Chapter 42: Broken Magic Pattern Construction Fragments
Outside the domain, whether it is a hero or a lord, it is possible to gather spoils of war after death in battle.
Generally, the quality of loot is related to the hero's rank.
For example, this werewolf leader is only a two-star third-level hero. Logically speaking, the probability of condensing such a good thing is very low, even if it is just a broken fragment.
But the fact is that this thing is indeed in his hands.
Li Qing guessed that it was probably because the werewolf leader was both a hero and a monster lord, and he had just experienced a very intense battle. Most importantly, Larson had already activated the power of the magic pattern construct, so he condensed this thing after he died in battle.
But this thing is a super-class treasure after all, and it was damaged in battle, so only a few fragments were condensed.
But even if it is just a fragment, it is an unimaginable treasure.
What is the magic pattern construct?
That is an extraordinary treasure that can only be accessed by formal war lords or those above the sixth level. It is also a treasure that only people at that level will try every means to pursue.
Just think about it, just a piece of broken fragment can increase 60% strength, 30% speed, reduce 75 % pain, and have a very small chance of obtaining the talent of a legendary hero.
If it is a complete divine warrior magic pattern construct, how terrifying would the bonus be?
A dream come true.
It's just a dream come true.
This is the main reason why Li Qing didn't dare to tell anyone just now, because this thing is a good thing that even the tutor may not have, and it is best for only he to know it.
Li Qing put the card away carefully and solemnly. He had not yet figured out how to use it.
The best way to deal with it is of course to make use of it and load it onto Long Shou. The already powerful Long Shou will become even more powerful.
Even if the Berserker's Blood cannot be activated, the bonus alone is very powerful.
But Li Qing felt a little unwilling to use it directly. He wanted to keep it and study it himself to see if he could find out anything.
Almost all magic pattern constructions are created by magic pattern constructors.
There are two types of magic pattern constructors. One type specializes in building divine domain buildings, and the other type specializes in making this kind of magic pattern construction. To outsiders, both of them can be called magic pattern constructors.
But internally, according to the division of labor, they are called magic pattern architects and magic pattern constructors, with only a difference of two words.
No matter which one it is, it is a legendary major, a super legendary major that can only be employed by super geniuses. The number of people is extremely rare, precious, and powerful.
Every wizard has the dream of becoming a magic pattern constructor, but for almost all wizards it is just a dream. Only a very small number of geniuses with super qualities, who are taught by famous teachers, undergo a long period of study, and waste billions, tens of billions or even tens of millions of funds, can become a magic pattern constructor.
To put it bluntly, this is a legendary profession that requires super talent and is super expensive.
Of course, spending money is not a big problem at all.
Compared with the benefits brought by a formal magic pattern constructor, an investment of hundreds of billions or trillions is nothing.
If it can be confirmed that an investment of 100 billion can bring about a formal magic pattern constructor, any war lord or family with the capital will be willing to invest.
After all, the power of the magic pattern construct is too strong.
And those who become construct knights by loading magic runes are too powerful.
A basic magic pattern has a bonus of 20%, and those advanced magic patterns have a bonus of 50% or even higher.
Not to mention that many advanced magic rune constructs are in the form of sets, similar to the divine warrior magic rune construct in Li Qing's hand now, which can allow all loaders to possess the power of the legendary heroic divine warrior. What is the concept?
There are even some advanced constructs that can simulate powerful bloodlines, such as dragon bloodline and so on.
Think about it, a sixth-level extraordinary professional can easily load five or six, a talented person can load more than ten, a hero can load at least a dozen, and some can load twenty or thirty.
Imagine what it would be like to load twenty or thirty magic pattern constructs with a bonus of more than 50% on your body at once.
One person is not a lot, but what about ten?
If ten are not enough, what about a hundred?
A sixth-level great knight loaded with ten magic pattern constructs can easily challenge a strong man at the eighth-level sanctuary level.
An eighth-level Sanctuary Knight loaded with twenty magic pattern constructs can even challenge a tenth-level legend by crossing a higher level.
Legendary warriors can load more high-quality magic patterns and if they are well prepared, they can even perform feats as powerful as killing gods.
The prerequisite for all this is to have a sufficiently powerful magic pattern constructor.
Which mage wouldn’t dream about such a powerful legendary profession?
Li Qing was no exception. He certainly wanted to give it a try to see if he had the talent for it.
The talent of a magic pattern constructor must be tested with professional equipment, which this instructor does not have. Only the headquarters of the Blackrock Spire War Academy has it.
Because each test is very cumbersome and requires the consumption of a lot of precious materials, and costs several million dollars each time, it will not be opened under normal circumstances.
Unless it can be confirmed in other aspects that one has the talent to become a magic pattern constructor, then the instructor can apply for testing.
So Li Qing doesn't have to rely on testing and can only figure it out on his own.
Yes, I can only figure it out on my own, because there is no magic pattern constructor in the entire War Academy, not even an apprentice.
How could such a super legendary profession waste time to come to the academy to teach? The apprentices don’t have time either.
Only when it is detected and confirmed that one has talent in this area will one seek a mentor for one-on-one instruction.
So what Li Qing needs to do is to explore on his own first, make sure he has the talent, and then think of a way.
A quarter of an hour later, Li Qing returned to the city gate and found four piles of corpses outside the city gate, one pile of kobolds, one pile of gnolls, the corpses of seven gnoll undead warriors, and his subordinates who died in battle with Chu Zhongzhong.
Li Qing pointed at his subordinates who died in the battle with Chu Zhongzhong and said to An Erqiu:
"Burn these bodies to prevent them from being eaten by wild animals."
An Erqiu nodded and asked the laborers to bring firewood over.
He came to the pile of corpses of seven undead gnoll warriors, pondered for a moment, opened the space in his palm and put them away.
He had no other intention, he just wanted to see what would be left after a rotten corpse like this one decomposed.
No matter how disgusting it is, you still have to take a look at it in the spirit of research.
You will have to deal with a lot of disgusting things in the future, and even more disgusting things, so you can adapt to it now.
After collecting the corpses, Li Qing had an idea and disassembled one of the puppets, then examined it carefully.
The space in the palm of his hand is one with his soul. He can experience everything inside through the space in the palm of his hand, as if he were experiencing it himself.
"Well!"
Under the decomposition of the power of the space in his palm, the corpse turned into powder one by one. In his perception, this corpse was composed of four different creatures.
They were the main body of a jackal, with its arms spliced with the front paws of a ferocious beast, and its legs spliced with the limbs of another ferocious beast. In addition, the blood and flesh genes of other creatures were found inside the jackal's body. It felt like...
The Undead Gnoll Warriors have devoured the flesh and blood of other creatures and absorbed the advantages of other creatures.
Overall, there is not much technical content.
Any necromancer who graduated from the necromancy major can do it, so it has no research value.
In addition, after the seven corpses decomposed, a large mass of rotten flesh and bone powder was obtained. This thing cannot be refined into flesh and blood essence because it is gone inside.
Apart from being used as material for necromancy spells, it has almost no use.
Li Qing thought about it for a while, then directly decomposed it into the smallest molecules, and then refined it thoroughly, blending it into the space in his palm and disappearing.
Just think of it as nutrients for the space.
Generally, he would do this to decompose the completely useless parts of the materials, thus breaking them down into nothingness and saving the trouble of cleaning up the impurities.
As for the corpses of the gnolls and kobolds, their blood would naturally be extracted, and the remaining flesh and blood would then be transformed into flesh and blood essence.
Both gnolls and kobolds have bloodlines, but the bloodlines of gnolls are worthless.
The potential of the gnolls is not as high as that of the orcs. What’s the point of refining them?
As for the clothes and weapons on the corpses, he angrily decomposed them into their original materials.
For example, clothes can be broken down into their original plant fiber materials and then resynthesized into fiber threads when needed. The fine fibers can be used to make clothes, while the thick fibers can be used to make ropes.
All iron weapons are synthesized into iron ingots and stored for future use.
Speaking of which, with frequent use of this palm space, Li Qing's use and understanding of this thing have made great progress.
We used to only be able to perform rough decomposition and synthesis, but now we have begun to try to understand the nature of materials.
In the past, this pile of used clothes would have been broken down into basic raw materials. Now he knows how to convert these materials into plant fibers, and then use these plant fibers to hand-make clothes, ropes, and the like.
In other words, he can now use this thing to hand-weave a linen garment.
And I am just trying it now. As my hands become more and more skillful, I can even synthesize fibers myself and weave a piece of "De De Liang" clothing that is soft and tough.
The same is true for other materials.
Now we only remove metal impurities such as copper and iron to synthesize refined iron without impurities.
As he accumulates more knowledge, he can add other materials by hand to synthesize high-carbon steel, or other synthetic metals, referred to as alloys, and then hand-roll the shape of the weapon, sharpen the blade by hand, and finally hand-roll all kinds of cool weapons, even shields, armor, etc.
What's more, after systematically studying the structures of various war weapons and having sufficient materials, he can manually make a crossbow, a catapult, or even a powerful cannon.
If he completes rune learning and learns about magic circles, he can even make powerful magic cannons by himself.
One person is a super arsenal.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Qing opened the door to the divine realm and took back a dozen subordinates who had accumulated enough combat experience and promoted them.
Five elite template second-level imperial veteran infantrymen were promoted to third-level imperial elite infantrymen.
Eight elite template second-level imperial veteran archers were promoted to third-level imperial elite archers.
After the promotion, he will have 10 third-level imperial elite infantrymen and 12 third-level imperial elite archers.
Coming out of the divine realm, Li Qing pointed his sword in the direction of the gnoll tribe and ordered an attack.
Three heroes, 31 second and third level infantrymen, 24 second and third level archers, and 5 cavalrymen. The number is smaller than before, but they are stronger in both strength and morale.
More importantly, the main force of the Gnoll tribe has been destroyed.
When the troops arrived outside the Gnoll tribe, Li Qing summoned a ball of light to rise up, and saw densely packed Gnolls and Kobolds on the city gate wall, but the main force of the Gnolls had all died, and most of the remaining ones were level zero, with a small number of level one, and there were not even a few leaders.
Li Qing opened the space in his palm without saying a word, took out two large counterweight catapults, and deployed them on an open space.
It took more than ten minutes to slowly unfold it, and then he placed the synthesized spiked stones into the slingshot bag, adjusted the direction, smashed the rope at one end of the slingshot, and quickly dropped the ten-ton counterweight stone at the other end.
With the help of the ten-ton force, the stone in the net bag at the other end of the slingshot was bounced out.
The 500-kilogram stone drew an arc in the air and fell into...
He jumped over the wooden wall and fell into the gnoll tribe.
Li Qing immediately put away the catapult, retreated the distance that the boulder had passed, and put the catapult down again.
This kind of primitive thing is so troublesome. Li Qing did not prepare more counterweight stones, so the distance is fixed and cannot be adjusted. He can only move the catapult.
During the second preparation, a group of infantrymen came forward and worked for several minutes, prying the counterweight stone with one hand and pulling the rope with the other. It took a lot of effort to finally hoist the counterweight stone up again.
The same procedure was followed, and soon the second stone was placed in the slingshot. With a command, the rope was broken open and the boulder was thrown out again.
The same counterweight stone, the same throwing stone, the same distance as before. After adjusting the distance, the throwing stone drew a parabola in the air and landed accurately on the wooden wall of the werewolf tribe.
Amidst the loud "boom" there was a crisp "crack" sound, and the stone wall that was hit broke on the spot, with the boulder directly embedded into the broken stone wall.
The next step was to do the same thing. The two counterweight catapults continuously threw huge stones at the same location, quickly collapsing the wooden wall and creating a huge gap.
Then, after seeking Li Qing's consent, An Erqiu gathered the infantry at the gap and launched an attack.
A large number of gnolls and kobolds were screaming and guarding the gap to try to resist. Upon seeing this, An Erqiu immediately ordered his troops to stay in the gap and fight with the gnolls and kobolds.
The gap is only about three meters wide, and the number of enemies pouring out at one time is limited, so they can maximize the advantages of their rank.
This is the difference between heroes who have received professional tactics and command courses and wild heroes.
If Long Shou was in command, he would just lead his men to attack and force his way into the city wall to fight against the enemy who outnumbers him.
Just like him now, he climbed directly onto the wooden wall, killed the few defenders on it, opened his mouth and blew a conical dragon breath at the defenders on the other side of the gap, instantly turning the gap in the wooden city into a flaming hell. Countless numbers of gnolls and dog-headed men died from this breath.
