Volume 3 Chapter 44: Shi Leiyin's Magic (3)
The appearance of the Ice Giant was only a surprise for Shi Leiyin, and after basically grasping the method of quickly releasing the Ice Giant, Shi Leiyin threw this hole level magic aside.
Without the Ice Dragon Fragment level item as the pseudo-core of the summoning elemental puppet, this summoning magic can only be used as a short-lived magic. For Shi Leiyin, only the long-lasting clay and water figures are relatively more practical.
Of course, it's still the same as the previous way of improving magic, and the quality is not enough to make up for the quantity. The power of a single clay figurine is only a first-order magic, but once the number exceeds a hundred, not to mention the power, it still looks quite scary.
After playing with the clay army for a while, Shi Leiyin lost interest. This kind of summon, which has no beauty at all, and smells a little, is only annoying when it comes in large numbers. Moreover, summoning nearly a hundred clay figures almost consumed one-tenth of Shi Leiyin's mana reserves, so he had to go back to eat and replenish his energy first.
Shi Leiyin, who returned to the testing ground, returned his attention to the modification of the magic pattern. The unscrupulous Test Summoning Element wasted two days of time and a lot of energy. This made Shi Leiyin a little annoyed by his divergent thinking, but there was no good way to do it, so he could only consciously improve this problem as much as possible.
The magic pattern in the element attribute part obviously has no room for improvement, can only replace the pattern, but changing the pattern structure is not able to create new elements, from the ice element and the water element, the two very close element patterns have obvious differences, the element pattern should belong to the law level of this world, but it is only discovered rather than made.
However, Shi Leiyin doesn't think that the last three patterns can't be changed, excluding the pattern that represents the switch or whether it is charged, and the remaining two have plenty of room for themselves to change.
The easiest thing to change is the pattern of the magic shape. Different from attribute patterns, the shape composition pattern can be changed almost arbitrarily, as long as the pattern itself is guaranteed to be a closed maze shape with only one entrance and exit, no matter how you change the internal maze composition, the magic can be released unaffected, but this shape will be more peculiar.
For example, the shape of the clay figurine summoned by Shi Leiyin as an experimental subject at the beginning is a pattern. Shi Leiyin has been dissatisfied with the clay figure, which is almost an erected clay mass, and can only barely distinguish the shape of the hand and the head, because this shape is not only a clay figure, but also affects the shape of other elemental dolls, resulting in all the dolls being completely unclear whether they are puppets or a ball of elements.
So Shi Leiyin began to change this composition pattern from the beginning. Due to the simple shape of the clay figure, the composition pattern is actually not much more complex than the pattern of the elemental arrow, and Shi Leiyin found that three simple lines represent the head and hands of the clay figure, and one composite line represents the composition of the body. After summoning testing, it was found that modifying the length and thickness of these lines would result in some changes in the clay figurine's correspondence. Increasing the complexity of the route will make the clay man's body more detailed, but this kind of meticulousness requires a lot of testing to be able to get the kind of structure that Shi Leiyin wants, and after testing more than ten times only to make the clay man's hand become a branch-like fork instead of a palm, Shi Leiyin still gave up on this change. The progress of the head was a little kinder, and Shi Leiyin unexpectedly found that the head was no longer a semicircle on the shoulder, like a thermos cup, but a line with a neck and an oval head. Of course, the facial features still can't be formed, but I found a head image that looks like hair stands up when summoning the fire element or the thunder element.
After giving up the refinement of the humanoid, Shi Leiyin also tried to completely change the humanoid structure. Among the summoning spells that Shi Leiyin obtains, there are also magics that summon insects such as elemental spiders. The structure of this magic is quite different from the pattern of summoning clay figures, but it still follows the rules of closed patterns. After a simple change, Shi Leiyin easily figured out how to summon a non-humanoid elemental body. And through some minor changes, Shi Leiyin got the appearance of a monster human-faced spider's summon. This is a race of intelligent monsters with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a spider. However, the number is very scarce, and Shi Leiyin only learned about the existence of this special monster race through the inheritance of memories. Being able to come up with the shape of such a rare monster was a surprise for Shi Leiyin. However, this kind of monster is not famous for its physical strength in Shi Leiyin's memory, but is famous in the monster world for its special spider silk use ability and dark magic. Therefore, after Shi Leiyin got the shape, he immediately made changes in the direction of increasing the physical attack power.
The main change in the lower body of the spider is the sharp pointe of the eight legs, since the spider's head has become the upper body of a human. The spider's more powerful attack weapon, chelicerae and mouthparts, are gone, and there are only eight pairs of feet left that can be used to attack. Therefore, Shi Leiyin changed the pattern of those feet to make them sharp and hard, although they cannot be hard enough when they are made of mud or water, but if the elements are changed to rock or ice, they will have a very terrifying penetrating power.
In order to cope with the lack of lethality in the form of clay figures or water figures, Shi Leiyin has changed the humanoid part. There are two changes, one is to turn the two-handed part into a multi-forked spike, which can be attacked directly through the spike. The other is a soft whip-like form, which can not only whip attacks, but also bind the target to restrict the target's movements, and like spikes, this whip can also be divided into several pieces, which looks like an octopus's tentacles.
While making these changes, Shray also noticed that the more complex the composition pattern itself, the faster the magic could be made and the more mana it would need. When Shi Leiyin completed the change to the appearance of this face spider, he found that the magic power consumed by this magic was more than three times that of ordinary clay figure magic before, and although the power had also increased significantly, it obviously did not increase to the level of three times that of clay figures. The only consolation is that this change is a qualitative change, at least for opponents whose clay figurines can't deal damage or delay the effect, this form can achieve some effect. Of course, there is also bad news, that is, neither the fire element nor the thunder element can use this form, the mana consumption is too fast, and the summoning time of these two elements cannot even exceed a second, and the shield cannot be used in an instant. Another piece of good news is that Ice Dragon Fragments can't use this form either, in fact, no matter what form of Ice Elemental Summoning, after using Ice Dragon Fragments, it will only turn into the image of an Ice Giant.