Previously, the magic crystal spell once required krypton life to be able to cast;

Later, the birth of the meditation method led to a difference between physical strength and life force in the output, and the witch doctors mastered the way to generate magic crystals without consuming life.

But even so, the 'Stamina Crystal Casting' has never been mainstream, and for the past few decades, it has been used almost exclusively as a means of studying disturbances within the Crystal, rather than being used directly.

The reason for this is also the emergence of the 'Runic Language', a more convenient, controllable, and highly free way of casting spells, which took over the banner at the beginning of its birth and became the main force of spell casting on the application side of the witch doctor.

And later, the appearance of totem tools pushed down the magic crystal casting in addition to scientific research (being studied) and the room for turning over on the application side....

After all, even after the Meditation Method appeared, the magic crystal casting still required the physical strength of the witch doctors to be realized;

But on the totem casting side, it can be supplied by the internal energy of the spell plant, and what needs to be consumed to promote the totem effect is nothing more than some acquired compounds, or even just the natural nutrients obtained from the earth.

Among them, rune magic has become the darling of witch doctors from the beginning with its strong plasticity and researchability;

On the totem tool side, although it shows shortcomings such as lack of flexibility, single release mode, and low plasticity, it has also become the main force in large-scale application because of its advantages in mass production capacity, alternative energy supply means, and strong popularity, helping the Republic to run into the era of giant ship cannon and totem industrialization.

As a result, there was not much room for the application of magic crystal casting, and for a long time before, this kind of casting method was only in the laboratory, and was used to study spell-like disturbances.

But now, when faced with a high-level magic crystal that they had never seen before, the witch doctors had an additional factor that they had to pick up, an attack effect that they simply couldn't transform into runic language at this stage;

That is, the cave wolf and one of the higher salamanders had already carried the wounds that were like appendages.

The witch doctors had long suspected that these two injuries should be the after-effects of their attacks on each other, but after the subsequent cultural deconstruction of the disturbance inside the High Magic Crystal, the results of the spells achieved were not able to reproduce similar damage effects;

Even if Nesta created a new spell based on a series of previous accumulations, it could only deal pure physical damage in the end, and did not exhibit the same continuous damage characteristics as the previous two.

Therefore, the witch doctors decided to directly use the magic crystal to cast a spell and attack the 'primitive spell', in an attempt to reduce the variables and figure out the difference as much as possible.

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It is known that a magic crystal can produce a variety of effects on its original owner, whether they are simple or complex, or they can bless oneself or damage opponents;

Even if it's just a small wind wolf, the spell-like abilities of its magic crystal have quite a lot of categories and controllability within the category.

For example, the lowest-level Wind Wolf has three types of spells: 'Wind Blade', 'Fangs and Claws', and 'Wind Run', and each spell has quite fine controllability.....

When 'Wind Blade' is used, you can either attack with a single blade or switch between a 'double blade' and a 'triple blade'.

When 'Fangs and Claws' are used by the Wind Wolf again, not only will the blessing strength change according to the needs of different occasions, but also the refinement options such as 'Strengthening Teeth Only' and 'Strengthening Claws Only' can be carried out.

In addition, in the actual battle, the wind wolves can also independently complete the 'right front paw needs to be strengthened during the next attack', which is more precise in terms of time and skill control, so as to reduce their own energy consumption;

The same is true for 'Wind Walk', which is under the control of Wind Wolf itself in terms of the degree of enhancement and duration.

However, when the Magic Shard is activated by the Witch Doctors, it can usually only use the most brutal attack methods, and its effect is low-directed, almost non-controllable, and extremely inefficient.....

In fact, under the 'injection' of physical energy, many natural disturbances in the magic crystal will respond to varying degrees, which is one of the reasons why witch doctors can use magic crystals to study spells;

However, when it comes to the activation link, because the magic crystal casting is activated by the accumulation of energy, and in this process, the natural disturbance in the magic crystal cannot be controlled by the witch doctor, so what can be stimulated is often the effect that is the most simple and crude process and has the lowest generation threshold.

For example, when urging the Wind Wolf Crystal, the simplest and most brutal 'Wind Blade', and the most brainless 'Single Wind Blade', will become the most prioritized effect;

And when all the energy injected is vented in the form of a 'single wind blade', the rest of the more complex spell-like disturbances will be 'dumb fire';

The same is true for the next round of input stamina, unless the 'Instantaneous Input Efficiency' is changed, the effect of 'Single Wind Blade' will almost always appear.

Of course, this does not mean that the inspired spell-like spell will be the least powerful, simple and rough does not exactly equal low power, at least the 'single wind blade' is higher than the 'double' and 'triple wind blade' in terms of fixed target attack effect.

Shifting his gaze to the activation of the magic crystals produced by the higher salamanders, it also exhibits a single effect based on the above reasons.

In the verification stage, including Nesta himself, a total of 5 third-order and second-order witch doctors initially urged him to do so;

After spending up to six hours of uninterrupted 'physical mana', they were able to bring their inner spells to the activation threshold, creating and firing a single Salamander-style Black Ridge Gold.

The high energy consumption and the long time it takes make the witch doctors feel a lot of trouble, but the power caused by it is really eye-opening for them....

The 'cannonball' is an all-black prismatic structure, and its shape is 12 black prisms with a length of 7 m and an average diameter of 300 mm.

And since the 'cannonball' is a product generated through the integration of spell-like spells, the 'Void Breaking' effect, which has been neglected before, has also been reflected in the following experimental attacks.

The 'Strongest Spear' must be tested with the strongest shield - the three-dimensional totem armor that represents the highest level of defense at this stage of the headquarters.

This kind of armor can be divided into different levels according to the level of totem stacking and the difference in base material, according to the defensive effect that can be achieved.

At this time, the target is the heavy armor with the largest number of totems superimposed on the base of the mother tree material and the standard size, which is the highest defense product that can resist all the attack methods of the headquarters without damage;

Neither the 520mm Heavy Artillery Bombardment, nor the 203mm Armor Piercing Cannon could directly attack with the aforementioned Reactor Weapon in direct attack, nor did Nesta directly attack it with the aforementioned Reactor Weapon directly attacked, nor was it capable of inflicting any damage on it with the Totem effect enabled.

However, even the heavy armor of this level of protection was pierced by the blow of the high-grade magic crystal, and the aperture exceeded three times the diameter of the black prismatic gold itself, leaving a dense dark red pattern around the perimeter of the piercing.

After this blow, there was not even a trace of ash left at the scene, the piercing area seemed to be a hole from the beginning, and the black gold that was used as a cannonball disappeared far from the ground up at a speed that Nesta's vision could track.

But at this time, the witch doctors did not have time to be shocked by its lethal power, because the lines that seemed to be constantly dissipating the material itself, as well as the totemic structure within it, after the attack ended, seemed to be the 'additional damage' they had been looking for;

And from the comparison between the 'Rune Spell Version' and the 'Magic Crystal Casting Version', it can be found that the destructive effect caused by the latter far exceeds the former, which must be related to the degree of analysis of the disturbance effect of the spells in the magic crystal, but it also has nothing to do with this 'additional damage'.

Therefore, in order to confirm and realistically grasp the specific power parameters of this attack, the witch doctors' experimental process did not stop at this moment.

After that, they used the method of adding armor behind armor, using different materials as the base, and carried out bombardment tests with more layers of armor.

But before we can elaborate on the results, we may need to explain the principle of the effectiveness of the 'Totem Armor'...

It is worth mentioning that the strengthening of the protection of the totem does not exist in the form of a 'magic shield' in the previous life, but through the enhancement of the properties of the material itself, so as to achieve the 'armor' effect.

Therefore, the performance of the armor is not only positively correlated with the level of totem inscription, but also the original quality of the material will also have a huge impact on the final effect.

The high-strength wood development capabilities of the headquarters are often more than ten times more protective than the material itself when supplemented by three-dimensional inscription technology in the material.

But at the same time, because it doesn't have a separate protective layer like the 'energy shield', the attack effect still needs to be directly faced by the strengthened material itself.

Therefore, when attacked enough to break the defense, even if it is only slightly damaged, the subsequent protective effect will be reduced due to the loss of part of the totem structure, until the three-dimensional inscription is completely ineffective in the area.

That is to say, damage to the load-bearing material = damage to the totem = decrease in protective performance = decrease in the bearing capacity of material damage.....

Therefore, as long as a damage method with strong adhesion and erosion characteristics such as this dark red pattern is formed, the subsequent damage speed will become faster and faster.

Of course, the witch doctors are not without countermeasures;

In the design of large-scale equipment such as the 'totem battleship', the design concept of the 'armor damage management system' is already possessed at this time, and the preventive measures based on 'abandonment', 'regeneration', 'inscription' and other means are the functions it can play;

As long as the design effect can be improved, there is no need to worry about the armor effect getting lower and lower after the initial break, provided that it does not cause irreversible huge losses at the first time of attack.

After a rough description of the concept of the armor's effectiveness, turn your gaze back to the test at hand....

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In order to verify the effect of the attack, the witch doctors prepared different targets;

First, the mother tree material, the highest standard of totem inscription (heavy armor), does not have the ability to self-damage management, the side length is 1.5 meters, the thickness is up to 500mm, a total of ten, each spaced 1 meter apart in a longitudinal arrangement;

The attack effect of the High Magic Crystal reaches its limit at the third layer of armor;

In the process of penetrating the first and second layers of armor, the holes left by the black gold became smaller and smaller, and when the third layer of penetration was completed, it was stuck in the armor itself.

However, the dark red lines that continued to increase damage were left on top of the 3 layers of totem armor in front and back of the direct attack effect, and continued to destroy at a considerable speed;

As the totem area continued to fail, the three layers of armor were completely wiped out after one light, three lights, and eight lights.

second, a large cube made of mother tree material, without totem protection, and a side length of 30 meters;

The cube was pierced by a single blow, leaving behind a cone-shaped crater up to 30 meters deep and more than 10 meters wide at the 'bowl mouth';

The dark red lines were still left on the pit wall, and this time the lines invaded the xylum layer quite quickly, and the subsequent only twenty lights completely wiped out the huge cube as a target.

thirdly, steel and wood, heavy armor, 1.5 meters long and 500 mm thick (the standard armor of the planned battleship), a total of ten, each spaced 1 meter apart in a longitudinal arrangement;

The attack prompted by the high-level magic crystal completely wiped out the first layer of armor, and then penetrated the fourth layer of armor with different apertures, and finally stuck at the sixth layer;

Similarly, all armor that faces a direct attack and retains part of its structure has a dark red vein;

Under the erosion of these textures, the heaviest layers 2 and 3 of the armor disappeared after only a few minutes each, while the remaining 4-6 layers lasted 15 minutes, 40 minutes, and nearly 2 lights.

Fourth, it is made of steel and wood, with a long cube of 30 meters and no armor effect;

This time, the cube was hit by a large flat-topped conical wound.

The diameter of the piercing is 30 meters before and 15 meters after the piercing, but the depth is only 14 meters, because the remaining 16 meters disappear in the initial attack;

In other words, the diameter before piercing is 30 meters because the cube is only 30 meters long;

In addition, the witch doctors did observe the dark red veins on the inner wall of the piercing, but this time they only had less than 3 minutes of time to look at, as the entire cube was then eroded from the inside to the outside in less than 3 minutes, and finally disappeared in place entirely.

The consequences of this series of attacks made the witch doctors feel terrified, this is just a 'magic crystal spell', if the high salamander is allowed to perform it himself, it may cause some kind of tragedy;

Fortunately, in the previous capture operation, he managed to trap the entire head of the higher salamander in the first place, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable.

But I'm afraid it's just a fleeting emotion, and the most important thing at this stage is to further analyze what this dark red pattern is, and what kind of characteristics it has....

After repeating the test many times, the witch doctors who participated in the trial gradually came to a clear understanding:

First of all, the dark red veins have a strong, but unknown principle, corrosiveness, which is manifested in the specific manifestation of annihilation, and the more concentrated the veins, the faster the annihilation occurs;

Second, this pattern does not transfer to non-target units, but only diligently expands from the center to the four sides of the target until its attachment is completely eliminated.

Finally, although the dark red veins have a feeling of 'shining' and do exhibit lighting characteristics in dark environments, they do not bring any sense of temperature when touched.

These are superficial analyses based on observations, and the exact principles are not yet known to the witch doctors;

In addition, the Witch Doctors couldn't even tell if the corrosive effect was a by-product of a direct attack or a completely separate damage system.

But what can be judged now is that it is almost exactly the same as the cave wolf's injuries in the residual traces....

At the beginning, when the cave wolf was still dormant in the cave, there was a blue and red light on its body that was intertwining and flickering;

After the local cave wolf was imprisoned by the mother tree and forced into a deeper hibernation, the cyan glow was a little sluggish, revealing the dark red lines inside.

Moreover, the high-level salamander that was captured first before also had similar dark cyan lines....

If it is presumed that the dark red veins are indeed caused by the attack of the higher salamanders, then the cyan color of the cave wolf should be some kind of unique and homogeneous countermeasure;

And, from the dark cyan lines on the higher salamanders, it seems that further speculations can be made....

In other words, this 'counter-attack' can also be transferred to others through attacks, becoming an additional damage similar to the former.

So, is it possible to think that such means may be one of the characteristics of higher beings, and that they are 'things' that they possess according to their own ability biases, and that are more essential than the attack itself?

For witch doctors at this stage, this is actually a rather unsolvable problem;

However, because it has an attack power that exceeds the upper limit that can be achieved by all means of the current headquarters, although there are still many 'unknowns' in it, it does not affect it from becoming the 'big hole card' of the headquarters at this time.

Naturally, the hole cards have to deal with high-level magical beasts, so in order to verify its effect, the model Cave Wolf has once again become a new target.

The effect of the attack is indeed impressive, the cave wolf is wounded on the surface of its body and is forced to wake up in pain;

Under the blow, the black ridge gold entered the flesh about 3cm, but the annihilation and erosion effects were resisted, and the diameter of the outer mouth of the wound was only slightly larger than the diameter of the black ridge gold itself;

Although the annihilation effect did not appear directly, in the area around the wound, it also left a dark red pattern the size of a palm print, and its scale was much smaller than the ones that the Cave Wolf originally came with, which should be the reason why the witch doctors could not activate the high magic crystals at full power.

At this point, no one paid attention to the Cave Wolf's miserable howl of being trapped in the mother tree, and after a witch doctor stepped forward and pulled out the black-edged gold cannonball, the 'Charge Group', which had increased to 20 witch doctors, began to activate the magic crystal again to launch a second attack.

The second attack spawns after a light hour, but the attack falls on its side, apparently aiming at the previous wound;

Thankfully, the same part of the cave wolf's body was deliberately exposed, and the mother tree was not damaged by accidental injury....

In the third attack, the target was converted to the side of the skull, and it took 30 witch doctors 40 lights to complete the energy storage, the power remained unchanged, and the cannonball took away a large amount of hair and part of the muscular tissue;

In the fourth attack, the target remains the same, and the forty witch doctors take 35 lights to complete the charge, and the damage effect does not change;

Fifth, 50 Witch Doctors, 30 Light Points, the same attack effect;

Sixth, 60 Witch Doctors, 25 Light Points, and Attack Patterns are converted into Power Drop Scatter;

For the seventh time, 70 witch doctors, 25 light points, and attack mode are still scattered with reduced power;

On the eighth occasion, 80 witch doctors, 15 lamps, and a single shot of black prismatic gold power enhancement version, the cranial roof wound deepened, the bone was obviously damaged, and the dark red lines began to spread;

The ninth time, 90 witch doctors, 10 light points, the attack power is the same as the eighth, and the damage effect continues to deepen;

The tenth time, 100 witch doctors, five lanterns, the attack power is the same as the eighth and ninth times, and the damage effect continues to deepen;

The eleventh time, 110 witch doctors, instantaneous, the attack power is the same as the eighth, ninth, and tenth times, and the damage effect is deepened;

Twelfth, 127 Witch Doctors, instantaneous, attack mode is a high-power scatter, and the power of each shot is equivalent to that of an ordinary single shot.

By the time the verification had reached this point, the headquarters had pulled out all the pure witch doctors in existence, including nearly eighty witch doctors in the research room and nearly 50 witch doctors in the school;

The former doesn't need to be explained, naturally it is the regular witch doctors such as Nesta;

The latter, on the other hand, was the most diligent part of the first batch of tree elves, who had already stepped into the realm of formal witch doctors before the same batch of friends, and were specially seconded because of this experiment.

For the experiment itself, the increase in the number of witch doctors is equivalent to the increase in the efficiency of energy injection;

This boost had the effect of speeding up the 'overflow' speed when and before the 50 Witch Doctors went into battle together;

After more than 50 Witch Doctors, the effect of the spell was changed because the instantaneous energy injection efficiency exceeded the upper limit of the 'Single Shot Black Ridge Gold Normal Mode' and reached the threshold area where the rest of the attack methods were activated;

After that, the magic crystal was obviously much more sensitive, no longer simply shrinking the 'time', but more frequent 'effect' changes.

In fact, this situation will also happen on the rest of the magic crystals, in addition to the simple and crude 'priority trigger object', the magic crystal's spell-like activation effect can also be achieved by changing the instantaneous energy injection efficiency.

However, when a single Witch Doctor performs this operation, there will be a relatively clear maximum value of its own 'instantaneous output efficiency', and this value often does not reach the level of changing the output content of the magic crystal.

Therefore, in the case of a single witch doctor and a single magic crystal casting, the previous definition of 'only simple and crude spell-like spells' is correct;

Only when the number of Witch Doctors is piled up to a high point will the Shard be activated for the rest of its effects.

Of course, if the object is an ordinary low-level magic crystal, then naturally there is no need to pile up so many witch doctors for joint operations, under normal circumstances, depending on the level of the magic crystal, a single digit and more than ten witch doctors are enough.

However, the drawbacks of the 'controllability' of the magic crystal spell will not be changed by this method, and the effect of accumulating the number of witch doctors is only limited to this.

In addition, it is worth noting that there is a huge difference in energy supply between the magic crystal cast and the totem cast;

For the magic plants that are depicted with the totem, because the totem and the plant itself are one, the nutrients absorbed by the plant, whether it is a low-energy nutrient concentrate or a high-energy nutrient concentrate, can be directly converted into the internal energy that activates the totem.

As such, it does not require the Witch Doctors to provide power to the process itself.

However, in the process of casting the magic crystal, because the magic crystal and the magic plant are not one, but have strict boundaries;

At this stage, there is no effective way to convert energy between them, so it is impossible to use magic plants instead of witch doctors to supply energy to magic crystals like urging totems.

That is to say, this attack method can only be activated by a witch doctor or a war ancient tree with the same mental power and magic characteristics, and the efficiency of the former will be much higher than that of the latter due to the speed of thinking and other reasons;

And the rest, including war witches, warriors, and self-running spell plants, etc., are unable to complete the step of 'charging' the magic crystal due to their different defects, so naturally they cannot use the high-level magic crystal to attack.

However, despite its drawbacks, judging from the extent of the trauma suffered by the Cave Wolves in the 12 attacks before and after, the killing effect that the witch doctors could create with the High Magic Crystal was far beyond any attack method that the headquarters had at this stage.

Therefore, the magic crystal of the high-level salamander has become the biggest and most powerful hole card in the headquarters at this time, and there is no one for the time being.

Turning their attention to the Cave Wolf for now, when the second attack was over, the Witch Doctors made its skull a new target, dealing damage to it in the rest of the attacks.

The head of the cave wolf, especially the point where it was directly attacked, lost all protection from its superficial fur and muscles after four rounds of damage, revealing its dark cyan skull;

The next attack landed straight on the bare skull, and each blow made it much thinner, and the dark red lines were centered on the attack point, gradually spreading to a third of the area above the entire skull;

By the twelfth time, the upper third of the skull had been 'scraped' and only a transparent layer remained, and the witch doctors finally saw hope of completing the breakdown;

They first adjusted the position of its skull, and then attacked the weak point four times in succession from the side, an angle that would not hurt the mother tree even after penetration, and finally opened a large chunk of the cave wolf's skull, revealing the light cyan brain structure inside it, and the cyan magic crystal that was deeper than the bones...

In the process, perhaps after repeated strong vibrations, the cave wolf's howl gradually weakened and eventually disappeared completely, but the signs of its life were still strong and clear, so the witch doctors did not stop halfway.

When the skull is completely opened, it is natural to get the magic crystal...

This time, not only did the witch doctors completely remove the magic crystal, which was much smaller than the higher-level salamanders;

Based on the understanding of the wind wolf, the back of the cave wolf's head was taken out entirely, thus paralyzing its athletic ability.

The cave wolf has not yet reached the point where it can be reborn with blood, and the cells in its body have not yet evolved the ability to survive for a long time after leaving the body.... Or is it the reverse evolution in this regard?

When observing the back of the brain, the witch doctors found that when it completely left its body, the production rate of energy fluid in the cells began to slow down, and then slowly disappeared;

In the process, the remaining organelles will die, and the large nuclei will begin to destroy themselves in batches, eventually turning the entire back of the brain into a bluish dust that has not yet found value.

With the belief that there is nothing useless in the world, the witch doctors carefully stored the powder, and thus halted the planned follow-up of the entire brain - stripping it and dividing it into a more efficient cell fluid delivery device.

If this plan is successful, it will have the advantage that it will not be lethal to the cave wolf, but it may deprive it of its ability to think actively, and plunge its body into its deepest state of dormancy;

It is speculated that in this state, it can only perform actions based entirely on body instinct, such as maintaining vitality, fighting injuries, and regenerating tissues, and is incapable of resisting until the brain is regenerated.

The disadvantage is that the brain is very likely to turn into dust after leaving the body, and the brain will lose this relatively soft and bully tissue area over a considerable period of time, perhaps even hundreds of years.

Realizing this, the witch doctors suppressed the level of 'unscrupulousness' a little, and decided to keep the rest of the brain inside them....

After that, the Cave Wolf Crystal was taken for the same research as the High Salamander Crystal, which meant that the Honto was about to have another big hole card;

Its brain, designed by the witch doctors themselves, has integrated a set of totemic functional areas that contain a set of totemic functional areas that block the healing of the skull, limit the regeneration of muscles and skin, and can also extract cellular fluid from the cerebral cortex.

Among them, the harvest of the former still needs time to accumulate, and it is estimated that it will take several months to complete the preliminary investigation.

The acquisition of the latter has brought great results in several aspects;

On the one hand, the cerebral cortex controls many active thinking abilities, and the continuous destruction of them can effectively and more effectively weaken the cave wolf, and the previous shelling and other means can be stopped;

On the other hand, the headquarters has ushered in a huge improvement in the speed of cultivating tree elves....