Slag Elemental
The neighborhood bosses of the Gasworks factory's molten-metal hall, and the bill for the Coblyn Corporation's cut-rate security. Large gorilla-like beasts made of molten metal, they launch out of the river three storeys below, land on the walls and ceiling, face down the racers and hurl globs of metal at them — a direct hit tops out a heat sink and can punch a hole clean through a truck hood. They are infused elementals, so they carry the pass-through ability, and they are regenerators: any corpse that falls back into the river reforms once the metal remelts, which is why the System states outright that no boss box is coming unless one is dead-dead. A single shot of almost anything is enough to knock one off its perch for a few moments. Prepotente works out the real counter mid-race and broadcasts it to every team: introduce any non-molten metal and the elemental collapses on the spot and returns to the river to wait to melt again.
Book 8 appearances
- Chapter 64 — Foreshadowed in the Toot-Toot doll's description: the leaked magic that animated the doll workshop was cast in the steel mill to create the elemental boss monsters the racers will face in a few minutes.
- Chapter 65 — Debut. They leap from the molten river onto the walls and ceiling and pelt the inverted racers; Jurgen knocks one off the wall with a battle-axe and loses the weapon, and one glob tears a hole in Carl's hood. Carl's examine returns level 75, the regenerator and infused warnings, the Coblyn Corporation's cost-cutting, and the note that killing them is essentially impossible. Prepotente broadcasts the non-molten-metal counter.
Related entries
- The Coblyn Corporation (Lore)
- Infused Elemental (Notification)
- Gasworks Screw Factory, Steel Mill, and Doll Workshop (Place)
- Knockers (Creature)
- Prepotente (Character)
- Jurgen (Character)
- Carl (Character)
- Cocaine Elemental (Creature)
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