Chapter 9: The Swamp
After becoming a third-level magician, the next thing Chris has to master is third-level earth magic. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Like qi magic, there is only one third-level earth magic.
Swamp Technique.
Turns the designated area into a swamp.
It's as simple as that.
However, the requirements for casting are very complex, and it is no longer a simple process of "gathering-pulling-chanting-casting".
It requires the caster to perform extremely focused mental override after completing the above steps.
Of course, it is the designated area that is covered, so that the earth elemental in the area resonates with it, and then begins to decompose, revert to the earth elemental, and finally turn into a swamp - which almost touches the requirements of the fourth or fifth level of magic.
This means that there is a time lag between the time the spell is cast and when it is completed, in other words, it does not take effect immediately after it is cast.
Therefore, in a one-on-one battle with a magician, casting such a spell requires the caster to have very accurate eyesight and anticipation.
But its basic effect lasts for a full thirty seconds - unless the caster's mental power is constantly overridden by it.
But Chris was looking forward to the magic.
The reason is simple, although this magic is not very aggressive - I have never heard of anyone being suffocated by one of the magician's swamp spells, but it is indeed a control magic.
Chris has always been envious of the control magic within the water magic, even the wood one. However, the scope of his magic learning is limited to the air and earth systems.
Air magic is mainly attack, and earth magic is known for defense.
As a result, Chris has no better means of containing the battle in magic.
Therefore, the appearance of this swamp technique slightly compensates for the lack of this aspect.
The effect of the swamp technique is not large, but it is a circular area close to five meters - this is under normal circumstances.
However, if the caster's psychic power range increases, this range will also increase.
Thirty seconds, what can be done in such a small amount of time.
After mastering the swamp technique, Chris immediately tried a previous idea, and within thirty seconds, he could cast four swamp spells in a row without interruption.
The clearing in front of me turned into a swamp - with a solid void in the middle of it, and then the first swamp froze in an instant, then the second, then the third.
Luckily, the swamp spell has become so stealthy that no one but the caster can tell it from the ground - it's no different from the ground before.
Chris plunged his hand into the swamp, which was different from the real swamp, as if the area he had penetrated had become a semi-liquid, and there seemed to be a faint attraction deeper into it, and it could not even bear the weight of a small worm.
Chris threw a fist-sized boulder into it, making a dull "poof" sound, and the stone sank into it and disappeared, but there was no splash or mud.
Quietly watching the fast swamp until it solidified, Chris reached out and touched the fast ground, which was solid again as before.
After thinking about it, Chris closed his eyes and stared, and recast a swamp technique, and then, when he opened his eyes, he expanded the area covered by his spiritual power to a range of six meters.
Succeed!
Six meters, it should not have reached the range of his maximum mental power.
Again and again, I tried to increase the scope.
Chris finally determined that it was not until he was eight meters old that his mental strength had a hint of "struggling".
In other words, in battle, the cast of the swamp spell cannot exceed this range at most, otherwise the cast time will be affected. That is clearly undesirable.
This is followed by the second step to try.
Chris casually cast a swamp spell, and after confirming that it was successful, he covered it with spiritual power, suppressing the active earth elemental in it little by little, forcibly interrupting the resonance between the earth element he cast and the ground earth element.
But the two are still the same.
Fail!
Is this assumption wrong?
Resonance is the most common phenomenon after the magician casts the spell, whether it is pulling the qi element from the magic pool, then condensing it to the palm of the hand, and finally casting it through the guidance of the spell, the qi element in the hand and the qi element in the air will resonate, at that moment, all the qi elements in contact around the two seem to be activated, showing an active state.
But how do you suppress their activity?
It's like a group of children coming to another group of children, the new children are all curious and inquisitive, and the original group of children will also feel curious and excited.
If you want to make all the children quiet down for a short time, blindly suppressing it may not be able to keep all the children in their mood.
How can we make them calm down in the shortest possible time?
Chris suddenly remembered the vacuum cleaner in his previous life.
The original invention of the vacuum cleaner was full of drama, its original principle was to use the power of the wind to blow the dust away, but when it was tried at the release site, the whole field was full of dust, which had to end in failure, and then the inventor suddenly realized that it was more effective to suck the dust than to blow it away.
Then, the original "dust collector" became the later "vacuum cleaner".
Sometimes, you can't keep moving forward, so you might as well try it in the opposite direction.
Casting the Earth Elemental makes it resonate with the Earth Elemental on the ground, and it can't be suppressed, so can you take back the Earth Elemental that was cast before?
So, just like the group of children, if you want to get them to clean up, take the new group of children with you.
Chris's heart lit up.
Cast the Swamp Spell again, and when the two of them resonate, meditatively absorb all of the earth elements you cast back into the magic pool.
Squatted down again and touched the swamp beneath his feet.
Chris smiled.
It worked!
As long as the opponent steps into the swamp, Chris can make the swamp freeze in that instant, achieving the effect of controlling the opponent. That's what Chris envisioned!
It's just that if you don't have super mental power, it's very difficult to do this.
The appearance of this swamp spell marked a diversification in the way Chris fought.
Chris took a deep breath, and then, in addition to the various daily strengthening cultivation, he waited for the final assessment competition to begin.