Chapter 429: A bleeding heart
"Bubble, bubble, bubble..." The boiling bubbles churned without pause.
The boiling patch of sea grew larger and larger. Some of the fish living in the Sub-Mystic Realm suffered for it, soon floating belly-up or even being cooked through.
The entire Metalized Heavenly Pillar was like a perpetually blazing furnace. Though it gave off little light, it radiated heat without end.
Great clouds of white steam filled the Sub-Mystic Realm. The vapor carried searing heat, making the temperature inside even higher than when the metal pillar had first entered the water.
"Argh!!!" "Ugh!!!" "We can't die now!!! We can't!!!"
Temperatures approaching a hundred degrees Celsius filled the surroundings, and the weakened Goldforgers screamed in defiance.
They had yet to see the divine weapon truly completed. They had yet to see its magic script light up, or witness whether their design would work as intended.
"No!!! I won't accept this!!! Cough, cough..."
"Cough... ugh..."
They could not even move, let alone muster the strength to crawl to the Spell Formation Array leading out of the Sub-Mystic Realm.
The Goldforgers actually had fairly good resistance to high temperatures, but they were utterly drained and terribly weak.
Without any stamina, they could not use their innate abilities either. Their skin was rapidly reddening from the scalding steam. Worse still, their airways, already burned during the final stages of forging, were now suffering devastating damage.
The eight burly figures slowly curled up, their vision growing blurred.
Just then, Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and several Association Craftsmen arrived to bring the Goldforgers food. The moment they entered the Mystic Realm, they felt the scorching heat and steam. A second later, they spotted the eight Goldforgers, unable to tell whether they had already been cooked alive or were still breathing.
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