Chapter 100: The Hammer of a Million (Part II)
Finally getting to daybreak, Jonah walked out of the room and began to search the beast's back, this time not long to find a shallow pit dug by hand on the bagged back of the ghost Bahamas, filled with sand and dirt due to its age.
This is a node of the sub-array. Jonah pulls out a pen and paper and draws a rough outline of the ghost Bahamas, marking the first node. The second emerald was found forty yards away, and there was no obvious connection between the two nodes, and it was unknown what the original mentor used as a bridge for the flow of energy.
As the search deepened, more and more emerald nodes were marked on the drawings, and before the tail of the giant beast was completed, more than a hundred black dots were densely drawn on the papyrus, making Jonah dizzy. "Wait...... I see!" His steps stumbled over the bulging skin, and when he looked down, it turned out to be the ghost Bahamian bulge and the thick veins on the surface of the skin, and Jonah suddenly realized, and connected the nodes with charcoal according to the direction of the blood vessels of the giant beast, and Gilbernayon actually used the flowing blood as a carrier of star energy, which was really unheard of!
Climbing up a gentle slope, the wind suddenly became fierce, and remembering the embarrassment of the first day here, Jonah firmly grasped the clump of thorns with his hand and moved cautiously. For some reason, the strong wind still hurt like a knife on his face, but it seemed to have a much smaller impact on his progress, and his body would no longer shake like the grass in the wind. It must be because of the increased physical strength!!, the astrologer's apprentice nodded secretly, full of gratitude to the spirit in the bottle.
As the day passed, and Materraktili faded into the horizon, Jonah returned to the room at the back of the ghost Bahamas. He sat on the floor, grabbed a bottle of water, drank it, and then gulped down the crackers and cheese. The thick stack of drawings was a great takeaway from his trip, and in addition to that, he walked to the head of the giant beast and saw the appearance of the son of the dragon with his own eyes. The ghost Bahama has a huge skull with strange spines, three pairs of blood-red eyes and countless tentacles that flutter in the wind, and the lower part of its body has the same structure as the sandeater, but unlike the slow-moving worm, the giant beast crawls quickly on the sand with six thick legs on its side, and it also has a powerful tail full of thorns, and Jonah has no doubt that a single swing of the tail can smash a sailboat the size of "The Wind of Bactria" to pieces.
It is a miracle that Miss Maximilien's - no, Princess Maximilian - Oasis escaped after an encounter with the ghost Bahamas, leaving only a few non-fatal wounds, and perhaps only the fastest "Oasis" in the desert can avoid the high-speed onslaught of the behemoth. Jonah couldn't help but think.
After resting for a while, the astrologer apprentice began to study the sub-star array left by the first master, and the three hundred and sixty nodes connected by blood vessels clearly showed the structure of an energy storage array, the principle was not complicated, Jonah quickly understood, and he quickly fell into fear: he couldn't imagine that there was such a huge energy body in the world, this is a destructive force that does not belong to the world, a power that can make the entire continent tremble in fear!
In astrology textbooks, the unit used to indicate the energy of the array is called "Lapidos", which was created by the ninth-level astrology master Killian Lapidos, and is simply called "degrees". The energy of one week in a low-efficiency test array composed of gypsum and talc is called 1 degree, the energy of the illumination array is about 2 degrees, and the maximum power output is 5 degrees, the output energy of the "Scorching Ray" is about 15 to 20 degrees, the output of the "Mushroom Farm Trident" modified by Jonah is about 30 to 50 degrees, the "gravity trial" of Mr. Koshavoy is about 250 to 300 degrees, and the output of the attack array "Streamer" is about 400 to 500 degrees if the maximum energy is stored. The "Failed Streamer" and "Failed Gravitational Judgment" that Jonah had used only reached 15 to 30 degrees of energy, far from the original power of the Star Array. The above is just general data, the increase in the strength of the astrologer himself will give a bonus to the output power of the star array, and some forbidden star arrays, such as the "blade resonance chamber" used by the eighth-level astrologer Erlan Daintrier to sacrifice his own life, can reach a terrifying 8,000 to 10,000 degrees, which is generally considered to be the largest star power that an astrologer can control.
However, according to the calculation of the energy storage star array arranged by the original mentor Gilberto Gilberneon on the back of the ghost Bahamas, after a long period of accumulation, the energy stored in the body of the dragon son has almost reached the critical point of the star array.
"One, a million degrees......" The astrologer's apprentice read his calculations in a trembling voice.
1,000,000 degrees of star power. If a 10,000-degree "Blade Resonance Chamber" can easily destroy a city, how much damage can a 1,000,000-degree energy from the vast starry sky do? Jonah couldn't imagine, and he didn't dare to imagine, he only knew that if the energy on the giant beast was released in an explosion, it would completely change the history of the entire continent.
Is that what prophecy is all about?
He suddenly came to his senses. Could it be that Seglas the Betrayer foresaw that the ghost Bahamas was carrying the devastating energy of the endless sea of sand, and could be overloaded by the stars and turn into the flames of hell at any time?
"Just kidding......" Jonah muttered to himself as he sat in the corner, he was only a seventeen-year-old astrologer's apprentice, why did Creation have to be so tricky and entrusted him with such a difficult task?
The first generation of mentors must not have expected that the space-time turbulence of "Ann Lithea" would involve itself in the other world, leaving an eternal mutilation of the star array, in his plan, the ghost Bahamas can be filled with the energy of the sub-star array by running dozens of times according to the route of the parent star array, and trigger the star array function to complete the transformation. Who would have thought that because of the small defects in the drawings, the son of the dragon would be turned into a ghost rampaging in the sand sea, and hundreds of years later, it would become a bomb that could detonate at any time?
Immersed in the study of the two drawings again, the astrologer's apprentice's originally strong faith melted as quickly as ice cubes in the sun, and the missing part of the parent star array played the role of triggering, modulating, decreasing, and softening, ensuring that the energy of the sub-star array would not run rampant and flow, or even cause an explosion. And the auxiliary star array he drew could only cause the energy of the sub-star array to forcibly break through the level of the parent star array and activate the function of the entire array, but no one could guarantee that the energy on the giant beast would obediently flow into the place where it should go, and the power of the 1,000,000-degree stars, even if a drop of liquid leaked, would turn into a monstrous torrent.
The spring nights weren't too cold, but Jonah couldn't help but shiver. He may become the savior of the world, or he may become the sinner of the continent, but in any case, he must help the ghost Bahamas through the final step, because the sub-star array has long been overwhelmed, and Jonah has found tiny cracks in many emeralds, and once the gems collapse, the star array will turn into a fiery furnace of disordered energy. He didn't know which interstellar line and which nature of energy the original mentor used, but judging by the principle, it was most likely the power of time and space that Gilbernayon had studied all his life, allowing the Son of the Dragon to reshape his body in the chaotic space-time created by the star array. Once this power gets out of control, the Star Array will smash the barriers of time and space like a sledgehammer, bringing chaos to nothingness, and the tragedy of Ariania will be repeated throughout the Southern Continent.
The astrologer apprentice with complicated thoughts finally waited for midnight to fall, and couldn't wait to take out the glass bottle and unscrew the cap, and the moonlight elf flew out lazily, sat on his shoulder and yawned: "Once you know that the curse has not been lifted, you will have no motivation at all...... Wandering around, admiring beautiful men, and collecting sparkling gems, this is the life that a moonlight elf should live!...... Owe...... It's boring to be with a guy like you now......"
"Hurry up and connect me to the ghost Bahamas right away. Jonah said with a stern expression on his face, a tight frown.
Xiao Ling's eyes widened in surprise: "Drink, you have a big temper." If I hadn't wanted to lift the curse, I would have signed a master-slave contract with you to make you my servant, little brat, don't you think it's rude to speak to a noble magical elf lady in such a tone?"
Jonah reached out and grabbed the elf's body, staring into her blue eyes: "Listen, little girl, this is a very critical time, I don't have time to Lang Fei, you must help me communicate with the Son of the Dragon, and explain to you later!"
"**!" The moonlight elf kicked and beat the demon who escaped from the clutches of the humans, holding his chest and levitating in the air, and said with tears in his eyes: "You bastard!"
"Whatever, now!" The astrologer apprentice slapped the staff viciously, and the heavy sense of mental oppression spread around the center of Silafina, one of the seven artifacts, and the little girl's body fell, and he quickly retreated a few yards, staring at the ordinary staff in disbelief: "That's ...... You ......"
After observing in disbelief for a long time, the magic elf finally gave up resistance, lowered his head and obediently flew into the palm of Jonah's hand: "Okay, now that you have established a connection with the big stupid beast, you can talk." ”
"Human friends. The Dragon's son's deep voice rang out.
"It's an adventure, I'm not absolutely sure. "But you have to take the risk, because you can't wait any longer." ”
"I understand that the turmoil of energy for more than a decade has been tormenting my soul all the time. The Ghost Bahamas responded without hesitation, "No matter what the cost, I'm willing to bear it." ”