novelraw Chapter 137 : Chapter 137
Chapter 137 : Chapter 137
Chapter 137
All wizards are in the Magic Tower.
It sounds obvious, but thinking about it, it’s amazing.
It means the Magic Tower is huge enough to accommodate thousands and tens of thousands of wizards appearing from all over the continent every year, and wealthy enough for all wizards to live on.
Then where does that money come from?
‘The money earned by selling potions to nobles wouldn’t be small, but…….’
Even so, it’s bound to be far from enough.
Since the pockets of nobles visiting the Magic Tower won’t open unless they intend to sell magic the nobles ‘really’ want.
‘I don’t know for sure, but these low-grade magic stones probably account for most of the Magic Tower’s finances.’
The Magic Tower’s finances come from magic stones.
And basic magic below the 3rd circle at that.
Players found possibilities in these magic stones.
- You can create artificial rain just by changing a part of the Aqua magic circuit!
- Aqua is rectified water, so conductivity is low! Sprinkling salt on the ground beforehand can increase conductivity!
- If only Dig can be used below a certain distance!
- Just changing a part of Aqua’s formula!
People on the bulletin board known as ‘Magic Engineering’ were more frantic about finding ‘ways to use basic magic stones’ than the game itself.
And some of the experiments I remembered are being proven right before my eyes.
Swaaaaaaaa!
Shooting a dozen Aqua magic stones into the sky just before activation can call heavy rain.
Rumble-rumble-crash!
Preparing salt on the ground beforehand can increase the power of electric magic.
And lastly-
Clatter, clatter.
After moving mana along the circuits engraved on the magic stones to activate them, I rolled five magic stones in my hand.
Carving out the magic stones to combine the five and engraving the circuit again on top, the five magic stones trembled simultaneously and sucked in my mana.
‘Huu…….’
‘Magic Stone Stacking’ found from the simple thought that using a large amount of magic stones at once might amplify the effect.
It was an excellent achievement for something imitating magic stacking.
- Human! Amazing!
Not to brag, but it’s a technique surprising enough for a dragon, you know?
When I placed the stacked magic stones on one side, Calua thrust his head and sniffed.
“Be careful, we don’t know when it might explode.”
The trembling stacked magic stones looked unstable at a glance.
Since I’m not a magic stone expert and it’s closer to crudely attaching them ignoring the original structure, it was an unavoidable limitation.
- Fascinating! Magic stones smell like Human! Me too! I want to try too!
Seeing that he says magic stones smell like me, it seems Calua finds it more fascinating that my mana is contained in the magic stones.
‘Then can dragons distinguish mana by smell?’
No wonder he found his way well in the forest without getting lost; he must have followed the smell.
- Mm? Human! Just once! I want to try just once!
“No.”
Tsk. How expensive are magic stones.
One mistake and 5 magic stones fly away.
- Uung… I can do well too…….
Drooping his wings pretending to be pitiful is useless.
Right now, with the magic stones we have, we must produce maximum effect…….
- Really… I helped make it rain too…….
S-sup.
Actually, since Calua’s help was big in controlling Aqua to change into water vapor and calling heavy rain, my heart weakened.
Five stones or so doesn’t matter much anyway.
“Just once. I’ll show you first, so watch closely.”
Grabbing five magic stones at once, I rolled them in my hand.
Naturally injecting mana, overlapping the circuits engraved on the magic stones, and combining the magic stones.
Vrrrrrrr!
Magic stones starting to tremble unstably simultaneously with completion.
“Commander! Is that big guy from earlier still far?”
Just in time, handing two prepared magic stones to Hoodwock who came to get magic stones, Hoodwock asked grinning.
“Where should I shoot this time?”
“To the center if possible.”
Hoodwock, nodding, tied the magic stones to an arrow and pulled the string.
“This guy trembling, it feels just like the day I first shot a bow.”
Simultaneously with his words, Hoodwock’s bow was shot.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-bang!
Above the heads of the Orc Legion, lightning poured down.
Adding the conductivity of artificial heavy rain properly mixed with salt to that.
- Graaaaaack!
- Stop! Stop!
- Run!
Electric magic wrapping hundreds of Orcs is created.
- Wow…….
Calua, climbing onto my head struggling, struggled looking at the scene visible in the distance.
- Me too! I can do it too!
“Okay, okay. Here, five here.”
Handing five magic stones to Calua, I picked up five again and rolled them in my hand to stack the magic stones.
“Commander, other magic stones have no punch, wouldn’t it be better to just use this?”
At Hoodwock’s question watching the still flashing Orc camp, I shook my head.
“This is too slow.”
Considering only the effect, this is overwhelmingly better.
Ordinary magic stones can only call a single small lightning bolt, but stacked magic stones call 15 large lightning bolts.
‘If only there were a few more people who could do this…….’
This method is good in every way, but too slow.
Since combining magic stones requires moving mana quite delicately, no one in the Special Mission Unit could imitate it.
Even Hoodwock, who showed some potential, wrestled with two magic stones for over ten minutes.
‘Tsk, if I knew this would happen, I should have left at least one of Reina or Lina.’
Whether meeting after a long time was that happy, those two didn’t seem to want to separate.
Actually, I didn’t know combining magic stones was this hard either.
Vrrrrrr!
“Commander! I’ll go give those bastards some presents.”
Hoodwock, picking up the completed stacked magic stones, disappeared onto a tree.
It seems he liked the effect vastly different from other magic stones.
‘By the way, isn’t there a way to do this a bit faster?’
The Knight Order members should be able to do about three if not five.
Since Vergil has quite good mana manipulation ability, maybe even more than five is possible.
‘But I can’t call the busy Knight Order either…….’
Looking at Calua just in case, Calua was only staring at the five magic stones placed in front of him, not moving them.
‘It would be good if Calua could do it, but even if he can, mana would be insufficient.’
Generally, the mana needed to activate a magic stone is only a minuscule amount.
Since it’s designed to use the mana contained in the magic stone itself, made so that ordinary people who aren’t wizards can use it.
‘On the other hand, this method consumes too much mana in the process of combining magic stones.’
Disallowing Calua from the start was also because of mana.
It would be troublesome if he makes them recklessly because it’s fun and ends up unable to walk because all mana is gone like before.
Vrrrrrr.
Once again, five magic stones were combined in my hand.
“Hmm… For now, I have no choice but to focus on shooting as many as possible.”
At that time, Calua, who was staring at the magic stones without blinking, shouted.
- Human! Look at this!
* * *
- Grrrrrk!
Red Axe puffed out angry nasal steam.
- Rain! Hate it!
To an Orc born in the forest, this much rain wasn’t familiar.
Not that it didn’t rain, but most rain couldn’t pass the forest trees.
- Ground is moving! Feeling bad!
The muddy ground, the humid air, he didn’t like any of it.
He thought he just had to swing his axe excitedly, but let alone an axe, he couldn’t even swing a fist for over an hour.
Impatience and anger unique to Red Orcs boiled.
- Grrrrrrr…….
As the tattoos engraved on Red Axe’s body turned redder, his Royal Guards held their breath.
Getting noticed now means death.
His Royal Guards knew well that touching him now would explode violence close to frustration into the wrong place.
Rumble-crash!
- Annoying! Annoying!
At the loudly echoing thunder sound, Red Axe shouted with irritation.
- Just want to throw everything away and run!
With just one axe, he wasn’t afraid of anyone regardless of who the opponent was.
Even his Royal Guards were just followers gained by chance, and his legion was closer to a burden forced upon him after rising to Legion Commander.
So even if he knew soldiers were dying, Red Axe wouldn’t have been sad or angry.
Rather, he might have been happy that the burden became lighter.
- Grrk, Red Axe.
Even when the pitiful Great Warrior in charge of the rear came to report, it was the same.
- Weird light from behind is tormenting us! Already over five hundred soldiers died…….
Before the Great Warrior’s words ended, the Legion Commander’s fist moved.
- Useless bastard! Trash-like bastard! Late because of you!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Only after the head of the Orc he started striking in the rain was crushed beyond recognition did his hand stop.
- Huuuuu.
Even at the fact that over five hundred soldiers died, the Legion Commander only expressed anger.
- Grrk. Keep moving.
Just as he was about to move again.
- Mm?
The promise with the King came to mind.
Move with the legion until the enemy appears, and move with the Royal Guards when the enemy appears.
- Grrk, is lightning also an enemy……?
No Orc answered that question.
- Not it……?
When there is no correct answer, it should be solved with an axe…….
When he turned his head contemplating whose head to split, his Royal Guards shouted simultaneously.
- Grrk, enemy!
- Clearly an enemy!
- Axe to the enemy!
Even if they are his Royal Guards, they are the same Red Orcs, and wishing for battle was the same for them.
- Grrk! Right! Enemy!
Simultaneously with his shout, the sprint of Red Axe and the Royal Guards began.