Chapter 55: Spellcasting and the Hourglass Principle
The small island occupied by the pirates is lush with vegetation, and there are some relatively low plants growing in it, and there are few trees to be seen, most of them are tall and short trees, but they are almost all broad-leaved plants, so it is relatively easy to hide through them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, Saza's ideas and courage are commendable, but in this matter, he misses an important point. The island is small, but it's big enough for a road idiot. But the good thing is that he is not alone. With Monchi's help, it was at least possible to confirm that the two were not going around in circles in the jungle.
"If we don't find the pirates' lair, it's going to be too late. Saza hammered a low tree beside him with his hand, and now he was completely racing against time, and he should be in a hurry. However, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with the place where his hand had hit, and since it was late at night, he touched the spot with his palm with his backhand more naturally than with his eyes.
It's a notch!"Monchi! I think we might have found it. ”
"What did you say? Monchi, who was watching the dangerous movements nearby, certainly didn't understand why the mage suddenly said that.
Saza swept around with his fingers, "Look at the trunk carefully. ”
At this moment, the two of them followed the moonlight and carefully looked at the cadres of the nearby trees, and it was not difficult to find the traces left by those blades on the trees. It's really close!
After a short walk, tree stumps began to appear all around, and cutting down trees is essential to live on the island. Finally, when they reached the edge of the jungle, they saw the pirate's lair in the distance. Not far beyond the stump of a mess in front of us is the pirate's stone village.
It was a stockade built in a huge group of boulders, surrounded by a natural barrier of high stones, which only needed to be built with some timber and an iron gate at the main entrance.
Passages should have been built on the four walls of the stone village, and it can be seen that there will be no sentries patrolling around. However, Saza soon discovered that there were only two sentries on guard at this time, and their patrol cycle was relatively long, so it must have involved too much manpower on the frontal battlefield, and now the pirates in the village were running out of manpower.
Now is really a good time to save people, although the stone village is large and the defense is strong, but the natural boulders are very easy to climb, there are not enough sentries to stand guard, and it is now night, this is really a good time to sneak in and save people!" "Monchi, hurry, it's time to act." He patted the people around him and said. But with this beat, he realized that the other party was trembling slightly.
"Lord Saza, get out of here, something's coming. Monchi said tremblingly.
Hearing Monchi's words, Saza almost jumped up: "What?!"
"It's approaching, it's fast!" Monch trembled harder.
"Run!" shouted Saza, feeling bad. Could it be that they were discovered by the pirates in the stone village? But there is no time to study this at this time, they are now understaffed, and they must definitely avoid confrontation with the enemy.
After receiving Saza's order, the young chicken, which was trembling all over, had suddenly turned around and ran towards the jungle like an arrow off the string, believing that he had already gathered momentum for this sprint, and the magician behind him could not do it as fast as him, so he had to keep up with his struggles.
"Can you sense the direction in which the threat is coming from?" asked Saza as he fled, shouting forward.
"It's hard for me to be sure. But one thing is certain, his target is us! He's chasing us! And it's getting faster and faster!" Monchi almost fell down because his feet were shaking so badly that he was not paying attention.
This is too bad, not only will they not be able to enter the stone village to save people, but their own safety may be threatened, Saza felt a panic, all the plans were in vain.
Suddenly, he noticed that Monchi, who was running in front of him, stopped there, motionless.
"What's going on?" he asked, running over.
Monchi held out his trembling hand, which was almost unresponsive, and pointed forward. It was as if because of his finger, the broad leaves among the trees in front of him swayed, and then a man with a warhammer stepped out. Of course, he certainly wasn't so much because of the trainee warriors.
No wonder Monchi felt that the danger was approaching faster and faster, it turned out that they had been running towards the source of danger!
There were no more people behind the man, he appeared alone. "Two furry boys?" the man's tone was a little lost, "why, you're here for that merchant ship?" his muddy voice asked.
"Do you think we're here to hear your piercing voice?" Even though the other party's coercion had arrived, Saza would not lose the opportunity in his mouth, and he replied. It seems that this man is also a pirate, and he is definitely not an ordinary pirate, most likely the leader of the pirates!
The man swung the hammer and adjusted it to the best position, and said, "Sharp-toothed hairy boy, let's see if your teeth can bite my hammer!"
Saza was pretty sure that if the hammer slammed into the plate of his thin body, he would never even have time to cry out in pain. So he leaned as close as he could to the nearby trees, and he was really close to the fight, and there was a barrier.
Of course, one thing is for sure, the first hand of the attack must be here in Saza, his wind blades are already ready, and after a short aiming, the six wind blades in his hand have been thrown out. The slightly cumbersome war hammer struck out four wind blades in one sweep, and even the air flow caused one wind blade to miss, and although the only remaining one was cut on the pirate's body, the magic damage that should have cut people to pieces was like a small skin wound at the moment.
The pirate wiped away the blood from the wound with his thumb and said, "If you have such a little ability, you still stick your head over yourself, and I can give you a good time." After all, I'm still in a hurry to find someone. ”
The wind blade just now was genuinely waterless, but it only had a minimal effect, and Saza knew that this time it was really difficult. To achieve such a strong physique, it is at least a profession of the first order or above.
Although he was hard-mouthed, as a person who was not stupid, he knew very well that it was impossible for him to cross the gap of the first order to defeat this pirate, let alone kill such a fantasy. The best way now is, of course, to escape, if you can.
Glancing at Meng Qi on the side, he was already trembling and fell to the ground. Although he didn't expect him to become a fighting force at the beginning, he didn't expect that he would not be able to control his body at all and collapse to the ground. This made it impossible for Saza to escape even if he was able to get rid of the pirates, after all, he was not one to leave his companions behind.
Without giving Saza any more time to think, he had reached the front with the warhammer in front of him at the roar of the pirate.
No! Can't die!!!!!!! But the Wind Blade could only deal that mediocre damage, and it didn't do anything at all. If it goes on like this, it will only be a matter of time before it is crushed to death by a war hammer.
The pirate was completely annoyed by the endless wind blades, and he ignored the wriggling little wriggling on the ground and wielded his warhammer to chase the pesky magician. Although he can easily smash trees that get in the way, due to his large size, it is not easy to move through the woods. This gave the mage a few more breaths of air.
Seeing that the pirates were getting closer and the dense trees were becoming an obstacle to themselves, Saza had to think about other measures. Try casting a full version of Wind Teeth! The thought popped into his head that this might be the strongest move he had. Although he had only successfully cast it with the help of the Core, why didn't you buy some Cores?
The magic array was concluded, the magic pattern was carved, and the wind element began to be filled under the traction of the magic power! To be honest, this was a complete take-off, and he himself was not sure that he could gather enough elements with his current magic power alone. The first stage of filling is the fastest, and it gathers fifty percent of the wind element into the magic array at once, if it is a wind blade, it has reached 100% filling at this time, which means that the magic strength has completely met or even exceeded the requirements of the wind blade.
His eyes could already see the warhammer in front of him as it swept away the dwarf trees. The filling began to slow down until it reached seventy-six percent.
The pirate finally swept away the annoying little trees and walked up to Saza. Eighty-three percent of the time, and the speed is still decreasing.
"Why don't you run away? Can't wait to turn into pate, can't you?" said the man with a cruel smile. Eighty-nine percent, entering the slowest stage, used to be due to failed spell casting here.
In the plain language of a magic book, spellcasting is an hourglass principle.
The whole process of casting is like filling an hourglass with sand, filling elements is like filling this hourglass with sand, and when it is full, the spell is successful. And if the mana does not have enough ability to pull and gather the elements and cannot quickly fill the hourglass, the magic circle itself will consume mana and elements like a hole under the hourglass, constantly leaking sand, and over time, the hole will continue to grow, and the increasing consumption will eventually lead to the failure of the spell.
"Don't you understand, you pirates have become outcasts!" said Saza as Warhammer was about to taste blood. Ninety-one percent.
A slightly flustered sentence actually made the pirate stop his movements, and his movements froze there.
Saza, who breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, hurriedly continued: "Don't tell me, just rely on you pirates who are five big and three rough to find out the inside information about the cargo on the merchant ship. Your partner is really quite shrewd," the information collected so far, in fact, he also has the answer in his heart who is the biggest black hand behind this incident, but he still didn't say it without confirmation, "However, you still failed, because the shipbuilder caught the traitor, and he knew that the news was leaked, so he planned to make you pounce." The operation failed, and that is enough reason for them to abandon you," ninety-three percent.
The pirate was silent for a moment, then ready to move again: "Thank you for your statement, I already know all this!"
"Do you really know everything?" Saza shouted again, judging by the other party's reaction, he was the leader of the pirates, "Dear chief, didn't you notice? I'm a mage." ”
"So what?"
"Maybe the shippers have brought people to fight you before, but apart from the seafolk who wield their weapons indiscriminately, are there any mages, are there any warriors on the coast?"
Under Saza's questioning, the pirate froze his movements. Ninety-six percent.
"No!, right?" Saza continued, "Then guess how you offended us mages and warriors. Well, I don't think there's any need to wait until dawn to announce the answer, because I was on the looted merchant ship with my father, a warrior leader. Gradually, the tone of his voice has calmed down from panic, and now he even has some calmness.
"I can tell you, your friend with a good eye doesn't know this, he knows very well that my father is on the merchant ship! ”
The pirates began to refute the fact that they were unwilling to accept: "Why do you say that?"
"Do you think a shrewd enough person would do with him after he gets the news of a traitor, and put him back to work, and then accidentally show his legs?" After a chuckle, the mage continued, "Don't be stupid, my pirate, but if you are asked to deal with it, you will choose to kill people." "Ninety-eight percent, we can't delay any longer, we must succeed in one go!
Saza slowly raised his arm: "Yes! That's right, it's not because of your failure that you became an outcast. It's that your friends are going to take advantage of you in the first place, and then let you go, die!"
The wind struck, and the pirate sensed the danger and held the hammer in front of him.
The wind is pervasive! In the wind, the blue fangs are exposed. The wind pushed the pirate as it bit at him, leaving countless rifts.
This time, the power of the Wind Tooth was much greater than when it was successfully cast for the first time, after all, Saza was already a Zero-Order Level 2 at this time.
Saza was glad that Mason had just given him a lesson in fooling before tonight.
"How's it like?" he asked, patting the fallen leaves on his shoulder, straightening up, and smiling.