Chapter 1070: Distillation tower (1/2)

Sam looked at the large metallic tower in front of him. It is at least thirty meters tall. It has a great structural design and even from the outside it looked pleasing to the eye.

The metallic tower is glowing with faint red color indicating the fire elemental energy it is using and as he moved closer to the tower he could feel the burning heat being emitted by it.

Sam activated the energy vision as he looked at the tower to see if he could get a glimpse of the energy circulation.

But he couldn't get any. Because the whole tower is covered with a bunch of inscriptions and formations that made it is impossible for one to directly get access to the visibility of the energy circulation inside the tower.

He walked forward and touched the tower-like many others. It is warm, hot in fact. He used closed his eyes and used his observation ability.

With his current cultivation level he could definitely scan it all, as he looked through it, he noticed that a liquid is currently being circulated within the center of the tower along its vertical axis.

The liquid is at different temperatures in different levels and even its density seemed to have changed with every level.

When Sam saw this tower, he was reminded of a process. Fractional distillation. Fractional distillation is used for refining various oils from the crude oil obtained from petroleum ore.

In a tall tower, the crude oil will be heated until it was evaporated and as the gas goes upwards, each component of the crude oil that has a different boiling point will turn to liquid in different compartments of the tower. The petrol, diesel, kerosene, and other oils that are obtained from the petroleum are obtained this way.

But this tower has one major difference here in the process and that is all the different oils are being consumed as soon as they are deposited.

The whole tower has different levels of heat at different sections because the heat energy released by the combustion of each fuel is different.

The heat energy obtained from different fuels is being used to supply different nodes with the energy required to keep the whole city warm. The location of petroleum ore is not far from the city and the tower has a direct connection with this.

In Sam's opinion as sophisticated and complex as it might be, this is a waste of some good resources. The whole tower and the heating system are completely inefficient and a lot of energy is being wasted from this.

And there is also something else Sam noticed, it is the familiarity in the styles of formations that are inscribed on it. These are similar to the two major formations he came across in the journey. The Maze and the mountain prison in which Saber Monarch and Vidyut were trapped.

This made him feel surprised and then he remembered that Vidyut told him that there are three people in the group and one of them is the maker of the maze and the other is the maker of the mountain prison, so this might be the third guy's specialty.

Sam couldn't help but smile and then looked deeper into the tower to observe anything that was leftover.

After a while, he returned to the inn to meet with the rest of his team.

”So, any news?” Sam asked as he sat down while sketching something.

”No, boss. The matters of the sect are not much discussed. Even the merchants that have businesses with them only deal with the external branch. The same goes for the people who give them missions.

Unless the mission is something too important and extremely high value, nobody other than the external members of the sect and the person who is in charge of the mission will come into contact with them.

It is even worse in the business. Even if it is a billion spirit stone deal, only the external members contact them. The highest-ranked person is called the Deacon and he is the last lead we can go if we proceed normally.

Nobody knows how the external branch contacts the main branch of the sect. Nobody knows in which direction, the entrance of the sect could be in, they don't even have the faintest idea.”

Sam heard the reports as he kept on sketching, after they are done, he looked at Vidyut and said.

”The tower is the work of the people who imprisoned you.” Vidyut was surprised.

”Really? They did this? What could their purpose be, imprisoning another one?”