Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

When it comes to using shadow energy to control body posture, Zhuang Xuteng is not a novice - he has the "Levitation Technique". The original idea of ​​levitation was to control body posture in daily actions. The original intention was to pretend to be other people through imitation and deceive monitoring equipment such as gait detection. Zhuang Xuteng showed extraordinary imagination and creativity, combining him with the tentacles of the resentful spirit to form a floating technique that allows him to adjust his body posture at any time.

When sudden inspiration, step-by-step learning and persistent experimentation are combined, Zhuang Xuteng has the foundation for the success of replicating the levitation technique. By constantly imitating the shadow follower spell of the high-speed and high-explosion implant, and combining it with the levitation technique, Zhuang Xuteng was gradually able to reproduce the implant's function of "offsetting inertia and protecting the body."

The effect is: he can levitate and fly, but it consumes a lot of mana. If he persists for two minutes at most, he will run out of mana.

However, he had expected that the mana consumption would be huge. High-speed and high-burst implants only control the isolation effect of inertia to a level of more than ten milliseconds, which is affected by this shortcoming.

At the millisecond level, eliminating inertia is almost unnoticeable, but when time comes to the second level, or even to the minute level, this feeling becomes very obvious. When using this spell effect, all surrounding forces - including gravity - still act on the body and can be clearly felt by Zhuang Xuteng, but will not have an effect. This is also the key to levitation and flight.

At this time, all the external forces are still there, but they cannot accumulate effects. All effects that should be produced under the rules of inertia, whether benefit or damage, are absorbed by the spell.

The disappearance of inertia prevented the accumulation of friction, which caused Zhuang Xuteng to lose his ability to walk. In this state, the only way to change the speed is to use mana to push yourself and to pull with the tentacles of the wraith. This shows that he has not yet simulated the "burst acceleration" part of the shadow effect of the high-speed and high-burst implant.

The loss of inertia causes far more problems for movement than it creates, especially in combat. But thinking about it from another angle, wouldn't it be much better to use this thing for defense than as a means of mobility? Zhuang Xuteng's mind has always been very active. He immediately changed the direction of the spell and tried to turn it into a shield.

Just as he was suspended in the air, studying the relationship between the inertial disappearance effect and the shadow follower spell, a loud shout came from above his head: "What are you doing? Danger! Stop now!"

The roar comes from the Lich Master. It shouted from the window of the mage tower and immediately came to Zhuang Xuteng with a teleportation moment. The Lich Master stretched out his hand, his fingertips shining with bright white light. This is a spell to remove the effect of a spell. It was supposed to remove the "inertia disappearance" effect surrounding Zhuang Xuteng with just one touch. Contrary to Master Lich's expectation: both his fingertips and the light successfully touched Zhuang Xuteng, but the effect of dispelling the spell did not appear. Instead, what disappeared was Master Lich's spell.

Zhuang Xuteng quickly released the state and quickly fell back to the ground. "Master Lich, what's wrong? My levitation technique is dangerous?"

"Is that your levitation technique?" Master Lich tilted his head, curled his fingers and flicked Zhuang Xuteng's forehead. Along with the falling salt slag, he said angrily: "When did you start learning the disintegration technique of the protection system?"

"Disintegration? No, I don't know..." Zhuang Xuteng thought that Master Lich had misunderstood, and quickly told him how he learned after installing the high-speed and high-burst implant. "I found that this part of the spell can eliminate inertia, so I used it as a supplement to the levitation spell."

Master Lich waved his fist and said while walking in front of Zhuang Xuteng: "Inertia? Isn't eliminating inertia the collapse of the most basic material structure? As long as force cannot accumulate effects, everything will collapse. Spells collapse the fastest, and the body collapses the fastest. Slightly slower, but it will definitely break down sooner or later. This is the most dangerous spell effect among protective spells. It can quickly dismantle all spell effects and also make spell items incapable of use. Uh... How long have you been using this thing on your body? ?”

Zhuang Xuteng roughly calculated and said: "I have been practicing recently, which adds up to about an hour and twenty minutes... I'm not sure. At first, I used up all my mana, and I kept thinking of ways to extend the time. I’ve only recently started practicing using this effect momentarily as a shield.”

The Lich Master's body visibly stiffened for a moment. He stretched out his hand, patted and touched Zhuang Xuteng gently. The rough salt skeleton hands patted and caressed the shoulders, arms, chest and abdomen, and then the Lich Master said: "Why didn't you collapse?"

"Because the bone shield technique and alloy bones make me particularly strong?"

"No, it's definitely not the reason. Did I see it wrong just now?" Master Lich signaled Zhuang Xuteng to use the so-called "levitation technique" again, and asked him to stop quickly after a few seconds. "Yes, it is indeed the Great Disintegration Technique. Why... wait, could you hear me just now?"

Zhuang Xuteng nodded. Whether it was the earlier roar or the words just now, he heard them clearly. At this time, the Lich Master seemed to have found the key to the problem and became excited and excited. His movements became more frequent and his speaking speed also increased a lot: "When you were enveloped by the disintegration effect, were you able to see, hear, and sense your surroundings normally?"

"Yes. What's the matter..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhuang Xuteng thought of the issue he had ignored. When the inertial effect is isolated, how does air vibration affect it? His level of charity graduation from middle school did not support his understanding of the nature of light, but he clearly understood that light was also an influence from the outside world.

By the way, there are also touch and smell, which all require the body to interact with the surrounding environment. Wait, what's going on with breathing? Why can I still get air into my lungs? At this time, Zhuang Xuteng was already covered in cold sweat, and his heart was full of fear.

Seeing his appearance, the Lich Master snorted, raised his head and said, "Do you know the danger now? When you are surrounded by the Great Disintegration Technique, you will immediately lose your perception of the outside world, and you will have nothing until your mana is exhausted. I know. If the spell effect goes deeper, your body parts will begin to shatter, making you even more miserable than my current broken state."

"Then why didn't I..." Zhuang Xuteng patted his head and said, "The Resentful Spirit Jelly! I keep opening the Resentful Spirit Jelly, and it provides me with all the information I need about the surrounding environment and myself."

"That thing helped you. In the spell effect, how much you can feel, how much you can try to control: the ability to feel is the upper limit of the ability to control." The Lich Master said: "Human consciousness will always keep itself alive. This Including maintaining integrity, which is also the most basic component of self-awareness for intelligent creatures. When you can feel your own state, you continuously and unconsciously suppress and avoid the 'disintegration' process with 'self-integrity'. Bastard, you really Great destiny."

"Hehe..." Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head - the cold sweat finally stopped breaking out. He asked: "Master, since I'm fine, can I still use it in the future?"

"I don't know. This is a new situation, beyond my experience. I can only advise you to be cautious." Master Lich said: "You have super senses and a super-fast nervous system that I have never seen before, which makes The speed of consciousness affecting your body is much faster than that of ordinary people. I estimate that the default command of 'remain intact and alive' in your consciousness is too fast, exceeding the speed of disintegration in destroying your body."

If disintegration is regarded as a wave, the body is the sand castle on the shore, and the self-protection of consciousness is the speed of repair. Although the disintegrating waves would have destroyed the castle, the repairs were so quick that it returned to its original position before even a grain of sand was taken away.

"If you continue to strengthen the Great Disintegration and let it exceed the speed of your neural reaction, I estimate that you will be finished like everyone else." The Lich Master warned: "You have to pay attention to one key point: there are no signs of this kind of excess. Wait. By the time you find out, the consequences have already occurred and everything is too late.”

Power and danger are always two sides of the same coin. Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said, "I remember, I will be careful."

Seeing that Zhuang Xuteng was not intimidated by danger, Master Lich was very satisfied. "Okay, now you look like an excellent...qualified magic researcher. Tell me what you think."

"Resist the attack." Zhuang Xuteng made a famous gesture with his hands: "The company's enhanced people rushed over, I used this to resist, and they hit an indestructible wall!"

"It won't actually be like that." Master Lich said: "Although no one has withstood the disintegration spell like you before, there is a lot of research on the disintegration effect. When an object is entangled by the disintegration effect, the impact on it It is true that it cannot be hurt, but the impact body is also protected by the disintegration effect. There is a 50-50 probability that the two will stick together or separate from each other. The impact force will greatly consume the mana to maintain the disintegration effect, and the disintegration effect will always be released in advance. ——This later became a way to save people.”

"It can only block the impact, but will not form a counterattack. It has no integrated attack and defense effects... If that's all it is, then it can only be regarded as passing." Zhuang Xuteng then snorted and said with a smile: "It's good if it can block it, why? Can you be so greedy?"

Master Lich shook his head and said: "How can you think like this? Are you satisfied with a little result? Let me ask you, if you want to achieve disintegration, it will consume a lot of mana, right? From the perspective of the effect and cost, do you think Is it suitable as a protective measure?"

Zhuang Xuteng shook his head. The cost of maintaining the disintegration state is too great. Even if it is used to deal with high-speed and high-explosive attacks from opponents, it will definitely be a loss. "But...but there are things more powerful than that outside. For example, a violent explosion, or a building falling on me..."

If we don't take into account the various continuous collateral damage after the shock wave has passed, nor the burying effect of collapsed buildings, Zhuang Xuteng's statement is indeed impeccable. If you have the ability to block the first blow, block the first blow first, and then talk about the rest later - this idea is not wrong. It is not advisable to become fat in one sitting, and it is even less advisable to give up eating because of choking.

"Master, I now understand that using disintegration as a defense can only be used in response to emergencies and cannot always be maintained." Zhuang Xuteng's thinking is still active: "How about using it as an offensive method? Normal people can't stand this kind of disintegration, right? "

"It's not that it can't be done, it's that it's too difficult." The Lich Master explained: "Any mage who comes into contact with the disintegration effect will have the same idea as you: use it to attack. But the disintegration phenomenon can only occur when it encounters spell effects and spells. It can only take effect instantly when it is created. It is slow to kill and consumes a lot of money. It only has a very high theoretical upper limit that can definitely kill the opponent - it is of little significance in actual combat. Now that you have lowered this theoretical upper limit, I feel Is it an honor?"

Zhuang Xuteng shook his head: "Stop making fun of me, as if it's all my fault. Master, how about using the disintegration effect to dismantle things?"

"Still the same problem: compared to its huge consumption, the speed of producing effects is too slow, and the spell is very inappropriate as a whole. If you really have no other way and no time pressure, the disintegration effect is indeed your good helper . Historically, there were indeed mages who tried to use the disintegration effect to escape from the spell prison, and almost succeeded."

"How did it fail?"

"The spell went out of control and killed himself. If he had not made a mistake, he could indeed have escaped." The Lich Master never wanted to talk about those histories in detail, as if recalling their actions would cause him pain. "The disintegration effect is indeed very attractive. Its advantages are as extreme as its disadvantages. There is a small subcategory among protection mages. Their main research direction is the disintegration effect, and they have successfully used it to create a relatively effective spell. : Void Annihilation Sphere."

"Can you teach me?"

The Lich Master was silent for a moment and said slowly: "It's possible, but it's too difficult. I don't think it's a wise choice for you to invest your energy in it. If you want to learn it, it's in the Stone Pillar Hall. Go check it out for yourself. In the main hall, based on the throne, the pillars in the fourth and fifth rows have the knowledge of spell classification. You can use it as a directory. Through it, you can find the location of the Void Annihilation Sphere."

Zhuang Xuteng asked suspiciously: "Master, don't you know the specific location of that spell?"

"I'm telling you the directory to make it easier for you to search later, and I really don't know the location of the Void Annihilation Sphere." The Lich Master poked Zhuang Xuteng's forehead with his finger and said, "You must be thinking wildly, right? Don't worry, the Lich won't Alzheimer's disease, I have no cognitive function issues. The reason why I don't know the exact location is simple: I don't know the spell."

"Eh?" Zhuang Xuteng was even more surprised: "Why can magic that I don't know exist on the pillar of knowledge?"

"I understand all the principles of that spell, and I have collected and memorized all kinds of knowledge related to it, but I have never tried to cast that spell once. I don't know if I can cast it successfully, so I really don't know that spell." The Lich Master said: "That spell is very dangerous, especially for the Lich whose body has been transformed. Once a mistake is made, even for a short moment, my existence - as a spell effect - may disintegrate. . This is different from someone else launching an annihilation ball attack. I have no way to defend against my own disintegration spell."

He further explained: "Your consciousness always protects your body, and this part of my consciousness disappeared when I became a lich. The reason is simple: only by abandoning 'my existence is a living thing' can I Become an undead with self-awareness. The disintegration effect is extremely threatening to the undead, even more than my curiosity and thirst for knowledge about the void annihilation ball spell. I will understand, but I will not try to learn, so I will not Know on which pillar this spell will be stored according to what standards.”