Chapter 384 The Battle Between Humans and Dragons [Middle]
Although flying is flying, the player's degree of freedom is not very high, and at the same time, the effect of this flying speed seems to be enhanced by mental attributes is not very obvious~
Perhaps strengthening targeted academic abilities can enhance the flying effect, but this is too harsh for Liu Yifei~
Even if his hoarding of free academic points is far greater than ordinary people, he doesn't want to deviate from the direction of his specialization~
However, if you don't invest in it, Flying Thaumaturgy's shortcomings of slow flight at a constant speed and lack of maneuverability will almost make the caster flying in the air a target!
And if we still have to compete with a super strong person like Gregory...
Just thinking about it, Liu Yifei knew that he was definitely dead!
And if it doesn't fly...
Hum~
That's more humorous.
If ground units deal with flying units...or "flying units" like spiritual-level bone dragon heroes, what will happen to them? Anyone with a sane mind can guess what will happen.
And in the end, this is what Liu Yifei came up with!
When flying in the air, the caster himself is more likely to "struggle", so by using a large amount of concentrated bursts of wind magic to push the air to generate new power, the caster should be able to have stronger mobility!
From previous experiments, Liu Yifei has determined that this method is effective!
However, seeing that he seemed to have escaped Gregory's direct collision, Liu Yifei was even more excited and inexplicably excited!
"Hmph~
The boring tricks of humble people~
Do you think you can escape?"
A cold snort.
Gregory, who had just charged past Liu Yifei, twisted his body slightly, but he threw the huge bone tail behind him straight towards Liu Yifei!
The high-speed lashing even produced a sharp explosion sound as if the air was torn apart!
The inexplicable white lines gather around the tip of the tail, which proves the amazing power contained in this tail sweep!
"Bone prison!"
A loud shout~
Suddenly, pale fire flashed in the void behind Liu Yifei!
The next moment, it was even faster than the bone dragon's tail sweep!
Countless huge terrifying white bones nearly as thick as a person had broken out from a certain point in the void. A spherical and extremely strong bone cage was formed around Liu Yifei!
Pa~~~
A huge crisp sound like a slap swept out, and the bone dragon's tail swept almost imprinted on the surface of the bone prison when the bone prison was formed!
Even if this thing is strong enough to bind the enemy into it, but for the strengthened Gregory, such a thing obviously lacks some convincing~
But what surprised Gregory somewhat was that at some point, Liu Yifei was able to cast the advanced bone spell instantly?
If his spellcasting skills were already so high, for Gregory, perhaps this battle would not be as easy as imagined~
With the explosive release of wind low-level attack skills. Through the vibration and recoil of the air, Liu Yifei can instantly and explosively improve the flying effect of flying magic, and can even achieve sudden changes in direction of flight.
And by making full use of the bone skills under necromancy, Liu Yifei has even more ways to protect himself and save his life~
However, it would be too fanciful to think that you can defeat Gregory who has restored his complete soul freedom and even gained the additional soul flame strengthening ability of Lord Sandro.
And in the subsequent physical combat attack and defense that lasted for more than ten minutes, it was Gregory who took all the initiative!
Gregory seemed to be demonstrating the fighting methods of the Bone Dragon, using these most basic physical fighting methods over and over again.
However, even if Gregory hadn't used all his strength, it was already a huge pressure on Liu Yifei!
Physically, physically, mentally...
In the past, Liu Yifei, as the master of Grigory, always looked like he was standing high above the head of the bone dragon. He ignored countless enemies and was crushed to death by the bone dragon, and even was crushed into ashes and flesh along the way~
That feeling of being invincible and invincible even made Liu Yifei feel that the combination of himself and Gregory was almost omnipotent!
But today, this moment~
Until the opponent standing in front of the bone dragon became himself, Liu Yifei finally suddenly realized!
He is invincible and invincible. It has always been Gregory, not Liu Yifei~
The gap in absolute strength between himself and Bone Dragon is like a world of difference.
Even if it was just to protect himself, Liu Yifei had almost used all his means.
"What? This is no longer possible?
Hum~
The undead apprentice is really just the undead apprentice~
I thought your strength had grown a bit, but I didn’t expect that the more than half a year I spent with you just turned you into a cowardly and incompetent crawler...
Is it really just trash?"
"Haha~
When you said that, I really felt unhappy...
But since it is a duel, I have to abide by the rules of the duel, so let’s continue..."
"Stop pretending!
Incompetent Necromancer Apprentice!
Do you think I will be happy after defeating a loser like you?
Do you think I will be happy after proving that I have been enslaved by a waste like you?
Don't worry about the fair rules of duel~
Only when you have enough strength to challenge me, will you be qualified to talk about fairness in front of the great Gregory!
Now~
You are just a target for me to vent my anger!
Killing a guy like you, I can't vent my anger at all!
You can understand that, right?
You can definitely feel it, right?
The anger in my heart is burning like fire!!!
Okay~
I'll give you time to prepare!
Use all your strength!
Otherwise, you will have no chance to dodge next time!
The breath of death will drown you completely!
In the face of boundless death, idiots like you don't even have a chance to struggle!
Incompetent Necromancer Apprentice!!!"
Before Liu Yifei could finish speaking, the huge bone dragon suddenly ran away in anger from a distance of dozens of meters!
The huge tail swung impatiently, but it made a shocking and sharp whistling sound, and at the same time, it left a trail of ice-blue flames in the air!
This is a new ability that the Bone Dragon has gained since it was strengthened by the power of fire from Lord Sandru~
Whenever Grigory gets angry or serious, ice-blue flames will condense on the tips of the bone spurs all over his body. The few largest bone spurs will even turn ice-white at the tips, and the rich cold air of death will even make the surrounding areas
A light mist floats in the air!
This is the external manifestation of the intensified soul flame talent, just like the powerful Serasto.
Its hooves are always as deep as ice. There is only a section of excessive silver-blue soul at the knees, showing that the source of the ice-white color is not actually the elemental power of the magic system...
Seeing the manic and restless Gregory at this moment, Liu Yifei's talk of being brave finally turned into a helpless wry smile~
This stubborn bone dragon actually calls himself stupid?
How could it not be just as stupid as itself?
If it really wants to defeat or even kill itself to regain freedom, why should it hesitate now?
As Gregory said, kill Liu Yifei. It may only take one spray...
"Okay~
Since it is your request, I will do as you wish.
But, Gregory, please don’t regret it~”
"Hahahaha~
Are you telling a joke?
regret?
The great Gregory never regretted it!
From the moment I was awakened by the supreme Lord Sandro, there has never been a time of 'regret' in the imprint of my soul!
Incompetent Necromancer Apprentice~
Show the limits of your abilities!
Please me~
Let my anger be vented!
It satisfies my heart!
I will give you a compliment!
I will reward you with a peaceful and endless death~~~"
Hearing Liu Yifei's "threat", the manic Bone Dragon laughed wildly as if he had heard the most hilarious "joke" of the year~
A pair of giant wings flapped subconsciously, stirring up a strong hurricane that even slightly blew away some of the thick canopy on the sky. The dark wind that was whistling wantonly around them felt like some kind of threat.
It has been completely avoided, as if this is the legendary "windless zone"~
But under the crazy laughter of Bone Dragon and the inexplicable gazes of millions of players in the distance, Liu Yifei finally lowered his flying altitude bit by bit...until he landed on the ground?
kindness?
What's going on?
Is he giving up the advantage of flying?
The next moment, a loud and inexplicable chanting of a curse suddenly sounded!
The sound was so loud that it penetrated the distance of space and could be heard clearly by players who were crowded together to watch the fun in the distance even from a distance of hundreds of meters~
Today, the game has been in operation for nearly a full year, and the number of spells that players have access to, even including extremely high-end "expert-level" magic skills, is by no means easy to count~
However, at this moment, most...99.9999% of the audience couldn't help but feel inexplicable about the spell Liu Yifei was preparing~
Not to mention the strange pronunciation and complicated and difficult-to-understand curse chanting, even Liu Yifei's high-pitched and loud chanting of the curse couldn't help but surprise everyone~
Generally speaking, the most basic requirement for any magic skill that requires opening one's mouth to recite magic incantations is "clear enunciation."
As mentioned before, if you stutter and speak unclearly, you will definitely not be able to be a magician, especially if your spellcasting ability is not high.
Among the intermediate and advanced magic spells, a large number of references are familiar to the common language [that is, what everyone usually speaks], and there will be some strangely pronounced magic syllables interspersed in it. Players can practice a lot or imitate the pronunciation, or simply leave the spell casting process to their full control.
It can be done by "auxiliary combat system".
The more advanced the magic skills are, the rarer they are, and the greater the scale of their effect. The more "magic syllables" will appear interspersed in the magic spells.
These are meaningless to players. The purely special pronunciation of syllables often makes it difficult for everyone to release advanced magic. Or it will get stuck and affect spell casting. In severe cases, it may even cause the spell to fail~
The magic Liu Yifei is preparing...
It’s different~
The whole article is full of curse syllables, and his pronunciation method is also extremely rigid and flat, with no skills at all. It is obviously directly handed over to the "auxiliary combat system" to cast the spell, which shows that this is a powerful person who exceeds his own spell casting level.
magic!
And that loud voice...
Swear to death!
Anyone who knows a bit about spellcasting skills knows that there is a problem!
The louder and high-pitched the sound of the spell is, which means the greater the amount of magic that is activated at the same time when casting the spell. Magic preparation is generally like this... Slower at the beginning, gentler, and more and more urgent later.
, getting louder and louder, until the spell is completed~
And if Liu Yifei yells at the top of his lungs like this from the beginning... what will he do next?
Take out the loudspeaker and roar?
In just a moment, the answer was presented to everyone in a way that surprised them extremely!
At some point a low buzzing sound sounded in the air.
At first, this sound was just weak and small, and was not noticed by others. Especially when there were a large number of players gathered around to watch the fun, it really made people feel that it was just the whisper of others in the distance, but when it reached my ears, it
It became a humming, unexplained murmur.
It’s just that I don’t know when, the low sound kept amplifying and became clearer and clearer, and finally everyone could hear it clearly...
It was a voice that was as unique as the magic spell recited by Liu Yifei!
If anything...
That's the pitch of those voices!
They are all different. No one is different!
The hoarse sound carries a clear sound of bone collision, like the skeleton's poorly controlled jaw opening and closing, causing their brittle and hard teeth to continuously collide with each other to make a "knock" sound;
The moaning whisper seemed very slow. It also had a cold and damp feeling, like an ancient tomb hidden in the darkness. It made people tremble uneasily;
The sharp sound was very much like the whispers of the undead that echoed endlessly in the wilderness of the land of bones, constantly surrounding them from all directions, as if thousands of undead spirits were shrieking around everyone;
Indifferent voice...
evil voice...
A sound that echoes with a metallic feel...
A deep and loud voice like a dragon's roar...
Suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd!
I don’t know where these vague yet extremely clear sounds come from~
There was no one else around to cast the spell with Liu Yifei... Even if there were, such an effect would never be possible!
And the situation in front of me sounds like there are countless invisible souls hidden in the void whispering and chanting along with Liu Yifei~
And if anyone knows what all this means...
That is undoubtedly Gregory flying in the sky~
"The undead clamor?
Haha~
It seems there is still some progress...
It seems that I can loosen my muscles and bones to some extent~
But if you think that this can make me surrender to you willingly, then you are too naive~
Liuyun, let me see your more powerful power hidden in your soul~
That power makes people tremble from the bottom of their hearts!
I need to witness it with my own eyes and feel it myself..."
Liu Yifei naturally couldn't hear the whispers of the bone dragon's soul high in the sky, and all his mind was immersed in the newly acquired skills that were automatically casting spells in front of him.
The noise of the dead~
Expert-level skills are one of the rewards drawn from the rebirth mission that Liu Yifei successfully completed when he was successfully reborn at level 5.
This skill... will probably be regarded as a somewhat useless skill in the future. However, unless Liu Yifei's spellcasting ability can break through the legendary level, otherwise, this will be a terrifying skill with considerable growth potential!
The so-called "noise of the undead" is actually to explode all the undead creatures that the necromancer can summon to their limit in an instant!
It is the most extreme explosive summoning method. Strictly speaking, it is simply a weak version of the "disaster of the undead"!
Liu Yifei once asked Gregory about the skill of Undead Catastrophe.
After all, it was a powerful move that his opponent had used before, and it was impossible for Liu Yifei not to miss it.
As a mysterious legendary magic, the effect of "Scavenger of the Undead" is to use a little power of the soul, supplemented by a large amount of magic power, to forcibly collect the death energy in the surrounding area, and then use these astonishingly huge amounts of death energy to act as undead spirits.
The magic power of the mage can quickly summon a large number of undead creatures!
Depending on the level of soul science and bone structure science mastered by the caster, the undead creatures that the undead natural disaster can create vary~
However, even if it is the lowest level skeleton summoned, as long as there is enough death energy in the surrounding area, the number of skeletons summoned will be surprisingly huge!
It even far exceeds the limit of the number of undead creatures that the caster can summon!
The reason why there has been a saying in the game that "a powerful necromancer himself is a legion of undead" is actually largely due to the magic of "disaster of the undead"~
In the past war history of the game, the powerful undead army will definitely cause a lot of large-scale killings in external battles.
This kind of killing behavior is actually to produce a large amount of death energy~
Then, as long as you cooperate with a powerful necromancer who has mastered the "Undead Disaster" skill, you can summon a large number of undead in an instant, and truly play a decisive role in the world!
Its effects are vicious and its methods are cruel. It has always been deeply hated by all races in the Alliance of Light.
This is also the fundamental reason why he hates the phenomenon of undead killing civilians on his own territory.
Because maybe, behind a killing lies a terrorist conspiracy based on undead natural disasters...
Compared with the "massive summoning of spirits" of the undead natural disaster, the effect of "undead noise" is much weaker. It only releases all the undead summons of the necromancer in an instant~
However, as an expert-level skill, the difficulty of casting spells and the difficulty of acquiring it are much better than the legendary undead natural disaster, at least for now. This is enough for Liu Yifei to call it a "magic skill".
The sound of chanting magic spells finally reached its climax!
At this moment, an inexplicable gray wind suddenly surged around, like a small whirlwind mixed with ashes. It could make people see whereabouts, but it undoubtedly had a wind-like erratic feeling.
This gust of wind seemed to come from the void. It slowly lingered around Liu Yifei, and then spun faster and faster. Faster and faster!
The next moment, people with good vision from a distance suddenly discovered...
Damn it~
The ashes mixed in the wind actually condensed into a half-empty and half-real terrifying spirit around Liu Yifei!
A huge half-body of a skeleton five to six meters high, a rotten zombie face, a clawed undead spirit, an elegant bloodthirsty vampire, a terrifying withered corpse witch, a black warrior with soul fire beating endlessly under black armor, and...
...The phantom dragon that appears at the top looks like it rises from the earth and roars unwillingly towards the sky!
"...
In my name!
Praise the greatness of this death!
In my name!
Praise the depth of this death!
Come back!
The unwilling deceased!
Show yourself here!
Surrender to my servants!
In my name, I grant you a wandering paradise!
In my name, all enemies who stand in my way will be pulled into the abyss of death!
The undead clamor!!!”
The sound of breaking the curse was as loud as thunder, and even subconsciously made people wonder if Liu Yifei would really break his throat because of this voice~
However, the next moment, an even more soul-stirring scene appeared!
Just as Liu Yifei drank the name of the spell, a blue flame suddenly appeared on the tip of the staff he held high toward the sky!
The flames fluttered ten meters into the air, but exploded in the air the next moment, turning into a blue fire rain and scattered stars~
Just at each point where the "fire rain" fell, as the blue flames fell, there was an astonishing reaction of bones gathering on the ground!
All the bones in the land of bones seemed to have become marionettes at this moment, beating violently with the invisible giant hand pulling the strings in the sky.
The bones of the Krakatura collided with a crisp sound. A large number of "bone piles" were like a spring of white bones pouring into the sky. They all swallowed up and wrapped up the blue flames that exploded and fell one by one. Not a little more, just like a stingy miser swallowing himself.
Every copper plate at hand was collected carefully.
And with the fusion of these blue soul fire rains and piles of bones, it seems that in just the blink of an eye, the earth has crawled up... God!
There are hundreds of undead creatures of different types!
The most eye-catching one among them is the eight-headed white body that is as huge as a hill and is more than several meters high on the ground!
Clear skeletal structure, huge bone wings, slender cervical vertebrae and tailbone... and that iconic super huge skull...
That's a bone dragon!!!
Summoned Bone Dragon!!!
The amazing group of bone dragons summoned by Liu Yifei!!!
The next moment after the shaping was completed, eight almost identical bone dragons let out long groans at the same time!
It seems to be announcing their resurrection to the sky, and also seems to be issuing an angry provocation to Gregory who is entrenched in the sky!
However, what is surprising is not just the eight bone dragons that instantly transformed!
In addition, the field is also filled with a large number of other undead creatures!
Weaker than skeletons and zombies, stronger than undead, vampires, corpse witches...
Although in the duel with Gregory, these guys seemed to be a mess.
However, the huge number was enough to make the onlookers stunned~
One person gathered hundreds of undead armies in an instant...
Hold!!!
The countless players watching around couldn't help but want to yell!
What the hell is this skill?
The undead clamor?
Never heard of it at all!
How far does this Liuyun pervert still want to pervert?
He is so awesome, isn't he afraid that he will be punished by thunder and heaven for being too awesome???
Countless people are shouting almost crazy in their hearts!
I was filming this amazing scene non-stop in my hands!
The impact this moment of effort had on them was too great~
So much so that after a huge wave of exclamations of "Ah~~~", there was even a moment of silence in the entire scene...
But Liu Yifei didn't care so much~
It is now that some people "know the secret of his power", and everyone has begun to move towards the secret realm of the race.
If you encounter someone again who doubts your own strength...
Depend on!
Then push all the sins to the secret realm of race!
Anyway, it is still a mysterious area for players at this stage, and the level of strength there is indeed much higher. Being able to obtain various abnormal skills... is not incomprehensible~
On the contrary, this can also distract the attention of the player group, allowing them to devote more time to the development of racial secret realms in the future...
Of course~
If you want to stay there longer, you have to pay the relatively expensive "detention fee"~
Now that Liu Yifei had obtained Grigori's permission, he unscrupulously began to apply various buffing skills to all the summoned objects!
Soul-based...bone-based...
Compared with humans and elves, the necromancers of the undead tribe are indeed not very good at adding buffs to their summons, but in order to match their combat characteristics, Liu Yifei also learned additional wind and earth skills in the elemental system!
Although I have only learned some low-level and intermediate entry-level skills, the investment is not big after all, it is just a few academic points.
However, after the bone dragon showed many buff effects such as bone shield, ectoplasm shield, soul armor, wind spirit blessing, earth spirit blessing, weak acceleration, wind lightness, rock toughness, stone armor, etc., it was almost The bone dragon's combat effectiveness increased by more than 10% out of thin air!
Compared with that trivial investment, this kind of harvest is simply satisfying~
Naturally, Liu Yifei would not stop there.
At the end, a "soul burning" skill was applied to a bone dragon by Liu Yifei~
And for a moment, the soul flame that was blazing on the bone dragon felt the same as that of Gregory in the sky!
The next moment, all the flying creatures that had been strengthened to the extreme. Including undead, vampires and bone dragons. All the undead creatures on Liu Yifei's side soared into the sky together and charged towards Gregory with great force!
"Very good~
Very good~
I finally have some strength~
But...this is not enough!"
Gregory howled wildly. Before the undead could pounce on him, he lowered his head and a black death breath mixed with blazing soul flames and blue fire came out towards his head!
The attack came so fast that the bone dragons barely managed to escape by twisting their bodies, but those undead, vampires and the like were completely in trouble~
Those bone dragons are actually Liu Yifei's "servants" summons. To the Necromancer, the strength of the servants is not comparable to that of ordinary cannon fodder. Because their souls and lives are connected, their intelligence is much higher. Just like the vampire count summoned by Liu Yifei before.
and so on.
And those who accompany the charge are basically cannon fodder undead and vampires, ordinary summons that are like scum.
Liu Yifei originally didn't expect them to play a big role, but they died so simply that Liu Yifei couldn't help but frown inexplicably~
The dodge ability of those cannon fodders, even with Liu Yifei's command, is still too slow...
The nine-headed bone dragon's sky-high battle blinded the eyes of all the surrounding players who looked up at this moment~
In the undead tribe, they have never seen similar exciting scenes of bone dragons flying into the sky. However, to say that it is controlled by the player, or even created by the player... that is the real first time!
Nowadays, many Necromancer players can actually summon mid-to-high-level servants such as vampires and even corpse witches~
However, as the level of summoned servants became higher and higher, they found helplessly that the cooldown time of the skills was getting longer and longer!
If you were not prepared in advance, it would be difficult to see the spectacular sight of the Necromancer's servant summons swarming up.
But Liu Yifei's move of "Undead Noise"... is really too amazing!
Even though some people have guessed that the eight-headed bone dragon should be Liu Yifei's servant...but this cruel fact is still unbelievable.
Really... there are actually people who can summon bone dragons in groups?
Appalling...
What frightened everyone even more was the fight between the nine-headed dragons in the sky!
Bumping, biting, pulling each other, attacking and biting...
Battles between dragons are always bloody and primal!
Even if it's a dead dragon, the scene of their melee can be called a hooligans' brawl.
The bone dragon summoned by Liu Yifei is still the most basic bone dragon because it does not have any long-range attack methods~
Unlike Gregory, the only thing they can do is to pounce on them and bite them without regard to their lives under Liu Yifei's command! Pounce on them and tear them apart!
Because Gregory's body is much larger than them, and at the same time, there are four skull dragons hanging on the huge Gregory~
The other one was trying to keep Gregory's huge and powerful tail from hitting the bone dragon lying on its back.
Just because of a moment of negligence, Gregory's tail blow directly cut off the middle spine of a bone dragon. The lower body was once again shattered into a rain of bones!
And even though he was tightly clung to by four or five low-level bone dragons, Gregory was still struggling and roaring crazily!
The biggest feature of undead creatures is that they don’t feel tired~
As long as the soul fire does not go out, their physical strength will always remain at its peak!
And this also makes Gregory's struggle particularly fierce!
Crazy sounds like the sound of bones exploding like firecrackers came from the sky from time to time~
At the same time, streams of death breath were continuously sprayed out from Gregory's mouth, intending to bombard the bones and garbage hanging on it like burdens.
But these bone dragons are actually under the command of Liu Yifei.
They may not understand much, but how could Liu Yifei let Gregory's plan succeed?
Whenever Grigory wanted to aim his spray, there would always be four or five huge skeletal claws reaching out to pull at Grigory's skull and cervical vertebrae.
It may be difficult for other people to have the opportunity to have close contact with the bone dragon for a long time, but Liu Yifei knows this very well~
The strength of bone dragons may be huge, but because their skulls are huge, but the cervical vertebrae used to connect them are relatively long and slender, they cannot provide strong support for the bone dragons!
When he was riding on Gregory's back, he once thought silently~
If you want to kill the bone dragon, perhaps the cervical spine and waist spine will be an excellent attack position to severely damage the bone dragon...
Liu Yifei even had the opportunity to observe "on the spot" and then made some gestures...
I gave it a try today and it was indeed the case!
Gregory's power is obviously much stronger than these summoned servant bone dragons~
However, under the strong restraint of four or five dragon claws, its cervical vertebrae could not help but moan in pain.
Although Gregory's body is as hard as steel.
But joint joints are always fragile.
If he didn't want his head to be screwed off, Gregory's only choice was to avoid the unloading force, and then miss his breath attack again and again...
But even if the shot missed, it still caused heavy damage to Liu Yifei's dragons~
The unlucky guy who flew past Grigori so quickly played into his heart and was sprayed with death breath all over him!
Even the powerful and rich power of death contained in the breath has no actual lethality to the bone dragon.
However, the magical attack power of the breath itself and the soul fire calcining effect that comes with the enhancement are still beyond the capabilities of low-level bone dragons~
Just as the black and blue mixed with the breath of the God of Fire stained the skeleton, the bone dragon that was unlucky to be hit on the head was like a skeleton that had lost its adhesion effect, and a large amount of water flew in the direction of its original flight.
go out......
It's like some kind of sacrificial bone ceremony~
Another bone dragon hanging on Gregory's thigh was also in bad luck. It was swept by the breath, and half of its skeleton was destroyed in an instant!
Although, this is already the strongest and sharpest battle composition that Liu Yifei can break out at the moment!
But in front of Gregory, who is as powerful as the immortal evil god, these "little guys" are still not enough~
And the furious Gregory turned his eyes, and his pair of blazing soul fire pupils were already staring at Liu Yifei, who was watching nervously below!
The next moment, the "Bone Dragon Ball" in the sky was like a large and densely entangled pile of bones, and it was already heading towards the position where Liu Yifei was standing at high speed...
