Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 542 Refining
"This is... fluidized peat?" Rorschach took a small sample and rubbed it carefully: "Go get me a few buckets."

Rorschach asked his apprentice to find some containers to hold the samples. After filling several tin barrels, Rorschach sealed them and used the etheric membrane to shrink them to the size of a can.

"Please give it to Andre and tell him to send one can to the Forest Tower, one to the Secret Tower, and keep the rest for research. No, don't open it before I come back."

"Ok."

After the apprentices and mining equipment had mostly evacuated, Rorschach began to check what was underneath.

The first thing to deal with is the oil sludge. The center of this sticky liquid has been bubbling slowly, and the fishy smell in the air becomes stronger with each bubble that pops.

Rorschach pushed aside the oily mud in the middle and finally detected some living creature moving underneath, stirring the coal that had fluidized into mud. He unveiled the "mysterious veil" and finally revealed a huge animal brain full of holes, which made a sticky and dull purring sound when it was exposed.

Realizing the existence of other life, the "creature" buried in the charcoal mud suddenly became more active. It struggled to climb upwards, trying to reach Rorschach who was observing from the air.

An arm more than ten meters long and covered in oil and mud was raised from the bottom of the pit with difficulty. As soon as it left the ground, it immediately began to accelerate and swung towards Rorschach.

The arm is so long? Rorschach was a little surprised. He used the size of the animal's head to judge the overall size of the creature, and the animal's head was about two meters long. He didn't expect that an arm alone would far exceed the normal proportions of a creature. Not only that, but the appearance was also impossible to judge.

When the giant beast swung its arms, the flapping sounds became more frequent, as if it was in an excited state. Its arms were like a whip, and enough kinetic energy had accumulated at the end. If the engineering team had not withdrawn in time, many of the equipment would have been smashed to pieces with just one hit.

However, this time, as soon as it appeared, it encountered a real tough guy and slammed into the force field around Rorschach.

With a snap, the arm collapsed, and parts scattered on the surface of the mud, slowly sinking.

Taking this opportunity, Rorschach also observed that the limbs that were out of normal proportions were composed of many large bones. They did not have normal muscles and other tissues, but were just layers of oil film wrapped around the bones. These bones did not belong to the same creature, and even their colors were different.

Fossil? When Rorschach first saw the black animal head, he thought it was just hanging charcoal mud. He didn't expect that the body was made of bones and mud.

The giant beast was silent for a while, as if it was understanding what was happening. Then the oil film on its head began to change violently, and it made a whirring "roar", conveying its anger to Rorschach very clearly.

"Look, you're in a hurry again. I haven't even started yet."

Wait, Rorschach wanted to say something pretentious, but he didn't expect that this guy was just bluffing. After roaring, he swung his uncoordinated body, and this time he didn't attack, but dived into the ground, as if he was in a desperate situation.

Humph, want to escape?
This guy cannot be simply dragged out because the main body of the monster is still unclear. Also, because it is pieced together, it is easier to escape than a gecko's tail being cut off. If he really wants to escape, Rorschach's "super giant unicorn arm" can just give him any monster he catches, and the main body can run away.

Therefore, the only way to stop it is to block it. To block the movement of an object in water, the first thing a wizard would think of is [Freeze Ray] to solidify the water around the target. Rorschach also took a similar approach, but he was facing liquefied rock and carbon.

The first step was to use large-scale [decomposition techniques] and heating to vaporize the sludge at the bottom of the pit.

The monster couldn't understand why his body was suddenly in the air and was burning violently. Because the oil sludge contained a lot of water, the steam occupied a certain partial pressure, and Rorschach controlled the gas flow of the entire mine. Now this area was like a huge coke oven, and all the sticky carbon sludge turned into coke gas under the condition of lack of oxygen.

If Rorschach wanted, he could introduce enough oxygen now, or continue to heat and reduce it to obtain water gas, and blow the monster into calcium salt fragments, but he had many ways to destroy it, so there was no need to go through so much trouble. Even if he replaced the [Decomposition Technique] with the [Great Disintegration Technique], the monster would be crippled if not dead.

The peat had now been broken into a large number of gaseous alkanes and aromatic compounds. Rorschach chose to continue heating and manipulating the internal airflow, gradually resulting in the appearance of unsaturated alkenes and alkynes.

Residual oxygen still existed, so combustion was inevitable in the area controlled by Rorschach. From the perspective of the edge of the mine, the entire mine was filled tightly with a huge, scorching fireball.

"F*ck, is this the Fireball you mentioned?" The onlooker asked the apprentice who had rushed back. After the apprentice delivered the goods, Andre sent more spellcasters over.

"The difference is about the same. Maybe there is a difference in size."

Because the oil mud around it was vaporized, the body of the skeleton monster was revealed. All the bones were pieced together in a random pattern, forming an image that resembled a dragon, but was extremely distorted.

The behemoth thought that Rorschach was trying to burn it to death, and it was a little proud because its main body was not afraid of high temperatures. As long as the bones were still there, it could condense again.

It even had the wisdom of a dragon, and considered whether it should play dead in front of this powerful boy, letting one or two bones slip into the depths of the earth.

"It's about time." Rorschach only estimated that the content of unsaturated hydrocarbons had reached the standard line. He began to compress the gas in the area to increase the concentration. At the same time, the huge heat he applied and the subsequent heat released by the combustion of the gas were also confined inside.

The dust particles that were difficult to vaporize began to vitrify. After the temperature dropped, they were the first to cool and adhere to the surface of the monster's skeleton and harden, forming a glaze-like coating. Some molten particles mixed with the tar produced by carbonization and then hardened. Finally, the unsaturated hydrocarbons that were not carbonized, triggered by Rorschach's magic, gradually condensed and connected to form artificial resin.

All the materials mixed together, like the expansion screw material of chemical suppositories, sealed the entire monster tightly, making it unable to move, and turning it into a "colorful black" statue.

Finally, multiple seals were applied to package it. After being wrapped by the etheric membrane, it continued to shrink, and the giant beast of several dozen meters was only about 30 centimeters, suitable for being a decoration on the desk. Of course, it was preserved and packaged for subsequent research.

The whole process seemed long, but it actually took only about ten minutes. Instead, it took time to clear the sludge and find the stuff. Rorschach weighed the "craft" in his hand and thought: Does this count as refining?
He floated to the edge of the mine. "For reasons that are still unclear, the ground has been liquefied on a large scale. It seems that many fossils have been gathered together with the liquefied coal to give birth to monsters. The geology here is no longer reliable. You must evacuate as soon as possible."

After Rorschach finished speaking, he saw that the apprentice had returned, with several mages following him: "Did Andre ask you to come?"

"Yes."

Good, good, Andre really understands himself. He made arrangements directly to the spellcasters: "The ground is no longer moving, and the main danger has been eliminated. Check the surrounding area carefully. If there is a cavity, do not rush in. If other monsters appear, report them immediately."

After giving the instructions, Rorschach immediately went to patrol other locations and generally did not find any other problems.

It was nearly two hours since dawn when he finished all this. In his workshop, he saw several great wizards online, sharing the intelligence they had gathered.

(End of this chapter)