The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

Mining of True Ice

Wright didn’t lie, Lothar stayed on the bridge for a whole day, and he didn’t see half of the Frost Guards chasing soldiers. I don’t know if they didn’t find Lothar and Gragas at all, or this bridge is for them. A forbidden place that cannot be set foot on.

One day later, Wright was different from a grumpy ghost. He knew all about Lothar’s questions and answered many of Lothar’s doubts at once.

It was only then that Lothar learned what Piltover was.

It was a magical city. People made metal into various machines that could move by themselves, and Piltover also prospered in this way.

Although Wright described the big flying boats, the vehicles that can walk by themselves without being pulled by camels, and the weapons that can shoot people from a long distance with just one touch of a finger without pulling a bow, but Lothar still couldn’t imagine such a magical place.

“Be sure to ask Zoe to take me to see it.” Lothar made up his mind.

“The most amazing thing in Piltover is the hex crystal.” Wright seemed to enjoy the teaching process, and said with a bright red face, “It is a mysterious crystal that originated in the Shurima Desert, and it has extremely special properties. The magical power of the Hex technology developed with the Hex crystal has directly seen Piltover’s technology take off!”

“Hex crystal…” Lothar thought of the crystal inlaid on his chest in the future, “Can that Hex crystal be embedded in the human body?”

“Well.” Wright looked at Lothar in surprise, “How could you think that the human body refining technology is too scary!”

“What’s so scary about human body refining?”

Wright took out a towel and wiped his sweat. It was rightly Lothar, a child who had never seen Hex technology, joked: “The secret of the Hex crystal has not been discovered until now, and it is very dangerous to implant it into the human body.” .Although this is indeed a solution that can theoretically provide the human body with a steady stream of magical energy, it might kill people.”

“Dangerous.” Lothar’s heart tightened, and he thought, “What happened to me in the future to implant a Hex crystal in my chest?”

Not far away, the snoring of Gragas actually overshadowed the howling of the wind in the Howling Abyss. Wright looked at him distressedly: “Your friend has a really special body structure, old man. I have lived for so long and I have never seen anyone snoring!” The snoring is louder than the gunfire, let’s go a little further and show you something nice.”

Lothar followed Wright to a machine next to the bridge, which was connected to a dozen or so windmills that whirred continuously.

“Gifes, go.” Wright ordered the little robot to fly to the machine, and Gifs sat down in a groove, and the machine opened a door.

“What is this?” It was the first time Lothar had such close contact with machinery.

“This is a simple wind turbine I built. It’s a pity that the wind here is so strong that it can’t be used.” Wright patted the machine, “It was made temporarily, and there are not enough equipment at hand, so it can only be built in such a simple way.”

“Simplicity” Lothar looked at the densely packed gears, copper wires and pipes on the machine, “It’s so simple… what’s the use of it?”

“There are many uses, such as this.” Wright pressed a few buttons, and the generator spit out a charcoal burner. “I usually use it to heat hot water. If the power is increased, it can also be used as a furnace.”

Wright picked out a small piece of ice from the ground and threw it into the furnace. The ice melted instantly.

“Stove, what’s so interesting about that?” Lothar didn’t know why.

“Don’t worry,Show you something really good. “Wright took out a small box from his sleeve and opened it.

A chill rushed towards Lothar’s face. He looked at the walnut-sized crystal ice in the box in surprise: “Zhen Bing!”

Wright proudly said: “This is the only true ice I have obtained after staying here for a year and a half.”

“How did you get it?” Lothar asked hastily.

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“The process of obtaining it was very bumpy. I’ll tell you about it later.” Wright reached out to take Zhenbing out.

“Don’t touch it!” Lothar was about to remind Wright that Zhenbing should not be touched, but saw a few moving metal claws protruding from Wright’s sleeve, and picked up Zhenbing.

“Don’t worry, old man, I have studied the history and culture of the Freljord for a long time, and I know the power of Zhenbing.” Wright lifted Zhenbing up and looked at it through the light of the sky, “It’s so beautiful.”

Wright threw the pure ice into the furnace, and the flames swallowed the pure ice in an instant.

Lothar stared at the stove. He saw that the blazing flames were all extinguished in an instant. Instead, a layer of ice was frozen in the chamber of the stove, and the water droplets formed by the steam also turned into small ice crystals and covered the entire chamber.

And that piece of pure ice hasn’t gotten smaller at all.

“The ice magic contained in the pure ice is almost endless.” Wright said in admiration, “I have tried many methods, but none of them can weaken its power.”

“so”

“This pure ice is a magical treasure comparable to hex crystals!” Wright danced excitedly, “Think about it! After mining the hex crystals in Shurima, Piltover’s technology ushered in a great leap forward ! If the True Ice of the Freljord can be mined…”

“Then have you found a way to mine it?” Lothar himself also needs a lot of True Ice.

Wright’s face became bitter all of a sudden: “It’s too difficult to mine True Ice. This kind of crystal can’t be touched directly, and it’s extremely hard. It’s not as convenient as collecting Hex crystal…”

“Then how did you mine this piece of pure ice?”

“Gifuss.” Wright yelled, the little robot made a beeping sound, and a hook lock popped out from the bottom of the generator, “I rely on it, let me demonstrate it to you.”

Wright took out a small drill bit from his sleeve, installed it on the shackle, and threw it over the bridge, and the shackle wrapped around the pulley fell quickly.

“Zhenbing is under the bridge.” Lothar suddenly understood. He poked his head out, but he could only see pitch blackness. “How deep is it?”

“Using your Freljord’s unit of measurement, it’s about 700 feet.” Wright said, “It’s too deep. I haven’t figured out a plan to get back up after going down. I can only use This method.”

Lothar and Wright waited for a long time before the shackles began to be recovered.

Wright raised the completely deformed drill bit: “Look, even the drill bit can’t get through. I was lucky to get that piece of pure ice.”

Lothar is in a good mood, because he finally knows where Zhenbing is.

Zoe said that as long as he can find out where Zhen Bing is, she can do the rest.

“Speaking of which, I haven’t seen Zoe for a long time.” Lothar couldn’t wait to see that girl.

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To sum up, although the physical properties and magical properties of True Ice appear to be more extreme and uncontrollable than those of Hex Crystals, it is undeniable that True Ice does possess a huge magical power and plasticity that is no less than that of Hex Crystals.

The discovery of Zhenbing may be the second technological leap for Piltover.

At present, there are too few samples and research materials of Zhenbing, so I applied to suspend my professorship and go to the Freljord for field research.

——”Regarding the Application for Studying in the Freljord” written by Wright