rainfall
When the Manta Ray's air journey lasted until the 19th day, a boatload of people also ate seafood for a full nine days, because the food brought by the ship from the hunting island was all eaten. The sailors and the archers of the Stuart family did not complain, they also often ate seafood, but Phyllis and the others were about to take it anymore.
"Costner, you bastard, why are there fish bones in chicken nuggets?" Phyllis cried out in frenzy.
"Hey, Miss Chatter, it's already my limit to be able to make fish and meat taste like chicken, how can I have the energy to pick fish bones for you?" Kevin looked innocent.
"Don't tell me it's fish! you idiot!" Phyllis clutched her hair in pain, "If you say that, I'm full of fish again!"
"It's a mental illness, and it has to be cured......"
"Shut up! I don't care, I'm going to have steak for my next meal!
While they were arguing, Tasa suddenly looked into the distance, and there was a hint of doubt in his eyes. Otto asked, "Did you notice that too?"
"Well, I just noticed that it's going down, and it's going to be going down at a faster pace. As soon as Tassa finished speaking, everyone noticed that the visibility had suddenly decreased, and there were many more clouds around them. Everyone noticed something strange at this point, because they had been flying above the clouds, and now they were in the clouds.
"Huh, how did it drop altitude?" Phyllis hurriedly ran to the side of the ship and looked around, then immediately shouted to Falk, "Turn up the volume of the amplified magic array, and tell everyone outside to hurry back to the ship!"
Falk himself climbed onto the lookout and shouted, and in a short time the scattered crew members came back in droves. Darko and Aciba were the first to run onto the boat and hurriedly asked, "Is it about to land?"
Phyllis shook her silver fork and said, "Don't panic, we're not far from the ruins of death, just continue sailing, maybe we'll be the first to arrive." ”
Falk was on the lookout, still holding the locator in one hand and the chart in the other, his face gradually became solemn, and then shouted through the amplified magic array, "We can't land here! This is the territory of the Nala Sea!
"What is a volcanic crab? Is it a crab cooked in the heat of a volcano? Sounds delicious. Kevin rubbed his hands together.
"The volcanic crab is actually an ordinary hermit crab, but after reaching the eighth order, it is too big to find a suitable snail shell to live in, so it can only use the crater of the submarine volcano as a residence......
"What? The other Eighth-Order Demonic Beasts' territories, Mica, also dare to land casually?" Phyllis could no longer remain calm and stood up suddenly.
"Mica's defense is so strong, other monsters can't hurt it anyway, but we're different!" Selby exclaimed, the fear of the monsters in the ocean had gone deep into his bone marrow, "Hurry up and find a way to make it rise! If you want to land, you have to land elsewhere!"
Wendy looked at the sun in the sky, and then at the pool on the mica's body that had been steamed, and guessed, "No matter how strong the mica's defense is, it still belongs to a living being, could it have landed because the water has evaporated and dried up?"
"Quite possibly, because as soon as it falls in the ocean, it can quickly rehydrate. Elena also felt that Wendy's guess made sense.
"If it's really water-related, maybe we can think of a way. Otto opened his finger and watched the mist drift between his fingers in the clouds, then turned his head and asked, "Can you use magic to get some water on it?" so that it doesn't need to go into the sea to suck water." ”
A boatload of people looked around, and finally all eyes fell on Darko again, and Phyllis hurriedly asked, "Darko, what is the maximum range of the rain spell?"
"Maximum range ......" Darko hadn't used water magic often before, let alone the relatively unpopular rain spell, he only remembered that he had used it once in the Mercury plane and VITB12 against the fire demon, and the effect was also very poor, so he said conservatively, "The rain spell is a fourth-level magic, the range is actually not too big, I can use my magic control ability to output a fifth-level mana to cast spells, probably can cover the devil ray." ”
As she spoke, the mica had already pierced through the clouds, and she could see the deep blue sea below when she poked her head out of the side of the ship, and the whole ship became nervous. If they fell into the sea, they would probably have to face the extremely vicious eighth-order demonic beasts again, and the last experience made them all a little afraid, of course they didn't want to go through it again.
"It's too small! we need rain that covers the whole mica! What can you do if it only rains on our ship?" Selby gestured with an exaggerated gesture, seemingly angry at Darko's incompetence, until Phyllis glared at him.
"The rain spell has a limited range of effect, and it consumes more mana, and the cost performance is too low, so let's use these clouds in the sky, I use the wind to blow them over, and it won't consume much mana." Wendy floated until she reached the top of the mainmast, "I'll let the clouds gather above our heads, but we'll need to figure out how to turn it into rain." ”
"Precipitation? Maybe we can try shooting with magic arrows. Tassa visually measured the distance of the clouds, then immediately turned his head and ordered, "All archers are on standby!"
Wendy nodded, and then the Breath Wing appeared behind her, although it didn't need to use the Breath Wing to increase speed, but the power of the artifact could more efficiently induce the law and bless it in the spell. I saw a large cloud around the mica, as if pulled by some kind of force, converging from the surrounding towards the center. When the clouds reached the range above the mica, they automatically formed black clouds and floated towards the location of the Manta Ray. The archers of the House of Stuart were all ready to shoot arrows at Tassa's command. Due to the tight schedule, no one questioned the feasibility of the plan, and Wendy and Tasa both thought of it and put it into practice.
"Shoot!" Tassa commanded, and all the archers shot out the magic arrows in unison, and they shot into a cloud accurately. Violent fluctuations of magic frantically drummed, and the dark cloud was blasted away in an instant, leaving nothing left in the air.
Phyllis held her hands above her head with open hands, not only did she not feel a drop of raindrops, but she was startled by the violent explosion, and she jumped and shouted, "You are so violent!
Elena pondered, "Shoot too many arrows, don't you?
"It has nothing to do with the number of arrows, it should be that the elemental attributes of the magic arrows are too messy, resulting in mutual elimination and failing to play the specific role of various elements. Kevin shook his head in thought, looked down for a moment, and then suggested, "Group archers with different talents and shoot the clouds with a single elemental magic arrow to see the effect." ”
Tasa quickly understood what Kevin meant, and turned to the ranks of archers and ordered, "Fire Demon Archers are on standby, ready to shoot." ”
At this time, another cloud drifted under Wendy's control, getting closer and closer to the Manta Ray. There were more than thirty fire-gifted archers, and together they filled their bows and arrows, and when the order was given, they fired arrows into the clouds, only to see the clouds appear red and then burned out in the flames.
Tasa and the others were not discouraged, there were always failures in the process of experiments, and everyone looked up at the sky and waited for the results of the experiments.
"Water system. ”
The number of water-gifted magic archers was about the same as that of fire-talented, but those arrows shot into the clouds, only expanding the clouds in a circle, but they still floated in the air, failing to form rain.
Kevin said at the right time, "There is no need to test the qi element, and Miss Roberts blowing the cloud over with the air flow has not affected its stability, so it should be useless." ”
Tasa nodded slightly, then exclaimed, "Earth." ”
The number of earth-based genius magic archers was small, only about two dozen people opened their bows and fired a volley, and after those arrows shot into the clouds, it was vaguely visible that a cloud of dust had formed and dispersed into the clouds, and then there was no movement. Just when everyone thought it was still ineffective, there was a trickling rain in the cloud, and then it became heavier and heavier, and it became a moderate rain.
"It seems that the clouds in the sky are too pure, and it takes dust to adhere to it before it can turn into rain and fall. Kevin summed it up like a scholar.
"Sure enough, it's easier to borrow the power of nature. Darko's exclamation was heartfelt, he thought to himself that if he used his spell control ability to cast the rain spell, he was afraid that he would need the output of ninth-level magic to reach such a range. But now just a few clouds blown by Wendy, and then shot by a dozen archers caused such a massive rainfall, this is the difference between the power of the individual and the power of nature.
Selby was still flustered, "Hey, why is it still falling, and it's useless to rain?"
Otto closed his eyes and carefully felt the acceleration, "No, the rate of descent has slowed down, and it seems that it will continue to increase the rainfall." ”
With the success of the case, the next thing is much easier, Wendy directly controls the air flow and sweeps large clouds from all directions. The clouds rained down under the firing of arrows, leaving the Manta and the entire mica in a curtain of water. In the pouring rain, everyone on the Devil Ray suddenly felt a sudden pause in their bodies, and then the feeling of being overweight hit, it was the mica rising.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and some even sat down on the deck and remembered to celebrate after a while. Selby cried with joy and scolded at the sea below, which was scolding the volcanic crab. Seeing this, the people around shook their heads, indicating that they couldn't understand Selby's logic.
Phyllis clapped her hands, "It's no problem this way, keep it raining, mica shouldn't fall anymore, keep flying to the death ruins!"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple. Wendy descended from above, pointed overhead, and said, "Don't forget where we were before, but above the clouds." ”
"Oh, by the way, we'll fly above the clouds, and then the rain won't fall on the mica!"
"In the final analysis, clouds are just water vapor, which has weight and a limit to the height at which they can rise. However, the mica is in a vacuum environment, and the height it can rise is thousands of kilometers higher than that of the clouds. As Wendy spoke, the mica had re-emerged from the clouds and into the sky, and the rain had stopped. She continued, "We can actually repeat the process, as soon as it falls below the clouds, we do the rain, and the time above the clouds is used to rest. ”
Under the direct sunlight, the precipitation in front of it was quickly evaporated away, and after less than four hours, the mica began to slowly lower its altitude again. This time, Wendy prepared in advance, driving the air currents to collect the water vapor and gather a large cloud underneath the mica. As soon as the mica burrowed through the clouds, the Stuart archers quickly began to artificially rain down, and the clouds turned into rain almost above everyone's heads.
This time, the mica only dropped a few kilometers to a height, replenished its moisture, and turned upwards again. And Fokker also announced the good news at the right time, they have flown over the territory of the volcanic crab, even if they land on the surface again, they will not have to worry about danger.
Not only did they fly over the territory of the volcanic crab, but after two tosses of ascent and descent, Wendy and the twenty or so magic archers were also proficient, and the artificial rain gradually became familiar with the road, and there would be no mistakes, so the group on the Manta Ray relaxed again.
Only Kevin's face was still doubtful and puzzled, and he said in a deep voice, "You don't think this mica ...... Is it overly simplistic?"
Phyllis immediately sang the opposite, "What's so easy? It keeps us busy for a while every time it changes state, don't you see that the whole ship was jumping before?" Selby is about to go insane. ”
Kevin spread his hands and said, "I mean, it's kind of weird to be so easy to trick it into making a vehicle." ”
"Hey, do you think I'm easy?" Darko protested dissatisfied, still outputting three blizzards all the time, and the empty bottles of magic potions he had drunk these days were almost filling the room.
"I have the same doubts. Elena smiled and said, "It is the common instinct of all living beings to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but higher beings have a higher level of logical thinking and judgment ability on top of this instinct. This mica is an eighth-order demonic beast, but it has been manipulated by Darko's ice magic to move in the direction for most of the month, and the artificial rain just now has caused it to have the same reaction twice in a row. It felt as if it didn't have the intelligence that a high-level magical beast should have, but was just driven by instinct like a low-level creature. ”
Everyone also felt the strangeness in it when they heard the words, and they all began to bow their heads and ponder. They have more or less seen high-level demonic beasts, and when the level of demonic beasts reaches the seventh order or above, their wisdom will be reflected in the difference from other middle- and low-level demonic beasts, and they can already be described as smart or even cunning. The experience on the Venus plane has subverted this perception, the previous spear urchin king was not very obvious, and the current mica is too stupid. Obviously going against his habits and heading towards a colder sea, he was deceived by the local low temperature created by Daktro's ice magic. And the feeling of humidity in the body seems to go down when it's dry and rises when it's wet, which is simply outrageous.
"There are two possibilities. Kevin thought for a moment and said, "The first possibility is that this mica originally had intelligence, but it was stimulated or cursed by some kind of stimulation or curse, which made it lose the thinking ability that a high-level magical beast should have; ”
"I think it's the former. Elena laughed.
"I think it's the latter. Kevin smiled too.
"It's a pity that it can't be proven. ”
But it is not falsified. ”
The two of them laughed together as if no one was around, and the others looked at each other for a while.