Chapter 220: On the Void Ship 5
After trying it out for a while, Siegel learns that Naegus's weapon is powerful, but it also has its weaknesses, which are enormous and require a constant supply of energy. The pattern on Siegel's body quickly dimmed, and then the mace in his hand turned into an ordinary steel weapon, no longer powerful and destructive.
The surrounding magical energy was converted into plasma, which was slowly replenished into Siegel's body. He can't stop this supplement, but he doesn't feel bad either. Putting down the mace, Siegel returned to the original position of the production line with the mound, ready to watch it again.
With the huge roar of the machine, Siegel looked at the weapon-making process over and over again until he had imprinted them all in his head. Such efforts were not without effect, and he gradually discovered the patterns in the runes.
If you pick up the finished product directly, those complex and unintersecting lines are not understandable at all, but if you learn its manufacturing sequence from the manufacturing process, you can discover its secrets. Narcos imprinted runes beneath the surface of the object, containing the words of the Abyss and the Celestial Realm, and then twisted and pictographed them, cleverly concealed and strung together with lines. On the surface of the item, only the intersecting lines can be seen, and the runes underneath can not be seen at all. If you want to disassemble the line, you will destroy the runes underneath, and you can still hide the secret.
Nakus did something almost impossible, raising the level of application of runes and magic array techniques to a high level. But such a sophisticated structure can only allow electricity to pass through, and the four basic elements of water, fire, wind, and earth are tangible and qualitative, and cannot directly act on the rune line, and must be transformed.
Siegel learns the secret of their runes. But he knew he wouldn't be able to achieve the same level of operational accuracy as Nakus. Just like dwarves use runes. Although they are all the same character. But different dwarves will have different styles in their portrayals. A small difference can make a big difference. Naegus's style is small and hidden, and Siegel can copy these runes, but he can't make them that small.
If Siegel were to make the intricate runes on the hammer, he would need to carve them with the volume of a mountain. But if someone could wield a mountain, they would have already reached the strength of a skeleton warrior, so why need runes?
Theoretically, as long as they find a way to cut off the supply of weapons to the Naegos warriors, they will not be difficult to defeat. But what kind of spell could work on such a tiny rune structure? Siegel remembered his spell. It already dissipates upon contact with the Golden Skull's body, suggesting that Nakuth's spells make other spells unstable. The more precise a spell is, the more stable it needs to be, especially if you want to manipulate it in a subtle way.
Siegel pondered, was there no other way but to be finer and finer than Naegus?
He picked up the mace repeatedly, carefully feeling the process of energy transformation. The energy stored in the body is absorbed and then replenished from the surrounding area. If you stand on the plasma line, the replenishment speed is very fast, and if you are close to the Fire Soul Crystal, place your hand on the white lines on its surface. The lost energy can be filled up almost instantly. There must have been a similar part on the armor of the Golden Skull Warrior back then. It's just that they were all damaged in battle.
Since there is magical energy here, why not do some experiments?Siegel took out the rune stone and parchment from the space bag, and experimented with his ideas step by step. The first thing he thought of was a magic circle that would isolate the electric energy, using the method of dispelling the elements to isolate the plasma. However, Nakus's equipment is basically self-contained, and it is very efficient at transforming energy forms other than plasma, and elemental magic is either rejected or absorbed, and it is difficult to act in the air. In order for Siegel's circle to be effective, it must maintain direct contact, which cannot be done in actual combat, so he can only give up.
Later, he experimented with the next method. The runic lines of Nakhus are isolated from each other using an amber-like substance, which, if produced in large quantities, prevents the Skeleton Warrior from absorbing plasma energy from the surrounding area. He thought of a slime monster, or wrapping an enemy with a spray gun to cut off the energy supply. Siegel set up an alchemy circle and continuously took raw materials from the surroundings for analysis. The results were disappointing, the composition of the material was so complex that it was impossible to parse at his current level, and it was not possible.
Siegel retracted the alchemy materials into the space bag and sat on the ground thinking quietly. Although the roar of the machines around him was still deafening, he was so immersed in his mind that he couldn't hear the noise without it. Everything in the world of meditation is like a windless sea, calm and deep, which can calm his mind. In the world of ideas, Siegel constantly imagines situations, makes bold assumptions, and patiently verifies them.
In the real world, where machines can create a mace every ten minutes to arm the thousands of skeleton warriors sealed in the room, it seems to be an inexplicable situation. The most powerful of the undead creatures is their numbers and the melee abilities that come with them, and Nacoth continues to advance this ability, using his unique runic technology to ensure an advantage - all those who are hostile to the Skull army of Nacoth cannot use magic or metal, and will eventually have to use their own weakness to confront the strength of the skeleton army.
This is very similar to the design idea of the Dragon Lion Cliff Guardian Golem, using terrain and a magic circle that works together, limiting intruders to melee combat to fight the golem. Siegel disrupted the designer's train of thought by digging up the platform, depriving them of a pre-emptive advantage, and then using the power of siege weapons on a pre-set home field to finish the golem.
But if they want to destroy the rune system of Nakhus with more advanced means, they have studied the technology for thousands of years? This is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and it must be thought of in a different way.
Siegel sits on the floor like a sculpture, while Tsukasa Twin walks back and forth in the manufacturing room, satisfying his curiosity. It was very similar to the world he originally lived in, mechanical, regular, and unchanging. The roar around him was very pleasant music to him, only a little worse than the country tunes.
But after a long time, he also began to feel bored, and boredom would cause headaches. To alleviate this feeling, he began to do all kinds of weird moves in front of Siegel. Dance-like. But more like a convulsion. Siegel, who was contemplating, paid no attention to him at all. Usually in meditation, it is the raven Baron who guards and guards him, but now there is no such sentry.
Using the body of the dead to meditate is very dangerous because it is very difficult to get out of a meditative state without physical needs. Hunger, thirst, and fatigue are all signals of the body's self-preservation, as well as warning voices before the soul gets tired. In order to find a countermeasure as quickly as possible, Siegel forgot about this in the roar. There was no change in the sun, moon and stars, and the passage of time was imperceptible, so he sat motionless. I don't know how long it took.
The machines that make maces can't run all the time, and they're constantly draining the energy of the Flame Soul Crystals, and they will run out one day. Nakus plundered the worlds to supplement this consumption. The glowing hieroglyphs draw the power of the Flame Soul Crystal, making it smaller and smaller until it disappears. The gears have no driving force, the conveyor belts are no longer running, the steam stops, and everything is quiet.
The dramatic change in the environment finally awakens Siegel in meditation. He looked around, not knowing how long it had been. It's long gone with the shadow of Erdu. The surrounding light began to dim, and the machine needed to go to sleep. However, this will not bother the undead with dark vision. Siegel then noticed the hieroglyphs that were fading from the base of the Flame Crystal.
"Extract the power of the Flame Soul Crystal, and drive the machine - why aren't these hieroglyphs on the base of the Flame Soul Crystal tiny, hidden, and linear?" said to himself, a faint thought in his mind.
He went to the base where the Flame Soul Crystal was placed, and carefully observed and studied the function of the device. In order to be able to place Fire Soul Crystals of different sizes and shapes, the runes that absorb and transform and the patterns on the weapons are two styles, and they are made using the same dragon script as the mage spell. Although the runes are still very complex, they can be imitated for Siegel.
"Using this rune can provide energy to surrounding magical items," Siegel said to himself, "If you use it to power golems, you can greatly reduce the cost of manufacturing, and the same goes for other magical items." This can be used in many places and is a separate mechanical process. ”
The runes used by the Nakuth warriors are self-contained, but this one is self-contained. Like a sailing battleship, it is a combination of different structures and systems, and any one failure can lead to the collapse of the whole thing. Since it is almost impossible to block the energy supply system of Nakus, what about increasing their consumption?
Magic items do not actively consume energy, and must be given the correct command by the user. Just like a flying cloak does not fly into the sky on its own, it must be ordered by the user.
But does it have to be so?
The Elemental Rune Guardian breaks through the time limit for summoning elemental spells, using the runes of the Dwarves, but in the end the key to making this spell constant is the gnome's new illusion system. It's hard to outdo them from the path that Naegus has been doing for countless years, but using the latest spell technology and finding a different path may have an unexpected effect.
When the surrounding magical equipment needs energy, it will be extracted from the Flame Soul Crystal, which is the function of the device in Siegel's hand. What if you trick it into thinking that it needs an infinite supply of magical energy around it? Presumably, the Flame Soul Crystal will be consumed quickly. Increase the range of absorption, just like creating Heim Collar's Elemental Gathering Circle, and then consume all the absorbed energy. As long as this energy is not provided to the Nakuth warriors, it is equivalent to cutting off their source of power.
Intercept the continuous flow of the plasma river in a blocked way, and then direct it to the boundless sea.
Siegel just did what he said and got busy in this silent and dark factory. There are materials collected from various worlds, precious, scarce, and useful, all of which have been made into cold weapon production lines. Siegel dismantled them, smelted them with an alchemy circle, and then began to create a giant flame soul crystal absorption circle.
The Elemental Array of the Heim Territory can cover a range of thirty miles, and the "Void Ship" is not that large, so there is not much room for improvement in this regard. Siegel was very grateful that his previous experience in making magic circles, as well as the training in the field of alchemy in the gold mine construction project, had helped him a lot.
The Void Ship of Nakuth digested the fragments of the other worlds, and then suspended silently in the void, so that no one could see that it was moving. The consciousness of the master radiates out, looking for a world with a rift in the border, and the next hunt and absorption. The tentacles of its spirit stretched out so far that he didn't even notice that in a corner of his body, a magic array called "Virus No. 1" by the later generations of the Nakusi clan was being constructed. (To be continued......)
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