Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 59 Good planning is half the battle...?

17.8% for option one, 9.6% for option two, 24.7% for option three, 16.4% for option four, 20.5% for option five, and 10.9% for option six.

……

[Option [-]: Grease]

Lv.2: Cover an area of ​​10 meters by 10 meters with a layer of oil.Grease can be ignited.

Lv.3: Grease will stick to creatures that touch it.

[Option [-]: Energy Chain]

Lv.2: Build a chain with the energy of the Arcana, and enemies who touch the chain will be damaged.Energy has a physical body and can penetrate, push and pull, and squeeze objects.The direction of attack can be specified, and the direction can be changed midway.The firing range is 50 meters.

[Option [-]: Summon Bats]

Lv.2: Can fly up to 500 meters.It can attack the enemy, take items weighing less than 1kg, and make noises to disturb the enemy.

……

[Subconscious voting] The numbers on the interface keep beating.Referring to the beating numbers, Zheng Zhuo bought the corresponding scrolls.

One roll of Lv.3 greasy technique, one roll of Lv.2 energy chain and one roll of Lv.2 summon bat.

Right now, Zheng Zhuo doesn't have a Lv.3 staff in hand.Therefore, he had to rely on the three additional spells to tide over the difficulties first.

"Grease can be easily associated with fireballs. Energy chains and summoning bats..."

What else can they do but what they each do: attack and interfere?

Zheng Zhuo held his long staff on the way back from the market, thinking.

[There are still 48 days until the world is destroyed]

I hold [Quick Casting], which makes me different from ordinary mages. I can choose multiple spells to deal with the same problem in a short period of time.

As you can imagine, throwing as much magic as possible is the best option when dealing with problems.

However, in what way and in what order to cast the magic, it is time to test Zheng Zhuo himself.

After flipping through the scrolls quickly, he used [Appraisal] to check his status again.

……

【Zheng Zhuo】

[Occupation: Mage Lv.3]

[Professional Characteristics: Fatigue Resistance: Small]

[Ability: Appraisal, Quick Casting]

【职业技能：火球Lv1、法师之手Lv.1、治疗Lv.2、油腻术Lv.3（Lv.2）、能量链Lv.2、召唤蝙蝠Lv.2】

[Equipment: Long staff (1 Lv.2 spell slot), fear blade (cutting Lv.1, fear Lv.1), flying whistle]

……

Skills have increased.There are also more options when casting spells.

Zheng Zhuo began to rethink the three problems he faced based on the spells he held.

Problem one, the magic that destroys the gate of the kobold camp.

The kobold gates are made of iron and bronze.Probably because [Bomb] left a psychological shadow on the kobolds. When I looked at it yesterday, I didn't see any wooden structure exposed on the surface of the gate.

If there is a wooden structure, it can be ignited with the combination of [Fireball + Grease]...

Wait a moment.

Will there be a wooden structure inside the gate?
If it explodes from inside...

Zheng Zhuo stopped, and immediately changed to the weapon shop.When he arrived, he negotiated with his boss and got some leftover pieces of wrought iron.He took these iron pieces to the uninhabited alley.

"[Energy Chain], get ready."

A blue-purple halo glows at the tip of the staff.

"freed."

Bang!
A wrist-thick energy column pierced through the stacked iron plates.

Penetration is okay!
Zheng Zhuo was overjoyed.

He didn't know how thick the kobold's gate was, but this test at least proved that [Energy Chain Lv. 2] has the ability to penetrate iron sheets.

Even if you can't break it with one blow, as long as you keep releasing it repeatedly, there is hope.

"I have [Fatigue Resistance: Small]."

Zheng Zhuo said to himself.

The experience of continuously cleaning up rats and bats on the first floor and tirelessly releasing [Mage Hand] to open the way on the second floor gave him confidence.As long as the gate can be penetrated, he will be able to penetrate it.

As for after the breakdown...

"If the wrist is thick and thin, the head of the long staff can just fit in."

If the staff can be stretched in, spells can be cast.

"……it is good."

Zheng Zhuo drew up a plan in his mind.

He was sure he could blow up the gate.Even if the explosion engulfs him, with [Healing Lv. 2], the damage caused can be recovered to some extent.

……

Next comes question two, the magic that grabs the attention of the kobolds.

"When the gate is blown open, it will definitely cause the kobolds to panic. Next, the first task is to draw the kobolds' attention away as soon as possible."

Zhengzhou played with the [Flying Whistle] at hand.

"[Flying Whistle] Do you want to use it here? Or is it better to leave it for later?"

No, Zhuang Yusheng also said that [Flying Whistle] has limited effects.It's better not to think of it as a surefire way to deal with the situation.

It would be a better position to use it to alleviate the immediate crisis when there is nothing to do.

Well, now a combination is needed to open up the situation.

"Summon the Bats..."

Flying bats themselves appear to be good attention-grabbers.However, the explosion of the door must have been quite loud.It is still unknown whether a few bats can distract the kobolds away.

What about the energy chain?

In addition to its offensive power, this thing can also stay in the field for a while.It is an entity with contact damage that partially blocks enemies from approaching.

"However, will the monster pay attention to the energy chain itself? It should pay more attention to the direction the energy chain is coming from."

Zheng Zhuo had never fought a kobold before.He heard from Zhuang Yusheng that the intelligence level of kobolds "is like that of a less intelligent human being".Then, it is unknown whether attracting them in this way will be successful.

Sure enough, it still depends on [Fireball + Grease].

Throw a few more shots first to cause more chaos, and then use [Mage Hand], [Power Chain] and [Summon Bat] to adapt to the situation.

By the way, [Flying Whistle] is also an optional solution in adapting to the situation.

"I'm a little uneasy... However, I can survive with [Quick Cast] to some extent. Let's consider the third question first."

……

Question three, dispelling or defeating the magic of burrowing creatures.

Zheng Zhuo saw the scene of the kobold camp when he flew into this world.He saw kobolds riding things that looked like ugly rhinos and things that looked like ugly lizards.

There are also some earthworms whose heads are as big as kobolds' bodies, turning the soil intermittently near the kobolds' stronghold.

"Ah... Those things must be harder to deal with than mice and fungus..."

Zheng Zhuo scratched his head.

Predict where they drilled from the ground, and arrange [energy chains]?
If it really doesn't work...

"It's still [Fireball + Grease]."

Use this continuous spell to ignite the ground into a sea of ​​flames, fundamentally isolating danger.

but……

"This continuous spell basically hurts the enemy one thousand, and self-damages eight hundred..."

Flames have no eyes, and Zheng Zhuo has no water or ice skills, so if the fire gets out of control, he can't escape himself.And when the flames are soaring into the sky, there is no way to see clearly where to escape and how to escape.

"[Hand of Mage]...[Summon Bat]..."

Might be of some help.But how to help...

"Do we still have to look at the actual situation?"

There are too many disturbing elements.But just relying on thinking in the town has been unable to come up with a better answer.

Zheng Zhuo finally decided to set off like this, take a step, watch a step.

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