I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Chapter 102 Flood

This idea wasn't just a whim of Murphy's.

Instead, it was something they had anticipated and had envisioned the specific scenario in their minds.

It only became clearer when I saw that Hai Gang could draw power from his own through carving.

It wants to forge an elemental lord, or rather, exploit the nature of elemental lords.

By controlling the water element to a certain extent, water can be controlled.

If it can achieve this, then building dams or constructing ships will be a piece of cake for it.

Therefore, Murphy specifically studied the properties of the element water.

First of all, elements are made of magic.

Moreover, the magic of the constituent elements is often closer to the existence of substances similar to essence.

Therefore, its influence on the material world is slightly greater than that of pure magic.

Secondly, water has a higher viscosity than other elements, and by a significant margin.

Therefore, there are an unusually large number of substances related to the element water.

Furthermore, the spirit, essence, and even soul of different objects can attach themselves to the water element.

Murphy believed this was likely the fundamental principle behind bloodlines and essence.

For example, the heart that is used as the core of the water system.

Murphy had blood drawn from his heart and carefully observed it through spiritual dialysis.

They discovered that this blood also carried a special kind of spirit.

Following the inspiration above, Murphy also transformed one of his small stones into a clone.

Although Murphy was unable to hypnotize the little stone's clone because he didn't know the nature of the spirit, he naturally failed.

However, during this transformation, the small stone did indeed attract a lot of water elements.

In other words, it is certain that this spiritual structure can attract the water element, regardless of the circumstances.

Murphy got stuck here.

Although it knew that the structure of this spirit could attract water elements, it had no means to replicate it.

Now that he has mental powers, Murphy finally has the corresponding abilities.

But everything must be done step by step. It has only taken the first step in mastering the water element. There is still a long way to go.

So Murphy decided to use this newfound ability to do something simple to test its effectiveness.

One of the main reasons Murphy came to the docks was to find ice crystals and extract the curse from them as dye.

The original process was as described, but Murphy discovered that it could be simplified.

The crew members contracted frostbite.

The reason for the frostbite is that the water element and the ice element have similar structures, so the water element was infected by the ice element, and the curse was also carried along with it.

So here's the problem: Murphy doesn't need the ice crystals; it only needs the curse on them.

Since the curse is attached to the water elemental, why doesn't it just pump out the water?

Then, it happened to have a spirit that could specifically attract water elements, and it decided to put it into practice.

This isn't a case of "just when you're about to fall asleep, you have a pillow."

It went directly to the ship's warehouse, took out some materials it needed, and then moved them to the more spacious deck.

The design process began.

Murphy didn't bring the mountain core, nor did he fully understand its principles, so his setup could only be used to absorb curses, not to burn them.

Therefore, the structural design this time is relatively simple.

One intake port, and then a transfer station in the middle.

To the left of the transfer station is a purification chamber made of spirits that attract water elements, with a drain outlet at the end of the purification chamber.

On the right are ice crystals disguised with runes, and the portion of spirit within the mountain core specifically used to capture wandering gods.

At the end of this facility is a compression device specifically designed to compress the curse into a liquid.

The principle behind this is actually quite simple.

The curse, by its very nature, can only attach to ice element crystals. However, because water and ice elements are so similar, they can contaminate them, and the curse thus attaches itself to them.

So when water passes through this device, the left chamber will attract water elements, while the curse itself will definitely tend to move towards ice elements.

This led to a disagreement, and through the attraction of the mountain spirit, the curse and the water element were naturally separated.

However, although it sounds simple, Murphy did a quick calculation of the operating efficiency and felt that if the size was too small, it would absorb less curse.

So it was deliberately made very large, about half the size of a deck.

Seeing Murphy inexplicably produce such a large object, the person standing nearby immediately became wary.

He gently poked Murphy with his tentacles and asked a few questions in a string of gibberish.

The gist of it is asking Murphy what he wants to do.

"Collect fuel."

After Murphy gave his concise answer, he tossed the machine's water pipe down and began working.

hum~ hum~ hum~

The machine hummed continuously as river water was gradually drawn up, flowing slowly through the machine before being discharged through the drain outlet on the side.

The somewhat noisy commotion startled the old charlatan and the sea huller who were below the boat.

Lillian and Xiaoya followed behind him as they walked onto the deck, looking at the device that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere with curiosity.

"What's this for?"

Xiaoya didn't want to go out because the sun was shining brightly outside, so she asked Lillian, who was peeking out, a question.

"I don't know, it seems like they're pumping water—"

Lillian shook her head, her expression also somewhat puzzled.

Everyone present actually had some doubts about Murphy, the machine.

Only the old charlatan suddenly felt a twitch in his eyelids, a strange sense of foreboding washing over him, and said with absolute certainty, "I have a feeling something big is about to happen!"

"Big? Really?" Hai Gang turned his head and asked with a surprised look.

Although the old charlatan believed in everything and his predictions of good things were unreliable, his jinx of bad things was absolutely accurate.

"Yes, it's huge!" The old charlatan nodded, then confirmed it again.

Suddenly, the ship began to rock!

"Really?"

Xiaoya looked at the old charlatan with surprise. He had just said there was some movement, and the boat started rocking right afterward.

Even the Vatican doesn't need prophecy to manifest so quickly.

"Lillian, you stay here and watch over things. I'm going back to take care of the children. If anything happens, just shout and I'll come right away!"

After saying that, Xiaoya immediately ran back, but she hadn't run more than a few steps before the boat began to rock more violently.

Seeing this, the old charlatan shouted loudly at Xiaoya, who had just run a short distance away.

"You bring them out first, then we'll go down to the boat together! I feel like this boat isn't safe!"

Xiaoya thought about it and realized it made sense. She figured she could barely survive in the sun if she wore a black cloth over her shoulders.

But at this rate of rocking, if it keeps rocking like this, the child might be turned to mush and die.

She agreed.

Meanwhile, Murphy looked at the surging water with some surprise.

It was only then that I suddenly realized what was happening!

The negative impact of this curse on the elements is obviously outrageous; otherwise, Murphy wouldn't have become the elemental lord so easily.

Information can be transferred between regions of the same type.

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In other words, how will this entire river region react when it learns that there is an entity here that can break the curse on them?

No need to ask further, they were incredibly excited!

And so, the Kulun River began to surge!

At first, only small waves appeared on the sea surface, but later, the waves grew larger and larger, surging towards Murphy's direction.

The undercurrents beneath the waves were forcibly corrected by this instinct to eliminate the curse!

The roaring sound of the rushing water was like stones falling to the ground, crashing against the surrounding banks, and the newly formed torrent almost covered the hull of the boat.

Murphy glanced around and, seeing that there seemed to be no living creatures, did not turn off the machine.

Murphy only stopped when he saw the raging floodwaters surging and the water was about to capsize the boat.

However, what Murphy didn't know was that there were no living creatures on the shore.

But a few feet below the surface of the river not far away, a small square box was slowly moving.

A group of people were standing inside the box.

If Diaz and Haig were here, they would immediately recognize that apart from a few missionaries in robes, the rest of the group consisted of the captains who were now corpses.

"Are we sure we won't be discovered if we go this way?" one of the captains asked.

"Don't worry, this has always been the case. As long as there isn't a particularly large flood, there won't be any major problems."

The missionary at the very front spoke up to reassure them.