Chapter 404: An Invisible Crisis
“....... To understand the design of a mage's mage's tower, most of the time you have to start from the analysis of its function......"
In a sense, Rorschach's party was lucky.
This kind of mage territory has been stagnant for too long, so long that when the solar furnace is extinguished, many naturally existing defense mechanisms not only do not take effect, but even have died naturally.
Yes, natural death.
In the darkness of the road, the adventurers hurried cautiously.
A faint blue-purple cold light illuminated the sides of the road, and the bodies of those withered and huge plants were terrifying.
"Flowers with teeth, vines with feet, what the hell. ”
The lights that lit up the direction, at this time, the surroundings were reflected like ghosts, but fortunately, there were no rookies in this line, and everyone was just silently hurrying.
Dangerous giant plants and twisted plant "remains" continue to appear all around, some of which are a thing of the past after centuries of stagnation in the ecosystem.
Yes, there were, part of it became history, and part of it, presumably just dormant.
No one else could see it, but as a Wood Spirit Nature Mage, how could Rorschach not feel the powerful vitality in those huge lives, and six hundred years without sunlight and water sources were still not enough to kill these terrifying beings.
"What a distorted life, I really didn't expect such a beautiful life as the wood spirit to be born like this....."
Rorschach's grunt made Isabella behind her smile playfully.
Having experienced all this, she had seen the prototype of the crazy Seven Virtues on the battlefield, how could she not know what life under the cute appearance of Mu Ling meant.
Probably, with the passage of time, there are hundreds of years of recuperation and recuperation of the wood spirit, and most people have forgotten these "pure and lovely" "little things", the little angels who are good at gardening and ecological medicine, were born on the battlefield, grew up and battlefield, and were war machines and arms dealers from the moment they were born.
In Isabella's view, the twisted plant life she saw along the way was the essence of the wood spirit—the most anti-natural natural creation, the artificially selected path of battle plant evolution.
Along the way, there were no battles, but no one let their guard down.
In order to obtain the ownership of this place, it is natural to activate the ecosystem here, and as long as the ecosystem is activated, how many of these things will be resurrected, and whether they will still retain their sanity, it is really not clear to the creator.
But now, Rorschach and his apprentices have received the first gift from this natural place.
"Mentor, I feel like my magic is overflowing, and I feel like I'm about to advance........"
Moulton's words made Rorschach pause for a moment, and then immediately followed the group, only to drop a sentence.
"Hold on. ”
Can this be held?
Moulton's joy was finally choked back by this sentence.
But in fact, it is not only Moulton himself who is holding back, but Rorschach's state is also very subtle, to be precise, more subtle than Moulton.
The current Morton, on the surface, has suddenly become a two-meter-tall muscular man, but the flesh under his clothes is all green, and he can pretend to be a Hulk even if he dyes his hair.
Simply increase muscle strength, probably any rookie mage can do it, even Morton himself, you can also deploy some strength potions for your own use, as long as you are willing to throw resources, it is possible to surpass orcs and professional warriors in strength.
But this doesn't make much sense, mages don't have any need for strength in the first place, and even the current pure warriors don't pursue more strength, they pursue better equipment........ Rorschach's transformation is not so low-level.
Beneath that seemingly robust body, it is not the muscle fibers of animals that wriggle but plant fibers, but it is not a low-level demonized plant symbiotic transformation.
Rorschach's technology is more thorough, and Moulton has become more and more distant from animals at the cellular level, whether it is life forms or physical organs, and has gradually completed the sharp transformation from animals to semi-plants and semi-animals.
This is just a change in the nature of life, and it is not clear whether it is evolution or degradation, because evolution and degradation in the sense of common sense are originally the result of the abnormal change of life, and those that are beneficial to oneself and adapt to the environment are called evolution, and those that are not adapted are called degradation.
Such a change does not mean much to Morton's much-needed combat power, after all, plant life has stronger resistance, physical strength, vitality, numbness to pain, and regeneration ability than animal life, and it does not mean much to the caster.
But this is only the beginning, which means that he can further obtain the transformation of the demonic plant, and can use various plant-enhanced shells and biochemical equipment, which means that many of Rorschach's ideas can be realized on it.
In a sense, this is an unusually inhumane but tacit rule in the mage world - to use apprentices as their own experiments.
Unlike those evil mages, Rorschach probably did not hide the possibility and harmfulness of these transformations, but Morton, who was obsessed with revenge but had no other path, did not hesitate at all.
And doesn't this makeover sound familiar....... In fact, another kind of half-plant, half-animal life in this world is wood spirits, and they are also man-made.
And their prototype was born on this land, which is where they originated.
Perhaps, this is why Morton and Rorschach feel comfortable in this area, and even have the illusion that they may advance at any time.
Yes, not only the illusion, nor did Morton have this strange sense of robustness and evolution, but Rorschach's feeling was much stronger.
He didn't tell anyone else, but just by entering this area, Rorschach felt that every cell had an inexplicable vitality seeping out, and his magic became more active, and his physical strength, which was even weak, had not been exhausted.
If it were someone else, they might have excitedly felt that this was a treasure land of cultivation, a breakthrough that should break through, and an understanding that should be realized, but as a spellcaster, Rorschach rationally analyzed it as a subject, and the answer was not necessarily a good thing.
As Isabella said before, to understand the principle of a mage's territory, the first thing to do is to figure out what his mage tower is for research purposes.
Rorschach has determined that the whole area here is an ecological garden divided by a variety of natural environments, and it is a garden for cultivating various demonic plants and variants, so it is necessary to speed up the activity so that the plants can be updated faster and produce new varieties.
“........ There should be a rule-level power here, which gives a high degree of activity to plant life, and in addition to the vigorous growth and reproduction ability, the high activity also greatly increases the probability of mutation......."
The mutation of species is the root of the evolution of life, but according to the modern theory of evolution, mutation itself has no law at all, 99% of the mutation is harmful to life itself, and only less than 1% of the beneficial mutation, because it makes the mutant more powerful and more suitable for the environment, so it is called evolution.
The advancement of the various professions in the Ash world is also regarded as the selective evolution of the individual.
But for researchers, selection is not necessary, and those harmful variants are inevitable and unavoidable...... Just throw away the harmful mutations, and the idea of "guinea pigs" makes no sense at all.
On the way, Morton could no longer hide his appearance and characteristics, revealing his vegetative part, and Rorschach's indifferent eyes still made him honestly "hold back".
In fact, it was true that Rorschach was good for Moulton.
In this case, accepting the mutation of the environment is a gamble that is basically impossible to win, and it is possible to collect relevant knowledge and skills and actively choose to evolve (advance), which is one of the purposes of Rorschach's trip.
And now, not to mention that Morton has become more and more unable to control himself, even Rorschach's state is becoming more and more bad.
"I'm hungry......"
The silent hunger makes people feel restless, and the limbs of the demonized plants around them are more and more delicious in Rorschach's opinion.
That's part of the evolution of life, it's the instinct of life to be stronger....... But Rorschach didn't want to just become a monster.
He knew that if he couldn't master this territory in a short period of time and adjust the special rules here, he was afraid that he would really have a lot of fun this time.