With the previous explanation, Niya quickly understood what she really wanted to do and what goals she needed to achieve.
Next, the two of them split up. Niya stayed on the vacuum side and first made several previous versions of the arcane crystal extractor for emergency use, and then designed a more powerful extractor.
Sha Duo came to the water side of the blue crystal plane and began to determine the casting location and the transformation target.
After a simple comparison, he finally chose a piece of water far away from Fish-Man Island. Looking from his current position, Fish-Man Island looked like a gray blade hanging about an inch away in the infinite distance.
And the main body of the floating city he wants to create next is far smaller than the Fish-Man Island. It is conceivable that there is a high probability that the fish-men on the Fish-Man Island will not notice his movements.
The closer you get to Fish-Man Island, the more complex the composition of the water becomes, while the further away from Fish-Man Island, the closer the water becomes to pure water.
Xia Duo did not consider the composition of the water when designing the spell, but it is obvious that the closer it is to pure water, the higher the conversion efficiency will be, and the converted stone will be smoother and more stable.
After selecting the location, the next step is to mark the casting node.
This is the auxiliary spell-casting link that Shado borrowed from elf magic. In the elf world, when high-ranking mages cast large-scale spells, they usually arrange auxiliary nodes related to spell-casting elements in advance.
And in order to minimize the difficulty of casting spells, those auxiliary nodes are almost powerful magic items. The main forms include physical magic circles, altars, and even auxiliary spell casters, etc.
Xia Duo doesn't have that much spare money to waste, and Nese magic and Elf magic are different in the details of spell casting. What he needs is more virtual nodes for prompts, rather than auxiliary nodes that can actually participate in spell casting.
That's why it's called "annotation" rather than "construction".
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Starting from the first marked "a1" casting position, Sha Duo began to lay out bright rays. These rays were just virtual images of light and shadow and did not have any power.
Due to the high difficulty of casting this spell, it would be difficult for Shado to spare his energy to retrace his memory when he casts it later. At this time, he was not as nervous as when he raided the elves in Sevington. He had enough time to prepare for various aspects.
auxiliary measures.
Soon, the "a1" position was shrouded in a "cage" composed of layers of bright light rays.
Then, Chateau non-stop extended six long positioning lines from the "a1" position, which will be the trajectory of the spell projection, and will need to be used in conjunction with the sensing field.
At the other end of these six positioning lines, the straight lines began to twist, and the combination of pairs formed a regular circle, and the three large circles intertwined with each other, roughly forming a spherical structure with a unified center.
This is the real birthplace of the floating city - the "a3" construction site. As for "a2", it relies on the already formed "a3" and is an independent large-scale perception field.
Although the transformation magic can be perfectly woven at the source of the spell, and there won't be many variables regardless of whether it is projected out, but Xia Duo knows that the blueprint is a blueprint, and the finished product is the finished product.
The saying "a slight mistake can lead to a thousand miles of misunderstanding" is most appropriate here.
Normally, the range of influence of a spell is no more than a few meters or hundreds of meters, but now what Xia Duo wants to create is a large building with a diameter of more than two kilometers. No matter how perfect the spell source is, as long as there is a slight deviation in the projection process, the finished product may be
It's hard to look straight at.
At this moment, Xia Duo is not casting spells with the attitude of casting spells, but with the attitude of making industrial products. Therefore, there need to be clear requirements and standards before, during, and after casting.
Almost an hour later, all the auxiliary nodes of the "a3" construction site were marked. Compared with the marking of the auxiliary nodes of the spell source point of the "a1" casting position, although the former is simpler in principle, it takes more time than the latter.
Fully twice as much.
After thinking about it, Xia Duo marked an observation point near the casting position of "a1", and then informed Niya.
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"Wow! Is that the floating city over there? It's so big!"
After Niya arrived, she was immediately shocked by the complicated bright lines in the "a3" construction site area, and asked repeatedly: "When will it start? I can't wait to see the finished product."
Xia Duo calculated the time and found that there were still more than ten minutes left before the best casting time. "Don't worry, wait a little longer."
"How long will it take to wait?"
"Do you see the changing colored lines over there?" Sha Duo pointed to the time mark he deliberately left at the "a1" casting position, and said to Niya: "When it disappears, I will start casting.
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Then, Sha Duo introduced his set of auxiliary methods for casting spells to Niya. He waited until the colored lines started to flash. Niya, who had been paying attention to that side, immediately reminded Sha Duo: "Look over there, is it going to disappear?"
"Yes, I'm going over. You stay at the observation point and don't move around. By the way, don't be too surprised no matter what you see later."
After giving a reminder, Xia Duo came to the preset casting position, and then his body turned into a ball of pure water, blending with the pure water in the surrounding waters. Apart from some light refraction distortion, there was almost no difference.
Freed from the human form, he also seemed to be freed from human desires. In this state, Xia Duo felt calm in his heart and was able to cast complex spells more focused.
Of course, there is another benefit of transforming into water, that is, you don’t need to worry about drowning due to the failure of the [Plane Synchronization] spell during casting.
At this moment, Xia Duo is water, and how can water drown in water?
This is his best home court!
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Seeing the stroboscopic transformation of the colored lines, Xia Duo knew that he should start, but the first thing he cast was not the well-prepared transformation magic, but a detection spell.
The moment the spell was completed, he had an additional perspective, which was the "a2" perception field that relied on the "a3" construction site but had not been completed until now.
Then, Xia Duo silently counted "1, 2, 3", and the colored lines disappeared, leaving a slightly flashing dot. Seeing this light spot appear, Xia Duo began to formally cast the spell, and the source point of the spell was on that colored line.
A small dot that appears after disappearing.
Subsequently, the bright light rays around Xia Duo's "a1" casting position began to change, and rays continued to shoot into the spell source point from all directions and in various postures, which had no effect on the spell itself.
But for Xia Duo, it is an out-and-out spellcasting reminder. He only needs to construct the appropriate spell elements in time according to the instructions of the incident bright light rays.
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As the spell source point is constructed bit by bit, a large number of magic network strings gather, emitting dazzling magic aura, but the spell aura is not at the same angle as the normal light.
In other words, Chateau can distinguish the difference between the two at the same time.
The appearance of the magic aura did not have any adverse effect on Xia Duo's spellcasting. On the contrary, the increasingly powerful aura gave Xia Duo a hint, that is -