Ch. 120 - Departure
Yang Yi obtained information about the flintlock gun.
【Name: Roaring Flintlock】
【Type: Relic】
【Quality: Supreme】
【Description: Once a masterpiece, now reclaiming its former glory.
It has three modes:
At first, Yang Yi was worried that the gun barrel might explode, but after reading the details, he had no more doubts.
It would explode!
But the minor side effect was something he could live with.
If he had wielded it earlier, he might have killed the Crystal Giant outright, without resorting to self-immolation.
Meanwhile, Suna was roasting the ice egg with fire, but it showed no signs of melting.
She had asked Yang Yi and knew it could be melted.
The so-called ice egg was merely a protective layer formed by the white crystalline structure inside.
However, even after nearly ten minutes of heating it with an oil lamp, there was no sign of it melting.
"Looks like I need to increase the temperature..." Suna muttered to herself.
Just then, Yang Yi entered the cabin and called out.
"Suna, don't bother. It's time to leave the glacier."
An hour later, using a similar method as before, the two melted the surrounding ice.
However, the process was much faster thanks to Suna’s magic — Fireball.
This spell became stronger when surrounded by fire.
The downside was that it drained the user's body heat, making it best used alongside burning liquor.
With numerous campfires around, Suna conjured a high-heat sphere, melting vast portions of the glacier.
Yang Yi also assisted in breaking the ice with his flintlock. The gun's fire rate had doubled, and its power had significantly increased.
Chunks of glacier shattered under his shots, saving them a great deal of effort.
The Nightmare Star was free once again, able to manoeuvre and make small movements.
Next, they needed to carve a path through the glacier with cannons — a process estimated to take three to four days, which would have been dull and monotonous.
However, the Soaked Cannon made the task unexpectedly entertaining, because it had a habit of launching... unexpected projectiles.
Especially when it fired an adorably explosive seal, the blast was three times more powerful than normal!
Yang Yi had no idea how much seafood the cannon had shot out. Everything he had ever fished up seemed to make an appearance.
Using it as ammunition packed quite a punch.
He tried picking up the seafood projectiles, but the system informed him they would vanish in six hours and couldn’t be used for anything else.
So, he gave up on the idea of using the cannon for food supply.
After three days of taking turns, the Nightmare Star finally escaped the glacier and sailed into the icy sea!
During this time, Suna had been obsessively studying the ice egg, transitioning from initial excitement to sheer frustration every time she looked at it.
It defied all logic, and studying it meant venturing into an entirely unknown domain.
The ice egg only melted at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius. That wasn’t the problem, Suna had crafted a grease-fueled blowtorch that could reach that heat.
The real problem was… the white fragments inside were simply ???
If touched by hand, they were around 27°C, since the human body temperature was 37°C.
If placed in 1,000-degree flames, they measured 990°C.
If submerged in 100-degree boiling water, they registered 90°C!
It was practically Schrödinger’s low temperature! The actual temperature was unknowable — dynamic! It could technically have multiple temperatures at once!
Suna went to great lengths, even purchasing two thermometres, to verify this phenomenon.
Her final conclusion: