Chapter 146: The Man Who Trampled the Thunder Under His Feet (1)
The rain was like a pour, and the blue and red thunder and lightning flashed like upside-down branches in the sky. Like a looming forest.
The endless brown-gray swamp boiled, large and small mud bubbles tumbled and burst, and some mud puddles hidden deep underground were suddenly struck by lightning, and the mud boiled instantly, pushing up the mud mass that was burned into a hard shell by the high temperature, bursting a mud dragon several meters high, and then scattered into countless viscous mud glue, with a sharp or dull hissing sound splashing around.
There are no objects higher than two meters around, the higher the thing is, the easier it is to lead mines, there is only mud here.
This is the deepest part of Kutbarozze, home to Hydra, a legendary epic creature and swamp beast.
Duck and the others stood on the boundary line of a sparse wooded field, and beyond that, they stepped into a dangerous lightning zone.
This time there were four of them, three people plus a giant monkey to be exact: Dark, Isabella, Enya, and the red-haired monkey named Scherna, who used a portable spell unit designed by Nicholas.
Sherna could understand Doland's German but couldn't speak, so in order not to interfere with communication, Duck gave her a slime earplug and pulled her into the team chat channel.
Looking at the vast expanse of forbidden land in front of him, but filled with deadly thunderbolts and mud dragons, Duck asked, "Has anyone in your tribe ever been there?"
Xerna replied, "No." Ordinary humans can't get in, and every lightning bolt is deadly, even if it just falls in the nearby area, it will scorch people. β
Enya said, "The priest will give me a magic immunity shield, and I'll rush to try it." β
Isabella disagreed: "You can't take any chances, no one has been inside before, the situation is unfamiliar, what if it's worse than the outside?"
"The best thing to do is to wait for the rain to stop. On a sunny day, the chance of lightning falls is reduced to 1 in 5, and there are only two lightning strikes per minute in a 20-meter area. β
Duck pouted: "This kind of powerful thunder, if you want to open a shield to resist, at least you have to find a magic saint." It makes no difference to us. β
Isabella said, "Let's wait, maybe tomorrow the rain will stop." β
Duck shook his head: "The rainy season here has just begun, and soon, all the roads will turn into muddy soup, and the swamp in front will become more and more difficult to walk, and after deducting the time on the way back and forth, we only have three days at most, and we can't wait," Duck said, digging out the small magic core embedded in the belt head and throwing it to Isabella, "Build a communication tower, you don't need to contact your hometown, you can go directly to the psychic tower, and you must have the function of quickly forging armor!"
Isabella reminded: "Then I will not be able to use the Cruel Angel, and it is likely that I will not be able to provide you with healing, you will lose the ability to quickly recover and release the lightning shield, you are a warrior on the front line, I suggest that it is better to keep the magic core." β
Darker was categorical: "It's useless. If I alarm Hydra, I won't be able to withstand a single attack even if the Magic Core is running at full power. With such a dense thunderstorm, I don't think any swamp beasts will survive except for Thunder Slime and Hydra - and even if they were, Enya and Scherna weren't vegetarians. Now your main task is to quickly build a psychic tower with the function of quickly forging armor, and the dual cores provide magic energy, is there a problem in three hours?"
"No problem, but what do you want to do? Do you think armor can hold lightning and lightning? Metal conducts electricity easily, and you will turn into charcoal!"
Duck smiled hesitantly, "Thunder, thunder." To this day, the vast majority of people still regard you as the untouchable war hammer of the angry thunder god, and in the southern jungle, countless tribes have carved you on the totem pole to worship the moon Mobai, but today, I will let you see how the awakened human beings trampled you under their feet!"
Xerna said in the team chat: "He's crazy?"
Isabella sighed, "It's fine, but since I learned alchemy from that George, I've started to go crazy from time to time - it's really worrying." β
Enya was very calm: "I will save him." β
Duck said angrily, "Hurry up!
"Yes, Lord Overseer. β
In less than two hours, Isabella was so nimble that a flat tower appearedβa low, flat shape to protect against lightning strikes, and a special grounding metal lightning net underground.
Thanks to the efforts of George and others, Tenotilan's lightning protection work is very good, and technicians have widely used special lightning protection nets and lightning rods to avoid lightning strikes, and even go further, taking the initiative to draw down the lightning to charge the Rongdian slime and make magic energy cores. When she was in the Blood Jungle, the simple circle that Bai Liana used to fool Cheberk was a simple and weakened version of the Channeling Thunder Charging Circle.
Duck motioned for Isabella to step away from the console of the tower, and asked the three of them to stand guard around the tower, and repeatedly admonished, "No one is allowed to enter the swamp without my orders!"
After saying that, Duck began to get busy. Isabella stayed by his side, Xerna retreated into the woods to release the rear guard, Enya tried to throw a spider silk into the swamp, and just flew in less than ten meters when a thunderbolt struck down, blasting the thick and hard spider silk into two. She shook her head helplessly, staring at the swamp.
The tower of the psychrang kept flashing with squeaky lightning, Duck seemed to be making a sturdy armor, he was obviously not satisfied with his work, made one, melted it back and made another, time flew by, more than an hour passed, he made at least three or four sets of armor, and there was no finished product.
Dark's brow furrowed.
Isabella tensed, remembering the frustration of Duck's first blend of Dark Hell Tequila, and if Duck was distracted at this time, the whole team would be in danger of being destroyed!
"What do you want to do, Dark? Say it, maybe we can help you. β
Duck waved his hand: "Wait, I'll think about it again...... Otherwise, give it a try. With that, he decided on the shape of the armor.
As the crimson armor gradually turned blue-black, a strange-looking armor that Darker had carefully crafted appeared in front of everyone.
It was an extremely thick and sturdy full-body steel plate armor, it was about two meters high, and it looked like it was made of a single piece of steel hollowed out, except for the large joints of the neck, shoulders, and thighs, which could move slightly, the rest of the place was full of long cylinders, and even the elbows could not move.
Isabella was dumbfounded: "Dark, this kind of thing weighs at least a hundred pounds, right? How do you wear it?
Duck smiled, raised a thick curved steel plate in his hand, and said, "There is an opening under this armor, I will get into it from underneath, and seal the opening after I stand up." Walking is a little slower, move slowly - this is just the first experiment, to test whether you can withstand the lightning bombardment, and slowly change the speed of movement or something. β
Xerna was so angry that she smoked: "This guy is metal, you will become a barbecue after three steps in!"
"Don't worry, nature has its laws, and I have a way to deal with this kind of thunder and lightning. Enya, you are clever, stick spider silk to me at any time, and if I tell you to pull you, you will pull me out. β
Enya was not worried: "It's no problem to drag you out, but I'll go in, I have racial talent, which is almost equal to magic immunity, and I can take a few more hits if something goes wrong." β
"If you can get a few hundred more hits, maybe I'll let you go as soon as my heart softens. But no," Duck laughed, "Magic damage reduction doesn't equal magic immunity after all, and besides, you're too strong, so it's a special case." I'm going to use this opportunity to develop a lightning resistance that can be used by ordinary people - okay, don't waste time, let's get started!"
Under the watchful eyes of his teammates, the bulky tin can began to move slowly and hobbly towards the swamp.
At the very first second when one of the tincan's feet moved into the swamp, a huge blue-purple lightning bolt hit it accurately!
The tin can suddenly turned into a dazzling humanoid sun!
Isabella, Enya, and Xerna exclaimed in unison, "Dark!"