Chapter 918: Endless Poison, Mysterious Green Light
Using flying swords to kill murlocs may be very efficient, but it can never defeat the almost endless number of murlocs. The more you kill, the more you come, and you can't kill them all.
And in terms of boosting morale, it may not be as good as Aibo's freezing spell!
After all, that is a large-scale magic effect that can be witnessed by the soldiers below. As for flying swords to kill enemies, they are efficient and stealthy enough, but they are not obvious enough——
It’s so obvious that ordinary people think it’s exaggerated!
After thinking about it, Xia Duo took out a fireball wand from his pocket, and when the subsequent fishmen emerged from the water in the north and tried to climb onto the ice, he fired it suddenly.
A blazing flame bead no bigger than an ordinary human eyeball appeared at the tip of the wand. As soon as it appeared, it flew towards the big fish head with a low buzzing sound.
If it is used by a non-mage, it probably depends on each person's aiming skills. However, if the wand is used by a mage, especially in the hands of an arcanist like Shado, it can still make less corrections to the effective path of the spell.
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No, the blazing flame bead hit the fish-man's head accurately, and then burst out into a large ball of nearly incandescent flames, and the fish-man's head was burned out instantly.
And the impact of this spell was far more than that. The large ball of incandescent flames continued to spread, affecting the entire river more than ten meters wide.
Immediately afterwards, a large plume of dense water vapor rose up, and even the ice surface that Aibok had previously created on the river was reduced.
The other murlocs near the murloc that was directly hit by the fireball technique didn't fare well either. Their bodies might still be intact, but their big heads were all burnt black.
He stopped moving and was dragged underwater by the surviving fishman further behind.
Only four or five murlocs were killed with one fireball spell. Xia Duo saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart. Fortunately, this wand was not prepared by himself, but was a combat material distributed by the Seven Towers when he was in the green field plane.
When he and Niya left the green field plane, although the resonance spell book was taken away, the wand, scroll and even the battle robe similar to the elf sword uniform were also left to them.
Wands are disposable items, and their shelf life is far less than that of ordinary magic items. Xia Duo will not have many opportunities to use the wand in the future. If it were not for this special situation, he would even keep the wand until it expires.
The real value of the wand lies in the concentrated burst of a large number of spells to achieve a specific purpose.
For example, if Xia Duo was very rich and purchased a large number of magic wands, he could distribute them to soldiers who knew how to use magic items and let them use the wands to clean up the murlocs.
But it is obvious that Xia Duo does not have that much money. He can use it for himself, but if he distributes it in large quantities, he will have more than enough money but not enough money.
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Next, Chateau fired dozens of fireballs in succession, each of which drew cheers from the soldiers. The dense fireballs exploded and even evaporated the Wolfsburg River.
The large swath of water vapor met the cold air above, and even dropped a drizzle with a very small coverage area in the battlefield area.
As for the fishmen, it is naturally impossible to launch any effective attacks during this period.
It wasn't until all the spells stored in the wand in his hand were used up that Xia Duo stopped. His morale was indeed boosted, but the money was also spent.
As for the actual results, they were almost negligible. It seemed like there were a lot of kills, but with the constant supply of murlocs from the north, it was no different than not killing a single one.
Just like what Sha Duo said to O'Brien before, there must be a reason why these fish-men are endless. Only by understanding the reason can we truly come into contact with the crisis of the fish-men.
No matter what the reason is, if the number is really large, then kill them until the number is small. If there is something that is continuously producing murlocs, then destroy the source.
Xia Duo still knew something about the situation in the Macht River. Although it was the fishman breeding farm of the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible to actually accommodate so many fishmen.
It is impossible for the ecology of the entire Wolfburg River to sustain such a large number of fishmen.
Therefore, Xia Duo guessed that there must be a source that was continuously producing fishmen. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain the phenomenon of fishmen all over the river, packed as densely as sardine cans.
Fortunately, although this fish-man is an amphibious creature, it is more inclined to live in water and cannot leave the water source for a long time. If it can run around like a lizard, then this problem will be too big.
Maybe it's another kind of fish-shaped goblin.
Thinking about the manpower and financial resources Savile Town spends every year on cleaning up goblins, Shado has a headache. The Territory Guard of Savile Territory can almost be said to be born just to clean up goblins.
As long as it is not cleaned up for a period of time, it will easily overflow. Even if we clean up regularly as we do now, and also issue adventurer missions to let adventurers clean up, we still haven't killed all the goblins.
Xia Duo realized that even if the crisis of the murloc tide was resolved, there might be a kind of murloc monster that couldn't be wiped out in the southern border and even in the Nese territory connected to the Wolfburg River!
Just like goblins, although they may not cause much damage, who will bear the cost of treatment!
Thinking about it this way, this Mingshui Chamber of Commerce is really doing evil!
It's not good for people to raise fish anywhere. They have to go to the main plane, and they have to raise them in their own country. It's okay if nothing happens, but if something happens, they will be poisonous.
Of course, the source of the fish farmers in the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce - the Great Arcanist Horn of Kiran Tower must also bear a certain responsibility!
It's a pity that Xia Duo can't afford to offend either the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce or the Great Arcanist of Horn, let alone force them to pay compensation.
We can only regard them as common victims and turn the blame towards the common enemy, who is also the most direct culprit of this incident. It is obvious that Xia Duo makes no other guesses except the elves.
The fishmen in Lake Macht may be able to escape the control of the Open Water Chamber of Commerce, but the time Shado passed by Lake Macht was not long after the snowmelt competition.
Although the fishmen showed signs of losing control at that time, they were quickly dealt with by the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce.
It's been less than a year since that incident. How could those fishmen have given birth to so many people naturally for no reason, so much so that the river from Lake Macht to Savile Territory has been filled up!
There must be some interference from outside forces!
And the only external force is the elves. Apart from the elves, who would dare to provoke a great arcanist of the Seven Towers in Netheril!
These fishmen were raised directly by the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce, but in the final analysis they were raised by Horn. When something like this happened, Xia Duo didn't believe that Horn really had no emotions at all.
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At this time, the perception field of Niya's detection spell finally arrived at Lake Macht, and all the perception information was received by Sha Duo through the spiritual link.
He substituted his perception into Niya's perspective, and in an instant, he "saw" what Lake Macht looked like today. No, to be more precise, he couldn't see what Lake Macht looked like today.
Because, the entire Lake Macht is now shrouded in a strange green light!
This green light is not like normal colored light. Even if it interferes with the line of sight, it can still penetrate. This green light is more like a glow or a mist.
It can't help but interfere with normal vision, and it also interferes with magical vision, making it difficult for people to discover its internal secrets.