"Wow~Wow~"

Thirty-five biwing distortions flew twenty or thirty meters above the ground.

They flew in pairs and 17 sturdy metal crates across the sea of sand.

The leader's winged distortion flew at the front of the group, turning its head and looking around.

As an aberration with no facial features, it uses tiny pores in the skin to collect both smell and sound information.

In underground spaces such as corridors, tunnels, and caverns, distortors have a strong ability to distinguish between friend and foe. At a distance of hundreds of meters and a few right-angled bends, they could still spot humans hiding behind the corners of the hallways.

But in the rocky wasteland with dry air, there is a sea of sand with a "porous" structure everywhere. The sound doesn't travel far before it's absorbed by the sand.

As a result, the aberrations rely on sounds and smells to discern their enemies, and their sensory abilities are greatly reduced.

A sudden disaster struck.

"Bang bang..."

A series of explosions exploded in the sandy sea.

More than a dozen black barrels protruded from under the sand and fired shells at the winged distortions in the sky.

These 70 mm alchemy barrels shoot alchemy cannonballs at a rate of 3 rounds per second, sending more than 50 alchemy cannonballs to the winged distortion in just one second.

The alchemy cannonball exploded in the air, but instead of a bright fire and scorching flames, it sprinkled a large patch of shiny white powder into the air.

A white cloud of smoke over 100 meters in diameter enveloped all wing distortions.

Without waiting for the winged distortion to do something, a figure lifted its alchemical cloak disguised as sand and fired a shot at the white smoke.

The alchemy bullet, which was entwined with lightning sparks, plunged into the white smoke with a thud, causing a huge lightning and thunderous roar!

"Crackle! Crackle! Crackle! ”

The white smoke exploded en masse, electric snakes scurried, lightning roared, and the dark sky was suddenly illuminated by dense thunder and lightning.

The metal box shattered by lightning burst into charred metal shards.

The life potion in the box was also swept by lightning, and one after another glass tubes exploded in the electric light, turning into glass slag and floating towards the sea of sand.

The wings screamed and screamed, and within three or two seconds they were electrocuted into charred black wreckage, which fell to the ground with a pungent smell of burning.

The lightning and thunder in the sky lasted for about five seconds.

The moment the lightning disappeared, there were already many charred debris and a large number of metal shards and glass shards on the sand directly below. A handful of metal boxes survived, barely leaving a "whole corpse" in the lightning bombardment. A few of the winged deformants that were not dead fell to the ground and wailed, their cries extremely miserable.

A giant gray bear rises from under the sand.

It wears metal plate leather armor. Helmets, cuirasses, shoulder armors, arm guards, leg guards, all available.

On its back is an alchemical turret fastened with shoulder straps and buckles.

The Alchemy Fort has a boxy metal base, which is connected to a gun carriage that rotates 360 degrees and an alchemy cannon barrel.

With the movements of the gray giant bear, more than a dozen small grizzly bears stood up from under the sand.

The giant gray bear shook its body, sprinkled a large area of yellow sand, and shouted to the other grizzly bears around it:

"Angeli will lead people to collect life potions, and the rest of the people will use plasma bullets to mend the undead deviants!"

This gray bear is Daric's transformation.

Compared to a low-level alchemist, he is much larger when he activates the bear alchemy armament.

His team members all used the same alchemy armament, but they were only two-thirds his length, barely able to carry the alchemy turret.

With Darik's order, the grizzly bears in metal and leather armor sprang into action.

They put the alchemy emrett behind them into the alchemy stone.

Some of them rushed to the metal box.

The others pulled their guns out of the alchemy and pulled the trigger at the wailing wing-distorted one, firing the electrogenic bullets into it. Even the deformed ones that had been burned into black charcoal did not escape the plasma bullets. They were all refilled with a few shots by the Merchant's Sword.

Li Nuo watched the two groups of team members tidy up the situation in an orderly manner, and silently withdrew the wand in his hand.

It's a bit embarrassing... He never had a chance to make a move, becoming an idle bystander.

Li Nuo shrugged slightly, thinking that this was not bad.

The wreckage of the distorted wings at the scene has soul fragments on it.

Alchemists are aware of the existence of soul crumbs, and the Sword of the Gold Merchant is no exception.

Li Nuo and Daric discussed, and all the soul fragments on the scene were handed over to the Golden Merchant's Sword to collect.

The thing Daric used to collect the soul crumbs was the Spirit Sucking Crystal that Leno had seen in Betty's hands.

Three minutes later, Darik and the others cleaned up the battlefield.

They dragged their motorbikes out from under the sand and drove away with Li Nuo, leaving the lightning-ravaged sand behind.

From the time the wings of the distortion approached the preset ambush location to the final driving away, in no more than 5 minutes, the Sword of the Golden Merchant completed a successful sneak attack.

All 35 winged aberrations were killed, and they couldn't even organize a decent counterattack, so they were buried here in black charcoal.

Such an efficient battle vividly reflects the alchemist's understanding of combat.

For them, efficiency always comes first.

Lightning is lethal to wing distortions, so use lightning to ambush enemies without considering that lightning will damage life potions.

Do you want to use a gentler way to sneak up on the enemy in order to get more life potions?

No, no, no!

Efficiency always comes first.

As for how many life potions you can get after the battle, it all depends on your luck.

One box is not lost, two boxes are profitable, and three boxes of blood are earned.

Hence the scene of lightning and thunder just now.

The kind of cannonball that forms a large white powder is called a "thunderstorm powder cannonball", a type of alchemical cannonball.

It is not lethal on its own, and can only form thunderstorm smoke and dust in the air that hovers for about 10 seconds.

After detonating with an electric plasma bullet, the thunderstorm smoke and dust will burst out with the power it deserves.

With such a powerful and large-scale alchemy weapon, there are many more in the hands of the Golden Merchant's sword.

In the preparation stage for the battle, Li Nuo was fortunate enough to see the inventory in the hand of the Golden Merchant's sword.

A "gravitational bomb" that gathers all movable targets in a small area;

A "Flame Carpet Bomb" that ignites a small area and causes it to burn continuously for half an hour;

"Air-conditioning bombs" that block a small area with a cold air flow of -50 degrees Celsius;

"Air Blocker Bombs" that prevent flames from appearing in a large area and make it impossible for all living creatures to breathe in the area;

Several alchemy devices that can create poisonous mist, strong acid, and quagmire.

Not to mention alchemy items such as high-explosive mines and stationary fire-breathing devices.

According to Daric, during the time of the Dian Jin Dynasty, alchemists who fought full-time would rely on alchemy weapons to fight the enemy at close range.

Now, times have changed.

Close combat is just a last resort.

More often than not, full-time alchemists will use a variety of means such as alchemy turrets, alchemy bombs, and alchemy traps to attack the enemy from a safe distance.

With the help of alchemy stones, each merchant's sword is a mobile alchemy arsenal, and it is also the kind that can transform into an armored grizzly bear and engage enemies at close range.

No matter what kind of enemy it is, they can take out the alchemy weapon against this kind of enemy from the alchemy stone.

There are many types of weapons, a complete range of damage types, weapons and ammunition are easy to carry, and strong combat adaptability, these are the advantages of alchemists.

But correspondingly, the shortcomings of the alchemist are also obvious.

Each alchemy weapon corresponds to one or several operating manuals, which are relatively expensive to learn.

Secondly, each alchemy weapon and alchemy ammunition corresponds to an alchemy production line.

A merchant's sword enters the battle, followed by several alchemists who specialize in production.

So when Li Nuo followed Daric and the others to the temporary camp on the rocky wasteland, he saw a large tent used to house the alchemy workshop.

Countless alchemy materials were brought here by first- and second-order alchemists using alchemy stones, and the alchemy items needed to craft the gold merchant's sword in the workshop tent.

The entire makeshift camp was in full swing, and only one-fifth of them were combat-only goldsmiths, and the rest were non-combat alchemists who served for logistical supplies.

Compare this scene with the scene where a wizard can cast a spell with a raise of his hand, and it's not hard to see where the wizard's advantage lies:

A sorcerer, a single one, one person meditates, and the whole family casts spells.

Alchemists, in groups, one person shoots, and the whole team is busy.

It's no wonder that when she heard that Li Nuo planned to delve into alchemy, Dinas had a look of "don't be fooled".

Alchemy is indeed not as convenient as magic.

Leno lamented the convenience of magic as he followed Daric into the tent.

According to the pre-war agreement, he would take away thirty percent of the life potion and a gratuity.

In the spacious conference tent, Angeli commanded her teammates to pile up all the loot from cleaning up the battlefield on the conference table.

In front of Li Nuo, the swords of the gold merchants counted the loot.

In the six metal boxes that survived the lightning storm, most of the life potions were intact, and there were a total of 300,000 life potions that could be used normally.

The life potions scattered on the sand were badly damaged. Upon closer inspection, there were less than 10,000 life potions that could be used normally.

These approximately 310,000 life potions are all the gains from this ambush of the winged aberrations.

Daric alone brought a suitcase with storage space, filled 100,000 life potions and handed them to Li Nuo, with a coin card with a denomination of 2 million aggregate coins.

Daric got the rest of the 210,000 life potions, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut with joy, with a thick smile on his face:

"Next time, if there is such important information, please tell me, Li Lei."

"No problem, Darik. With this cooperation experience, we can be regarded as acquaintances. ”

Carrying a suitcase full of life potions, Li Nuo walked outside the tent accompanied by Daric, and said at the same time:

"I'm going to go and pass on this batch of life potions to my intelligence source right now. After that, I'll go straight back to Convergence City. Again, Daric, be careful when exploring the Rift. ”

"I understand, we'll be extra careful." Darik nodded solemnly.

"Alright, let's get it here. Don't talk to Fars, Conte, and them about me. This operation must be kept secret. ”

"Well, don't worry. We're tight-lipped. ”

Li Nuo lifted the curtain and left, walking out of the camp alone.

Before entering the camp, he covered his figure with a cloak and hood, in order to avoid colliding with Conte and the others.

When he left the camp, he rounded two gentle slopes. Unnoticed, he turned into a skull and flew into the sky.

The temporary camp of the Golden Merchant's Sword is located directly east of the rift, on a desert, about 10 kilometers away from the rift.

A distance of 10 kilometers is probably safe enough for an unwitting alchemist to avoid the aberrations that wander around the rift.

But Li Nuo knew very well in his heart that Samuelson, as a seven-ring psychic wizard, only needed to use the "Psychic Beacon" to cast the "Psychic Vision" to be able to see the entire camp at a glance.

Reasoning according to the normal sequence of events:

At the moment when the Wing Aberration transporting the Life Elixir did not return to the rift on time, Samuelson would use Mind Magic and Magical Servants to actively search for the missing Wing Aberration.

Find the place of battle along the established transport route, then find the temporary camp according to the traces of the battle and the ruts on the sandy sea, and then carefully sift through the personnel who attacked the transport team.

This operation can even be thought of by Li Nuo, a half-mind wizard, let alone the seven-ring mind wizard Samuelson.

If this is the case, then everyone involved in this incident will be identified by Samuelson with the help of the "Psychic Vision".

But what if that didn't happen?

For example, Samuelson didn't use psychic magic to search for lost life potions, nor did he use psychic magic to peek into the alchemist's camp, let alone wait for an opportunity to attack the camp and reclaim the life potion.

If none of these things happen, what does that mean?

That's right, it means Samuelson can't find the time and energy to focus on what's happening on the ground.

After losing the life potion that spawned the aberration, it could only silently endure the loss, unable to respond to the event.

Because, once it takes out its mind and plans to reclaim the life potion, it will cause another more important thing to make a serious mistake, and in the end, the gains outweigh the losses.

And this important thing that Samuelson did not dare to be distracted in the slightest was to help the aberrant complete his magical enlightenment.

In the process of helping the deviant with his magical initiation, Samuelson will be in a state where he will not fight back and scold.

In the entire deformed lair, there are and only the deviants who have not participated in the magical initiation, and the possible existence of the Black Bone Hermit and MI5 sergeant, who can react to outsiders with bad intentions.

If Li Nuo really wants to make a big splash of soul crumbs, then he must not miss this opportunity.

His speculation was well-founded.

In fact, before he and Daric and the others hijacked the life potion, Li Nuo used the information provided by Dinas to make a whole set of action plans.

The rings are tightly linked, the front and back are confirmed, and the enemy is directly attacked.

The plan includes predictions, interpretations, and responses to all events in the next three months, which can be described as comprehensive and detailed.

When Leno and Dinas talked about this plan, the other party's Bling Bring's eyes were full of admiration.

In this plan, Li Nuo mentioned a point:

Within one to three hours after the life potion arrives at the temporary camp, whether Samuelson's psychic magic appears around the temporary camp is the key to confirming whether Samuelson is performing magical enlightenment.

This directly decides whether Li Nuo wants to go to the underground lair to sweep around.

If it turns out that Samuelson is indeed at a critical stage where he can't be distracted, hehe, then don't blame him Li Nuo for taking advantage of the fire to rob~

Li Nuo still has this ability to predict.

It's been updated in two chapters today! There's one more chapter to follow!

Some book friends reacted in the group, hoping that the author bacteria could be divided into two chapters, so that they could be deducted with coupons.

The author decided to listen to the advice of the book friends and made the following changes:

Starting today, the content of the "next 20 days" update will be divided into two chapters.

Since the content of the "next 20 days" update is written according to the 10,000-word chapter, it may not be divided into two chapters. If it can be split into two chapters, the author will try to split it into two chapters.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

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