Chapter 44 Wasteland Reclamation
The drivers of the lightning element are not common in Ashe, but rare varieties are not rare.
As for the magic system in the Ashe world, wind, fire, earth and water are the four basic elements of magic, which are the origin of all magic, but also the most basic and primitive ways to control elements... It is natural that there are the most casters in these four systems.
It is said that the casters of the four elements with extremely prolonged elements account for 40% of all mages, and among the elemental mages, the original four elemental mages of Feng, Fire, Earth and Water account for more than 80%.
Of the remaining 20%, casters such as thunder, ice, and lava are called advanced/mutant elemental magic.
Just like the Ice Mage is the advancement of the Water Mage, and other branches, the Thunder Mage is also the advancement of the Wind Mage, and the Ice Mage is far superior to the attacking ability of the Water Mage, and the driver of the lightning is also far superior to the attacking ability of the Wind Mage.
Generally speaking, the master of the advanced magic system will practice after reaching a certain level of its corresponding source element magic. After all, this is how the entire profession system is built step by step.
It’s not that no one skips the initial stage and directly learns advanced magic, but there will always be something short of it later. It is easy to encounter bottlenecks and knowledge defects, and there will also be problems with elemental affinity, which is often not worth the effort.
Of course, there are always exceptions in everything. The kind of talented people, advanced magic and high-level skills are not none, but they are just rare... This kind of jumping level is basically because of special bloodlines, or they are simply not mortals from the beginning.
For ordinary human mages, advanced magic is quite high. You have to start over after finally mastering the basic elemental magic. The cost-effectiveness may not be enough (the lifespan is too short). The number of practitioners can never increase. Only in special environments and special areas will there be a large number of advanced element drivers.
For example, there are many ice mages in the north. Where can traditional water mages not find liquid water that can be controlled? On the contrary, where can the ice mages be subject to a large amount of environmental bonus, it is underestimated to double their combat power.
Correspondingly, ice magic cannot be found in tropical areas, there are many fire magic, and there are also many fire magic techniques to prolong life.
The wind element is ubiquitous in Ashe and Anthoren, and is less affected by the environment, but it is not very popular. The main reason is that the middle and low-level mages lack destructive power. Spells such as wind blades and whirlwinds have good killing ranges and low unit lethality. When it is possible to summon a tornado and the typhoon's eyes destroy the world... any mage can destroy the world at that level.
Even if the advanced magician thunder mage is a turret, it may not be able to beat the fire mage of the same level. After all, there is no obvious difference in the number and quality of the elements controlled by the two sides... According to the four elements proposed by Yunzhongta, fire still vaguely restrains the wind. When the thunder mage is fighting against each other, the wind mage will naturally suffer losses.
Although combat power is not the only criterion for evaluating the pros and cons of magic, most people regard the value of the caster as such direct and practical.
Master Feng himself has a small base, but it is very difficult to advance to thunder magic. At the same time, the lightning element is extremely manic and difficult to tame, so it is too easy to accidentally kill yourself.
Although it does have advantages in attack, the number of human thunder mages has never increased... The long-lived species such as elves have too long lifespans, and the magic system is relatively complete, so it is safe and fast to practice. There are too many advanced mages and even-cultivated mages, so I won't discuss them here for the time being.
The first batch of pioneers must enter a wasteland full of thunderstorms and work in an environment where the thunder element overflows for a long time. Although the lightning-proof magic armor can theoretically resist lightning strikes, if it is leaked a little, it will be a death outcome for ordinary people other than thunder magic.
On the other hand, since the stock of lightning elements in the wasteland is too high, flowing liquid lightning, spherical lightning, and plasma lightning that exists like a mysterious plasma is also filled with it, which is obviously fatal. While the lightning method is highly resistant, it can also use its elemental perception ability to avoid risks.
It is not difficult to find thunder in the Thunderstorm Wasteland. Finding corresponding element drivers in extreme environments to serve as early pioneers is already an experience summarized by the pioneers with their lives.
"A3, how are you doing there? Are those Leihu gone?"
The black armor, which is slightly larger than the same type, is extremely agile. Lightning flashes through it from time to time. Although lightning strikes cannot harm it, even if the heat insulation layer is installed, the high temperature from nowhere is still uncomfortable.
The magic armor half-kneeled on the high ground overlooking the lower part, lying in the overly "warm" cab. Rorschach tried hard to concentrate on scanning the enemy situation around him, sweating all over his body. What he missed the most now was the cold cold shower in the dormitory.
"A3 replied, the group of thunder beasts couldn't find anything to slap. They had been walking for almost ten minutes. It seemed that they would not come back today..."
"Okay, turn on the protective layer and let's continue working. It's a good boy. I'll treat you to a beer when I go back, it's cold."
"Ha, I'm underage..."
The disbelief and cheering in the communicator interrupted Roxham's words. After all, these two meters tall and those who are more than two meters tall and have their performances these days, they don't look like minors.
With a loud noise, the earth cracked a hole, and a huge black beast crawled out of it. It opened its big mouth, and black figures walked out of it.
It was a Thunder Demon Armor of the same type as Rorschach, but it was small and unarmed. The equipment it carried was mostly construction equipment such as shovels, engineer shovels, chainsaws, etc.
As soon as they came out, they started to get busy in this area. Some began to cut the city walls, some were debugging various instruments, and some were using special alloy bricks to repair houses like piles of blocks.
"Come on, we're already behind the pace."
"Ha, it's news when not falling behind."
According to the initial plan, this is the comprehensive construction stage of New Tonya City.
Due to the excessively dense lightning strikes on the surface, it caused a lot of trouble to construction. The initial construction was the underground part of New Tonya City, and its main body was completed a week ago. Now the ground layout is being built.
Some things look easy but difficult to do, some things look hard and even harder to do... Well, it refers to building cities in the wasteland.
There are many difficulties expected. The working environment here makes the dwarf masters who are used to living in the furnace unable to stand it. Even if they are careful, there will still be people who permanently withdraw from the work sequence.
And the levels that were not expected also jumped out one by one.
For example, half an hour ago, the camp was attacked by a group of thunder elemental creatures. They were the product of the thunderstorm season, attacking wantonly and plundering all non-elemental creatures.
Generally speaking, they like to simulate various animal forms, after all, these animals still have templates during the period when there was no thunder in the wasteland.
These thunder beasts attacked the Ashes, the living and primitive lightning stones.
At first, the Ashes suffered a little loss. For a period of time, they sent warriors to encircle and hunt down the thunder elemental creatures, but later they found that this was basically meaningless.
The corresponding elemental creatures in high-concentration elemental environments are almost immortal. Even if they are killed in one breath, they will soon be killed. It is disgusting to heal and regenerate while fighting. If you fight, split and reproduce, you will get more. So what else can you beat?
Fortunately, due to the extreme environment here, the Ashes did not encounter enemies other than the Thunder Beast. What makes people feel unfortunate is that these guys are already annoying enough.
Just like fighting water element creatures in marine areas... it will definitely not be able to achieve any results.
Fortunately, the thunder beasts that were born were not very intelligent, and their attacks and hunting were almost instinctive. After several unreasonable consumption, the Ashes wisely chose to avoid the war.
Hiding in the ground can make them find nothing, and making bait can make them leave early is just a waste of construction period.
But it is definitely not possible for everyone to hide in. Some important facilities left on the ground cannot be destroyed. Once they are in the vital areas, they must take the initiative and try every means to tempt them to leave.
Considering the dangers of work, it is definitely the combatants who are responsible for bait and sentry. At least from the current results, Roche did a good job.
Moreover, what Rorschach is responsible for is not the most deadly job.
According to the classic element theory of those casters in the Cloud Tower, elemental creatures will only be born in specific environments where element tides are extremely intense and element concentrations are abnormally high, such as various element planes.
After they are born, they will absorb the surrounding elemental power and evolve themselves. When they evolve to a certain extent, they will swallow each other, merge and evolve, and eventually high-level elemental creatures such as element giants and element lords will appear.
Low-level elemental creatures have low IQ and are easy to deal with. Once an elemental lord with wisdom and can control the elemental beast group appears... it will be really deadly. After all, the Ashes are equivalent to invading this "half-elemental plane", and high-level elemental creatures will definitely take the initiative to clear these "foreign objects".
Once the thunderstorm season ends, it means that this half-element plane disappears directly. However, from the reality that there are always many thunder elemental creatures in this wasteland, many of these thunder beasts will inevitably survive until the next thunder season.
The longer you live, the easier it is to advance. The advantage of high-level elemental creatures over combat power is that they can control the army of elements in this environment.
Therefore, in order not to appear high-level elemental creatures and elemental lords, at least this kind of thing appears around New Tonya City. The two thunder-type arrivals, "a1" and "a2", who are stronger than Rorsch, both brought combat players to hunt large elemental creatures that may be advanced.
"From the moment, the cleaning work is still going well, at least I haven't seen any advanced elemental creatures."
【Shut up! Crow's mouth Rorscher!】
And from the roar of the god girl with panic, Rorsch knew that the trouble was coming.
Chapter completed!