Chapter 374: The Fate of the Diggers (1/2)

Since there was no class of Players specializing in the Earth element, their hole-digging basically depended on art (explosion).

Moreover, even though the expendable team could delay the Mecha Giant for around half or one hour, relying on explosions in that bit of time could hardly dig out a pit that would hold a three-hundred-meter all behemoth.

Furthermore, most explosion craters were bowled-shaped, which was very different from what was required to restrain or even cage the Mecha Giant.

It was therefore fortunate that the Players above Level 40 were there.

With a Skyfire Herald like Edward consuming all his Illum crystals so that his Blackfire Dragon was at maximum output, he could easily burn sand into glass, instantly heating things above 4500 degrees! In fact, when Xi Wei was designing the class of Skyfire Herald, he had wanted them to unleash heat reaching or even surpassing the 6000 degree Celsius of superheated flames.

However, he soon realized that the little bit of Flame Authority which the First Flame provided was not enough, and he would either have to obtain more Flame Authority or claim a partial Authority of the Sun (or indeed the Authority of nuclear fusion) to reach such temperatures.

Be that as it may, 4500 degrees was still enough to handle most objects. In fact, against certain mage shields, he could just steam the mage up even if his Blackfire Dragon could not penetrate the mage’s defenses…

Either way, superheating the ground to melt it and blast it away was much quicker than focused explosion on a fixed location. Additionally, the depth of the pit would be much deeper than a typical exploded pit.

(Joe: Is the digging team done yet? We can’t hold it any longer!]

[Edward: Almost]

(Joe: Hurry up… I almost got touched by a shockwave that could have instakilled me!]

(Edward: Can’t you have your spirit familiar do the fighting, and keep your distance away from the giant?]

(Joe: Won’t work. My familiar has no range.]

(Joe: Hurry up. We are almost wiped out here.]

[Doug Ag: No choice. We, the second team is going out!] [Edward: Why is a long-ranged unit like you joining the fun?]

[Doug Ag: That thing probably has an ability close to Protection of Arrows. Long-range attacks deal not much damage and wouldn’t draw its attention]

(Doug Ag: Since we can’t help in the latter half of this quest, why not join the expendables and earn some contribution points]

***

It was just before the expendables had all died out that Edward’s construction team finally dug a pit to a barely-useable extent.

In return, Edward estimated that he would start throwing up whenever he smelled the scent of cola.

“It’s coming!”

With the roar from the Players just ahead, a ginormous hand reached out from behind a mountain, grabbed hold of it and leaving a massively visible print over its stone.