Chapter 231 Ice Essence and [Blade Explosion+]
After the lights in the tents around Duo'er were extinguished one after another, Gaode, who had just sat down cross-legged and was about to start today's practice, heard There were footsteps outside the tent.
Gothe suddenly stopped moving and became wary.
Who else would come to see him so late?
"It's me," the voice of the leader of the Shimo clan came from outside the tent, "You haven't slept yet, have you?"
"Not yet." Gothe stood up quickly, opened the tent, and welcomed the leader of the Shimo clan in.
"Is there something wrong, Chief Shimo?"
Clan Chief Shimo smiled, "If you hadn't taken action today, Duo'er Bian would have been in great trouble. "
"There are no good things in the tribe. After thinking about it, this is the only one I can barely get hold of."
As he spoke, the leader of the Shimo tribe moved cautiously from his arms. He took out a small ice bottle.
The ice bottle is clear, and through the bottle, you can clearly see three drops of crystal blue drop-shaped "gel" inside.
Chief Shimo handed the ice bottle to Gothe.
"What is this?" Gao De asked in surprise.
"Ice marrow, first-level," introduced the leader of the Shimo clan: "In the north, ice marrow is the most hard-to-pass 'currency'."
In the introduction of the leader of the Ximo clan Next, Gaode gradually understood the situation.
In a place like the North, gold and silver coins are meaningless.
People here are more accustomed to bartering. There is actually only one thing that can really be counted as 'currency', and that is "Ice Marrow".
The so-called ice marrow is not a rare ore, but is obtained by the "ice extraction" method that the ice descendants will master after awakening the ice descendants' blood. They use the ice descendants' blood to reconcile their own mana and finally condense it. A drop of gel.
The whole process is actually somewhat similar to preparing a magic potion, except that only an Ice Mage can condense the "Ice Marrow".
Similarly, the stronger the bloodline power, the higher the level of the condensed ice marrow.
In addition, the more abundant the mana is, the shorter the time for condensing ice marrow will be.
Ximo is an ice-born mage in the early stage of the first level, and the ice marrow he condenses is naturally the first-level ice marrow.
With his mage level, it would take about a year to condense a drop of first-level ice marrow.
For an iceborn mage in the middle stage of the first level, it will take half a year, and for a mage in the late stage of the first level, it will also take four months.
As you can imagine, ice marrow is precious.
Of course, the value of ice marrow lies not only in the difficulty of its condensation process, but also in its powerful effectiveness.
This ice marrow contains extremely abundant and pure ice elemental power. In addition to being used as medicine, it can also be used directly as a magic potion.
After the mage swallows ice marrow, the power of the ice element spells he casts will skyrocket.
However, the most important reason why it has become a hard currency in the North is that after taking ice marrow, in addition to "amplifying" the power of ice spells, it can also be used to assist ice attributes. The practice of spiritual training can even improve one's own Iceborn bloodline.
Needless to say about the former, the ice-born mage’s practice methods are all based on the "Secret Legend of Ice" obtained through bloodline awakening, and are the purest ice-based practice methods.
As for the latter, it is even more important to the people in the north.
The Ice Mage's spells are obtained through his own blood, and there is no need to spend time building spell models like ordinary mages.
At the same time, the powerful ice blood power will also quickly increase the ice mage's mage level.
For example, Sunaifa, the new war mother of the Zhenbing Tribe, is already at the fourth ring level at a young age, relying on her powerful Iceborn bloodline.
This is the advantage of the Ice Bloodline.
But on another level, the Iceborn bloodline also limits the growth of Iceborn mages.
Because the breakthrough of "The Secret of Zhenbing" is limited by the power of blood.
For an Ice-born mage with meager Ice-born bloodline like Ximo, the upper limit of his life is the late stage of the first level.
Without a breakthrough in bloodline power, [Zhenbing Secret] will never be able to complete the promotion to a second-level mage.
The reason why the Iceborn are getting weaker and weaker is precisely because they are extremely dependent on the power of the Iceborn bloodline, and the power of the bloodline is constantly declining.
In ancient times, the Iceborn bloodline could allow the Iceborn to reach the seventh or even eighth level.
But now, it is already difficult to even reach the fifth ring.
Let’s take Sunaifa as an example. Because of her Iceborn bloodline, she can quickly become a fourth-ring Iceborn mage in just a few years. However, she may also stay at this level for the rest of her life due to the limitations of her Iceborn bloodline. Four rings.
The strength of the Iceborn bloodline is innate and can only depend on luck, but it cannot be changed by nurture.
The most well-known method is to swallow ice marrow and then use the "ice condensation" ability in "The Secret of Ice" to enhance the power of one's ice blood.
It should be because the ice marrow was condensed by the ice mage using the power of blood, and it has such a magical effect only when it comes from the same source.
The difficulty of the ice marrow condensation process combined with the powerful use of potency, the latter is doomed to be a forever scarcity of "ice marrow" and will never rot in your hands.
The former is to ensure that "Ice Marrow" will not suffer "inflation" and its value will be stable.
This happens to be consistent with the properties of money.
Therefore, "Ice Marrow" has become the hard currency in the North, and there is nothing wrong with calling it a high-value currency.
The three drops of ice marrow in front of him are the goods that the leader of the Ximo clan has been hoarding for three years.
Sincerity shows in every word.
"In this case, it's better to be respectful than to obey." Gothe thought for a moment and reached out to take the ice bottle.
If the other party just offers some dispensable things as thanks, then there is not much difference between accepting or not accepting.
But the other party has really given away his most precious thing, and accepting it is a better choice.
Seeing Gothe's acceptance, Chief Shimo's face suddenly showed a look of relief: "Then I won't disturb your rest."
After watching Chief Shimo leave, Gothe opened the cap of the ice bottle in his hand. .
The strong aura of the ice element hit his face in an instant, shaking people's spirits.
Gaode looked at these three drops of ice marrow containing rich ice element power, but he thought of what Du Wei had told him at the beginning: refine the magic plant containing ice element into a medicinal liquid, and drip it into Eyes, after absorbing enough ice elemental power, Mandora's Magic Eye can continue to improve.
Ice Essence has extremely abundant and pure ice element power, which just meets this condition.
Therefore, Mandora's Magic Eye should be able to be improved through ice marrow, and the effect may be far better than the liquid medicine refined by the magic plant.
Thinking like this, Gothe's heart moved slightly and he opened Mandora's magic eye.
The originally normal pupil of his left eye immediately showed a circle of deep blue fluorescence, becoming mysterious and unpredictable.
At the same time, the field of vision changed. The world seen with the left eye became microscopic, and the dividing lines of blue particles solidified in the ice marrow could even be faintly distinguished.
If you look far away, things that were originally small seem to be right in front of you, just like the telephoto lens of a camera in your previous life.
Then, Gothe raised his head, took out a drop of ice marrow from the ice bottle, and dropped it into his left eye.
In an instant, he felt a refreshing chill pouring into his eyes.
Without any additional action from him, the fluorescent Mandora Magic Eye automatically began to absorb the abundant ice elemental power.
I don’t know how long the whole process lasted.
When the chill completely dissipated, the Mandora Magic Eye on Gothe's left was obviously a bit deeper than before.
Trying to use Mandora's magic eye to observe things again, it was a little clearer than before.
Gaode felt it carefully. Under the strong mental perception, some information naturally came to his mind. By adding 71 drops of the same ice marrow just now, his Mandora Magic Eye can be upgraded to the next stage.
Mandora's Magic Eye is a special ability obtained through "Mandora's Tears".
Due to the rarity and randomness of "Mandora's Tears", and even if you take "Mandora's Tears", you may not be able to obtain the "Mandora's Magic Eye."
Therefore, there are very few mages with "Mandora's Magic Eye" and it is definitely an uncommon ability.
For such an uncommon special ability, of course there are not many records, and there is no specific hierarchical classification.
In order to make it easier for him to distinguish the levels of Mandola's magic eye, Gothe thought for a while and made one himself since there was no realm division.
He simply designated the newly awakened Mandora Demonic Eye as the first level.
The next level is naturally the second level.
Divided by the number of drops of the first-order ice marrow, it should now be: Mandora's Magic Eye first-order (1/72).
After this was settled, Gothe suddenly felt much more comfortable - compared to vague concepts, specific data was his comfort zone.
It takes 71 drops of ice marrow to upgrade Mandora's Magic Eye to the next stage.
However, he only has two drops in his hand now.
And it is still unclear what the upper limit of Mandora's Magic Eye is.
But in short, the more ice marrow, the better.
It's just that ice marrow is the most difficult treasure in the north. Gothe thought about it, but he couldn't think of anything of equal value that he could exchange for it.
The most valuable thing about him now, apart from the set of fourth-level rune constructs "Breath of the Wild" that He Xi left for him, are the dozens of Xien gold coins
Well, after entering the North, these dozens of Xion gold coins also lost their value.
Let alone buying ice marrow, even if you use it to buy food, you will be disliked by the people in the north.
"You have to rely on planting trees."
After thinking about it, Gaode found that his only source of support was still planting trees.
When relying on Yuga Tshila's ability to have a strong influence in the north, there will naturally be no shortage of ice marrow.
The simplest example is to provide Duo Erbian with a livable place, and in exchange for Patriarch Ximo constantly condensing ice marrow for him, Patriarch Ximo would definitely be willing to do so.
“In the first year of planting trees, it was still too weak to rely on my own strength. The best thing to use was the magic circle. From this point of view, when I entered the Rune Department and studied Rune Literature, it was a secret. It just paved the way for now”
Whether it is the practice of the [Aoki Immortality Sutra], the realization of Flora's potential, or the expected formation of his own force, it is inseparable from Yugatha Sheila.
The most urgent task now is to find a suitable tree planting site.
It would definitely be unrealistic to just explore and search by yourself, it would be too much luck.
First of all, we need a map, something rough and simple will do.
Obviously, this kind of thing does not exist in the small tribe of Duo'erbian. Their nomadic area is limited.
However, Gaode has also inquired about the current camp location of the medium-sized tribe closest to Duo'er.
The next step is to rush there and find a way to buy the map from them.
After thinking about the next itinerary, Gaode stopped thinking and prepared to start today's practice.
But before that, there is one more thing to do.
He focused his mind on "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow".
Origin:
0 ring-——[Snow Wolf] (7/7).
Yes, the new origin he just obtained today has not been used yet.
At the stage of a level 1 mage, at least the source of level 0, there is no need for Gaode to save it for emergencies.
Just use a little bit.
His attention flashed through the tricks he had not "added" one by one, and finally landed on [Blade Explosion].
This is a rare trick in the conjuration system.
In terms of power alone, it is actually not outstanding. It is only 6 degrees, and it is 12 degrees after raising the level to cast a spell, which is comparable to 2 degrees higher than [Magic Explosion] without raising the level to cast a spell.
However, the damage caused by [Blade Burst] is noble force field damage, and it is also an extremely rare range attack spell.
The combination of these two points is enough to raise its point-adding priority much higher.
Now that he has made a decision, Gothe focuses on the flashing yellow "+" sign after [Blade Explosion] and be decisive.
[Blade Burst+] (Conjuration system, level 0):
You instantly create a circle of translucent sharp blades to clean around you.
Every creature within the spell's range (5 feet) except you takes damage.
Additional: The center point of the blade burst will no longer be fixed to the caster, but the caster can choose any point within 20 feet as the center point of the blade burst (but if the caster does not If you cast a spell as the center and are within the casting range, you will also be harmed).
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A very strange improvement.
A simple and crude understanding is equivalent to extending the casting distance.
After all, when the spell is cast centered on oneself, and the spell range is only 5 feet, the applicable range of [Blade Burst] is actually really limited: when and only when a large number of enemies are close to the face.
In fact, for a mage, falling into this situation, not to mention a narrow escape, is also very dangerous.
So under normal circumstances, the mage will definitely try to avoid getting into this situation.
But if you don’t fall into this situation, [Blade Explosion] will be useless.
Under this contradiction, [Blade Burst] is destined to be a group attack spell, but it cannot really be used as a conventional combat spell. It is more often a limited spell at the bottom of the box
But after adding points to "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow", the applicability of [Blade Burst+] is greatly improved.
The casting distance of 20 feet plus the spell range of 5 feet means that [Blade Burst+] can hit enemies up to 25 feet away.
As expected of you, Fengling Yueying!
Gaode is very satisfied.
At this moment.
The footsteps outside the tent sounded again.
But it is obviously much lighter than before, so it is not the return of the leader of the Shimo clan.
Who is it?
Gaode raised his eyebrows slightly.
A moment later, someone outside the tent shouted softly and cautiously in Aisi:
“Can I come in?”
It was a member of the Duolbian tribe.
Gothe thought for a moment, stood up again, and opened the tent.
Outside the tent, a short, dark, seven- or eight-year-old boy with hair as dry as grass was standing.
Gaode had a little impression of this boy.
Because during the bonfire party in the evening, the boy had been staring at him from time to time with a look that was so fervent that it could be said to be worship.
(End of this chapter)