The sharp sound of breaking the air and the vibration coming from the carriage made Li Wen, who had fallen asleep leaning against the carriage, wake up alertly.
From yesterday afternoon until this morning, his brain kept running at a high speed. After leaving the city, he leaned on the carriage carriage and fell asleep.
And now...
Attack?
This word that seemed far away from him jumped out of Li Wen's mind.
This world is indeed unsafe. It is rare for me to leave Jianfeng City for a trip and encounter an attack.
However, I don't feel panic at all. Today is different from the past. Today, Li Wen dares to talk nonsense when facing a giant dragon. After all, he can still run away if he can't fight. There is no reason to be afraid of some possible bandits and robbers.
Moreover, these dwarves around us are not just for free. Even though the dwarves' clothing and equipment may look ordinary, this is the characteristic of the dwarves. Don't forget that this is the dwarves' mission to the human kingdom.
They don't care about too many formalities such as ceremonials. For them, practicality always comes first.
So even though the carriage they were riding in looked ordinary, its dark material was made of fine ebony iron wood.
Not only does it have an excellent protective effect against physical damage such as blows, piercings, and cuts, but even a three-ring fireball may not leave any mark if it hits it.
Now he was hit by an attack that seemed to be an arrow on the outer wall. Apart from a dull sound coming from the carriage itself, there was no other sign.
When attacked suddenly, the dwarves react extremely quickly.
Instead of showing any signs of panic, these dwarves quickly got out of the carriage with excited shouts, pulled out their weapons from the hidden compartments around the carriage, and charged towards the incoming enemies with howls.
Li Wen also opened the heavy car curtain and looked outside, only to see some half-orcs wrapping important parts of their bodies with simple animal skins, holding up their own crude weapons and frantically heading towards the short hills from the hills on both sides.
People rushed down.
There are about twenty or so, which gives them an absolute advantage in terms of quantity alone.
On the ground around the carriage, there were several wooden javelins scattered randomly. It seemed that these things made a sound similar to bows and arrows.
The battle was almost one-sided.
Facing the well-made heavy swords of the dwarves, the unstandardized weapons made by the orcs were almost broken at a touch.
No one in this world will put their rank on their forehead or hang it on their body. Except for those characters who are almost unknown to everyone or whose clothes are not simple at first sight, most normal professionals need to first
You can only know your level by playing it.
And unless it's a truly endless war or a battle of faith that must be fought, it's normal to run away if you can't win.
Seeing that the idea was hard to come by, the orcs dispersed in an instant while roaring in an unknown language.
The fleeing orc figures ran everywhere, but lingered in the shadows not far away, staring at the carriage and the dwarves with fierce eyes.
Seeing that the fleeing orcs still refused to disperse, a dwarf whose name was unknown to Li Wen took out a hand ax from his waist and hit one of the orcs who didn't like it with the axe.
The rotating ax made a crazy whistling sound, and the orcs ran away when the situation was bad, but this dwarf completely saw through their course of action.
The ax thrown in a certain arc accurately hit the fleeing orc in the back of the heart.
He fell to the ground and died suddenly.
Then the dwarf slowly walked towards the corpse, pulled out his hand ax and put it back to his waist.
A dwarf who was leaning against Li Wen in the carriage was afraid that Li Wen would misunderstand that the dwarves were murderous, so he explained softly: "These orcs don't take their own lives seriously. As long as they have the slightest chance, they will not give up. Some humans
Sometimes your kindness can become a weapon that hurts your compatriots..."
"Oh~"
Li Wen nodded without any fluctuation.
"But the strange thing is that under normal circumstances, half-orc bandits rarely appear in this kind of hinterland, right?"
This is the junction of the territories of humans and dwarves. Although it is located on the border, it is actually far away from the area where the orcs operate. Generally speaking, the barbarians among the orcs will not appear in this location.
Although half-orc robbers and half-orcs are both half-orcs, due to their different positions, the two kinds of half-orcs are very contradictory and cannot be confused.
One person downplays the status of half-orcs today. Although they have bad brains and bad tempers, they still maintain some kind of mutually beneficial trade relations with humans, elves, and dwarves, just like the individuals Li Wen saw in the market.
Same.
The other one thinks all day about restoring the glory of the Orc Empire, and only uses swords and blood and fire to deal with the outside world.
Because the territory of the dwarves borders the vast wilderness where the orcs live, and is often invaded by those barbaric orcs, they are quite familiar with this.
"Maybe it's just a lost team..."
A dwarf finally defines them.
The carriage set off again, and sure enough this time it was quiet all the way, which showed that there were still very few blind barbarians after all.
Li Wen was sitting on a rickety car and couldn't fall asleep after being woken up once.
So I simply started to study the understanding of psionic energy that I had previously gained from the illithids in the Underdark.
Yes, Li Wen changed directions again.
Before acquiring more spells beyond the fifth level, the research on "Mystery Lock" will inevitably come to a standstill.
As for application...
Li Wen hasn't figured out how to use it yet.
Most of the existing spell systems are optimal solutions. This is not just a saying. In the long process of spell development, all spell manifestation forms that may be effective have been thoroughly explored by countless senior mages.
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It's not like Li Wen just took a fifth-level spell and inserted a "mystery lock" structure into it to raise the fifth-level spell to the sixth-level spell.
And even if you manage to rise from a low level to a sixth level, it may still be leftover from other people's play.
At that time, it will either be a brand-new spell that is not recognized by the association due to similarity, or it will be a useless innovative spell that is actually of no use.
The fact that the existing system has been developed to its extreme is not just talk. Mystery locks have been around for a long time, and spells have been around for a long time. There is no reason to wait for Li Wenlai to develop new spells based on the existing system.
Besides, Li Wen has no interest in walking on the same path as ordinary mages in Gaia.
Just like Karl Simulator, subversion is his pursuit.
It's just that he doesn't have a clue for the time being.
Li Wen actually does not lack soul energy now.
Although the second batch of city-building players has a large number of players, their quality is mixed, and there is no sense of urgency in the task. They will definitely not be able to compete with the first batch of players in terms of city-building progress.
The so-called city building is even regarded by them as some kind of weekly check-in task. If you are interested, you can do two of them. If you are not interested, you can leave it alone.
There are not many cities that have actually been built for NPCs to settle in, so the players who are qualified to learn skills are naturally only part of the million-strong army.
Just a part of it has brought Li Wen's soul energy inventory to an unprecedented 4.1 million. If used to upgrade, it can even be upgraded to level 14 in one go.
You must know that the further you go, the more difficult it will be to upgrade your professional level.
How many aborigines have stayed at the level of second- and third-level professionals throughout their lives, and level 14 is almost a ceiling that ordinary people cannot reach after a lifetime of hard work.
Now, as long as Li Wen wants to, he can rise to this level in an instant.
But Li Wen was not in a hurry.
The battle is not very close to him, so it is good to keep some soul energy in his body for emergencies. Maybe one day an idea will come up and a lot of soul energy will need to be poured into it?
Now he does not lack soul energy, but what he lacks is a goal to work hard for.
Direction is very important, a snake cannot do without a head.
Li Wen didn't even know what abilities he would need next, or what other people's needs were, so there was no way to talk about innovation.
Creating something out of nothing and innovating something that has never been done before is never a simple matter.
The beginning is difficult, the middle is difficult, and success is even harder.
So since there is no goal to strive for, it is better to look for another way, maybe we can find some inspiration or direction.
The brand new psychic energy system is a very good research topic.
Different from the previous paladin profession, it came from Qin, a human being, who used his own understanding to use the power of psychic energy in a simple way. He could only strengthen himself and use a strong mind to protect his friends within a limited range around him.
But there is no such freedom as the illithids when using their psychic powers.
Judging from the voice of the illithid, who was not sure whether he was considered a strong one among the illithids, for them, the power of psychic energy was everything in their world.
Human mages use the power of magic to explore the truth of this world, and they use the power of the mind to manipulate everything in this world.
Even imitating spells with the power of the mind.
Judging from the voices of the illithids, they are actually not restricted by the spell slots of normal mage professionals.
The way they use magic power is completely different from humans, and it seems that... they are not restricted by the magic network.
A normal mage borrows the orderly magic network arranged by the goddess and casts specific spells according to the prescribed formulas. They follow the formula step by step to achieve the desired effect.
The spells released by the illithid monsters are more like they want to achieve such an effect, so there is a process of using psychic energy to imitate human spell formulas.
In other words, they do not seem to be restricted by the magic network adjusted by the goddess. Even in the chaotic environment of magic elements, they can still perfectly perform spell effects.
Li Wen sat in the swaying carriage, his mind completely lost in the exploration of spiritual energy, completely forgetting the surrounding environment.
"Shh~"
Seeing Li Wen's appearance, several dwarves hissed at each other.
The spellcasting talent of dwarves is not outstanding, and there is only one spellcaster among these dwarves.
They didn't understand what Li Wen was doing, but they were right not to disturb a mage who was in meditation.
The sun slowly moved westward in the sky, and before Li Wen knew it, the carriage ticked and stopped before arriving at a certain place.
"Master Li Wen?"
"Master Li Wen?"
A dwarf called softly into Li Wen's ear.
Li Wen gently opened his eyes.
A dwarf lifted up the heavy car curtain for Li Wen, and the scene in front of him caught Li Wen's eyes from the space exposed by the small half car curtain.
The kingdom of the dwarves is filled with an ancient and solemn atmosphere. The huge fortress built against the mountain presents a dark tone as a whole, and cold steel creations are displayed on the towering city walls.
In front of the dark and towering city wall, there is a bottomless abyss that emits a gloomy and cold air from bottom to top.
At this moment, as if to welcome Li Wen's arrival, the huge black iron city gate, which looked like it was built for a giant, was slowly lowered under the bite and friction of countless gears and iron chains.
"boom!"
The city gate, which was as heavy as a thousand stones... or the suspension bridge finally landed gently on the other side of the castle fortress, in front of Li Wen.
Even so, the vibrations of the ground beneath his feet were still transmitted along the carriage to Li Wen's feet.
Li Wen opened the other curtain and stepped out of the carriage, and the panoramic view of the entire fortress came into view.
From the open city gate, you can see the scenery of the city, the majestic hall carved out of the mountain rocks, the sound of pickaxes echoing in the mines where you don't know where you are, the lingering hammering in front of the blazing furnace...
The dwarf's fortress instantly hit Li Wen's mind with an incredible impact.