Once everyone had identified the weak points of the ice mountain before them, they prepared to excavate and open a passage leading inside.
The thod they ultimately adopted was for Alka to use the Cross of Righteous Fire. Relying on his already adept control, he shot out a thick column of fire.
He relentlessly burned the ice mountain in front of him, causing it to begin lting. After a period of burning, the others would start excavating, repeating this process over and over.
Without the flas, the ice’s hardness was indeed difficult to break, greatly limiting their excavation speed.
Using this thod, they cooperated and spent about two hours. Alka’s Magic Power began to wane, becoming insufficient to sustain the flas, so he waved his hand, indicating he needed to rest.
Although he hadn’t maintained the flas continuously for two hours, the extended period of sustaining the fire still consud a great deal of his Magic Power.
In total, he had maintained the flas for at least thirty minutes.
Who would maintain a jet of fla for thirty minutes in battle? Isn’t this just a pure waste of Magic Power?
Conjuring such high-temperature flas out of thin air was no easy task; every mont consud considerable Magic Power.
If Alka hadn’t reached the Three Spirals and possessed a Treasure that enhanced his Magic Power to be slightly greater than others, he wouldn’t have been able to endure for so long.
The others looked at the gap before them, which had only penetrated about three to four ters deep at most.
"No way, this efficiency is way too slow. By the ti we dig through to the inside, who knows how long that will take," Chadite said, shaking his head as he looked at their progress.
Conservatively, the radius of this mountain was around seven to eight hundred ters, and the ice surface leading to the cavern below was located at its center.
At this rate, Alka would need to rest for three to four hours after sustaining the flas for two hours. Even if he worked non-stop without any rest, it would take about one and a half to two months to dig through to the center.
Not to ntion, that was an impossible scenario; the actual ti required would likely double.
This amount of ti was almost unacceptable to them.
The deeper they went, the harder the ice would beco. This was mainly because they were getting closer to the Treasure and would have to endure the intensifying cold.
At that point, the Magic Power consumption for sustaining the flas would further increase, and the flas’ power might even weaken.
After all, the ice here wasn’t ford naturally but by an extre concentration of Ice Elents. This would greatly affect the surrounding Fla Elents.
An overabundance of Ice Elents might even suppress or displace the Fla Elents.
Just then, after inspecting the indentation they had just excavated for a while, Jason couldn’t help but say, "Have you all noticed? These ice blocks seem to be slowly regenerating."
Upon hearing this, the others clustered around to look and eventually confird Jason’s observation.
The ice blocks were indeed slowly growing and resolidifying. Although the growth was very slow, it was quite obvious if observed for a while.
Seeing this situation, Alka shook his head.
"No, this thod doesn’t work at all."
If these ice blocks can still slowly regenerate, then the ti required will increase even more. We might not be able to penetrate it even in a year, because we still have to dig through the ice within that underground cavern, Alka thought.
They had wasted two hours, and it was now clear this laborious thod was unworkable.
Now they had to think of other ways to solve this problem.
Jason looked at the ground beneath their feet, brushed aside the snow with his foot, and after a few stomps, said, "What if we just dig straight down and try to reach that cavern from below?"
Alka looked at the ground beneath his feet and nodded.
"We can give it a try."
This thod sounded promising, but it was unclear what problems they might encounter during execution.
Regardless, the ground here is definitely frozen solid.
The group took their tools and started digging into the ground at their feet.
Because the ground was frozen, it was much harder to dig than ordinary soil, but it was still significantly better than the ice blocks.
The ice forming the mountain was clearly abnormal, its hardness ridiculously high.
A pit quickly ford under their collective effort.
Pororo stood within the pit, facing the ice mountain.
They began to dig horizontally towards the mountain, and the pit rapidly expanded, extending all the way to the foot of the mountain.
CLANG!
A digging tool suddenly struck sothing that felt like stone, and a tallic clang resounded.
"What happened? Hit a rock?"
Encountering boulders blocking the way during underground excavation is quite normal.
Pororo didn’t say anything. He moved to a different spot and tried again, but the result was the sa.
This ti, the others who were digging also noticed sothing was amiss.
They all tested the area in front of them.
It wasn’t a boulder at all.
The entire area before them was ordinary earth—no, it should be called frozen earth.
It was unclear what constituted it, but the hardness of this frozen earth surpassed even that of the ice blocks above. Digging a tunnel downward was simply impossible.
At this realization, everyone couldn’t help but stop what they were doing.
Jason slumped onto the nearby ground, helplessly running his hands through his hair. Yet another thod had failed.
The others, their faces sared with dirt, glanced at each other and shook their heads in resignation.
They climbed out of the pit with their tools.
"Does this an we can only dig with brute force?" Chadite asked, sitting at the edge of the pit.
It seed that in the current situation, their only option was to spend more ti and rely on brute force to dig downward.
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