The Cold Hard Bone Armor covering his entire body, capable of withstanding the heat of a nuclear explosion, now turned a bizarre blinding white under the frenzied scorching of internal energy. Its edges began to melt and drip, producing a terrifying sizzling sound like red-hot molten iron dropped into ice water, exploding into finer, lethal burning fragments the instant they touched the air or sea.
The readings on the monitoring instruments jumped wildly before finally freezing at a suffocating astronomical figure: the peak average surface temperature had exceeded 4,200°C!
At localized hotspots, especially where Energy Veins converged and bone joints connected, the temperature had even surged to nearly 6,000 degrees! This had already surpassed the melting points of most metals and approached the temperature of the sun's surface!
Connors felt that his body—that Ultimate Creation he had taken such pride in, which he had regarded as surpassing even a god—was undergoing an irreversible collapse from within!
Every cell felt as if it had been cast into the core of a star, screaming, boiling, and disintegrating in unimaginable heat!
The surface temperature readings had long since gone off the charts, but analysis of the energy spectrum showed that his surface temperature had exceeded 5,000°C in the instant before the explosion and was still skyrocketing at a geometric rate!
Many areas of tissue covered by bone armor, especially regions dense with Energy Veins, began to soften, flow, and drip like a melting wax figure. When they touched the still-unmelted tissue below or the ground, they produced terrifying hissing sounds and released poisonous mixed vapor.
Though the bone armor itself had an extremely high melting point, it too showed signs of softening, warping, and cracking under the baking of energy continuously pouring out from within, far beyond its external tolerance limit.
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