From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 264 The sudden increase in the cultivation ability of tree elves (please vote for me~)

Previously, magic crystal spells once required krypton life to cast;

Later, the birth of the meditation method caused a difference in the output of physical strength and vitality. From this, witch doctors mastered a way to activate magic crystals without consuming life.

But even so, 'Physical Magic Crystal Spellcasting' has never become mainstream. In the past few decades, it has been almost only used as a means to study disturbances within the magic crystal, rather than for direct application.

The reason lies in the emergence of 'rune language', which is more convenient, more controllable, and has a great degree of freedom in casting spells. It took over the banner at the beginning of its birth and became the application of witch doctors.

The main force of spellcasting.

Later, the emergence of totem tools took the magic crystal out of scientific research (researched) and left no room for improvement on the application side.

After all, even after the emergence of the meditation method, magic crystal casting still requires the physical strength of the witch doctors to be realized;

But for totem spellcasting, it can be supplied by the internal energy of magic plants. What is needed to activate the totem effect is nothing more than some acquired compounds, or even just natural nutrients obtained from the earth.

Among them, rune magic has become the favorite of witch doctors from the beginning due to its strong plasticity and researchability;

As for the totem tool, although it shows shortcomings such as insufficient flexibility, single release method, and low plasticity, it also has the advantages of mass production capabilities, alternative energy supply methods, and strong popularity, and has become a large-scale tool.

The main force in chemical applications helped the Republic enter the era of industrialization of giant ships, cannons and totems.

As a result, there is naturally not much room for application of magic crystal spellcasting. For a long time, this method of spellcasting was only used in laboratories and was used to study spell-like disturbances.

But now, when faced with an unprecedented high-level magic crystal, the witch doctors are faced with an additional factor that they have to pick up, an attack effect that they cannot convert into rune language at this stage;

That is, the cave wolf and one of the advanced salamanders already had injuries that were like gangrene attached to the bones.

The witch doctors have always suspected that these two injuries should be the sequelae of their attacks on each other. However, after the subsequent deconstruction of the runic culture of the disturbance inside the high-level magic crystal, among the magical results achieved,

However, no similar damage effect could be reproduced;

Even the new spell that Nesta created based on a series of previous accumulations could only cause pure physical damage in the end, and it did not show the sustained damage characteristics like the first two.

Therefore, the witch doctors decided to directly use magic crystals to cast spells to carry out "original spell-like" attacks, in an attempt to reduce the variables and clarify the difference as much as possible.

After spending six full hours of continuous injection of 'physical magic', they finally reached the excitation threshold of their internal magic, thus creating and launching just one salamander-style black edge gold.

Regarding the experiment itself, the increase in the number of witch doctors is equivalent to an increase in the efficiency of energy injection;

This improvement had the effect of speeding up the 'overflow' speed before 50 witch doctors went into battle together;

After more than fifty witch doctors, the instantaneous energy injection efficiency exceeded the upper limit of the "single-shot black edge gold normal mode" and reached the threshold area where other attack methods are activated, so the spell casting effect changed;

The tenth time, 100 witch doctors, five lights, the attack power is the same as the eighth and ninth times, and the damage effect continues to deepen;

The eleventh time, 110 witch doctors, instant, the attack power is the same as the eight, nine, and ten times, and the damage effect is deepened;

After that, the magic crystal obviously became much more sensitive. It no longer simply reduced the 'time', but had more frequent 'effect' changes.

When 'Fangs and Claws' are used by Wind Wolf, not only will the strength of the blessing change in different situations according to needs, but also detailed choices such as 'Only strengthen the teeth', 'Only strengthen the claws' can be made;

The sixth time, 60 witch doctors, 25 light points, the attack mode is converted to reduced power scattering;

The seventh time, 70 witch doctors, 25 light points, the attack mode is still reduced power scatter;

The eighth time, 80 witch doctors, 15 light points, single-shot black edge gold with enhanced power, the wound on the top of the skull deepened, the bone was obviously damaged, and the area covered by dark red lines began to spread;

The ninth time, 90 witch doctors, 10 light points, the attack power is the same as the eighth time, and the damage effect continues to deepen;

However, in the process of magic crystal casting, because the magic crystal and the magic plant are not one, but have strict boundaries;

At this stage, there is no effective way to convert energy between them, so it is impossible to use magic plants to replace the witch doctor to supply energy to the magic crystal like activating a totem.

But at the same time, because it does not have a separate protective layer like the 'energy shield', the attack effect still needs to be directly faced by the strengthened material itself.

First of all, the dark red lines are very corrosive, but the reason is unknown. The specific manifestation is annihilation, and the more concentrated the lines are, the faster the annihilation occurs;

Secondly, this kind of pattern will not transfer to non-target units, but will only be carried out diligently on the attack target, expanding from the center to the four directions until its attachment is completely eliminated;

When the skull was completely opened, it was natural to get the magic crystal.

This time, the witch doctors not only completely removed the magic crystal, which was much smaller than the advanced salamander;

And when all the injected energy is vented in the form of a 'single wind blade', other more complex spell-like disturbances will be 'misfired';

The same is true when inputting physical energy in the next round. Unless a change is made in the 'instantaneous input efficiency', only the effect of 'Single Wind Blade' will almost always appear.

After this blow, not even a trace of ashes was left on the scene. The puncture area was as if it had been a hole from the beginning, and the black gold as the cannonball also exceeded the limit speed that Nesta's vision could track.

Disappeared far away.

But before elaborating on its results, it may be necessary to briefly explain the working principle of ‘Totem Armor’.

It is worth mentioning that the totem's enhancement of protection does not exist in the form of a 'magic shield' in previous novels, but rather by strengthening the properties of the material itself to achieve the 'armor' effect.

The head of the cave wolf, especially the point that was directly attacked, lost all the protection of its surface fur and muscles after four rounds of damage, revealing the deep blue skull inside;

Therefore, in the case of a single witch doctor and a single magic crystal casting spells, the previous definition of "can only activate simple and crude spell-like spells" is correct;

Only when the number of witch doctors is accumulated to a high point, the other effects in the magic crystal will be activated.

The fifth time, 50 witch doctors, 30 light points, the same attack effect;

The front diameter of the hole is 30 meters, and the rear diameter is 15 meters, but the depth is only 14 meters, because the remaining 16 meters disappeared during the initial attack;

However, when a single witch doctor performs this operation, its own 'instantaneous output efficiency' will have a relatively clear maximum value, and this value is often not enough to change the output content of the magic crystal.

However, the shortcomings of magic crystal spellcasting in terms of 'controllability' will not be changed by this method. The effect of accumulating the number of witch doctors will only be limited to this.

In the design of self-contained large-scale equipment like the 'Totem Battleship', the design concept of the 'Armor Damage Control System' has already been adopted at this time. Among the functions it can play are based on 'abandonment' and 'regeneration'.

', 'engraving' and other means of preventive measures;

As long as the design effect can be improved, there is no need to worry about the armor becoming less and less effective after the initial defense is broken. The premise is that irreversible huge losses will not be caused in the first moment of being attacked.

The focus shifted to the stimulation of the magic crystal produced by the advanced salamander, which also showed a single effect based on the above reasons.

However, even heavy armor with this level of protection was penetrated by the high-level magic crystal, and the hole diameter was more than three times the diameter of the black edge gold itself, leaving dense traces around the hole.

dark red texture.

For example, when activating the Wind Wolf Magic Crystal, the simplest and crudest 'Wind Blade', and the most brainless 'Single Wind Blade', will become the first effect to be produced;

Naturally, the trump card has to deal with high-level monsters, so in order to verify its effectiveness, the model worker cave wolf once again became a new target.

Its brain was designed by the witch doctors themselves, and integrated a set of totem functional areas that blocked skull healing, restricted muscle and skin regeneration, and could extract cell fluid from the cerebral cortex area.

When the verification reached this point, the department had already pulled out all existing pure witch doctors, including nearly 80 laboratory witch doctors and nearly 50 student witch doctors;

The former does not need any further explanation, it is naturally Nesta and other regular witch doctors;

Second, it is made of mother tree, without totem protection, and is a large cube with a side length of thirty meters;

The cube was penetrated by one blow, leaving a cone-shaped pit that was 30 meters deep and more than ten meters wide at the mouth of the bowl;

In addition, there is another point worth noting, that is, there is a huge difference in energy supply between magic crystal casting and totem casting;

These are only shallow analyzes based on observation, and the specific principles are not yet clearly known by the witch doctors;

In addition, the witch doctors can't even figure out whether this corrosive effect is a by-product of direct attacks, or whether it is another completely independent damage system.

However, because it has an attack power that exceeds the upper limit that all current methods of the headquarters can achieve, even though there are still many "unknowns" in it, it does not affect it from becoming the "big trump card" of the headquarters at this time.

The attack triggered by the high-level magic crystal completely eliminated the first layer of armor, and subsequently penetrated 4 layers of armor with different apertures, and finally got stuck on the 6th layer;

Based on his understanding of the wind wolf, he took out the entire back of the cave wolf's head, thus paralyzing its ability to move.

Under the erosion of these textures, the 2 and 3 layers of armor that suffered the most damage disappeared after only maintaining a few light minutes each. The remaining 4-6 layers lasted for 15 light minutes and 40 light minutes.

, and the existence time of nearly 2 lights.

Fortunately, there was also a body part of the Burrow Wolf that was specially exposed, so the mother tree was not damaged by accidental damage.

For the third attack, the target was changed to the side of the skull. Thirty witch doctors took 40 minutes to complete the energy storage. The power remained unchanged. The shells took away large areas of hair and part of the muscle tissue;

For the fourth attack, the target remained unchanged. Forty witch doctors took 35 minutes to complete the energy storage, and the damage effect did not change;

Therefore, when an attack is sufficient to break the defense, even if it is only slightly damaged, the subsequent protective effect will be reduced due to the loss of part of the totem structure, until the three-dimensional inscription is completely ineffective in the area.

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And since the 'cannonball' is a product that is generated through a magic-like process, the 'sky-piercing' effect that has been ignored before was also reflected in the subsequent experimental attack.

After that, they used the method of adding armor after armor, using different materials as bases, and conducted bombardment tests on more layers of armor.

For example, the lowest level Wind Wolf has three spell-like abilities: 'Wind Blade', 'Fangs and Claws', and 'Wind Movement', and each spell type has quite precise controllability.

When the 'Wind Blade' is used, it can perform a 'single-edged' attack, or switch between 'double-edged' and 'triple-edged'.

Fourth, it is made of steel and wood, a long cube with a side of 30 meters, and has no armor effect;

First, it is made of parent tree material, with the highest standard of totem inscription (heavy armor), without independent damage control capabilities, with a side length of 1.5 meters and a thickness of 500mm. There are ten pieces in total, each arranged vertically at a distance of 1 meter;

In this process, the remaining organelles will die, and the large nuclei will begin to self-destruct in batches, and eventually the entire hindbrain will become a trace of light cyan dust whose value has not yet been found.

Of course, witch doctors are not without corresponding countermeasures;

Of course, if the object is an ordinary low-level magic crystal, then there is no need to gather so many witch doctors for joint operation. Generally, depending on the level of the magic crystal, a dozen or so witch doctors are enough.

Finally, although the dark red lines have a "luminous" feeling and do show lighting characteristics in a dark environment, they do not bring any sense of temperature when in contact.

Therefore, armor performance is not only positively related to the level of totem engraving, but the original quality of the material will also have a huge impact on the final effect that can be achieved;

The department's high-strength wood development capabilities, supplemented by three-dimensional engraving technology within the material, can often achieve a protective effect that is ten times greater than the material itself.

This type of armor can be divided into different levels according to the level of totem stacking and the difference in base material, and according to the defensive effect it can achieve.

What serves as the target at this time is heavy armor made of mother tree wood material and superimposed with the maximum number of totems within the standard size. It is the highest-level defensive product that can withstand all attack methods of the headquarters without damage;

Whether it was a 520mm heavy artillery bombardment, a direct fire from a 203mm armor-piercing cannon, or a direct attack by Nesta using the magic version of the above-mentioned reaction chamber weapon, they did not cause any damage to it when the totem effect was turned on.

ability.

Therefore, it does not need to be powered by witch doctors personally during its activation.

With one blow, the black edge gold penetrated about 3cm into the flesh, but the annihilation and erosion effects were resisted, and the outer diameter of the wound was only slightly larger than the diameter of the black edge gold itself;

Although the annihilation effect did not appear directly, dark red lines the size of palm prints were left in the area around the wound. Their scale was much smaller than those originally brought by the Cave Wolf. This should be because the witch doctors did not

The reason why the high-level magic crystal is stimulated with full power.

The attention turned to the cave wolf for the moment. After the second attack, the witch doctors set its skull as a new target, and caused quite effective damage to it in subsequent uninterrupted attacks;

But when it comes to the activation stage, because magic crystal spells are activated through energy accumulation, and during this process, the natural disturbances in the magic crystal cannot be controlled by the witch doctor, so what can be stimulated is often the process.

The simplest and crudest, generating the effect with the lowest threshold.

However, when magic crystals are activated by witch doctors, they can usually only use the crudest attack method, and its effect has low directivity, almost no controllability, and extremely inefficient energy consumption.

In fact, under the 'injection' of physical energy, many natural disturbances in the magic crystal will respond to varying degrees. This is one of the reasons why witch doctors can use magic crystals to study spells;

The dark red lines were still left on the wall of the pit, and this time the lines invaded the wood layer very quickly. In just twenty minutes, the huge cube that served as the target was completely annihilated.

In line with the idea that there is no useless thing in the world, the witch doctors carefully stored these powders, and therefore stopped the follow-up actions originally planned - peeling off the entire brain, and dividing and cutting it to make it more efficient.

Cell fluid supply device.

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What is known is that a magic crystal can produce a variety of effects on its original owner. They are either simple or complex, or they can bless oneself or harm the opponent;

Even if it is just a small wind wolf, the spell-like abilities possessed by its magic crystal have quite a lot of categories, and there is controllability within the categories.

The second attack was generated a light time later, but it was clearly aimed at the previous wound, but the attack landed on its side;

Its high energy consumption and long time made the witch doctors very troublesome, but the power it caused really opened their eyes.

The ‘cannonball’ is an all-black prism-gold structure, and its shape is a 12-sided black prism with a length of 7m and an average diameter of 300mm;

The subsequent attacks landed directly on the bare skull, and each attack could make it much thinner. The dark red lines also centered on the attack point and gradually spread to the entire top of the skull.

One third of the area;

By the 12th time, the upper third of the skull had been 'scraped', leaving only a transparent layer. The witch doctors finally saw hope of completing the break;

They first adjusted the exposed position of its head, and then from the side, from an angle that would not hurt the mother tree even after penetration, they attacked the weak point four times in succession, and finally opened up the cave wolf.

The large skull reveals the light cyan brain structure inside, as well as the cyan magic crystal that is deeper than the bones.

During this process, perhaps due to repeated strong shocks, the pit wolf's howl gradually weakened and eventually disappeared completely, but its signs of life were still strong and clear, so the witch doctors did not stop midway

stop.

Therefore, the Magic Crystal of Advanced Salamander has become the biggest and most powerful trump card of this department at this time, and there is no one for the time being.

The disadvantage is that the brain is likely to turn into dust after being separated from the body. Therefore, the brain will lose this relatively soft and easily bullied tissue area for a long time, perhaps even hundreds of years.

For magic plants that are engraved with totems, since the totem is integrated with the plant itself, the nutrients absorbed by the plant, whether they are low-energy nutrient concentrates or high-energy nutrient concentrates, can be directly converted into the internal energy that activates the totem.

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The 'Strongest Spear' must be tested with the Strongest Shield - the three-dimensional totem armor that represents the highest defense level of the headquarters at this stage.

But the dark red lines that continued to increase damage were left on the three layers of totem armor before and after the attack, and continued to destroy it at a considerable speed;

Therefore, in order to confirm and truly grasp the specific power parameters of this attack, the witch doctors' testing process did not stop at this moment.

Of course, this does not mean that the activated spell will be the least powerful one. Simple and crude does not completely mean low power. At least the 'Single Wind Blade' has a fixed target attack effect than the 'Double'.

Three Wind Blades' higher.

So, can we think that this kind of means is perhaps one of the characteristics of higher organisms, a 'thing' that is possessed according to the bias of their own abilities, and is more essential than the attack itself?

For witch doctors at this stage, this is actually a rather unsolvable problem;

This time, the cube was hit with a large flat-topped cone-shaped wound the moment it was hit.

In the verification stage, including Nesta herself, there were initially a total of 5 third-level and second-level witch doctors who activated her physically;

As the totem area continued to fail, the three layers of armor were completely wiped out after one light, three lights, and eight lights.

That is to say, this attack method can only be inspired by witch doctors or ancient war trees with the same spiritual and magical properties for the time being, and the efficiency of the former will be much higher than that of the latter due to reasons such as thinking speed;

The rest, including war witches, warriors, and autonomously operating magic plants, etc., are unable to complete the step of 'charging' the magic crystal due to their different flaws, and naturally cannot use advanced magic crystals.

Attacked.

When observing the removed hindbrain, the witch doctors found that after it completely left the body, the generation rate of energy fluid in the cells began to slow down and then slowly disappeared;

Similarly, dark red textures are left on all armors that face direct attacks and retain part of their structure;

Moreover, from the dark blue lines on the body of the advanced salamander, it seems that further inferences can be made.

That is to say, this 'countermeasure' method can also be transferred to others through attacks, becoming an additional damage similar to the former.

At this time, no one paid attention to the pitiful howling of the cave wolf trapped in the mother tree. After a witch doctor stepped forward and pulled out the black gold cannonball, the 'charging team' that had been increased to 20 witch doctors began to activate again.

Magic Crystal to launch a second attack.

The attack effect of high-level magic crystal reaches its limit at the third layer of armor;

In the process of penetrating the first and second layers of armor, the holes left by the black edge gold became smaller and smaller, and when it completed the penetration of the third layer, it was stuck by the armor itself.

In other words, the diameter before the hole is 30 meters is because the cube only has a side length of 30 meters;

In addition, the witch doctors did once again observe dark red lines on the inner wall of the perforation, but this time they only had less than 3 minutes to see, because the entire cube was subsequently destroyed in less than 3 minutes.

It completed the erosion from the inside out and finally completely disappeared in place.

Moreover, similar dark blue lines appeared on the body of the advanced salamander that was captured earlier.

If it is inferred that the dark red lines are indeed caused by the attack of the advanced salamander, then the cyan color on the cave wolf should be some kind of unique and equal-level countermeasures;

In fact, this kind of situation will also happen with other magic crystals. In addition to the simple and crude "priority trigger object", the magic crystal's spell-like activation effect can also be achieved by changing the instantaneous energy injection efficiency.

But fear is just a momentary emotion. The most important thing at this stage is to further analyze what this dark red pattern is and what characteristics it has.

After conducting repeated experiments countless times, the witch doctors who participated in the experiments gradually came to some clear understandings:

Third, made of steel and wood, heavy armor, 1.5 meters long on a side, 500mm thick (the standard armor of planned battleships), ten pieces in total, arranged longitudinally at a distance of 1 meter each;

After realizing this, the witch doctors slightly suppressed their "unscrupulousness" and decided to keep the remaining parts of the brain in their bodies.

Afterwards, the Burrow Wolf Magic Crystal was used for the same research as the Advanced Salamander Magic Crystal, which meant that the headquarters was about to get another big trump card;

However, although it has such disadvantages, judging from the degree of trauma suffered by the cave wolf as the target in these 12 attacks, the damage that the witch doctors can create by using high-level magic crystals can be seen.

The effect has far exceeded any attack method currently possessed by this department.

The attack effect is indeed impressive. The cave wolf was injured on the body surface and was forced to wake up in pain;

In addition, in actual combat, the wind wolves can also independently complete the "right front paw needs to be strengthened for the next attack", which is more precise in terms of time and skill control, thereby reducing their own energy consumption;

The same is true for 'Wind Walk'. In terms of strengthening degree, duration, etc., they are all within the control of Wind Wolf itself.

The latter were the most diligent among the first batch of tree elves. At this time, they had entered the category of official witch doctors before their friends who were born in the same batch, and were specially seconded for this experiment.

came out.

The consequences of this series of attacks have greatly frightened the witch doctors. This is just a 'magic crystal spell'. If the advanced salamander performs it himself, there is no telling what kind of tragedy it will cause;

Fortunately, in the previous capture operation, we managed to trap the entire head of the Advanced Salamander, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable.

That is to say, the load-bearing material is damaged = the totem is damaged = the protective performance is reduced = the material's damage-bearing capacity is reduced.

Therefore, a damage method like this dark red pattern with strong adhesion and corrosive properties, as long as the defense is broken in the early stage, the subsequent damage will be faster and faster.

The cave wolf has not yet reached the point where it can be reborn by dripping blood, and the cells in its body have not yet evolved the ability to survive for a long time after being separated from the body. Or is it a reverse evolution in this regard?

But at this time, the witch doctors had no time to be shocked by its killing power, because the pattern that seemed to continue to consume the material itself and the totem structure within it after the attack was over seemed to be what they had been looking for.

additional damage';

And from the comparison between the 'Rune Spell Edition' and the 'Magic Crystal Spell Edition', it can be found that the destructive effect caused by the latter far exceeds that of the former. This must be related to the effect of the witch doctors on the magic crystal's spell-like disturbance.

It is related to the degree of analysis, but at the same time it has nothing to do with this kind of 'additional damage'.

After roughly describing the effectiveness of the armor, I turned my attention back to the current experiment.

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In order to verify the effect of the attack, the witch doctors prepared different targets;

But what can be judged now is that the remaining traces are almost identical to the injuries suffered by the cave wolf.

At the beginning, when the cave wolf was still dormant in the cave, there were always green and red lights flickering on its body;

After the local cave wolf was imprisoned by the mother tree and forced into a deeper state of dormancy, the cyan light became somewhat sluggish, exposing the dark red lines inside it.

If this plan can be carried out, the advantage is that it will not be fatal to the cave wolf, but it may deprive it of its active thinking ability and make its body fall into the deepest state of dormancy;

According to speculation, in this state it can only maintain life, fight injuries, regenerate tissues and other actions based entirely on physical instincts, and has no ability to resist until the brain regenerates.

The twelfth time, 127 witch doctors, instant shot, attack mode is high-power scattering, the power of each shot is equivalent to an ordinary single shot.

Among them, the harvest of the former still needs time to accumulate, and it is estimated that it will take several months to complete the preliminary investigation.

The acquisition of the latter has brought huge results in several aspects;

On the one hand, the cerebral cortex controls a lot of active thinking abilities, and its continuous destruction can be effective and more efficient in weakening the cave wolf, and previous shelling and other methods can be stopped;

On the other hand, the headquarters has experienced a huge improvement in the speed of cultivating tree elves.

Give me some monthly tickets~

At least I want to be a little higher on the fantasy rankings┭┮﹏┭┮

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