Chapter 1295: Full Metal Totem Beast
The Wolf King noticed Meng Chao's gaze.
"Any other questions?" he asked as though nothing had happened.
"Yes."
Meng Chao pointed deep into the Fossil Jungle. "Didn't you say that all the killing machines here were 'dead'? Then what are those?"
The Wolf King narrowed his eyes and looked as far as he could in the direction Meng Chao indicated.
Amid the jagged wreckage and bones, he saw several dozen blurry black dots.
The two of them kept blinking, adjusting the coordination between their irises, lenses, and optic nerves. As their field of vision continuously narrowed, the clarity of their far-reaching sight steadily improved, until they finally made out the true forms of those black dots.
They seemed to be... Totem Beasts?
Meng Chao was not entirely certain.
Based on the information he had gathered since arriving in Turanze, so-called "Totem Beasts" had an exceptionally close kinship with Dragon City's "monsters," with no major differences in appearance.
The only difference was that Totem Beasts constantly consumed Mandala Fruit, Mandala Tree roots, other plants containing liquid metal-like substances, and other Totem Beasts.
Large quantities of liquid metal-like substances continuously accumulated within Totem Beasts, gradually giving their organs, bones, flesh, and blood the properties of "metalization" and "crystallization."
Once the accumulation reached a certain level, it could even seep through to the surface of their bodies, forming layers of crystal-clear armor gleaming with metallic luster.
Hunting Totem Beasts and refining the liquid metal-like substances from their corpses was also one of the important means by which Turan Heroes created new Totem Armor.
However, Meng Chao had heard Ice Storm mention that even the strongest Totem Beasts, though their flesh-and-blood bodies could swell to heights and lengths of ten or twenty meters, could only use the liquid