Chapter 1550: Ability Delay
At present, there is not even a regular border guard force in the southern Xinjiang region, and it is completely dependent on the air force to support the faΓ§ade. Roland's biggest fear now is that the 20,000 troops stationed in Medes have crossed the border, and he does not have enough troops to fight against it.
At such a dilemma, Andrea's support became more and more precious, which moved him deeply and had concerns:
"You and I will fight side by side, will we attract the accusations of the other generals of the 'Dragon's Eye', and what will your people think, after all, we were sworn enemies in the first place."
"You don't have to worry about these things, now the 'Dragon's Eye' is only an empty shell, and the half-dragon general can't control our dragon vein clan," Andrea smiled indifferently, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows showed a confident look, "In the past two years, the clansmen who stayed in Dragon City have often exchanged letters with relatives and friends who have moved to Longmian Valley, and almost everyone has mentioned in the letter that you have taken care of them, and the lives of the residents of Dragon City are more comfortable and prosperous than before, they are all sincerely grateful to you, and even the people of Longmian Valley have a great impression of you, We will not oppose cooperating with the Far Easterners to strengthen the defenses along Mount Mochizuki, after all, it also adds an additional layer of security to ourselves. β
"Thank you for the kindness, Andrea......" Roland wanted to hold her hand, but thinking of the fact that there were many pairs of eyes watching, he had to restrain the impulse in his heart, "If I can do something for you, don't be polite to me." β
Andrea sneered, her phoenix eyes were extremely charming, and she lowered her voice with resentment: "It's not easy to repay me?" Come and marry me~"
Roland was speechless, the most difficult to accept the grace of the beauty.
Andrea curled the corners of her lips, and the resentment in her eyes turned into tenderness: "Just kidding, you owe too much amorous debt, not one worse than me, if you really want to repay me...... Just pick a house for me in Mochizuki City, it doesn't need to be too big, it's clean and tidy, and I go to stay for a few days in my spare time, and it's a vacation. β
Roland was thrilled when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "I'm ready to prepare the house, will you really come to live?" β
"Look at the mood~~" Sister Long Nu dragged out a long voice, looking at him with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't disturb your work, and if I want to come, I will pick you to come when you are not in Mochizuki City." β
Seeing the disappointment on Roland's face that couldn't be hidden, she smiled even more happily.
Aside from Andrea, Roland had never seen a woman grin so presumptuously, completely ignoring the ladylike rule of "smiling without showing teeth" to smile so beautifully.
Andrea laughed enough, rubbing her sour cheeks: "When the matter is over, I should also go, take care of yourself." β
Roland understood her temper, and it was useless to keep her, so he nodded and said softly: "You also take care, I will also help you prepare a place to stay in Krasbourg, welcome to come often." β
"Then there is no need, there are too many people who hate me in Krasbourg, or the Frontier is cleaner." Andrea smiled indifferently, unfurled her cloak and transformed into a pair of red dragon wings, and led the Wyvern Cavalry to turn and leave.
Roland watched Andrea's shadow go away, and finally merged into the golden red sunrise on the top of Mochizuki Mountain, and there was no trace of the brilliant sunrise, and his heart was empty, and he couldn't tell what it was like.
The morning breeze came out of his face, and the slightest coolness brought Roland back to his senses, and he used the magic guide to contact Zehir, and ordered the airship to land in the open area near Sweetwater Town to rest temporarily, and the wounded soldiers were treated by the druids, and the bodies of the war dead were recovered, and the embalming ointment was applied to keep it for safekeeping, ready to be resurrected.
After arranging the aftermath of the battlefield, Roland can finally rest for a while. Remembering that there were still a few loot that he hadn't looked at closely, he took the two Upanishads and a candle out of the dimensional bag and drew on their potential to identify them.
The two Arpanishads provided him with a total of 4 degrees of potential, and after identification, it was found that both were psionic specialties. The first is the "Enhanced Psionic Talent", which Roland is already familiar with, and after absorbing it, he will increase his psionic energy by an additional 11 points, expanding his psionic energy limit to 67 points.
The second Upanishads is a relic of Blade Tails. The Mantis has 10 Psychic Samurai class levels, and somehow learned a Super specialty called Ability Delay, which delays the psychic abilities he displays for up to 5 rounds (30 seconds) before they take effect, costing an additional 2 psionic energy to do so.
This is a somewhat quirky Super feat, which only works on the target's range or the Manifester's own abilities, and follows three rules:
For one, delayed abilities don't activate immediately until the Manifester detonates them with a preset command.
Second, if another creature comes into the ability's area of effect, the ability triggers automatically.
Third, if the ability isn't triggered by an alien creature during the delay and isn't ordered to detonate by the Manifest, it will activate itself after 5 rounds (half a minute).
Analyzing the three rules of how Ability Delay works, it's easy to see that it can be paired with an area-of-effect offensive ability, such as Hellway, to create a psionic trap or a time bomb. Unfortunately, the delay period is only half a minute at most, which is of little practical value to a person like Tails, but Roland is like a treasure.
In Roland's opinion, the ability delay specialty is best paired with the Tier 6 ability, Time Acceleration. "Time Acceleration" is a very powerful ability, but it also has a weak side, it cannot directly attack a target during the manifest period, and only spells and abilities such as "Slime Wave" that do not need to lock on to a specific target and can continue to work during "Time Acceleration" can be used during "Time Acceleration", so that the hostile target will not have time to dodge the moment the time returns to normal flow rate and will be confused by the pre-set "Slime Wave" - this is how Roland used this trick against the blue dragon Waltin not long ago.
Unfortunately, spells like "Slime Wave" are rare and often don't do much damage, which greatly limits the usefulness of "Time Boost". Now with the "Ability Delay", the situation has changed, Roland can use the "Ability Delay" to convert those instantaneous abilities into "Time Bombs", calmly choose the angle and posture during the time standstill, directly release it in the area where the enemy is located and hang it, and then set the trigger time to the moment when the "Time Acceleration" cuts off, and when the flow of time resumes, the "Time Bomb" will explode on its own, unless the opponent is also proficient in the ability to manipulate the flow of time, such as "Rapid Burst", "Time Standstill", "Time acceleration" or "preemptive strike", otherwise it is impossible to escape this poster bombardment!