In that instant, boundless heat radiated outward in the form of light.
After fighting the Ice Corpses at close quarters for so long, Wang Qi's mechanized humanoid outer armor had remained at an extremely low temperature. Yet in that instant, the outer shell burst apart as though boiling oil had been poured over solid ice.
But none of that was a problem. For a Beast Mechanism, the most important ability was "change." Once it had shed the extreme cold brought by the Ice Corpses, repairing a few cracks was nothing.
And Wang Qi saw, for the first time, the "puppet master" controlling everything within the Ice Corpse.
It was a cluster of fire.
Or rather, something that looked very much like a flame.
Flames were visible light or another physical manifestation produced during the chemical process in which fuel and air rapidly transformed into combustion products, a phenomenon that released light and heat. Under normal circumstances, the flames visible to the human eye were simply light produced by particle transitions.
If there were a mass of high-temperature matter, hot enough for microscopic particles to undergo transitions, then it too might take the shape of "fire."
But that was strange.
There was actually a flame inside an Ice Corpse?
Within that Ice Corpse that constantly absorbed heat, there was actually a fire that continuously released heat?
Wang Qi was unsure whether this flame was a new kind of consciousness carrier similar to a soul, or a medium through which some spell operated. For a moment, he did not react.
The fire looked like an elongated candle flame, with a distinct core at its base. After losing its "shell," the flame seemed to freeze up as well. Then it swayed, transformed into a streak of light, and vanished.
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