Chapter 61: War Magic and Crazy Ideas
Seeing this, Li Qing suddenly remembered that his mentor had said before that there were two civilizations in this plane, one was the snakeman civilization, and the other civilization was not mentioned, but now it seemed that it was most likely in the underground world.
Many planes have underground worlds, most of which are inhabited by underground creatures, but the ruling intelligent race is not fixed.
The common impression of underground intelligent races is dark elves , underground dwarves, etc.
In fact, any race, including humans, orcs, dwarves, elves, and even demons, may appear underground.
Underground humans, underground elves.
It is worth mentioning that underground elves and dark elves are not the same race. They are just elves that live underground and have dark vision, not the dark elves in the legend.
No one knows what race lives underground in this world yet, and Li Qing doesn’t care too much. After all, he has not considered going underground.
The underground world is so narrow that the effect of the space in his palm cannot be fully utilized, at least he cannot summon meteorites in it.
Time passed slowly in this silence. Outside, the situation was turbulent, and a large number of war lord apprentices were in conflict with the local snake people and alien races for resources. However, here, Li Qing was as quiet and peaceful as a paradise.
There had been no wars for a long time, which attracted many scholars and apprentices to settle here.
Even a small number of apprentices from other mentors were attracted there.
Li Qing welcomes everyone who comes to him as long as they don't cause trouble.
And he has been practicing rune major for a long time, and through the cheat of the palm space, he can now draw hundreds of runes disassembled from the magic tower in the palm space.
Then……
He successfully extracted a combination of three powerful war spell runes from it.
Yes, the magic array combined in the magic tower is a war spell, namely light magic, magic lightning, and magic barrier.
The light magic is the big ball of light that illuminates the surroundings of the town. Its real name is "Light of War". When combined with the light of civilization, it can illuminate an area of more than ten kilometers in radius. The version that Li Qing obtained is a pure light of war, which can only illuminate an area of several kilometers.
Magic lightning is a purely destructive war spell that can fire a lightning bolt with a power equivalent to that of a first-level spell, but its killing range is as high as 30 meters * 30 meters, and its cooling time is 15 minutes.
It was the same as what Mo Wenxi and the others had said to fool him before, except that they didn't say how powerful it was.
Its power is only equivalent to that of a first-level spell, but its killing range is large, 30 meters by 30 meters. On the battlefield, this range can easily accommodate dozens or even hundreds of soldiers. If it is during a siege, there will be even more people.
Low-level soldiers cannot withstand the damage of a first-level spell, so a magic lightning bolt aimed at the city gate can easily kill hundreds of people in seconds.
And this is just the basic version. The power of war spells can also be enhanced, but it is too harsh.
The third war magic is 'Body Shield', which adds a magic shield to no more than 100 soldiers in the specified range to resist damage. The higher the level, the greater the power, and the more soldiers can be added at one time.
Just think about how powerful the group shield is.
Seeing this, Li Qing was already considering whether to get a magic book for himself.
The so-called magic book is a spell book specially used by war lords to store war spells, and it only records war spells.
The requirements for building a magic book are extremely strict, even ridiculously strict.
First of all, very precious materials are needed. The most common minimum standard is dragon skin, the skin of a giant dragon.
Because dragon skin is strong enough to carry war spells.
The three war spells he mastered now were only low-level war spells. Some powerful war spells were extremely powerful, even more outrageous than the legendary spells of legendary heroes. If the materials were not strong enough, they would be impossible to carry.
The second requirement is that the war lord himself has sufficient professional knowledge.
Even if you are lucky enough to get a war magic card, you still have to rely on your own ability to copy the war magic on the card into your own war magic book.
You can't ask others to help you, because only you can open the war magic book unless the owner dies.
Any book of war magic is created from scratch by the war lord himself, adding one war spell at a time.
If the copying is not done well, that page of dragon skin, which has been processed with a large amount of extremely precious magical materials and man-hours, will be scrapped.
It is worth mentioning that the war magic book can be passed down, but the original owner must die.
Please note that it means complete death, and the spiritual imprint is completely erased. If the owner dies but is not completely dead, and there is still a trace of spirit or soul lingering there, it is not considered complete death.
Only after the owner dies completely will the war magic book lose its owner and be obtained by other heroes.
However, a war magic book like this one obtained through inheritance cannot be expanded to add new spells, and the casting costs of the war spells inside will be higher and the restrictions will be greater.
To give a simple example, the cooling time of the magic lightning recorded in your own war magic book is 15 minutes, and the war mana consumption is only 1 point.
If the magic book is inherited by someone else, the mana consumption will be 2 points and the cooling time will be 30 minutes, which is doubled.
This so-called war mana can be replaced by divine power. 1 point of divine power is equivalent to 1 point of war mana, or 100 units of standard energy in the divine domain energy pool, or 100 points of personal mana is equivalent to 1 point of war mana.
Therefore, those who are capable of making war magic books are basically powerful wizard war lords.
But then again, being able to get three war spells from the snakeman town means that there are definitely a lot of war magic inheritances in the snakeman kingdom of this plane, and it is even possible that there are such precious treasures as war magic books.
This is really good stuff, a killer.
Even if it is a war magic book that cannot be expanded to add new spells, it is still an extremely powerful weapon.
If Li Qing had a war magic book with more war magic recorded in it, no matter what type, he would be able to confront a formal war lord head-on.
Of course, this means that without the war magic book, the newly promoted war lord will definitely not be able to defeat the senior one.
Or to put it another way, if he had a war magic book with four or five war spells, he would have the ability to sweep away all the apprentices under the names of all the mentors in the plane and dare to attack the snakeman city head-on.
Even if the apprentices of the two five-star mentors come in the future, they will be able to sweep away the enemy as well.
What is a war magic book?
That is a rare treasure that few Black Rock Realm Lords have. Many apprentices under the two five-star mentors are the direct descendants of formal war lords, but it is 100% certain that none of them have it.
Even most official warlords are unlikely to have war spellbooks, either as spoils of war or through inheritance.
Only those senior and powerful war lords may have it.
For most war lords, they rely on hero spells. At most, they can upgrade a hero spell to level five or above using hero skill points to form a pseudo-war spell.
So here comes the question.
Li Qing is estimated to be able to master magic circles within this year, but he does not have the top-quality materials to make them.
Not to mention the dragon skin, he didn't even have any animal skin of the same level as the dragon skin, and he couldn't afford it.
unless……
Li Qing pinched his chin, thinking about a possibility.
After a while, Li Qing contacted the instructor again and asked directly:
"Teacher, if I sell the snake man's luck card to the academy, what price can I get it for?"
Nie Yang thought about it for a moment and said:
"That's hard to say. What do you want?"
"I want some dragon skins that can be processed to make magic scrolls. How much can you give me?"
"???"
"What do you want that for? With your current abilities, what spell scroll would require dragon skin? You don't need to make war magic scrolls."
…
Li Qing coughed lightly and changed the subject:
"This is kept secret for now. I don't know if I can get it."
Nie Yang smiled and said:
"I can definitely get some in exchange, and I can get a lot. After all, although dragon skin is precious, there are so many planes in the Chaos Void Sea, and many of them have dragons. Even in some planes dominated by dragons, dragon skin is not worth much."
"Of course, no matter how worthless it is, it is still relative. It is dragon skin, and it will be valuable if you take it outside."
"It's hard to estimate the price for now. Let me spread the news first and I'll ask for you."
Li Qing nodded.
"Oh, it doesn't have to be dragon skin. High-level monster skins of the same rank will do."
"Yes, I understand."
After closing the communication, Li Qing rubbed his hands, looking forward to it.
It would be great if I could really get a batch of dragon skins. Then I could make my own war magic book. The three war spells I have now are very powerful.
If I have the chance to get a few more, I will have almost no rivals in the same level.
While waiting, Li Qing was not idle. He continued to sink his consciousness into the space in his palm to practice these magic runes.
Two days later, Li Qing received a message from his tutor:
"I've asked for you. There are two instructors who are interested and can afford the price. One is willing to give out 25 processed standard green dragon skins, and the other is willing to give out 20 standard red dragon skins. Which one do you want?"
The so-called standard refers to the size standard used for copying scrolls, which is not much different from the pages of war magic books and only needs simple processing.
In fact, the war magic scroll is essentially the same as the war magic book, both of which contain war spells, but one is for continuous use and the other is for one-time use.
Precisely because it is disposable, the material standards required for the War Magic Scroll are lower.
For the same first-level magic lightning, the scroll can be made of ordinary dragon skin, including the skin of a hydra, but the war magic book must be made of materials higher than dragon skin.
Both green dragonhide and red dragonhide meet the standards, but red dragonhide is definitely better.
Li Qing didn't hesitate and said directly:
"I want those 20 standard red dragon skins."
"No problem, just bring the card here first."
Li Qing nodded and sent the snake man's luck card to his mentor through the divine realm.
If he trades with other people, there is a high probability that his items will be stolen by others, but it is not a problem within the academy.
It’s not that their moral integrity is so good, nor is the academy completely fair and just. The main reason is that although the snake man’s luck card is precious, it has not reached the point where the instructors have to give up everything to cheat.
One day later, Li Qing received twenty red dragon skins sent by his mentor.
Nie Yang said to him on the screen:
"I don't know what you're going to use this for. If you want to copy a scroll, you'd better be absolutely sure before you do it. This thing can't be used indefinitely. If you fail once, the dragon skin will be invalid. You'd better be careful."
Li Qing nodded without further explanation.
There's really no way to say it. He can't just tell his instructor that he wants to make his own war magic book. If he tells others about it, the instructor won't be surprised but will think that he is crazy.
After turning off the communication, Li Qing turned around and announced that he would go into seclusion, then dived into the high tower in the divine realm.
The first step is to process the materials.
First, cut the dragon skin.
There is still a small difference between the size of the scroll and the size of the book page, but it is not big, so you only need to cut a little.
This requires a lot of precious magical materials and special techniques, and most importantly, a professional laboratory.
But it was very simple for Li Qing. He didn't even need a pair of scissors. He just marked out the standard size. Then, with a thought, the power of the space in his palms broke down the uneven edges of the dragon skin, and then...
Li Qing suddenly stopped.
After a while, he put the dragon skin aside, and with a thought, the powder gathered in front of him and condensed into a small piece of leather.
This is a small piece that is pieced together from the scraps of material that were just cut off from the uneven parts of the dragon skin.
After thinking for a while, he stretched out his hand and pointed, and the small piece of dragon skin shattered into powder again. Then Li Qing closed his eyes and slowly felt the material of the dragon skin through the power of the space in his palm.
He closed his eyes for a moment, and as his mind moved, a large amount of matter stored at the edge of space flew to him and broke into powder, then quickly rearranged according to his wishes.
In less than a second, a one square meter piece of leather exactly the same as dragon skin appeared in front of him.
Stroke the real dragon skin with your left hand and the newly synthesized dragon skin with your right hand. Feel them carefully and you will find that they feel almost exactly the same.
I rubbed it with both hands and found that the texture was almost exactly the same.
But Li Qing shook his head:
"no!"
There is almost no difference in feel, texture and appearance, but the inner essence is completely different.
Or to put it another way, the internal texture of the big dragon skin he made was exactly the same as that of a real dragon skin, and it could definitely be called dragon skin, but it was missing one crucial thing, which was the power of the dragon clan.
The reason why dragon skin can be used as top-level magic material and equipment making material is mainly due to the dragon power contained in the dragon skin.
The power of the dragon race gives dragon skin strong toughness and damage-bearing ability, as well as the most critical mana guidance and mana storage limit, as well as mana impact resistance, magic resistance and other extraordinary factors.
However, the fake dragon skins he made did not have that, only the basic physical resistance of dragon skin.
In other words, what he combined was just a piece of super tough dragon skin with a similar texture to dragon skin. It only had the physical defense of dragon skin, but lacked extraordinary properties such as resistance to magic and mana extension.
To put it in simple terms, this thing can block an arrow from a heavy crossbow, but it cannot withstand fire and can be easily blown through by a fireball.
Of course, this is cool too.
More importantly, this is fake dragon skin that can be produced in batches through the cheat code.
It just can't be used as a magic material, or even as armor...
