194 Another use of shrinkage
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"You mean, you're going to use silver dragon steel to make arrows against the black dragon? Can you tell us what you think? Sepustin asked curiously.
"That's right." Gordon confirmed the old mage's guess, "But the arrows I need to use against the black dragon are a little special. I didn't just want to make the zuò arrows out of silver dragon steel, but with arrowheads and shafts, to create a huge arrow made entirely of this special metal, three meters in length and twelve centimeters in diameter. ”
"With such a huge arrow, do you want to carry a ballista to deal with the black dragon? Don't forget, in order to protect his new body, Temodaros has set up a triple barrier inside and outside the black spider cave, and any creature entering it will cause it to be alert, and even make this cunning black dragon awaken in advance. It took me a lot of effort to make two mist hidden stones for you and Miss Faria, which can fool the black dragon's defensive spells. If you want to carry a ballista to deal with the Black Dragon, then those ballistas will inevitably appear. Sepustin said.
Just now, when discussing the details of how to kill the black dragon, the old mage had already explained these situations to Gordon and Faria, and handed them each a small round stone that shimmered brightly. Because of this, Gordon dismissed the plan to let Ms. Bishop directly bring an elite army to help the souls of the Kingdom of Sedin kill the black dragon.
In this matter, the only humans that Septine and others can rely on are himself and Falia.
"Of course not." Gordon shook his head and said, "I don't need a ballista. What's more, when we break through, it is impossible to carry a bulky fighter such as a ballista. ”
He paused, and said in a tone that a salesman would use when he first met a customer, "Guys, have you ever heard of shrinkage?" ”
"Shrinkage? The Three-Ring Transformation School spell that shrinks objects? The old mage looked at Gordon with a puzzled look, not knowing what the other party was planning. Even legendary mages. He couldn't see through Gordon's thoughts for a while.
The halfling's older brother, Harfort, is a changeling mage, and although his arcane skills are far less than that of Cypstein, he thinks further: "I know that some changeling mages who lack offensive means will use shrinkage to shrink boulders and then use them to smash people. Do you want to use this method to deal with the black dragon? So why should I help you build that giant dragon steel arrow? Directly melt the Longgang ore into a big lump, and then shrink it with shrinkage, isn't it okay? But I'm sorry to tell you that this method probably won't do much harm to Temodalus. ”
Gordon stretched out his left index finger and swung it from side to side, rejecting the speculation of the strong-hearted halfling.
Although both of them are stronger in spells than Gordon. But after all, Cypstine and Harford are already characters from nearly a thousand years ago, and there are many new things that they don't understand. In other words, they are outdated.
The times are constantly unfolding. Just as science and technology on Earth have advanced over time, the world of Telos has arcane magic. It is also constantly improving.
The Second Age, known as the Age of the Dragons. The dragons will inherit the magic from the gods. Brought to the main material realm. However, at that time, although the dragons were invincible as individual spellcasters, their understanding and research of arcane arts were not deep. Dragons use spells more as an innate ability than as a knowledge and discipline. to research and explore.
In the Third Age, known as the glorious years of the Age of Magic, first the Sun Elf Empire, then the Netherduran Magic Empire, and the Imaka Empire in the Southern Desert Regions. Tongguò's constant research into the source energy of arcane and its essence has not only popularized this wonderful power throughout the world of Telos, but even raised it to the level of science.
What is Science?
Science is a methodology, a body of knowledge that reflects objective laws. On Earth, magic is mysterious, non-scientific. But in the world of Telos, magic is based on source energy, and it exists objectively.
So in this world, the study of arcane and magic, of course, is science. And the mages who are engaged in this research work can also be called scientists.
During the Third Age, countless outstanding mages went forward and carried out outstanding research on the arcane, not only summing up a large set of laws, methods, and knowledge, but also delineating the entire arcane system based on the eight schools, which is still used today.
History sometimes turns backwards. The barbarian invasion led the Roman Empire to ruin miè, and Europe fell into the dark Middle Ages of barbarism and ignorance. The collapse of the Magic Empire of Netherduran has also caused many precious magical knowledge to be annihilated in history and war. In a sense, the Fourth Age, which has just passed for almost a thousand years, is also in the dark medieval age of magic.
However, on the whole, the times are still unfolding and advancing.
Septic and Harford had been isolated for so long, and of course they wouldn't have known that even a small three-ring condensation technique could derive many interesting uses.
This time, Gordon is going to use shrinkage to deal with the black dragon, and he is proud of the fact that he created it in "Ancient Era".
Gao registered that it was when he was just a small fifth-level mage, and he had just mastered the three-ring spell. Although he was a mage majoring in spells and plastic energy, he didn't have much choice at that time because of his shyness, and the first three-ring spell Gordon learned was shrinking objects - no way, at that time, he brushed the copy of the Dark Witch Tower for a long time, and he also broke out a three-ring spell scroll of shrinkage.
Shortly after learning the art of shrinking, Gordon formed a party and ventured into the Forest of Bones, which is recommended at levels five to ten. They were lucky enough to go all the way to the heart of the forest without much trouble. However, they were also unlucky, and when they found a hidden treasure, they accidentally got entangled in a giant corpse worm that guarded the treasure.
The Giant Corpse Worm is an evil monster that challenges level seventeen, and is huge, the size of three buses connected by an adult instance, but it is incredibly fast and agile. They like to devour carcasses and live in areas where negative energy gathers. This creature has no strong defense, and its body surface is a disgusting and fat pale fat layer, but its vitality is very strong, and it belongs to the kind of monster with low defense but high health. What's even more terrifying is its incredible regeneration power, if the player can't deal enough damage to it in a short period of time, then the giant corpse worm can absorb the special ability of negative energy to quickly heal its own wounds.
At that time, Gordon and his teammates who were also not of high rank, when facing the giant corpse worm, despite desperate attacks and exhaustive means, they were still unable to defeat this disgusting enemy, and finally they were almost cornered. Although a single sword can cut a deep hole in the body of the giant corpse worm, although a magic missile can blow up a large piece of the giant corpse worm's flesh, but it can't hurt the internal organs, so there is no way to kill it.
On the night when his teammates ran out of ammunition and were ready to watch black and white TV and return to the city for free, Gordon had an idea and came up with a solution. He had his team of axe warriors chop down a few of the ghostclaw pines that were unique to the Forest of Bones, then hastily disposed of them into huge arrows, which were shrunk to the same size as normal arrows.
Then, in the final battle with the Giant Corpse Worm, Gordon had the rangers in his team shoot those special arrows deep into the Giant Corpse Worm's body.
Although these arrows did not cause much damage to the giant corpse worm that was not rough in skin but had quite thick flesh, but when Gordon lifted the shrinkage technique, these arrows instantly became thicker and longer sixteen times, not only breaking the hypertrophic epidermis of the giant corpse worm, but also piercing deeply into the body, and wearing the internal organs of this big insect in a mess.
And so the crowd won an almost impossible victory.
In addition to the lucrative loot, the video of that fight was named the best fight of the month by the operator, and Gordon received a nice bonus for it.
Now, Gordon is ready to use his experience in Ancient Age to give the Black Dragon a taste of another use of shrinkage.
Since the object cannot be processed in any way after the shrinkage is applied, otherwise the spell will immediately fail. So Gordon had to ask the halfling to make dragon steel arrows for him first, and then cast shrinkage.
Moreover, since the shrinkage technique can only be applied to non-magical items, his method also has great limitations. There are many enchanted arrows that can break through the black dragon's defenses, but there are very few arrows made of natural materials that can do this. Even if it is a Adamantite Arrow, it is only possible to shoot it unless the arm is extremely powerful and the bow and crossbow are extremely powerful.
But Silver Dragon Steel is different. This metal material has strong restraint and extra damage ability against evil creatures such as black dragons, and this property is inherent in itself, not attached to spells. It was because of this rare material that Gordon was able to use this special method against the black dragon.
An ordinary arrow shot at the black dragon, as Fallot Hyde said, was just like a human being pricked by a thin needle, and it didn't even bleed.
But if this thin needle suddenly changes into a chopstick, then it will be bearable.
After listening to Gordon's explanation, the halfling and the old mage finally understood the young man's plan. This whimsical thought made their mouths open wide for a while, and the wrinkles on their old faces deepened.
"It's a unique idea." Sepsteen stroked his long energetic beard and said slowly.
"But it's likely to work wonders, isn't it?" Harford laughed. The halfling mage who likes to innovate has been in a state of excitement since listening to Gordon's account. (To be continued!)