This is a steam pathway lab.
Looking at the metal demon statue that had collapsed in the passageway, Eleazar was finally convinced.
Such things were driven by arcane crystals as energy, and once the energy ran out, they became a pile of scrap metal.
The body of the statue may have some rare transcendent metal. Still, he studied for half a day can not be dismantled, cold energy and heat all by the surface of the magic blocking gold plating energy nullification, see his scalp numb, and finally can only be ruthlessly stepped on a foot to stop.
There were many rooms on both sides of the passage, but he couldn't open any of them, his transcendent power didn't have any effect on these doorways, and with all his strength he only left a shallow footprint.
"Magic steel? Holy shit!!!"
"I'm not going to be able to open a single door, am I?"
Suddenly realizing another important point, he rushed back again.
The hidden iron door of the filtration room looked at him for a moment.
Luckily it wasn't closed, or he might have even had a problem getting back.
Hastily, he found something to hold the still-closed iron door shut.
"Well, that makes it safe to explore."
"I don't believe all the doors won't open!"
Circling the circular passage, Eleazar found the stairway to the upper level, but that area was still blocked by an iron-barred grille that might require the special aura of the Steam Pathway to be entered into a specified code to open the doorway.
"What's wrong with locking up and down the stairs?"
Disbelievingly, Eleazar went up and broke the iron bars, which turned out to be the even stronger transcendent metal, Evergold.
"..."
This is like an iron tortoise-like laboratory, knocked off Witcher full of teeth, this lowest level of the circular passage, seven or eight rooms, in addition to coming in the filter room, the other rooms, he could not open a door and finally realized what is called indestructible.
Sitting on that tipped-over demonic statue, Eleazar was filled with melancholy.
He soon realized that this place, he feared, had been used for very significant research, which was why the defenses were so strong.
Most likely, it was not a place he could dabble in at his current rank.
It was also evident from this demonic statue under his butt if it still had energy, I was afraid that I wouldn't even be able to get out of the passage.
After pondering for a long time, Eleazar finally took out that Legendary Rank prop that he had never been able to part with, the Passage Chalk!
"Luckily, I guessed it was most likely a relic and brought this out..."
Taking the half-finger-long piece of chalk carefully out of the glass jar, he went to the iron fence and scratched somewhat heartily at the two stellar gold posts.
The handwriting flashed gold, and while the spatial energy took effect, Eleazar quickly brought down the two impenetrable, solid pillars.
"Hengjin? I shucks!!!"
Placing the pillar at his feet, intending to take it with him when he went out, he then sidestepped into the stairs and headed for the upper level.
Predictably, the upper floors must also have an endless number of doors that you have to use pass chalk to open anyway, so you might as well use it for the labs up there.
From the structure of the building could be seen, it must be that the higher up the classified, that is to say, the more precious the preserved material, if possible, it was best to find the open material storage room, anyway, he did not have the slightest interest in the secrets of the research here.
Then soon the idea of a staircase going straight to the top fell through.
I don't know if there are only two floors to this lab, or if the entrance to the next floor is somewhere else.
Standing behind the iron fence, Eleazar strains to see the upper levels.
It's still the same as below, with curved passages to the left and right that still appear to be enclosed in a circle.
Take out the pass chalk and scratch the Hengjin column as you would.
The doorways on this floor were a little different, each marked with various colors, not sure what they meant.
Soon he found the stairway one floor further up, still blocked by an iron grille.
Taking out his chalk, he was about to cut it off when a sudden jet of air sounded behind him.
"Pfft!!!"
"No way! How can you still have energy!?"
Eleazar twisted his head in disbelief and looked at the otherwise motionless demonic statue in the distance.
And at this moment, that 3-meter-tall metal body was spewing out steam.
"Failure to... Obtained permission to enter... Entry... Trespassing... The..."
"Dang!"
The devil statue took a very stiff step, and the ground shook with it.
Eleazar waited two minutes for it to approach in front of him...
Just as he was considering whether or not to take this demonic statue for a ride to drain his energy, the energy core suddenly flickered on the other party's chest.
Witcher's cold hairs stood on end.
Hairline currents, spreading from that core to the walls of the passage around it, twisted into a twisted grid, then flickered instantaneously, and in the blink of an eye they flickered around the metal passage and back into the core of the statue.
The intruder, who was unable to hide, had been electrocuted to the point where his body was charred, his skin split open, his clothes torn and tattered, and he emitted a meaty odor.
Incredibly desperate, Eleazar can only make a tentative slash, then turn around and run.
Not only did the fire blades fall apart as soon as they crumbled as he expected, but they were also absorbed by his opponent.
"Energy absorption, energy transformation, activate flame form!"
The demon statue's eyes instantly turned crimson, the core of its chest spinning up quickly like a turbine, and a searing dragon of fire roared through the passageway as a jet of steam erupted into flames!
"Boom!!!"
Like a circle of constantly flowing torrents of flames, piercing red light erupted as the War Demon Statue fully activated!
And Eleazar, who had already fled to the lower stairway, picked up the two Hengjin pillars on the ground and ran down below without looking back. After a long time, the movement above stopped, and he cautiously poked his head out to take a look.
The war golem, then, stood with crimson eyes in front of the Hengjin barricade, surrounded by all of the burnt, dark red metal.
It seemed that it had no command to pursue, and had to stay on that level to guard it, and after a long time, it fell back into standby.
Eleazar breathes a sigh of relief, only to return to the lowest level with resentment.
The place was as dead as ever, and the demonic statue lay silently in the ground.
"It's better if you're a good boy."
Carrying the four columns of evergold, Eleazar sits down on his butt, freeing his other hand to rest his chin in melancholy.
It looks like the top can't be explored for a while, so we'll just have to pray that the rooms on this floor ship.
"Just you wait, next time I'll have someone come and fuck you!"
With a resentful glance at the stairway, Eleazar returned to the filtration room.
Carefully scrutinizing the structure behind the door, he then took out his passable chalk, chose a room at random, recalled the location of the valve, drew a three-point dotted line that would only pass through one arm, and then pushed it open with some effort.
"Bah, magic steel?"