cage, inside which is a fist-sized animal skeleton.

It possesses a soul far more vigorous than its body size, but at this moment, it is dizzy, and the skeleton on its body is scattered, scattered all over the cage. Obviously, it was shaken away by the Earth Hammer.

"Lord Nai Ge, come and see what animal's bones these are?" Du Luo Ken gave up his position.

Nai Ge Li Si probed his will in and looked: "Can't recognize it, it seems to be the bones of some kind of rodent. But I recognize those arrays on the inner wall. It's the magnetic sensing technique in arcane arts. It uses a repeated stacking method to enhance a certain effect, but what's strange is that there are both on both sides of the center, but the directions are opposite."

"Lord God of Knowledge is really amazing, seeing it at a glance. I also think it looks like it, but I dare not be sure. Come, Yinbi, come and see." Du Luo Ken said.

Yinbi leaned over and looked, saying: "It seems to be the bones of a hamster. The mouth is empty on both sides because there are pouches there, which can hold a lot of food."

"So it's a hamster. Why stuff a hamster skeleton in an iron ball? In this kind of completely enclosed space, death aura can't get in. It won't take a few years for the soul to wither and die," Du Luo Ken was surprised.

Nai Ge Li Si said: "Don't worry, when delivering magic crystals, just put a handful of soul crystals in. The hamster skeleton will be in a pile of magic crystals, picking out the soul crystals to absorb."

That's right, this is a skeleton, not a real hamster. Even if it were a real hamster, it would pick out melon seeds from stones to gnaw on.

"Stuffing a hamster in a cage, could it be to let it turn the iron cage inside?" Nai Ge Li Si guessed.

As soon as the voice fell, the flame in the eye socket of the hamster skeleton brightened. The bones scattered around were attracted by soul power, piecing together a hamster skeleton.

For the will that appeared out of thin air, the hamster skeleton turned a blind eye and ran directly in the cage. The cage turned rapidly under its running.

The arrays inside the entire iron ball were activated instantly. The cage turned half a circle, the magnetic sensing enhancement array in front brightened, and after turning another half circle, the array in the back brightened. Just like this, turning, the front and back arrays were activated in turn, and the entire large iron ball swayed creakily.

Du Luo Ken used his will to press the iron cage inside to a stop. The hamster skeleton lunged forward, rolled a circle along the iron cage before stopping, and then looked up at this strange will in a daze. Now, it could no longer turn a blind eye to the will thrown in.

Du Luo Ken said with some disappointment: "I know how the iron ball rolled. Strong magnetism. The hamster skeleton turns the iron cage inside, and the cage repeatedly activates the magnetic sensing arrays on the inner wall, generating magnetic force, causing the iron ball to sway. The swaying amplitude gets larger and larger, and it rolls."

"So simple?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised: "No wonder it's not afraid of many attacks. This structure is too simple. If it weren't for the Ethereal Hammer shaking the hamster skeleton dizzy, others wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Isn't this quite good? Simple structure is not easy to damage."

Du Luo Ken complained: "It's not good at all. Simple structure, narrow application range. Guess how it rolled?"

While speaking, Du Luo Ken kicked the ground.

"Iron ore!? Because there is a large amount of magnetite on the ground, it can roll. Then it's useless if it leaves here?" Nai Ge Li Si reacted.

Pulling Newen over to ask, he was also stunned: "I didn't pay attention. The Round Rolling Great Demon King has appeared in many places, but I didn't write it down. Whether it's a mining area, I don't know."

As a result, the practicality of the Round Rolling Great Demon King plummeted, falling from a work that amazed Du Luo Ken to something he disdained. The application range is so narrow, it's better to melt the iron and forge thousands of knives.

Nai Ge Li Si didn't have Du Luo Ken's expectation for new technology, but didn't feel anything, saying indifferently: "Useless is useless. Anyway, it's useful here. Roll it, crush it to Iron Shacheng."

Ang's will probed in and saw that the hamster's soul had a brand. This is a hamster skeleton with an owner.

Squeezing the hamster skeleton's soul, re-condensing a soul fire and putting it in, the newborn hamster skeleton belongs to Ang.

Plugging the hole with mud, using soul to control the hamster skeleton to run, creak creak, the large iron ball rolled.

The city gate of Iron Shacheng was closed tightly, and the back of the gate was piled with sandbags to prevent the city gate from being crashed open.

The guards on the city were a bit dazed and a bit worried. The city lord was killed, and the big mine owner Bamos took the Undead Scepter and led the undead guards into the city to clear out the city lord's remaining forces.

Because Iron Shacheng is a mining area, there are fights all year round, so it is quite special. Most of the buildings are built like fortresses. Even with the undead guards, Bamos couldn't clear out those remaining forces defending the fortresses in a short time.

However, victory belongs to Bamos, because he holds the Undead Scepter. The undead guards don't need to eat. Just blocking them in the city can starve the enemy to death.

The guards on the city wall had already surrendered. Anyway, neither the city lord nor Bamos were good things. They kept slaves, sold slaves, forced mining, etc., and many people died every year.

The mine is dark and sunless, accidents happen frequently, the labor intensity is high, and the protection is not thorough. People dying is a common thing, but Bamos has one bad point: he keeps corpse witches.

It is rumored that Bamos got a secret method from somewhere, which can increase the probability of ordinary corpses turning into corpse witches, and it is easy to give birth to some weak-minded liches.

These corpse witches are tireless, thick-skinned, strong, and don't need to breathe, eat, or drink. They are the best miners.

But this behavior is illegal. The Undead Empire strictly cracks down on the illegal reincarnation of corpse witches, not to mention slavery and confinement.

But how many people are there in the Undead Empire? The mining area is so large, just find a mine to hide in, and you can't find it at all. Only these local guards who grew up here have vaguely heard some rumors.

However, the city lord is not much better, and he is also very harsh on his subordinates. None of them are good things. Originally, it didn't matter who was in power, but yesterday a team of bone dragon knights flew over.

They discovered the fighting in the city, landed to inquire, and immediately declared that this behavior was illegal, asking Bamos to stop this rebellious act.

How could Bamos listen? Relying on his Undead Scepter, he didn't pay attention to the bone dragon knights at all.

Bone dragons can't play much of a role in cities, especially fortress-style cities like Iron Shacheng. In the end, they could only circle helplessly in the air. Flying and flying, five bone dragons left the group and flew to the north.

The remaining ones also began to rotate, keeping four circling in the air, and the other four didn't know where to rest, and then rotated in the evening.

Now Bamos was a bit panicked. These bone dragon knights were obviously against him. Those who left the group, he didn't even have to think, must be looking for reinforcements.

Bamos immediately ordered to increase the intensity, clearing out the remaining forces in the city before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, so that he could concentrate his energy to deal with the bone dragon knights.

In order to delay the reinforcements brought by the bone dragon knights, he even sent out a secret weapon.

The previous progress was slow because Bamos wanted to preserve his strength and didn't want to suffer too much loss in street fighting. Anyway, he wasn't in a hurry. Starving them to death was cheaper.

Now he was in a hurry and didn't preserve his strength anymore, so the progress was fast. By late night, several key points that were originally resisting in the city had been cleared out. The remaining places, possibly receiving news that the key points were cleared, also had to surrender. Now only the alchemy workshop had not been taken down.

Bamos personally sat in command of the battle in the alchemy workshop, because this place was too important. All the most valuable things in Iron Shacheng's development over the years were all here.

"You guys be careful. Every piece of paper inside is more important than your little lives. It must not be damaged. Every piece of paper is likely to record a formula for an alloy, or a structure of a construct. If you break it, I will throw you into the mine to dig until you die." Bamos shouted there, not thinking at all that this would make his subordinates tied up.

They couldn't advance a few meters in half a day. His subordinates couldn't help it anymore and rushed over to complain: "My lord, the casualties are too heavy if this continues. Let us use heavy weapons? What? No? If we don't use heavy weapons, we can only persuade them to surrender."

"Persuade to surrender? How to persuade? Those big dwarves have a bad temper. Do you have any good ideas?" Bamos also knew it was not good to fight like this, but using heavy weapons was absolutely not allowed.

The things in the alchemy workshop are too precious. At worst, he would just send a part of his manpower to surround this place and starve those guys to death. Anyway, it was only the last place left.

"I heard these big dwarves like wine the most. Shall we move all the fine wine over and seduce them?" His subordinates suggested.

"Good, let's do that."

Not long after, a large amount of good wine was pushed over. Someone persuaded them toward the alchemy workshop: "Surrender. Our lord has fine wine, delicious food, and beauties. The conditions are generous. Surrender quickly."

In the workshop that had been silent, upon hearing about fine wine, a swallowing sound suddenly rang out, and then one after another, there were sounds of swallowing saliva.

After a while, a rough voice shouted: "What good wine is there? Present it for us to try. If it tastes good, we will surrender."

Several carts of wine were pushed over. Bamos added a sentence from afar: "As long as you surrender, you can have as much good wine as you want."

A sloppy dwarf crawled out of the alchemy workshop, but this dwarf was a bit tall, at least two meters tall, a head taller than everyone else.

And his hands were long, shoulders wide, waist thick, and legs short, looking just like a wall. No wonder Bamos's people would call them big dwarves. This was clearly an enlarged version of a dwarf. If dwarves like Tongxu were enlarged proportionally, they would look like this.

The big dwarf licked his dry lips and said in a muffled voice: "Is it really good wine? Let's say it first, if it's not good wine, we absolutely won't surrender. The bloodline of thunder, only heroes who die in battle, no cowards who surrender."

Bamos and his subordinates were all stunned. What does it mean? No cowards who surrender? Because they surrender for good wine, doesn't it count?

The big dwarf picked up a jar of wine, tore open the wine seal, and gulped it down. After gulping a few mouthfuls, he cursed: "What is this? Is it swill? It tastes so bad."

After cursing, he gulped it down again, drank the whole jar of wine with an uncomfortable face, threw the wine jar together, and cursed again: "It tastes too bad, it's sour."

Looking at the wine jar that was broken into pieces and didn't have a drop of wine left, Bamos and the others were all stunned. Is this bad or good? If it's bad, why did you drink it so cleanly? Is this big dwarf trying to trick wine?

The big dwarf tore open another jar of a different variety of wine, drank a few mouthfuls, and said: "Isn't this the rum I often drink? Although it doesn't taste bad, it doesn't count as good wine. Want to make us surrender with this kind of goods? Dream on!"

Bamos confirmed that this big dwarf was just trying to trick wine. Just as he was about to order them to be killed, suddenly, the ground trembled.

Just as he was wondering what happened, with a loud bang, he saw dust rising from the direction of the city gate from afar. The city gate was crashed by something.

The rumbling sound approached in this direction, and the trembling of the ground became more and more intense, almost shaking. Some undead guards nearby seemed to have sensed something and looked in the same direction in unison.

Soon, Bamos saw what was making the earth tremble. It was actually the secret weapon he sent out—the Round Rolling Great Demon King construct.

"What's going on? Why is Round Rolling back? And it crashed the city gate?" Bamos asked in shock.

The large iron ball rolled not far in front of Bamos and stopped, but it was still swaying back and forth, maintaining the state of following the rolling.

A malnourished Brass Dragon flew out from behind the large iron ball, wanting to say something, but saw the wine on the cart, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Nai Ge Li Si hasn't drunk wine for a long time. He drank it when he was alive, but never again after he died. He didn't taste it when Ang brewed wine, and his heart was itching.

Now his body is alive and can taste the flavor. He immediately flew to the wine cart, tore open a jar of wine, stuck out his tongue and licked it, and immediately cursed: "Pfft! What is this? Is it swill?"

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