Strongest Hammer God

Chapter 420 Tablet of Exposition

Kyle quickly read through the tablets.

With the speed of his improved mind, it wouldnʼt have been that difficult to decipher the language, but the fact that everything was literally explained with pictures made it even easier.

While reading through the make-shift picture book, Kyle was reminded of Samson and his picture books.

After Kyle got through the tablets explaining the writing, he came to the interesting ones.

ʼHuh, crazy,ʼ he thought. ʼSo, this city was actually constructed on the surface. Apparently, it used to be a mining city.ʼ

ʼThe Corruption? Thatʼs new,ʼ Kyle thought as he kept reading.

ʼOne day, a mountain exploded, and the Corruption spread across the world. Anything it touched turned into more of itself.ʼ

ʼEveryone was panicked, and the entire world was on the brink of collapse. Only a couple of cities managed to withstand the Corruption by burning a lot of Earth Ether.ʼ

ʼThis city was one of these cities. It had a bunch of valuable Earth Ether materials.ʼ

ʼBut that also wouldnʼt last for long. So, they created a half-spherical barrier around the city and simply… dug the floor out from beneath them. The city dropped one inch at a time until it was inside a crater. After that, they simply closed the ceiling with more Earth Ether.ʼ

ʼTurns out, you donʼt need teleportation to move a city underground. Gravityʼs doing the work for you.ʼ

ʼThe Corruption. It came after a mountain exploded and spread across the world. It corrupts everything that isnʼt Earth Ether,ʼ Kyle thought as he blinked in surprise.

ʼAre they talking about Skysand? It sure sounds like Skysand.ʼ

ʼI mean, Skysand comes from the Dividing Ridge.ʼ

ʼNowadays, we use Ether Springs to keep the Skysand at bay, but these people probably didnʼt even know what Ether Springs were. I can see how the sudden appearance of Skysand without Ether Springs would be quite problematic.ʼ

ʼHuh, they actually also had Knights and Sorcerers back then,ʼ Kyle thought. ʼSeems like the city is not thaaaat old.ʼ

ʼItʼs definitely older than the Skysand Kingdom, but not millions of years older or whatever. Probably just a couple thousand years.ʼ

As the tablets talked more and more about the terrifying danger that was Skysand, Kyle grew amused.

ʼYeah, Skysand does that,ʼ he thought several times.

Skysand was only really dangerous if one traveled through the peninsula or if one was an idiot and ran into one of the channels.

Otherwise, it was harmless. Not many people died to Skysand.

”Pleeeeassee,” Kyle read out a passage with a dramatic voice. ”Stop the Calamity!”

Kyle put his hand to his head in a dramatic gesture. ”Otherwise, the entire world will be destroyed!”

He snickered a bit as he kept reading.

ʼOh?ʼ he thought as he saw something new.

ʼThe Hearth?ʼ he thought.

Right now, Kyle was reading about the Hearth, which was a force that was just as powerful as the Calamity but not nearly as aggressive.

ʼItʼs a cold flame, and the Calamity does not dare approach,ʼ Kyle read.

ʼBrah, thatʼs just Winterfire.ʼ

ʼI guess people from back then were at the mercy of Winterfire and Skysand.ʼ

After talking about Winterfire, the tablets talked about something else that could stop the Calamity.

ʼThe Undercurrents?ʼ Kyle thought with a raised brow. ʼIf you dig deep enough into the ground, the earth and metals stop?ʼ

ʼWait a second, if I keep digging, thereʼs some kind of funny liquid that moves at incredible speeds and is like super dense and massive?ʼ

ʼI mean, if you dig enough, you should find a bunch of magma, but this says nothing of heat. Magma is supposed to be hot. You would think they would mention the heat.ʼ

ʼBut no, just very fast and heavy. Says nothing about heat.ʼ

ʼSpeaking of, Iʼm pretty deep underground, and itʼs not even that hot. Shouldnʼt it be hotter?ʼ

Kyle scratched the side of his head. ʼSuper fast and super heavy currents.ʼ

At that moment, Kyle thought of something.

ʼSkysand is sand that flies through the sky and corrodes stuff. Sand belongs to the Earth Element, but Skysand is kind of just Earth in the sky. Itʼs like an attribute of it has been turned into the opposite.ʼ

ʼWinterfire is cold fire. Itʼs burning like fire and super intense, but instead of giving off heat, itʼs absorbing heat. Same thing.ʼ

ʼSo, the Undercurrents. They move super fast, but they are also super heavy and massive.ʼ

ʼWind?ʼ Kyle thought. ʼSounds like the wind version of Skysand or Winterfire.ʼ

Kyle raised a brow. ʼDo the powerful people know of that? They should, right?ʼ

ʼBut Iʼve never heard of it.ʼ

ʼYou know, I donʼt like these ominous and magical words. Just give them names that make sense.ʼ

ʼSkysand is sand in the sky.ʼ

ʼWinterfire is fire that makes cold.ʼ

ʼAnd heavy wind deep underground should be… Deepwind!ʼ

ʼYep, Iʼm calling it Deepwind from now on.ʼ

ʼSo, thereʼs also Deepwind, huh? I just gotta dig deep enough.ʼ

Kyle looked around the city. ʼShouldnʼt be too difficult. I can already deal with Mid Metal Elementals without big issues.ʼ

ʼIn fact, I can probably also fight Late Metal Elementals.ʼ

ʼWith a bit of luck, I could maybe even fight a Peak Metal Elemental. I mean, I got a bunch of new abilities after my breakthrough, and my power increased by much more.ʼ

ʼThatʼs interesting.ʼ

Kyle thought of something.

ʼIf King Skysand can combine sand with Skysand, he can probably become even more powerful.ʼ

ʼKing Winterfire is probably a fire guy that knows a bit about Winterfire.ʼ

ʼIʼm a metal, fire, and wind kinda guy. If I manage to learn everything about fire, I could look at Winterfire to increase the power of my fire. The same thing is true for my wind and Deepwind.ʼ

ʼAs for metal, I probably just need Rank S Materials. Not sure if thereʼs an anti-metal thing. Itʼs probably just more metal.ʼ

ʼDeepwind, metal, and Winterfire.ʼ

ʼHeavy, cold, and fast.ʼ

ʼSounds like a comet.ʼ

Then, Kyle shook his head.

ʼWhy am I already thinking about that? Iʼm not even a proper meteorite yet!ʼ

Kyle threw the tablets back into the chest.

ʼThanks for the exposition.ʼ

ʼAnyway, gotta see if I can make better Methods with my new and improved mind.ʼ

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