Chapter 352: Earthworm

"Mr. Flint, can you describe in detail what the monster looks like?" Joanne asked the old dwarf.
"Good boy! I will show you this."
Flint drew a pencil from his pocket and randomly found a wooden board to draw it.
The old dwarf is the most outstanding craftsman in Delin. He often designs various farm tools and even armor drawings. He has a strong drawing skills, and he can portray the image of the monster in two minutes.
"Look, this monster is about five feet long from head to tail. The temperature inside the body is extremely high. It can melt the iron ore swallowed into the belly into molten iron, and burn away impurities. Some of the molten iron will pass through. Their skin is secreted and sticks to the surface of the body. After cooling, it is shaped into layers of bamboo shells, so from the appearance, this monster is like a python connected by countless iron rings."
Flint added a few strokes to the drawing board, and then told Joan and Kandy about the strangeness of the monster.
"The inside of this monster's body seems to have a furnace that burns all day long. The high temperature emits the iron armor attached to the surface of the body to blush red. Occasionally, there are hot steam and smoke accompanied by hissing sound, which is connected from the carapace. If you accidentally touch the gap between them, you will be seriously scalded and even ignited directly!"
"The strangest part of this monster is the head, like a tapered horn connected to the front of the body. Below the horn is the mouth, and the rest of the facial organs have all degenerated and disappeared-this may be related to their long-term living in the underground world. related."
"But don't think that they are deaf and blind. In fact, this monster has a very sensitive perception, can detect someone approaching through the slight vibration of the surrounding air and the ground, and launches an attack or burrows to escape in the first place!"
Flint took the glass handed from his nephew, drank a gulp of ale and moistened his throat, and finally concluded.
"It's almost what I have observed. Because the horns on the head of this monster look like a large red hot iron, I will call them "iron essence"!"
"Hey Yo! You've taken the name "Iron Solder" for a long time, and it made me and Joan confused for a long time!" Conti laughed.
"What's wrong, little girls, it's not good to call them'iron iron'?" The old dwarf was a little embarrassed.
"People clearly have an official name, it's called "Torso"!" Kandy couldn't help crying.
"Earth, earth or insect? This name is too mouthful, it might as well be called the image of the iron iron." The old dwarf murmured sadly.
"It doesn't matter what the name is, the key is that the creature, the soil worm, shouldn't be here."
Joan recalled the relevant records of the earthworm in the "Illustration of the Monster of Valais", and clearly remembered that this creature named "worm" was actually not an insect creature born in the main material world, but a kind of pure The fire elemental magic energy and lava constitute an "elemental creature".
Earthworms are native to the junction of the fire elemental plane and the earth elemental plane. The vast area filled with ash and lava, where they feed on minerals and use the furnace-like body to melt ore into a strong natural defense. Strong metal armor.
As an elemental creature from an eccentric plane, soil worms do not need to eat the food of the main material world to survive. The reason for swallowing the ore is mainly to maintain the "element furnace" in the body and smelt the ore into molten iron. Body surface, condensed into iron armor, thereby ensuring that its defense power is maintained in a perfect state.
Why do earth worms need to keep heavy cast iron armor?
The main reason is that this creature digs underground all day long, and especially likes to drill holes in mineral-rich volcanic rock layers.
This can certainly keep the earthworms who are naturally afraid of the cold to keep warm, but frequent drilling in hard rock will inevitably severely wear the carapace on its surface, and the thick iron armor will soon be thinned by the rock.
In order to protect his fragile inner skin, earthworms had to devour a large amount of ore, using the biological furnace in the belly to cast a brand new steel armor.
"Mr. Flint, elemental creatures such as earthworms rarely appear in the human world. Occasionally they also appear to be moving near the crater away from the town. How come they came to the forge?" Joan asked.
"You mean, someone cast a spell to call these monsters from outside the world and deliberately put them in the forge to add chaos to me?" Flint looked angry.
Joan and Kandy glanced at each other, thinking that the "primitive sect" was extremely hostile to the doctrine of industrial civilization, and never missed any opportunity to destroy magic machines and modern factories.
As a high-level deacon of the sect, "Shepherd Man" will definitely implement this purpose.
With such a thought, it is really only the crazy cultists like "Shepherds" who can throw earthworms to destroy the forging plant!
"Uncle, now is not the time to investigate the origin of the earthworm, but it is more important to try to get rid of this group of pests, so that the wrought iron plant can be restarted."
Kandy emphasized loudly.
"The little girl said it well, but the big bugs are not so easy to deal with. We have to make a perfect plan before we start."
The old dwarf picked up a pencil and brushed on the board to write a line of characters, and then showed it to Joan and Conti.
"The first question, how to lure earthworms from the depths of mountainous iron ore and stop them from escaping?"
"This..." Kandy rubbed his nose, his face pale.
"Actually, we have already solved half of this problem." Tom went on the topic initiated by his uncle. "The earthworm is naturally afraid of cold and especially likes to stay in a hot place. As long as we set up a stove on the open space and burn the fire, we can put it out. Earthworms are drawn out from the heap of ore and roasted to warm themselves."
"In fact, we have tried this method and successfully lured out the earthworms and eliminated one of them. Unfortunately, the rest of the earthworms were very alert and found that they caught the trap and immediately turned around to escape. We haven’t had time to stop it, five earthworms I went back to the heap of ore."
Tom shrugged his hand in regret.
"Can you move the ore away, so that the earthworms have nowhere to hide." Conti proposed a plan.
"Slightly speaking! There are thousands of tons of ore accumulated in the warehouse, which is so easy to move away?" Flint asked with a wry smile. "Moreover, it is very likely to be attacked by earthworms during the process of ore transportation. The risk is real. too big."
"Even if the ore is emptied, it's useless. Earthworms are good at digging holes and digging into the ground. They don't wait for the ore to evacuate and go deep into the ground to hide." Tom added.
"This is indeed a big trouble." Joan thought, "I can try to use magic to stop the earthworms, how much time can be delayed."
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