Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 348 Earth Split

Harden fell into deeper self-doubt and self-loathing. Not only did he use methods he didn't approve of in the competition, he even lost the courage to destroy the curse. His movements were frozen at the last moment when he swung the axe, and he seemed to have turned into a stone statue.

The cooling tower collapsed further, the aerial tracks collapsed and broke, the running crucible fell to the ground, and the molten iron poured out, engulfing many orcs.

From a broader perspective, the impact of this disaster goes far beyond the surface.

Because the cracks not only spread horizontally but also penetrated vertically, the cooling tower was not an isolated building. In the design drawings, this tower was just the end part of the main mining drill that drilled into the Eye of Karenya. The entire drill was like a giant nail driven into the planet's crust.

Harden's blow was like a heavy hammer falling on the nail, driving it deeper, and the surrounding rock foundation was pushed outward, thus triggering a series of chain reactions.

The force generated by the axe impact also completely changed the material structure of the giant drill, especially the part where the axe blade pointed vertically downward. A fragile area appeared across the entire cross-section of the metal structure connecting different levels of the main mining drill, greatly reducing its strength. Under the influence of its own weight, the main mining drill began to slowly tear and collapse along this fragile zone.

Howard looked at the growing crack and Harden's indifferent attitude, and thought to himself, what's going on here when he's halfway through cooking?

"He's gone mad." The nun stared at Harden with a serious expression, and at the same time gave an order to Howard behind her: "Go find Miss Mei and ask her to take you and the wounded away from here. Although it's a bit reluctant, she should be able to do it."

"What about you? You're staying here alone?" Howard saw through the nun's thoughts at a glance: "I disagree. I won't abandon you."

"I am a warrior of the Empire! It is my honor to die for the Empire!" The nun refuted Howard's words firmly, then softened her tone a little and said, "But you are not. You must live. Only by living can you have greater value. Obey the instructions!"

After saying that, the nun picked up the holy sword and was about to rush forward, but was caught tightly by Howard again.

"Let me give it one last try and see if I can wake Him up," Howard said.

"At this point, you still want to communicate with these crazy monsters?!" The nun looked at Howard in surprise.

"He's a monster, yes, but not necessarily a madman." Howard stared at Harden and the energy source and said, "He seems to have been affected by something to become like this. Sister, do you still have any Jianbing Guozi on you?"

"Yes." The nun took out the pancake she had nibbled on and said, "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"There's no time to explain. Anyway, find a way to feed Him bread."

"Don't bother, Mr. Howard." Unexpectedly, Harden spoke at this moment; "I'm not crazy, I just... returned to normal."

Then He turned around, and the blue eye that was corroded by the energy source kept flashing.

"Actually, I think maybe the way I am now is the crazy thing," Harden added. "Look at what I say and what I do. I don't look like an orc at all."

"Crazy and not crazy are relative concepts." Howard saw that Harden could communicate normally again, so he walked in front of the nun and said to Harden: "If crazy people make up the majority of the world, then it is the normal people who should be sent to the mental hospital."

"Just like you, the traits you're displaying right now are absolutely normal among humans, but they're truly outliers among orcs." Howard glanced at the widening fissure and said, "This place is a real mess."

"I apologize for my rudeness just now...and, could you please move aside?" Harden said very politely to Howard and the nun.

Although they didn't understand what the orc was going to do, Howard and the nun still chose to listen to Harden's advice. They kept retreating under Harden's gaze until they were about to leave the arena and he withdrew his gaze.

After waiting for Howard and the nun to retreat to a safe distance, Harden stepped over to the other side of the ground. At this time, the width of the crack in the ground was more than four meters. Even a majestic orc like Harden could only stand on the ground on both sides in a horse stance. Then he punched left and right, and with two loud bangs, his fists smashed the ground on both sides into depressions.

Howard's eyes widened. Looking at the situation, could it be?!

Sure enough, the next moment, blood vessels on Harden's body bulged out like pythons. He let out a low roar, and pressed his fists hard against the two dents he had just made and began to exert force. Howard could also feel that the vibration from his feet had significantly decreased, or even disappeared.

Is this orc planning to put the cracking cooling tower back together with his own strength?

"Drink-"

Harden's body began to tremble, and the ground beneath his feet trembled with it. However, this time the cracks did not expand further during the trembling, but were healing little by little.

"Boom——"

But just when the cracks on the ground showed signs of healing, the piece of ground that was dented by Harden's hammer collapsed because the metal material that made up the ground was under a force far beyond its strength limit. In other words, even if Harden's strength was enough to piece together the breaking cooling tower, the material that made up the cooling tower would not support him to do so.

However, Harden did not give up. After the ground collapsed, he took two steps back to a place where it had not collapsed. Then he punched the ground with two more punches, making a dent, and then he started to exert force again using these two points.

The ground began to shake again, and the cracks became smaller.

This time the metal floor did not collapse, but the cracks still could not heal. Because metal is ductile, Harden tried hard to flatten the ground on both sides, but in the end he just stretched the metal on both sides like cheese, and then put the stretched parts together.