Chapter 153: The Mage's Tower
Chen Ang's deeper exploration in golemology and alchemy came at the expense of orcs who had lost some of their biological characteristics, most of their thinking abilities, and a small number of organs and tissues, which were replaced by brain golems and mechanical constructs. They lose something insignificant in exchange for resistance to most spells and even more amazing destructive power.
The evolution of a warrior's body is much slower than the transformation. The cultivation of mages is also much slower than the manufacture of golems, the former takes time, and the latter requires resources, that is, money.
Most of the determining factor in the transformation of orcs is cost, so they have to withstand the mechanical construction of goblin engineering and mechanics, they are very powerful, durable, and destructive, the only drawback is that they are a little unstable, in layman's terms, they will explode!
Chen Ang's way of solving this problem is very simple, if you can't change the goblins, you can change the orcs. He asked Helas for a copy of the Lich's information, and gave the Brain Golem a constant spell effect that triggered the teleportation, and then strengthened their skulls, reducing the cost of the explosion to an acceptable level.
After an explosion or attack, the Brain Golem will be teleported to an incubator, where it will be kept in a safe place, and then only one repair will be needed to repair the orc's modified body, and it can be used again. Both healing spells and repair spells can restore the orc's physical condition, and the cost is low, and Chen Ang is even considering whether he needs to make a troll golem.
Hylast believes that orcs are no longer creatures and should be considered half-undead golems, but Chen Ang proves that he retains orcs as the greatest characteristic of life. Survive and reproduce.
The Leyline Labyrinth established by Hylast, from the beneath of Waterdeep, makes use of the underground halls left behind by the dwarves. Connect with the underworld. The naturally occurring cavities are deep and enormous, and on top of them, the underground creatures enslaved by Hylaste have continuously expanded and excavated the labyrinth for thousands of years.
In the end, this dungeon system of nearly 20 floors with countless branches was formed.
Hylaster poured out his madness and obsession with being a mage, just like Aang Chen. They all have the romance of the researcher, the excavation of endless truths and the exploration of the throne of supreme knowledge, in the temple of magic. Their goal has always been the brightest pearl. It's full of his strange magical creations, and magical experiments.
Chen Ang's experiments at least have order, rules and context, and Chen Ang also knows what kind of field he is exploring. His experiments were ingenious and accurate. He always knows what he needs and has a clear purpose. But not everyone is like this, Chen Ang treats magic as a science and uses it to understand and explore the world, but some people regard it as an art and are obsessed with exploring magic itself.
Erwin and the others regarded Chen Ang as a mage as crazy and powerful as Helast, but Chen Ang showed the common focus of researchers. There is also a calmness that differs from Helast.
Crazy and cool, science and art. But all show the extreme ego.
The Leyline Maze is a much bigger city than Waterdeep, and its inhabitants, including all kinds of monsters, underworld races, and magic experiments, are so dangerous that Waterdeep has always been tolerant and jealous of this mad mage.
Because once the monsters of the leyline maze gush out of the ground, the prosperous city of Deep Water City will definitely turn into a demonic domain.
Chen Ang integrated the underground abyss opened by the Demon Addiction Legion with the leyline maze in a relatively independent, but closely connected way. Blazing crimson magma, gushing out from the ground, encircles the abyss and labyrinth along the magical network opened up and designed by Chen Ang. It was also the source of food for the large number of evil legions he raised.
Mosses and mushrooms.
Of course, Chen Ang also took into account the food sources of those carnivorous creatures, after all, most evil creatures are not as cheap as goblins. They're meant to eat meat!
So the goblins whose minds were destroyed by demon addiction came in handy, and Chen Ang transformed their bodies to make them easy to gain weight, reproduce quickly, and their IQ always maintained the level of plants, and of course retained the ability to reproduce like goblins and rabbits. Most importantly, the makeover is the smelly, disgusting meat.
The results were very optimistic, the ogre indicated a chicken flavor, crunchy! It's better to bake it over a fire.
Even so, the ecology of the evil creatures in the underground abyss has reached a critical point, so Chen Ang has to relax the experimental control of ogre wizards and goblin mages a little, so that the population can be consumed more quickly. The failure of the experiment is generally not wasted, and goblins also like to eat meat!
In order to alleviate this food-scarce environment, the goblins have exerted their subjective initiative to a great extent, although they say that they are for the great cause of their masters, but it is more likely that they are not for the sake of experiments, after all, the ogre's experiments are too frustrating. They learn very well by hand, and they learn engineering and craft very well.
Underground, they have built a small industrial area and a large number of craft specialties, which have strongly supported the Bloody Hand Gang's business and expansion in Waterdeep. To do this, they had to learn winemaking, weaving, weaving and carpentry. When Chen Ang recounted the city in the underground abyss, he even found a large ship that was halfway under construction.
It is said to be sold to smugglers in Skull Harbor!
After the merger of the Abyss and the Maze, Chen Ang's research work expanded rapidly, and Helast soon gained limited freedom, becoming Chen Aang's chief assistant with an irreplaceable advantage, and assisting Chen Ang in controlling the entire Leyline Maze.
Standing in front of the core mage tower, Helast seemed to be very emotional, gently touching the stone wall of the tower, a mage tower, is another life of the mage, is the most important existence, even if he dies, he does not want to be confined by future generations, although he is not dead, but the mage tower no longer belongs to him!
He could feel Ta Ling's resistance to him, although it was still the mage tower that he had built bit by bit, but at some point, he was completely controlled by Chen Ang.
"How did you do that? My adult? Helast shook her head a little dejectedly and asked curiously.
Chen Ang ordered Ta Ling to open the forbidden door, and Helaster saw the two extremely dangerous blade golems at the door get out of the way, revealing the unpretentious door behind him, Chen Ang led him into the mage tower, and said, "You shouldn't ask why you can, but how to do it!" You can do this as well with enough time. ”
"Research, hypothesis, example, experiment, repetition, summary, ......" Chen Ang's words paused, and looked back: "Isn't the way to solve the problem like this?" The road to the finish line is different, but the direction is always similar. ”
Essentially, the Mage Tower is a magical item that looks like a building. The purpose and structure of this building is to gather magic. The shape of the tower, the tall and upright structure, is designed to serve this purpose.
The Mage or the builder of the Mage Tower can create a connection between the tower and its owner, allowing the mana of the two to flow through each other and pool the surrounding mana onto the Mage Tower. In many ways, the Mage's Tower is more of a gathering and channeling device for magical energy than a residential building.
Helaster could still vaguely recognize the familiar arcane geometry, but most of it had been lost beyond recognition, and he could feel the mage tower's resistance to him, like an unfamiliar mage. There is a strange magic flowing here.
Reflected in the details of those engineering highlights, Helast has to admit that at least in architectural engineering, he is far from catching up with Chen Ang, more reasonable space structure, more professional force design, and those highly imaginative structural design, all of which he cannot complete, and even some designs are difficult for him to understand.
In the arcane, Chen Ang retained most of the mana flow and spell structure, and only adjusted the core, but Helast could see that this was still an unfinished framework, and the reason why Chen Ang did not optimize the spell structure was simply because there was room for transformation and reconstruction.
The only thing that made Hylaste feel hopeless about the fate of his own mage tower was Chen Ang's improvement of the dimensional space of the mage tower, no, it should be subverted, Hylast's mage tower is an underground mage tower, but now it is completely embedded in the plane structure. He could feel the feeling of belonging to the Sea of Chaos in the Mage Tower. (To be continued......)