Chapter 1402 - The Statues Came to Life (2/2)

All the temples of the lost city rumbled. Countless colossus emerged from the crumbling and weathered ancient buildings, gathered in the streets like an army striding from a mythical scroll, and began to surround the pyramid temple in an orderly manner.

In the tunnel inside the pyramid temple, Lorrisa had once again turned into the “Sacred Flame” she was when she first appeared on the base. A burning silver-white flame was flying in the air, constantly gathering, dispersing, sprinting, and exerting the powerful destructive force of the flame in various ways.

Although the stone guards had strong shells and no obvious fatal weaknesses, they were obviously some kind of magic-like structure, which naturally had cracks that could be invaded. With the continuous movement, the yellowish shell of each stone statue had been broken and fallen one after another, revealing the real body inside. On the body covering with runes, they could see joints and openings that appeared to be cooling vents. Lorrisa’s Sacred Flame crept through these tiny crevices and disintegrated the statues from within.

The results were remarkable, but they also seemed to be physically and mentally taxing.

The upper half of the Sacred Flame turned into Lorrisa and approached Hao Ren. She caught her breath and said, “These strange statues have a very solid core, in a slightly lower position in the middle of the chest. Apart from the inner core, destroying anywhere is hard to stop them completely. And the inner core is so resistant to heat that I have had a lot of trouble melting it with my Sacred Flame.”

“It’s easy to handle as long as you know where the core is!”

Y’zaks yelled, and then sprang forward a few paces and then pounced on a black colossus with a wolf’s head. The colossus had already raised its iron staff when Y’zaks pounced, but it was still one step slower. Y’zaks had now struck the statue hard in the chest. The force of the impact nearly caused the colossus to lurch to the ground.

One blow sent splinters flying over the statue’s chest. Sparks and hissing noises burst out of the colossus, and a faint light appeared in front of Y’zaks as the ‘slab’ on the surface were smashed by a blow.

Y’zaks raised his fist, and the second punch went right through the protective shell of the colossus’ chest.

Then he yanked something shiny and brassy, like a mechanical ball, out of the colossus.

The colossus shook violently, then fell slowly to one side. Y’zaks, keeping his foot on the statue’s chest, fell to the ground with it while throwing the mechanical ball to Hao Ren. “Landlord! Catch it!”

Hao Ren caught the ‘core’ the size of a basketball and felt the heat as soon as he touched it. If it weren’t for the physical strengthening, probably the temperature of the core alone would have been high enough to cook his hands.

The core was made of metal. Though it had a brassy sheen, it was certainly not copper, considering that it could last a while in the heat of the Sacred Flame. It had a hollow structure on the surface, through which numerous delicate mechanical gears and chains could be seen operating inside. The noise of mechanical operation was constantly coming from it, just like a living iron and steel organ was wriggling, giving them an extremely strange feeling.

At the moment, the exit of the temple was already in front of them, but the light coming from the exit was blocked by huge moving figures.

The data terminal made two quick turns around the mechanical ball in Hao Ren’s hand, quickly completed the analysis of it, and then said quickly, “It feels magnetic field!”

“It fears strong magnetic field!” Hao Ren explained.

Vivian immediately summoned the overwhelming number of bats. The bats quickly formed two swirling clusters in the air, and a powerful electric current began to flow through them.

“Oersted told me,” Vivian said, opening her hands, and the bright lightning storm surged behind her, “electricity creates magnetism!”

Hao Ren looked up at the electromagnetic storm about to take shape over the paved path, and then at the Magnetic Concussion Bombs he had just taken out.

He felt like he did not need any Magnetic Concussion Bombs now.

He needed a Faraday cage.

Vivian’s lightning storm would probably kill them all!